<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg190273901345763020"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_190273901345763020WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_190273901345763020gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>There is no need to appeal to political views, although you are the one who makes yours known in this forum.  Notice most of us avoid that.</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>What the hell?<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>It sure isn't difficult to figure out what your political views are<span class="gmail_default" style="">!</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> And I flat out refuse to let lethal medical advice go unchallenged. </span></b></font></div><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font></span></b><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg190273901345763020"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_190273901345763020WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_190273901345763020gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Opinions vary on the efficacy of the mRNA vaccine for covid. </font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="background-color:transparent">Opinions<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b><b style="background-color:transparent">on the efficacy of the mRNA <span class="gmail_default" style="">Covid </span>vaccine<span class="gmail_default" style=""> do <u style="">NOT</u> vary at the New England Journal of Medicine, or at the journals Nature and Science, everybody agrees it worked marvelously, but opinions about that did vary on lowbrow news sources like </span></b><b style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default">TwitterX because over there you can find every opinion under the sun, except the opinion that the richest man in the world is not a paragon of virtue.</span><span class="gmail_default" style="">  </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></b></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I also find it interesting <span class="gmail_default" style="">your</span> only rebuttal to much of my criticisms, regardless of <span class="gmail_default" style="">if </span>it's about the flaws in our electoral college system or how to survive a pandemic, starts with some minor<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>variation of "you can just [...]<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">".</span>   </b></font><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>John K Clark</b></font></span><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>