Question of the Day - 04 July 2021

The sad fact is that not all of us, not by a long shot, fought this battle, and that's the reason our victory is incomplete and has taken so long. No-maskers, MAGA morons, no-vaxxers, people who couldn't be bothered to social distance, and those who gathered in crowds in churches and at Trump rallies, flouting pandemic safety measures.

Our democracy barely survived last year, and now it's in danger again with racist voter suppression laws and an extreme-right Supreme Court. The 75 million are still out there, waiting to follow another demigod (or the same one). I'll be watching the fireworks tomorrow and thinking how close we came to losing everything, and how close we still are.

If there's anything to celebrate, it's the dedicated scientists, doctors, nurses, caregivers, and first responders who have given their utmost to help us survive the pandemic. They've been selfless and generous and we owe them a debt of gratitude. IMHO, the fireworks tomorrow are for them.

Keep drinking that Kool aid Lewis 

Beautiful summary of where we were one year ago and where we are now, particularly in regard to the onset of the Covid-19.  It stood to wipe us out physically and financially, but good folks worked tirelessly to wage against it and with much success.  Despite our flaws, present in every country on the globe, America has what people want and are clamoring to be here.  May we all keep doing our part to contain disease and help our neighbors through actions big and small.

Candy 

Man, what a miserable life you must lead if you read todays inspiring QofD and this is your vapid response. Perhaps you could open your mind sufficiently to entertain the thought that conservative politics, religion and other traditional mores that obviously frighten you had little or nothing to do with the spread of COVID, nor with the tremendous efforts of (gasp!) big corporations to vanquish it.
I know no serious conservative who turns a blind eye to science. I deal with the public regularly and find that the vast majority of unvaccinated are ignorant, stupid and/or apathetic. A few have determined for whatever reason that vaccination is not in their best interest, similar to those who decline the flu shot every year. They are not making a political statement.
Oh, and while you're blaming all those evil churchgoers for spreading COVID, let us not forget the masses who gathered nightly to destroy businesses in Portland and other cities.

Some people must live a miserable existence to have to make every discussion political... yes Lewis, I'm referring to you. Rather than celebrating America's birthday, you choose to spout off about your far left policies in an effort to ruin the Independence Day celebration for the rest of the country. Well, I for one, choose to celebrate the greatness of our country, our Founding Fathers that fought and won against the greatest military at the time, and forged a framework for a new government that has endured for almost 250 years and counting. No, we're not perfect, but we keep getting better. I like to think that we're the greatest country that has ever existed, and while many of us believe that, I also believe that you're free to wallow in your misery if you choose to do so.

“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. 
ANTONY: Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous; He is a noble Roman, and well given.”

Let’s give Kevin a little slack today, as we celebrate our independence and our freedom.
It’s easy to be a little ornery in the morning.
I’ve found Kevin’s commentaries, on the whole, interesting to read and sometimes refreshingly informative. They don’t require my full agreement to be of value.
I’m exercising my own treasured freedom to give Kevin a complete pass for the day. Let’s all do that.
(Today only, of course. Tomorrow you can have at ‘im.)

Could not of said it any better Kevin!  I will add that I am glad these selfish sissies were not around in WWII! They would have bitching about the rationing of gas, meat, stockings, sugar etc.

Lewis...un-beyond believable how mean spirited and ugly your comment is. I'd say far more but I won't stoop that low and instead wish everyone here a happy 4th of July including the good people at LVA. 

You have the narrative wrong. I warned you of this in March 2019. As expected the response I got was being made fun of and accused of being on a drug high. The fact it played out just like I said is a coincedence. The person that said I was on drug high has not come forward. Millions of people have not died. Any one with antibodies in blood was counted as active disease. Most of ones who died were on ventilators. 90% of people on ventilators died. 90% death rate and you watch for 6?monthsb turns out heaps of ventilators were dumped in landfill. Hospitals were given 10’s of million dollars. Memphis hospital got 963 million from stimulus package. How much did Vegas get. And death with someone with pos antibody was corona death. People who died of comirbitity were counted as corona death. Hospital gets extra money per death. I told you in March the antibody screens done on group of 3000 10% were pos. They were prob immune. CDC said pos rate was 9%. Were any of you in a so called epicenter

