@DrNeilStone Dr. Stone, the q for the dems is whether ditching Platner will cement a GOP senate that protects the corrupt, antisemitic potus who has undermined public faith in health care institutions. Good people can be reasonably torn about his cont'd candidacy.
@JohnCornyn When we dunk on this man, we tell magas looking for an exit that there is no forgiveness for contrition. It's never too late to do the right thing, I welcome everyone who stands up for what's right. There's a lot of fight to be fought & we need more good guys.
@SeanTrende@EWErickson Ugh, this position is exhausting and regressive. There is no unanimity as to what "Christianity" means & commands. If Christianity isn't utilitarian, certainly good government is. We don't vote for religion. But I hope we vote for people devoted to doing good for others.
Spare me. We have a unstable, psychotic idiot leading us into a war without a clear objective and in violation of the laws and the Constitution of the United States, and you're all for it because your brain is scrambled after years of self-enforced cognitive dissonance. Get help.
You are clinging to a statistic you don’t understand.
The “6% died of COVID only” line comes from a CDC table listing death certificates that had no additional conditions recorded. That doesn’t mean the other 94% “didn’t die of COVID.” It means COVID caused pneumonia, ARDS, clotting, stroke, or heart failure — which is what viral infections do.
When HIV patients died of pneumocystis pneumonia, we did not say, “Ah, they didn’t die of HIV.”
We understood cause and consequence.
Over 1.3 million excess deaths occurred in the United States during the pandemic period. That is not a rounding error. That is not “just flu.” That is a historic mortality event confirmed by excess death curves — which do not care about hospital coding, politics, or your favorite podcast.
As for the claim that doctors diagnosed COVID for money — that requires believing that thousands of physicians, hospitals, coders, auditors, and insurers across every political jurisdiction engaged in coordinated fraud without evidence. That is conspiracy thinking dressed up as fiscal concern.
And yes, early treatment evolved. That’s called science confronting a novel pathogen. If your standard is “medicine must be omniscient on day one,” then you are not arguing medicine — you are arguing for clairvoyance.
The hospitals were full.
The ICUs were full.
Temporary morgues were deployed.
Excess mortality surged in waves that matched viral spread across continents.
You may dislike public health decisions.
You may resent mandates.
But denying the scale of mortality requires denying measurable reality.
And measurable reality does not bend to ideology.
@t_twotwos@CBSEveningNews@lilialuciano sToP wItH tHe RaCe CaRd is the most race card response ever. "Waaaaah I don't like you pointing out our obvious racism. We're entitled to a 1/2time show in English. It's our right as Real Americans. We like Michael Jackson so we're not racist." 🙄
@TJMoe28@awfulannouncing I'd prefer for you to STFU, TJ Moe, but turns out people can have all sorts of opinions & still love their country. That's how being an American works, even for athletes.
@t_twotwos@CBSEveningNews@lilialuciano The "We're not *always* weirdly triggered by you people - black, brown, whatever" folks are just weird. Folks could've just ignored the 1/2time show if it wasn't for them. Instead trumpies waged a culture war (lol bringing more attention to BB). Bc they don't like brown people.