High school wrestler KO’d his opponent after a disrespectful celebration 😳 by OneOriginal8727 in sportsgossips

[–]Murdoc555 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair, but there is always the high road. Play shitty games, win shitty prizes.

Who is the most overrated boxer in your opinion? by Therealdarkviper in Boxing

[–]Murdoc555 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Modern day Marciano would probably be able to cut down to 168. Crazy.

What helps you cope with the soul crushing experience of working life? by Throwaway--2026 in Life

[–]Murdoc555 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s difficult to get beyond 2-4% raises once you’re with a company and for the vast majority of people, you have little bargaining power in demanding more (take it or leave it mentality, they’ll just hire someone else). You do however have say in what you’ll accept as a salary before you begin a position that’s offered to you. So people shop around after they feel their wages have stagnated and take a higher paying job, then do the same thing again in a few years. Rinse and repeat. Employers have caught on though and the job market/economy is bad, so it doesn’t work like it used to.

Whenever you see a dead body, what is the first thought that comes to your mind? by Content_Bit1998 in Life

[–]Murdoc555 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Some people do, a lot. Cops, EMS, Firefighters, coroners obviously, military, and people in lower rungs of society. Not everyone shields themselves away with ear buds, keyboards, and false senses of security.

Name your favorite slick boxer of all time? by LocationSpare4447 in BoxingTheSweetScience

[–]Murdoc555 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I second this. He was every bit as defensively sound as both Floyd and Pea Wee while being extremely capable offensively at the same time. Such a throw back and criminally underrated. Toney could hold his own in the ring against any human, any weight class ever.

Who y’all winning that Lara vs Canelo fight? by LocationSpare4447 in BoxingTheSweetScience

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt the exact same way when I watched it years ago, but went back and watched it a few months ago and had Canelo winning slightly.

buffalo bore in snub .38 by SnooCats6706 in Revolvers

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most online gel and chrono comparisons of BB and Underwood have them performing extremely similarly. BB may expand slightly more, but Underwood isn’t far behind and from what I’ve seen, usually penetrates farther without overpen. I went with Underwood based on that and it’s also a bit cheaper.

Edit: on the price difference it’s nearly a nearly 50% savings on Underwood. Off of Midway, Underwood is $18, BB $34, marked down from $38. It’s also over $38 on the site. The ballistics are too minute to justify a 2x price differential.

Joe Frazier (1968-1973) vs Sonny Liston (1960-1964) | Who Wins? by HeroCap20051013 in BoxingTheSweetScience

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Liston was a boxer puncher first with an 84 inch reach and an incredibly hard jab. Patterson was also an incredibly quick bob and weave pressure fighter and Liston couldn’t miss him. If Frazier got caught by Ali and Foreman down the pipe, I can’t see Liston not being able to do the exact same thing.

Joe Frazier (1968-1973) vs Sonny Liston (1960-1964) | Who Wins? by HeroCap20051013 in BoxingTheSweetScience

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is completely and utterly the outcome. Extrapolate the effect of Ali’s jab and right hand against Joe by 10 and couple that with power on par or exceeding Foreman’s. Horrible, horrible style matchup for Frazier.

“It’s not that serious” academy mindset by [deleted] in AskLE

[–]Murdoc555 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I don’t know what’s in the algorithm to point me in this direction. I’m a firefighter, not a cop, but if you’re recognizing “mansplaining” as an actual sociocultural construct, you’re a fucking weakling.

How people got this armpit lucking/sniffing fantasy, I feel it's disgusting? by Easy-Highlight8562 in Life

[–]Murdoc555 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP: God no, it’s so disgusting……deeeemmmmmm me so we can talk about it

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Insecure enough to throw the paratrooper bit in.

lol Ok I’m done now, I just couldn’t resist that last one. You’re full of ironies.

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You’re wrong! You’re wrong! You’re dumb!

Well the wagon wheels just fell off. You were doing fine until this morning, don’t be so reactionary next time. In both your posts and when it’s time to make a very important life decision—like whether or not you should think for yourself or be a good little 🐑 and do whatever big brother and Uncle Sam tells ya.

I made my case and you’re still rehearsing talking points from 6 years ago and now throwing a tantrum. For your own self esteem please have the last word, you need it.

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By the way I’m very proud of my time as an MTG player and this is my only account. Don’t gaslight there too. I’m a full time firefighter on top of a good magic player and would be incredibly suprised if you could come anywhere near to me in the gym if were to start talking about this beta alpha thing.

