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Kim Jong Un
Kim Jong Un (@guest_1238898)
August 13, 2021 14:17

Don’t be a fatso. There, you’re welcome.

hsk
hsk (@guest_1238138)
August 12, 2021 02:32

republicans just don’t care about what the science has to say. it’s the same reason why they deny climate change, the same reason why they vilify education actually.

it’s sad, but also somewhat ingenious that republicans were able to convince their voterbase to remain stupid. makes them much easier to lie to.

i guarantee if we tried to pass seatbelt mandates today, we wouldn’t be able to. common sense is lost on these people.

Ethan
Ethan (@guest_1238516)
August 12, 2021 15:27

I always say; “It is very expensive to be a Republican. It requires common sense.”. Not everyone can afford common sense. You are someone who cannot afford it.

Jack john
Jack john (@guest_1238735)
August 12, 2021 22:23

Bro you guys literally believe the Chinese installed Biden as president in one of the most intricately complex hacks of all time – of which only Mike lindell, the my pillow guy has proof – instead of believing that trump lost because he was a failure and hated by a majority of the population. Common sense is not something you’ll ever possess

YoniPDX
YoniPDX (@guest_1238072)
August 11, 2021 23:20

Pipe dreams……

Considering that vaccinated individuals can still get COVID as well as can be super spreaders
this inspite of being fully vaccinated.is concerning.

I’m pretty sure that vaccinating our way to “herd immunity” is one such pipe dream—-just like ‘flattening the curve ‘, as well as “efficacy of the vaccine” definition has become a moving target.

11% of Americans have tested postive for COVID19.

It seems that there is little scientific interest is studying innante immunity and the T-cell immunity of those that have recovered from COVID-19- probably because they can’t market it, sell it or make a buck off of it.

That said Breakthrough cases:

The most recent numbers are extremely troubling with the numbers of breakthrough cases and deaths in the UK, US and Israel have been multipling rapidly and could over take earlier waves.

Your chances of dying if your hospitalized depends on your demographic (age/sex/race) and if you have comorbidities – while being vaccinated may lower your chances of testing postive for COVID it won’t prevent you getting infected – but if you get sick and are hospitalized your odds of dying are the same as an unvaccinated person.

https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2021-07-30-cdc-74-infected-massachusetts-covid-19-outbreak-were-vaccinated

Being for or against the vaccine won’t change the data or the outcome.

Danny
Danny (@guest_1238250)
August 12, 2021 11:18

Your odds of dying are not the same once you are vaccinated. Please don’t spread obviously false information.

Jack john
Jack john (@guest_1238736)
August 12, 2021 22:26

It’s pretty pathetic how you portray yourself as an unbiased observer. No one claims vaccines are perfect, they DO have a substantial benefit however (yes, even if they’re less effective against delta, data so far still shows them being helpful in various ways) and to claim otherwise is a lie and indicative of your bias.

Henry
Henry (@guest_1237917)
August 11, 2021 19:38

At the end of the day, if you are healthy this virus is not a threat to you. You really don’t need a vaccine. If you are very old or have pre existing conditions (which many elders have) you may want to be careful. And if you are a fat person you may want to be careful as well. Otherwise, live free and enjoy your life.

Jack john
Jack john (@guest_1238007)
August 11, 2021 21:51

If anyone is wondering why we’re still dealing with covid years later, thank this fucking simpleton Harry. You do realize there are very, very good reasons even perfectly healthy and low risk people should vaccinate, right? Maybe leave the doctoring to actual doctors, we really don’t need another asshole’s opinion on how they feel you don’t need a vaccine.

SU
SU (@guest_1238014)
August 11, 2021 21:56

do you know even the original COVID brought down perfectly healthy gym going young people last year and hospitalize or kill them?

Henry
Henry (@guest_1238080)
August 11, 2021 23:32
  SU

Except it didn’t. A young healthy person dying from this is a complete outlier and would be one in a million. Could just as easily died from the common cold in that case.

YoniPDX
YoniPDX (@guest_1238082)
August 11, 2021 23:33
  SU

Did you know that in the US since Jan 2020 there have been under 400 deaths from COVID-19 in those under 18.

This is a 4σ (four sigma SD) group which is almost ought or infinitesimal. Since it’s that much of an outlier.

Dying from COVID-19 is a 3σ deviation in severity as far as lethality even moreso when you factor the demographics.

