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Pawpaw wrote: ↑Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:00 am

Rob72 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:53 pmSmallpox is grossly misleading, as the numbers were inconsequential during its last 50 years, i.e., only a literal handful of people alive today know what treating it is like.

Many more than a "literal handful" of people know what it was like. I'm 67 and I had to get it. My sister (8 years my junior) had to get it too. When I enlisted in the Air Force, they did it again, even though they could see the scar. Note: The second time did not scar up, since I was already vaccinated.

I remember the polio vaccine too. That one was kinda fun. They dropped the serum on a sugar cube and you just sucked on it until the cube melted. Some of my classmates were bummed they couldn't have seconds.

68, and ditto. The Hong Kong Flu epidemic in that graphic took place during my junior/senior year of high school. I’ll grant that COVID-19 can kill you. It killed a good friend of mine a couple of months ago. As someone who has some of the co-morbidities that place me at higher risk, I’m NOT one who denies the danger. ON. THE. OTHER. HAND........ in 1968/69, we didn’t lose our minds over the Hong Kong Flu, and its death toll—both nationally and globally—came close to COVID-19's current toll as of right now.

Here’s what we DID do: nurses and doctors working in some public health clinics and critical care units where severely ill flu patients were being treated, wore masks and other PPE as necessary when these patients were under their care.

Here’s what we DIDN'T do: We didn’t shut down businesses and kill our economy. We didn’t restrict freedom of movement. We didn’t close our schools and churches. Governors and other petty thieves didn’t enact ridiculous executive orders outlawing the sale of garden seeds, while protecting liquor stores. They didn’t sanction unmasked rioters while outlawing singing in church. They didn’t make the decision to NOT wear a mask into an arrestable crime punishable by fines and jail. We didn’t turn the flu into a political movement. We didn’t weaponize it into a campaign issue. We didn’t pronounce a sitting president or other politicians guilty of having murdered the flu's victims. The Democrat Steno Pool (AKA “the media”) wasn’t complicit in a plot to use the weaponized issue to overthrow our entire political structure and economic engine.

We didn’t do those things back then, but we most certainly are doing them now.....and it’s not happening in a vacuum. There WILL be consequences, regardless of who wins in November. Ask yourselves, who stands to benefit?

THIS is why I stockpile beans, bullets, and bandages.