Some people with or without titles, experts or just claimers, are snake oil salesmen and women

Covid evolves to be flu like whales evolve to be dolphins, and elephants evolve to be mice

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Covid has herd immunity like flu evolves to have herd immunity (it didn’t)

Covid becomes the flu, like flu becomes a common cold (it didn’t)

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Convergent evolution happens sometimes, like dolphins and sharks both swim, and bats and birds both fly, but evolution has many different outcomes. Stop with the nonsense predictions

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Where did they study evolution? In the school of “just so stories” that never met reality

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Any half baked expert would know this doesn’t make sense: “Covid becomes like the flu and evolves herd immunity.” The flu doesn’t have herd immunity. And wait for it (you did): Covid hasn’t evolved to either the flu or to herd immunity

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When will the world take their credentials, real or fake or non-existent, stuff them where they belong, and stop listening to obvious BS. They have caused tremendous harm. This is beyond being had, leaders and everyone, they have caused harm beyond belief

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Salesmen tell you what you want to hear. Life rule #43: Don’t listen to people who tell you what you want to hear

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