Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "CNN" channel.

  1. The US tests on tens of thousands of dogs per year, pretty much all beagles. They're used on renal studies in top US research hospitals as we speak. So if not test on beagles, you got a better idea?
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  2. Well sure, if new ever-differing variants come out and the tests find the current vaccines to be insufficient.
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  3.  @isodoubIet  The fact that you don't understand this is sad. Let me make it a little more clear: By comparing a group of vaccinated individuals to a control group on how they respond to covid you can measure how effective the vaccines are at reducing symptoms of those who got infected. You can also measure total population numbers of those infected to determine vaccine efficacy.
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  4. Agreed, but Republicans will continue to piss on the American people and tell their supports it's raining.
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  5.  # not my PEDO  Your 28% number is out of date, more recent reports put the black community at 38% vaccinated. 60% say they have planned to get the vaccine. This is higher than the 55% of Republicans who plan to get vaccinated. Republicans also have more vaccine hesitancy. Although minority groups are generally less vaccinated, Democrats and Democrat run states have higher vaccination rates overall.
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  6.  @midnightmoon3230  How many? Illegal immigrants are being tested for covid and separated accordingly before being moved away from overcrowded Texas facilities, at the request of Republican Texas representatives. They are then kept in these holding facilities where they await trial. After their trail they are either given asylum or released back over the border. The idea that these people are bringing covid when we are actively testing for it is ridiculous. The idea that they are then spreading this non-existent infection in the general public when they are kept in holding facilities is even more ridiculous.
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  7.  @iamwhoyousayiam6773  Obamacare isn't healthcare, it's health insurance.
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  8.  @isodoubIet  They gene sequence the positive results from PCRs to track variants, then review the results of people who tested positive, matching their vaccination statuses against their recovery rates, hospitalization rates and general conditions.
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  9. @N 827 You lost, get over it.
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  10.  @CSPORTPDX  University of Georgia? Lol. No. The study was done in Tunisia. The full name of the study is: Enhanced attraction of sand fly vectors of Leishmania infantum to dogs infected with zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis The whole study was 12 dogs, 6 of which were previously infected with parasites. The idea was to see how attracted the flies were to animals that have already been infested with the parasites that the flies lay. They found that dogs in North Africa are hosts for these parasites, which also infect people. So not only was this research done to help people, it was also done to help dogs in the entire North Africa region. Here is their conclusion: The results strongly suggest that L. infantum causes physiological changes in the reservoir host which lead to the host becoming more attractive to both male and female P. perniciosus. These changes are likely to improve the chance of successful transmission because of increased contact with infected hosts and therefore, infected dogs should be particularly targeted in the control of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in North Africa. The dogs that were already infected with the parasites were from a previous study, meaning they did not infect them for this particular study. They basically put the dogs on either side of a 3 part chamber, with flies released in the middle. They then counted the flies on either side after 60 minutes. The work was very informative in stopping the spread of parasitic flies in Northern Africa, not that you care. But sure, if you want to talk about dogs being given renal failure in the US then we can do that.
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  11.  @jamesrlewin  The issue isn't that race and gender are qualification, it's that race and gender have been disqualifications for so long.
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  12.  @painkillerjones6232  It didn't turn out to be false, it turned out that they couldn't prove it. Christine Blasey Ford knew this would likely be the outcome before she spoke, but she did it anyway. Mr. "I like beer" is underqualified and a disgrace to the court, Barrett is even worse.
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  13.  @theadorebundy4514  And is more qualified than any of the previous hires. Amazing what you can find when you branch out.
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  14.  @isodoubIet  "I better make sure to control for all those factors" They do. Thanks for playing though.
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  15.  @isodoubIet  Oh, you're still here? "They do it so well that the all-cause mortality in the unvaccinated group is 3x that of the vaccinated group... for causes other than covid." Source?
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  16.  @tulsacountytransparency3716  Past 35 cycles, as in MORE THAN 35 cycles. We aren't trying to detect the dead nucleotides so we don't test past 35 cycles. Anything found before or on 35 cycles is probably alive. Proving my point while not realising it because you don't understand PCR. What a joke 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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  17.  @paulascott5701  Nope. Animal testing is here to stay, unless you want them to jump from cellular to end of life human trials, or in non-lethal illnesses, health human trials. Most of these are also not for drugs, but just to get the research, so would you condone infecting people with parasites and seeing how flies are attracted to them as a result?
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  18.  @Rushinator1  Neither MD or DC want that. In the last 220 years they have formed their own voices and trying to combine them is a fools errand. You may as well argue half the states shouldn't have been formed because they should just become part of existing states. Who cares if it's a city state? They have more than enough people and more than enough GDP to be a perfectly functioning state. There will also still be a neutral ground in the capitol buildings.
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  19.  @saltysoldier68  Your cognitive dissonance is truly impressive. Charlottesville, after a white supremacist drove through the crowd of protesters and killed 1, injured a further 35, not only did Trump fail to denounce the attack, he stated that both sides were to blame for the attack. His commends were praised by former KKK leader David Duke who wrote: "Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa,” When asked to denounce white supremacist in a debate with Biden he stated "stand back and stand by" failing to denounce anything. The result, Proud Boys members praising Trump and seeing his comments as a green light. Meanwhile Biden was making the point that China is already aware of our position on their policies, and it really doesn't need to be said, comments that were reinforced by his administration openly denouncing China's slavery and genocide, and sanctioning accordingly. Something I might add Trump never did. So sit down and read what is actually being said and done you wannabee dictatorial fascists.
