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22 hours ago, Bookman said:

This is who we've always been. 

I mean, let’s face it our ancestors were belligerent, religious fanatic lunatics that pissed off everybody they were ever around, dead beats and convicts, and smugglers and slavers

 

and the Dutch

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On 9/3/2025 at 8:15 AM, Brisketexan said:

This.  It's not just Occam's razor (people in charge were faced with a novel, deadly virus spreading in pandemic fashion, and cobbled together the best path they could on the fly, as they were dealing with huge buckets of knowns (overwhelmed medical system, high body counts) and huge buckets of unknowns (too many to count)).  They took approaches that included a significant element of caution.  In RETROSPECT, now that we have more info and better data, they got somethings right and some things wrong.

I know this because I was literally "in the room" as decision-makers (at lower levels -- think local governments and such) were grappling with what to do, how to do it, where to find the resources to do it, etc.  These were just ordinary human beings, wrestling with an incredible responsibility, facing horrific outcomes (yeah, some of the conversations were absolutely about where do we store all these bodies, shit, where can we even park the trailers we're using to store all these bodies?  Bodies that included their friends and neighbors, BTW).  There was no sinister conspiracy hatched in a mountain lair.  Just human beings, doing their imperfect best to handle an unprecedented crisis.  That, yes, killed literally millions of people, so it was sure as shit a real thing.

There's nothing worse than Monday morning quarterbacking a (hopefully) once in a lifetime public health crisis.  We were in totally uncharted waters. Of course some things could have been done better.

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4 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

There's nothing worse than Monday morning quarterbacking a (hopefully) once in a lifetime public health crisis.  We were in totally uncharted waters. Of course some things could have been done better.

And everyone was saying that in real time. "This is a novel coronavirus. We are going to get some things wrong because of that." Fauci said shit like that all the time. 

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On my point about autism, and the fact that there almost certainly is no "increase in cases of autism because we are poisoning our kids with vaccines/tylenol," see this evaluation from someone who cares so much about autism he has literally dedicated his life and career to researching and treating it:  https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/is-there-an-autism-epidemic

 

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What's behind this increase?

There are two main reasons for the increase. The first is the broadened definition of Autism Spectrum Disorder, which means that more people are meeting this definition now than previously. 

Second, there have been many widely successful public health programs that increased screening at wellness visits for children ages 18–24 months to look for signs of autism. Parents, caregivers, and community members are also more aware of the symptoms, and autism is being more accepted in the community. People are not as afraid to seek help and know where to go when they have concerns. 

There are concerns that the increase in autism diagnoses is because something is causing more children to be affected by the condition. Is this accurate? 

Changes in the diagnostic criteria and increased screening at wellness visits seem to be the main contributors. There have been a few studies over the past two years that have looked at a specific subgroup of individuals on the spectrum who frequently need 24-hour-a-day support and care from a caregiver, often have very limited verbal communication skills, or have intellectual disability that co-occurs with autism. 

The data has shown that rates of autism for that subgroup have increased minimally, if at all, over the past nearly 10 years. 

Rates have increased the most for individuals who are not in that subgroup, who may have more subtle phenotypes and fewer significant co-occurring conditions. We think this is most likely due to our ability to identify these subtle traits and symptoms better.

Occam's.

Fucking.

Razor.

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6 hours ago, kevwun said:

Johnson & Johnson is about to sue the fuck out of the government.

They developed the technology to seal bottles to prevent tampering.

They need to develop technology to seal Capt. Rusty Throat in a bottle to prevent tampering.

 

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45 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

On my point about autism, and the fact that there almost certainly is no "increase in cases of autism because we are poisoning our kids with vaccines/tylenol," see this evaluation from someone who cares so much about autism he has literally dedicated his life and career to researching and treating it:  https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/is-there-an-autism-epidemic

 

Occam's.

Fucking.

Razor.

If you stop testing, there will be fewer cases!

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2 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

If it’s Tylenol why are we banning vaccines?

The same reason we need to award Trump the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed which helped save millions of lives and simultaneously harmed people. 

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