STEVE SMITH GET SHOT, BY GET SHOT, MEAN FORGE CARD, HA HA!
STEVE SMITH IS REBEL. HIM NO GET SILLY HOOMAN COVID SHOT. BUT HIM WANT GO VISIT CAMPGROUNDS (BY VISIT, MEAN…) SO HIM GO COMPUTER AND FIND WAY MAKE CARD. STEVE SMITH NOT JUST PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER…HIM HAVE MAD HAXXOR SKILLZ!
THEN STEVE SMITH WONDER – WHAT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMANS DO? THEM GET SHOT? MAYBE THEM THINK ABOUT FUNNY PAPERS INSTEAD? SO HIM ASK…
YOU GET SHOTS? YOU CONSIDER GET PAPERS FROM COMPUTER INSTEAD. THIS ONLY GEDANKENEXPERIMENT, NOT REAL ASK FOR CONFESS CRIMES! GO AWAY FEDS! GO AWAY PREET!
STEVE SMITH READ COMMENTS, FIND OUT.
FREE CASCADIA!
I might get the shot in a couple of years dependent on long term results.
I will be telling people who ask for vaccination proof to go fuck themselves.
What Scruffy said.
Regardless of vaccination, I demand STEVE SMITH practice social distancing. 6ft is too close. Also, distance measure from closest protruding appendage, not center mass.
You’re afraid he’s gonna touch you with his ten foot pole?
It’s what comes after the touch I shy away from.
I’m going to have to get the fucking shot. I gotta fly in July and my work is starting to get pushier and pushier about it. I wanted the J&J, but now it’s embroiled in a scam by the other brands with better lobbyists. I’m really depressed about it. BTW, I really didn’t WANT/WANT the J&J, it’s just my best option, I believe. I don’t want to take any experimental drugs to prevent a disease that likely won’t even harm me. That’s just the basic facts, add on the degree to which this virus has been lied about and politicized and I don’t want nothing to do with any of it. They were edging their way to calling me out for not having gotten the shot during our safety meeting this morning. It’s coming.
Have you had COVID?
My point being that you might consider getting an antigen test.
Nope and I probably won’t get it. I’ve been working at the literal epicenter of ‘vid through most of last year and this part of this year. We’ve had three guys get it and I closely worked with all of them. I have zero fear of covid.
At work they require ten days quarantine if you travel beyond some arbitrary mileage like 50 or something. Or Vax papers.
You may already have antibodies. If it can help you avoid the showdown, the test may be worth it.
Good point. I doubt it’ll sway them though. They are drunk on the kool-aid pretty badly.
1) J&J will likely be unpaused soon so that will be an option again.
2) Novavax has or will shortly apply for an EUA for their vaccine, which is another option.
Personally, I have more concerns about the adenovirus used in the J&J, particularly if (when) boosters become necessary. But that’s not this round.
YOU GET SHOTS?
Fuck no.
YOU CONSIDER GET PAPERS FROM COMPUTER INSTEAD.
I would like to say the powers that be are not so stupid as to try to enforce convid passports. But no I will not be participating virus theater no matter what kind of tyrannical horseshit comes down the pike.
Neither.
+1 rat
I’m not into receiving a poll from Steve Smith this evening.
I haven’t got a shot. I probably will eventually , because I could see not having one getting in the way of me doing things I like. On the other hand, I’ve never had a flu shot and I don’t plan on getting one of those.
I’d sooner get a STEVE SMITH injection than a Covid one, but I’m more likely to get the latter (and once the J&J is back in distro).
I think there is trouble a brewin for the vax crowd. We’ve basically hit the max for people who are willing to get it. The question now is how will they force people to get it. We hear so much about left of center politics and forget about half the country isnt that interested in it. I’m 40, already had the rona and have no plans getting it.
Vaccinating the already infected is an exceedingly risky course of action. They literally have no clue what the effects will be if the virus mutates beyond the efficacy of the vaccines. It could quite easily cause immune overreactions to the variants.
All of this has been a total clusterfuck of governmental proportions.
I feel like a dairy maid. I already had cowpox mother farkers!
One guy at work had the ‘vid and then got the vax 2.5 weeks later. He was sick as a dog and out just as long as the ‘vid itself. They are not kidding when they say to wait after infection to get the shot.
In fact isn’t there evidence that it has negative side effects? You really shouldn’t get it if you already had covid.
You shouldn’t if you have an active infection, not you had one in the past and have fully recovered from it.
My brother had covid the week of getting the first vaccine and then went ahead and get his second shot… I dunno why,,, and he had a horrible reaction for 24 hours? The doctor said “did you have covid in the last few weeks? we are seeing this a lot”
My wife had covid 19. She had her first shot 2 weeks after recovering from covid. She had no problems
Rand Paul said that he was vaccinated after having covid. He made this statement when he was grilling Faucci about masks.
Waiting for Novavax. I’m not an antivaxxer but no hastily developed mRNA unknown quantities for me, thank you very much.
I’m flipping channels and this pops up in the schedule.
I want off.
I’m seriously disappointed in John Goodman for participating in this.
Enh, a paycheck is a paycheck.
I just watched for ten minutes or so and it’s as terrible as I expected.
I remain a huge fan of the original but that was when they had good writers.
Somebody get Roseanne on the phone, I’d bet she’d have a few words to say on the matter.
Where the funny one?
You know, the one the show is supposed to be about?
I don’t think they “need” Roseanne to be funny. They were all good in the original.
