Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "CNN"
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I have most of the Omicron symptoms all Winter long. Even if I get Covid at this point, I won't be asymptomatic until March, at the earliest.
P.S. Two shots and a booster to get to 75% protection? Those are terrible numbers. Are there any other vaccines out there that you take 3 times just to get to "probably safe?" Also, with the insane spread of Omicron, how effective is 75%, really? I mean, if we're going to be interacting with Omicron infected people every day, that means every, single one of those people has a 25% chance of giving you breakthrough Covid. Basically, if you interact with at least 4 infected people, you're virtually guaranteed to get Covid, statistically.
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samiamrg7 First, don't bother citing mortality rates unless you're going to tell me that modern medicine has cured death. 40,000 people might die every year because of poor health coverage but the rest die in spite of it. If more people actually cared about their health, they wouldn't require so much healthcare. If you want me to keep paying for healthcare for the disenfranchised, maybe I should get a say in what they eat, what they smoke, how they exercise, etc. How about you run that compromise by them and see what they think?
Second, I agree that healthcare costs are a big deal. That doesn't mean that throwing out the baby with the bath water for the sake of "mild improvements" was the right thing to do.
Third, "Getting rid of it would hurt the American people" is way too general of a statement. Getting rid of it flat out would hurt a relatively small percentage of the American people and help a different percentage...but then, nobody is talking about getting rid of it outright without putting something else in place, are they? I'd say that taking a hard look at the flaws in the old system and how to fix them would be a good start. Competition breeds lower prices. Transparency forces honesty. Overreaching legislation just creates angry people looking to circumvent the system.
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+AeriosDFY2 What Country do you think this is? You say "let" as though people have to ask permission to own guns. It's a right, not a privilege. Not to mention that a system like that would require national gun confiscation, which would be the bloodiest thing to happen in this Country since the Civil War.
Okay, let's try again but we'll start with some facts:
- There a roughly 350 million privately owned guns in the US and more being bought every day.
- Roughly 1/3 of American citizens own guns.
- There are about 100 million more guns than cars in the US, yet, even though cars are MUCH more heavily regulated, cars kill more people every year.
- There were about 33,000 gun deaths in the US in 2014. Roughly 75% of gun deaths are suicides. The remaining 25% are divided up between justified police shootings, justified self defense shootings and actual homicides. Of the actual homicides, the majority are products of gang violence.
- Guns are used around 800,000 times/year to PREVENT crime in the US. This obviously includes a very large number of occurrences when the mere act of drawing a gun was enough to deter the attacker.
- Gun crime has been steadily reducing over the past twenty years.
Now, without starting a war and without denying American citizens their Constitutionally protected rights, what legal, sensible gun control laws can be put in place that would effectively reduce gun crime faster than it currently is. My personal thoughts are that we should make firearm safety classes mandatory for all Americans. However, the only way to do that Constitutionally is to include it in high school curriculums the way we did with sex ed and require a passing grade in order to graduate. I personally think this is completely reasonable since it is every American's right, whether they choose to exercise it or not. It's the only effective way to create more responsible gun owners. A nice byproduct is that those who don't like guns will at least know what they're talking about, so they won't grow up to be politicians who say things like, "This ghost gun can fire a 30 magazine round clip in half a second" or "Get a shotgun and if you hear someone outside, fire two blasts out your front door to scare them off." By the way, that last one was said by none other than our very own Vice President. Thanks, crazy Uncle Joe...
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