You're right, but their brainwashed response to that is "That's not how vaccines are supposed to work, you idiot! They just mitigate the risk and severity. We need to continue following best practices until a new vaccine for the delta variant is ready. You DO realize we're in a pandemic, right?"
UK authorities be like "Are all the CCTV cameras working? Great...time to fill those jail cells...no wait here's a better idea! Let's penalize everyone instead of just the protestors!"
But herd immunity only works if 100% of people are vaccinated. /s
It's like raaaaaiiiiaaaaaaaaayaaaaan on your wedding day...
Unfortunately the narrative "Hundreds of millions of people have been vaccinated; if the vaccines were dangerous we'd know by now" carries a lot of water. Even if I could prove 100,000 people died or suffered permanent injury from it, a normie can say "Yeah out of, what, 500,000,000?" That's a tiny fraction of a percent.
Adblock Plus and NoScript get me around that.
Some sites are so bad that when I go to them, the entire page is blank. When I allow even one exception to the blocking rules...invasive content begins seeping through. At that point I think "It's not worth it; and I'll probably get malware if I stay too long"
I can already see the shooting-the-guy-in-the-seat vertical where the top caption reads "Vaccinates everything with experimental serum" and the bottom reads "Why does everything keep getting sick and dying?"
One thing I noticed about Reddit discussions back when I used to browse that site a long time ago was an air of skepticism over unproven facts.
But all that just disappeared when it came to Covid. "Mood swings right after the vaccine? Coincidence! Death two days after the vaccine? Natural causes! THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED BIGOT!!!"
I just learned they have an "offmychest" board. I have no plans to go there, but I suspect I know what the content looks like...
"Everyone resisting the vaccine should be shot and die a painful death! (EDIT: Thank you for the reddit gold, frens! EDIT 2: omg I'm so humbled to have gotten so much support for my post EDIT 3: I've been getting threats from anti-vaxxers in my inbox and I'm a little scared right now. I informed the admins and they're going to look into it.)"
I like how Biden's YouTube videos regularly get low viewership and lots of downvotes, but when Trump does a rally he gets hundreds of thousands of views and mostly upvotes.
Should have been titled "Headache and runny nose linked to DEADLY SUPERVIRUS OMG YOU'RE PRACTICALLY DEAD!!!!!!!!!"
"Covid could disable or kill you"
OMG everyone turn their lives upside down!!!!!
"The vaccine could disable or kill you"
We shouldn't change our lives for something that probably won't happen!!!!
I thought rental prices were going higher too. Supply and Demand.
But no need to worry....the market will be flooded with homes for sale once the moratorium on evictions is lifted and potentially millions of people become homeless.
This is exactly what Thomas Sowell describes as the behavior of an "Anointed One" in his book "Intellectuals and Society." They usually don't experience any consequence to being wrong, either.
And the mentality of "That dude is so smart because he's so sure of himself and he cusses like a drunken sailor" is all too prevalent.
The biggest idea I threw away in the past decade was that people were naturally unwilling to give up their freedoms. Now I believe people choose the path of least resistance when it comes down to it. They just want to be happy, not necessarily free.
What an incredible virus! It can't go through masks despite all the evidence that it can. It's so deadly that you have to be tested to know whether you have it. It seems to have almost all the same symptoms as influenza around the same time influenza miraculously disappeared off the face of the Earth. And if you're six feet apart from the rest of the world, it can't touch you!
Yahoo News no longer has comments. The stated reason is:
Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commenting.
My guess is they couldn't censor people calling out lies and logical fallacies fast enough or cost-effective enough.
I'd like to know the real numbers to rub it in the faces of outspoken vaxxers and maskers who reminded us day after day how many "deaths" covid caused anywhere and everywhere.
I want to hear them say "But millions of people are vaccinated and they're just fine!" so that I can call them heartless for not caring about the tens of thousands who died from the "vaccines."
Federal Reserve be like "oh look, how cute!"
At least he didn't get covid; it would have been much worse if he did! /s
Not the Mark of the Beast, but governments are sure trying to get there...
That was the most troubling series I've ever watched because it raised my awareness of the world around me.
A lot of the content in Black Mirror is happening for real at lesser levels of technology; and if the technology were there, there are people in power who would not hesitate to use it with levels of brutality even worse than in the series.
And if mankind ever succeeds in cloning the virtual torture simulator from Altered Carbon, I sure as hell would never want to cross paths with any authoritarian.
Reddit too? It makes sense because earlier I felt a great disturbance in the force; as if millions of socialist soyboys suddenly reeeee'd out in terror because were suddenly silenced. I feared something good for mankind had happened.
Someone close to me has been under some medically hard times as of late (not covid related), and I've been making sure that every time they get moved from one facility or team to another, that everyone is 100% aware of pre-existing medication schedules.
They always are, but I sleep better at night when I respond to every "He needs to be on this med" statement with "And you're sure there are no harmful drug interactions with his current meds?"
Oh if only all 330+ million people isolated themselves for two weeks, none of this would have happened! /s