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

  1.  Alpha Guy  PCR doesn't amplify infinitely specifically to avoid false positives. PCR doesn't test for antibodies or antigens, these are separate tests. It looks for the virus itself. Antigen tests look for live virus. Antibody tests looks for covid antibodies. All are good indicators of either a current or former infection.
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  2.  Alpha Guy  The fact that you fail to understand the difference in what I said and what you said proves you know nothing about PCR. Antigen testing is a sign of an ACTIVE infection. Seriously, all these achievements and you don't understand how these tests work. Not surprising as I've met some pretty thick PHDs. The fact you needed 3 graduate degrees rather than just getting a PHD and jumping into research is already pretty telling. Fauci actually completed his residency in '68, something that is FAR harder than any of the PHDs you've done.
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  3.  Alpha Guy  "If someone 'has ' something that causes no discernible effects then I move to change the language to say such a person 'has' nothing." Well that's just stupid. Where did you get these graduate degrees?
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  4.  Alpha Guy  You mean aside from the fact it, at least from a scientific perspective, absolutely is a case. It can also still be spread, can still mutate, and can cause negative effects, even if not immediately apparent? College athletes are getting organ damage, even with no symptoms. "My degrees are in math and theoretical physics by the way." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! "Logic and math of course supersede all other fields." It's not about logic, it's about understanding the mechanisms. You can't figure it out without someone telling you because it's not something discernable. No wonder you don't understand antigen testing. Here's a tip, stop waving your degrees around when discussing something that has literally nothing to do with your field.
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  5.  Alpha Guy  Hard to stick to refutations when you have yet to make a valid point. And yes, they were indeed peer reviewed. Your inability to find scientific papers makes me very concerned for your apparent education. JAMA Cardiology - Prevalence of Clinical and Subclinical Myocarditis in Competitive Athletes With Recent SARS-CoV-2 Infection
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  6. "This is one part of U.S. policy where I side with republicans even though I'm a Democrat" Understandable, and these sorts of issues really drive single issue independents. "The way I see it, we have become the x on the map for a lot of foreigners" That's literally always been the case. "and most of them, like the Haitians are fleeing disastrously ran countries" Also always been true. The Irish ran from the potato famine, the Jews ran from the holocaust and many many more examples. "my fear is that they will bring that mess here" Sure, I get that. The Italians brought mobs to New York. Things like this are an inevitability when allowing a lot of migrants in. The thing to take into account is that the vast majority of the people being let in have nothing to do with any of that. Why assume the worst and ban potential sources of labour? Immigrants are a net gain for the economy after all. "Covid disrupted so much in this country and most of it has yet to get back to normal... so what do we do when enough of them show up that things get strained or crowded here?" I would argue that the real issues with covid are from the locals not vaccinating and wearing masks. Green card applicants are required to vaccinate starting today. That's a good step in the right direction. "We already live in a country that seems like it's in short supply of mercy" So your plan is to provide even less mercy? "so do we really have the resources to be the world's food bank?" We aren't. Again, immigrants are a net gain. Asylum seekers as well pay in more than out. "I'm a no on this one. Go back to your own countries, go fight your own wars, go fix your nation's mess and stop crawling to our doorstep begging for a hand out." It's really not their fault though. In fact, a lot of the time the US is the reason they're coming here in the first place. How many governments has the US manipulated and sanctioned based on them being too socialist? In fact the top 3 countries that send immigrant caravans to the US are El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. El Salvador's - In the 70s the US funded the local Salvadoran military government to end a civil war the way they wanted. Their involvement of arming a literal military dictatorship against locals caused over 70K deaths, and displaced over 1 million people, 500K of which because refugees. Guatemala - The CIA in 1954 backed a coup and ousted the leader, leading to a 36 year civil war, lasting from 1962 to 1996. The war killed at least 140K people and 1.2 million people were displaces, with 200K of them over to other countries. Honduras - For around 2 decades in the 80s and 90s the CIA supplied the Honduras government and their "death squad" with information of rising communist rebel movements. They also used this as a base of operations to train Salvadorans in the previously mentioned civil war. Saying these people need to "Go back to your own countries, go fight your own wars, go fix your nation's mess and stop crawling to our doorstep begging for a hand out", when that exact issue is caused by the US actively funding the "mess", is a fundamentally broken ideal to hold. There is simply no good ethical, financial or political reason not to let in immigrants.