But the writing is shit now and the characters are being moved in unfunny directions so pass.
Oh, fer cryin’ out loud! I just saw a Sam Adams commercial with Yaw Cousin from Bawwww-ston getting his COVID shot.
I don’t plan to get the shot if I can help it. Lots of my co-workers are missing work recovering from the shot, especially the second one. Of course, they’re getting paid without having to use their regular PTO. I DID just get the shingles vax – I know enough about shingles to be skeert of it. (Best wishes to a certain well-dressed rat.) I ain’t skeert of the COVID.
Milking that shit good and hard, I’m sure.
Seeing Biden on the TV today saying employers should give people time off to get the shot because those are people fulfilling their patriotic duty made me want to vomit.
Aaahahahaha….Shikha Dalmia gets busted for going on CCP-funded junkets in China:
“Unearthed documents from one of the leading Chinese Communist Party propaganda groups reveal the names of “mainstream” U.S. journalists taking junkets from the group in exchange for favorable coverage……
The China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) was founded by the Vice-Chairman of the “highest-ranking entity overseeing” Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Department, an effort which aims to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority” of the Chinese government. “The United Front strategy uses a range of methods to influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” the U.S. government report continues…..
Pay for Play?
While those named above represent a fraction of the journalists taking CUSEF trips, the influence of the program on participants’ subsequent reporting is easily discerned.
Trip participant Shikha Dalmia penned an op-ed entitled “China Bashing is for Losers” the same year she traveled to China.”
Ah, that wasn’t supposed to be a reply.
Maybe she traveled to China and also defended them because she’s a Chiphile for some reason. Not necessarily proof of pay for play but to hell with her, she has just about the worst take on just about everything and she sucks.
chicken or egg?
If you regard Red Junglefowl as distinct from chickens, then the first chicken egg was laid by a Red Junglefowl hen.
Else we have to find an earlier ancestor of the Red Junglefowl who laid the first egg of that chicken family, who was not herself of it. But because of the gradual nature of evolution, defining that cutoff point is difficult. But the egg came first.
“Milking that shit good and hard”
hawt
I don’t believe in taking vaccines for one and done viruses, such as flu shots. I won’t take it until I am forced to. And maybe not even then.
No. Since I don’t have data on the long-term health impact of RNA shots, there is a good chance the shot is more dangerous than the covid.
Watching the Big “ten” network. Fucking college volleyball players wearing masks during a match (game?). What a complete abdication of science, honesty, courage, respect, logic. How many college athletes have died from covid? Zero? Yes, exactly zero.
So you’re saying that the mask work.
Wait until they find out about my tiger-repelling rock.
Is everyone blind and retarded (no offense to the mentally disabled, myself included) ? Is there a single shred of evidence that masks stop viruses? Does anyone understand that size matters? Hehehe. Please show me where mask mandates have done anything
This should give you all the info you need on how ineffective masks are.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
Yeah, a fuckin’ .gov document pointing out that the virus size is too small to be stopped by any mask that doesn’t filter down to the nanometer level AND HAVE A PERFECT SEAL doesn’t do shit.
bUt mUh DrOpLeTz!
I’d rather have the active virus injected into my arm than an experimental mRNA vaccine.
I volunteered to snort a line of pure ‘vid in March of last year at work when all of this started. They couldn’t find any.
Off a strippers ass I hope…
That’s a given. People rarely mention my name without strippers or hookers being involved.
In fact, forget the covid!
If only the vax came in white powder form.
q-ette got a bunch of immunizations today so she is running a fever and is a holy terror. Inconsolable.
https://archive.li/FnfLI
Ass Wednesday.
A song on my classic rock playlist for you (or whomever, I’m not in charge). Catchy tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAqINhejokU
Darn tootin’.
Ass Wednesday.
Well, at least someone is consolable.
https://kfor.com/news/walmart-to-begin-selling-at-home-covid-19-test-kits/ Nasal swabs, 2/$20. How far up to shove the swab is up to the user.
I would prefer a cheap spit test. The guy who invented them died recently in his fifties; heart attack, I think.
I was probably the last person in KY to get the J&J (until they unpause). Got it late on Monday and Tuesday morning headlines were about the J&J.
Only reason I got the shot was to reduce friction here on the home-front.
My wife has some co-morbidity and will barely leave the house, and sits and watches COVID porn on the teevee all day.
At this point in my life the virus/vaccine is the least of my problems. Mrs Fourscore and I decided long ago that we’ve out lived those things, as long as we avoid the “Old People’s Spa”.
I get X-rays and see the Ortho doctor tomorrow, have to wear a mask but optimistic about our discussion. Things appear to be progressing well, no miracles but light at the end of the tunnel, though the tunnel may be long and that light is not from an oncoming train.
Good to hear you’re doing relatively well, take care and good luck.
Godspeed, old man.
Let me know when you need help with the garden. I’m probably only available on the weekends, but, I’d be happy to help.
Be forewarned, I might pick your (experienced) brain as repayment. I can’t seem to grow corn, onions, or watermelon here in zone 3 Dooloot.
No.
Covid deadenders are going to start pushing vaccination numbers as the only meaningful metric to gauge whether restrictions are still warranted, because it’s the next moveable goalpost. Who cares about antibodies or actual personal risk? Did you get the vaccine or not? Oh, and the vaccine isn’t effective against the new strain detected in a village in New Guinea, so back home you go regardless.