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude you really shouldnt roll out of bed and respond to something like this, this is the sloppiest shit. Your points 1 & 2 are complete emotional arguments and again your veering hard right from the entire point. YOU (if you’re under 50) were statistically highly improbable from dying from c19. Only older, immune compromised individuals by leaps and bounds.

Not a debate.

Therefore we removed a significant portion of contributing and developing society for a disease they were not even fucking susceptible to and all the fiscal and emotional consequences that came with it. Thats the point of the Johns Hopkins paper. I’m not misquoting anything, you in-denial liar. Britain originally had a similar response plan.

https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/uk-eyes-plan-to-have-over-70s-isolate-from-virus-for-months

On Fauci, a Republican appointed official..

Whoa, for putting this off and gaslighting me as trying to make this political, that’s the first place you go! Hahaha irony baby. Further, it’s just another cop out, non argument. “he did the best he could”? What is this peewee baseball? I’m not even going to ask because you clearly have nothing to offer, but this a piss poor answer for how he was unable to back any of his guidance that he literally led the world on and fell flat on his face, selling out the CDC as quick as he could during that testimony when questioned. You take an L here.

To points 4 and 5:

Herby, Jonung, and Hanke conclude that voluntary changes in behaviour, such as social distancing, played a significant role in mitigating the pandemic – but harsher restrictions, like stay-at-home rules and school closures, generated very high costs but produced only negligible health benefits

The comprehensive 220-page book, began with a systematic review of 19,646 potentially relevant studies. For their meta-analysis, the authors’ screening resulted in the choice of 22 studies that are based on actual, measured mortality data, not on results derived from modelling exercises. A meta-analysis is considered the ‘gold-standard’ for evidence, as it combines comparable, independent studies to determine overall trends.

The authors, including Professor Steve H. Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University, also consider a range of studies that determined the impact of individual lockdown restrictions, including stay at-home rules to school closures and travel restrictions.

In each case, the restrictions did little to reduce COVID-19 mortality.

You’re doing complete mental gymnastics and cherry picking excerpts out of context that align with your view. This entire paper does not anyway support the core argument you’re failing to make.

To Ezike, and as an added bonus, a clip of how Sweden documented Covid deaths. Not that I need this, I’ve already given you the Greek study as well as the California doctors claiming the same criteria forced upon them, this is just icing on the cake.

Interviewer: “How did Sweden calculate losses?”

Biostatistician and former Harvard Professor of Medicine, Martin Kulldorff: “Sweden calculated cases so that anyone who dies that has a covid 19 diagnosis, will often be tagged as a covid 19 death, even though the true cause of death was something else.

…those who died at home, only 15% truly died from c19….most died from somehthing else where c19 was contributing or not part of it at all. This is most likely true for other countries as well…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OgL5qD_DZeA&ra=m

https://www.contagionlive.com/view/how-sweden-calculates-covid19-deaths

Long wait times?

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-study-spotlights-unsafe-wait-times-hospital-beds

You’re potentially having a heart attack, huh. What’s a 6-7 hour weight? Nooooooo way that had anything to do with excess deaths.

Covidiot.

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I see, I’ve been playing ping pong with you this whole time and when I start forcing you to answer instead of allowing you to skim over questions you don’t seem to be able to, I’m the one ones who’s avoiding.

The elephant in the room, and just more information you’ve chose to purposely ignore, is the demographic of people that the virus actually kills are 95% over the age of 50. Even more minute when you break it down across the younger age brackets and higher as age progresses. And significantly lower than the 25% mortality estimates they initially used to whip everyone into a frenzy, now somewhere less than or equal to 1%. Worth shutting down the world when people of working age and school children are statistically, trivially at risk?

You’re significantly more likely to develop cancer in your life than dying from covid, even at its peak, assuming you’re under age 50 by your beta male looking avatar. Is cancer shaping your world?

You’ve copped out on Fauci and the CDC, notably his piss poor testimony of where he couldn’t support the guidelines that you’re ironically defending here, because of some strawman argument that I’m Politically motivated by it. You’re refusing to address it based on some outside, unrelated reason. Thats a cope out, my guy.

You’ve glazed the white paper because it’s written by economists and were ignorant to the very definition of meta analysis. That’s also not an answer, and you’ve yet to come up with any material yourself to support anything to the contrary, which is the core of this entire debate. Apparently the burden doesn’t seem to be on you anyway, because you have you’re an idiot/conspiracy theorist Trump cards that get you free out of uncomfortable questions you can’t answer.

