Uh, no. Nuclear war is a lot worse than measles. RFK is a public health menace; Hegseth and Gabbard are existential threats.
I actually believe the RFK can kill millions so he is just as dangerous.
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Also, AIDS made us feel sex would never be safe and we would all die virgins. And RFK Jr also denies that HIV causes AIDS.
It’s Hobsons Choice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series)
To complete the trilogy, watch Testament. The story is on a much more personal level. I find it the hardest of the three to watch.
RFK Jr. is dedicated to boosting the demand for children's coffins. Gabbard is trying to kill everyone, including the coffin manufactures, the parents, and civilization.
E[loss|disaster] * Prob[disaster]
but it's just depressing that we're ranking the cabinet like they're near earth asteroids
I was with you the first time. There are viruses in the wild that make COVID look like the common cold with a 50-90% mortality rate, little research, and no vax. And those are among the ones we know about.
Nukes may work faster, but a pandemic could be just as deadly as nuclear war.
In steps RKF, who learns about it, but decides the public doesn't need to be informed until it's too late.
It is believed Russia or China or the USA could each kill a third or more of the world population. All three if engaged in nuclear war could be an extinction level threat.
But the devil (or perhaps wiser angel?) on my shoulder is tapping the "hot stove therapy" sign.
I just struggle with this.
But I can't quarantine from the blinding white flash.
I appreciate the sane point: there are differences in scope and motivation. RFK Jr really gives few fucks. Hegseth is frothing on the bit.
But we are now crossed over into making sane, insane thinking. And it hurts.
Now, do I think he's going to ban it successfully? No. But his policy platform would wipe out most of the country if fully forced.
But RFK Jr seems interested in wrecking our whole medical/biotech sector, where we lead the world, and which deters bioterrorism.
So there's a good chance we're least effected in a bioattack.
Further, you can recruit many to oppose RFK.
Cargill? Monsanto? Not liberal icons.
How *do* you make all the food organic?
Not impossible, but extremely expensive and dramatically destructive to our food exports.
Sorry, rest of the world.
Preferences are one thing. Imposed by fiat, this looks like a health and economic attack.
People in those businesses/industries will care.
For the worst of them, that's beside the point.
We want Gabbard out on her own merits. And Hegseth and RFK Jr.
With RFK, you engage a broad swath of business/political actors otherwise unengaged.
Can Cargill and Monsanto survive under RFK Jr's dictat?
What about factories processing seed oil and companies selling it?
Farmers producing could change crops. Who's paying for their new equipment, seed, soil inputs, marketing, business plans?
Dang I hate the choices here
I, otoh, know that Northern NM goes early and we down south will have no functioning state govt. And OK will get the fallout.
Ugh. It’s all so bad, I hate having to rank them on the scale of their existential threaty-ness.
1. 🍊will pull the US out of NATO
2. Iran strikes the US with a thermonuclear bomb
3. 🍊 will say we need to join with R&ssia to strike Iran back. 4. The US is forced to go along with it. Iran is wiped off the map🍊 & P&tin look like heroes
Or Germany vs Russia, Taiwan vs PRC. US is downwind of all of that.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-nuclear-doctrine-change-israel-hezbollah-rcna178406
Stay healthy my friends
Tulsi worries me.
I suspect if C19 were bio-warfare, you might have a different conclusion.
Also, nuclear war with whom? Stinky is Russia's ally, DPRK's love, and China's not stupid enough.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Germany and Japan had deliverable weapons by January 21st.
Laying down our bio-shield in the face of rising bio-threat seems greater than inducements toward proliferation under Fascist First.
“it would be horrible if [vaccines] went away”.
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The infant mortality rate declined slowly from 1960 to 1964, rapidly from 1965 to 1981, and then moderately from 1981 to 1988
bc that kind of crazy will impact generations.
States during Covid. Expect much worse if we get another pandemic.
Spanish flu 40-50 million.
HIV/AIDS ~ 40million
WWI 20 million
Russian Civil War 15 million
I think we’re competitive.
Nuclear war, well it is just self explanatory especially with the people nominated that will have influence.