Vaccinated or not will be the measure for sure, never mind whether you’ve actually had the ultimate vaccine of actually catching COVID or not.
While simultaneously being proof of nothing because it somehow doesn’t stop you spreading the virus, and the variants are always right around the corner.
This is what gets me: what is the fucking point of the vaccine if it doesn’t stop you from catching/spreading it? Further: shitheads like Fauci and Biden parade around with their fucking face diapers in spite of probably being the first people in the nation to get the shot. What incentive is there for anyone to get it if you still have to do all this bullshit? So the only way to stop doing the bullshit is to just stop doing it; so why not just stop and avoid potential side effects?
Neither does the IPV version of the polio vaccine, which is what is used in the US for the most part because the risk of polio exposure is low and OPV has its own drawbacks.
People need to wake up to how vaccines actually work (none of them provide 100% guarantee of 100% protection, but most are good enough) rather than the simplistic and wrong view in their heads and as you say, march on with their lives.
My dad had polio so I’m as pro vaxx as they get. However, my parents also lived through the experimental phase of the polio vaccine and witnessed lots of kids get the disease from the vaccine, some of whom died. I know the Kung Flu vaccine is different but it speaks to what isn’t known about experimental drugs.
You shouldn’t need an incentive to perform your patriotic duty.
The mask is a fetish, in the original use of the term. IE “is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others. Essentially, fetishism is the attribution of inherent value, or powers, to an object.”
It’s no more than a crucifix, star of David, or any other scapular.
And yes, this pisses me off to no end, as I live near an R1 research university and I watch this new religion and its converts running around everywhere in that institution.
The point of the continuing theater is to get your neighbors and coworkers to hector you into getting the prick.
No experimental mRNA vaccine for me.
From the previous links, a big fat no for president Christy and his donuts suck. Awesome cat in the video, reminds me of the “Cats hate bad singing” videos.
Not me. Not my kids. My wife is trying not to, but she may cave at some point. She’s giving blood tomorrow so we’ll see if she’s had it. If so, I’ll assume I have too.
I got the vaccine because I figure I will need it to work at the office instead of at home.
My company specifically said they are not “requiring” it. (As if they could.)
Nobody 30+ has said much about it, let alone talked about requiring being vaccinated to come back to work. (Considering our mask policy has always been “Wear it if you want, pussy,” I doubt it’ll ever be required.) The real squealers among us are the 20-somethings who make a big show of wearing the mask whenever they bother showing up.
They’re not “requiring” it at my work, but the pressure is steadily increasing. They are requiring quarantine if you travel further than 50 miles or so. They are strongly requesting that you report your vax status for counting purposes. They are starting to ask for hand of those who’ve gotten the shot at the bi-weekly meetings. I can feel it coming. It sux to be viewed as a freak when really, I just don’t like taking strange drugs for things that 99.5% won’t hurt me.
I hear ya.
My boss asked me about my plans the other day which gives me pause, since he will be my neighbor when the office opens up in a month. And I am pretty sure he’s all aboard the vax train.
Contrast that with my company which has stated in no uncertain terms that (a) the price is not required and (b) it’s nobody’s business but your own.
I am envisioning a lot of stink being raised when the office opens.
priceprickThe only reason to pressure someone else to get the vaccine is because you think it doesn’t work. If you’ve had the vaccine and believe you’re immune, it doesn’t affect you if anyone else has had it or not, so why even ask?
50 miles, I could take the long way in to the office. Sorry, can’t. I need to quarantine.
I haven’t gotten one, but Oregon in all the wisdom bestowed upon us by Cunt Clown, our governor*, I have only been eligible for two days. Maybe. I have zero fucking idea at this point. But, I am so not worried about the virus, I am going to put this in the same place I put the flu shot; whatevs.
*You have to say it in some sort of Mother Knows Best way, and try not to puke in your mouth.
Have you seen the early contenders for Gov Kunt’s replacement yet? Going to be longing for the days of her reign soon enough.
Yeah, frying pan, fire, and all that.
I’m more afraid of Gauleiter Wolf than of the Chicom-19, so I got the Pfizer shots. The Penna. GOP won’t rein in Wolfie’s dictates, so they only way this is going to get back to “normal” is for so many Keystoners to get vaccinated that Wolfie has no excuse left. Even my proggie friends, who were initially hesitant to take “Trump’s vaccine,” have come around and just want the whole lockdown charade to end.
I want the charade to end too, and I’m comfortable with letting everyone else around me do their patriotic duty to make it happen.
I’m not comfortable knowing I’m surrounded by retards. YMMV.
I am planning to get the J&J once the science wizards are done with the recent BS stoppage of that shot.
For myself, I don’t give a rat’s @$$ about catching the ‘vid. I believe that I already got it after three business trips in December 2019/January 2020 – surrounded by Chinese speakers on all flights/airports with a week spent in Shanghai riding mass transportation, out in public, etc. A week after the last trip I had a weird head cold unlike anything I’d had before. I’m also type-O blood which seems to be less affected by any of the COVID strains.
The main reason why I plan to get the shot is because it’s easy and free at a local military base here and, primarily, because my father-in-law has a list of comorbidities. He lives next door and is in contact with us and our kids all the time. I simply want to do anything I can to protect him even if it is essentially a gesture.
“It wasn’t my fault”
Yeah, pretty much that. My f-i-l still generally gets around, hanging out with his cohorts – at least he is driving everywhere rather than taking the train.
