Mornin anons
Biden’s “record breaking” fundraising numbers are pissing me off. However, don’t forget…
BLM $$$ = Biden $$$
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-campaign-breaks-record-online-fundraising-august-raking-364-million-overall-1529265
Hey! Eyes up here lady!!
Normies can’t wrap their brains against this one - KEK
A recent military study shows military personnel evaluated who received the flu vaccine were at 36 percent increased risk for coronavirus with varied benefit in preventing some strains of the flu.
https://www.disabledveterans.org/2020/03/11/flu-vaccine-increases-coronavirus-risk/
False- they can double up on numbers and use where needed to stoke fear.
Coat Guard friend said they will be making them wear masks every flu season forward even after this pandemic
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has dismissed a report suggesting the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a "superspreading event" for COVID-19 that cost billions of dollars in health costs.
Researchers from the Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies at San Diego State University in California claimed event, which attracted nearly 500,000 visitors, may have resulted in 266,796 new coronavirus cases—nearly 20 percent of the 1.4 million new cases of COVID-19 recorded in the U.S. between August 2 and September 2.
The annual event, which ran from August 7 to August 17, did not enforce social distancing guidelines and the wearing of masks in the was were not mandatory. Photographs show large crowds spilling out into the streets from Sturgis' bars, with an outdoor concert by the band Smash Mouth also taking place at the rally.
The study described how the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally saw many of "worst-case scenarios" for superspreading occurring simultaneously.
These include the event taking place over several days, individuals packed closely together, a large out-of-town population traveling into the town to attend, and a "low compliance with recommended infection countermeasures such as the use of masks."
"The only large factors working to prevent the spread of infection was the outdoor venue, and low population density in the state of South Dakota," the paper adds.
The researchers arrived at the figures by analyzing anonymized cellphone data to track the smartphone pings from non-residents and movement of those before and after the event.
The study then linked those who attended and traveled back to their home states, and compared changes in coronavirus trends after the rally's conclusion.
"We're never going to be able to contact trace every single person from Sturgis," Andrew Friedson, one of four authors of the study, told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
"So if we want a good-faith estimate using, at the moment, the accepted statistical techniques … this is the best number we're going to get in my opinion."
The review has since been dismissed by Gov. Noem, who backed the event to go ahead amid the outbreak as it provides a major economic boost to the state
"This report isn't science. It's fiction," Noem tweeted.
"Under the guise of academic research, it's nothing short of an attack on those who exercised their personal freedom to attend Sturgis
"Predictably, some in the media breathlessly report on this non-peer-reviewed model, built on incredibly faulty assumptions that do not reflect the actual facts and data.
Noem added: "At one point, academic modeling also told us that South Dakota would have 10,000 COVID patients in the hospital at our peak. Today, we have less than 70.
"I look forward to good journalists, credible academics, and honest citizens repudiating this nonsense."
The study calculated that the total public health costs as a result of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally were at least $12.2 billion
"This is enough to have paid each of the estimated 462,182 rally attendees $26,553.64 not to attend," the paper states.
"While we note that this estimate captures the full costs of infections due to the Sturgis rally—and is an overestimate of the externality cost because this number includes COVID-19 infections to individuals who attended the rally (and may have internalized private health risks)—we nonetheless conclude that local and nationwide contagion from this event was substantial."
The authors of the study have been contacted for further comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-covid-report-kristi-noem-1530581
Anyone able to find the article he wrote?
Here’s one on his connections to The Atlantic
“ The Atlantic’s majority owner has donated over $1.2 million to Democratic candidates and political committees since 2019 while reportedly keeping in close contact with the magazine’s editor-in-chief, who published an anonymously-sourced story Thursday alleging that President Donald Trump denigrated fallen American soldiers.
Billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, obtained a 70% stake in The Atlantic in 2017 through her firm, the Emerson Collective.
In November, she further solidified her control over the magazine after its longtime chairman, David Bradley, said he was going to step away from management, according to Politico.
Politico noted in its report that Powell Jobs communicates often with The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
Powell Jobs contributed $2,800 to former Vice President Joe Biden’s primary campaign in October, and in June she divvied out an additional $610,600 to the Biden Victory Fund.
