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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: October 28, 2023, 08:33:07 PM »
No, no, and no. They should have realized and accounted for the limitations of their knowledge at the time.
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“Safe and effective” is never 100% either safe nor effective but it’s a trade off. Let’s say you have a vaccine that is 99% effective preventing you from getting a disease that has a 1 in 3 death rate, but the vaccine has a 1 in a million chance of killing you. That would be a no brainer. You’d be a fool not to get the vaccine.
numbers for your demographic then make a decision.
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I want the bare facts. The truth. Once I feel like they’re playing us, they lose all credibility. That doesn’t mean I suddenly think the vax is 0% effective and 100% deadly. It does mean I mistrust everything anyone tells me. Once something is in two polarized camps it becomes difficult to find truly objective information.
Guy goes in a pet store and buys a parrot. Takes it home, and immediately the parrot starts using vulgar language and insults.Good one Lucifer! I am copying it to FlyerForum.
Day after day, every time he walks past the parrot, it hurls vulgar insults.
Finally one day, this fellow can’t take it any longer. As the parrot is hurling insults, the owner grabs him, opens the freezer door and shoves it in, and slams the door.
After a few minutes, guilt overcomes the owner. He walks over and opens the freezer door. Amazingly the parrot calmly walks out, looks at the owner, and says
“Sir, I wish to apologize for my behavior. I shall not use insults or vulgarities any longer in your home”
Then the parrot looks at the owner, and quietly ask “So, what did the Turkey do to anger you?”
Most people don’t face guns or abortions on a daily basis but they do face high food and gas prices and wages that don’t keep up. 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and using credit cards to buy groceries. They face this all day long every day and that is what Trump needs to leverage. He needs to focus on energy specifically because fuel costs are a major underlying cause of high prices. He needs to campaign on stopping the flow of dollars to Ukraine as another cause because we are printing money we don’t have, and he maybe needs to address the pandemic’s role in hurting the economy. Just say the pandemic hurt the economy but it would have been worse if I hadn’t gotten it so good by 2019.
Maybe Michael can explain why Biden keeps telling Gold Start parents that his son came home from Iraq in a flag draped coffin.I think the explanation is fairly simple. He is a demented old man.
To me, there is no more egregious lie a President can tell. Just as bad as stolen valor, but we know Democrats do that.
Finally someone with the right political views but who also objectively assesses facts.
Having said that my two concerns about your pursuit of facts are:
1. I understand that bias is now beginning to affect peer reviews. We already know that “science” is now heavily compromised on the subject of climate change. I have no reason to trust the science anymore on any other subject. Scientists are now being incubated in universities which have become 90% politically biased in one direction. And even if they aren’t, after we just found out that the Feds had infiltrated and coerced social media to propagandize by censorious omission, how do I know they’re not also pressuring scientists to publish or not, or what to conclude or omit in a peer review?
2. I seem to recall most of the studies on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were done in hospital settings. Once you have been hospitalized you’ve missed the window where those treatments work. You have to take them very early, preferably the first or second day of symptoms. If the Covid test doesn’t even turn positive until day 3, I doubt any of those studies actually used them properly. Correct me if I’m wrong. I don’t have time to actually dig into it right now.
Please show the post where the polio vaccine is being "dissed".Oh, is Prof. Michael Weinstein jumping to conclusions again?
I remember the Hong Kong flu. It was a thing but we didn’t go bat shit crazy and commit economic suicide over it.Well, of course, it didn’t come from bats ;-)