But I am on the trains every day, at the office, shopping, etc.
Ha I remember that theory. Amazing how quickly that got buried.
/O-
Yeah, no kidding, where’d that little tidbit disappear to (but as a Type A that won’t do me any good)?
I read about it (type O blood being affected less severely) again just a few weeks ago. I don’t think the US media wants to see that get too much air time because it gives a bunch of people reasons to be less interested in this whole COVID THEATER they have been pushing
Looks like we are blood brothers Rhywun.
I had the same issues as you Tejano. I was traveling in Europe and Asia in late 2019 and early 2020.
My wife got really sick in Feb and passed it to me. Really bad head cold and chest congestion with a killer headache. 4 days with a mild fever.
Then I took little to no precautions after may 2020 and went into an office with 300 people for the rest of 2020.
I’m convinced I got it in Feb 2020.
Won’t get the stick until I have to to live my life.
Hey folks, I see some here are sweating about getting sort of forced into getting an mRNA vaccine. I have similar concerns as y’all and I’m waiting for the vaccine developed by Novavax which is an injection of a bio manufactured CV structure:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/novavax-explainer-1.5897946
Hopefully it’ll be given approval by mid May or early June. I’m not affiliated with the company or anything but that’s a good alternative if you have concerns. If you have to get a vaccine for your job or whatever hold out if you can.
I’m worried that, having altered your genes to boost an immune response, I’ll get a condition that is exacerbated by too much immune response. Then, I’ll be pissed because I really didn’t need to get the fucking shot in the first place. Who knows how long and strong this shit is? Nobody’s had any for longer than a year or so. What happens when other diseases start to mix with it? They don’t fucking know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome
It just sucks that we’re being pressured into caring/worrying about all of this for some political bullshit. I’m in decent shape and under the target age for serious outcomes. I shouldn’t have to stress over what this non-vetted, experimental vax is going to do to me. I should just be free to live my life while doing my best not to endanger the people who really have to worry about it. Dammit.
This.
But everyone else has been convinced by TMITE that you’re a carrier and don’t even know it.
The media have really done a number on people’s brains.
4 Bro.
https://imgur.com/a/iPG2Zi4
NSFW.
She’s a Firster.
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I’m 27, with no COVID co-morbidities, and we’re planning on kids soon. I’m not getting the vaccine, and that’s a hill I will die on.
I really hope they don’t have long term side effects, because pretty much everyone in my family except Mr. Cannoli and me has gotten it already, but I’m not going to take the completely unknown risk when there’s no upside whatsoever for me. And that goes for the J&J vaccine too, which isn’t a “traditional” vaccine any more than the others.
But the J&J doesn’t alter your genes. It merely introduces a similar virus to prime you to fight off the other. Or so I’ve been told.
J&J is a DNA vaccine, whatever the hell that is. It still tricks your body into making part of the Covid viral particle.
But the J&J doesn’t alter your genes.
Neither does mRNA.
A virus cell hijacks a host cell and turns it into a factory for making more virus cells.
The mRNA vaccine hijacks an immune cell and turns it into a factory for making proteins found in the virus cell.
In both cases, the body’s immune system (T cells) eventually recognizes the foreign cells/proteins and stimulates the production of antibodies to destroy the virus/foreign-protein.
NOTHING HERE REPROGRAMS YOUR FUCKING DNA!
I took the mRNA vaccine because I am over 60 with comorbidities that make covid a serious threat.
I can’t imagine why anyone that is middle aged or younger and in good health would do so, because of all the unknown unknowns for mRNA vaccines.
There are all sorts of really, really good reasons to reject the mRNA vaccine. Pick one.
I just turned 52 and am in reasonably good health.
I view this thing like the flu shot. It it may ease the symptoms if I catch the thing. It won’t prevent me from getting it. I live alone and I don’t have regular contact with anybody. I’ll take my chances.
A perfectly rational choice.
And that’s exactly where I am at. There’s already punishments for not getting the shot. Already! And, they’re just getting started.
Not a Doctor, but AFAICT the J&J uses a modified adenovirus to insert DNA instructions to make your cells produce the COVID spike protein, similarly to the mRNA vaccines. The J&J actually affects the cell nucleus, unlike the mRNA vaccines, so if I were worried about altering genes, I’d be more scared of the J&J.
My main concern with both isn’t altering your genes, it’s that the long-term effects are unknown and unknowable because neither technology platform had made it past the research stage before 2020.
From what I’ve gathered, and this is purely layman’s understanding and make no claim to be perfectly correct, none of the jabs are traditional. If the old school version worked, it would have been out long ago.
Yeah, I really don’t want anything to do with any of them. I just feel the pressure mounting. I don’t want my cells retrained. They are doing fine as is. I don’t want to have read JAMA bullshit and then have to decipher what is pure politics. I know for sure the numbers they have presented have been bogus, why should I believe them on anything else?
I agree on everything, though I have the advantage of working for a small shop where the owner DGAF. So no pressure mounting for me at work. For the rest of the world, as TH says below, I’ll just go extra hermit. The wife and kids are a different story.
Covid vaccines
https://ibb.co/v4CxMgd
Original from https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777059
See, even that (which is quite informative, thanks!) says that these are approved. They have emergency approvals. They have not been approved in the sense that all other drugs before them were.
The Bosslady got both her shots back in December – January, and stated that her reason was that she wanted to be “allowed to travel.” She was somewhat nonplussed when I told her that both our original vacation destinations — Hawaii and the Turks & Caicos — DGAF about vax status and want a negative COVID test less than 72 hours before arriving in the islands.
