the degree to which people rationalize not getting the flu shot fuckin blows my mind
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
There is an old timer blowhard who is in a lot of my yoga classes, and I almost lost my shit when he started lecturing everyone about how flu shots cause dementia.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
the flu shot gives u autism iirc, the only sure way to avoid the flu is to cover yourself head-to-toe every morning in hand sanitiser before squeezing into a protective full-body condom
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
Yeah, dementia isn't autism, dummy. You can tell him I said that.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 9:33 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
Did u ask him how many flu shots it took for him to come by this opinion
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
I did not want to engage at all because I knew I would get extremely angry very quickly, and also didn't want to learn about the rest of the class's insights on vaccines, I'm sure it would be a very depressing and futile conversation.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
Acupuncture needles work just as well as inoculation needles against the flu, afaict, and with 100% less autism and chakra contamination.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
i've heard that a knitting needle delivered directely into the brain through the eyeball immediately drops the risk of infection to zero
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
A 2100-year old Chinese mummy told me the trick is to draw blood, otherwise you get the coronavirus, or worse.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
ehhhh
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
I'd like to thank the scientific community for teaching me her language or I wouldn't have been able to share this ageless insight with you.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
― whistling (brownie), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
My favorite sad lol flu shot story came from several years ago. I popped in to a drug store to get it, put my name on a list, and then waited a couple of minutes. There was a mother and her teen son sitting in the waiting area, too, and after I put in my info the mother declares derisively "I hear the flu shot *makes* you get sick." And then her son, lost in his phone, sort of mutters an affirmation, "uh-huh." And I turn to her and ask, why would they design a shot that purposely makes you sick? And she basically muttered some version of "well, I dunno about that ..." (Echoed years later when I was stuck next to a crazy old Trump supporter on a plane, and when we landed he started ranting about Obama - this was during the election - blah blah blah. And then he starts complaining that Obama is anti-military, and that Trump is more respectful of the troops. And I finally turn to him and say, you know Trump is a draft dodger who made up medical conditions to get his deferment, right? And he called avoiding VD his own version of Vietnam, right? And the guy just mutters "well, I dunno about that ...")
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
Over the Christmas holidays back in Montreal a cashier at the supermarket told me her mother fell prey to Alzheimer's after getting the flu shot and she looked at me pleadingly, saying 'that's got to be it, right?', and I had absolutely no idea how to respond save via a half-mumbled and utterly inadequate 'it must be hard, I lost my grandmother to it as well'.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
Lol!
via a half-mumbled and utterly inadequate
This came out as 'ehhhh' didn't it?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
lol it certainly did, although I had yet to learn the tongue of the Ancients at that point.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
:D If anything you offered some consolation to the poor woman. That's something.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
The extent to which people dispense with logic in a desperate pursuit of etiology is truly tragic.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
You should tell these people that dementia could likely be caused by bacteria from poor dental hygiene and then stare straight at their mouth.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
josh in chicago, you could get your daughter a tattoo to get her over needle phobia.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
lol she doesn't seem to be afraid of (the idea of) tattoos or piercings! just medical needles.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
you should make her start donating plasma for her allowance.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
a woman in the supermarket yesterday was having a prolonged coughing fit near the dairy, into the seafood and then meat section. I gave her such a death stare down and kept diverting my path like I had a restraining order of 20 feet on her. I finally noticed her husband glaring at me. TAKE YOUR WOMAN OUTSIDE!
― Yerac, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
looks like we are about to have the first fatality from this in Paris, an ~80 year old Chinese tourist from Hubei province
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
xpost Seriously, do as the kids do and embrace the Vampire Sneeze.https://2gm3eq3zfq5s1iqp1h2j2dit-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/15114435_web1_190118-HGO-FluUpdate.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
'Tis what I was taught. It feels like a North American shibboleth whenever I do it in Europe but maybe I'm making this up?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
As the global death toll from an alarming new coronavirus surged this week, promoters of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory were urging their fans to ward off the illness by purchasing and drinking dangerous bleach.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-conspiracy-theorists-magic-cure-for-coronavirus-is-drinking-lethal-bleach
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
drinking bleach to own the libs
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:24 (four years ago) link
you know what i'm ok with this
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
haha yes
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
take the bleach challenge, 4chan
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
Do we have a thread for uplifting news? If so, this should be cross-posted there.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
can’t catch coronavirus if you’re deadhttps://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/022/138/highresrollsafe.jpg
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
Pour it all over each pizza slice for extra effectiveness.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
Silly 4chan. Bleach doesn't work unless you inhale it.
― Darth Bambi (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
It says purchasing and drinking dangerous bleach. maybe don't drink the dangerous stuff?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
yeah, stick to "drinking bleach"
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
Wow. I'm fairly certain that I made a joke (perhaps more than one) about Trumpites being credulous enough to drink bleach under the right circumstances but...(sniff) but I never dared to truly dream the impossible dream.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
Honestly, could care less about adults doing this to themselves. But the dark underbelly here is the tens of thousands of parents of autistic children that make their children drink bleach, thanks to the internet and boundless credulity. The same demographic as Q-Anon.
― Darth Bambi (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
tens of thousands of parents
citation needed
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
oh, see, Sanpaku never repeats anything he didn’t read on the Internet first
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
am i reading this right parents of autistic children are the same demographic as Q-Anon?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
Perhaps you haven't encountered articles like: Parents are poisoning their children with bleach to 'cure' autism. These moms are trying to stop it.
Tens of thousands is perhaps an overstatement. It's definitely in the hundreds.
Mordy, the sort of parents that engage in conspiracy-minded thinking about autism, and attempt to cure their children with bleach, turpentine, urine, chelation etc. reflect the same credulity and lack of critical thinking skills that we see in Q-Anon followers.
― Darth Bambi (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
just a couple of orders of magnitude, nbd
lol @ "perhaps"
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
it’s a venn diagram, but one that increases in overlap with concern
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
My best friend is coming to visit me next week and I am in a place throbbing with chinese and japanese tourists right now. We do not have a very good record of trips together. She got swine flu on our trip to Belize and Mexico like 10 years ago. And that was not even in the top 3 of worst things that has happened. I should probably get some kerosene and matches.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
I would say hand sanitizer and face masks but maybe you’re going in the scorched bedding and body bag direction?
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:38 (four years ago) link
these are pragmatic times!
― Yerac, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPct4t5X0AAofxW?format=jpg&name=large
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
Just saw that the number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus has overtaken the 2003 SARS outbreak inside of mainland China.
Also a reminder (via a doctor on the radio) that face masks help prevent you from transmitting stuff, but don't necessarily prevent you from contracting stuff. You need a much higher grade of mask for that, the kind doctors wear.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link