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Why not question everything?
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Good idea. But let's not forget that everything means everything so we should start with this post.

those places sell food. There are still mom and pop shops that sell food that are open. I've been to and have ordered from them. So we questioned, and got the answer. Good on you for asking the question.

Interesting. I don't know. Do you have more information? I mean, off the top of my head, it seems to me like abortions are a bit more...well, time sensitive than other types of "elective surgery." Also not all abortion requires surgery. So we need the question to be more specific before we can answer it.

To the first question, this is patently false and also makes no sense and no one who knows what they are talking about is saying this. Trump made this claim during one of his infamous press briefings and afterwards took it back and claimed he was joking. If sunlight killed the virus, the only way it could spread is underground and underwater, because, I don't know if you've noticed this, but sunlight is everywhere on planet earth. Regular outside temperature heat does not kill the virus, or any virus that effects humans. Again, this makes no sense. Viruses have to survive the human body temperature which is typically higher than the ambient temperature except during extremely hot days in summer.

To answer the question about children...the concern was that they would be vectors for the virus and unknowingly spread it to other people. However, recent evidence suggests that children are not completely safe from the virus either. There seems to be COVID related inflammation that can effect some children and be highly dangerous to them.

Good question. Probably some research would answer it, but I'm not feeling motivated enough to do it. I don't even own a boat. I encourage you find out for us.

It depends on which "recommendations" you are talking about, and which state we are talking about. New York is the hardest hit state by the pandemic and it's possible to get fined for not wearing a mask. But, as the governor of new york said today, if 19 million New Yorkers decide not to social distance, there is nothing he can do about it. everyone I know is willingly social distancing because they don't want to hurt their family or friends or neighbors.

Well, the truth is...we are both, at least in terms of how those words are typically defined. A democracy is a genre of political system and "republic" is a type of democracy. In a republic, officials are democratically elected to represent us in a legislative body.

I have this question too. Though it's more specific for me...who's cutting Trump's hair??? to the second part, government officials ARE social distancing, including the President, Congress, and others.

Well, right now, worldwide, from numbers I just checked online, the death rate is about .6 percent. The last estimate I heard is that approximately 50 percent of Americans will get COVID if left unchecked. Let's do the math....

900,000 people dead with a .6 percent death rate in The United States alone. Tens of thousands already dead. That is why many people are anxious and afraid. But I guess if it's not someone you know, who cares, right?

Well, that's an easy one...because it's their job to investigate the cause of someone's death. Not every single death listed as a covid death going to be correct. Many that are being reported as Covid Deaths right now we will probably find out later were not directly or indirectly due to covid...problem is hundreds of people dying everyday. Do you think it's easy to figure these things out on the fly? Probably some who tested postive ended up dying from an unrelated stroke, or some who died of COVID like symptoms but they didn't get to test before they died...these things aren't perfect and no one is claiming they are.

Source? Also see the previous answer.

Probably something worth studying, but an offhand guess would be people staying inside and not getting hurt doing other things. People driving less alone is probably a huge driver of this. Also see the previous-previous answer.

This is part of one of the aid packages passed on a bi-partisan basis to off-set financial cost hospitals are incurring during the pandemic.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-paym...

It still exists. It's not flu season, by the way, and won't be for a few months.

Which doctors speaking out against what? And source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_services

No. Shelter at home means everyone, even essential workers. If you're an essential worker, that means you go to work and then go back home after work is done. You're not partying and having a good ole time while everyone else is home.

The one thing is not directly related to the other. There are still new cases so people should still be careful.

This is mostly false except in specific circumstances. And if the mask causing you to have difficulty breathing, you should remove it. No one is telling people to suffocate.

It's rough and depressing and a tragedy in and of itself. A bigger tragedy is the pile of bodies that keeps getting higher and higher by the minute. Social distancing will end. Loved ones cannot be replaced.

This would take more time and effort to parse and research that I have the patience for right now, so you do the homework and get back to us on that one if you would be so kind.

Because he is a smart guy and studies this stuff for a living. Scientists have been predicting the next pandemic for years. this is't the first pandemic, it won't be last, and it won't be the worst. Where have you been the past twenty years? There have been major outbreaks of disease every five years or so.

He doesn't, Mike Pence does.

God will forgive you for not going to church for a couple of months.

500 people? Wow, which Home Depot do YOU go to? And are home depots really open? Maybe because of construction supplies for infrastructure maintenence? I don't know, do the research and get back to us on it?

All questions are valid when seriously posed and considered and not just rhetorical.

Nothing in what I said is conjecture or supposition. I have the evidence right there.

YAY a video with verifiable sources. Let's see what good old verification of the info turned up THIS time. There are two sources used here. A US Patent, and the document from the Rockefeller Foundation, entitled: "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development."

If you want to see how little research "investigative journalist" Harry Vox did for the interview in the video, google "ebolavirus patent." Guess what the FIRST result is? The patent he references.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120251502...

Notice the year, 2012. For the virus involved in an outbreak that is dated...2007, in Uganda. Gee whiz they were late on getting their virus patent, weren't they? Seems fishy. Let's see what the patent is actually for, which, wouldn't you know it, it says right in the patent:

"SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
0009. The present invention is based upon the isolation
and identification of a new human Ebola virus species, EboBun. EboBun was isolated from the patients suffering
from hemorrhagic fever in a recent outbreak in Uganda. The
isolated virus is a member of the Filoviridae family, a family of negative sense RNA viruses. Accordingly, the invention
relates to the isolated EboBun virus that morphologically and
phylogenetically relates to known members filoviridae. "

In plain english: This is a patent for the isolation of the specific naturally occurring species of ebolavirus discovered during the 2007 Ebola outbreak in Uganda.

