Here we are, going into 2022, and we are still fighting the virus, and all the misinformation. Continued from here: https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/covid-19-vax-americana.2114550/page-422
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/technology/youtube-anti-vaxx-ban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/technology/facebook-india-misinformation.html https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-tweets-that-spread-lies-about-covid-vaccines https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-go-dark-in-protest-over-covid-misinformation Now you know. No excuse for claiming ignorance.
Cmon...it's not like Facebook has been used to commit genocide, topple a government, or livecast a mass shooting, or spread Russian disinformation to get a particular government outcome they want, or kill hundreds of thousands of their rivals. Wear a mask, get the jab and booster. From a professional in the field to everyone else. First page!
Public service announcement: There are a bunch of other shitty non-COVID viruses out there.A person would be wise to wear a mask,practice good hand and cough hygiene,and avoid large indoor crowds even if COVID didn't exist. If you don't believe me,do your own research, dumbasses. Signed,Tony Fauci
I still don’t know what you’re talking about, because you seemed to be tagging me with it, and I don’t moderate the political forums.
One in 5 infected carehome inhabitants in the Netherlands die despite being vaxxinated, the study of dr Cees Hertogh of Amsterdam UMC shows. This is the same %% as when nobody was vaxxed. https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/een-op...ghuisbewoners-sterft-ondanks-vaccin~aec365b3/ Een op vijf besmette verpleeghuisbewoners sterft ondanks vaccin Van de gevaccineerde verpleeghuisbewoners die de afgelopen maanden toch het coronavirus opliepen, is een op de vijf overleden - ongeveer hetzelfde percentage als vorig najaar. Dat berekende hoogleraar ouderengeneeskunde Cees Hertogh. Binnenlandredactie 29-11-21, 13:02
Someone said something on the previous thread, (@yossarian ?), to the effect that Ted Cruz was either an idiot or, arguably worse, knew he was talking dangerous nonsense. I just wanted to say that, IMO, there's no argument to be had. Saying something that's dangerous and false is definitely worse when you know it not be true and are intelligent enough to understand the significance of the lie. It's one thing to be an idiot or misinformed. It's something else to be a psychopath.
The man bought canned soup for his new bride because she couldn't cook.What the f else do you need to know?
Two weeks ago I woke up with a sinus headache, aches, and felt like I ran 3 marathons in a week. On top of that, I had a persistent cough that just loved making itself known every chance it got. I felt much better a few days before Thanksgiving. It wasn't Covid, but it was still not fun. Forgot that despite Covid, you can still get sick in other ways.
Isn't that to be expected? Think about it. Last time there were extensive efforts to isolate care homes and not allow any contact with the outside world. In some care homes half the residents died. Other care homes, nobody died from covid, (although they died from other things, obviously). So overall about 20% died but it was heavily skewed to individual care homes, This time, people are vaccinated BUT there has been greater freedom to have visitors so I'd imagine the deaths will be spread more evenly. Of course, the other point, (and I hate to break it to people), is that the chance of care homes residents dying eventually is 100%, i.e. the same as the rest of us that aren't in a care home... just a lot sooner. The median stay in a care home over here is just over 18 months, IIRC, because, eventually, somethings gonna take us out. As that article says, (the google translate version of it anyway),... The total number of infections in nursing homes this autumn was considerably lower than last autumn, during the 'second wave'. In the same system, which is used by about one in three nursing homes, more than 3200 infections were registered at the time. I mean, this is all pretty much as one would expect, isn't it? People die eventually of something, particularly if they're old and infirm and need to be in a care home. If it's not covid, it's flu or pneumonia that made my old man 'fall off the twig', as he described it. I saw him every day and, if I'd have been as frail and susceptible as him, I would have died. Who knows... maybe it was me that gave it to him... or it could have been one of the staff. We can take all sensible steps to delay it but, unfortunately, we can't ban death.
As you've asked, something I've always wanted to know was, what is the meaning of the phrase, 'rhetorical question'? All I can find is this and I'm still confused... https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rhetorical-question
According to this story, it was Campbell's Chunky. https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/ted-cruz-soup-honeymoon-1.3535945
I think if you examined how you handled threads where you were a moderator in 2014-2016, when Donald Trump used Ebola disinformation and fearmongering as an outsized springboard to capturing the GOP nomination, you might see where I'm coming from. Your history on this is one of permitting disinformation on infectious diseases. Hence why it's rich that you would chime in.
The important part is one in five *infected* people. It ignores the fact that the vaccine reduces the number of infections. Elsewhere in the article it talks of 395 infections this year vs. 3200 last year... If that is an apples to apples comparison, there's only 1 infection now for every 8 last year. So in absolute terms the deaths due to COVID are much lower now. But y'know, headlines get clicks.