How to end the pandemic in a month
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@lufins-dad said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
Do the jokes and the insults do a single damn thing to get another shot in the arm? No, they don’t. Do they hinder getting another shot in the arm? Yes, they do. Quite a lot. So keep yucking it up. It’s so very helpful.
I agree it's not very helpful, however also there's plenty of asshole behaviour from a number anti-vaxxers calling the rest of the population sheeple, and saying how they're stupidly doing what they're told, despite the overwhelming evidence from mumble, mumble, mumble and that guy who got really sick after the shot.
And I have seen some really, really stupid anti-vax shit out there. I'm sure we all have. If I'm not allowed to laugh at that, what is it for?
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@doctor-phibes said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
And I have seen some really, really stupid anti-vax shit out there. I'm sure we all have. If I'm not allowed to laugh at that, what is it for?
Getting pissed at the people who are by and large creating the biggest and completely avoidable strain on our health system is pretty natural, I think. It still pisses me off, but condemnation isn't going to change any minds, and I don't feel any righteousness from unvaccinated infection horror stories. I just want everybody to be able to ride this shitstorm out.
That's separate from the fact that a lot of the anti-vaxx nonsense is absolutely hilarious. I mean c'mon, it just is. It's about as humorous as my apparent incompetence with terlets, and I'm not about to take some kind of half-assed "life choice" moral stance on my stupidity there, unnecessary ignorance is always funny.
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@aqua-letifer said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
@doctor-phibes said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
And I have seen some really, really stupid anti-vax shit out there. I'm sure we all have. If I'm not allowed to laugh at that, what is it for?
Getting pissed at the people who are by and large creating the biggest and completely avoidable strain on our health system is pretty natural, I think. It still pisses me off, but condemnation isn't going to change any minds, and I don't feel any righteousness from unvaccinated infection horror stories. I just want everybody to be able to ride this shitstorm out.
That's separate from the fact that a lot of the anti-vaxx nonsense is absolutely hilarious. I mean c'mon, it just is. It's about as humorous as my apparent incompetence with terlets, and I'm not about to take some kind of half-assed "life choice" moral stance on my stupidity there, unnecessary ignorance is always funny.
I think this captures my sentiment most closely. Yeah I started this thread with a snarky quote but it is certainly no worse than what is said of Hillary and Biden as examples. Not clear to me why some things are flagged as out of bounds.
I certainly don’t want to alienate anyone so that is a fair comment.
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There's a British friend-of-a-friend on FB who is seriously anti-vax. Real 'Plandemic' type - denies there's any such thing as Covid, posted pictures of Bill Gates with a hangman's noose next to it, all kinds of stuff about the vaccination is going to kill us all.
I check in on her page quite frequently for entertainment purposes, but it's quite disturbing just how many people 'like' and respond positively to her comments, and if I follow her 'Friends' chain, it gets genuinely quite disturbing. There seems to be a large group of 'semi-professional musicians' (i.e. unemployed people with guitars), and landscape gardeners who freaking know everything about Covid. And when I say 'large group', yes, there are freaking lots of them.
And before anybody says I shouldn't be laughing at them, the stuff they say about people like me is pretty fucking rude. Anybody who even politely challenges their claims is condescended to and patronised.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@doctor-phibes said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
There's a British friend-of-a-friend on FB who is seriously anti-vax. Real 'Plandemic' type - denies there's any such thing as Covid, posted pictures of Bill Gates with a hangman's noose next to it, all kinds of stuff about the vaccination is going to kill us all.
I check in on her page quite frequently for entertainment purposes, but it's quite disturbing just how many people 'like' and respond positively to her comments, and if I follow her 'Friends' chain, it gets genuinely quite disturbing. There seems to be a large group of 'semi-professional musicians' (i.e. unemployed people with guitars), and landscape gardeners who freaking know everything about Covid. And when I say 'large group', yes, there are freaking lots of them.
And before anybody says I shouldn't be laughing at them, the stuff they say about people like me is pretty fucking rude. Anybody who even politely challenges their claims is condescended to and patronised.
Sounds like a leftist political phenotype.
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
Sounds like a leftist political phenotype.
No, based on some of their comments, they're not lefties but more libertarian types. There was quite a bit of discussion about stolen elections and putting in the illuminati.
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@copper said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
Probably muslim anti-Trumpists
Sadly, she seems to have had most of her stuff blocked by Facebook at this point, which I've been told is a sure sign that she's a Christian pro-Trumper.
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@loki said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
@aqua-letifer said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
@doctor-phibes said in How to end the pandemic in a month:
And I have seen some really, really stupid anti-vax shit out there. I'm sure we all have. If I'm not allowed to laugh at that, what is it for?
Getting pissed at the people who are by and large creating the biggest and completely avoidable strain on our health system is pretty natural, I think. It still pisses me off, but condemnation isn't going to change any minds, and I don't feel any righteousness from unvaccinated infection horror stories. I just want everybody to be able to ride this shitstorm out.
That's separate from the fact that a lot of the anti-vaxx nonsense is absolutely hilarious. I mean c'mon, it just is. It's about as humorous as my apparent incompetence with terlets, and I'm not about to take some kind of half-assed "life choice" moral stance on my stupidity there, unnecessary ignorance is always funny.
I think this captures my sentiment most closely. Yeah I started this thread with a snarky quote but it is certainly no worse than what is said of Hillary and Biden as examples. Not clear to me why some things are flagged as out of bounds.
I certainly don’t want to alienate anyone so that is a fair comment.
The differences between this and the political stuff with Hillary and President Uncle Joe are pretty clear.
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As much as we joke about politics being a blood sport, it isn’t. It’s important, yes, but most people’s lives and long term health aren’t really affected too much by the results.
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People’s livelihoods aren’t generally being threatened based on their Voter Registration status. They aren’t being denied entry to concerts because they are registered independent or didn’t participate in the last election.
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If I’m not a positive influence on one person and their vote… Oh well. If I’m a negative influence on somebody’s decision regarding vaccination, it could affect countless others.
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