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13th March 2022, 08:54 AM | #281 |
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13th March 2022, 08:56 AM | #282 |
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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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14th March 2022, 05:44 AM | #283 |
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Looks like he is suffering from performance anxiety and is already starting to back out of his claim.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com...&postcount=370 |
17th March 2022, 12:43 AM | #284 |
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17th March 2022, 01:10 AM | #285 |
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17th March 2022, 01:56 AM | #286 |
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17th March 2022, 04:13 AM | #287 |
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17th March 2022, 04:16 AM | #288 |
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17th March 2022, 01:21 PM | #289 |
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I understand your sentiment, but by copying their callous behavior, in any manner at all, you at least begin to become that which you dislike. An eye for an eye philosophy only results in an increased population of the blind. Education and effective punitive measures are the best solutions, it's just that they're not easy, nor are they one-size-fits all. It's similar to when an adult acts like a child - it is reasonable to treat them as a child, but not as a child yourself would. Instead you treat them as an adult would treat a child that is acting in a particular way. That provides the best solution within the best moral framework.
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17th March 2022, 02:00 PM | #290 |
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I hope these pro-vaccine oppressors and sheep burn in hell forever:
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17th March 2022, 02:25 PM | #291 |
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17th March 2022, 02:25 PM | #292 |
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I'm somewhere in the middle on this one.
The deeper issue is that anti-vaxxers have been lied to. And lied to in a way where they choose to believe the lies over the facts. Look at all the COVID-19 CT threads and the consistent theme is that the anti-vaxxers will exclusively link to quack and woo websites (Natural News is common) to support their points. They've trapped themselves in an social echo-chamber where there can be no intellectual escape. The other side is automatically wrong, no matter what the facts are. Context? They don't need context. So when some local COVID-19 CT nutjob dies from the virus, I feel sorry for them. On the other hand, when some high-profile COVID-19 anti-vaxxer croaks, I giggle. My job in hospitality has given me some perspective. I have been lectured by people as to why they don't have to wear masks, and why our COVID-19 protocols are a waste of time. The hilarious part is the same words and lines of logic they employ are identical to the arguments I get from homeless junkies when I tell them to mask up. If the anti-vaxxers and junkies are on the same wave length it tells me everything I need to know about their thought process. I don't wish anyone dead, but I don't grieve for anti-vaxxers. |
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17th March 2022, 02:45 PM | #293 |
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17th March 2022, 02:57 PM | #294 |
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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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17th March 2022, 04:51 PM | #295 |
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17th March 2022, 04:54 PM | #296 |
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17th March 2022, 05:49 PM | #297 |
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Don't really care what happens to anti-vax, anti-science, reality-denying plague rats. Have a gander here at the dangerous disinformation they spew even as they die from COVID. They deserve as much consideration as killer drunk drivers, which is to say, none at all.
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17th March 2022, 06:30 PM | #298 |
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Again, neither attitudes do anything to lessen the problem, and only fill your own thoughts with hate - not a healthy thing to do for anyone. Just as the anti-vax/mask/etc. people are stuck in their cesspool of misinformation, so are you becoming mired in your own destructive tar pits. I am as guilty as anyone of having similar tendencies, but at least I try to recognize and mitigate them.
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18th March 2022, 11:48 AM | #299 |
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Yes, in fact, the overwhelming majority of people who get sick and die are vaccinated peopeles. they are (vaccinated peopes) also responsible for new variants of .They are also exploding cancer, heart attacks and strokes ...
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18th March 2022, 03:51 PM | #301 |
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19th March 2022, 08:57 AM | #303 |
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If you really believed that vaccinated people are getting sick and dying en masse, you would not be wasting your time berating people on an obscure internet forum. You'd be too busy stocking up on food, medicine, fresh water, and figuring out how to live a self-sustaining lifestyle. You'd be homesteading, installing solar panels/wind turbines, digging a well, figuring out how to protect yourself from looters, raising chickens and other animals, etc. It would also be a good idea to dig some massive burn pits because nothing mucks up the groundwater like rotting piles of dead bodies.
Unless you are doing all of those things in between your little rants, then I do not believe that you believe what you just wrote. |
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Exploding cancer?
