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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    It's not so much "trash" as "deeply, horribly problematic in ways that it's fucking weird people willfully overlook".

    Even ignoring that Rowling's a raging transphobe lately, the Potter books;

    A> Make light of slavery, showing a slave race who're pathetic and who nobody in the Wizarding World really seriously considers to be "people"; Hermione's considered fuckin' weirdo for thinking they should be free. Hell, a lot of the house-elves want to be slaves.

    B> SUPER white. Super duper omega white. More white than the British population is. The few characters who aren't are so blatantly stereotyped it's galling. Cho Chang is one small step from just being straight-up named "Ching Chong". It's fuckin' gross, once you notice it. It gets worse once they introduce the other schools, because the French ones are all fashionistas and the German ones are all stern practical types, just overtly, weirdly prejudiced.

    C> Goblins are horrible little Jewish stereotypes and you can't tell me that's accidental.

    D> The wizards are all supremacists. Every single goddamned one of them. The "best" ones think muggles are cute and interesting, rather than scum to be oppressed, but none of them think of muggles as their equals. Deluding and mind-raping muggles to keep them "managed" is so commonplace it goes without mention or concern.
    Have you ever met an obvious thread derail you didn't immediately sink your teeth into?
    /s

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hollycakes View Post
    If you guys haven't seen it yet, the newest trend for the antivaxxers is calling themselves "Pureblood" in tik tok vids etc.
    I shouldn't be surprised that they are using Malfoy tactics.
    Fuck them.
    Fuck Slytherin.
    I tried to avoid most social media besides Twitter. And yesterday was wild. Nicki Minaj vs Hasan Piker (leftist political commentar) fighting a proxy a Anti-Vaxxer vs Vaxxer proxy war. It even spilled over into Fox News. It was wild. Probably still going on today. Lots of r-word slinging, anti-science, political nonsense. It would have been more entertaining if Nicki and Fox News weren't using their platforms to spread very dangerous nonsense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PACOX View Post
    I tried to avoid most social media besides Twitter. And yesterday was wild. Nicki Minaj vs Hasan Piker (leftist political commentar) fighting a proxy a Anti-Vaxxer vs Vaxxer proxy war. It even spilled over into Fox News. It was wild. Probably still going on today. Lots of r-word slinging, anti-science, political nonsense. It would have been more entertaining if Nicki and Fox News weren't using their platforms to spread very dangerous nonsense.
    lol I saw that.
    I do too.
    Zero accounts on FB and the like.
    We no longer need to be on these platforms anyway to hear what's happening on them.
    The quote from the island minister saying he was annoyed at even having to disprove it was pretty funny tho.

  4. #24844
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2021...ine-exemption/

    A hospital system in Arkansas is making it a bit more difficult for staff to receive a religious exemption from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The hospital is now requiring staff to also swear off extremely common medicines, such as Tylenol, Tums, and even Preparation H, to get the exemption.

    The move was prompted when Conway Regional Health System noted an unusual uptick in vaccine exemption requests that cited the use of fetal cell lines in the development and testing of the vaccines.

    "This was significantly disproportionate to what we've seen with the influenza vaccine," Matt Troup, president and CEO of Conway Regional Health System, told Becker's Hospital Review in an interview Wednesday.

    "Thus," Troup went on, "we provided a religious attestation form for those individuals requesting a religious exemption," he said. The form includes a list of 30 commonly used medicines that "fall into the same category as the COVID-19 vaccine in their use of fetal cell lines," Conway Regional said.

    The list includes Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, aspirin, Tums, Lipitor, Senokot, Motrin, ibuprofen, Maalox, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, albuterol, Preparation H, MMR vaccine, Claritin, Zoloft, Prilosec OTC, and azithromycin.
    This is fantastic and should be the response to every medical professional, and person in general, seeking religious exemptions on these grounds. If this is truly a deeply held personal belief, it should extend to all areas of your life.

    If you're just using said "personal belief" to get out of something mandatory, fuck you. (the royal you)

    Whiney, childish anti-vaxx babies, cry more.

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    One of the thins you often hear from anti-vaxxers and freedumbers is that covid is no worse than the flu. Well, obviously it isn't, but down here in Australia, where the third wave is going strong (amongst the un-vaccinated), numbers have been put out to show that it isn't, and just how effective lockdowns have been at containing the spread of transmissible diseases, and not just for covid.

    2019 saw 313,000 known cases of influenza, and almost 1000 deaths. 2021 so far, with flu season ending and heading into summer, has seen less than 500 cases and zero deaths. We are getting more cases and deaths a day from covid than we have seen all year from the flu.

