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Muse
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Philosopher
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2006
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen" - Albert Einstein "... education as the means of developing our greatest abilities" - JFK https://folding.stanford.edu/ fold with your computer - join team 13232 |
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Observer of Phenomena
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2005
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I love this world, but not for its answers. (Mary Oliver) Quand il dit "cuic" le moineau croit tout dire. (When he's tweeted the sparrow thinks he's said it all. (Jules Renard) |
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Illuminator
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#1769 |
Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Extract doesn’t seem very earthy.
“The classic method incorporates extraction with organic solvents such as acetone, acetonitrile, ethyl acetate, and methanol.”Also, do you know how VitD is synthesised? Not very earthy either. Your belief systems just don’t seem to be consistent. |
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"A closed mouth gathers no feet" "Ignorance is a renewable resource" P.J.O'Rourke "It's all god's handiwork, there's little quality control applied", Fox26 reporter on Texas granite You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. Art Buchwald |
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Winter is Coming
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Oh good, Caroline is back! Maybe now she can answer me?
I mean, we wouldn't want to make people think she was being intellectually dishonest, would we? |
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Naturalism adjusts it's principles to fit with the observed data. It's a god of the facts world view. -joobz When I give food to the poor they call me a saint, when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist - Hélder Câmara |
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#1771 |
Illuminator
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Central California Coast
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Probably shouldn't post this question, but the old CTist in me can't help it.
Why don't COVID-19 CTists see the virus as a dry-run for a future NWO bio-weapon? Governments and NGOs around the globe are collecting all kinds of data on how exactly the virus spread, who got it, and why they were infected: Higher rates in Minorities? Check. Loud Mouth anti-government types refusing to take basic precautions? Check. If there was some secret NWO out there it has become obvious how to cull the population, and eliminate resistance without ever firing a shot. There was a time the good CTists would have thought this way, |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: I live in a swamp
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What do you mean "oh please"? Answer the question. This is how science works. You just don't know what you're talking about and don't care that the advice you give could kill people. What you're doing is immoral, vile and despicable. Do you want to kill people? That's how you're acting. Do you think it's funny?
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2010
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Resident Skeptical Hobbit
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Waging war on woo-woo in Winnipeg
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The social illusion reigns to-day upon all the heaped-up ruins of the past, and to it belongs the future. The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd, 1895 (from the French) Canadian or living in Canada? PM me if you want an entry on the list of Canadians on the forum. |
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#1775 |
Philosopher
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney Nova Scotia
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Well there's your problem. Any "CTist" who thinks anything will be accomplished by posting inane thoughts on this obscure message board is not even worthy of the name.
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Ewige Blumenkraft
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Ivory Tower
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I know nobody who is sick and dying of "Covid-19". I know a lot of people who are sick and dying of "the measures", though. Fascism kills. Fear is the virus.
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If they want the pandemic to end, they just have to stop testing. Then people will die of the flu again, like they did before - Wolfgang Wodarg |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2002
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Lucky you. Living in Germany you must be very fortunate, have a comparatively narrow circle of acquaintances, be underplaying the effects on people you know or some combination of all three.
A number of close friends have caught Covid-19, several have been very sick, some are still feeling the effects weeks and months later. One of Mrs Don's uncles died from Covid-19, her mother's best friend died with Covid-19. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Where there's never a road broader than the back of your hand.
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On a related note:
It occurred to me this morning that, if, as the CTs would have it, the vaccine is deliberately designed to be fatal, as part of this supposed depopulation programme, then the vaccine would be a really bad way of achieving this. All the 'sheeple' would take the vaccine, and all the 'fearless resistance fighters' would refuse. The weapon, then, would cull all those MOST likely to go along with the Government's Evil Plan, and leave alive those most likely to resist it. Utterly self-defeating. Why would they do this? It makes no sense at all. |
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Maledictorian
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Dental Floss Tycoon
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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Ewige Blumenkraft
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If they want the pandemic to end, they just have to stop testing. Then people will die of the flu again, like they did before - Wolfgang Wodarg |
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#1785 |
Student
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Philosopher
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney Nova Scotia
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Think a little. Is there a potential for an individual with heart disease or a person skydiving to spread a potentially lethal disease to others?