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  7.  @ThxGod_ItsOver  Leave Luke out of this, he's trying to blow up the death star.
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  8. Calling a spade a space is not outrageous. If anything he should be saying worse things to Putin, but I guess he was being diplomatic.
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  9.  Adam Eichenauer  That's not actually why Adam. It's more that they are contributing to the reduced spread and mutation of a virus that has killed millions globally and threatens the lives of millions of Americans with both death and serious adverse effects. Imagine if you could do something to protect the lives of millions. Well you can. How is that not patriotic, saving American lives?
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  10.  Adam Eichenauer  Continued covid spread leading to mutations. The vaccines work, but the more mutations we see the further we get from efficacy. The vaccinated also protect those who are unable to get vaccinated due to compromised immune systems.
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  11. The one who bankrupted a casino? Pretty terrible business man.
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  12. Specifically Trump's liar and thief.
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  13. The pipeline hasn't been built. There are no tracking restrictions. The border security is still there, they just stopped locking up children. Troops were sent to Syria in September. Biden won the election. The only Confederates were the ones trying to murder the senate.
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  14.  @unknownscp169  You are literally not a majority.
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  15.    That's not why the staff quit hospitals. They quit because they're burned out from covid patients for the last 18 months. Your claim about hospitals being filled with vaccinated people is also just a flat out lie.
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  16. @randy s Covid has not infected everyone, not even close. Most areas are around 12% total infected over the entire course of covid. There is still potential for millions of US deaths. Covid will also never "run its course" as new variants can continue to mutate, allowing for deadlier versions of the virus that act differently when they infect people, leading to massive variant based waves of infections.
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  17. For what?
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  18.  @Garapetsa  According to FEMA they allocated temporary housing to Baton Rouge over a week ago.
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  19.  @Garapetsa  Over a week ago is too late? You didn't even know they were helping lol.
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  20.  @Garapetsa  Worse than Katrina? HAHAHAHAHA
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  21.  @Garapetsa  No, you said worst because you're pushing a bias narrative. The fallout from Katrina took years to get over, and FEMA failed the area dramatically as a result. For example: After levees failed across New Orleans and water poured into the streets, disarray marked the response. With faint understanding of the city's topography, Brown and FEMA's top brass weren't aware of the magnitude of the flood. They dismissed reports from Marty Bahamonde, FEMA's only staffer on the ground, that the 17th Street Canal wall had broken and later that 80 percent of New Orleans was underwater. Brown told CNN that FEMA didn't know for three days that hundreds of people were trapped at the Convention Center with no food or water. After rescues were well underway, FEMA turned away offers of personnel and supplies from the Department of Interior and denied a request from the state Wildlife & Fisheries agency for 300 rubber boats. It was slow to provide food, shelter, and supplies to first responders and stranded residents alike. Its leaders bickered with Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin over who was in charge. And when the response switched to recovery, there were the infamous FEMA trailers, those glorified recreation vans, hastily built and steeped in toxic resins, that populated yards and vacant lots for years after the storm. They were only supposed to be in place for up to 18 months. The last one purportedly left New Orleans in February 2012, more than six years into the recovery. By then it was the wrong kind of icon: a symbol of FEMA's grinding, inept bureaucracy. Comparing the current series of flash floods to KATRINA is just a joke. Doing so because the price of flood insurance has increased, which is obviously should have given the frequency and intensity of flooding in the region, is unbelievably idiotic at best, horrendously insensitive at worst.
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  22. Israel have been giving people boosters for over a month. They have the data.
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  23.  @michaelkhan7012  You mean aside from the fact he doubled the deficit in a single year and was crushing local businesses with his import taxes?
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  24.  @theedislikebutton  I literally just explained how to start one, but sure, educate me.
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  25.  @theedislikebutton  We're still talking about Trump right?
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  26.  @theedislikebutton  Investment is the only way out of economic depression. I would also argue that paying people and providing business loans is a great way to support businesses and individuals.
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  27.  @theedislikebutton  Businesses that don't make a profit don't need to pay taxes. Struggling businesses are unaffected. He didn't raise the minimum wage, but even if he did the extra income people would have would allow them to spend more on the economy, uplifting businesses in the process.