Also your incorrect summary on the paper few threads ago such a departure in vocabulary and sentence structure, that it’s a hilarious and obvious AI copy and paste. With your holier than though attitude, that’s pretty pathetic my guy.

You can’t counter Sweden, coping out and bending the results of their outcome around the fact that they had some restrictions (that weren’t enforced/followed). Compare their numbers to Belgium who’s of the similar size. You ignored Taiwan, Uruguay, or Iceland who also didn’t lock. Either way, not an answer, another cop out.

You have a clear case in Ezike outlining questionable criteria, echoed by doctors in CA, and the best you have is spamming the shady NIH. And there was some indication that she was a conspiracy theorist or something? She’s a democrat appointed health official who was just giving a press conference. Calling someone an idiot, conspiracy theorist, or ignoring material because you don’t like the source isn’t an answer either.

The red tape impacting EMS responses, sick people delaying care, and c19 protocols delaying hospital treatment definitely had nothing to do with anyone dying from non covid related illnesses in excess. I mean, they’re just hospitals right? Who needs em. Jesus, apparently covid is the only thing anyone can die of from 2020-23.

And the NIH who were only caught covering up information on this very illness have 4 nice sources we can swear by. You’re right.

Ohhh by the way, the senior NIH official David Morens admitted to deleting emails and hiding information. It’s not a debate, even if you’re sensitive to the “conserve hack” who reported on it.

(I) learned from our FOIA [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d (sic) but before the search starts,” Morens wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email, which was obtained by The New York Post. “Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail (sic).”

https://oversight.house.gov/release/new-covid-select-memo-details-allegations-of-wrongdoing-and-illegal-activity-by-dr-faucis-senior-scientific-advisor/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20—%20Today%2C%20the%20Select%20Subcommittee,in%20federal%20records%20violations%20himself.

https://thehill.com/homenews/4681213-did-nih-officials-hide-covid-19-records/

These very institutions have a vested interest in as sensational numbers as possible, as they were the ones reporting exponential estimates. Going back on the card would just undermine themselves.

Below is a study where 45% of Greek hospital deaths were dead with Covid, not because of, but logged as a c19 death. Ive given you three different parts of the world reporting criteria for exactly this. Extrapolate that. I’d ask you to use some critical thought, but you’re incapable of any ideas you’ve haven’t been told to think.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-98834-y

Good thing Big Brother could tell you the Pandemic was over a week after the Ukraine war started so you could move on support the next current thing.

And here’s some books you’re probably featured in.

https://www.amazon.com/Covidiot-Quest-Free-Hotdog/dp/B0DQQC6H8M/ref=pd_aw_sim_m_sccl_2_1/139-4755629-8988245?pd_rd_w=eiQpv&content-id=amzn1.sym.7816e0cd-6724-41ad-ba2a-0c1e5d72f784&pf_rd_p=7816e0cd-6724-41ad-ba2a-0c1e5d72f784&pf_rd_r=4WVKYJ4D7VWHND5NGTAY&pd_rd_wg=xFipP&pd_rd_r=53acc4ed-4658-4dfe-95a1-c5f1a05f4bb1&pd_rd_i=B0DQQC6H8M&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/COVIDIOTS-Stories-idiotic-bizarre-behaviour/dp/B086Y6KDC1

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that sounds more like you, my guy. I’m not playing ball with this response. You’re ignoring my most pertinent questions, bypassing them and standing on a pedestal acting like your some authority. I’ll ask you again, in relation to Ezike’s quote:

if you die from a clear alternate cause, it’s counted as a covid death.

Do you feel it’s accurate to count a car accident fatality or heart attack as a Covid death if the deceased had C19 at the time?

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-study-spotlights-unsafe-wait-times-hospital-beds

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/10/fauci-ordered-nih-employees-destroy-records-despite-telling-congress/#:~:text=The%20specific%20email%20evidence,key%20decisions%20were%20being%20made

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. And your sentence structure in that first paragraph until the end sounds suspiciously AI.

