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Old 07-21-2021, 04:23 PM
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No it will not. Elections have consequences.
Don’t I know it. Voted for 45 and regretted it almost everyday for four years
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With the delta variant on the rise I don’t see this ending in September. Seems like it’s never going to end.
Only if you listen to the liberal media propaganda outlets.
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Only if you listen to the liberal media propaganda outlets.
I don’t listen to any partisan news. But I’m going to be ****ed if we are wearing masks on planes much longer.
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I don’t listen to any partisan news. But I’m going to be ****ed if we are wearing masks on planes much longer.
I agree with you, this thing needs to end soon. Even with more vaccinated people catching the Delta variant, it’s nothing more then the sniffles. People are making this into a big deal and it’s not. Let’s move on.
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Make it optional for vaccinated employees.

If nothing else that might convince some of the holdouts to get vaccinated.


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Nah. Not convincing this holdout. Efff that.
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Originally Posted by dualinput;[url=tel:3267033
3267033[/url]]Don’t I know it. Voted for 45 and regretted it almost everyday for four years
what was the problem? unemployment, interest rates and taxes too low? the stock market and wages too high? too many minorities out of poverty and owning their own homes? not enough crime and too many middle east peace treaties? fewer problems at the border? I guess that’s all problematic for some. I’d rather have a jerk who does a good job than a likable puppet that’s ruining things for the sake of “social justice and environmental equity”.
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Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan;[url=tel:3266959
3266959[/url]]Make it optional for vaccinated employees.

If nothing else that might convince some of the holdouts to get vaccinated.


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According to John’s-Hopkins and other medical researchers, we’re at 85% herd immunity between the vaccinated, the infected and the naturally immune. That’s more than enough for the disease to trend down which it is.

The African variant was the next killer, it passed and the delta variant will also because Faucci and the CDC were right about one thing; as the virus matures it will mutate and those variants will spread faster and more easily but be less dangerous, which has proven true.

If they truly want to address Covid on a global level they need to stop letting vaccines expire here while wasting resources trying to coerce more people to get the vax, and send the vaccines to impoverished nations where there are plenty of people who want it.
they require special equipment to be kept cool, which could be the same they ship it in.
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Nah. Not convincing this holdout. Efff that.

Really? You would rather keep wearing a mask at work than take any one of the shots that billions of other people around the world have taken?

Not that that is even an option, it was just a hypothetical but I have to admit I'm surprised. To me, the cost of getting back to normal is well worth either vaccination or the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask. *

I agree that hospitalizations and deaths uncoupling from case counts, and those that do end up in the hospital being predominantly those who are unvaccinated does make it seem like we are less likely to go back to last year's lockdowns and empty airplanes. I sincerely hope so anyway.

* - Normal to me is freedom to go to the movies, travel freely, take a cruise, visit Canada, etc without movement being restricted by any foreign governments or other entities.


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Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan;[url=tel:3267266
3267266[/url]]Really? You would rather keep wearing a mask at work than take any one of the shots that billions of other people around the world have taken?

Not that that is even an option, it was just a hypothetical but I have to admit I'm surprised. To me, the cost of getting back to normal is well worth either vaccination or the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask. *

I agree that hospitalizations and deaths uncoupling from case counts, and those that do end up in the hospital being predominantly those who are unvaccinated does make it seem like we are less likely to go back to last year's lockdowns and empty airplanes. I sincerely hope so anyway.

* - Normal to me is freedom to go to the movies, travel freely, take a cruise, visit Canada, etc without movement being restricted by any foreign governments or other entities.


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I’d be willing if was for health and safety, not for optics and agenda and to “BE ALLOWED “ to stop wearing masks that aren’t effective anyway.

Our freedom shouldn’t hinge on being manipulated into wearing masks, but science that says we’ve reached herd immunity and masks and coerced are not necessary.
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If you don’t want to wear a mask on a plane you can try Spirit airlines.

According to an American Airlines employee you could try flying with Spirit if you don’t want to wear a mask.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dal...outputType=amp
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