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3 minutes ago, raBBit said:
You have to be a child to think like this. If you are concerned with COVID, you get the vaccine. You are protected. That's what I did. That's what 80% of the people I know did. Whatever anyone else does is none of anyone else's business. Protect yourself or face the risks. No one is killing anyone. Anyone saying otherwise is peddling propaganda.
Yes, get the vaccine but also hope you don't need to go to the hospital for any reason at all.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/23/texas-hospital-icu-capacity/
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17 hours ago, greg775 said:
I do believe they deserve a choice whether to be vaxxed or not for reasons I've expressed. Did you see Brad Beal's comments? He isn't vaxxed cause he got covid already. Sometimes you guys act like I'm the only one who has been vaxxed who shares this opinion. You don't ever listen to Clay Travis do you? Or Whitlock? They express rational feelings all the time.
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First brad beal said as quoted by washington post: "“Every player, every person in this world is going to make their own decision for themselves,” Beal said. “I would like an explanation to, you know, people with vaccines. Why are they still getting covid? If that’s something that we are supposed to highly be protected from, like it’s funny that it only reduces your chances of going to the hospital. It doesn’t eliminate anybody from getting covid, right? So is everybody in here vaxxed, I would assume? Right. So you all can still get covid, right?”
Chase Hughes of NBC Sports Washington responded: “We’re less likely to die or go to the hospital.”
Beal shrugged his left shoulder: “Okay, but, you can still get covid Right,” Beal said. “And you can still pass it along with the vax, right? So I’m just asking the question.”
But he was staunch in his belief that receiving a vaccine is his personal choice. That he has already contracted the disease, and missed out on winning a gold medal in Tokyo as a result, had no influence on his decision.
“My mom and dad are vaccinated. My older brothers are vaccinated. My sister-in-law is vaccinated. I know people that have people who are very close that are vaccinated just as well as I have people that are close to me, related to me, that are not,” Beal said. “So it’s a fine line. It’s a personal choice between everybody, 100 percent. I understand both sides of it. I understand that there is a percentage of people who can get very sick. I didn’t get sick; I didn’t get sick at all. I lost my smell. But that was it for me. Everybody is going to react different.”
This country decided a long time ago that public heath > personal choice.
It's why we can't smoke in buildings anymore.
It's why there are certain codes and restrictions restaurants have to follow for food handling.
It's why babies have to have X number of shots before they even leave the hospital when they are born. Then X number in the many years afterwards including the numerous vaccines required for attending school.
This is not new.
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We gutted our entire kitchen for around $12K about 5 year ago.
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11 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:
It's definitely not alone in having a garbage ending that puts a dump on a shows legacy. Lost, Dexter, and How I Met Your Mother all were godawful endings. Dexter was a show ruiner for sure.
I didn't think the HIMYM ending was all that bad. I never understood the hate it got.
The ending of the original Rosanne was an all-time WTF moment though. Although with the new show they basically erased the entire final season.
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14 hours ago, greg775 said:
I didn't want to ignore your post. so I'll have a short response. I disagree.
So you believe that all these people that are out there not wearing masks, spreading the virus everywhere, filling up our hospital ICUs, stressing our health care workers to the breaking point and essentially prolonging this pandemic waay past when it should have been over need to have a voice? Need to be "heard"? Need to have someone in their corner justifying their moronic ideas and actions?
Good to know...
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You think if I could find 42 more stories like this (and I bet I can) it would scare the vaccine-hesitant into actually wanting to get the shot?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/25-old-had-double-lung-122554850.html
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2 hours ago, greg775 said:
Any how, not all the anti vaccers are loud.
True. Some just have 1500+ posts on a random baseball message board. Then continually claim they aren't really an anti-vaxxer but a "voice" for them.
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2 hours ago, Texsox said:
For anyone still waiting on more data. Last night I attended the visitation for the father of a former player. A formerly healthy fifty-two year old whose family was able to spend 35 days watching him slowly die from COVID. In memory, the rest of the family who weren’t already vaccinated, went and got vaccinated. I guess that was data enough for them.
1 hour ago, Harry Chappas said:A person in my community, I do not know him personally but do a lot of business with his company, died at age 52. Pretty healthy small business owner that was anti-vax and anti-mask.
I am still mystified that people do not think this is a real thing.
It's amazing how many times I've read stories exactly like this.
Unvaccinated person dies, everyone that knows them immediately goes out and gets vaccinated.
Person who was loudly anti-vax/anti-mask dies of Covid.
It's an easy pattern to spot, yet it seems to keep happening every. single. day. At this point it's difficult to muster up any sympathy for these people.
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15 hours ago, Kyyle23 said:
I have 0% financing for my washer/dryer, through synchrony
I have Synchrony for my Discount Tire card and my Care Credit card that I had to use when my dog got surgery. They've been pretty good.
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2 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:
Pretty much we get all of our electronics and appliances at Best Buy or Lowes with 0 financing on their credit cards to spread the hit out.
