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Sawbonz

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  1. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    This idiocy is what I don't fucking get.

    His entire stand is "you can't tell me what to do!  Everything is my choice!"

    Yet the list of things you either have to do or have to give consent to in order to obtain an organ transplant -- setting aside the COVID vaccination requirement -- is 10 miles long.  Seriously, you are obligated to do any number of things, all the way down to minute details like "fast for 12 hours before surgery" and "be at the hospital at 5:00 am for intake and prep."  Does he say "NOBODY TELLS ME WHAT TO DO!" to those requirements, too?

    It's fucking staggering moronic inconsistency.  But then, "Staggering Moronic Inconsistency" is probably going to be stamped on our coinage pretty soon, so what the fuck do I know?

    Unrelated but fucked up healthcare story: my former scheduler’s son died right before Covid hit. 30’s type 1 diabetic since adolescence, didn’t take care of himself when a teen/young adult which is very common. After he matured and figured out he had to take care of himself it was too late, and kidneys eventually failed. End stage renal disease requiring dialysis makes you immediately eligible for Medicare thanks to some lawmaker’s kid getting renal failure back in the day. Which is important bc no way you can work a meaningful job when you have to be hooked up to the machine 8 hours 3 days a week plus feeling tired as shit the rest of the time.
     

    So he gets Medicare and goes on dialysis for a few years and starts taking care of himself. got his sugars under control and made it to the top of the renal transplant list and is ready for a kidney, then finds out they kick you off Medicare 36 months after the transplant bc your renal failure is cured. No matter that you have to pay for super expensive anti rejection meds for the rest of your life and have high risk of winding up hospitalized periodically for rejection episodes or weird infections bc meds suppress your immune system. Guy has only ever done physical work, and will never get back to that, so he is looking at 36 months of “normal “ life and then likely losing the transplanted kidney due to no anti rejection meds and ending up back on dialysis. 
     

    He took himself off the list and quit dialysis. Had 2 boys under 12 /not csb

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  2. Twitter strings are terrible for making an argument. Nothing I have seen shows a clinical advantage for immunized vs recovered in providing protection from serious illness/death, and nothing in that string shows me otherwise. Ashish implies but presents no data that show the majority of current unvaxed hospitalizations are among those previously infected, and that assertion goes against current thought (or maybe he links somewhere and I missed it

    Also we know immunity with vaccination wanes so it would not be surprising if the same is true for prior infection. Also he should end with “why not just vaccinate and get boosted?”

    it is clear that vaxed and boosted confers superior protection over remote infection in terms of contracting Covid. It is not clear that there is superior protection from serious illness death

    His whole thread does not sit well w me

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  3. 13 hours ago, mulletpelini said:

    Right, except the polio vaccine worked, this bullshit doesn't.  4 dead family members, all were fully vaxxed.

    I am truly sorry for your loss. All of my kids have at least one friend who have lost a grandparent if not 2 due to Covid. All were prior to vaccines. My Dad and an Aunt and Uncle all had it around Christmas despite being vaccinated but none bad enough to require hospitalization. With all their comorbidities I am confident saying at least one would not have survived without the vax. Especially my aunt who has an autoimmune disease and is on chronic steroids. I have lost 2 high school friends and one of my wife’s closest high school friends lost her husband during the delta surge. All late 40’s to 50 and none vaccinated. Sure that’s just more anectdotes. The data show overwhelmingly that vaccines give you the best chance to avoid severe illness and death. There is no big pharma / govt conspiracy; scientists like to prove other people wrong almost as much as discovering something, and tort lawyers would be on it quickly. Hell Merck couldn’t even hide a modest but real increase in cardiac events from Vioxx. Their deception and refusal to go to a lower dose during FDA approval trials was easily apparent once it was used in large numbers 

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  4. 13 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    Wait, so you posted a table indicating that police officers are the fifth-most ethical profession and this didn't ring any alarm bells to you?

    Which profession below them, taken as a whole, would you move up

  5. 48 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    “Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider.”

    — Sinclair Lewis

     

    Call me crazy, but I think there might be a valid opinion about Western civilization somewhere between its being the worst thing that ever happened to humanity and the best thing that ever happened. Such a take probably won’t get many retweets though

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  6. 1 hour ago, Texzilla58 said:


    At that point he was still working on his appeal with the NFLPA and NFL to rule his super immunity and clay eating homeopathy bullshit had made him immunized. Shailene and her quack dr convinced him of this. He made a deflecting comment to the press, not his team, who saw him every day living the unvaxxed player life. He couldn’t fly on team charter nor eat team meals.

    He did not mislead his team and he was forced to comply with unvaxxed restrictions. I could give a shit what he said to the press. The beat writers all knew he wasn’t vaxxed. His locker got moved.

    A lot of words to say Rodgers is a liar

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  7. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I've said this before, I was into the JFK stuff back in the early 90s (became more interested in the actual fans of conspiracy theories than the theories themselves) and it was very  much a limited amount of contact with the general public.  These people were confined to backrooms of local bookstores, student lounges in dorms, various little community center rooms, etc.

    It wasn't just that their ideas were out there, it's that people recognized their ideas were out there.  When I got into it, it was like "oh hey, wow there was a lot of legitimate sleazy shit going on around Lee Harvey Oswald" (whose daughter used to waitress at the Texas Chili Parlor here in Austin), but there was also a lot of overlap with the Art Bell/UFO crowd, and that was too much for me, but not for a lot of others.

    Not helping things is that it was hard to grift off of these folks.  Not hard in the sense of getting their money, but it's just that their numbers were small (they walked in single-file lines) and you distributed your wares through the backs of local community magazines and in the case of books, etc., you had to pay to get it printed and then schlep it around to various small groups.  If you wanted to grift that crowd, you had to be involved with that crowd as well.

    Everybody focuses on how their platform nowadays makes it easy for batshit stuff to get out there, but it also makes it easy for mainstream grifters to hit that crowd up, and the more grift you get, the more t-shirts and books and bumper stickers get out into the wild, creating the impression that it's a lot more mainstream than it is.

     

     

    Why are you lumping people who know the truth about JFK in with all these nuts?

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  8. 1 hour ago, Longhornlove said:

    That a boy, start with the negs, silence the dissenters, fuck free speech and debate. This entire thread belongs in the CR. You guys have fun, I'm out.

     

    29 minutes ago, Longhornlove said:

    According to Urban Dictionary a snowflake is: “A very sensitive person. Someone who is easily hurt or offended by the statements or actions of others.”

    Remember, this conversation between me and you started by you negging me. Who is the snowflake? This thread was CR when long before I posted in it.

    Thought you were out 

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  9. 2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    what exactly do you take exception with? it's way past time to tear down cultural norms and reform our society. perhaps we can start with what got us here in the first place - mis/disinformation. then maybe we can move on to crawling out from under the Puritanical thumb that has guided (or misguided) our cultural policy for nearly 400 years. why are you still living in the past? or better yet, why do you want to?

    You need to read guns germs and steel. That’s what got us here

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  10. On 1/23/2022 at 5:01 PM, pearlandhorn said:

    Using this logic and knowing that asymptomatic folks who are vaxxed pass this thing along to anyone they come in contact with, wouldn’t it be better if no one got vaccinated so they had symptoms and recognized that and stayed home for a week?

     

    You’re an idiot 

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