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    And another one.
    This time a GOP member from Florida who was anti vax and his death is causing financial issues for local GOP:

    "Gregg Prentice developed and maintained software that electronically tracked donations to the Hillsborough County GOP and supplied data for the organization’s monthly finance reports. None of the other officers knew how to operate Prentice’s software"
    ----
    So now they can't get in and have a deadline by 9/20.
    His social media is gross.
    The usual.
    But this stuff right here:

    "In November, Prentice and Waurishuk appeared on a podcast during which the host referred to the country’s public health crisis as the “plandemic,” a term made famous by a conspiratorial, debunked film about the origins of the novel coronaivrus. The host said the virus was designed to “crush small businesses and consolidate power in the multinational corporations.”

    &

    Jason Kimball, who called Prentice a “mentor” on Facebook said:

    "that Tampa General was “not a safe place to go,” repeating a pervasive myth that the life-saving treatment at hospitals was the cause of many recent coronavirus deaths. Two days after Prentice’s death, Kimball called for an investigation into Tampa General during the public comment period of the Tampa City Council meeting and accused the hospital of “intubating people illegally.”


    Investigation.into.the.hospital!

    I feel like they are having a contest to see who can be more stupid and we aren't even playing.
    The tide pod challenge of politics.


    From:
    https://www.tampabay.com/news/florid...ems-for-party/

    Edit:
    Also want to add this before bed.
    It's from the Ocean Photography Awards this year.
    It's telling.
    Edit 2: It was a seahorse towing a covid mask. The link still is that, not sure why it's coming up the next pic in the slides

    Last edited by Hollycakes; 2021-09-17 at 05:47 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2021...ine-exemption/

    "The move was prompted when Conway Regional Health System noted an unusual uptick in vaccine exemption requests that cited the use of fetal cell lines in the development and testing of the vaccines."
    And to add to everything else: once more people are using "the vaccines" when they should be discussing individual vaccines.

    The mRNA vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) haven't really used fetal cell lines in their development - and even if they used them in some tests there were other tests as well. Some other vaccines such as Janssen and Astra-Zeneca used fetal cell lines in development and possibly manufacturing. That's a reason even pro-life group support mRNA vaccines; https://catholiccitizens.org/news/93...ed-baby-cells/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sugarcube View Post


    just his looks alone > everyone else...
    This has to be a partial clone of Chris Evans. Or a DNA combination of Chris Evans and Hemsworth.

  9. #24849
    CDC Covid Data Tracker

    CA is #9 in term of vaccination.

    Second lowest for cases in the last 7 days per 100k with 118.6. Lowest is Puerto Rico at 86. TX is 441.5, Fl 384.1, and NY 184. US is 308.2.

    Lowest for 7 days death per 100k with 0.4. TX is 7.2, FL 1.7 (not sure how much to trust this one), and NY 1.3. US is 3.1.

  10. #24850
    And something you expected would happen in the US, but actually in Austria instead:

    The government is sued over bad handling of Covid-19 in Bad Ischgl by some victims:
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...ins/ar-AAOxJaO

    However, I somehow doubt that the 72-year old who died participated in all of the after-ski activities, that have previously been linked to the spread such as beer pong and whistle sharing:
    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/24/e...ntl/index.html

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    ugh they changed my pic above on their site
    It was a seahorse towing a disposable mask in the ocean with his tail.
    I'll try and fix

  12. #24852
    The people against the vaccines have changed focus to fear of ADE, Antibody-dependent enhancement. Is there any realistic concern of that is it just lunacy?

    I finally became human again back on tuesday. 4 days of fever, coughing and general unwellness after dose #2. Fuck, that was rough to get through but now I'm all well again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deathknightish View Post
    The people against the vaccines have changed focus to fear of ADE, Antibody-dependent enhancement. Is there any realistic concern of that is it just lunacy?
    No. No vaccine in use today causes ADE. If one of the COVID vaccines caused ADE, it would be readily apparent because vaccinated people would be getting worse illnesses and at a higher rate than the unvaccinated. Obviously, the opposite is happening, because the vast majority of illnesses and hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated.

    The whole implication of ADE is laughable at this point.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PhaelixWW View Post
    No. No vaccine in use today causes ADE. If one of the COVID vaccines caused ADE, it would be readily apparent because vaccinated people would be getting worse illnesses and at a higher rate than the unvaccinated. Obviously, the opposite is happening, because the vast majority of illnesses and hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated.

    The whole implication of ADE is laughable at this point.
    But...will it turn the frogs gay? Or is that just the tapwater.