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  28.  @johnnipace5619  You mean aside from giving people money so that they spend on the economy, investing in infrastructure which pays dividends in the long run, and pushing a strategy to invest more in US businesses? 64% of cops killed this year died to covid, even worse numbers for healthcare workers. What's worse, putting unvaccinated people in ICUs is exactly how pandemics spread and people die. By allowing the virus to spread through these unprotected workers you are actually prolonging and worsening the pandemic. The end result is a greater economic benefit than just firing less than 1% of the workforce.
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  29.  @theedislikebutton  I'll take the 6% increase in prices from McDonalds for a doubling of minimum wage.
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  30.  @theedislikebutton  Nope. 6% is the calculated increase in prices for McDonalds to double the pay of their employees.
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  31.  @theedislikebutton  Well sure, inflation is always going to happen long term. The issue is actually that prices have increased dramatically, which wages are relatively unchanged. Increasing wages will fix that issue, not exacerbate it. If you were correct then median household incomes would match GDP. Instead we see the opposite. The gap has increased over 40% in around 20 year.
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  32.  @theedislikebutton  Money for what? A minimum wage increase? The same place it always has, from employers paying their owners and CEOs ridiculous amounts while leaving employees by the wayside. Or they'll decide to keep their high salaries and will increase prices by the 6% I just mentioned.
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  33.  @theedislikebutton  Actually it does, they calculated it.
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  34.  @springerworks002  I did look, which is why I know the data. Get a grip Will.
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  35.  @Chuck-yt7iq  Again, I looked at the stats. The majority of those hospitalised are over 60, and in Israel this population group is over 90% vaccinated. Yet the vaccinated are only making up around 60% of the those hospitalised, even though they are over 90% of this age group. If you look at the rate of infections, hospitalisations and deaths rather than the totals, you start to understand that being unvaccinated is many times more dangerous.
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  36.  @Chuck-yt7iq  Actually the trend is going the opposite way. According the the Israel Health Ministry, since the booster shots in mid-August to now the number of vaccinated people getting seriously infected has dropped dramatically. In contrast, the unvaxxed now die 15 times more often. Haaretz has some great articles on it if you fancy a look. Your claim however is nonsense and not backed by anything.
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  37.  @Chuck-yt7iq  these are the government stats.
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  38. That number doesn't mean that. It is the number of people who died after getting vaccinated with something that may or may not be linked to the vaccine itself. It says nothing for who had these issues from the vaccine and who were going to die anyway.
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  39.  @yehimstone5492  It actually does both of those things.
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  40. No.
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  41.  @BigFry9591  No, her major contributions are years both defending and trying cases. She has more experience than the last 2 nominations combined. The quote Booker pulls about doing everything the same, except backwards and in heels, is a reference to not just having to be better to get noticed, but also the gender specific limitations with how well or how easily you are noticed.
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  42. ​ @uckfeouye8971  MAGA brain rot much.
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  43.  Jon Doe  Vote numbers look fine when you account for a huge push for mail in votes, which strongly counters the decades of voter disenfranchisement. They check signatures on those votes. Getting someone else's would be useless without knowing their signature. Trump is accused of colluding with Russia because he's been in bed with them for decades. The report you're referring too was originally funded by Republicans, until they didn't like the result.
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  44.  @seventhsongarage1003  Biden doesn't have to deal with it, he's the President. Voter disenfranchisement is about making it more difficult to vote. Republicans have been removing polling places and disrupting the voting process, especially in majority Democrat and majority black communities, for generation. A huge surge in mail in votes, combined with a massive desire to vote due to the god awful pandemic policies of the last administration, are what caused this historic voter turnout. Biden won and he lives rent free in your head.
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  45.  Jon Doe  I'm sure you did. Funnily enough they actually chased up these "dead" voters and found they were all in fact alive. Doesn't really matter though because Biden won and you're just salty. If anyone cheated it was Trump, like when he called the governor of Georgia and asked if he could "find" his some votes.
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  46.  Jon Doe  Who was dead? Also, funnily is a word lol
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  47.  @deadordreadfist343  And permanent organ damage.
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  48. @DawgGnarly  Inflation is one of the lowest in the developed world. There are less border crossing per month now than there were when Trump left office. Republicans voted against the border security bill.
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  49.  @shitmonkey  Which part?
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  50.  @GoodGuyRuska-  Facts don't care about your feelings.
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