Are you suggesting that saying a 25 year old is worth an infinite number of 80 year olds is not saying @#$! you old people? I assert that these statements are equivalent.
So if it doesn’t say that, then what does it say?
Are you suggesting that saying a 25 year old is worth an infinite number of 80 year olds is not saying @#$! you old people? I assert that these statements are equivalent.
Thank god you’re here with the special knowledge of what’s really going on. Are you going to tell us so we can belong to your special clique too?
Vaticinator wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 6:11 am fear not, people over the age of 70 in this country are greater than 95% vaccinated and the majority of those are boosted. So they are completely safe, right?
You left out the "with children" part which makes it a very different statement.
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes it's worthless.
It makes your support of that statement equally heinous. You’re weirdly invested in getting people to agree with your anti - vaccine agenda, right?Vaticinator wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:22 amYou left out the "with children" part which makes it a very different statement.
Also, nearly all 80 year olds are vaccinated, so they should be fine, right?
I don't have an anti vaccine agenda. I'm fully vaccinated. I think anyone who wants to be vaccinated should absolutely get as many doses as they want. I also think that anyone who doesn't want to be vaccinated should be free to make that choice free from coercion, fines, exclusion from society, etc.
Don’t you have some already debunked, horse de-wormer non-cure for Covid to be promoting right now?
Okay...
Why would I do that? Haven't you heard: it doesn't work.
If you cannot see the analogy it proves your one sidded mind about vaccination.Vaticinator wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:24 amSometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes it's worthless.
I'm not pissed off. I'm fine. If anything, I pity all of you who buy in to the fear porn.
It's not a metaphor, and I picked it strictly for its dictionary definition. Really. But if it makes you happy to believe otherwise, I'm fine with that.
I'm neither pro nor anti vax. I'm pro people making their own choices and keeping their noses out of other people's business.
I did have a profile years back. Hadn't posted in a couple years, and couldn't figure out my old password. So yeah, it's a new account. So what?
Why would that be "too bad"? Can covid discern a person's motivations? You weirdos are all the same. It's not enough that everyone do what you want, you also want everyone to fully buy in to your religion of fear. It's creepy. Sorry, I'm not buying in. I'm not afraid of covid. Seems like you're scared enough for the both of us.
That's right up there with "the dog ate my homework".Vaticinator wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:16 am I did have a profile years back. Hadn't posted in a couple years, and couldn't figure out my old password.
So you say but then a large number of your posts lean heavily toward anti-vaccine propaganda. How do you explain this?Vaticinator wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:16 am I'm neither pro nor anti vax. I'm pro people making their own choices and keeping their noses out of other people's business.
I can agree with you on this.Vaticinator wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 5:25 pm No one here is changing anyone's mind. At the end of the day we're all just here for entertainment.
AvCanada Password Resetphotofly wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:11 pmThat's right up there with "the dog ate my homework".Vaticinator wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:16 am I did have a profile years back. Hadn't posted in a couple years, and couldn't figure out my old password.
It has always been and remains a problem that COVID is functionally invisible to so many Americans. We already medicalize death more than most cultures, but the sensible restrictions on visitors to COVID wards have meant that the disease crippling hospitals across the country goes mostly unwitnessed. We all know getting on a ventilator is bad and having to go on an ECMO machine is worse, but most of us have not heard what lungs sound like when they have that by-now-classic “ground glass appearance” in scans. We have not watched people panicking and yanking tubes out because they can’t breathe. We have not seen patients swollen and full of air, unrecognizable. Or proned. Or having their last conversation before they go on the ventilator.
You don’t see most of this stuff in these r/HermanCainAward screenshots, either, but you do see a lot you just wouldn’t otherwise. Specifically, you see the suffering. It’s filtered, of course, usually through collapsing defiance and positive thinking that fails. People post that they’re not feeling well when they’ve already become patients. They usually put it simply, with a request for prayers. The contrast to their grandstanding in prior posts acts as an intensifier; that they aren’t commenting on the very thing they’ve preached about so much comes to serve—cumulatively, as you read these—as evidence of just how awful they feel. The selfies can be brutal. The photographs family members post are worse because the patient is frequently unconscious, bloated, clearly in a bad way. Relatives’ updates tend to feature obsessive medical details like ventilator settings and oxygen saturations, and you learn to recognize the time course of the disease: When mentions of dialysis start up, you know, as a reader, that the prognosis is poor. The death announcement—once the requests for prayers and hopes for miracles are over—frequently reveals how much worse it really was than anyone let on: You find out the patient also had MRSA, or had developed an autoimmune disease, or had struggled with strokes and clots.
Jaded though they are, many r/HermanCainAward readers have experienced this much as I did: as a truly frightening look at what COVID can really be like. What hundreds of stories about deaths told through mean-spirited screenshots reveal is that the disease—when it gets bad—is worse than even the most pro-vax person really understood.