Some of us have been in epicenter. Problem there were no patients. Ex in Portugal court ordered cause of death he released on corona death. On death certificate only 152 died not 17,000 as gov said. Take  # of what they say are deaths multiple by 9%?and you have an appropriate death rate. It is a disease similar to flu. CDC decreased flu death from 70 k when I first checked to 39K?? Why. Now we have mask neurosis vaccine which is not a vaccine. 4 k deaths worldwide. Numerous side effects. Clots  ( hemorrhage ) from low platelets. Miscarriages. Breast masses irregular menstral cycles. The sheep or soldiers still lining up for jab. The Big Pharmaand rec jab for children and babies who don’t get corona. Money!!! Medical complex it is now called. Fauci gatesvWHO have lied for over a year. Now we have attack on constitutional rights that comes from a fixed election   Basically no rights. Isolation. You might hear something. An actor said people are stupid ignorant and dangerous. I am a MD. 

Read Kevin Lewis post. He hits nail on head. Did you know vaccine ha a chemical not to be used in humans or animals? No you just line up. It causes a protein spike that is dangerous. I have a niece who died from the jab. Nashville did not authorize a autopsy. We prob just see top of iceberg. I have medical contacts that do not see the numbers. Fake nears and most medical journals!!!! Are full of lies abd fear causing topics. I also have major chem and biology. The gov knows give away paper money and public will not speak up. Here is Ms schools opened normally. Few wore masks except for doctors office. We are not dying like flies. 
Now th push for vaccine for children and babies. Ridiculous and dangerous. 
I told you match 2019 Vegas would be shut down. Tunica will prob not recover visitors are scant. 

What will be the next one. I said after Vegas event a big one would come. Corona was it. What will the next one be. Who is our salvation. Who>rallies now. Vote them out !!!!!!!!!!!!!

...for saying things that some people disagree with. After all, calling someone "radical left" and screaming to drown them out is so very, very AMERICAN.

We've lost SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND people. Is that a "victory" to celebrate? Doesn't feel like it. Especially when we could have done so much better. We were like a huge army whose generals "won" the war by leading thousands of us into unnecessary slaughter. So whee, oh say can you see, and all that.

As I said, what we need to celebrate is the efforts of all the good people who just barely managed to save us. Doctors and nurses. Black voters in Georgia. Anthony Fauci. People staffing vaccination clinics. Joe Biden. Governors who withstood death threats when they were trying to keep people safe. All the talented people--mostly invisible--who worked furiously to develop marvelously effective vaccines.

Anyone who disagrees with me can perhaps do so without pitching insults? Kind of unpatriotic to do that, isn't it? Civil discourse.

"Anyone who disagrees with me can perhaps do so without pitching insults? Kind of unpatriotic to do that, isn't it? Civil discourse."

"DO SO WITHOUT PITCHING INSULTS"

"CIVIL DISCOURSE"

ROTFL.....pot, meet kettle.  

Geez, Lewis. Go left much? 

Why is it that the majority of the extreme leftists are extremely miserable....like Lewis 

This whole site is sarong to become one big kitchen sink, time to shut down the comment section

Bark, bark, bark! There's a LIBERAL in the front yard! Woof, woof!

BTW, when your kind calls me an "extreme leftist," that makes me very happy. It actually means I'm middle of the road.

I'm going to go have dinner with my friends--none of whom are conservatives--and watch some liberal fireworks explode in the skies over my liberal city and while waiting, listen to NPR and some music composed by black people. Woof, woof!

And thankfully, we liberals have gotten vaccinated and still wear masks in crowds and gatherings, so I'll feel perfectly comfortable even though there'll be a lot of people there. No Mother Tucker no-vaxxers in our crowd!

Please, boys and doggies, let's hear some more speculation about me and the life I lead. Why should you be constrained by facts?

I hope you had a great Fourth of July!

The most simple and unbias stat.  Is the death rate pre-covid and covid.  Deaths much higher from pre to covid year!  CASE CLOSED!