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Anastasis

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  1. Don't take it personal, was just a jump off point. I am past having any tolerance for parents of minor children that are involved in these situations. Default is "throw them in jail too." Certainly, if you can provide evidence that they don't deserve to get rung up, I am happy to accept that.Too many recent examples man. But default is now "fuck them too until proven otherwise". I say this as a man with a shit load of guns and a couple boys, so believe me I understand the implications.
  2. That can't be a real quote. Also would like some tight in shots of the mom.
  3. Pfizer is charging too much, so we need to recommend that all 15 year old boys get the booster is some next level galaxy brained absurdity. What a fucking system.
  4. Because it is not true. Any physician in the US can prescribe or directly administer a COVID booster based on their individual risk profile. I realize that some states put restrictions on what pharmacists can administer without a physician order. I am generally opposed to those state laws and would support changing them as Colorado recently did. I think that an insurer would be foolish to restrict coverage. But you've evaded the point as to whether the CDC should be making a universal recommendation for healthy adolescent males. ACA requirements that tie required coverage to ACIP/CDC guidance is not a recommendation based on medical evidence and risk/benefit analysis, it's a justification based on the dysfunction of our healthcare financing system.
  5. This is like discussing with religious fundamentalists. Booster uptake is shit. 10-20% depending on which numbers you look at. The messaging is not and has not been working. But maybe we should just do more of the same.
  6. Let me ask you this Twice. Based on what you know, do you think that we should be boosting a healthy male adolescent? You think it invalid to point out that this is a silly recommendation, and to point out the absurdity of the position that we have to tell that adolescent male to boost because we don't know how to get 70 year olds with COPD to take a booster any other way.
  7. Let's be honest. I'd probably just eat the tortillas and the extra beans and not have any leftovers.
  8. Yeah, that was the other politically charged topic I was referring to in that quote that fuggled picked up. The juxtaposition with stable flu vax recs across countries and citing the environment factors that are part of the consideration are reasonable points. But everyone is working with the same evidence wrt COVID boosting. Our approach has largely been to take that evidence and spit out one size fits all recs. I'd call that reductive, and I certainly would not call it strongly evidence based. What we are talking about here is ongoing adjustment and refining of COVID booster recs. Sweden, UK and Australia, as examples, all recently tightened up their booster recs to focus on high-risk individuals. You don't hear the absolutely political wailing and gnashing of teeth about it like we get here when people start talking about tightening up the recs. I am open to the argument that most Americans are too stupid to digest risk-based recommendations, so we just tell everyone they need to do something. But don't act surprised if that approach ends up undermining the credibility of the messenger. But tell me more about misleading others intentionally, lol.
  9. Public health messaging on a variety of topics during the pandemic was critically damaging to credibility of public health experts in general, and the CDC/FDA in particular. The vaccine mandates as a government public health initiative, and various attempts to expand were critically damaging to public perception. Our political environment made almost everything inevitably toxic, and as such there is a deep political divide over the perceptions of these agencies. Masks and schools are side show stuff imo.
  10. From the link: Individuals who are not targeted by the recommendation as per the definition above, but have advanced illness or conditions that impair their health in a way that puts them at risk of severe COVID-19, may be prescribed vaccination by their doctor. Examples of such illnesses may include severe lung disease or pronounced frailty due to extensive comorbidities. Here is the UK's rec: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-spring-booster-resources/a-guide-to-the-covid-19-spring-booster-2023 Spring 2025 vaccine eligibility COVID-19 is more serious in older people and in people with certain underlying health conditions. For these reasons, people aged 75 years and over, those in care homes, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system are being offered a spring dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
  11. Ifs that the pay then double beans, extra gravy, and two flour tortillas is the order.
  12. You cannot identify a single direct question that I have evaded.
  13. Ad hominem vs. evidence based medicine. I am very comfortable arguing from this position.
  14. GenX dominated discussion boards no where in the same ballpark as algo driven social media. The evolution of these boards is a totally different thing.
  15. No difference in the price. At least I am not paying attention to that. Just want a plate of cheese enchiladas and a Gils, and I don't particularly care for the rice and beans.
  16. COVID vaccination in particular has become a political dogma among some quarters in the the US. Not too unlike some other politically charged topics. While we wail and gnash the teeth other parts of the world take a more evidence based approach.
  17. Sweden for one example: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency-of-sweden/communicable-disease-control/covid-19/recommendations-for-covid-19-vaccination/
  18. Hep B at birth will get pressure next round of ACIP, rightfully so imo. COVID vaccine among 65+ and those with risk factors not so much. Our COVID rec will start looking a lot like the european recs, IMO.
  19. She got an FE block in that blouse?
  20. Did you want the whole thing? Man that takes commitment, or a hottie in the front row.
  21. @Dahobbs promoted the very public health strategies that undermined the credibility of the CDC and FDA and landed us with RFK, Jr. So I understand why he might be tripping.
  22. It’s not exactly a novel phenomena with these hearings.
  23. Don’t care. Had a gun on school property and did dumb shit on social media. Make an example every time.
  24. Would be interesting to get a political poll of spirit and frontier fliers.
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