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crowley said:

JWSC said:

Your biggest error was bringing up masks.  Decades of extensive studies have shown that regular masks are not effective against airborne viruses.  Only in the last 18 months did this become politicized.  It is truly rich that the people who point fingers at supposed anti-science people also claim that regular cloth masks have any efficacy with regard to airborne particles which pass right through them.  If you want to go ahead and wear a tight fitting N-95, then yes, it’s going to be reasonably effective.  But the masks everybody else is wearing is pure theater not backed up by decades of research and data.  That the government continues to push regular masks severely undermines their credibility  and suggests they have a serious messaging problem.

Decades of extensive studies have shown that regular masks are not 100% effective against airborne viruses.  That does not mean they are not effective at all.  Actually, even N95 masks are not 100% effective.  Even the vaccine is not 100% effective.  We have an imperfect situation and imperfect solutions and a bunch of asshats shouting at people making an effort because their efforts aren't perfect.

Wearing a mask is not theatre.  Grandstanding and accusing it of being theatre is the fucking theatre.

I agree with you. Nothing is absolute. To those feeble-minded people, no one in the world is saying that getting a vaccine is going to protect you 100% or that wearing a mask will do so either. It's all a matter of degrees. It's cumulative. What they are saying is that doing nothing is the worst of all.

I'm not sure why people are so dense these days. It could be that the population is getting out of control and we need to cull the herd? Normally, that's done through war but we haven't had a large one in a long time. This pandemic was supposed to be nature's way of culling the herd but medical technology is thwarting that effort. Perhaps that's why the wealthy and powerful conservatives want to spread propaganda? After all, they were the first to get vaccinated and are telling their followers to do the opposite. They want natural selection to take place and they know that a lot of their followers will blindly do as they say and not as they do.

patchythepirate said:

anonymouse said:

patchythepirate said:

I agree that 'gene modifying' was an imprecise term for me to use, but otherwise you don't do anything to disprove my points.

That's because you don't have any points, your posts are just word salad.

It's hilarious how proud people are of themselves and their on opinions. The amount of hubris on this thread is incredible.

Buddy, if you have an actual point to make, let's hear it. Or you can just deflect with some feeble excuse again.

I’m not sure why this is so difficult for you to understand. Natural immunity means that you have to survive the disease in the first place. The idea of the vaccine is to make sure that you survive. So what if you get it? Most people who get it after being vaccinated don’t even have symptoms or very mild ones like when they first receive the vaccine. 

When you or your family get it and die, you’ll learn this lesson the hard way like a lot of others that have had first hand experience. It’s Darwinism. Good luck with your natural immunity!

I don’t understand why the TSA is not putting idiots on the no fly list. All of these people acting out, doing stupid things in flights should be put on the no fly list. Let them figure out how to get themselves removed.

What a joke. This is turning that mime into reality. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, back when they first released the iPad, there was a running joke that Apple will "innovate" by introducing larger and larger-sized iPads with no other new features. Well, sounds like it's becoming true. Welcome to the Cook era folks.

I am fairly sure that if Apple pulled out of Russia, Putin would get blamed. I'm also fairly sure that the iPhone is more popular than Putin. So, the simple answer is for Apple to announce that they're pulling out of Russia and to ask their Russian customers to buy their devices out of other countries. Problem solved.