Hospitals that are pro-life don’t have to “turn away people seeking abortions.” They simply don’t allow any of their staff to perform abortions on the premises, assuming they would even allow an abortion provider to join the hospital staff.
This is borderline disinformation. He’s citing 4 papers that were published by the CDC, among other sources. To assert that they’re all invalid because of the same unspecified statistical error (which incidentally seems to only show up consistently across studies, but only when you look at Pfizer data and not Moderna) is really out there.
Need to vent cause I couldn’t lose my shit at these dipshits. A few guys at my poker table (I’m working, thus the no losing my shit) started talking about COVID. “In September 2020 there were 9 million cases and no vaccinated people. Now there are 170m vaccinated and 30 million cases. It’s just math. We’re all math people here so its pretty fucking obvious that the vaccines dont work AND are causing covid to spread.” Multiple people agreeing with this dipshit.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THESE FUCKING ASSHOLE DUMBASS MOTHER FUCKERS ARE SO FUCKING STUPID!!!
And that was clearly a stat from some fake news facebook meme thats probably spreading faster than Delta, so fuck social media too. I just can’t deal with this level of stupid any longer.
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Are you saying a cop can opt out of protecting a gay person because it’s against his/her religion belief?
Imo you goddamn well are a slave and duty bound to do your job. This includes pharmacists filling birth control scripts and cabbies transporting alcohol. If they don’t like it they can find another job that suits their dumb beliefs
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Because of the constitution? I’m pretty sure forcing someone to take an injection they don’t want would be a civil rights violation. But we sure as hell can alienate them from hospitals, schools, and civil society
I guess if you signed some sort of contract stating you would provide X services, that would be one thing. But (and let’s forget about COVID for a second) there is nothing stopping a family practitioner or OB/GYN or whatever from starting a practice and only offering certain services. If you don’t like that, then you can see a different doc that does provide those services.
This actually happens quite frequently for benign reasons. For example I know someone who is an OB/GYN who is older and basically semi-retired. She only works a couple of days a week. She doesn’t deliver babies or do any obstetrics. She doesn’t want to have to be available at all hours to deliver babies. She only does gynecology and if a patient gets pregnant, she refers that patient to a colleague to manage the pregnancy. She is very up front about this (and most of her patients are older ones that she has known for years, so it’s basically a non-issue).
Obviously, when it comes to emergency care, the discussion is a bit different. But the general principle of doctor=slave (or really any profession for that matter) is false. Unless you’re discriminating against a protected class (e.g., “I won’t treat Black people”), there is no reason why a doctor or lawyer or accountant or whatever can’t choose to limit what they do and only provide those services.
I agree private practices and companies should be allowed to service and turn away whoever they want. But if you work for a PUBLIC hospital or a company that provides a service (like Walgreens offering birth control), then you either do your job or get fired imo
See my post above. If it’s a private practice, I agree. But if they work for a publicly funded company or for a company where a service is part of their policy and you were hired as being qualified to fulfill that policy, I do not agree
I did specify the error: the same one in the Israeli study, in which you obscure the true signal by not being sufficiently granular in your treatment of the data when different subgroups perform very differently. Looking at waning vaccine effectiveness as a function of time since vaccinated in bulk population is fundamentally flawed because of the disparate ages of people in their times since vaccination. The same data could be used to show that the vaccines are more effective in a younger population than an older one, something we know to be true for basically every other vaccine.
Two weeks have no passed since my 2nd jab, which means I’m technically free and clear as of today. Yet I don’t feel any different. Were you guys able to just shift instantly into “I’m safe now” mode and immediately start meeting friends, family, going out, and otherwise resuming your lives?
I’m planning a trip into Tokyo next week–the first in over half a year–with tentative plans to meet up with some friends–the first such meetings in close to two years. Should I just suddenly feel perfectly safe to do so?
It’s hard to express. I feel like I’ve been living alone in the wilderness for the past two years and now must learn how to reintegrate myself into society.
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Ok, but why does this effect only appear for Pfizer?
Not immediately.
Thing was that even after I got the second shot, there was still a lockdown ongoing though it was loosening. So I was dealing with anxiety attacks trying to return to the outside world and doing stuff around people.
After some exposure to the outdoors, I was fine though.
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No, and I’m not there now either.
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In the last tweet in that thread? I’m not totally sure, but it doesn’t seem out of the realm that the sample size is pretty small, and that it it may be more unequal than the others.
Meeting friends and family who were vaccinated in small indoor gatherings mostly normally? Yeah. Going out? No. I ate indoors maskless a few times right around the trough between this wave and the previous, but it wasn’t all that normal, and that was about the only maskless indoor activity I had out in public when vaccinated.
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I wouldn’t say the papers are making a mistake so much as they’re making an orthogonal point about vaccine effectiveness.
https://twitter.com/mugecevik/status/1439309814069403653?s=20
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Interesting. Here I’ve been eating indoors the whole time–though carefully, so have little apprehension about that. I’m more nervous about face-to-face meetings with friends (even vaxxed ones)–something I haven’t done even once since this all started.
Man. I’m jealous. Tokyo is awesome. No advice other than to get drunk on grapefruit sours.
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You haven’t been face to face with a friend in over 17 months?!
Not making fun, just curious. I can’t even imagine