i forgot if this was posted here. bret weinstein's response was to say that he's just putting out information and people don't HAVE to listen to him. disgusting.
COVID denier dies of COVID after being "red pilled" on vaccines, ivermectin and natural immunity by medical quack Youtuber Brett Weinstein pic.twitter.com/HiD5n0Hn2Z— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) August 10, 2021
― criminally negligible (harbl), Saturday, 21 August 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
Xposts
Hell yeah. I mean, it's kind of the only way.
Not entirely dissimilar from my recurring fantasy over the past month or so which involves some universally respected on both sides of the political spectrum person buying up universal airtime and hype (Pretend it's a penitent Kanye or something. Anyway...) giving a speech just saying, "look. All of you ppl who are anti-reality and projecting your grievances onto political issues need to stop. You're ruining it for the rest of us. You're creating an insane world in which everyone is suspicious of everyone else 24/7, everyone is armed to the teeth in daycare centers, places of worship, grocery stores, strip clubs. Just stop this shit. Work out your personal unhappiness. But ffs don't project onto the rest of us, who are just trying to get through the day and raise our kids and grandkids amd take care of our pets and water out plants. It's fine if you don't believe in global warming, but what are you going to do if Jesus or Trump doesn't come back for 15 years or more? Address your own unhappiness (you freaks) Figure out your shit!! Your problem is likely your spouse/parent/employer and not biden/obama/hillary. Shame on you. [fifty seconds of hissing] The planet, the system that actually allows matt gaetz the literal air to say things is collapsing, at least in terma of human viability if you want more MGT, then at least make breathing a thing. Also, you guys are Nazis, just ftr. "
― dell (del), Saturday, 21 August 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
schwarzenegger basically did the perfect facebook post about antivaxers, the kind of thing you dream about saying to them. fat lot of good it did.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 August 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
some universally respected on both sides of the political spectrum
You could try bringing back Jesus but the right would just hate him.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 21 August 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Tell me more Ivan Fyodorovich
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Saturday, 21 August 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
Tracer, excellent point, as yeah, he woulda been a presumably non-objectionable figure to the right, but that moment of his came and went w/o much. Sucks.
Which adds to the seemingly constant refrain these days -- why is there the constant expectation that the presumably willful ignorance, or, patently worse, malevolent bad faith spiteful grift of the right should be endlessly catered to and tiptoed around. I mean, if it were some abstract policy point, then fine to debate pro-wrestling style. Bring your absurd logic bad arguments to the table, by all means. But this is literally the future of your grandkids and theirs. I don't have kids, and am an extremely selfish shitty person, hate everyone, blah blah blah, and it still makes me apoplectic. There needs to be a universal uncompromising scolding of these people. Or else carve the country in two, unceremoniously, bc fuck this shit. Otherwise the future is global Alabama to put it at once mildly and starkly. (Ignoring a lot of global reality but this is a msg board, so)
― dell (del), Saturday, 21 August 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
separatism is not the answer sadly, there's lotsa cool folks in red country
yr frustration speaks to the larger issue for sure, compassion fatigue among health care workers and such
prob too much to hope for but this might be the tipping point in terms of the general public losing patience with these assholes
― sleeve, Saturday, 21 August 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
Sorry if my above post is alternately inarticulate or unhinged-sounding, but see karl malone's post upthread. We all have to read the news these days, just to function in basic sense, and constantly being exposed to all the weird other-sideism that is on the face irrational and sometimes just evil, to put it lazily, makes one feel like the simpsons frank grimes character
― dell (del), Saturday, 21 August 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
schwarzenegger basically did the perfect facebook post about antivaxers, the kind of thing you dream about saying to them. fat lot of good it did.If it reached one Schwarzenegger-fan parent, it did good. You can’t expect that every moron or anti-vaxxer is a Schwarzenegger fan, would take Arnie’s advice over a doctor’s if they were, that any of them follow him on Facebook if they are fans, read enough of their feed to see every post if they do, were actively served that post vs 94 rabid anti-vax posts from randos that day, etc
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 21 August 2021 22:50 (two years ago) link
Was wondering what happened to this guy. Basically all that posing and then he spends his last two months in misery.https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/outspoken-conservative-radio-host-phil-valentine-dies-after-battling-covid-19
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 August 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
Then there’s this clod https://news.yahoo.com/maga-rep-boasted-defying-pelosi-183421686.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 August 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
A strong read
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2021/08/on-an-encounter-with-unvaccinated-america-at-the-hospital/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 August 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
The man then asked if I felt “justified” in having my mother take up “valuable medical resources” when “people like my sister who have more of a right to live are in the hospital.”
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Saturday, 21 August 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link
BREAKING: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife, Jacqueline, 77, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.https://t.co/k6Vq3YngyJ— The Associated Press (@AP) August 21, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 22 August 2021 00:37 (two years ago) link
Well, as far as boosters go, if he was vaccinated in January, and indications are its effectiveness may begin to fade around 6 months, we're at, of course, 8 months. Hope they're OK.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 August 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
And of course
VIDEO: Trump Booed at Alabama Rally for 'Get COVID-19 Vaccine' Remark https://t.co/M0BT87be3e— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) August 22, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 August 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
Important work/finding by @Corine_GvK and @ErasmusMC team. Breakthrough (nearly all Delta) infections in healthcare workers had less viral culture positivity than primary infections despite similar Ct, viral load. Documents another benefit of vaccination: less infectious. Short🧵 https://t.co/gxrDdzxNoE— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 22, 2021
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 August 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
From most of what I’m reading, while antibodies can fade, t-cell immunity most likely lasts many years, so the vaccine doesn’t just “wear off”
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 22 August 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
This story eventually goes to where you think it does.https://amp.gosanangelo.com/amp/8196516002
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 August 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
What, the Gofundme? I didn't see a "P.S., he died."