Yet one would think or believe that the hospitals are full of kids dying from COVID and that this was the modern day equivalency of the Black Death (Plague)..

SU

Jim
Jim (@guest_1238154)
August 12, 2021 07:00

“Did you know that in the US since Jan 2020 there have been under 400 deaths from COVID-19 in those under 18.”

Please don’t confuse the gender studies generation with real data. They prefer emotionally charged outlier events such as “COVID brought down perfectly healthy gym going young people last year”.

A recent study showed that those who identify as liberal believe there is a 24% chance of being hospitalized if you get covid (10x the actual number). For those who are healthy under 50 it’s about 100x the actual number. Behold the power of mass media and big pharma on a generation that never learned critical thinking!

Mark
Mark (@guest_1238765)
August 13, 2021 00:48

lol on the “gender studies generation.” They’re just speaking Their Truth!

Jopik
Jopik (@guest_1238271)
August 12, 2021 12:04
  SU

Risk of COVID for under 50 y/o is virtually zero. I’m sure you have a few anecdotes of young people getting sick, those few cases are the outlier, and likely had zinc or vitamin D deficiency. 80%+ of covid cases with complications had a vitamin D deficiency.

Jack john
Jack john (@guest_1237445)
August 11, 2021 10:22

Antivaxxers are fucking morons

iahphx
iahphx (@guest_1237520)
August 11, 2021 11:49

Fanatical vaxers are foolish and deluded and their use of bad language is unnecessary and unfortunate.
https://twitter.com/MikeWhitney53/status/1425458262317715471

Jack john
Jack john (@guest_1237532)
August 11, 2021 12:02

Linking to Twitter to support your trash – you really are a goon aren’t you?

Dr. Smart, PhD, Esq.
Dr. Smart, PhD, Esq. (@guest_1238780)
August 13, 2021 03:00

You liberals thrive and infest Twitter, and now you trash it for the moment. You are upholding jewish stereotypes.

rynker
rynker (@guest_1237613)
August 11, 2021 13:28

The vaccine doesn’t prevent you from contracting the virus and spreading it. Data showing how many people hospitalized/dead are vaxed or not would be more meaningful.

YoniPDX
YoniPDX (@guest_1237689)
August 11, 2021 15:22

In Oregon in July 33% of COVID cases were Vaxxed individuals. 9% of Death were Vaxxed individuals. Oregon is 6th or 7th state with highest Vaxxed population.

The US demographics in the CFR (Case fatality Rate) are unchanged.
Vaxxed/Unvaxxed:
if your >70 1:500 die from COVID
If your <18 1:1M die from COVID

In Israel those aged <18
20% of undiagnosed individuals have been found to have antibodies for COVID from Serological testing.

Serious sIde effects in those 18 and under occur 1:10,000 jabs.

Israel 80% of those older than 18 are vaxxed- yet this cohort of vaxxed individuals represent 90% of hospital admissions for COVID.

This is a just a data base post. I've been tracking COVID-19 since the Diamond Princess in February 2020.

rynker

YoniPDX
YoniPDX (@guest_1237743)
August 11, 2021 16:06

Too late to edit.

“The CDC only tracks Breakthrough COVID cases…..IF the individual is hospitalized or dies.”

Over 10% of the US population has tested positive for COVID-19
>+ 36M people

States on the East coast with the lowest vaccination rates have lower number of deaths per capital than the most vaccinated states.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths/

iahphx
iahphx (@guest_1237800)
August 11, 2021 17:01

Facts are stubborn things. But people of a certain political persuasion have invested too much in the vaccine to open their minds to the obvious fact that the vaccines are not “all that.” The trend I keep seeing is that fact-based scientists and reporters discover Covid truths and the MSM and “public health officials” SLOWLY accept these truths. The MSM then writes stories to “gently guide” their readers to the new realities. Just look at how declining vax efficacy has been reported the last month. In the meantime, you get lots of people screaming “yesterday’s” talking points — like the insane idea that everyone being hospitalized is unvaxed.

Danny
Danny (@guest_1238252)
August 12, 2021 11:20

Lol… even if that “9% of deaths are vaccinated individuals” statistic is true… doesn’t that mean 91% were UNVACCINATED? Your own facts are staring you in the face! Get your shots.

YoniPDX
YoniPDX (@guest_1238558)
August 12, 2021 16:30

I know that some spin a narrative that the Gov’t lies to it’s citizens ( the state of Oregon in my post above).

