Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "NBC News"
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@tonysoprano946
"8 million people per year die from the air."
Weird way to say pollution, but okay.
"There's absolutely no proof that masks, lockdowns and these [vaccines] have worked."
There are literally dozens of studies on all 3 of these.
"This amounts to more deaths than diarrheal disease, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined."
So? Literally irrelevant to how many people are dying from covid, which increased the age adjusted deaths in the US by 15.9% from 2019 to 2020.
"Where's your Biden proof? I work in construction and there's a much bigger difference in wood prices under Biden."
Which I'm sure never increased under Trump and has absolutely nothing to do with the global pandemic. I mean seriously how pathetic are you?
"Inflation is through the roof."
Not really. It's on the high end, but definitely not crazy.
"The market is gonna see the biggest free fall soon"
According to who?
"Name one thing Biden has done that wasn't already in place."
Rejoin the WHO.
Rejoin the Paris Climate Accord.
Rejoin talks with Iran.
End the war in Afghanistan.
Arrange for a stimulus bill, which included children's school meals, child tax credits, testing dosing and more.
Arrange a second spending bill for infrastructure.
Lower the unemployment rate after the last administration's dramatic explosions.
Mask mandates.
Vaccine/testing mandates.
Getting 220 million vaccine doses administered in 100 days.
Sanctioned Chinese officials.
Rescinded the Muslim ban.
Supported small businesses and restaurants.
Cancelled student loans for victims of fraud and people with disabilities.
Stopped arctic drilling.
Ended family separation.
Extended ACA enrollment window.
Promoted a "Buy American" adjenda.
Increased federal contractor minimum wage to $15 and hour.
Added an offshore wind energy initiative.
Revoked previous orders on sanctioning International Criminal Court officials.
Saved the pensions of more than 1 million retirees.
I could keep going but you haven't even read half of these.
"A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people."
No, the Democrats are not trying to do anything like this. Where is their plan to take over private businesses? How about anything even remotely authoritarian? Are they planning to storm congress and overturn votes? Because, I got to tell you, if a group of people did that it would be pretty authoritarian.
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@maclivingston9268 Nothing you said makes any sense, other than the obvious projection of liking to argue. If you want to play semantics rather than actually addressing the original point, which is that people are constantly "persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized" through literal laws, then I, and the rest of the world, have no time for you.
Enjoy your mic drop, but pushing over the board and declaring victory won't actually get you anywhere.
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@maclivingston9268 I'm sure you think you're being logical, but you really aren't.
You pivot from being able to see to looking at people specifically, which is a very narrow scope of seeing in general, and has nothing to do with your original point about being blind. I mean talk about a goalposts shift.
You call pharma a drug ring, while ignoring the regulations, research and development that go into it. It's like comparing a NASA engineer to a crackhead offering to paint your house. Society encourages showing that the drugs you are selling have a positive benefit to people, while discouraging the selling of illegal and dangerous drugs to anyone who'll buy them.
You talk about people driving drunk, but that doesn't change the original point, which is that people who do that are actively pushed not to through various avenues like "persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized". Yes, people do these things, but they are told not to. That's the point. Exceptions to the rule in this case actually prove the rule, because we can see how those exceptions are treated as a result.
So your delusions will continue to defy reality, and the goalposts shall never be in the same place twice while you're arguing disingenuously.
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@robotron17
"I made no comment on how rare it was, just correcting your time frame."
Right, which is why I'm making a comment on it, and your time frame to stretch out to 3 months is rare. That's not to say that a positive test after a negative antigen test is not possible or rare, but that your time frame is off.
"Antigen tests are less accurate than PCR, which is why PCR is the gold-standard"
Depends what you're looking for and the type of antigen test. If you're looking for a specific molecule, then absolutely PCR all the way. If you want a rapid at home test then some antigen tests can be perfect for a rapid response, which, if positive, can be confirmed with PCR. There are also NAATs which also test for live infection. They are often used as a confirmatory test in a hospital setting.
"It is the only lab test listed as "confirmatory" by CDC:"
The quote you posted doesn't exist in the CDC website, which makes sense as it's nonsense. They openly support several different tests, including antigen and NAATs. They even have a whole separate page called: Test for Current Infection. Want to hazard a guess which tests they recommend. Oh right, NAATs and antigen tests. Not PCR. In fact, PCR isn't even on the page.
"Wrong. It's literally the official position that PCR detects active infection."
I've just proven that wrong, but okay.
"FDA:"
From the exact page you are quoting on:
"Molecular and antigen tests are types of diagnostic tests than can detect if you have an active COVID-19 infection."
Again, PCR is not mentioned on the page.
Even better is at the phrase molecular test it actually says this:
"Molecular Test: a diagnostic test that detects genetic material from the virus"
So nothing about active infections.... again.
"But of course, in reality, there is no evidence that a positive PCR is reliably indicating anything that is impacting your health or indicating that you are endangering anyone around you."
Good job the FDA and CDC agree then isn't it.
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@robertmarmaduke9721
"They also paid doctor $10,000 for every 'CoVid'(sic) death certificate and hospitals $30,000"
False. These numbers are pulled from the average amount that Medicare pays out to hospitals for the insurance of covid patients. They would have to pay this money anyway as with or without covid the treatment was the same for the patient. There is no evidence of extra payments.
"anyone dying for any reason with PCR machine turned up to 40 tested 'positive'"
What does that even mean. Do you know how PCR works?
"You have not responded at all to the statistical impossibility that 'cases'(sic) peaked at the same time as Biden was selected, and statistical impossibility 'cases'(sic) fell 6.7x faster after the inauguration, than the rate of inoculation."
What makes it statistically impossible? People travelled for the holidays and cases peaked soon after. When they stopped travelling so much the cases died down. How is this a "statistical impossibility?"
"It's DOCUMENTED that CDC told test centers to turn the PCR test cycles down right after the inauguration."
It's not, but okay. If you have evidence of this then go right ahead and show it.
"And now the number of 'cases'(sic) is going back up, still without clinical diagnosis"
PCR is not the only diagnosis, and in fact live infections are tested for using NAATs and antigen tests.
"still without autopsies, despite the continued inoculations"
Right, because we have a group of people who are not vaccinated, and a new variant that makes the vaccine less effective. The new variant is also a lot more contagious.
"Vaxx that has PROVEN to have low-efficacy, and gives no immunity"
Efficacy is immunity, so it can't be low in 1 and zero in the other. Efficacy is around 42% for this variant. The reason we aren't seeing any alpha variant these days is mainly because of the inoculations.
Go learn what PCR is. Even robonuts here knows more than you.
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