You sure do love to participate in my conversations, for someone who keeps me on ignore all the time.
COVID-19: How government brainwashed GWB and others
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You sure do love to participate in my conversations, for someone who keeps me on ignore all the time.
Please substantiate.
As to the both sides getting equal time, I don’t know if it would apply to public health issues, but you sound like you want to bring the fairness doctrine back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
https://www.usaspending.gov/state
Receiving 5.84% isn't very high considering the 2020 Census has FL at 6.248% of the population. It has 56 military bases, is the gateway to the Caribbean/Latin America, has the 2nd largest coastline to AK, and has several of our largest ports. Not to mention federal dollars would be skewed towards FL, because of the high percentage of retirees who are simply getting their Social Security/Medicare benefits. I would argue that Puerto Rico is on another level considering they don't even pay federal income taxes and get .87% of federal tax dollars at .98% of the population.
https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-on-the-federal-government-2022
FL recieves $.37 for back for every $1 paid in 2022. One of the lowest ratios in country. It was middle of the pack last decade. Not sure what metrics you're using to call FL a red welfare state. It's not MS.
Sure. Here is the Federation of State Medical Boards saying that "Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license."
Now, of course you're going to go with "well, misinformation is dangerous!" as expected. The problem is that stuff which was classified as "misinformation" back then, and got people suspended from social media is widely accepted right now. For example, telling a patient "the COVID vaccine will not protect you from COVID, and will not prevent you from transmitting it" got people banned. If doctors had said that, they could have lost their license.
https://www.fsmb.org/advocacy/news-...sinformation-may-put-medical-license-at-risk/
I don't think the Fairness Doctrine is a bad thing, but no - that's not at all what I'm saying. If social media companies are directed by the government to censor and ban individuals who have a differing opinion on a matter that is completely unsettled, then that is harmful to public welfare. And that's precisely what happened.
What is harmful to public welfare is the batsh*t insane clown car conspiracy theorist drivel we have seen by formerly banned fringe idiots on Twitter.
I don’t know what to tell you because now you’re arguing about what is and isn’t misinformation and disinformation. Obviously if physicians are spreading disinformation then they are using their medical licenses for harm, same as a doctor selling opioid scripts or recommending quack therapies. There was a lot of disinformation and still is around Covid and Covid vaccines and removing physicians from licensure for malpractice seems right to me.
This seems trivial to me though.
Refresh me: what does 'immunity' mean again? Cause, maybe they definition now means you get less sick.
And as outlined many times previously -- the Covid vaccines were VERY effective at stopping infection and transmission until Omicron showed up in December of 2021.
Prior Omicron, the vaccinated breakthrough rate for the Covid vaccines in the U.S. was a mere 0.56% -- a rate which is much better than then vaccinated breakthrough rate for the measles & other vaccines in an environment where the disease is highly prevalent.