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I wonder if Sinclair is using two-factor authentication? Probably not.

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sic semper tyrannis? WTF?

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Wow, right-wing white men actually facing accountability for putting everyone else in danger. Good riddance to MAGAt trash.

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LOL at Rolovich. "Religious exemption" my Molewacka.

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@1: Sorry dude. I had been saying similar things but when the facts prove us wrong it's time to admit so. From the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-variant.html) - the last sentence is clear cut:

"Fully vaccinated people with Delta variant breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others. However, vaccinated people appear to spread the virus for a shorter time: For prior variants, lower amounts of viral genetic material were found in samples taken from fully vaccinated people who had breakthrough infections than from unvaccinated people with COVID-19. For people infected with the Delta variant, similar amounts of viral genetic material have been found among both unvaccinated and fully vaccinated people. However, like prior variants, the amount of viral genetic material may go down faster in fully vaccinated people when compared to unvaccinated people. This means fully vaccinated people will likely spread the virus for less time than unvaccinated people."

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Moldwhap @1

When raindrop schools you twice in 24 hrs, it's time to give it up.
Just saying...

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@1: Vaccinated cops are less likely to get COVID in the first place, dummy. You can't spread what you don't got.

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@1 wacka...wacka..wacka...UNGHH! don't forget to clean up between each posting.

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@14: "The new study, published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also found that unvaccinated people were nearly five times more likely to be infected with Covid than people who got the shots."

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cdc-study-shows-unvaccinated-people-are-29-times-more-likely-to-be-hospitalized-with-covid.html

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@ moldwhap... so your solution is what? Science is an evolving process (ooh... I said evolve... burn me at the stake).
Of course we know more now than we did a year ago. We will know even more a year from now. I don't think you understand how science (and especially medicine) works.
If you do, that's a weird hill you're climbing.

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@12: In politics, you can hang your hat on "appear to" and other malleable verbiage - but I wouldn't risk it with virology - considering scientists are always prefacing their studies with qualifiers.

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@15:

"So the state may force a medical procedure on people based on "may", "early" and "suggests"? Anyone else but me have a problem with that precedent? What future Trump, or worse, administration will apply that precedent in the future? For what evil, liberty seeking end?"

My goodness, if only Jonas Salk had realized that.

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Religious exemptions are complete bullshit. It's extremely unlikely that any religion an American anti-vaxxer adheres to prohibits the vaccine. From Vanderbilt University Medical Center:

"The following Christian denominations have no theological objection to vaccination:

Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodox
Oriental Orthodox
Amish
Anglican
Baptist
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints​ (Mormon)
Congregational
Episcopalian
Jehovah's Witness - Note: This denomination originally denounced vaccination, but revised this doctrine in 1952. An article in a recent issue of the church's newsletter promotes vaccination to avoid infectious diseases.
Lutheran
Mennonite
Methodist (including African Methodist Episcopal)
Quaker
Pentecostal
Presbyterian
Seventh-Day Adventist
Unitarian-Universalist"

In addition none of the other major religions in the world prohibit vaccination.

https://www.vumc.org/health-wellness/news-resource-articles/immunizations-and-religion

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@19 rainy...
3 for 3! You've been rolling lately.
Nice job....

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Brent dear, what about Christian Scientists? Or are they all dead of Covid?

I'm happy to see those troopers go. All they do is write speeding tickets. And the fact that that many refused the vaccine after one of them just died shows how stupid they are.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-state-trooper-who-died-of-covid-hadnt-been-vaccinated-yet-family-says/#:~:text=Newsletters-,Washington%20state%20trooper%20who%20died%20of%20COVID%20hadn,been%20vaccinated%20yet%2C%20family%20says&text=Washington%20State%20Patrol%20Trooper%20Eric,said%20in%20a%20statement%20Friday.

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@23, VUMC did say they have theological objections, but also "One of the basic teachings of this denomination is that disease can be cured or prevented by focused prayer and members will often request exemptions when available. However, there are not strict rules against vaccination and members can receive required vaccinations."

If wikipedia can be believed their membership numbers in the USA are not great. Around 100,000 in the 1990s and around 50,000 in 2009. Yikes. Maybe they are all dead by now.

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If you need a quick humor break from yet another Covid vax discussion here is a summary of what happened with Sawant's parking bill that Hannah wrote about the other day:

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/10/14/61976693/sawant-to-propose-free-parking-for-carpenters-meeting-core-demand-of-many-union-workers/comments

She tried to walk it on outside of council procedure and couldn't even get a courtesy second to delivery her SA canned speech demonizing everyone. Gonzales even threatened to mute her at one point (lol). As expected Gonzales and Mosqueda want no part of pissing off labor during an election season. SCC insight had the write up:

This afternoon Councilmember Sawant tried to “walk on” to the weekly Introduction and Referral Calendar a new bill that would require contractors to provide paid parking for construction workers on downtown sites. The bill would have skipped the committee process and would instead go straight to the full Council for adopting on November 1st. However, her motion to amend the Introduction and Referral Calendar failed for lack of a second. Sawant begged her colleagues for a “courtesy second” so she could address the issue (and give a speech about the bill, as she did in the morning Council Briefing) but Council President Gonzalez cut her off since by the Council’s rules unless there is a second to her motion she is not allowed to speak about the motion or the bill. This infuriated Sawant, and she lashed out first at her colleagues for not seconding her motion, then at Gonzalez for enforcing the Council’s rules. Gonzalez threatened to ask the IT department to mute her (on their Zoom meeting), which just further enraged Sawant — though she eventually stopped arguing and let Gonzalez move on with the meeting. Sawant is fond of walking on her bills on Monday afternoon instead of submitting them through the normal process the prior week, perhaps because it gives her an opportunity to deliver a speech about her bill at the Council meeting. This time, however, it looks like she will be forced to use the regular process, which unfortunately for Sawant leaves it up to the Council President to decide whether to refer it to committee or to the full Council. Gonzalez would probably send it to committee first, and the most likely committee would be Mosqueda’s since it handles labor-related issues. That would push the bill at least into December and possibly into January, when the Council will reshuffle its committee assignments after new Councilmembers are seated. It would also push it past the recall election for Sawant — meaning that she might not get a chance to see it over the finish line at all if things don’t go her way.

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If you need a humor break today in between Covid vax posts here is an update on the article Hannah published the other day about Sawant's union legislation

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/10/14/61976693/sawant-to-propose-free-parking-for-carpenters-meeting-core-demand-of-many-union-workers

SCC Insight has a great write up about it in his update from the council meeting yesterday

https://sccinsight.com/2021/10/18/notes-from-todays-council-meetings-116/

Essentially Sawant tried to force the measure onto the referral calendar outside of council procedure because the movement don't need no stinkin procedures. Her colleagues failed to give her a courtesy second so she wasn't able to deliver her canned SA written screed. Instead she pitched a fit and eventually Gonzales has to threaten to mute her (lol). What a joke but so predictable. No way Gonzales or Mosqueda are going to risk alienating union voters during an election season and quite honestly just speaks to how tired even her so called allies (Morales, Mosqueda, Herbold) are of her grandstanding and glory hounding.

Carry on with the vax posts now

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shit, sorry for the double post. I thought they first one didn't take. My bad.

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@23 - Well, they also investigate traffic accidents, so you may have to wait 6% longer if you're in a wreck on the freeway. But, yeah, glorified traffic cops cops with cool hats.

I would be interested to know how many of those 74 troopers were at or near retirement anyway or had other cop jobs lined up in Idaho (or similar) already. I would bet a majority.

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Mole wank, wank,.. Freedumb and Herman Kane honorable mention duly noted.

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@14 -- You are an idiot. There is no way for an individual to fully protect themselves or others from the spread of the disease. Wearing a mask reduces the spread. Vaccination reduces the spread. Just because neither works 100% of the time doesn't mean that neither works 0% of the time.

Imagine you have a bullet proof vest on. You get shot in the chest. Will you die? Maybe. Are you better off because of the vest? Hell yes.

No imagine you are the shooter, and put a block of wood in front of the gun. Will you kill someone? Maybe. Are you less likely to kill someone? Hell yes.

It's not that complicated, dipshit. All vaccines work this way. Once enough people get vaccinated, the disease goes away. The only reason people like Colin Powell die of the disease is because not enough Americans got vaccinated. The man survived attacks by the Viet Cong, but idiots like you killed him.

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MAGA-stupefied white male anti-vaxxers are getting fired or quitting en masse, only to get denied unemployment benefits. And ex-WSU head coach Nick Rolovich, according to The Seattle Times, went even further and fired himself. ["In End, Rolovich Fires Rolovich" pages B1 and B3, The Seattle Times, Sports Commentary Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Jon Wilner].
All fer fahtin' fer the Trump Death Cult's Goodie Bag of Free Dumbs!
Apparently their only requirement is to check their brains in at the door.

@6 Original Andrew, @7 Max Solomon, and @23 Catalina Vel-DuRay: Bravo to all three of you and Amen!

Now if only we could get zero media coverage on Donald Jackass Trump, and effective immediately the Orange Turd and the entire GOP plus their RepubliKKKan bootlicking sock puppets Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema, Amy COVID Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Jr, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas all drop dead by January 1, 2022.
It would really be nice to finally get our democracy back by the beginning of next year.

@1, @12, @14, @15, and @32 David in Shoreline: Stop sniffing hydroxychloroquine. We know it's you hiding under another pseudo-screen name. Give it up already.

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FFS at least include a picture of the ass in question. I don’t mean Rolovich.

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And now Nick Rolovich is suing to get his grossly overpaid annual salary of $3.2 million a year-~19 TIMES GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE'S ANNUAL SALARY of $171,898.00 [Google Ballotpedia]---back from WSU. I hope the judge dismisses this bullshit lawsuit. "Religious beliefs" my ass.


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