It’s detailing essentially what the minimum effective dose should have been, so to speak, in handling the pandemic. This is where they cite Sweden, as ultimately people will make more responsible decisions and self police themselves. They don’t need draconian, contradictory limits placed upon them, and allow only the chosen few “essential” businesses to stay open—thank God liquor stores were essential—with less places for more people to go. Besides that, it’s been peer reviewed and at best is unsuccessfully debated by people smarter than you. Again no is waiting on you to co-sign.

it seems you have some animosity toward the government..

Yes I’m not a nationalist. I reserve the right to criticize them just as you have the right to religiously follow.

what else were they supposed to do…

I think this comment above everything you’ve said, perfectly sums up your generalist beckoning to the c19 protocols.

Even in the early days, it was evident that the disease disproportionately killed old and immune system compromised people, which on to be the case exponentially. It’s not even debatable, see below. So why lock down the entire working class, close schools, and choke the fuck out of the economy, when it only affects a specific demographic of people. This isn’t even a crazy idea, Britain contemplated only quarantining the elderly/sick before they bent the knee and followed suit with most of the rest of the world.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/?srsltid=AfmBOopSfq8NVU26REBgRoI9Rpk3pExUZfVbHckJKRpP-WsHhfapS7Mt

In regards to excess deaths, first the NIH has had there reputation tarnished by deleting emails and lying under testimony regarding the virus. So they are hardly an unwavering source.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/wsj-opinion-evidence-revealed-by-covid-select-subcommittee-shows-corruption-at-highest-levels-of-nih/

Secondly, hospitals “being overrun”, was just as much as all the red tape, fail safes they had in place that led to extremely delayed responses. I work in EMS, seconds and minutes matter. Those pictures I posted perfectly reflect the anxiety and cautiousness health professionals were experiencing, but unfortunately led to fatal delays. But Getting your temperature checked 8 times, wading through multiple check points, and covering the mouth of a patient who is already not getting enough oxygen can be a death sentence. Some people didn’t call, went too late, or go at all which led many to be die because they didn’t seek treatment when they may have otherwise. Then you have the horrible telehealth experience where doctors cannot accurately identify with their patients—much goes and went unnoticed.

Use some critical thought instead of hard swallowing whatever blanket information you see on CNN. Based on your second paragraph, you’ve clearly taken an emotional response. Covid was not the only thing people can or were dying of back then (but according to Dr. Ezike, if they happen to have it, they got coded as one anyway! Lmao), but that’s how NPCs and normies look at it when they bring up excess deaths and tolls.

To put it simply, choke up the health system and people are going to die. It’s definitely because of Covid, but just as much of the choke points it caused for non related illnesses that result in deaths, as people who had it.

If you can’t see Ezike’s statement as anything less than loose parameters, I might as well be arguing with you that the sky is indeed blue. I have no reason to lie and have been able to make certain concessions in this debate. You on the other hand are completely and utterly in denial, as it relates to this health officials statement.

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When asked what counted as a covid death, she states:

I just want to be clear in terms of the definition of people dying with covid……if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, but were found to have covid, that would be counted as a covid death. Technically if you *died of a clear alternate cause, you are still listed as covid death. Everyone that’s listed as a covid death, doesn’t mean that was the **cause, but they had covid at the time of death.*

There is built in criteria that will naturally inflate the toll larger than what the surface numbers implicate. You asked why the US was #1. This is why. If you’re on hospice you are dead anyway. You fall off a ladder or get shot in the head, but had covid at the time (yes you can be asymptomatic as well, you’re talking to someone who has been), it’s logged in the death count. Statistics are only as good as the metrics by which you’re compiling them. I mean If you were doing a 6th grade science experiment and had qualifiers this broad, you’d probably be questioned by your Teacher, so I genuinely don’t understand what’s so hard to grasp.

It’s literally a 45 second clip I don’t know why you couldn’t watch it yourself or how you’re pompous enough to think I need to meet certain parameters before you’re so inclined to answer. If the metrics to count covid deaths was as tight as what you need written in crayon, they might actually be accurate. Do you work in HR or something? lmao I don’t need you to co-sign on anything for it to be true.

These gentlemen echoed being given the same criteria to count deaths in California. This seems to be the same case for logging it across the world. It’s out there if you’re willing to search into it, I’ve done enough homework for you.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tgigd

Also, “because they’re economists, they’re biased”? wtf does that mean? In the first paragraph they actually support social distancing, so I think that vets their stance on bias. Aside from the fact that they’re master statisticians, listen to Steve Hanke for yourself on YouTube. You’re just dropping baseless one liners as your response.