Danny

The empirical data that I posted I used from :

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/DATASTATISTICS/Pages/index.aspx

On that note I do find it troubling that the CDC stopped tracking all breakthrough cases (perhaps it because how high the initial data was….its highly likely it would have discouraged people from getting the jab because of how many people were testing postive for COVID-19 despite getting vaccinated).

Now the CDC only collects data of breakthrough cases if they are hospitalized or die. As of July 1st.

tribesman55
tribesman55 (@guest_1237623)
August 11, 2021 13:49

Troll

Jason
Jason (@guest_1237661)
August 11, 2021 14:41

Oh no boo hoo bad language. 😭

WakeUp
WakeUp (@guest_1237550)
August 11, 2021 12:13

You already took the shots, what are you so worried about? It’s a personal medical decision, stop shaming and insulting people who don’t think the same as you.

Jason
Jason (@guest_1237691)
August 11, 2021 15:23

Yes, please continue loudly declaring you have no idea how vaccination works.

WakeUp
WakeUp (@guest_1237726)
August 11, 2021 15:55

Yes, please tell me how the mRNA shots work, you seem really informed.

Weird how the variants are most prevalent in the highest vaccinated countries.

By the way, natural immunity is also a thing. It’s how we all got this far as a species.

Jim
Jim (@guest_1237925)
August 11, 2021 19:54

“Antivaxxers ” – anyone who is fully vaxxed but is holding off on taking an experimental mrna vaccine because they are under 50 and in good health. They know their chances of getting seriously ill are about 1 in 1000 and recognize that is nothing statistically. Yep – “morons” they are indeed, says the group that doesn’t know the difference between a man and a woman!

Jack john
Jack john (@guest_1238012)
August 11, 2021 21:54

I always laugh when the crowd that is notorious for shoving their face full of McDonald’s and taking their fat ass on parade at Walmart is suddenly so concerned about vaccine safety. Y’all are clowns.

jopik
jopik (@guest_1238282)
August 12, 2021 12:07

PHDs have the highest vaccine hesitancy percentage, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1.full.pdf+html

Jack john
Jack john (@guest_1238739)
August 12, 2021 22:31

A) you linked to a study based on a self reported survey. Surely no one has ever lied on those and we’ve never had any selection bias there. very solid paper lmao

B) I have an M.S. and Ph.D and got the vaccine as soon as it was available for me. (Anecdotal so power of this info is effectively nil, but still funny to note when someone makes such a stupid claim as yours).

Jim
Jim (@guest_1238998)
August 13, 2021 20:22

“I have an M.S. and Ph.D” – in gender studies

Vy
Vy (@guest_1237401)
August 11, 2021 09:23

“I saw the word ‘vaccine’ in the headline, and immediately rushed over so that I could be the first to loudly declare my opinions on something I don’t really understand. Something something politics, something something the economy!”

Hughgot Duped
Hughgot Duped (@guest_1237405)
August 11, 2021 09:28
  Vy

Well you did a good job.

Thom
Thom (@guest_1237460)
August 11, 2021 10:39
  Vy

It’s actually nothing to do with anything you said; it’s simply a matter of personal autonomy.

bob
bob (@guest_1237466)
August 11, 2021 10:43

People have the right to not take a vaccine. And they have a right to face all of the consequences, both now and in the future.

Sam
Sam (@guest_1237501)
August 11, 2021 11:20

Including not being able to be employed by employers that require vaccination.

tribesman55
tribesman55 (@guest_1237514)
August 11, 2021 11:36

Not if they clog up the hospital system!

Henry
Henry (@guest_1237927)
August 11, 2021 19:56

Which consequences are those? If you are implying health or mortality then the risk of those from the virus is virtually zero for most people making it inconsequential.

Joe
Joe (@guest_1237662)
August 11, 2021 14:43

Can’t wait for health insurance to slap a ‘will not pay’ for the unvaccinated. Then it will be a matter of personal autonomy and personal financial ruin.

Mark
Mark (@guest_1237682)
August 11, 2021 15:07

Oh cool, just like they’re doing for smokers and fatties. Oh, wait…

Henry
Henry (@guest_1238084)
August 11, 2021 23:40

Will not pay for COVID related claims? They still pay for people going to the hospital for the common cold don’t they? Why is COVID so special when they are virtually the same thing?