    The new and interesting baseless conspiracy theories that anti-vaxxers conjure up on a whim never cease to amaze me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhaelixWW View Post
    No. No vaccine in use today causes ADE. If one of the COVID vaccines caused ADE, it would be readily apparent because vaccinated people would be getting worse illnesses and at a higher rate than the unvaccinated. Obviously, the opposite is happening, because the vast majority of illnesses and hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated.

    The whole implication of ADE is laughable at this point.
    That's what I thought, but they bring up Israel as a counter point who have the most vaccinated in the world but has a worse wave than any other previous wave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deathknightish View Post
    That's what I thought, but they bring up Israel as a counter point who have the most vaccinated in the world but has a worse wave than any other previous wave.
    Well...

    Israel's 17% Unvaccinated Now Account for 65% of All Serious COVID-19 Cases

    Per capita, for every death of an Israeli over 60 that had received the booster shot, there are 15 deaths of unvaccinated Israelis in same age group

    Despite breakthrough cases among the immunized with the rise of the delta variant, COVID-19 is increasingly becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated in Israel. Those that have yet to receive even one shot of a COVID vaccine are only 17 percent of the eligible population in Israel, but they currently represent 65 percent of all serious cases in the country.

    According to Health Ministry data, the ratio of unvaccinated people among the severely ill has continued to rise as more people are inoculated against the virus. As of September 13, out of the 664 severely ill patients, 437 were completely unvaccinated and 168 had received two doses. Only 59 had received the booster shot. The ratios are similar when analyzing new infections.

    When calculating per capita, the contrast is even more stark. For every serious case of an Israeli over 60 that had received the booster shot, there are 33 serious cases of unvaccinated Israelis in the same age group.

    Israel's spike is due to the much more infectious delta variant, but it's still aggressively targeting the unvaccinated.


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    Those whacky Texans.

    Three Texas tourists arrested for allegedly assaulting NYC hostess who asked for COVID-19 vaccine proof

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by PhaelixWW View Post
    Weird. They always bring up Israel as a counterpoint on any discussions pertaining to the efficacy of vaccines. They never mentioned the San Francisco Bay Area counties. Unless they are talking about homelessness, the entire region simply does not exist in the mind of antivaxxers.

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    https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...hington-state/

    Once again, bad policies impact others.

    Idaho hasn't taken covid very seriously, and consequently their hospitals are packed. The state is now beginning to start up close to death panels as its moving to Crisis Standards of Care. Now that would be one thing, but the problem is that folks from Idaho are either trying to get transfered to Washington hospitals next door, or are simply crossing the border to try to get care.

    Which is causing issues with hospitals in Washington, as they're starting to fill and it's impacting Washingtonians seeking medical care.

    I'm about completely out of empathy, sympathy, compassion, or care for these fucks, as they're not just killing themselves but they're actively harming others as a result of their own stupid, selfish decisions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hollycakes View Post
    Edit 2: It was a seahorse towing a covid mask. The link still is that, not sure why it's coming up the next pic in the slides

  20. #24860
    FDA advisory group rejects Covid boosters for most, limits to high-risk groups

    There are a couple of interesting paragraphs in that article.

    Representatives from Pfizer said the need for a booster is based on data from Israel, which showed that severe cases increased tenfold from July to August, despite the fact that 60 percent of the population there was fully vaccinated.

    But data from the United States, presented by the CDC, found the vaccines continued to provide high protection against severe disease, hospitalization and death.


    I have often wondered about that. The Bay Area population is roughly the same as Israel (7.8M vs. 8.8M). Also has high vaccination rate. In fact higher than Israel. Yet the region does not experience the high cases and waning of vaccine efficacy observed in Israel.

    The next paragraphs may partially explains the discrepancy.

    Dr. Sara Oliver, an epidemic intelligence service officer at the CDC, noted that Israel and the U.S have different definitions for what’s considered severe disease. In Israel, she said, it is defined as lower oxygen levels and an elevated respiratory rate. In the U.S., severe disease refers to hospitalization or death.

    The two countries also vary differently in population, pandemic and acceptance of vaccines. “You really have a very different situation in Israel than what we are facing here in the US at this point in time,” said Dr. Archana Chatterjee, an expert in pediatric infectious diseases at Rosalind Franklin University in Chicago.


    The good news from Israel booster program.

    Israeli researchers reported Friday that among 2.8 million people who had been given a third dose, only one case of myocarditis had been reported. However, it’s only been two weeks since younger adults have been given a booster in Israel, and may not reflect the full scope of cases.

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