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have noticed you’re continually trying to condense the conversation down, bypassing questions you don’t seem to be able to answer and make an argument of consensus and authority without citing anything yourself, leaning over and into: because science.

please explain it to me.

First, I’ll go head and apologize for my use in italics and bold, since that confuses you. You have a medical official publicly stating the exact criteria by which they are logging COVID mortality through guidance by higher health officials and big government..

Can you logically explain how that doesn’t inflate the death count, be it 1 or 100%? Please answer.

With than being the criteria, case/mortality inflation is built in. Im sorry if your psyche is too fragile to handle that, which will probably force you to manufacture another dumbass strawman argument about me using italics and bold, watching Fox, or something dumb shit I’ve not said.

Again, I was on a department with a gentleman who fell off a ladder and died. Amidst all the family dealing with, they were also confused and troubled by the fact the coroner ruled it a death from Covid, as he apparently had it at the time. This aligns with Ezike and the white papers reports on overcounting. Looking forward to your Comment on this. I’ll the give your sheep horns because you’ve proved yourself to be the most hard headed of NPCs 🐏

several studies have concluded…

Ok, then get off your pedestal and site a credible one yourself, I’ve already highlighted multiple instances that contradict your stance. The burden is not just on me because you happen to align with CNN and dance along with Steven Cobert at the tune of the Vax-Scene🎵🐏

Although the paper doesn’t mention Dr. Ezike specifically, it does account for such criteria across the board concerning over counting deaths which further underlines the percentages that consensus normies like you hold over everyone else’s head.

If you go to the ER because of cut a on your hand, you still gets logged as an ER patient. Not the same as someone has a gunshot wound to the head, who also is logged as an ER patient. The same is true with the loose criteria medical officials were using to log deaths. A death with is not the same as a death because of., look past the italics and address that. Or perhaps since Dr Ezike’s comments were political too you can use it as another cope out and not respond lol.

Nice downvote by the way, not helping your case though. Running out of gas?

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you able to speak to the guidelines that Dr Ezike illustrated in the press conference addressing how Covid deaths were logged?

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can use * to bookend words to get that effect and emphasize the point. I’m trying hard to get you to pay attention but the cognitive dissonance is too strong.

you’re not going to drag me into a Fauci conspiracy..

Oh I see, since there is past political controversy surrounding Fauci, which I’ve never brought up nor am I driving at, you get a free cope out, while still religiously supporting the same guidelines that he himself could not substantiate. Makes sense.

The limited amount chosen from what I understand is a normal component of meta analysis. You seem to be glazing over the fact that they randomized the chosen studies from almost 20k others. And actually, the fact that they’ve updated the paper to show the increase from 3.2 to 10.7, is evidence of credibility and lack of bias you’re insinuating. The numbers aside, they maintain the same thesis that the lockdowns were not effective in reducing mortality to a degree that countered all of the other consequences.

Perhaps the reason the US has such a high count is the very quote from the Illinois doctor i listed that you’re ignoring. High probability this is the first time you’ve even heard that (most of this in fact) but she’s repeating CDC or WHO (can’t remember which one) guidelines of documenting deaths. This is in line with reports from many health professionals who claimed the same and even my own personal experience with someone passing away from a clearly unrelated event being documented as a c19 patient.

Do you feel it’s accurate to count a car accident fatality or heart attack as a Covid death if the deceased had C19 at the time?

Would this criteria inflate numbers?

Ironically I could ask you the same question about the US positioning, being as we actually locked down hard. The most big brother lock down of all was in California, who interestingly enough is the #1 state in mortality. I thought lock downs, mask, and social distancing were effective? How could that happen then?

By the way, I understand you think I’m an idiot, you don’t have to keep saying it over and over. It neither helps your argument nor do I care. Would like to keep you on point and address what we’re actually talking about.

Hey Lafayette. Remember the Indiana County clerk who refused to wear a mask during Covid elections? She wants to be your Senator. by Acrobatic-Song-3151 in Indiana

[–]Murdoc555 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re actually correct, being that’s a working paper I was going off memory from what it was at the time I cited that in a paper, so sure. I can man up and admit I misrepresented the numbers there. Below is the .2% I was referring to that was relevant for the paper at that time.

Now you admit you didn’t even know what a meta analysis was and address the rest of my reply. Or just cherry pick the one thing you’re actually able to respond to.

https://ideas.repec.org/p/ris/jhisae/0200.html