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by coolso 5y ago
> Imagine all those anti vaxxers' complaints about "It's being rushed out too quickly" and "It hasn't been studied yet" Listen, CNN [0] and Biden [1] changed their mind about all of that as soon as the
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Ahh, so the Asian countries that have been using them for decades, as well as medical workers all over, have been hiding their secrets from us until after March 8th, 2020. Perhaps the real answer is a little bit of both things can be true?
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Did better information become available, or was he misleading the public to prevent people buying too many masks making it harder for medical staff to acquire them? Either way the quote is important to inform people who may not be aware, th
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Yeah but the problem is they don’t otherwise support a convenient desktop experience. Maybe next year will be the year.
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> The reason travel bans don't work is because we apply them too late and too selectively So then don't do either of those things. > You also cannot ban people from returning to their home country You can quarantine them for
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> because it is not easy to quit smoking or overcome obesity Eat... less?
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I find that the worst counter to being called a snowflake, is calling others a snowflake in return because they simply called you out on trying to silence opinions that aren't your own. Here we see the GP disappointed that every time h
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Because first we were told "two weeks to flatten the curve and slow the spread". We were also told we didn't really need masks. Then we were told, as late as last October by CNN, and even later by the new guy himself, we shou
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- "Travel bans don't work": supports banning the unvaccinated from traveling to particular establishments, supported preventing anyone from traveling pretty much anywhere during the first lockdown stages last year - "W
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> It is bordering on racist I stopped reading right there, in the future please hesitate to use self-defeating arguments like this in your counter arguments.
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> The “good news” here is that probabilities of 6C warming are reduced from what they have been historically. So I guess it’s a good thing we didn’t listen to the old science and go scorched earth to prevent what they thought would happe
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Furthermore, even outside of an immediate family, the more overweight people are, the more socially acceptable it becomes, resulting in more obesity. There’s also the massive costs to our healthcare system and insurance premiums.
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Most of Chrome’s shenanigans happen on the backend, like with Google in general.
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> You say that as if not voting was some virtue, it's not It absolutely can be. Every politician desperately wants you to vote. It’s, obviously, what gives them power and either an implicit or explicit endorsement of their policies
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Since anyone who graduated 2nd grade must purposefully go out of their way to type in all lowercase, I always associate it with people who want to portray the sense that what they're telling you is really important, but they're so
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The pushback from many whenever it’s suggested that the US should undergo a general trend to bring back manufacturing jobs to America always fascinates me. I always wonder what’s going through their heads when they prefer that things contin
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> Take your entitlement elsewhere. What are your thoughts regarding ad blocking? Specifically, do you also find people who use adblockers (I assume you don't use one of course) entitled?
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You missed the key word "only" in my comment. Yes, they certainly make it clear they earn affiliate commission, which is fine. But what they do not make clear is the fact that they will totally ignore products that do not allow th
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Are you saying I should be giving them revenue for not being terribly open about the fact that they only review products which can earn them a commission, and that furthermore, they deserve revenue from me for recommending products I spent
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The air purifier they recommended makes a loud annoying noise any time the house temp falls below a certain point. The router they recommended started randomly and frequently dropping connections after a year. The WiFi extender they recomme
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Wirecutter is essentially just a glorified, prettified Amazon affiliate link aggregator anyway. I have tried so many of their recommendations - always making sure not to click the affiliate links directly - and been burned or at the very le
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I’m pro-vax and vaccinated. We are discussing natural immunity vs. vaccine immunity here - not vaccine immunity vs. immunity of those who never got sick from it at all. I’m sorry about your cousin.
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> Now, suddenly, everyone is shocked, shocked that oil prices have gone back up. We also had ten years worth of truck and SUV purchases prior to inauguration day early this year, and I recall everyone paying almost a dollar and a half le
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Globalism, folks.
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My friend’s entire family got fully vaccinated, and all got as sick with COVID as my ex who was not vaccinated.
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> The CNN article is about rushing approval before there was data available Or, it was about spreading FUD before the election, the very same FUD they'll crucify you for today. (For the record I agree with the article. But the bias
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I'm referencing drugs, and scientific theories, in the past, not specifically these vaccines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs Here also is a CNN article titled "Past vaccine disasters sh
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This article isn't about the world, it's about America. If America has less people and the world has more, that's bad for Americans.
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Well, hindsight is 20/20. Speaking to my own thought process, many a drug/theory scientists were “sure” about, until it turned out they were wrong. Couple that with the fact I know closely plenty of people who got the Wuhan corona
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Two huge reasons: one, ingesting a potentially harmful substance has almost always been considered far less dangerous than getting it injected into you. Hence aversion to needles, blood, etc. Ever seen COPS? Even the most experienced police

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