She doesn’t want any “brain swabs,” as she calls them. I don’t do IM injections, having had my fill of them as an allergy-ridden yute.
At any rate, we will likely drive to the Outer Banks this summer for her “special” birthday-with-a-zero vacay. Which will be a) disappointing for her, and b) somehow entirely my fault.
Nope. Not I.
?????
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‘MAYBE THEM THINK ABOUT FUNNY PAPERS INSTEAD’
Been there done that.
I don’t know about most other states, but in Missouri you can easily escape a ticket with a well crafted forgery of proof of insurance. At least that was the case around a decade ago…
Also, I once smuggled all of my personal belongings on a flight I wasn’t on from Boston to KC free of charge for my move back to the Midwest…the gate I used was one those used to attack the Twin Towers…this was less than two years after 9/11… AA security is for shit.
‘THIS ONLY GEDANKENEXPERIMENT, NOT REAL ASK FOR CONFESS CRIMES! GO AWAY FEDS! GO AWAY PREET!’
…FUCK!
Who is this?! I don’t know you! Prank caller, prank caller!
Also…no shot, no fucking way. Papers please? I’ll disappear. I’m on the fringe of society, I can easily opt out. I don’t need that shit to live as I am or even improve my lot in life. If or when the Cathedral comes knocking, I’ll be content knowing that I refused to play by their rules, consequences be damned.
You know who else had Gedankenexperimente?
Schrödinger?
I got my first pfizer shot second one coming up. So far no super powers. But I do have the strange urge to post a picture of myself on social media with my vaccine card. You know, to let people know I’m better than them.
Joking aside I got it for work and because my father in law is in skilled nursing with not much time left and the only way to see him is to get the shots.
Off topic, but I went looking for a new deodorant, and while checking the reviews at Amazon, I found this:
“Using this is like chumming the air for pretty ladies who are doctors that supermodel in their spare time. They won’t be able to see the source of the square-jawed quarterbackliness hanging in the air until they start biting on you. And by then, it’s way too late for them.”
So, yeah, I bought that ish!
Tres is writing deodorant reviews, now?
60% of the time, it works every time.
Call me crazy, but deodorant should smell like… nothing.
Otherwise it’s reodorant.
Or as my daughter used to call it, odorant.
I’m waiting. I’m also getting up in the grill of those pushing the vax on me.
“For the last year, I have been told that I’m not especially essential, and as a straight, white, Christian male, pretty much the cause of most of what’s wrong in this world. Healthcare workers and teachers are praised as essential and thus should get priority. The oft forgotten, and far more brave retail workers and farm workers are more essential. The elderly and vulnerable should certainly have access to vaccines before I do. And of course, nothing could scream “white privilege” louder than well off, straight, white male Hero nosing his way to the front of the trough while historically disadvantaged groups haven’t been fully vaccinated.
What’s that? Oh, no, I’m not judging you or anybody else Mr. Straight White Male NPR drone co-worker who got his vaccine after driving 3 counties away to finagle a dose. Not at all.”
I got the Pfizer shots in December and January. Why I still have to wear a mask everywhere is beyond me. Rand Paul is right, it’s all theater at this point.
It was always theater, and abuse.
But I came here for an argument…
No, you didn’t!
I did!
I got the J&J shot to make Mrs. Parnell happy. Tried to avoid it, told her I would only do the one-shot, then she called my bluff and got me an appointment so I had to do it.
I don’t know if there were any side effects because I got it in the middle of a month long allergy flare-up.
Anyways that was two weeks ago so now I’m officially immortal, so… yay?
Almost 63 years old, no real co-morbidities, although as an influenza long-hauler (got a really bad infection in my mid-20s which, along with the opportunistic bacterial infections, scarred about 40% of my lung tissue permanently), my doc says I might want to think about it.
I’m gonna wait a minimum of six months and watch the ‘tubes for info. I have a vague, unfocused dread that the human race may have just done something irredeemably stupid by experimenting on a significant fraction of themselves with these treatments . . .
‘I have a vague, unfocused dread that the human race may have just done something irredeemably stupid by experimenting on a significant fraction of themselves with these treatments . . .’
*nods sagely, passes tinfoil hat*
Yeah, I have the plots of several bad dystopian sci-novels which haven’t been written yet running through my head.
To the vaccinated (I have nothing against you I’m just trying to make a point)… I’m super jealous of your new found freedom. Family, travel, dinners out, going to the movies, working wherever you want, no masks! So jealous of your freedoms.
#insert Braveheart gif here
Manhattan will stop prosecuting prostitution charges, but will keep going after johns. So, you are free to sell sex if you are a women, but not to buy it as a man.
This is their idea of justice.
I’m all for legalization of almost everything. The absolute worst response is to enable certain participants to act legally and not legalize other sectors of the business. Legalizing heroin in Portland does absolutely nothing to stop the worst people on earth from cutting heads off in central America. It only enables the worst people on earth to make more money with no worries. Grow pot, opium and cocaine (coca?) In the US, kill the border trade, profit!
We should definitely legalize friendly neighborhood knife fights.
I don’t think its a big deal one way or the other. I got both shots and had no odd side effects. I’ve never worried about the ‘rona either and am only pissed off about everything I like doing being shut down.
Get our second shot on Friday.
