What's going on with this MU variant? Sounds worse than Delta if the experts are to be believed?

From what I have read it's prevalence seems to be declining in places like South America, which would lead one to believe it does not have an advantage over Delta and will likely not become dominant. Seems to be a tiny percentage of cases worldwide.

Here's an interesting article which just might give you some insight (which you clearly lack) into why there is so much vaccine hesitancy among certain sectors of the population.


https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/n...nstantin-kisin

Brazil now has less cases per million than Canada

And for those who can't be bothered to read the article here's a snapshot.

So the solution to that big pharma/ evil media conspiracy is take a deworming medication produced by Merck to help with their 50 billion a year in pharma sales after reading/hearing it pitched in various alt-right media sources. Cool.

Canada doing way more testing, so would not put much stock in the Brazil number.

Brazil has way more DPM.

lol you think this is a simple intellectual conversation? Sounds more like stoned teenagers.

Why are you worried about living too long? You're overweight you have nothing to worry about.

Next dinner date ask your doctor friend about life expectancy for middle age fat people with "millions in commercial RE"

Monteroy,

Given that your pony is stuck on one trick, you might do well with a bit of dewormer.

Would doing that support or be a protest against big pharma?

That's just one of the reasons by the way. There are a lot more. The article is well worth reading.

I like that Tien no longer wants to own those arguments as defensible unless he can spin as if it was just some high minded theoretical discussion on upper age limits. I suspect Tooth who defended Tien's comments will bail on them soon too and pretend he never did.

You cannot get many people on forums like this to admit they are wrong but when they disavow their prior statements or positions and try to pretend they were something else, that is just as good as them admitting they were wrong or reprehensible prior.

No one does that more than Tooth, were almost every position he takes prior he changes later with a caveat or backpedal, once he realizes he was wrong.

I don't think it's a reliable rule at all. I think it's a high questionable premise of low reliability. Regardless, racism is a tiny dimension of a person. The greatest and bravest fighters against fascism/Nazism were racists. The greatest thinkers and scientists and humanitarians, all of them racists. Racism is just one small dimension of a person (if it even exists at all in that person, and your tendency to smear them as such on the first weak indication of same is just proof that you're a nasty or thoughtless human being). Why bring racism into a covid discussion? You seem weirdly fascinated with something which is about the 230th most important issue in the Western world and the 50th most important issue in improving the practical lives of minorities. Fighting the toxic left wing victim-creating belief in widespread racism keeping minorities down is way more important than actual racism. Creating a tendency towards seeing an external locus of control in individuals is incredibly toxic to their wellbeing and chance of difficult achievement. But you need a bit of a brain to appreciate that, and be less of a sheep and actually concerned about people rather than groupthink and slogans.

Or it could be both? I don't think your heuristics are capturing 1/10th of the complexity of human nature.

ITT Tooth is making the 'racist are fine people too' argument.

Definitely longer than those that own just a bunch of online numbers.

People that own millions in commercial RE live very long happy lives.

I was against crashing the economy. Something we won't ever be doing again if a new virus comes that targets old people.

I was right then and I am right now.

All the best.

I put just about zero value in twitter posts that aren't data based.

People just make all sorts of **** up on social media.

I think society is better off having the baton passed over to the young even though some 80 and 90 year olds are still effective at their job.


Most humans though are no longer effective at 80 years old so it's actually a betterment for society if we don't live to 120.

+1
I don’t see why people accord more value to a Twitter or Facebook account than some heckler on the street …

What is the difference ?

Good luck with your marketing strategy of showing the potential bad vaccine reaction case for your agenda that you find every month or two. May be hard for you to compete with the sheer volume from the other side like that Cain site, so as messaging goes its not the strongest on your part in terms of competitiveness, but then anti-vaxxers tend to be weak at how they do messaging.



Again, 120 today will be different than 120 in a different era, so society today is not ready for a huge rush of 120 year olds, but by the time that is normal it will be ready, just like it was ready for different ages as technology and medical knowledge improved.

If we had this chat in 1920 the life expectancy was just over 50 so someone that was 40-45 was pretty much taking up space for the younger generation using your theory. Would you say a 40 year old today is taking up space (aside from something like pro sports)? In 1920 your grandfather would be saying that it was actually a betterment for society if they did not live to 65. Things change.

I still do not see too many 80-90 year olds today holding back batons from the next generations. Do you really regard the 80+ crowd as taking a ton of opportunities away from Gen Zs? You never answered the specific question of what age you (on average) deem a human to be of no more value to society and what you would suggest when they reach that age. This is all your theory that you are exceedingly proud of, so why not fill in the details to it?

this did not happen. this literally did not happen. this is not a real quote. you are being a disingenuous piece of **** by trying to gaslight everyone here into believing this garbage because you are so ****ing desperate to believe the narrative you already have inside your own head that you will take two entirely different statements and splice them together to create a statement and a meaning that literally did not happen.


go **** yourself.

Why are you so angry dude?

You seem to be a very angry person.

Trump did say that actually.

Here's the actual transcript:

not to mention that TDaP vaccines need boosters every 10 years and there haven't been any protests about whether or not needing boosters for those just makes them big pharma/big government power grabs. people just ****ing get them and move on.

because the whole lot of you constantly lie, misrepresent, and gaslight people over easily verifiable facts, and any normal person who gives half a **** about society actually functioning well would get really ****ing angry about it, you ****ing moron.

Yeah, it is not the actual quote. Not too shocking a development.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2...sides-remarks/

if anyone really cares about the transcript it is pretty clear how forceful the "condemnation" was from Trump, but whatever. Follow up question was about the infamous infrastructure week.