Actual human beings worthy of the name have empathy for their fellow people. This is the epitome of the idiocy of wanting freedom without responsibility. Almost makes you sound like an American conservative. |
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Ewige Blumenkraft
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If they want the pandemic to end, they just have to stop testing. Then people will die of the flu again, like they did before - Wolfgang Wodarg |
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Dental Floss Tycoon
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I'm not sure if you genuinely missed the point, or if you're being deliberately obtuse. You've taken my response to your first claim and applied it to your second, while ignoring my second point. Erroneous or deliberate, we may as well proceed as if it's a failure of comprehension on your part.
My first point about knowing anyone who's died of heart disease in the last ten months highlights your statistical fallacy. Heart disease is the number one killer in the world. But most people don't know many people who die of heart disease in any given ten month period. But an individual anecdote about such a lack of personal association doesn't mean that heart disease is a myth. If I could eliminate heart disease deaths by wearing a mask for a tiny percentage of my life, I'd gladly do it. And I wouldn't whine about it like a big baby. But heart disease isn't spread by people as they exhale, is it? So that point is a non sequitur. Skydiving is a similarly ludicrous analogy, because if you skydive, you are taking a chance with your own life, and not randomly risking the lives of others. A better analogy would be speeding in an automobile on public roads. The "personal risk" argument falls apart because it isn't just you being put at risk when you ignore the dangers. |
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Dental Floss Tycoon
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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Muse
Join Date: Mar 2020
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Which several of us DID and found nothing supporting any of your claims and a whole heap of things, including from a couple of the Merkinanian hospitals you said supported it, saying that it does nowt - that's nada, zilch, naff all, sod all, nothing.
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Ewige Blumenkraft
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Schrödinger's cat
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#1793 |
Dental Floss Tycoon
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Traffic deaths are a fact of life, too. Are you going to call speed limits, traffic signals, seat belt laws and manufacturer safety standards "fascism"? There's very little that you or I can do to prevent heart disease in others by modifying our own behavior. But there's a hell of a lot we can personally do to reduce the risk of others dying in a traffic accident.
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Illuminator
Join Date: Mar 2012
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During my appointment with my Pulmonologist yesterday we discussed COVID-19. She said it has been a nightmare, both the virus itself, and the state and county's response to it. California has screwed up testing beyond repair. The current vaccine distribution is a mess.
She said she and her colleagues have never seen something like COVID-19. The virus is amazingly contagious, and it hits fast. A patient can be fine one day and on a ventilator the next. The appointment was done online. If the virus was fake we would have met in person. |
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Muse
Join Date: Jan 2021
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Well, the latest on the vaccines, the J&J will not be given to the older folks, being saved for the youngins, this vaccine supposedly is not as strong as the 2 being used now. All these rushed vaccines and so much I believe to be known as time goes on.
Just so glad the vaccine is not on my list of "things to do"... Thanks but no thanks big pharma and big govt. Give me my Vit C, D, Zinc and and and. |
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Graduate Poster
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Philosopher
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Penultimate Amazing
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I think you're being obtuse, and insofar as you continue with an analogy, it's more than a little absurd.
Heart disease is not contagious of course, but it is also the target of huge, varied efforts in numerous fields. Doctors, drug makers, food manufacturers, advertisers, public service organizations, gymnasia, health experts and health quacks, all push heart healthiness. It's a huge concern and a huge industry. Because it is not contagious, the attention given it is not so obvious, the "hissy" of a different sort, but it's also blindingly obvious that it's taken seriously whether or not you care to observe it. |
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