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12-06-2021, 08:09 AM #17876
“In October, the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth”
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12-06-2021, 08:36 AM #17877Registered User
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Almost posted that here yesterday but held off to avoid politicization, but if we are gonna go there....
Many years from now, I hope that the world will remember how fucking stupid these people are. I hope that it is well documented, widely discussed, and that it is widely accepted that these republican, anti-mask, anti vaccine, folks are among the dumbest motherfuckers to have ever walked the planet. When these unvaccinated people visit the hospital, they should be cared for, Hippocratic oath and all, but it should be in a unheated make-shift army tent with the Trump logo on it, just like his hotels, and they should be charged a royalty fee on their medical bill. Their graves should be marked with an asterisk or some kind of symbol to ensure that they are remembered for their idiocy well past their death, and their own family members can reflect on the shame and humiliation that this person has brought to their bloodline.
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12-06-2021, 09:54 AM #17878
So it was a bad thing to quarantine small pox, measles, TB, etc?
Those vaccines that are REQUIRED for children to attend school and for adults to attend college were only allowed religious exemptions because the level of immunization and herd immunity in society is very strong. Without that there would be zero exemptions and folks who can't or won't simply couldn't go to school with other kids..
Whataboutism... ebola? Should people with ebola be banned from participating in societyGo that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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12-06-2021, 09:57 AM #17879
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12-06-2021, 10:06 AM #17880
The Libertarian adage is: Your right to swing your arm ends before my nose.
So, society has always reasonably placed some requirements on behavior to be part of a free society.
Even the Founding Fathers understood the need for public health measures such as quarantine and immunization (variolation), and the right of society to command such things from unwilling members.
Do you have the right to be drunk? Yes. In Public? If you do not disturb others. While driving? That is hazarding others.
I equate choosing to be unvaccinated with being drunk while driving. Yea you might make it home from the bar without hitting anyone. Or you might cause a multicar pileup. You are hazarding others, society, and yourself much more than if sober and society has decided to restrict your liberty to behave in such a manner so that they can be free and safe from such unjustifiable danger.
No man is an island when it comes to communicable disease.Originally Posted by blurred
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12-06-2021, 10:07 AM #17881
Whattaboutism the military? Should they also not be given/mandated all these vaccines for stuff like anthrax before deployment/activation? Nobody was whining about all the additional vaccines the military has been mandated since... forever. Now all of a sudden it's all a huge violation of muh freedumbs? Support our troops doesn't gel well with sending them in to harm's way unprotected from these threats including COVID.. And stuff like the anthrax vax was also brand new when mandated for them so don't go there with untested or whatever..
Komrade DDD, do they also vax military and school kids in your motherland Russia?Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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12-06-2021, 10:17 AM #17882
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12-06-2021, 10:17 AM #17883
Get ready for measles, polio, etc make big comebacks in the USA. There are plenty of folks ready to make that the next battle. (State Senator Richard Pan who sponsored the no-exceptions school vaccine law in CA has been physically assaulted and repeatedly harassed, and that was before MAGA and Covid.)
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12-06-2021, 10:24 AM #17884
At least he's not feigning an argument and has gotten down to his essential message when he recognizes another of his failures at debate. The only hope for Democracy lies in faith in the intelligence of the masses.
Now, how about freshening up some data regarding omicron vax resistance, communicability and severity?Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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12-06-2021, 10:41 AM #17885
I demaned right lights to be banned. It is a against my freedom to drive the way i want.
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12-06-2021, 10:48 AM #17886
At least now you’re being clear instead of fake.
Maybe check the number of people that are for covid vaccine mandates (just like mandates that have existed for other infectious diseases) - I’ll give you a hint - it’s not a “relatively small group”
You’ve been participating in a society that has had vaccine mandates all along.
Bottom line: you have the right to your opinion. You have the right to not get the covid vaccine.
You don’t have the right to have your opinion and choices respected or coddled or worked around. Let that one sink in.
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12-06-2021, 10:49 AM #17887
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12-06-2021, 10:49 AM #17888
you would have flown out of the windshield 60 years ago. #vibes.
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12-06-2021, 10:56 AM #17889
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12-06-2021, 11:00 AM #17890
A friend of mine and his family who live in town, and who I have invited to my house for X-mas dinner, will be traveling from SLC to NY on Dec. 18, then to Toronto on Dec. 20, then back to SLC on 12/24. I think that I may cancel. OTOH, they will all need to pass a COVID test w/in 24hrs. of returning to the USA, and my son works at a very busy local bar 5 days/wk, and he will be dining with us.
Other notes:
1) I will return to last year's protocol and wear a mask when skiing;
2) On Wednesday, my sister's in-laws, who live in Germany and are in their late '80s, finally received their first vax. On Friday, both were diagnosed with COVID. My bro-in-law's bro., who is an anti-vaxxer, is blaming the vax for the diagnosis. They are doing very poorly and they can't receive hospital treatment because of overcrowding. +++VIBES+++“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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12-06-2021, 11:12 AM #17891
China Calls on ‘Little Inoculated Warriors’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/b...smid=url-share
China has embarked on an ambitious campaign that it says will give the country better protection against Covid-19: full inoculation of 160 million of its youngest citizens by the end of the year.
In the first two weeks of the effort, which began in late October, 84 million boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 11, about half of the eligible population, received the first of two shots.
By contrast, in the United States, 2.6 million children between ages 5 and 11, or about 10 percent of the eligible population, received one dose over roughly the same time period.
The campaign faces significant obstacles, including parental reluctance in a country with a checkered history of safety on children’s vaccines. The government insists that child inoculations are voluntary, but parents have described coming under pressure to get their children vaccinated.
Though Chinese vaccines are generally considered safe, the country also has a history of administering spoiled shots and guarding any information about negative incidents.
China is the world’s last zero-Covid holdout, and officials have shown no willingness to change course. Cities of millions of people continue to be locked down during minor outbreaks; tourist sites like Shanghai Disneyland have been shut down to carry out on-the-spot testing. People who lie about infections, hide symptoms or try to escape quarantine do so under threat of prison.
The ruling Communist Party has pointed to the country’s low Covid-19 numbers — fewer than 5,000 people have died — as evidence that China’s authoritarian model is superior to the rest of the world, even as its borders remain closed and ordinary citizens find their personal freedom severely restricted during outbreaks.
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12-06-2021, 11:33 AM #17892
I'll bet you have a point to make. What is it?
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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12-06-2021, 11:37 AM #17893
Went skiing yesterday in North KaKalaKi. Outdoors NOBODY wore masks except 2-3 instructors who were working with little kids too houng to be vaxxed. Indoors myself and maybe a handful of others wore masks. 80% of the staff indoors NOT wearing any masks. If I wasn't triple vaxxed I would have turned around and left without even a single run.
But, I was mostly comfortable outdoors unmasked, slight breeze. Last year pre vax I left the same place after an hour when it got crowed and a few people were NOT covering up outdoors.
Thankfully vaccines have me much better protected. I still wish the rest of the folks indoors would have covered up. Some of us go home to immune compromised and/or children too young to be vaxxed.Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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12-06-2021, 12:03 PM #17894
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12-06-2021, 12:12 PM #17895
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12-06-2021, 12:17 PM #17896
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12-06-2021, 12:22 PM #17897
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12-06-2021, 12:36 PM #17898
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12-06-2021, 12:56 PM #17899
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12-06-2021, 01:12 PM #17900
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