When a meteorologist says there will be unusually high temperatures, or unusually low temperatures, do you deny these facts? Do you just laugh with your silly little "lol" as the elderly die from these abnormally extreme temperatures? I do hope you respond and tell me, in great detail, the facts behind your gruesome and morbid laughter.
Then you should probably be taking measures to protect yourself from severe respiratory infections. You can remove a mask, but you can't remove pulmonary scarring.
Re. communications style, no, I am choosing to reflect a shitty sentiment brought into the discussion previously.
Have tried the high roads and proper form. There often isn’t very much there.
There is no position. Only impact. Only attention. Only self-respect. There is no position.
Regarding evidence: There is no need for interpretation of the evidence on SARS-CoV-2, on transmission mechanics or the harm it is capable of causing. It’s either based on reading the literature or not.
—To expand on that: Any conclusions of COVID being harmless or like other common illnesses, or inevitable, or unstoppable always–always–require blatantly ignoring concrete and clear results based on verified physics or molecular biology.
Do you really trust the literature? I was a scientist for a few decades and I find much of biomedical literature to be ... hard to draw conclusions from. My PhD is in Biophysics and I've studied viruses in detail; I don't have the level of confidence you do in your beliefs.
I think I’m often ascribed beliefs and desires I do not have. It’s often accompanied by people reaching for “your beliefs” and “your beliefs” some more. I point to precisely what I wrote. SARS-CoV-2 is not a death machine but it is not harmless. It is not like other common respiratory illnesses. Infection is not inevitable and COVID-19 is not unstoppable as the transmission of it is by aerosol and that can be filtered out of the air.
I mean you are free to keep masking, but the rest of us have paid our dues and aren't going to live the rest of our lives in constant fear.
Its nothing personal, but if you're in a uniquely high-risk position its typically on you to take precautions, not every other living being in your country.
“What the fuck is wrong with you?”—what I said—is not nice.
“Maybe just don't even go out in public!” is not nice either. It did not at all have to be that way that my unborn and newly born child and his mother— both high-risk-from-COVID—were in extreme social isolation during the pandemic. We weren’t isolated because we isolated ourselves. We were isolated to our surprise and grief because people simply dropped out of contact due to the hostile socially accepted sentiment captured so well by “Maybe just don't even go out in public!”. Not nice. Not nice at all. There was a gross and ugly and blatant societal failure to protect infants. Infants.
I ask again: Who are you fighting? What is the cause?
An unborn child is strictly dependent upon the placenta for survival, let alone for development and maturation of physiological structures which we only get one of per life
time and we are hard-dependent on.
> It sounds like you have a lot of unresolved fear about Covid that you're not dealing with in a healthy way (denial, lashing out, projecting). Maybe seek out a mental health professional to talk through things, it might help.
I appreciate the concern, but I'm actually quite okay. I know many people who do continue to live in fear of COVID however, insisting on continuing mask and vaccine mandates. One even refuses to leave his house, opting to have food and groceries delivered all so he can avoid potentially catching COVID by going in public.
> The people wearing masks aren't living in "constant fear" any more than the people wearing seatbelts in their car are living in "constant fear" of car accidents.
There may be a portion of people who treat wearing a mask just the same as wearing a seatbelt, but in my anecdotal experience everyone I know who still actually masks is quite fanatical about it.
Anecdotal, but I've tripped with two people who showed seizure like symptoms that they never had before or since.
Couldn't find any data at the time. Tried to get them to submit experience reports on erowid so that there would be some data out there, but they didn't want to put anything about it in writing.
Yeah, I grew them. I didn't sequence them for identification, but they were phenotypically P. Cubensis, as advertised on the spore syringe.
In neither case was it a big deal in the long run (not exactly great vibes in the short term though). I used to be a pretty enthusiastic user, so "just two times" is indeed uncommon.
Hopefully with the recent trend of decriminalization we can get together some respected data about this sort of thing. I still believe that psilocybin has been a net positive thing for most people who have tried it (including these two cases).
Even if the seizure thing were confirmed, all the conventional wisdom re: tripping remains unchanged. Be in a safe place with trusted people, consider a trip sitter, etc. On the other hand, I think having the data might help drive some better decisions: Situations you might avoid (e.g. swimming), etc.
A tangential anecdote... I took a Pfizer COVID booster vaccine and saw my heart rate go up to resting above 100 on my calorie tracker watch. I talked with my doctor about this. He said he stayed away from the COVID boosters because they weren't a good balance of risk vs safety. I asked him whether high resting heart rates were a side effect. He said, no, there's no data for that, but there is data that it has an impact on heart rates.
I said, if there's no data, that means the vaccine isn't the source? He said, no, there's no data because I didn't report it.
Informed consent is a principle in medical ethics, medical law and media studies, that a patient must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about their medical care. Pertinent information may include risks and benefits of treatments, alternative treatments, the patient's role in treatment, and their right to refuse treatment. In most systems, healthcare providers have a legal and ethical responsibility to ensure that a patient's consent is informed. This principle applies more broadly than healthcare intervention, for example to conduct research and to disclose a person's medical information.
The booster shots are not mandatory in most countries. Your doctor should have informed you of the benefits and side effects of the booster shots, so there's no point in commenting on it here.
My brother has this permanently, though whether a delayed reaction to the booster or from when he got COVID itself (a relatively mild case) not long after, there's no way to know.
It has been a major detriment to his day to day life though. Any physically involved hobbies are impossible; just walking up a flight or two of stairs now leaves him completely winded for several minutes, as his heart rate also takes longer to come back to resting than before.
He's seen all the specialists. I think they ultimately came down on neurological damage, and tried a battery of drugs until they found some that slightly mitigated the problem. Last we talked about it, though, it hasn't been fully resolved.
Remember when the authorities pulled the JnJ vaccine due to adverse events after it was administered to millions of people? It seems some caution was warranted, no?
I'm being asked on a regular basis by various health practitioners (pretty much on every visit) if I ever had uneven or elevated heart rate after my covid shots (I had), then they take note which specific vaccine brand I had. So - adjust your priors ;-)
Which to me makes very little sense in a "laptop". It's pretty good at helping the device stay cool, but you will regret wearing shorts should your processor or GPU really need to get work done, should you actually have it on your lap.
I know I’m not going to get results from smaller pages when I search google. It makes me think I might as well make a list of 20 popular websites and just search all of those and collate the results
Repealing the Second is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition. It should be followed up by passing and enforcement of restrictive gun legislation. No grandfather clauses, you have 120 days to obtain a license or your guns will be seized.
American gun owners are like Arch Linux users: you know who they are because they'll tell you. They might clam up after the gun laws pass, but the FBI and ATF will still know where to conduct raids to nab a few high-profile targets.
