Are you going to get a coronavirus vaccine? Why?

[Moxy]

Do you think our auras exist? They are considered part of the soul. Well everything has an aura, but do you think ours is more special than the aura of a book?

Astral projection is said to be traveling by using your soul.

Thermal imaging can give an "aura" for traces of dispensing heat molecules so don't see anything special about it past that. 

Astral projecting or remote viewing is possible.  But I think it's based on scientific phenomena that are millennia ahead of our time for the masses that only a few could master


The "supernatural" is just a construct to catalogue things like if people in the Middle Ages were to see a magic trick and then cataloguing it as such.

Not sure why you haven't talked to your local priest yet.  Your affliction needs tending to.  Really.

[Moxy]

Moxy, where do you think the USA would be if potus listened to fauci and the democrats who attacked him for forbidding travel from china? The democrats called him racist, and some even encouraged pepple to hug Chinese people to show support because trump was "racist"

You watch too much CNN.

Being tough on travel restrictions from China is the proper stance.  If they actually defied Trump then they are the f-ing morons politicizing it.  It goes both ways.

I'm not taking either side as per usual, Steve. 

Had Trump mandated masks from the start, we may have had some semblance of an impending economy i.e. attending sports, restaurants, booking hotels, schooling, etc.

[Moxy]

Trump is trying to ban TikTok for accusatory data mining users not unlike Facebook, Google, and every other conglomerate out there.   Microsoft is offering to acquire its US division.  There are only a small amount of giant "holding companies" buying sections of commerce, creating monopolies that would be tough to dissolve.

But typical social media data mining from a foreign company is more of a threat I guess?  Priorities, I guess.

[gizmotron2]

Had Trump mandated masks from the start, we may have had some semblance of an impending economy i.e. attending sports, restaurants, booking hotels, schooling, etc.

More convenient histrionics. They purposely told people not to wear masks because they were dead scared that the average person would run the states out of medical grade masks for healthcare workers. Compare that to the run on toilet paper that they never suggested wearing. You have to take information both in context and in the sequence that it occurred. And since you did not, I have to consider your remark. You are either a pragmatic liberal operative or an opinionated uninformed voter. If the later than please don't vote. TDS, it infects everything.

[gizmotron2]

But typical social media data mining from a foreign company is more of a threat I guess?  Priorities, I guess.

Are you a software engineer? This is not typical data mining gathered from your search history. It works like a keyboard mining Trojan Horse. It gathers stuff you write and sends it back to it's origin.

There are two considerations with this type of data collection risk: the kinds of data that are being or might be collected; and Beijing's ability to access that data.

[Moxy]

More convenient histrionics. They purposely told people not to wear masks because they were dead scared that the average person would run the states out of medical grade masks for healthcare workers. Compare that to the run on toilet paper that they never suggested wearing. You have to take information both in context and in the sequence that it occurred. And since you did not, I have to consider your remark. You are either a pragmatic liberal operative or an opinionated uninformed voter. If the later than please don't vote. TDS, it infects everything.

Face coverings.  The more common term is masks.  I have disposable ones, cotton ones, bandanas, etc.

It's an act of solidarity regardless of studies.  Even asthmatic folks can wear it.  Canada is downward whereas US is dramatically upward in trending in mortality count+rate because they carry solidarity in a simple task.

People wear shirts and shoes in an act of solidarity in stores.  People don't piss and shit on streets as an act of solidarity in public.  The only developed country that has a form of psychosis going on where one half of the pop. thinks it's an infringement on the constitution shopping in Costco/Walmart/Lowes with a mask on.

You clearly haven't been reading my posts based on your assessment of my "angle".

[gizmotron2]

More on the risk of TikTok:

Risk 1: TikTok Collecting Data on U.S. Government Employees

The first risk posed by TikTok is the collection of data on U.S. government employees (including those working as contractors). These are people who either have security clearances or could have clearances in the future or at the very least perform tasks that, if not classified, may still be considered sensitive in an unofficial sense. Data collection on these individuals and their activities can therefore reveal important national security information or be used in a coercive manner (that is, blackmail) to target those individuals.

[Moxy]

More on the risk of TikTok:

Infiltrating Trojan horse server.  Cold War II?  Worst than the Russian 2016 election collusion and decryption of Hillary's emails.  Who are all the international bad guys meddling in US affairs?  Fill me in. 

hint:  I never believed in any of that. Never have and never will.  Obfuscation.