Same.
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13 hours ago, Soxbadger said:
Not sure where else to put this, but please do not buy an appliance from Best Buy. I just purchased a refrigerator last week and had the installation team who showed up and then left without installing it.
3 minutes ago, Soxbadger said:There was nothing to return. They never even took the unit off the truck.
I'm confused. Did they show up and then just leave again? Why didn't they install it?
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11 hours ago, greg775 said:
I've read stories and seen videos of people telling horror stories of heart problems after getting vaxxed. Also, remember I've said I trust nobody? I happen to believe the media has elected to not sufficiently at least cover those who have fallen ill after being vaxxed. Hell, my nephew passed out after he got vaxxed. Yes getting vaxxed worries me about future complications, sure it does.
Your second sentence is scary to many. If ANY people have died, that is a concern. We should hear more about how many have died and how many have had heart problems so far.
Those stories are few and far between. Again, just like with most things in life, it's not 100%.
Even many birth controls are only 99% effective. That doesn't mean people should just stop using them if they want to prevent pregnancy.
The information is out there. You just have to look for it instead of waiting for the media to spoon-feed it to you.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
- Myocarditis and pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination are rare. As of September 8, 2021, VAERS has received 1,413 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis among people ages 30 and younger who received COVID-19 vaccine. Most cases have been reported after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna), particularly in male adolescents and young adults. Through follow-up, including medical record reviews, CDC and FDA have confirmed 854 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis. CDC and its partners are investigating these reports to assess whether there is a relationship to COVID-19 vaccination. Learn more about COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis.
- Reports of death after COVID-19 vaccination are rare. More than 380 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020, through September 13, 2021. During this time, VAERS received 7,653 reports of death (0.0020%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. FDA requires healthcare providers to report any death after COVID-19 vaccination to VAERS, even if it’s unclear whether the vaccine was the cause. Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem.
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On 9/18/2021 at 6:48 PM, greg775 said:
Not sure I'm about to make a good point here or if my point has holes in it, but I thought of something today while watching Kansas lose 45-7 to Baylor. OK this is America, land of the free still. One point I'd like to make is, yes, there are cases in which "some" people have had physical problems upon getting vaccinated. True we don't hear much about those who have had heart problems after being vaxxed (we don't hear about a lot of things nowadays because many media outlets have changed in terms of what they will and won't cover) but some people have been harmed by the vax. I think we can all agree this is true. Most of us know somebody who has had physical problems after being vaxxed.
Also, some anti vaxxers truly are concerned about possible side effects 2-3 years down the line. Not all anti vaxxers are conspiracy theorists, some are afraid for their health down the line if they are vaxxed. I know this because they have told me this at church. There are some people worried about future side effects.
My point is ... considering some have died after being vaxxed or fallen ill and considering some are concerned about future problems after being vaxxed, the fact America is the land of the free does indeed give these people the right to not be vaxxed. To me this point I've made makes perfect sense. Perhaps somebody will dispute it but I think it's cut and dried. If America truly is free, one has a right to say no when they know people who have died after being vaxxed and/or are worried about future side effects. Yes it's a freedom issue IMO.
What are you considering "physical" problems?
And yes of course people are dying after having been vaccinated. It was never said to be 100% guaranteed to make you not die. That's not an excuse to not get it. That's like not wearing your seat belt because you've heard one or two stories about people dying while still wearing them.
AFAIK, nobody has died because of the vaccine either.
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17 hours ago, Tony said:
You aren't offering any solutions regarding COVID. It's easy to say what you don't like, but what do you think should be done?
Here would be my question based on what I believe your stance is. The government hasn't mandated every American needs to get the vaccine. But they have mandated all government employees must get it. It's not a right to have a job (as you know), but a privilege. In this case, getting the COVID vaccine is now part of the job requirement. Don't like it, don't have to take the job.
I know you're anti-war based only your above post, but as I mentioned a few pages back......since before I was born, there are over a dozen vaccines every enlisted person gets within the military. It's been a "mandate" for years. Unless I've not been paying attention, I've never seen a lot of backlash over that. No one is forcing anyone to serve, but if you choose to take that path, getting vaccinated isn't a choice. It's a mandate.
I guess my point is I don't know why so many are up in arms about their "freedoms" and "mandates" when these things have existed for decades. If you don't want the COVID vaccine, right now that's your choice.....but there are going to be things you aren't able to do because of that choice. And the point is that same scenario has existed for decades, but no one seemed to give a shit until now.
I believe most schools require kids to be vaccinated before they are allowed to attend. Nobody seems to get upset about that either. From Kindergarten all the way through 9th grade.
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2 hours ago, Texsox said:
Our governor is threatening any school district that requires masks with a loss of funding. Dallas ISD is fighting him on it, so we’ll see. My district has already stated we will follow state directions. I’m guessing I will have a good number of unvaccinated, un masked, 18 year olds in my classroom each day.
