just to tie up that discussion, Politifact has weighed in:
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Unvaxed sperm is the next Bitcoin? If thatās not someone trolling the crowd, I have no hope for the human race.
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Letās hope so. Mining that is a lot easier and way more fun.
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There are some weird sexual + blood purity obsessions out there on the far right.
I doubt theyāre trolling. Now if they added NOFAP and NFT Iād think they were trolling.
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A new vaccine-explainer video crossed my Twitter timeline today:
Hereās the Vimeo link:
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Minimal risk on this one; it sounds like he never left the airport before he was quarantined.
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BTW: the replies in that thread are loaded with people (looks like theyāre mostly mainlanders) demanding that Monte stops reporting on Covid cases, because āweāre all vaxxed now, youāre scaremongering, shut upā.
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My family scheduled me for a booster shot, but the time didnāt work at all with my work schedule, so I canceled. And then found out that Iām not actually even eligible for the booster shot yet. Not old enough, not immunocompromised, not working in healthcare. My family insisted that I reschedule and āJust lie to them, tell them youāre immunocompromised, they donāt check.ā
So Iām a little torn.
On the one hand, I donāt lie. Thatās why my wife calls me āher moral compassā. And hypothetically, (assuming it was managed properly), those people who need the shot more should be getting it first - if we all just went to get it, there might not be enough, Iād be taking from someone who needs it more.
On the other hand, itās my duty to be as vaccinated as possible for not only myself and my family but society. And at least a third to a half of the people will refuse to get it anyway. Thereās no shortage; they could make it available to everyone and weād still have plenty.
For now Iāll just wait my turn. I donāt get out much, so not much worry, and even if Iām not boosted, Iām still vaccinated at least.
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In case it isnāt clear: I donāt post these sort of statistics in order to gloat or sneer.
I post them in order to emphasise the degree to which the US/UK death tolls were created by avoidable human malice rather than just being some inevitable act of God.
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Iām reminded of
Collectively the US government and business leaders (pretty much the same thing) decided that a certain amount of sacrifice was necessary to appease the great beast of The Economy. Thus dooming the economy in the just slightly longer term than they were thinking. As always.
Locally, the (majority Republican) county council takes exception to every health measure the (Democratic) county executive, who is a goddamned doctor, has wanted to take because oh noes tyranny!!! You canāt make perfectly sensible unilateral decisions that save lives and shorten the length and intensity of the pandemic!
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My 50th birthday is coming up the day after Thanksgiving, and with 3 other November birthdays in the family, my mother-in-law wanted to throw a big party for all of that.
My sister-in-lawās husband seems to be a die-hard Trumpster, and is unvaccinated despite working in a nursing home. My parents are borderline paranoid about COVID ā they still quarantine their mail ā and were absolutely not comfortable spending a few days in the presence of this person. Itās my birthday, and I havenāt seen my parents in two years, and frankly I donāt want to deal with a Trumpster either. So weāre going to their house for Thanksgiving/birthday shenanigans instead. (And at least that way I know there wonāt be a politics-fueled fistfight between my dad and my spouseās dad.)
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Oh, i thought it was people just being their natural cruel selves, didnāt know it had an official name; probably didnāt until Engels gave it one.
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I call it āreverse suicide.ā
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Iām getting my booster this Wednesday. I got my J&J shot in late March, so itās been over six months. Looking out for myself and my family.
I wonder what this winter will be like where I live. The big sales were bad enough with no pandemic going on, but with so many people not getting vaxxed and/or wearing masks in public, and with so many things being openā¦shudders and not just from the cold
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Lisa is now sitting at home nervously waiting for her test results.
Predictably, the school only made it a few weeks before shutting down again; two kids known to be infected.
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