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What does an overpaid, self absorbed snowflake have to do with my point (which you missed). Given the option of playing football or making a political point, he made the call. Good for him (I really don't care, I don't follow football). BSBD, Winsor

To a good comedian, yeah. When "Hogan's Heroes" premiered, people were horrified. Nazi humor?!! Not to mention "The Producers" and its "Springtime for Hitler." Mick Jagger nailed it when he said "fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." As I said up front, Woke is a joke and those who embrace the ethos are singularly humorless. BSBD, Winsor

In a sense I agree with you, but sometimes I have a hard time accepting outrage as legitimate. Suburbanite kids getting all in a lather after reading "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" have a quite different perspective than Lakota who have are intimately familiar with the basics. I also dislike double standards, where Eddie Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg - who are children of the suburbs - are given a pass on racist diatribes where white comedians are held to account for humor that is much, much tamer. Chris Rock is the Stepin Fetchit (professional stereotype) of today. I really don't expect much of anyone to consider my standards. Members of the Cult of the Magic Jewish Zombie appear to assume that my lack of belief is because I am uninformed, and it never seems to dawn on them that I have every bit as much reason to be offended by their stance as they might be by mine. I do not seek to tell people what to think, and I begrudge them the authority to inflict their limitations on me. BSBD, Winsor

It's only a lie if you know the difference. You have misinformed, the Holy Typo, differing definitions (what does '30% cleaner' mean, anyway), and outright cluelessness. I'm sure there is a subset in which it is precisely "94% 'effective.'" It's all how you look at it, actually. The fact that it's bullshit is immaterial. BSBD, Winsor

Equal parts snarkiness and sanctimony. Well done!

Woke - a disease of denial. Shown here at its finest.

Not really. Racism's racism. Either it's okay or it's not, and I say it's not.

Nothing like moving the goalposts: The prior CDC Definitions of Vaccine and Vaccination (August 26, 2021): The CDC Definitions of Vaccine and Vaccination since September 1, 2021:

Same here. The likelihood that I spend time with someone off duty was and is unrelated to ethnicity, social status or whatever. I have known people from humble beginnings who did phenomenally well, others not so well. Same thing goes for the silver spoon crowd. I reserve the right to treat people as individuals, which is anathema to Woke. BSBD, Winsor

The answer to racism is not racism. The answer to injustice is not further injustice. The answer to inequality is not "equity." DeMorgan's Theorem involves achieving elegant results by changing what is or is not true (high or low true), and it is remarkably useful. Having said that, the 'reframing' upon which Woke is based is profoundly dishonest. 'Woke' is proof of my observation that Orwell was an optimist. BSBD, Winsor

Often they are being ignored because they are chock full of shit.

The endless references to 'science' are more reminiscent of Thomas Dolby than Louis Pasteur. It would be refreshing to have data to support the various stances, hopefully correlated with a vanishingly small P value. Enough of the papers I've come across indicate that the mRNA vaccines are both leaky and allow further spread of infection at a pace identical to that of the unvaccinated. Hardly 'the most effective vaccines ever developed in human history.' The hysteria surrounding the pandemic seems to be augmented by the Dunning Kruger effect, if anything. BSBD, Winsor

Amusing that you used the same quote from "The Boxer" that comes to mind whenever I come up against any strongly entrenched position w.r.t. the pandemic. I've received three doses of the Pfizer vaccine, but find this unsurprising: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635 If the vaccines were anything as effective as everyone hoped, herd immunity would be a reality. As it is, it is not even a consideration at this point. BSBD, Winsor

It would have been nice, after enduring 4 years of Trump, to have someone competent at the top. Better luck next time, eh?

No toad sex.

By and large I agree with you. My problem is that the vaccine does precious little to halt infection, given the references already cited, and has the potential to cause harm due to the cytotoxic nature of the spike proteins generated and its propensity for migrating: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/06/04/we-made-a-big-mistake-covid-vaccine-spike-protein-travels-from-injection-site-can-cause-organ-damage/ This source smacks of www.tinfoilhat.com, but the data check out. I've personally gone whole hog on the vaccine, but the benefit analysis for, say, an 11 year old kid is not as clear cut. Getting immunity from an asymptomatic case of the delta variant may well pose less overall risk than that of the vaccine migrating to prepubescent testes. If I hadn't seen permanent side effects of the vaccine, or if its efficacy was better, the decision would be simpler. Having worked in the industry for decades, I try to keep the skepticism in check. BSBD, Winsor

Please be so good as to explain away the study I cited that shows, to a high degree of assurance, absolutely no correlation between percent of the population vaccinated and rate of infection. If vaccination conferred herd immunity as would be expected, there should be maximum infection in countries with the lowest rates of vaccination and minimum infection in those with the highest rates of vaccination. Instead, there is, if anything, a higher rate of infection in the countries with the highest rate of vaccination. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/#CR4 "Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States" and "The sole reliance on vaccination as a primary strategy to mitigate COVID-19 and its adverse consequences needs to be re-examined, especially considering the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant and the likelihood of future variants. Other pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions may need to be put in place alongside increasing vaccination rates. Such course correction, especially with regards to the policy narrative, becomes paramount with emerging scientific evidence on real world effectiveness of the vaccines." This is not from www.tinfoilhat.com. The net benefit of the vaccine is, unfortunately, quite marginal overall. BSBD, Winsor

Who? If the rate of vaccination is statistically insignificant w.r.t. the rate of infection, the vaccine sucks out loud. What part of that confuses you?

Having had breakthrough infections to previous vaccinations (Polio, Smallpox), I still get pretty much every vaccine I can. However, I am reminded of Chief Dan George's observation "sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't." As vaccines go, the efficacy of the current crop of COVID-19 vaccines is truly abysmal: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/#CR4 It's good that we have made progress, but we are in no position to rest on our laurels. I hope that whatever comes next is much, much better. BSBD, Winsor

Given the relatively poor efficacy of the mRNA vaccine to prevent infection https://www.scribd.com/document/535734554/s-1473309921006484#from_embed the propensity of the vaccine to migrate from the vaccination site https://www.docdroid.net/xq0Z8B0/pfizer-report-japanese-government-pdf and the cytotoxicity of the spike protein, I'm more than leery about giving the vaccine to prepubescent children. If the upside was more clearly compelling than the downside, I'd be cool with it. Frankly, I'd love to come across convincing data to support the use of the vaccine in kids, but I'm underwhelmed so far. BSBD, Winsor

Well, we called him 'Sally' because it was easier than Salvatore. Sometimes 'Sal' would do.

Like girls going to a resort to find husbands and husbands going to a resort to find girls, things are not always as balanced as they may seem: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385 You can't make this shit up.

Just don't call me late for dinner.

You are a remarkably bad guesser.

This video is rife with irony: It is evil without being banal. BSBD, Winsor