Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "NBC News" channel.

  1. She's more qualified than most of the previous nominees. If anything she should have been put forward sooner.
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  2. That's not the actually quote. The quote is "There is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases,". Not that it matters, because god forbid the world class virologist with decades of experience is correct about US infectious disease response.
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  3. Nope. Vaccines are all protected. You need to apply for vaccine injury compensation.
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  4.  @aja8521  Racist misspelling of her name and ignorance of her years of experience. Stay classy.
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  5.  @MeatballMedic  He's referring to the Republicans withdrawing their support for the PACT Act that helped with medical expenses for military personnel effect by toxic exposure to burn bits while in service.
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  6. To an extent. The jabs were developed for the wild type variant. Delta is just different, and therefore the vax effectiveness dropped. This combined with waning protection has caused an increase in cases. You're still more likely to survive covid, and less likely to catch it, but you can catch it.
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  7.  @robotron17  Well it is manageable, in that the inflammation fades with no long term damage in a few months. Not so lucky if you catch covid though, as covid related myocarditis is generally much more serious.
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  8.  @craigthompson6535  So you think feeding children is socialism?
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  9. Agreed. The full clip makes Fauci look even better.
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  10. @JS-mg1mk  Pretty sure you did it.
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  11. Who would have thought that the two people most conservative would be the two to test positive for covid.
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  12. Couples earning over $150K a year don't count as middle class. That's pretty much the upper class cut off, and probably why they chose that amount.
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  13.  @chrissheehan4774  Yet you worship a murderer.
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  14. According to preliminary reports: Nothing has been established. The reports seem to be from young adult and adolescents men around 4 days after the 2nd shot. So far all the cases are mild. There are no long-term effects from the mild cases they have seen due to a lack of severity and permanent damage. Chances are this is due to them exercising too much while their immune system is working. More common than you would think actually.
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  15.  @Lp78Ch  Your hatred of facts have blinded you to the truth. Until you learn to let go of your hatred, you'll always be blind.
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  16.  @chickasawstarrmountain9747  I bet you think having to wear clothes is a bad thing too.
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  17.  @mermaidmomma3696  Sure, but those criminal fines having nothing to do with their current efforts. If they rolled out a faulty vaccine they would: 1. Be required to pay back any money paid for the purchase of the vaccine to the US government. 2. Lose out on the billions in research funding they just spent developing a vaccine that doesn't work. 3. All the stocks they started producing are now worthless. Fines are the least of their worries when they can sink so much money into a failed endeavor.
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  18.  @robotron17  Over a year. The first clinical trial was in July 2020 and was 21K people. Long-term effects also usually manifest pretty short term, especially considering the vaccine is completely gone from the system in 2 weeks.
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  19. @atomicwedgie8709  Not only were they cleared with DNA evidence, but the real attacker plead guilty.
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  20.  @davidmilton5887  They don't modify your DNA or RNA. What they actually do is deliver instructions to your cells to use their machinery to replicate. This is not the same as changing your DNA, this is just something all viruses do.
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  21. ​ @BiBlackCar1  True, you're high on the middle-class ratio, but at those income levels $1,400 is barely anything. You could buy a single week of debt I suppose. If you're earning that number every year then $1,400 just won't do a lot, especially for people that can make financial decisions to change their expenses.
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  22. Because those 17,000 "doctors" signed onto the petition with no requirement to verify you are in fact a doctor, or even a real person. The petition included names like "Mr Banana Rama", "Dr Johnny Bananas", "Dr Johnny Fartpants", "Dr Person Fakename", "Harold Shipman", "Professor Notaf Uckingclue", and "Prof Cominic Dummings".
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  23.  @SnotRocket79  Since you all seem very confused on the definitions of constitutional, republic and democracy, I suppose I will need to spell it out for you: Constitutional government is by definition a limited government. The government must conduct itself within set rules and principles. A republic is a state by which the people hold the power, and therefore the government is elected by the people. This is the opposite of a monarchy. Finally a democracy is a system of government whereby the whole population or eligible members of the state run the country, usually through elected representatives. None of these have to happen at the same time, and none are conflicting. For example, the UK has no constitution, and is a monarchy, however the government is run by elected representatives. They are neither a republic nor a constitutional government, however they do have certain restrictions, and they are a democracy. France however, much like the US, is all 3 of these types of government at the same time. Since you vote for your representatives, you are engaging in democracy, and are therefore a democratic country. Now the US isn't perfect, which is what Bobby Ward up above was saying about it being a flawed democracy. That is true, as the way the republic functions means that some people get far more say in the voting process than others. There is also the issue Chris Bishop brought up about "majority vote" however, as mentioned earlier, the UK does not use majority vote, yet they are a democracy, and do use representation in a representative democracy, much like the US. So the real issue here is that people just don't know what a democracy actually is, and their ignorance makes it sound like they think voting should be outlawed for all the nonsense they spout. But sure, tell me more about how the US government functions and is definitely not a system where all eligible members of the state vote for representatives.
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  24. That can happen when you speed the process up by giving it to over a hundred million Americans. The initial clinical trial also started over a year ago.