[gizmotron2]

You clearly haven't been reading my posts based on your assessment of my "angle".

You said "Had Trump mandated masks from the start, we may have had some semblance of an impending economy i.e. attending sports, restaurants, booking hotels, schooling, etc."

I guess you missed the angle where New York City was in catastrophic meltdown? There were shortages of masks. The government went on a war footing to get them for healthcare workers and first responders. Manufacturing geard up like nothing seen since WWII.

Nobody was concerned about shutting down. New York City's mayor held daily briefings.  Hospitals were built, A Navy hospital ship came to port. The entire nation braced itself for them being next. and you suggest that Trump needed to tell everyone to wear masks. Well then why didn't Biden tell everyone to wear masks? Why did Nancy Pelosi tell everyone to go have a fun time during the Chinese New Year? It's all just the way you want to spin it. This is just basic hack opinion.

[Moxy]

You said "Had Trump mandated masks from the start, we may have had some semblance of an impending economy i.e. attending sports, restaurants, booking hotels, schooling, etc."

I guess you missed the angle where New York City was in catastrophic meltdown? There were shortages of masks. The government went on a war footing to get them for healthcare workers and first responders. Manufacturing geard up like nothing seen since WWII.

Nobody was concerned about shutting down. New York City's mayor held daily briefings.  Hospitals were built, A Navy hospital ship came to port. The entire nation braced itself for them being next. and you suggest that Trump needed to tell everyone to wear masks. Well then why didn't Biden tell everyone to wear masks? Why did Nancy Pelosi tell everyone to go have a fun time during the Chinese New Year? It's all just the way you want to spin it. This is just basic hack opinion.

The POTUS has the upmost responsibility.  Not including allowing Americans to foot the bill for every nonsensical Florida briefing [at his hotel and golf course, a double whammy] or nepotism; allowing his henchman, I mean family, to do sweatshop deals in China. 

You got a weird angle.  The whole forum does. 

[gizmotron2]

Infiltrating Trojan horse server.  Cold War II?  Worst than the Russian 2016 election collusion and decryption of Hillary's emails.  Who are all the international bad guys meddling in US affairs?  Fill me in. 

*Hint:*  I never believed in any of that. Never have and never will.  Obfuscation.

It's OK snowflake. You can go to your safe place.

We use to call it hiding your head in the sand. 

What you are attempting to accomplish now is a defensive act of deflection. You are trying to feed back my comments as if they are fragmented and baseless and not worthy of discussion. But what you did was in fact side step giving a response to what I sent you. Talk about obfuscation?

[gizmotron2]

The POTUS has the upmost responsibility.  Not including allowing Americans to footing the bill for every nonsensical Florida briefing [at his hotel and golf course, a double whammy] or nepotism; allowing his henchman, I mean family, to do sweatshop deals in China. 

You got the weird angle.  The whole forum does. 

This clears everything up for me.  If we win you will remain miserable. If you win and get everything that you want from government then you will eventually be more miserable than ever. You are going to be miserable no matter what you get. It will all be ten times worse once the nation is run like liberal cities with liberal leadership only in control. There will be no place to escape to. Idiots like you don't look back at the things that they supported and ended up with such horrible unintended consequences.

[Moxy]

It's OK snowflake. You can go to your safe place.

We use to call it hiding your head in the sand. 

What you are attempting to accomplish now is a defensive act of deflection. You are trying to feed back my comments as if they are fragmented and baseless and not worthy of discussion. But what you did was in fact side step giving a response to what I sent you. Talk about obfuscation?

Free Will doesn't exist.  All my arguments are moot as with yours.  Sorry to disappoint you, Chief.  I didn't have the heart at first but you called me a snowflake.

[gizmotron2]

Free Will doesn't exist.  All my arguments are moot as with yours.  Sorry to disappoint you, Chief.  I didn't have the heart at first but you called me a snowflake.

You didn't accomplish anything.

OK, I'm sorry, dork.

[Moxy]

You didn't accomplish anything.

OK, I'm sorry, dork.

My accomplishments, or lack thereof, was never mine anyways.  Take it out on my brain.

The "self" is also an illusion, an abstract construct, to rationalize the brain's own intelligence/consciousness. 

Hence, whenever anybody takes themselves too seriously, I interject.  I can't help it.