Sounds nasty. |
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19th March 2022, 04:06 PM | #306 |
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All valid - and pretty much where I am - except that I don't work in a hospital.
The highlighted. There's a reason why Russia was pushing antivax narratives. If you fall for one conspiracy theory, in order to preserve it, you need to reject reason. And that makes you ideal prey for other conspiracy theories, and yet another useful idiot for Putin. He might also get lucky and encourage some stochastic terrorism too. |
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20th March 2022, 03:34 AM | #307 |
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Largest study yet shows ivermectin failed to reduce covid hospitalizations compared to placebo.
It's snake oil. https://www.motherjones.com/politics...pitalizations/ |
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These studies are not real scientific studies. They adjust the conditions as they work. Both the dosage and the time and duration of use of the substance are adjusted in such a way that it does not always work. If a study shows that a natural remedy works, it's being swept under the rug. Otherwise, they have found a cheap and safe treatment for all kinds of diseases, including cancer. But they never allow the truth. They want to reduce the world's population and want to make money from chemical drugs and expensive products. But they don't need money anymore these last days. They just want to reduce/destroy you. The media is in their hands, the so-called science world is in their hands. An internet was free and they are taking over it fast. Good lucks. |
20th March 2022, 04:36 AM | #309 |
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20th March 2022, 04:54 AM | #310 |
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There is nothing in the article's summary of the study to indicate that this actually happened. Citation needed.
You should also look up 'peer review', a concept you are clearly unfamiliar with. *Cosmic Yak eyes aspirin thoughtfully* For example? Once again, your ignorance is showing. We already have a cheap and safe way of preventing many diseases: it's called vaccination. The HPV vaccine, for example, has reduced rates of cervical cancer by up to 90%. You are the one opposing safe treatments for diseases, Emre, not the medical establishment. https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/20...rvical-cancer/ Whoever 'they' are, they are not doing a very good job, as the world's population continues to increase. Also, the gaping hole in this logic is that this stupid conspiracy involves businesses killing their own customers. I take it you know as little about business as you do, well, pretty much everything else, Emre. Take it from me: killing your customers is not a good business plan. Evidence again needed for this latest claim. Who are 'they', and what evidence do you have that they want to reduce the world's population. Any mention of Bill Gates, by the way, qualifies as an instant fail. These last days. If by that you mean because we're all going to something something um err maybe, because an invisible solar system is going to magically materialise in the earth's atmosphere in two days' time, then I need to ask you if you've seen any of these elites leaving for high ground yet? Oh, and you don't need money either, don't forget. You've got until tomorrow to send me the contents of your bank account, or everyone will see what a little liar you are. He's got the whole, wide world in his hands..... Emre, this is unsupported rubbish. If the media is controlled, how do you know about all this evil plotting? Think for a minute, even a few seconds, and you will realise that all this guff is just guff. Really. It's nonsense. |
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20th March 2022, 05:01 AM | #311 |
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20th March 2022, 09:24 AM | #313 |
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Edward Mills and coworkers ivermectin study
"The latest trial conducted in Brazil involved 1,358 adults with COVID-19 symptoms. All study participants were at risk of developing the severe form of the disease with a history of pre-existing conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, or lung disease. Half of them received Ivermectin pills for three days, and the other half received a placebo." link
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20th March 2022, 01:49 PM | #318 |
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Not Numskulls like everyone else?
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20th March 2022, 08:06 PM | #319 |
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anti-vaxxers on the gravy train
At Substack Dr. Eric Topol wrote, "Perhaps you’ve read the Guardian piece on the anti-vaxxers, such as Alex Berenson, Robert Malone, Joseph Mercola and others, who have a major presence on Substack and are making large amounts of money via subscriptions. Before that piece arrived, when I first posted on Substack in December, some of these individuals organized a vicious, ad hominem attack through comments on my welcome post that necessitated me taking down the comment section."
At The Guardian, "A group of vaccine-sceptic writers are generating revenues of at least $2.5m (£1.85m) a year from publishing newsletters for tens of thousands of followers on the online publishing platform Substack, according to new research. Prominent figures in the anti-vaccine movement including Dr Joseph Mercola and Alex Berenson have large followings on Substack, which has more than 1 million paying subscribers who sign up for individual newsletters..." |
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