FunkMiller
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Wow that’s interesting because most Aussies I’ve met are really cool but you seem intent on being a sanctimonious asshole. Maybe it’s a you problem?
Dude. All that salt in your diet is bad for your blood pressure.
Wow that’s interesting because most Aussies I’ve met are really cool but you seem intent on being a sanctimonious asshole. Maybe it’s a you problem?
The semiconductor shortage is being caused by drought conditions where the plants are. Not COVID in mainland China.Delta spreading in China and precipitating new lockdowns. GPU prices may never come down.
Especially if dumbshits continue to push anti-vax idiocy.Especially if the cdc bends the knee to the teachers union again.
Covid has killed millions. I think you're letting the case death rate blind you to the sheer magnitude of this tragedy.There were 2,208 people on the Titanic.
1,503 of them died.
Maybe you'll reflect on the crassness and simple mindedness of your analogy but you probably won't.
Statewide stats don't tell the whole picture. Even in the metro, places like Staten Island and Suffolk county have really low vax rates. All the places with a lot of middle class white guidos are nightmares right now. To say nothing of the more rural parts of the state.In New York?
This shit is done in New York. Why would he still be so adamant about this?
I mean in theory we do. We can update the vaccines to tackle variants with really high efficacy but we don't have the regulatory pipe to do it at a pace that can keep up with mutations. We need to figure that out.No, we do not.
How can they be both middle class and guidos? Unless I’m missing something about social strata in the US? For me guidos are white thrash, middle class is something more than simply your income level.All the places with a lot of middle class white guidos are nightmares right now.
Now the WHO need constellations for naming COVID, you know we are in a world of shit in the future as you need so many options couldn’t they nummer Aplha Covid1? You can just keep numbering, in 2030 : COVID9999999
Now you get : COVID Big bear! COVID Milkyway
It’s sad and funny and completely clueless at the same time …
They are gonna use constellations apparently they think they will be running out of the Greek Alphabet very soon…You talking about variants? They’re all called something like B.1.135 or something
The WHO are using the Greek alphabet (not constellations btw) because we were defaulting to giving these variants pet names based on where they originated, which seemed to be fine for UK or South African variants but for the Indian variant we now refer to as the Delta. It’s an interesting rebranding exercise.
Nah, guido has nothing to do with money. Being trashy has nothing to do with money either.How can they be both middle class and guidos? Unless I’m missing something about social strata in the US? For me guidos are white thrash, middle class is something more than simply your income level.
They learned that naming it after certain locations lead to a huge increase in racism and violence against people who simply appear to be from that country, especially if that country consists mostly of minorities. Good on them for changing it. One less reason for racists to do their thing.You talking about variants? They’re all called something like B.1.135 or something
The WHO are using the Greek alphabet (not constellations btw) because we were defaulting to giving these variants pet names based on where they originated, which seemed to be fine for UK or South African variants but for the Indian variant we now refer to as the Delta. It’s an interesting rebranding exercise.
I mean in theory we do. We can update the vaccines to tackle variants with really high efficacy but we don't have the regulatory pipe to do it at a pace that can keep up with mutations. We need to figure that out.
Lay people probably shouldn't be doing basement clinical studies on purchases from Pet Smart.
I get why you might think that, but remember time isn't what leads to mutations, it's spread.I don't think this will be a good long term option because the vaccine is only providing protection against the spike protein and that seems to be significantly mutating, to the point it evades immunity, pretty quickly. With how this year has gone, we could end up needing to have 2 booster shots every year.
I think they need to start looking into a vaccine that provides immunity to the whole virus. It should be a lot harder for it to mutate to the point it evades vaccine immunity that way and I think this is a better long term solution.
I mean in theory we do. We can update the vaccines to tackle variants with really high efficacy but we don't have the regulatory pipe to do it at a pace that can keep up with mutations. We need to figure that out.
