Originally posted by Adam_PoE👆
AIDS became an epidemic, because people initially did not know what caused it or how it was transmitted. It was originally believed to be a form of cancer, not a viral infection. People did not know how to protect themselves.That is much different than COVID-19. We know it is a novel coronavirus, we know it is spread through introducing respiratory droplets into mucus membranes, and we know that sheltering in place, social distancing, wearing masks, and washing hands are effective ways to minimize the risk of infection. These idiots have all the knowledge in the world, and are choosing to ignore it, because "muh freedumbz."
Originally posted by Blakemore
The deaths are mostly old people who were going to die anyway, also doctors and nurses... which is a shame. 😬
Nurses with insufficient protective gear.
Disgusting. And apparently not uncommon before the pandemic, at least according to several Quarans.
One claims a guy responsible for the budget actually limited nurses to one set of gloves a day, no masks, no basic hygenic shite. When they got fed up and complained to the head boss, he was literally grabbed and tossed out the door.
The key seemed to be an incentive to use any money under budget as they see fit, leading to assanine budget policies. I bet that's what's behind the shortage of N95 masks for common nurses, the tightwads simply don't want to spend the money, and don't care if they lose a nurse to illness because they're easily replaced.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
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Really cool! Other than a clear lack of understanding of cryptography and basic TCP/IP, he's also wrong and overly confident in paper ballot methods, too.
I should do a video response to him.
A paper was already written, years before Scott made that video, detailing why he is wrong:
Originally posted by Robtard
Disagree with you overall, and it's one of the few things I agree with Trump on. Paper-voting, so it can be tracked and recounted if need be.While I would love the convenience of voting from my phone, the security risks are too high.
Maybe it's different in Oklahomo? But here in Califorina mail-in voting is very easy.
You can track and recount electronic votes, as well. You can also verify the an electronic vote (using the mobile solution) was cast exactly once by one registered voter. The security risks, according to actual research, have not been seen (and if you knew how hashes, checksums, blockchains, secure tunnels, and strong encryption worked, you'd understand why it's more secure than paper ballots).
While you're concerned about mail in ballots not being made available and how "secure" mail in ballots are, we have severely poor performing mail in ballot issues:
According to the commission’s 2016 report, for example, more mail ballots were misdirected and unaccounted for than the margin of votes between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump. She had 2.9 million more votes, yet 6.5 million ballots were misdirected or unaccounted for by the states. In other words, for every vote that Hillary won over the eventual president nationally, more than twice as many mail ballots disappeared or went to the wrong addresses.An analysis by the Public Interest Legal Foundation of federal election survey data draws a startling picture for any policymaker or stressed bureaucrat daring to look: 32 million mail ballots effectively disappeared, went to the wrong house, or were rejected since 2012. This includes all-mail voting states like Oregon and Washington, as well as absentee ballots in other states.
Taking into account the 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal general elections, 28.3 million mail ballots disappeared after officials gave them to the U.S. Postal Service. There are numerous problems to point fingers at and many explanations as to what happened to these ballots, but the bottom line is simple: tens of millions of ballots were lost in the mail voting system on a scale not seen at polling places.
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In 2018, however, Oregon mailed out over 2.8 million ballots, according to the EAC report. Roughly 60,200 were “undeliverable,” raising serious questions about the accuracy of the state’s voter registration list. Almost 870,000 ballots are listed in the “unknown” category. That means the failure rate of Oregon’s mail balloting system was more than 32 percent.
The most recent 2018 election data show counties in California and Arizona tipping the scales in terms of missing and undeliverable ballots. Eight of the top 10 counties in terms of missing ballots are in California alone. The Phoenix, Ariz., metropolitan area comes in second, while Seattle ranks fourth. Maricopa County, Ariz., also dominated the nation in undeliverable ballots in 2018 with more than 87,000. Hillsborough County, Fla., also had nearly 12,000 ballots sent to undeliverable addresses.
Don't you care about the old folks who had problems filling out their ballots? I'm going to guess that you don't. The underlying insidious problem with the mail in ballot problem is that it disproportionately affects the elderly when their votes do not count. They vote overwhelmingly conservative.
My solution would include national voting registry with IDs.