Yeah, but at that point, you can argue every single choice becomes a burden on someone else. All the sudden cigarettes are illegal due to second hand smoke. Drinking is illegal due to all the health and social consequences it causes. Personal vehicles are illegal to prevent car accidents. Being morbidly obese is illegal due to the strain it puts on the healthcare system and society to accommodate bigger people. There's really no end at that point. As QSD said above, the idea that because EMS people will have to respond to a worse accident without seatbelt laws could also be used to lower speed limits to 35mph everywhere, for instance.
What is this pivot, funk man? I don't know about rifles but I foresee pitchforks and torches in your future...
“Do not pick the flowers”
You've made the right choice and you have a astronomically high chance of being perfectly fine, don't sweat it and keep us updated.
That car analogy from earlier is good in this case too. An unseatbelted person in a car with others is a danger to seatbelted passengers in an accident. Law give the seatbelted passengers/driver law enforcement protection and authority from recklessness of the self-centered and help keep safe those unable to care for themselves.
Yeah… I’m tired of my tax dollars going to healthcare for fatties. Either they lose weight or lose healthcare. Ya know… it’s just better for society. Their fatness effects me. Wish they would understand when they down another gallon of Mayo. (Being facetious..)
Doctors note.
Mexico won’t be ‘hostage’ to Big Pharma, president says, as internet predicts trouble after country rejects Covid jabs for kids
Social media users have theorized that President Andres Manuel López Obrador could face severe repercussions after he refused to purchase Covid vaccines for children, vowing that Mexico wouldn’t bow to pressure from drugs firms.www.rt.com
Basic biological science
These are facts. I will say that certain people will be genetically predisposed to having a more difficult time managing their weight and so will have to work harder to control it. However no one is incapable of losing weight and losing weight is never complicated.
I think I've mentioned this before, but maybe you should come hang at my workplace. People with psychiatric problems often take medication that is notorious for causing passivity and weight gain. These are people that have an extremely limited capacity for any kind of planned, goal-directed behaviour. We could get them to lose weight if we held a gun to their head and commanded them to run, but seeing as that is not a generally accepted recourse for such problems, the fatness remains.
You’re right. We should go further south to get to a stellar example that we should follow. Let’s say, Venezuela?oh yes, Mexico, such a good goverment, probably the best to the south of NA.
Best health care system and police force, no to mention the quality of education.
He most probably totally is not making excuses, yep.
This is both funny and accurate. The only response the state will ever give us is one of violence.You just triggered the gardener:
gets better and better.
Bret and Heather are going over this statistical analysis right now. Lots of charts.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Vaccine Statistics
Hyper-vigilant vaccination advocates are pushing dangerous misinformation about vaccine efficacydrrollergator.substack.com
The TLDR:
(iWhy are the infection death rates higher?
The reason, hidden in plain sight, is that a large number people who were never going to die, are no longer getting infected.
By obsessively spreading the misinformation that people have additional benefits to protect against death if they become infected, in order to encourage everyone to get vaccinated, it becomes a unknown fact those most likely to die (6.6 in 100,000)7 are now most likely to get infected (2.5 in 100,000).
Contrast that with those who were least likely to die (0.04 in 100,000) are now those least likely to get infected (1.7 in 100,000).
And these results are now being reflected across the globe. In the UK, which is tracking variants, reports that among Delta variant cases, those vaccinated with two doses died at a rate of 0.0078 per infection and those unvaccinated died at a rate of 0.0014 per infection. The death per infection was 5.7 times higher among the vaccinated.
Without careful control and understanding, one might erroneously conclude the Delta variant is is more lethal if you’ve been vaccinated, the vaccine is losing its efficacy, the vaccination is making people weaker, or some combination. While any of those are possible outcomes in this environment, by not being aware of the infection death rate issue from the start, because one is busy spreading misinformation about extra levels of protection that the data do not support, one misses how to properly control for these effects and analyze new data as it comes in.o
The death rate if infected was always going to be higher in the vaccinated groups if most of the vaccinated weren’t those likely to die in the first place.
Not didn't show - specifically wasn't designed to show a difference in mortality. You give the vaccine to 20000 65+ multiple co-morbidity patients and 20000 the placebo - you would see a difference in mortality but no ethics board would ever let you do so. If by worth noting, you mean worth noting the great care with which big pharma approached the trial to avoid harm then, sure worth noting. We can see the difference in mortality in real world populations now though so the point is moot.
Umm. That’s a stupid thing to say.
This right here is AMAZING.
Piers Corbyn is an absolute maggot of a human being, and it's lovely to see the viscious old anti-vaxxer get his worthy comeuppance
600k dead in the US. Hundreds of hospitals at capacity in the winter wave. Even if you only care about yourself, that effects you if you need those systems.
tHiS a GLoBaL paNdeMiC and the only solution we can come up with is to commit acts of violence against those who disagree with our *authorized* solution.
This right here is AMAZING.
Piers Corbyn is an absolute maggot of a human being, and it's lovely to see the viscious old anti-vaxxer get his worthy comeuppance
Except locking that garden has cost thousands of jobs, disrupted the global food chain, put our country trillions more into debt (as we try to cover up the fact that we can’t have thousands out of work), and now there is no end in sight. I can’t imagine living in Australia with single digit deaths in the entire country yet still on lockdown.
Someone doesn’t need to be an infectious disease doc to understand that is a ridiculously stupid position.
Follow me here because you don’t seem to understand that I am speaking philosophically here:
Why doesn’t the government mandate the flu shot to every American?
What are you babbling on about? I got the vaccine six months ago. I know plenty about covid. I have treated literally hundreds of people with covid over the last 14 months. People on oxygen, people on ventilators, people on ECMO, people who died. The discussion was about whether there is such a thing as an acceptable threshold of death before government action is acceptable. The flu was an example where that is clearly the case, but there are plenty of other examples.
You talk about it like it is just one selfish coward dying in their living room, in a vacuum. How hard is it to understand that when you die of covid or are hospitalized it affects more than just yourself? It’s thousands of cases clogging up your healthcare system and actual people having to deal with that day in and day out.
Did I say death was the only negative outcome? I did not actually. I know what covid does to people and it didn’t get it from fucking CNN. I see it in person. You have zero clue.
Any effort by any government. I’m assuming you’d like to put some kind of qualification on that, otherwise, you have completely lost sight of how dangerous covid actually is.
So the government has to get involved with threats of fines, shutdowns, imprisonment every time my actions MIGHT affect someone else? Boy only if this logic were first applied to abortion I might actually take liberals seriously.
Funny guy, this one.I also know what covid does to people because I've had it, my brother was intubated and my work requires me to keep myself updated on the situation of every hospital that tends to infected people in my state. My argument wasn't that "any action is justified regardless of the number of people dying". Let me be 100% clear about this because it seems to have caused some confusion: my argument is that DEATH NUMBERS is not a factor that should motivate the government to take any action in regards to Covid because as far as public measures goes it's not determinant. You fight the SPREAD RATE, not the death rate. Again, if you're taking action in response to people dying, you're taking action too late.
I'm not in charge though, but yeah I'd make it mandatory and if you complain about it I'd make it mandatory for you to take the shot up the ass.