I wouldn’t myself, but we’re both over 70 and the wife’s has some comorbids and her immune systems is pretty hosed from the chemo.
We’re probably in the group where the risk/reward balance is on the side of the shot.
Giving the shot to men or women who are or want to get pregnant or to children is medical malpractice
O/T: I said something to Tres earlier, but I’d just like to say to one and all how delighted I was to finally meet some Glibs in real life. SP, annoyed nomad, Tres Cool and I had a wonderful time talking and laughing for hours this afternoon. Profuse thanks to SP for springing for lunch and for hanging around for so long when she still had many hours of driving ahead of her. (Hope you reach your destination soon, if you haven’t already!)
If there are other Glibs in the greater Dayton area (looking at you, Akira!) I hope we can make plans for another get-together soon – ideally when the mask fiasco has ended.
My sympathies to Glibs who are geographically isolated from the rest of the gang. Here’s hoping the world opens up more for unencumbered travel that will allow more of to meet in “meatspace.”
I live in an undisclosed compound in Florida.
From now on we can call you The Babe in the Bunker.
It just happens that the Japan Glibs chapter has a meatspace meetup planned for tomorrow evening – state of emergency be damned!
I just tried to share a link to the NIH paper saying that facemasks don’t help and that they actually cause far more harm than good.
Facebook blocked it as misinformation. A link to a *.gov paper.
Zuckerberg is asshoe.
I did a google search and nothing.
DDG had it
Good thing we have tech giant companies to save us from thoughts.
I would love to see Facebook and Twitter go the way of Blockbuster.
Are you talking about this one?:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
It’s not a .gov paper. PMC is an archive service that aggregates 2000+ journals. That particular paper is from Medical Hypotheses, which has had its own problems in the past, and judging from the dates in the front, still isn’t fully peer reviewed (fwiw).
Yeah, I saw that yesterday. I noticed two spelling/usage mistakes in just the abstract. The guy is likely right, I am as doubtful as anyone here about the efficacy of masks, but it’s being easily dismissed by opponents of free faces. My issue is why haven’t more of the study authors of the countless ones that have been done over the years showing little to no benefit to masking as a means of controlling respiratory viruses spoken up? Fear of getting cancelled? Why aren’t more medical professionals bucking the Fauxchi status quo in regards to masks?
Even for Facebook that’s remarkable.
I have not and am fairly ambivalent about it. The wife got both doses of it as she works in a hospital and had a bad reaction to the second shot (swollen glands in the armpits for a week). In the past 13 months I have been in north of 1200 peoples’ houses, apartments and businesses working. I work in everything from shitty small studio apartments in large buildings to mansions.
As an example, yesterday I was doing a job on a complex that is entirely working class Latinos. The work order mentioned that the door lock was in the condition it was because the gentleman in the lower apartment tried to fix it with a hammer. As I walked past the lower apartment after replacing the lock on the upper one I noticed that the deadbolt was on the floor outside the front door. I knocked on the door and asked if they were okay in there. A male voice said he was trapped inside the apartment. Sure enough I tried my master and the bottom lock was totally jammed up. I got more tools from the van and got the door pried open. A huge dude was standing there with a five foot staff, bleeding profusely from a wound on his hand. “Dude are you okay?” He said he was fine and then began pacing around the apartment with his staff. After a while he paused and stared down at the kitchen table mumbling to himself. I put a new latch in while engaging in soothing conversation about fixing things and keeping a wary eye that his staff didn’t decide to start whacking the back of my skull. That was far more scary than the Vid to me.
That is indeed an unsettling experience. Guy must have some issues…
Glad you are ok.
Thanks HE. Yup, the dude definitely had some issues. When I mentioned to one of the building maintenance guys I saw later at the complex that I went to do a job in apartment 16 of building 5, he stopped and looked at me. “How was he? Usually he is pretty mellow, but they have had to call the police on him twice in the past month.”
Wishing you better times ahead with your hubby. Sorry you have to go through all this.
Thanks. It hasnt been easy, but I’ll get by with a little help from my friends and coworkers.
Oh yikes. It seems like calling the cops might not be my first thought if he’s only a danger to himself, but then if they’ve been out twice and it was okay then that’s good. At least there are people aware who can check in on him from time to time.
The last couple videos I have seen of police shootings have put me on the side of the cops. Which is not the case for many of the previous ones I subjected myself to. This one is an utterly chaotic situation and it does look that if he didn’t shoot right then that the chick in pink would have at least got shanked if not killed.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/04/the-latest-anti-police-fraud.php
This is body am footage fulfilling its potential. We are all better off for having it.
Exactly. In the reports that I heard yesterday from a witness, the knife wielder was defending herself from attack. That clearly was an absolute bullshit account. How about the guy to the right kicking that other girl in the head in front of the cop?
Delightful to see the wheel turn.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/04/21/get-out-of-my-pub-landlord-boots-uk-labour-leader-sir-keir-starmer-from-his-pub-over-his-support-for-the-lockdown/
So calling out the opposition leader over his failure to question and challenge the policy of the government is “spreading dangerous misinformation”? I thought it was just calling out the opposition leader for failing to do his actual job. No?
“SPREADING DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION” just used against anyone who dares call them out;
A) shows the uniparty socialist state getting desperate in trying to justify the lockdowns
or
B) shows some hubris on their part in getting lazy with their rationale
C) shows that they are so completely powerful that it doesn’t matter anymore; they can say a witch floats or the sun sets in the morning and there’s not a thing anyone can say or do to regain reason?