I'm glad the paper used "dying of COVID" instead of "fighting COVID" in the headline.
― Profiles in Liquid Courage (WmC), Sunday, 22 August 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
I checked out the Gofundme link, curious. One of the comments? "Keep up the good work against government overreach! We're praying for y'all!" Yeah, keep it up, Caleb.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 August 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
“ He was so hard-headed," Jessica said. "He didn't want to see a doctor, because he didn't want to be part of the statistics with COVID tests."”
Whoops
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 22 August 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
"in addition to a DNR, he had an order written in crayon that said his death needs to be attributed to Being Too American in a Communist World"
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 August 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
He died for the lofty ideal that every American has the god-given right to make the jigsaw puzzle of a cottage at sunset look like a basket full of puppies by mangling the pieces and hammering them together "the right way".
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Sunday, 22 August 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
Another death from whiteness.
― Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 22 August 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
Pretty Dead (for a White Guy)
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 August 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
"Show me the science that masks work," Caleb wrote on the City of San Angelo's official Facebook in December 2020. "Show me the evidence that school closures work. Show me the evidence that lock-downs work."
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 22 August 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAoCyShBKjk
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 August 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-mJed_bP0
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 August 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Are You Smarter Than an Anti-Vaxxer?
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 August 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
Many Have Failed, Think You Can Do Better?
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 22 August 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqUy8915gBg
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 22 August 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
_"Show me the science that masks work," Caleb wrote on the City of San Angelo's official Facebook in December 2020. "Show me the evidence that school closures work. Show me the evidence that lock-downs work."_I guess he got what he asked for.
― Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 22 August 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
Prescient.
On July 4, 2020, Caleb helped organize "The Freedom Rally." A flyer for the event called it a peaceful protest by people “sick of the government being in control of our lives.”
― epistantophus, Sunday, 22 August 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
Wake up, Sheeple!
The FDA is urging people to stop taking veterinary drugs to treat or prevent Covid-19 after receiving multiple reports of patients who have been hospitalized after "self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses," the FDA says. https://t.co/ZNXvsrwOsE— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 22, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 August 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
All right!Stop whatcha doin''Cause I'm about to ruinThe image and the style that ya used toI look funnyBut yo I'm makin' money, seeSo yo world I hope you're ready for me
Now gather roundI'm the new fool in townAnd my sound's laid down by the UndergroundYou are not a horseYou are not a cowCome on y'allStop it, now
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 August 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
Hadn't considered them, but suddenly kind of craving veterinary drugs ...
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 August 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
Why can’t they be using ketamine
― Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 August 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
Ketamine is one of the tranquilizers they put you on during the last few weeks on a vent
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 23 August 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
Weird for a loved one to be in a k-hole in their final weeks. 6th sense style twist ending!!
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 23 August 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
― Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 August 2021 02:38 (two years ago) link
yup
― sleeve, Monday, 23 August 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
Worst rave ever.
― Bach on harmonica! (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 August 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link
Everything's going great on the very active public Ivermectin Facebook groups.Only a few people taking 10x what everyone else is taking, wondering what to do with a bottle of the injectable kind with a picture of cattle on it, or begging for earnest medical advice. pic.twitter.com/y22aJrtot3— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) August 23, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 August 2021 04:41 (two years ago) link
Just so crushinghttps://www.news4jax.com/health/2021/08/20/jacksonville-mother-loses-2-sons-to-covid-19-in-12-hours/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 August 2021 05:26 (two years ago) link
Separately, this is very interesting to me. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/22/exclusive-first-u-s-covid-deaths-came-earlier-and-in-different-places-than-previously-thoughtI still have wondered all this time whether I might have had a very, very early US case of COVID in late December 2019, due to my travel to my parents involving a transfer from SF to SFO airport via BART and then a shuttle pickup from there to Carmel. (Given SFO’s central role as an airport for flights from China and Asia combined with the holiday season, I’ve long felt it was a possibility.) I had a very distinctly crappy cold that emerged at the end of that visit home after a few days, and which lingered for some while. No way to be sure but even so.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 August 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
Everyone in my family but me travelled by plane in late January or February 2020, including to Georgia and DC on school trips, where they interacted with kids from around the country. My own presumed case of Covid came the first week of March, about a week and a half after both of my kids were sick for a couple of days. We suspected that maybe I got it from one of them, but neither my older daughter nor my wife ever tested positive for antibodies like I did. I do know a few people that had experiences like you describe, but it's a tough call, because that's bullseye cold and flu season anyway. Regardless, given so many people had/have no or mild symptoms anyway it's safe to assume it was definitely circulating throughout the tail end of 2019 and early 2020 before it all started to concentrate and compound in cities like NY.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 August 2021 12:25 (two years ago) link
No way to be sure but even so.
do you qualify for antibody testing?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 August 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
At the time when I was wondering the most — about this time last year — I was thinking that whatever might have happened appeared not to have left a huge impact, it’s not like I have ‘long COVID’ as others have described it. So I was curious but not compelled to find out more. Then other things took precedence until this story here. I might ask my PCP about it.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 August 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
I think if you have antibodies from the vaccine now there's no way to know if you had antibodies from before the vaccine. I spent a lot of time before the vaccine recommending people donate blood to the Red Cross to take advantage of their free antibody testing, but I don't know anyone else that actually did it. I kind of suspect far more people had covid than knew.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 August 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link