To: maceng2 who wrote (174617 ) 7/13/2021 12:47:31 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217588 Did complete-watch. The lady seems mostly right. Now the issue is what can anyone do about what seems to be the problem, at the bottom of which we find ‘selfishness, greed and apathy’ We as individuals can only buy more gold and give fuller expression to monetary rebelliousness. In the morning shall pick up two more re-strike coins by earlier trigger-pull, to grab for valuable gold safety otoh, and otoh to encourage the gold industry to dig for more, for the greater-good. Apathetic I am not. In the meantime Politico says America is going to … I will believe it should it actually happen, and in the meantime only note that the cultural revolution might be heating up either by way of truth or path of fiction, per below, but I do not know what to believe and cannot fact-check … leave to others.politico.com ‘Potentially a death sentence’: White House goes off on vaccine fearmongers The administration has shifted to a head-on strategy to dispel fear-mongering over its door-to-door efforts. Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. The goal is to ensure that people who may have difficulty getting a vaccination because of issues like transportation see those barriers lessened or removed entirely. “We are steadfastly committed to keeping politics out of the effort to get every American vaccinated so that we can save lives and help our economy further recover,” White House spokesperson Kevin Munoz said. “When we see deliberate efforts to spread misinformation, we view that as an impediment to the country's public health and will not shy away from calling that out.” The pushback is a change of tone and approach from earlier this year, when the White House often chose to ignore its most vocal conservative critics out of a desire not to elevate them. It is a tacit acknowledgment that the July 4 goal of 70 percent vaccination nationwide was overly optimistic, if not naive. And it underscores that two realities are setting in: It’s becoming more difficult to convince vaccine-skeptics to get their shots (of the 10 least vaccinated states, all were won by Donald Trump in 2020) and the anti-vaccine voices, already vocal in the country, are becoming more mainstreamed by Republicans eager to oppose Biden-led initiatives. Indeed, over the past few weeks, criticism of the administration’s door-to-door vaccination strategy has increasingly become a fixture on Fox News, in addition to being a top topic on conservative social media posts and over SMS messages to cell phone users. It’s coming at a time when the highly contagious Delta variant is triggering a rise in hospitalizations and infections among those who have not been vaccinated. Those who are door knocking are individuals like pastors or grassroots organizers, not government bureaucrats. And they are not delivering vaccines, but spreading the word on where and how to get vaccinated, and why it’s important to do so. To the degree that people understand that, the White House reasons, it could have a positive impact on increasing vaccinations. That hasn’t stopped conservative media figures from misrepresenting those efforts in strident, almost apocalyptic terms. Charlie Kirk, the pro-Trump co-founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, said on Fox last week that he was embarking on a “massive public relations campaign” around vaccination efforts, which he compared it to an “Apartheid-style open air hostage situation.” (Turning Point’s other founder, Bill Montgomery, died last year from coronavirus-related complications.) Sent from my iPad