Again, you're sort assuming a sustained frequency of mutations rather than lowering that as spread is slowed. Time doesn't mutate the virus, spread does.Theoretically, maybe, but I don't think even under the most ideal circumstances for trying to vaccinate our way out we ever had a chance.
First, I don't think we currently even have any vaccines that sufficiently protect against infection, but even if we did, eradicating the virus was never in the cards. Let's say that those initial 95% efficacy against infection trial results actually applied to the real world. Let's also say that we could all magically act as one nation and have a globally coordinated vaccine rollout. Maybe we could administer 100,000,000 shots per day at max capacity (likely far lower than that in reality). It would still take 79 days to vaccinate the entire world population and then you have to tack on 21 more days to complete everyone's vaccination with a second shot. All the while during these 100 days we are still seeing sustained spread and viral mutations around the world that are lowering the efficacy of the ongoing vaccination efforts, but even if we somehow injected everyone, that still leaves 5% (394,241,978 people) able to get infected, and depending on how spread out they are, that could easily keep the virus moving around and mutating into something that allows it to bypass whatever effects the vaccines have.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like an impossible proposition to me.
But vaccines slow the spread, which in turn slows the opportunities for the virus to reproduce and mutate. So actually if we get speedy rollout of vaccines to reduce transmission, it will solve the mutation problem.
Vaccines are the only way out of this pandemic, without suffering a huge death toll. Not quite sure why so many people are determined not to believe this.
Because they clearly are not blocking infection very well in the real world. It's really quite simple. Just look at Israel's daily cases, which are twice what they were at this time last year.
Unless you just mean reducing the death rate among higher risk individuals as the way out, because they definitely appear to be quite effective in that regard.
I don't think this will be a good long term option because the vaccine is only providing protection against the spike protein and that seems to be significantly mutating, to the point it evades immunity, pretty quickly. With how this year has gone, we could end up needing to have 2 booster shots every year.
I think they need to start looking into a vaccine that provides immunity to the whole virus. It should be a lot harder for it to mutate to the point it evades vaccine immunity that way and I think this is a better long term solution.
This is so hilariously wrong.According to the CDC Delta is more contagious than chickenpox. Leaky vaccines aren't going to put a dent in it even if we get 100% coverage.
This is so hilariously wrong.
An expert on social media said it once, so it has to be true.
As long as that expert isn’t a scientist with decades of experience, they must be right.An expert on social media said it once, so it has to be true.
What country are you from?Or you can, you know, just kind of look at the numbers for yourself and compare the number of cases in highly vaccinated countries to the same time last year. Here are some resources:
Coronavirus Update (Live): 131,897,800 Cases and 2,865,517 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer
Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...www.worldometers.infoCoronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations
Explore data on COVID-19 vaccinations across the world.ourworldindata.org
I don't consider this statement to be a pejorative in any way, even if you intended it that way. It's what's unique about Americanism: Skepticism and rejection of authority and control. It's the whole reason America even exists, and I consider it a compliment.Anecdotal, but I know people across the western world thanks to my job and my background, and in no other country is there anything like the levels of anti vax silliness that infects America.
I get why you might think that, but remember time isn't what leads to mutations, it's spread.
Covid doesn't actually mutate at a very high rate compared to other viruses, it just spreads so quickly that we see these mutations happening in a tighter time frame.
But vaccines slow the spread, which in turn slows the opportunities for the virus to reproduce and mutate. So actually if we get speedy rollout of vaccines to reduce transmission, it will solve the mutation problem.
According to the CDC Delta is more contagious than chickenpox. Leaky vaccines aren't going to put a dent in it even if we get 100% coverage.
I think it's important to distinguish between skepticism and conspiracy derp, because they aren't the same thing.I don't consider this statement to be a pejorative in any way, even if you intended it that way. It's what's unique about Americanism: Skepticism and rejection of authority and control. It's the whole reason America even exists, and I consider it a compliment.
I anticipated this response.I think it's important to distinguish between skepticism and conspiracy derp, because they aren't the same thing.