Let’s ask Orwell and Chesterton 🙁
If Orwell could see how far things have gone I wonder if he would ask himself if it’s possible that he gave them some ideas or if he would expect that they would probably have gotten there on their own anyway.
“It’s not an instruction manual!”
No to both. I travel several times a month around the country and have traveled out of the country several times. My boss knows I didn’t get it and respects my reasoning in not getting it because I’ve effectively explained that I understand both sides of the argument and am open to having my mind changed. Nobody has really asked me and a lot of people just assume I got it, which has actually made things easier for me. I ignore it, they ignore me, and that suits me fine. They can’t legally ask me anyways, so I will have no issue waving that in the face of anyone who does. If/when it does receive licensing/regular approval and I get ordered to take it, I’ll ignore it for as long as I am able…which usually amounts to a year or two based on my experience with the flu shot (actually I’ve managed to ignore one mandatory vaccine for four years and counting). Long enough for long term studies to come out and I can more accurately gauge the risks involved.
It has got me thinking though…being libertarianish I’m generally against the FDA in principle and mistrust any government organization, but here I am waiting for their actual approval. I’ll still wait on long term studies, but waiting for government licensing approval while opposing the approving organization seems… hypocritical?
If not now, when? If not them, who?
When I’ve conducted a risk assessment which concludes that the risk of COVID outweighs the risk from an experimental vaccine, which may be never.
A trusted private certification body that doesn’t play political fuck-fuck games
Or was this a rhetorical question?
Report to the nearest Glibertarian re-education camp hypocrite.
Usually the long FDA approval process keeps potential cures/treatments from terminal patients. Now they green lighted a much abbreviated testing regime for a disease which is not an existential threat to humanity.
That kind of reinforces my hypocritical feeling. I’m waiting for approval from an organization who greenlighted an expedited process that I don’t approve of. All it really says to me is that I don’t really know what it is that I’m looking for, just that I am so skeptical of the entire situation that I don’t generally trust anyone, which isn’t good either for someone who believes that communities need to relearn how to trust each other to overcome the current prog-fascist agenda.
It’s all so confusing for a simpleton like me.
In the absence of an independent organization the role of which is forcibly co opted by the FDA there’s no hypocrisy involved.
Looks like tensions between Israel and Syria are heating up,
Hoping cooler heads prevail.
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/alarms-sound-in-south-of-israel-665953
If they’re making the claim that it was the Syrian government that’s doubtful.
I’m now on a list of those who have declined a vaccine when offered.
Coworker had a horrible reaction the the bad in the past week. Almost hospitalized. A young coworker.
Another one took today off to get pricked. A hardcore right winger. I shall mock him mercilessly from this point forward.
I’ve already stated it before, but here it is again: I ain’t getting it.
I’m open to it once it’s had time for long term study and I’m old and fat enough to be more vulnerable, providing it’s all okay.
Today, in nature: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
I am not getting it.
When people talk about getting the shot, i just keep my mouth shut.
I think i got it in late jan-early feb of 2020.
The main tutor on my college course said she isn’t getting it. She said if she has to get it to keep her job she’d rather quit. I think there are quite a few people who feel that way.
She’s about 6-7 years younger than me, and I got a call yesterday offering me the shot. I declined. I’m now on a list. That’s how they get ya. If you’re registered with a local GP surgery, you’re on a list. I’m registered due to chronic condition with long term prescription. They go down the list and call you up. It’s administrated locally so different areas will have different timescales but I believe everything is pretty well oiled when it comes to distribution. I declined so it means I’m marked off as having refused. It’s opt-out rather than opt-in. Opt-in would be so much better, but that’s not how it works.
Why not just lie and say you already got it somewhere else, then if you decide to get it in the future just and it comes up just say they must have made an error and you haven’t gotten it? I’d assume that the medical services there, like those here, make paperwork and records errors on a regular basis.
I guess it would really depend on who is asking and the approach they make.
Just remember, if they’re sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong you don’t owe them the truth.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcHaRZaMy8
Jennifer Aniston vs. The vibrating bra.
Got my first Moderna one last week, next one 10 May.
My managers are cool but there’s so much I want to do with my reserve unit and the CO of the facility I work at for my day job is a real overreactionary. (Granted he’s had cvid deaths in the family – and everyone in his family has caught it but in other cases he doesn’t follow the rules he sets for his subordinates for isolating).
I’m sick of drilling remotely because I’d have to isolate for 2 weeks upon return from Norfolk or anywhere else. Real waste of taxpayer $$$ and even if I’m on the govt teat I can still be a good steward.
And now I’m aiming for two reserve things in San Dog this summer (rescheduled).
I’m so glad I retired from the Reserves before all this COVID theater happened. I can’t imagine how my old unit would have been required to handle it with a significant number of the command structure commuting from all over the globe.
How do you drill “remotely”?
How do you retire from a part-time job ?
“Linux Foundation Bans University After It Intentionally Submitted Buggy Patches”
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-fellow-bans-university-contributing-kernel
The University of Minnesota…what the hell are they putting in the water up that way?
“Buggy” is such a judgemental white term. These are decolonized patches.
/I wish it were mere snark.
Maybe it was the opposite. They used master/slave or other forbidden terms.
Looks like it was a nonpolitical bad faith action.
They should be failed out of school.
Or are we not requiring ethics anymore?
Not gonna do it, I see no need,
Morning.