Meanwhile, a hospital in Houston is back to putting up tents as an overflow for Covid-19 patients because they are getting overwhelmed. Again.
Awesome.
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Anyone else watching Masters of the Universe: Revelation on Netflix? It got great reviews from the critics but the actual fans seem to hate it.
I've only watched the first 3 episodes but I'm enjoying it so far. I like the fact that they are aware how campy the original was but still give little call-outs to it.
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On 7/23/2021 at 2:38 PM, TheBlackSox8 said:
With that info, how was the trailer to you, take it as a totally original piece? Does it look like something that looks like a must see?
It looks like an interesting sci-fi movie but nothing I'm going to rush out to watch. I might catch it in 3 or 4 years when they finally show it on TBS or TNT.
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I literally know nothing about the entire Dune franchise. Never read any of the books, never saw any of the movies or TV shows.
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20 minutes ago, Tony said:
As they should. It’s not just the right-wing talking point of “Well if they choose not to get the vax and you do, then you’ll be fine and they might get sick…what’s the big deal to you?” Which of course misses the point of starting to see rollbacks in masks indoors and the possibility of cancelling major events because a bunch of idiots take the advice of Tucker Carlson and The Daily Wire over science.
I know you're being sarcastic but this is another problem starting to pop up more and more. I thought we were past this.
Amazing how people fail to realize that not getting vaccinated doesn't just affect them.
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7 minutes ago, Tony said:
It's incredibly sad. I don't laugh at these people, it's sad and also incredibly frustrating to see.
I don't laugh but they do piss me off since they are the ones prolonging the end of this whole thing.
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15 minutes ago, Tony said:
What I took from it was this:
"I'd rather die than admit I was wrong, and everything I was told and believed in the last few years was garbage. I pushed all my chips in and I'd rather be going through this virus and leave my family without their father rather than telling the world I got scammed."
I remember reading a story not that long ago about a guy that insisted up until his dying breath that he didn't actually have Covid and that it was all fake.
Then he died from Covid.
Whats sad is how many other millions of people are just like both of the guys in these stories.
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11 hours ago, greg775 said:
It's not JUST selfishness and lack of empathy, many are concerned they will face problems down the road if they get vaxxed and they DO NOT TRUST anybody in politics or science on this.
I find it weird that people are worried about long term affects of the vaccination (which thus far are unfounded) but not the long term affects of the actual disease they would be protecting themselves from.
Death is a long term affect isn't it? Because the number of people that have died from the disease is WAY greater than the number that have died from the vaccine.
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On 7/17/2021 at 2:32 AM, greg775 said:
Yes harm is being done if the government is flagging posts for review. The government IMO has no right to comment on social media posts of citizens.
I do not want Big Brother reading our facebook posts and tweets at all. Like I said before, many months ago, they would remove tweets about the virus being started in a lab. What is misinformation anyway? If somebody writes "Do not get vaxxed because down the line you could have medical problems caused by the vax" that probably would be flagged. It should not be flagged. It's somebody's opinion. Free speech, baby.
How can we get more people vaxxed? I would do a little bit of what they are doing now. Free commercial time for athletes and famous young people and regular people, too, imploring folks to get vaccinated so we can get rid of COVID once and for all. Just flood the airwaves with free ads. But DO NOT spy on people and do creepy things. An ad campaign has to be done to offset the fear people have of politicians in all this.
Joe saying they'll go door to door and Kamala just saying "get vaccinated" on Twitter does not help. We need to kill the skeptical with kindness and beg them to get vaxxed for the good of all.
There are some people that aren't going to get the vaccine no matter what. It doesn't matter who says they should get it or what the facts say. They'd rather die instead.
QuoteMOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — When the boat factory in this leafy Ozark Mountains city offered free coronavirus vaccinations this spring, Susan Johnson, 62, a receptionist there, declined the offer, figuring she was protected as long as she never left her house without a mask.
Linda Marion, 68, a widow with chronic pulmonary disease, worried that a vaccination might actually trigger Covid-19 and kill her. Barbara Billigmeier, 74, an avid golfer who retired here from California, believed she did not need it because “I never get sick.”
Last week, all three were patients on 2 West, an overflow ward that is now largely devoted to treating Covid-19 at Baxter Regional Medical Center, the largest hospital in north-central Arkansas. Mrs. Billigmeier said the scariest part was that “you can’t breathe.” For 10 days, Ms. Johnson had relied on supplemental oxygen being fed to her lungs through nasal tubes.
Ms. Marion said that at one point, she felt so sick and frightened that she wanted to give up. “It was just terrible,” she said. “I felt like I couldn’t take it.”
Yet despite their ordeals, none of them changed their minds about getting vaccinated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/arkansas-covid-19-vaccine.html
COVID Thread Part Deux
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Luckily social media didn't exist back then to spread the stupidity.