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Not Ireland too
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Itâs boring and lame to describe Kareem as âHall-of-Famerâ when you could also describe him as âJeopardy winner,â âGame of Death co-star,â or âSherlock Holmes fanfic author.â
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When you read the top of the post and see the yadontsay.gif in your head, then itâs correctly used at the bottom of the post. Chefs kiss
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(Crosspost from covid memes thread. First hike of the season yesterday and there were a million dogs on the trail we wanted to play with but somebody said âya know, dogs can still get covidâ and it just sparked from there.)
Speaking of covid memes and jokes, I posted this 20 months ago in late January 2020.
It was based on a conversation I had in a cardroom, probably the last time I was in a casino. I let a floor guy know that one of the hand sanitizer dispensers was empty and encouraged him to get it refilled.
âThereâs this thing called the CoronaVirus going around, you know,â I half-joked.
âWhatâs that, you want a Corona? Iâll send one right over.â
Har-de-har. Simpler times.
So I regret having made this obviously, but I think it provides an opportunity to reflect on everything thatâs happened in the interim. The surreality of those first few weeks. The confusion, anxiety, isolation, uncertainty, terror. The loss, sadness, and grief.
And of course the early and continuing politicization of the whole thing. The sowing of doubt and misinformation, the encouragement of anti-science and anti-expert views. And now the continued rising vehemence and militancy of the anti-mask and anti-vaccine zealots.
It seems crazy to me that weâve basically known from the beginning how to beat this thing back. It would have taken a sizable investment of money and willpower, but consistent messaging and action on masks, distancing, and contact tracing would have made a huge difference.
And now weâve had good vaccines for 9 months and barely half of Americans have gotten it? Thousands per day still dying? Nobody would have believed this story 20 months ago. I donât know where we go from here.
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I think another stimulus , like maybe $1500 per vaccinated person. Basically we are gonna have to pay people to take it.
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Kareem GOAT
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Did Montana gov Gianforte consult with Facebook and the Ivermectin docs before getting treatment for the train victims? Did the people that died have other conditions?
Sorry I saw that fuck face on my TV acting all concerned and it made my blood boil knowing they have people lined up in hallways in hospitals.
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Thread continues. Seems pretty obvious youâre a dick when you name is basically an anagram of murder u.
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Tony Murder was just too late to save his friend Joe.
Docs had already basically killed him since they wanted their Covid commission!
Good news, everyone! The monoclonal antibody therapy the Republicans are hawking may help generate new mutant strains that escape the therapies (and potentially the vaccines)!
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For people who tend to not believe in evolution they really know how to help the evolutionary process.
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Not a virologist, but an anti-vax friend claims the vaccines are what caused the Delta variant. Is that a popular argument among the anti-vaxxers?
I donât really have my finger on the pulse of the anti-vaxxers, but Iâm not too surprised. Itâs obvious nonsense â the delta variant emerged from India before anyone, especially not anyone in India, had the vaccine in appreciable numbers â although I grant that this wonât be persuasive to any anti-vaxxers.
Theyâve got a video of a random person in a lab coat that refutes your position.
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iâm not aware of any large scale vax trials conducted in india at the time, although it is possible those studies exist.
still, even playing devilâs advocate here, there may have been something like 10-20 different vaccine candidates that made it to human trials. they were tested all over the world, with sample sizes somewhere in the tens of thousands. the chances that delta rose out of one of them are very-very slim. probabilistically, 1m of potentially severe infections of unvaccinated has a better chance of producing a more deadly potent variant than 10k mild infections of those who are vaccinated.
but in almost any study we have seen so far, vaccinated people in trials created much lower numbers of infections. it would be very unlikely for a deadlier variant to emerge while being essentially symptom-free in the vax group.
We ran the largest prevention trials. They were for the vaccines. I personally took part in rct of therapeutics (well I was blinded not actually doing the work or writing the study but yeah). Nonsense. Just because work isnât centralized like it is in RECOVERY doesnât mean it doesnât exist.
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