Good morning, U! I hope you didn’t get the snow we had yesterday.
I haven’t looked outside. I did ramble on in an email reply.
I saw! I’ve located “BoS” here for a re-read.
…and sent a brief reply to your reply.
And hello all my Friends, a clear cold day ahead, and an adventure awaits me,
Good morning, Yu! Safe travels!
I leave this time tomorrow, she is on my mind constantly, such fun,,
take a tampon with you
You’re bleeding
I am and that’s not a joke. I’ve been fighting a doozy of a nose-bleed since about 10 pm yesterday. I am out of Otrivin and all the pharmacies are closed. FML. It stops for awhile and then I need to sneeze. The taps open once again. Mornin’ all and best wishes to Bob on his voyage of discovery!
Yikes! Pardon my asking, but are you on any sort of blood-thinning meds, ‘scrip or OTC? Or is it just maybe dry air wreaking havoc with your nasal passages?
Used to have nosebleeds pretty regularly as a kid. Thankfully, hasn’t been a problem for many years. ::knocks wood gently::
Chronic issue. I did manage to stress meself out pretty well yesterday. BEAM turned me onto the wonder of Otrivin but I ran out. Plus Springtime. Lost an hour of actual productivity at work controlling it and then another hour of planned actions because, fuck it, I’m going home. No need to fret, this is par for the course…
Mornin Yusef.
Yahweh H. Koresh…never listen to OMWC when he says “Ive started a Zoom call”, and then leaves me with the likes of a drunk Straffin
So, Straffin
Ex-pats and Gaijin have a proclivity to drink all alone in parking lots for some reason that I cant understand.
Sounds like high school again but there were groups of us.
Gets him out the apartment for some fresh air and sanity. I think the kid is about 12/13 and warring with Mama-San. I’d also be drinking in a parking lot if I ever had to relive that experience again.
Ha ha ha! I’ll be drinking with him in meatspace this time tomorrow. We have another Glib scheduled to show up – he/she/it can inform you all if that’s OK with itself.
Finally more to do at work today than run around taking folks’ temps and plodding through returned member statements – Gotta cover some of Reliable Co-worker’s daily gotta-do’s while he’s off on his Florida vacation. I hope the aftereffects of his second COVID shot (which he got Monday evening) don’t kick in to ruin his trip. He’s a great kid.
Reliable help is like hen’s teeth, always has been. Glad that you lucked into one!
Morning. I really enjoy coming in to work at 4am because there is no one here and I can flaunt Hidin Biden’s EO on mask wearing.
FREEDOM!
Morning all!! Fully caffeinated and ready to make today my bitch.
Mr. Bear parked under tree for three hours last night. Judi couldn’t make him budge and she didn’t have the heart to call the C.O. Apparently he just laid on the grass, hoovering up bird seed that had fallen from the feeders. Groggy fellow. I should have been home. I would have used my patented bear-repelling stick and battle cry.
I’d watch that.
Mr Bear = Tonio ?
I need a scorecard to know whats going on.
Festus narrowly avoided getting mauled.
Last fall I chased one away with a piece of slat and belligerence. Even showed off the weapon on the Zoom.
I’m about to take a brisket out and make some runny fried AIGS to go with it.
Im kinda drunk, but Ive felt dizzy ever since I saw GT’s eyes yesterday
Now, hit that MOTHERFUCKIN THEME MUSIC!
Had to lay into both the teens yesterday as they slept through their check-in remote school day. On Wednesdays, rather than keep kids on a routine, our school district thought, “lets make Wednesdays a completely different schedule and start class check-ins via video at 11am” So natural, in my teens’ brains, they think school doesn’t start until 11am.
Well one didn’t wake up until 1pm and the other 3pm. Both missed all their classes. One immediately began working on all his missing work (granted Wednesday mornings are supposed to be self-study) and the other got me so riled up that I offered him a sweet deal if he thinks he doesn’t have to do what I tell him:
200/month rent of the room, I will provide a fridge and/or fridge space, you have to buy your own food except for water. 1/3rd all utilities.
His gripe? Why 1/3rd, there are 4 of us living here. Well your shithead brother sorta knuckled down after an asschewing, but you are more than welcome to get him on board with this and then your share will be 25%.
I hate teenagers. With a fiery passion of a 1000 suns.
https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2021/04/girl-charged-with-murder-in-stabbing-death-of-13-year-old-classmate-in-ohio.html
Kids being kids.
Checks out.
/grew up in gang-infested turf
That’s how all of those hair-pulling slap-fights ended when I was boy.
Aaaand now the powers that behave turned the nasal faucet back on again. Think I’ll need to eat a big steak tomorrow. 7 hours, now.
https://metv.com/stories/buddy-ebsen-once-battled-james-arness-in-a-yacht-race-across-the-pacific-ocean
*lights the Hyperbole signal*
I’m not getting it. I don’t do needles, not without a really good reason, and that reason doesn’t exist.
Welp. Mom and I are on another cross-country trek to NC, this time for my aunt and uncle’s memorial service. I have my hotspot and my electronics so I can keep up with you reprobates.
You’re not a mime, are you?
Never mind.
Get the shot?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
ME?!? The guy who wrote this?
Link fail:
this
But no. No, thank you.
I’m going to start answering certain things using word analogies, like the ones they give you on the SAT. I fucking loved those.
So, let me try my first:
Ozy : Govt Mandated Vaccines :: the guys you know who worked in a slaughterhouse : hot dogs