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  25.  @robotron17  What's it like to know nothing?
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  26. They literally just gave it full approval today.
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  27.  @psp1921tsmg  1. That's not a mistrial. A mistrial would mean you want to restart the trial with a whole new jury. 2. He isn't the only witness. 3. His credibility is not determined this way, the jury makes that call. 4. There is also material evidence, such as calls between Trump and people involved in the payments, Trump personally signing all 34 checks and numerous financial documents all detailing the hiding of the payment as other expenses.
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  28.  @westonripps84  And cuts out Fauci explaining why those "facts" are bollocks.
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  29. ​ @davidmilton5887  1. When talking about using cell machinery to replicate we are not talking about the replication of the cell, but of the virus/spike protein. Cells are not split in this process. 2. Even if cells were split by doing this, so what? Cells split all the time and have plenty of mechanisms to prevent issues when doing this.
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  30.  @davidmilton5887  1. Not during this process. 2. Not really, since both happen in the body. The mechanism they are using is the same one all virus do inside you.
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  31. Like eating or wearing clothes.
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  32.  @xFlared  No they don't. They're averaging 25 deaths a day. Florida has double their population, but about 14 times the number of deaths per day. Israel's high numbers are in cases, but deaths are substantially lower than most places. Even their cases are low when, again, comparing them to Florida.
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  33.  @jeffwatson151  I agree, like how covid can cause organ damage.
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  34.  @Nickerbockrz  You don't even know what Trump is charged with do you.
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  35.  @MrDeplorable-sw9cz  How so? Is there an issue with her experience? She's already been confirmed by the Senate 3 times you know.
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  36.  @334trax2  Vaccine side effect are far less common than they are in people who actually catch covid. For example, the chances of: Blood clots with J&J 4 per million Blood clots with Pfizer 0 Blood clots with Moderna 0 Blood clots with covid 39 per million Myocarditis with J&J 0 Myocarditis with Pfizer 2 in a million Myocarditis with Moderna 2 in a million Myocarditis with covid minimum 10,000 in a million, or 15 of the time. I get what you're saying, but covid is so many times more lethal.
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  37.  @jimlovesgina  Republicans weren't gonna give them anything, and barely gave them anything for months. Why are you surprised people lost their faith in them?
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  38. Yes, the hospital near me checks for flu at the same time as covid.
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  39. If you actually want to fix all the problems and advance the country forwards, then yes that would be needed. The current plan is mostly for fixing issues that have just not been dealt with. A much larger plan could fund highspeed rail projects and generate trillions for the economy. I'm not saying it's necessarily the right way to go, but dismissing it out of hand because you don't like the number is a cop-out.
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  40. The mRNA vaccines haven't been shown to cause any clotting issues though.
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  41. The prosecution's case is that Trump stole from his own company, and Cohen helped him do it. This supports that case.
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  42. Why not both.
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  43.  @jackgoff6043  "Yes I do. Evidently you do not." Okay, then please let me know which part of the process Pfizer didn't complete. Why don't you start by listing out the normal process by which drugs are approved and we can go from there. "It takes over $2.6 billion for a manufacturer to get a new drug from the laboratory onto the pharmacy shelf" And? Pfizer spent about a billion more than this. "What happens during this time period to be sure that the drug you pick up at the pharmacy is safe and effective?" Now you're just reforming my question and asking it back at me.
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  44.  @fegelfly7877  I actually found the Fox headline that seems to mirror what you said, except is very clearly reads: "Unvaccinated people make up for more than 90% of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, per CDC" Looks like you just misread it. Easy mistake.
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  45.  @damienholland9244  Bingo. It's like Facebook before they started banning the Russians.
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  46.  Howard Webber  HAHAHAHAHA!!! We are a democracy you nitwit.
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  47. You mean like Herman Cain? How about those 3 different local conservative radio hosts?
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  48.  @arthurmorgan42069  You should get your heart checked. Organ damage is far more common with covid than with the jabs.
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  49.  @arthurmorgan42069  Again, organ damage is far more common with covid. 30% of athletes who caught covid had some for of myocarditis or pericarditis. 60% of deaths show some sort of myocarditis or pericarditis. 7% of all covid cases have organ damage. Unless you can show me evidence of even 1% of the vaccinated getting heart damage, rather than this pathetic anecdotal nonsense, then I don't really care.
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  50.  @arthurmorgan42069  It's not science, it's a single perspective that could easily be biased. From the initial opening to the video and my personal knowledge of myocarditis I already have my doubts on the validity. As for my proof, there have been multiple studies done on the risks to individual organs, as well as the overall risk as well: CIDRAP - COVID long-haulers may be at risk for severe kidney disease Nature - The lasting misery of coronavirus long-haulers Yale - Study Uncovers Drivers of Lingering Symptoms in COVID-19 Long-haulers Johns Hopkins - COVID ‘Long Haulers’: Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Lancet - Long Covid in adults discharged from UK hospitals after Covid-19 BMJ - Long covid: Damage to multiple organs presents in young, low risk patients JAMA Cardiology - Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Findings in Competitive Athletes Recovering From COVID-19 Infection
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