She’s also provided maxed out donations to at least 66 other Democratic politicians since the start of 2019, all the while providing nothing to Republican candidates, according to Federal Election Commission records.”
https://magaconservatives.com/connection-between-joe-biden-and-the-atlantic-surfaces-biden-megadonor-is-majority-owner-of-magazine-that-trashed-trump/
Joe Biden’s 2007 article in the Atlantic
Confidence and Freedom
JOE BIDEN
NOVEMBER 2007 ISSUE
The unique idea of America embodied in our Bill of Rights is that people of diverse racial, religious, ethnic, and geographic origins can live together in peace and pursue their own happiness. The idea has survived civil war, world wars, and economic depression. With each challenge the idea has grown more robust. It has made us the envy of the world. It is the source of our strength as a nation.
Only Americans themselves can destroy the idea. The ingredients essential to its survival are our faith in its wisdom and our confidence in its success.
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The American Idea
Scholars, novelists, politicians, artists, and others look ahead to the future of the American idea.
There have been times when our confidence has waned. Even our Founders, who feared the anarchy of the French Revolution, passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. In the last century, fear of fascism and communism led us to imprison fellow citizens based on their ancestry and to harass others because of their views.
The American idea faces a similar challenge today. The radical fundamentalists who struck us on 9/11 achieved by our reaction what they could not through their own actions: a blow against the freedoms that animate the American idea. Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, warrantless electronic surveillance, torture, and “extraordinary renditions” have made us less, not more, secure. We have alienated allies around the world and created disunity at home.
Americans are pragmatic, confident, and idealistic. In 2008, new leadership will rekindle our faith in the idea of America. We don’t have to diminish the American idea in order to save it. Indeed, the only way to prevail in the struggle between freedom and fundamentalism is to enrich that idea in the face of threats.
Next year we will see a renaissance of self-confident freedom that will demonstrate to the world that the American idea is not just an ideal, but a living reality.
We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.
JOE BIDEN is a former vice president of the United States.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/confidence-and-freedom/306316/
Joe Biden’s other article in The Atlantic in 2017
“ 'We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation'
The former vice president calls on Americans to do what President Trump has not.
JOE BIDEN
AUGUST 27, 2017
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People gather for a vigil in response to the death of a counter-demonstrator at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville outside the White House on August 13, 2017.
People gather for a vigil in response to the death of a counter-demonstrator at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville outside the White House on August 13, 2017.JONATHAN ERNST / REUTERS
In January of 2009, I stood waiting in Wilmington, Delaware, for a train carrying the first African American elected president of the United States. I was there to join him as vice president on the way to a historic Inauguration. It was a moment of extraordinary hope for our nation—but I couldn’t help thinking about a darker time years before at that very site.
My mind’s eye drifted back to 1968. I could see the flames burning Wilmington, the violence erupting on the news of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the federal troops taking over my city.
I was living history—and reliving it—at the same time. And the images racing through my mind were a vivid demonstration that when it comes to race in America, hope doesn’t travel alone. It’s shadowed by a long trail of violence and hate.
In Charlottesville, that long trail emerged once again into plain view not only for America, but for the whole world to see. The crazed, angry faces illuminated by torches. The chants echoing the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 1930s. The neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and white supremacists emerging from dark rooms and remote fields and the anonymity of the web into the bright light of day on the streets of a historically significant American city.
If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now: We are living through a battle for the soul of this nation.
The giant forward steps we have taken in recent years on civil liberties and civil rights and human rights are being met by a ferocious pushback from the oldest and darkest forces in America. Are we really surprised they rose up? Are we really surprised they lashed back? Did we really think they would be extinguished with a whimper rather than a fight?
Did we think the charlatans and the con-men and the false prophets who have long dotted our history wouldn’t revisit us, once again prop up the immigrant as the source of all our troubles, and look to prey on the hopelessness and despair that has grown up in the hollowed-out cities and towns of Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and the long-forgotten rural stretches of West Virginia and Kentucky?
We have fought this battle before—but today we have a special challenge.
Today we have an American president who has publicly proclaimed a moral equivalency between neo-Nazis and Klansmen and those who would oppose their venom and hate.
We have an American president who has emboldened white supremacists with messages of comfort and support.
This is a moment for this nation to declare what the president can’t with any clarity, consistency, or conviction: There is no place for these hate groups in America. Hatred of blacks, Jews, immigrants—all who are seen as “the other”—won’t be accepted or tolerated or given safe harbor anywhere in this nation.
That’s the America I know. That’s who I believe we are. And in the hours and days after Charlottesville, America’s moral conscience began to stir. The nation’s military leadership immediately took a firm stand. Some of America’s most prominent CEOs spoke out. Political, community, and faith leaders raised their voices. Charitable organizations have begun to take a stand. And we should never forget the courage of that small group of University of Virginia students who stared down the mob and its torches on that Friday night.
…read moar body too long
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/joe-biden-after-charlottesville/538128/