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Also covid is not very dangerous if you get it you have an overwhelmingly high probability of surviving, and long term side effects are exceedingly rare by all available current data. If you're not willing to act this way about the standard seasonal flu, which also kills people, you're being totally inconsistent. I can respect somebody who says "Yes, we SHOULD do the same things for the flu" because at least you're being consistent. Absolutely zero people have had a good answer to this basic question. | |||
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Been bought by their salaries and debt
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Our closest hospital has over 100 beds, but a max capacity of ~30 something for critical patients because they can't find people who want to work in this shit show. They've been on drive-by status several times in the last couple of months, and we live in a sane place with high vaccination rates. Ironically, it's the Trumptards from the surrounding counties that are shitting up our beds because their hospitals are full. Want to guess why? So it's not just about COVID. Do you want to go to the hospital with appendicitis and have the entire ER staff on doubles and the surgeon overworked? And if something goes wrong, do you want to be competing with Jethro for an ICU bed or a ventilator because he was too fucking stupid to get vaccinated? When the system gets overwhelmed, people die at a higher rate than they do when it is not overwhelmed. Period. It's so easy to understand... | |||
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You can’t reason with someone who already believes something unreasonable. They have to come to a rational conclusion on their own; it has to be an epiphany of their own. Any evidence you present that goes against what they think is invalid while anything that seems to “confirm” their beliefs is gospel. It’s a combination of the confirmation bias and a lack of understanding that correlation does not equal causation (which is like the first thing they teach you in any basic statistics/research methods class).
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Hey CSR When Will PNP Rule 14 Be Enforced?
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I saw a guy on the internet that said “if you show people the facts they’ll adapt their position”. I linked him three studies which evidenced that this isn’t really the case due to selection bias and he replies that he thought the studies were flawed and maintained people change their mind when shown the facts.
I’m being hit by covid bureaucracy. I’m in Athens and am shortly returning to UK if the fires don’t interrupt air travel. I’m double vaxed, but I still need to have a test before travelling and book a second test to be taken after travelling, both the first test and booking of second test need to be evidenced on a passenger locator form. Although cases are still up in UK hospitalisation is way down, so thats good. Emergency department I visited in Athens was practically empty - the greeks all go to their family summer houses away from the city in August. Was pretty scary weaving through the fires to get back from our own summer getaway in the island Evia (you may have seen the video of the people escaping the town fire at Limni by ferry which was used to falsely claim the entire island was on fire). Vaccine seems to be doing it’s job of protecting vulnerable from getting super ill though not as good at preventing transmission as hoped. People seem bored of covid - I’ve always been a fan of the basic hygiene of frequent hand washing, personal space, catching/binning/killing coughs and sneezes, would take the flu shot if it were available to me, but people seem to have stopped caring about these things. Except for the bureaucracy, and some mask wearing (which being a clean freak I always admired in eastern nations) regular Joe seems back to normal. | ||
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That being said the government has done a terrible job of communicating the vaccine's effectiveness in the real world. It's definitely not 94% effective in stopping transmission as professed by lab tests. However it does seem to have a very high effectiveness in reducing hospitalization and death (probably 95-99%).
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The dude that jerks off to people dressed up as animals and wants to get boned in the ass by an animal person has it all figured out
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