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John Byrne
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Michael Penn
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Fully vaccinated.
Whew...
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Wilson Mui
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RIP He was an inspiration to many people in how he rose through the
highest level in the military and eventually the first Black Sec of State.
I wonder if he access to the antibody treatments that other prominent
government people had.
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Michael Roberts
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Fully vaccinated.
Whew...
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Fodder for the “vaccines don’t work” crowd though.
He was a Republican I could respect, but his legacy was marred by his making the case for the Iraq War.
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Greg McPhee
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An inspirational figure.
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Brennan Voboril
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Yes, he was fully vaccinated, but also 84 years of age, and we don't know what comorbidities he may, or may not, have had. I would think that vaccine efficacy for a person in his 80s is not robust.
Edited by Brennan Voboril on 18 October 2021 at 8:29am
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Wilson Mui
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Apparently, he also had cancer.
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Charles Valderrama
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Powell had a weakened immune system following his struggle with multiple myeloma, a cancer that directly affects the body’s ability to fight infections.
Regardless, condolences to his family & friends.
-C!
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Peter Martin
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He also had Parkinson's. That along with the myeloma would have made him more vulnerable to Covid.
I liked Colin Powell, but as he described it himself, his speech to the UN making a case for the possibility of a war against Iraq was a blot on his record.
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Rebecca Jansen
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This reminds me of Herman Cain and how he at first died of covid contracted at a Trump rally (according to all his doctors) but then quickly all past issues were trotted out to the point they were saying covid had nothing to do with it. Will Powell stay a covid number?
He will be remembered mostly as a tool to selling the WMD invasion of Iraq (the one Condi Rice will never forgive Canada for not joining in on).
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Joe Zhang
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The guy who should've been the first Black president. Instead ended up working for his boss' idiot son.
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Rebecca Jansen
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I just had two very mild posts removed and got a ban at a different forum where I've been participating for ages.
"It's sad he will mostly be remembered for one mistake."
This was removed as 'political'. Then prompted by people insisting he didn't really die from coivd I simply wrote...
"Covid was a contributing cause of death."
That got a like from the thread starter before it too went poof. Above this were/are much more lengthy and explicit posts than my 'political' posts removed. Talk about keeping a lid on things. So America keeps on giving... the land of the four freedoms? If I remember correctly Powell called his WMD-invasion sales pitch, which I didn't even specifically dare name, his "worst mistake".
So now there is another place I dare not mention covid in any way, or all kinds of other basic realities, lest I get permabanned? The sky is blue, oh no, I'm sorry, maybe it's not... Really, JBF is the last forum I feel free to say much of anything even if it does get a few overly upset or personal or whatever. Someone says something you don't think much of do they have to be an enemy to be reported for any imagined infraction or destroyed? This is how some sites 'work' now if you can call it that. And the vast middle gives up, quits, shuts up, stops voting, doesn't want to know... vicious circles. I might as well have dissed Powell or denied covid, if you get treated like an extreme even when you definitely are not. How do we get back to a balance again with this being such a commonplace way of 'dealing' with things these days? Ignore lists? Walled-off little in groups? Getting perma banned while some lickspittle New Town deniers or 'shoot them all' types have a free pass?
Colin Powell is certainly not dying in peace. :^(
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 18 October 2021 at 2:57pm
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