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by iammisc 5y ago
You are conflating issues. This thread is about the COVID vaccine, which Trump has promoted constantly. Please do not distract from the issue.
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I was mainly referring to this: > Anecdotally, the liberals I know seem much more open to the science behind the COVID vaccine and I don't know any of them who didn't get the shot. IME, this is because liberals are highly fract
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This about matches the real inflation rate
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Good luck with surg of covid when that happens. Australia is a beautiful country but you are not going to be granted an exception to the exact same sequence of events as other countries with high vac rates that opened up. Hope you actually
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It's an antiparasitic. Prescription only yes I believe.
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Correct. This is one of the few areas where trump seemingly disagrees with his own base. Sites like patriots.win (remnants of thedonald) criticize trump for his vax support.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Have you even bothered watching something like fox news before writing your comments. Literally every story about the covid vax they'll talk about how it's important to speak with your doctor because it's an important tool to
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Except Trump is constantly on conservative talk radio pushing the vaccine. In fact, sites like Patriots.win are full of Trump supporters who criticize him for pushing the vax. that's like the only thing they don't like about him.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Anecdotally, the liberals I know seem much more open to the science behind the COVID vaccine and I don't know any of them who didn't get the shot. Anecdotally, most people only know others who view things very closely to them
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Since the inception of the FDA, when else have state governments independently verified drugs like this? It is clearly a signal that one ought not to trust the FDA. Is it any surprise that large cohorts of the democratic party (namely, thei
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by iammisc 5y ago
The previous president was and is extremely pro-vaccine. People claim there is a large republican cohort of anti-vax politicians, but there is not. There is a large GOP cohort of anti-vax-mandate politicians, but being against a mandate doe
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It also completely ignores the fact that ivermectin, whatever its merits for covid are, is an actual human medication. It is not a veterinary drug, although it has utility in animals too.
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The American has good reason to distrust science (see my other comments), but Thalidomide is not one of them. To its credit, the FDA did not approve thalidomide at the same time as other countries thus mainly preventing the birth defects. O
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I agree, but the bureaucrats in charge are more responsive to their own immediate needs than to the long-term outcomes. That is to say, it is in their best interests to prevent an exciting new technology to come out and eradicate the proble
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by iammisc 5y ago
You know as much as I hated the rowdy George Floyd protestors in my city of Portland, I'm glad my government faces responsibility instead of blind acceptance by its constituents
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Seriously this is an amazing shift of the Overton window.
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No they don't. You have the liberty to assemble peacefully even if they inconvenience or upset someone else. You have the liberty to have privacy against the government, who must make an actual substantiated accusation and get a warran
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How long will you do a great job flattening the curve. If t requires fifty years of this policy because covid is still endemic elsewhere will you be okay with people being born, living and dying under your current regime? If so why? If not
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Don't give your guns away next time.
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> I am still bitter that we don't invest more on this research which has the potential to solve the climate crisis "unexpectedly". Unfortunately, solving the climate crisis would put many a pundit out of a job.
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Twenty years from now is when I expect the last of the covid restrictions to be lifted, if ever.
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> both of those views seem to me like they are valid approaches to "free speech Except they're not. One vision is quite literally very controlled speech. It may be appropriately called 'civil speech' or 'appropri
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By not listening to the extremists? By deleting social media
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> The government didn't "allow" Facebook as though there is some permission system involved for setting up social media sites And that's completely irrelevant to my argument which is that, since Facebook is the only p
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by iammisc 5y ago
Is covid waning? Many states have multiple restrictions still on gathering in public and in private.
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Okay that's great, but it doesntm mean we ought to abandom those values out of some made up historical notion that only white people want such things.
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It has nothing to with what I don't like. I don't believe you should extend to people those rights they argue against. For example, if someone wrote a comme t on hacker news saying "not all people should be able to comment on
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It's okay to cancel the cancellers. In fact, the expected outcome of this effort is to 'cancel' the cancellers, by not allowing their complaints to translate into institutional action. They are free to argue others should be
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There's also a conscious belief on behalf of immigrant families like my own that the reason we came to this country is for the free speech, so when we see American institutions that do not seem to care, we wonder if America actually li
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> Difficult for me to imagine some sort of "mission driven school", especially advertised as a counterpoint to elite University cancel culture, didn't just turn into just as much of an illiberal institution, but just with

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