Well, we can all agree that they are definitely willing to die for their beliefs. This helps thin the herd and ensure they are not the majority. LOL
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Well, we can all agree that they are definitely willing to die for their beliefs. This helps thin the herd and ensure they are not the majority. LOL
The narrative is that one party wants to take away all your freedoms and force you to do things...
- Forced to wear a mask
- Forced to take the vaccine
- Forced to drive an EV
- Take your diesel truck away
- Take your guns away
- ...etc...
So, yeah, any mandate, guidance, or government suggestion is viewed as a conspiracy now. Even simple things in the name of public health during a pandemic...
EVNow
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Well ... the truth is a lot worse.
Well, we can all agree that they are definitely willing to die kill for their beliefs
My take is that people are easily influenced and politicians / media take advantage of this fact to cause conflicts in the society for personal gain. So, we are all victims of this.
uujjj2
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It's not really the mainstream media. It's alt-media whose (often false) content gets forwarded through email, WhatsApp and Facebook.
EVNow
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Not really. Some of the most watched cable shows are at the forefront of the culture wars.
Yes, the niche media may be more extreme but culture wars are quite mainstream.
Infact, its not even one party. Both parties are happy to focus on culture wars (to an extent) because that helps them not focus on bread & butter issues.
EVNow
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I don't want to drag this conversation any further - but I wanted to drop this bit of news I just saw. Shows how a lot of things are interlinked, politically.
California vaccine lottery winner thought call from state ‘was a joke’
“It’s been a rough year, a year and a half, for me and everyone else out there,”...
Bitcoin conference attendees report testing positive for Covid after returning from Miami
Some of the 12,000 attendees who flew into Miami last weekend for the first big tech conference in more than a year have started testing positive for Covid.
www.cnbc.com
On this note, I did listen to this story recently.
For Some Anti-Vaccine Advocates, Misinformation Is Part Of A Business
The coronavirus pandemic has created an opening for vaccine opponents to peddle alternative therapies, unproven cures and website subscriptions.
www.npr.org
Came here to post this. Haha.
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS BEING TRANSMITTED TO THESE UNVACCINATED PEOPLE.
I like how the nurse was desperately trying to stick a key to her neck and failing. Should have skipped the morning shower. On that topic, do these people ever shower, or are they naturally oily?
Refresher on the physics of surface energies...
Famed Magnetic Boy Is Probably Just Very Sticky
Miraculous cases of bodily magnetism may simply be explained by greasiness. Life's Little Mysteries talks to a number of experts about why glass and metal stick to some people's skin.www.livescience.com
If your skin is slightly damp from perspiration it will be sticky. Most people who have sat on vinyl or leather with shorts on know the phenomenon. A lot of those things people are sticking to their bodies are not magnetic, so it's not magnetism.
One poll I saw a month or so back showed DeSantis as the front runner for the 2024 nomination.
Next thing you know those evil people will start requiring people to wear clothes, ban dumping trash by the side of the road, as well as make murder illegal...
Both parties have had their lunatic fringe since the beginning. In a multi-party system these people would gravitate towards fringe parties that never get much power. That's the case in parliamentary democracies like the UK and Australia. But in the US it's join one of the two parties or be completely shut out.
The difference between the fringes in each party is that while the left fringe might be vocal on Twitter and occasionally get into a position of low level power, they rarely win high office. Over the last 20 years more and more of the right fringe have been getting elected to higher and higher office to a point where if you're not loony enough, you can't win high office anymore.
Back to the COVID situation, to the loonies everything means something deeper than what it appears. There are sinister forces afoot in the world and they are behind everything. A cigar is never just a cigar. So when we have an extraordinary situation crop up with COVID and we need to take drastic measures to protect the population they read all sorts of conspiracies into it. It's something that has had to happen many times throughout human history, but it has left living memory in the developed world. The loonies usually have a patchy education at best (either because they weren't paying attention in school or unlearned it later), so they usually are very ignorant of history.
The loony left tended to go overboard in their protective measures. The right wing loonies saw it as a conspiracy to take away their freedoms.
Ah... the good old days inn old Europe before sewer systems were developed... you just dump the water outside your 2nd floor window. Then the commies moved in with their crazy idea of a sewage system with the specific purpose to make us pay taxes! LOL
On this note, there's this proposal I heard about today: Cal/OSHA proposes new workplace mask rules.
That really never happened except in isolated places and times. Overall it was illegal to do so and there was an industry to take care of the issue. There is a lot of misinformation about the past.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Study shows people with more plant based diets have lower odds of moderate to severe Covid, low carb diets show the opposite.
No surprise, areas with low vax rates have higher hospitalization rates.
No surprise, areas with low vax rates have higher hospitalization rates.
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
Hope I am wrong but looks like cases are leveling off (tricky to determine with just weekly reporting from FL now).
I’d expect another bump at this point, I think. Focused in under-vaccinated states. Hopefully deaths will continue to fall though (I still expect that - lots of deaths right now are lagged reports and long term hangers-on, I suspect). Maybe we can find a way to convince more people to get vaccinated. Vaccines work.
I’d expect another bump at this point, I think. Focused in under-vaccinated states. Hopefully deaths will continue to fall though (I still expect that - lots of deaths right now are lagged reports and long term hangers-on, I suspect). Maybe we can find a way to convince more people to get vaccinated. Vaccines work.
Norbert
TSLA will win
Hope I am wrong but looks like cases are leveling off (tricky to determine with just weekly reporting from FL now).
I’d expect another bump at this point, I think. Focused in under-vaccinated states. Hopefully deaths will continue to fall though (I still expect that - lots of deaths right now are lagged reports and long term hangers-on, I suspect). Maybe we can find a way to convince more people to get vaccinated. Vaccines work.
Yes, looks like we need more vaccinations to achieve herd immunity...including from people who don't think they are "at risk" themselves.
Mine, by the way, went very smoothly (Pfizer).
EVNow
Well-Known Member
Two things
- Did they take in to account the fact that a lot of low carb people have diabetes ?
- Have they heard what’s happening in India ?
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
A law professor and a psychologist discuss immunology. What could possible go wrong???
www.wsj.com
Opinion | University Vaccine Mandates Violate Medical Ethics
College students aren’t guinea pigs.
www.wsj.com
Were they living under a rock the past year and a half?A law professor and a psychologist discuss immunology. What could possible go wrong???
Opinion | University Vaccine Mandates Violate Medical Ethics
College students aren’t guinea pigs.
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