So BS information that Harry Vox knows 99.9 percent of the people listening to him won't bother to check. Let's check the other source:

https://www.nommeraadio.ee/meedia/pdf/RRS/Rocke...

Contrary to what the youtube host says, the article isn't that long. It's 50 pages more or less and there is a lot of empty space on many of the pages. It's in plain english and easy enough to skim through quickly. You want to know the truth about it? Read it!

It's a document about how different global crises might be addressed by the international community using technology. It describes four different approaches, using four different hypothetical scenarios. Lock Step which is the only scenario that fits into the propoganda that Harry Vox is trying to push, is just one of four. And he skips and glosses over the parts of the scenario that point out that the Lock Step approach has serious downsides....because it contradicts his lies.

Happy to set the record straight, cheers.

There are people in this country who make me proud to be an american. Fiona hill is one of them, which aria's comment made me think of. Mitt Romney made me proud when stood up to trump in the impeachment hearing.

There are good people. Honestly i blame the internet. Lies meant to divide and confuse us are spreading like wildfire. Also trump has taken government corruption to a whole new level and it's problem. We'll see how the next few years play out.

For whatever reason, it's human nature to hear something on the news, or hear something that anyone who you don't particular mistrust said, and believe it.

The thing I don't get is why people believe randos on the internet over experts who pay their bills with the work they do.

I get mistrusting authority. But that oughta apply to ANY authority, including a dude on the internet who says he knows what he's talking about.

Sources are good but they are much better when you actually read them to determine if they are relevant. It's good to question, but when you actually want to say that you know the truth about something, you have to do the work and the research and examine the issue, and not just take a headline and assume you know what something is about.

There are A LOT of links there and I'm definitely not going to look into every single one, but I checked out the first three. It's worth noting, though, that, looking through the titles, none of them specifically mention 5G networks, it looks like they are mostly about cell phone radiation in general.

First link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29530389

The abstract says that, for the highest amount of radiaton they used during the study, exposing the rats to the radiation for 19 hours a day from utero until they died that rats had a statistically significant increase in tumors. Meaning maybe the increase in incidence was due to the radiaton.

So, it seems to me the study is saying this: If you sat next to a cellphone tower for 19 hours a day from when you were conceived until you died, you might be more likely to develop a tumor.

Second link: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2018/7910...

"We aimed to evaluate the effect of 2100MHz radiofrequency radiation emitted by a generator, simulating a 3G-mobile phone on the brain of rats during 10 and 40 days of exposure."

"Our main finding was the increased oxidative DNA damage to brain after 10 days of exposure with the decreased oxidative DNA damage following 40 days of exposure compared to their control groups."

So my question is, what is this study really saying? Is it saying that you get acclimated to radiation after a month and it doesn't harm you as much? It doesn't say to what degree whatever damage it is doing is harmful. So it's definitely not conclusive evidence that the radiation used in the study is dangerous.

Third link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30635061

"RESULTS: Compared with girls with lower prenatal ELF-MF exposure, girls with higher exposure had a lower birth weight, thinner skinfold of triceps, abdomen and back, and smaller circumference of head, upper arm and abdomen in all three ELF-MF matrices. The differences were statistically significant for birth weight and most other growth measurements (P < 0.05). These measures had no significant difference between higher and lower prenatal ELF-MF exposure in boys except back skinfold thickness."

Again, the results of the study are clearly not conclusive. And there is a contradictory result in that it seemed to effect girls and not boys.

I definitely have an open mind on this stuff. I'm not here trying to say that cell phones are perfectly safe. I think the issue should be studied further, and if, after towers go up, adverse health affects are observed, we should take them down.

Being that the consensus among people who actually study this stuff for a living is that it's safe, I'm not opposed to them going up.

And like soco said earlier, they would be putting the towers up regardless of whether or not there was a coronovirus outbreak, if anything I bet the outbreak would slow things down, but I'm obviously not following the situation closely. Like most people, contrary to the OP's claim, I'm really not that concerned about it.

Ancient Greek looks and sounds really pretty:

ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΛΟΣΣΑΕΙΣ 1:16
ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ ἐκτίσθη τὰ πάντα ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, τὰ ὁρατὰ καὶ τὰ ἀόρατα, εἴτε θρόνοι εἴτε κυριότητες εἴτε ἀρχαὶ εἴτε ἐξουσίαι· τὰ πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν ἔκτισται·

https://biblehub.com/text/colossians/1-16.htm

I'm speaking specifically about the people who made and published/host the video, not anyone in this forum:

What bone has to be missing from your body to say lies like that? Like we all lie but to dedicate your life to lies like that...it's disgusting.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this point in my life but it ALWAYS puts a pit in my stomach. I feel bad that I turned into goop at this, COVID bs is clearly getting to me.

I googled the guy in the video, "dr" Rashid Buttar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Buttar

Fake doctor who's been spreading false information for profit for years.

And had a guy pretending to be an "anonymous doctor" OMG how friggin' dishonest.

I'm sorry but this gets me worked up I'm not trying to be mean here but I'm at my wits end with people taking facts about COVID out of context and spreading false information. "Sunlight kills it" IF THAT WERE TRUE HOW THE HECK WOULD IT SPREAD. HAVE YOU SEEN THE PLANET EARTH? I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED BUT SUNLIGHT IS EVERYWHERE.