Matt Davies for August 31, 2021

I swear we have landed back in the Middle Ages somehow

Lying deadly Republicans don’t give a crap about the truth.

Fistfight breaks out after Florida anti-masker assaults doctor outside school board meeting

https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vaxx-2654847613/

The primitive right wing jerks hate civilization.

Run and hide, save yourselves from the evil that knowledge brings to the world.

My take is he means they’re hoarse from screaming warnings that not enough people are listening to.

The’re like the frustrated children of Cassandra and Marcel Marceau.

Shouldn’t there be some random guy screaming on Facebook in there somewhere?

Anyone looking for hoar semem?

A losing contest.. The Fox News team gets to use microphones.

It’s plain and simple: Republicans love America but hate Americans.

….and they will continue to try to get the message out to those who don’t listen. Maybe suggest changing the labels on the COVID vaccines to IVERMECTIN.

Not true. Scientists are not panicking – they just study the situations and deliver messages about what they’ve learned. It’s the deniers and exaggerators and manipulators who do all the panicking.

Doctor of what? Doctor is a degree, not an occupation.

Matt forgot a fifth hoarseman — a veterinarian bemoaning a severe shortage of Ivermectin.

The worst thing is the wing nuts yelling and threatening the above and nurses. Idiots. I hope the guy yelling at the doctor leaving that ‘we know where you live.’ found out the police and FBI know where he lives.

Benito tRUMPolini and his cult want to live in a world of there own reality and kill facts

Vaccination is not a “deeply personal decision”. It is a routine public health requirement in a civilized society.

Bill Kristol

I only listen to morons like myself.

Bunch of elitist, know-it-all eggheads trying to tell real Merkins a pack of alarmist lies.

Glad that I have enough heart worm prevention meds for my dog; keep in mind that dogs need to be tested before they can take this medication. That someone would think they should take the amount prescribed for a horse or cow leads me to think they are following the “more is better” rule that too many seem to follow. For example, I can’t find the proper dosage of many supplements and often have to cut pills in half because more is dangerous, magnesium for example.

Boy, I can empathize with this one. I’m not any of those categories of scientist, but I AM a scientist, and, frankly, I do not believe it should be this difficult to get these messages through.

I’m a research psychologist, in fact, who is an expert on assessing leadership, and I have spent much of my career teaching people how to do a better job of understanding people, and making judgment calls. I think I’ve been pretty successful, in light of the fact that two of the top executive search firms in the world use methods I developed and taught them, and a third is still using parts of something I co-developed thirty years ago, let alone all the many clients and colleagues I have trained.

You would think this would be difficult, and it is: people are complicated.

That’s all a preface to say that as difficult as human beings are, it’s a lot more complicated than the issues the guys in the cartoon are shouting about. That’s the sad thing. They’re shouting about stuff that is (or should be) clear-cut and obvious.

I can sum up global warming in three sentences:

1. The Earth is warming more than can be accounted for by normal cycles

2. The primary reason is humanity increased the amount of “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere both directly (e.g. burning fossil fuels) and indirectly e.g., (deforestation).

3. Major climactic shifts will transform the world in unpredictable but negative ways – since we are not well equipped to handle huge shifts in our complex and delicately-balanced civilization.

In the case of COVID-19, it’s even simpler:

1. COVID-19 is a highly contagious and dangerous disease.

2. If you prevent them from getting hosts, through vaccination and masking, you kill off the virus.

3. Viruses do not survive in isolation, only in hosts; if they propagate, they can mutate and become worse – enough to overcome even good vaccines, given time.

They’ve been talking until they are hoarse… or blue in the face (coloidal silver)?

2001 that great year when we launched a twenty-year-long futile and expensive war in Afghanistan? And a year later the even worse (if shorter) war in Iraq? Oh, we were great in those days. Very great.