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  20.  @Allyourheroswenttohell  Those words were in reference to people with AIDS. Their immune systems are heavily suppressed and at the time they were unable to complete eradicate any infection they caught. PCR can only find something if it's already there. We also control for the number of cycles to determine acceptable quantity boundaries. Finding virus in people is a solid indicator they have or have had covid. Lateral flow can be used to determine current or former infection. Antibody tests are also solid.
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  21.  @jojjojo4646  Can you define it?
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  22.  @Mark-oi9rf  I mean, if you want to constantly remind yourself that you're petty and Biden is president no matter how many times you chant like an imbecile, then more power to you.
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  23. ​ @madyinn5009  Believe the lies then.
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  24.  @PeterParker-yg6fc  Always like it when crazy right-wingers use an analogy from a movie that's an allegory for being trans, lol.
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  25. That's simply false. Crossings started to increase before Trump left office.
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  26.  @EpicAlcatraz99  Oh please. Your no true scotsman approach to labelling all media that agrees with you as not mainstream doesn't change that the largest and most mainstream outlet has been attacking Biden relentlessly since day 1.
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  27.  @petep5207  The salt at his clapback is actually hilarious.
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  28. A statement like this out of the Trump/Vance crowd is actually hilarious.
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  29.  @ShirasongMusic  Robo here is harassing a nurse who fainted from a needle while getting her vaccine. Needless to say, it's far more likely that the hospital has protected Tiffany and is ignoring all calls directed to her on purpose. The idea that loons like this think they should be stalking the woman is creepy enough already.
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  30.  @nikhilnewse3318  Did you not watch the video? They still can't pass the bill because they need 60 votes in the senate, which means they need 10 republicans on side. They're the ones holding this whole mess up.
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  31.  @mrrey8937  Ivermectin? You're kidding right? Multiple countries studied its effects, many even trialed it on a large scale, and none of them continued to use it. India gave out millions of doses, and in the end confirmed it did nothing. Natural immunity wears off. Israel already confirmed that people with natural immunity need the vaccine or their immunity can wane and they can get covid again.
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  32.  @bengagliardo1080  We're both, of the people, by the people, for the people
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  33. Walls aren't just expensive to build, they are also expensive to maintain, and not particularly effective. Add to that the huge ecological issues, and the fact that seeking asylum is perfectly legal for people to do, and you start to understand why a wall is a bad idea.
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  34. @CoolAce1-dv1pn True. I'm sure Vance can flip flop on any position to win a debate.
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  35.  @jerrysanders9101  Are you referring to the petition filled with unsubstantiated "doctors" and blatant fake names?
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  36.  The Johnnie Walker, The Best A Man Can Get  Which was? What was the test? Where was it performed? Who performed it? I know you don't know the answer to any of these things, but here you are regardless.
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  37.  @CSPORTPDX  You know they were given parasites right? They didn't just let them get eaten and call it a day, or have you been watching too much propaganda?
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  38.  @cinnamonone4759  Literally all the time. Our entire scientific process is built on grants. They come up with pretty much every biology based breakthrough on the planet using grants.
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  39.  @scott1637  Literally just posted the name of the study: Enhanced attraction of sand fly vectors of Leishmania infantum to dogs infected with zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis The propaganda is claims like "Fauci's tests had no scientific use at all. He was doing tests that they already knew the answers for." which is utter nonsense for several reasons.
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  40.  @overlandmdb4124  No, they wouldn't. Your circumstantial evidence goes directly against polling data.
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  41. ​ @brentyoung4785  Wrong. They can appoint whoever they want.
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  42.  @brentyoung4785  Incorrect. The power belongs to the Attorney General, not Congress.
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  43.  @stanwilson7040  Plus her decades of legal experience. Much more than the likes of Barrett btw, who was thrown from teaching into the Court of Appeals with not other experience in a courtroom.
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  44. They're literally waiting on Republicans.
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  45.  @saltysoldier68  I know what you're referring too, and taking someone out of context like that is just sad. Drumpf on the other hand actually did call murderous white supremacists "very fine people". It also took Biden taking office before China was sanctioned for their treatment of Uighurs and their handling of Hong Kong, and before Putin was called out as a murderer. But hey, keep with those out of context quotes, you love to see it.
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  46.  @vildachaya6462  These idiots are parroting the idea that "flatten the curve" means ending the pandemic. Obviously they have no clue what they're on about.
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  47.  Matt 88  Foreign aid quantities really didn't drop under Trump though. Maybe he needs more follow-through, which is ironic considering all the golf he played.
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  48.  @myclassmate7588  The problem isn't that natural immunity is or isn't strong. The problem is that you have to infect the country to find out, potentially killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process.
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  49. Inflation doesn't increase during economic crashes. But if you print a bunch of money during said crash, then fail to remove that from the economy, the result is more spending with far more money in supply. Trump added over 6 trillion to the money supply.
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  50.  @scottwall8419  So you're saying when a virus is not allowed to propagate as freely, slowing the spread and replication, we actually see MORE mutation, not less? Makes perfect sense.
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