A skeptic asks to be convinced with an open mind and believes what the balance of evidence suggests.
This is NOT what is happening with American conspiracy culture, which is where someone selects a conclusion that they believe emotionally and the seeks out information or peer groups that reinforce that feeling, regardless of what the evidence or facts say. This is what flat earthers do. It's not skepticism, it's literally the opposite of skepticism.
The semiconductor shortage is being caused by drought conditions where the plants are. Not COVID in mainland China.
Yeah, a new vaccine that provides sterilising immunity against the entire virus structure (instead of just the protein and it being leaky) would be so much better.
Extremely poorly if what's happening in Chile is any indication. SinoVac is a joke.I believe the two Chinese vaccines in circulation used killed viral particles. The initial buzz was that they weren't very effective in the real world, but I would be interested in seeing how they are holding up against Delta.
Didn’t you hear, China eradicated Covid in March 2020 and since then there has been very few cases in a country of 1.3bln people.Extremely poorly if what's happening in Chile is any indication. SinoVac is a joke.
Now you understand why MS makes Xboxes in Mexico.Point taken as to that specifically, but if Chinese lockdowns return, supply chains for lots of things will be disrupted again.
If the only opinions you're considering are between a dictator and a conspiracy grifter, you fucked up somewhere.I anticipated this response.
In any debate, there will be extremes; that's a given. This doesn't, however, discount the fact that I'd rather have a conspiracy theorist in my corner, rather than a brain-washed citizen from a totalitarian government where authority is never questioned.
Extremely poorly if what's happening in Chile is any indication. SinoVac is a joke.
Our cultures have areas of overlap on some of these. It seldom gets to that extreme reduction of the opposing viewpoint.I anticipated this response.
In any debate, there will be extremes; that's a given. This doesn't, however, discount the fact that I'd rather have a conspiracy theorist in my corner, rather than a brain-washed citizen from a totalitarian government where authority is never questioned.
British Columbia will continue to welcome travellers from Alberta, as long as they abide by the province's stronger COVID-19 restrictions. The Okanagan region is experiencing surging cases; restrictions in the area are being increased and travellers to that area are being urged to reschedule.
"We're happy to have you come, fully vaccinated. And when you're here, we're expecting that everybody continues to take the measures that we're taking in British Columbia," B.C.'s CMOH said in a press conference.
If the US goes back into lockdown, antivaxxers spreading bullshit on social media deserve a swift kick to the balls. Repeatedly.
I don't consider this statement to be a pejorative in any way, even if you intended it that way. It's what's unique about Americanism: Skepticism and rejection of authority and control. It's the whole reason America even exists, and I consider it a compliment.
These takes are especially great coming from you considering your posting history a year ago. You called governors tyrants/emperors, stated masks were all part of political theatre and called people "sheeple" for wearing them, pushed for hydro as a treatment amongst other things. Furthermore a lot of the tweets you linked have been deleted/taken down because I straight up remember you posting "I don't know anyone who has covid so it doesn't exist" nonsense.
There's a bunch of them. Maybe you should be assaulted and thrown in jail for your part in spreading misinformation since you think this is an acceptable way of dealing with people. Or maybe you could stop acting like a lunatic who pivots from extremist narrative to extremist narrative.
Skeptical? Rejection of authority and control? You’re the most religious developed country in the world!
I think the clear throughline is that he's pissed that we can't just get back to normal and has been betrayed each time a return to normalcy has been hinted at. I share his frustration and desire to return to normal or something like it, but we just disagree on what it will take to get us there.
Most of the country who are religious are Protestant...
Nah we need to derail this thread with personal attacks and try to get a cancel mob going. Get with the program.
The denomination is entirely immaterial. America is a deeply credulous and non-skeptical country, as proven by its high levels of religiosity. It’s farcical to anyone outside it to suggest otherwise.
Nah we need to derail this thread with personal attacks and try to get a cancel mob going. Get with the program.