Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) [2020]

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  1. Mariner

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    That's what Bill Gates wants you to think.
     
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    The thing is with a vaccine to send out a signal so the government can spy on us.
    You need to have an arial twice as long as the wave length, to obey the laws of physics, thus you should be able to see it in the vaccine
     
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    People on government will do whatever has the best optics, which at the moment, for most of the electorare, is to follow the oficial narrative on covid.
     
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    Apparently the My Pillow guy is walking it back further.

    The minor detail is that the Supreme Court can't overturn the election result because they're not in session in August. Oops. That's the trouble with making up lies without checking your facts.

    So it's September, or some time after that now.
     
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    It doesnt have to be a fake disease to involve a conspiracy. Not saying there is. But conspiracies can take many forms.
    There are a lot of scenarios that could be taking place that arent that crazy.
     
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    These are not adequate samples and are prone to statistical bias. It is important to get a large sample of both sides.
    Does the country require unvaccinated people to take regular rapid tests too?
     
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    eventually some of the so called predictions will fall in line with some event that can be interpreted as such :lol:
     
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    In the 80s I read a book of his quatrains, and then another book about the interpretations of what events these were about and it was unbelievably weak, its like fuck even his best predictions were terrible. How the hell did this myth of hiim being an amazing soothsayer come to be?
    Its like now with the UFO videos, Im like OK let me see the best UFO footage and all I get is just crappy video, So this is the best evidence? Well fuck it, if this is the best then there is no evidence that UFOs have visited earth

    interpretation? Yes well some of Q's posts are made by some dude literally just mashing random keys on his keyboard and yet qanon-ers interpret them as having meaning, hilarious:-D
    Personally I think Q was just some dude doing a joke or performance art, 'Lets see how dumb ppl really are'
    and now the guys in too deep that if he confessed I would fear for his life ( though others wont believe it, just like they dont believe crop circles are man made even when the makers of the circles have admitted and provided evidence of making them)
     
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    I said nothing about the disease being the requirement for a conspiracy; the entire point of the four completely different examples I gave you was to demonstrate that the size of any false claim is what determined a grand conspiracy. Any fake thing that requires thousands or millions of people to be "in on" is unsustainable; it will fall apart under the human tendency to blab to someone else.

    It doesn't matter if it's a disease claim about COVID or the vaccinations or masks, or an inside job claim about 9/11, or a claim about fake moon landings or flat earth. The topic doesn't matter. The sheer number of people who would have to continually work to lie and support all of these dumbass conspiracies makes it literally impossible for them to be true.
     
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    No Americans are not required to test.
     
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    That's actually not true, fractional-wave antennae are absolutely a thing; example: Quarter-wave antenna - Wikipedia. Actually there are even fractal antennas which can radiate efficiently over a ton of RF spectrum.

    Anyway, the need for an antenna isn't the limiter IMO. The real limiter here is the amount of RF power you need to send any signal at all from something so small that it fit inside a hypodermic needle. To get that maximum 5G coverage radius, you'll need to be able to transmit at least a few thousand feet. You're gonna need several hundred milliwatts to get there.
     
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    WaPo story on covid in India, how delta ripped through the country in May, causing as much as 414k infections a day a peak, then just plunged and stabilized around 40k for the past couple of months.

    https://apple.news/A4olI6PZsRU2MMVYjMs8Y5Q

    So one of the theories is that a large portion of the population, at least 2/3, caught the infection and had antibodies. Of course 1/3 of over 1 billion is still a very large number of vulnerable people.

    The other factor listed in the article is that people just stayed home for a month or two as whole families caught it and they could get a spot in the hospital. There were accounts of people going from hospital to hospital, also trying to scavenge oxygen tanks on their own.

    But there may be resurgence in some states in the south and west, where seroprevalence is thought to be under 50%.

    Meanwhile vaccination is still up under 10% for the nation, with huge vaccine hesitancy.
     
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    But isn't the human body the perfect batteries, I remember something like that from The Matrix...
     
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    Touche. Like a Duracell C-cell amirite? That should be enough for sure.

    Ok, wait... Did you follow the various conversations online suggesting you should "over-hydrate" and bump up your electrolytes to help avoid the crap feeling after getting your vaxx shots? Electrolytes!! It's the electrolytes helping your body conductivity so you can power those little monopole quarter-wave antenna they jabbed you with.

    THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW!

    I need to make all the memes so I can get the word out on FaceSmash and Qarler. I bet I could get Tucker and Crowder both blabbing about it by tonight's broadcast if I hurry.
     
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    The Delta spread through India must have been pretty terrifying to attempt to deal with by the medical practitioners available.

    A study released last month estimated 4+ million deaths during the Delta wave which seems a pretty reasonable estimate considering the lack of treatment available to so many and taking into account the low vaccination rates. Unfortunately, the Indian government's refusal to admit to this probably led to many in the west continuing to imagine that it is 'just like the flu'. If the Indian population wasn't as young, you'd expect deaths have been much higher as well.

    You'd hope that the high infection rate will mean that most of the population now has some protection against serious disease in the future so Fingers-crossed numbers won't get so high again. India has gone the herd immunity by infection route desired by the GBDers and I don't doubt that many of them will claim the low official death rates to show they were correct. They weren't.

    Edit: Sorry, forgot to link the report about the study:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-s-covid-deaths-likely-10-times-official-toll-study-n1274450
     
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    OK thanks mate for the clarification
     
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    We'll be able to see the effect in 6-12 months time, when excess deaths for the periode has been analyzed

    Cheers
     
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    the crazy false conspiracy theories and claims will crample.
    But there is no way to discover every successful one.
    There is no transparency, there is control of information, and just as there are crazy people that will believe any crazy conspiracy there are also those that equally tend to reject the possibly real ones.
     
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    I mean, that's a non-sequitor if there ever was one :D Yes, it's entirely plausible that there are successful conspiracies. Those which succeed are limited to an incredibly few players, probably less than five, and were incredibly likely to be something which was far, far away from public view.

    Nobody with any amount of brains denies that conspiracies exist. The ones that are real are so small as to not qualify as something you'd find on FaceBook or Parler or Instagram or whatever. The ones that are real are the ones you never hear about, because those are the ones that actually succeeded.
     
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