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Swede's Journal
Swede's Journal
August 12, 2021

Colorado County Clerk Tina Peters May Have Committed The Very Crime She Accused The Left Of

But no, the breach wasn’t coming from the anti-Trump deep state. Instead, the clerk who is under investigation for tampering with the county election system is Tina Peters, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump and amateur vaccine science aficionado, who appears to have executed a self-own of historic proportion.

https://www.thebulwark.com/voting-machine-tampering-is-coming-from-inside-the-maga-house/

August 11, 2021

CDC Adds France, Israel, Iceland, More to Highest 'Level 4' COVID-19 Travel Warning

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added seven more destinations to its highest "Level 4" COVID-19 travel warning, including European vacation spots like France and Iceland.

https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/cdc-warns-against-travel-france-iceland-and-more-delta-variant

August 9, 2021

Boy Harsher - Send Me A Vision

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August 9, 2021

A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy

Maybe this is why we cannot understand how Qanon beliefs are believed. If so, we're in for a awful future.


- snip - Horowitz argues that you cannot and do not have an ethnic massacre without a preceding period of rumor-sharing. His argument is exactly what I was trying to argue before, that the function of such rumors is actually not to represent reality. The total function of the rumors is to organize your group and get it ready for attack. You do so by pointing out that the enemy is powerful, that it's evil and that it's ready to attack, so you need to do something now.


https://www.salon.com/2021/08/08/a-terrifying-new-theory-fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories-as-an-evolutionary-strategy/

August 9, 2021

Do face masks work? Here are 49 scientific studies that explain why they do.

While researchers of all 49 studies listed below acknowledge there’s still much more data to be explored, they have all acknowledged the efficacy of mask-wearing to some degree at slowing the spread of COVID-19.


https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/do-face-masks-work-here-are-49-scientific-studies-that-explain-why-they-do/

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