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Okung tweeting COVID conspiracy theories

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Russ is deep into posting about government skepticism and cryptocurrency online and in the past few weeks he's started dismissing the pandemic. Far cry from the reports that he was considering retiring as a precaution.

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Despite being anti-mask he's complying with the NFL mandate "for now":

A little worrisome because if he's not taking it seriously he's a high risk to contract it off the field.

https://twitter.com/RussellOkung

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I saw a hilarious explanation for masks last week.

Let's say for some horrible reason, my rear end was in a person's face.  If I sharted, wouldn't they wish I was wearing clothing?  Or would they rather me do it bare assed?

Why does it seem like celebrities love to spread such non-sense?  Or is it just heightened by their status, and the reality is there are way more morons out there than it would seem?

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6 minutes ago, d-dave said:

I saw a hilarious explanation for masks last week.

Let's say for some horrible reason, my rear end was in a person's face.  If I sharted, wouldn't they wish I was wearing clothing?  Or would they rather me do it bare assed?

Why does it seem like celebrities love to spread such non-sense?  Or is it just heightened by their status, and the reality is there are way more morons out there than it would seem?

The answer to the last question is yes. There are just as many morons that happen to be beautiful and strong, maybe more. Celebrities aren’t Mensa, so you get a lot of this unless they are so rich that someone handles their media.

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8 minutes ago, stbugs said:

The answer to the last question is yes. There are just as many morons that happen to be beautiful and strong, maybe more. Celebrities aren’t Mensa, so you get a lot of this unless they are so rich that someone handles their media.

This and add in the fact they tend to be surrounded by people telling them what they want to hear and few if any critical or countering voices, and it's entirely possible for their perception of reality to get warped. See Kevin Smith's hilarious story about his interactions with Prince for a good example.

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2 minutes ago, 1of10Charnatives said:

This and add in the fact they tend to be surrounded by people telling them what they want to hear and few if any critical or countering voices, and it's entirely possible for their perception of reality to get warped. See Kevin Smith's hilarious story about his interactions with Prince for a good example.

Very good point. When you talk about living life in a bubble, being a top celebrity is just that. The celebrity is basically like a company at that point and all the hanger ons do whatever they can to support the company that’s paying them big money often to people who would never see that kind of money/lifestyle in real jobs.

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This is a cuttable offense imo. 

speaking strictly to the numbers in my county; covid transmission has been cut in half since the required mask mandate and that’s with people going out way more and things back to a somewhat “normal” 

of course there is probably a video of “doctors” sponsored by the far right “tea party patriots” with a witch doctor and a pediatrician talking about teachers unions that say covid isn’t a big deal and we’re being lied to. But that’s not political.

there is a huge cultural problem in America. Selfishness, greed, anti-science among many other things. Mask up, if the data is somehow proven to be false in regards to masks maybe you could still sleep soundly knowing that you cared about your fellow citizens to try your best to protect them with the information we have available right now. It doesn’t make you weak and it doesn’t make you a sheep. It makes you empathetic. That’s the best quality a person can have imo.

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This is going to go down as one of the worst trades the team has ever been involved in. I’ve seen much, much worse from celebrities in regards to “mask conspiracies” but he needs to log off of YouTube and worry about getting his fat ass into shape. 

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42 minutes ago, d-dave said:

I saw a hilarious explanation for masks last week.

Let's say for some horrible reason, my rear end was in a person's face.  If I sharted, wouldn't they wish I was wearing clothing?  Or would they rather me do it bare assed?

Why does it seem like celebrities love to spread such non-sense?  Or is it just heightened by their status, and the reality is there are way more morons out there than it would seem?

One reason why, and this is my opinion, is that they have a lot of free time to do whatever they want - like go down YouTube rabbit holes. 

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16 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

This is going to go down as one of the worst trades the team has ever been involved in. I’ve seen much, much worse from celebrities in regards to “mask conspiracies” but he needs to log off of YouTube and worry about getting his fat ass into shape. 

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20 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

This is going to go down as one of the worst trades the team has ever been involved in. I’ve seen much, much worse from celebrities in regards to “mask conspiracies” but he needs to log off of YouTube and worry about getting his fat ass into shape. 

It could but it might have to do more with Turner. Yes, he was a shell of himself last year but finishing two seasons 1-7 and 0-8 can do that to someone who was part of a run of 4 playoffs/1 SB in 5 years.

Turner could easily turn it around and be deserving of a pro bowl. He just turned 27 in June. I wouldn’t be shocked at all to see him get back to a top G. That would suck to see. Rhule likely didn’t have a whole lot to do with this trade since he’d never had Turner in house and probably isn’t very familiar with Okung either.

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