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Yep and mask wearing and social distancing didn't work either. It was stupid. Those stupid 6 foot signs on the ground were attempts by the left to see if the Government could control people like good little commies. Going back over the statistics, most people that die are with Covid but not from Covid. Oh, there were places that separating people was needed like in Nursing Homes and Senior Living places. But, that was for the original strain and Delta strain. Now, I shake my head when I see people wear masks. They don't work and that's been proven.
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Funny thing. Wearing Masks was big in Japan even before Covid Hit. The Japanese practiced all the social distancing and mask wearing that we Americans refused to do because, "Murica! Fuck yeah!" And Japan has had a total of 40K Covid fatalities compared to our one million plus. <br />
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No, that's a lie. There's hundreds of years in the U.S. of oil. By then, if you Democrats will get out of the way, we will develop alternatives that actually work. Did you see today that whales are dying on the east coast from the sounds of windmills. Of course, windmills are killing millions of birds a year too. Why don't you people allow for nuclear plants to be built?
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Nope, there really aren't... according to the oil industry itself. We are running out of oil rapidly, and it will probably get worse when India and China raise their standards of living to the level of America and Europe. <br />
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As for the whales..<br />
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<div class="contentRow-snippet js-unfurl-desc">Unfounded and Premature: Correlating Wind Turbine Construction with Whale Mortalites In the past two months, there have been seven whales, all endangered species, washed-up in the New Jersey and New York coastal region. A broad coalition of environmental organizations agree it’s important to...</div>
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“Blaming offshore wind projects on whale mortality without evidence is not only irresponsible but overshadows the very real threats of climate change, plastic pollution, and unsustainable fishery management practices to these animals. There have been many <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479722001505" target="_blank" class="link link--external" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">mitigation techniques</a> identified for reducing the threat of offshore wind development to whales and other wildlife. We should focus on implementing these while continuing to push for clean energy. These include specific turbine configurations and entanglement deterrents,” said Anjuli Ramos- Busot, New Jersey Director of the Sierra Club.<br />
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As for the birds... Only about 4000 birds die a year from being too dumb to keep away from a windmill. <br />
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By comparison, billions of birds are killed every year by housecats that people don't keep in their house. <br />
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And I have no problem with more nuclear plants, as long as we build them near where YOU live. Heh, heh, heh. I'm all for turning Utah into a big nuclear waste dump. I mean, sure, it'll turn all the Mormons out there into mutants, but they were already mutants, so no biggie.</div>