(September 8, 2021 at 1:29 pm)Spongebob Wrote: I think its a testament to how indoctrinated people become by their religion.  The Trump phenomena is another example, as is voting Republican.  Once an issue gets taken up by religion/churches, it essentially becomes part of the tenets of their religion and you can't jar it loose with a nuclear bomb.

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That sounds to me like a testable hypothesis.

Boru

Wouldn't I like to try.

(September 7, 2021 at 9:13 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:

(September 7, 2021 at 6:28 pm)brewer Wrote: If only more would step up.  

No Vax, No Visit: South Florida Doctor Won't Treat Unvaccinated Patients in Person: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/no-v...n/2544042/

Communication from the doctor to her patients is in the article.

Will she treat morbidly obese folks who stuff their face all day long, or smokers who smoke two packs a day? They brought their bad health on themselves afterall, just like those who won't take the vaccine. That's one extremely immoral doctor. Do no harm.

Obesity is a disease, and there's good evidence that smoking is a chemical dependency. So you want to treat people who, through no fault of their own, engage in behaviors that compromise their health, the same as people who willingly compromise their health by ignoring doctors and health authorities?

@Irreligious Atheist F* off with the Fox News bullshit.

I've talked about lab-leak. It needs to be investigated more, but the evidence is against it. As for the WHO, yes there are political hacks at the top, but the scientists themselves do good work. The Wuhan investigation was good work. They themselves pointed out areas that need more investigation.

Health authorities aren't compromised. Trump tried to compromise the CDC, and it didn't work. A scientist believes in coming as close as possible to truth. You can't get scientists in on a conspiracy - one of them would blow the whistle. There are examples in the past of corrupt scientists creating false data, and the rest of the community is very happy to bring them down. I was a scientist at AT&T Bell Labs, and was told of one such fraudster there. His colleagues brought him down within a year.

And, no Fauci didn't lie -- that's Fox News bullshit. Fauci stood in the way of the Trump lies, and is forever an enemy of the Trumpers. He's also not an all-seeing oracle.

Is this what IA was on about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kM2wJbbvW8

(September 9, 2021 at 11:20 am)Spongebob Wrote: Is this what IA was on about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kM2wJbbvW8

No, you can find his recent posts re: COVID conspiracies in the Daily Conspiracy thread.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-bi...uxbndlbing

Biden is mandating that all employers with 100+ employees must have require vaccinations for every employee or a negative test weekly.

Finally, someone has said enough is enough.

Through OSHA a company could be fined up to $14K per violation.

(September 9, 2021 at 6:08 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-bi...uxbndlbing

Biden is mandating that all employers with 100+ employees must have require vaccinations for every employee or a negative test weekly.

Finally, someone has said enough is enough.

Through OSHA a company could be fined up to $14K per violation.

I saw that story, and it’s nothing but good news (although why it should apply only to companies with more than 100 workers is a bit of a puzzle).

Had to look up OSHA, though. Our version is WSNZ - ‘WorkSafe New Zealand’. There’s a saying: If you look at something and say, ‘Hmm…I wonder if that’s a WorkSafe violation’, then you're in a place with multiple WorkSafe violations.

Boru

(September 9, 2021 at 6:23 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(September 9, 2021 at 6:08 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-bi...uxbndlbing

Biden is mandating that all employers with 100+ employees must have require vaccinations for every employee or a negative test weekly.

Finally, someone has said enough is enough.

Through OSHA a company could be fined up to $14K per violation.

I saw that story, and it’s nothing but good news (although why it should apply only to companies with more than 100 workers is a bit of a puzzle).

Had to look up OSHA, though. Our version is WSNZ - ‘WorkSafe New Zealand’. There’s a saying: If you look at something and say, ‘Hmm…I wonder if that’s a WorkSafe violation’, then you're in a place with multiple WorkSafe violations.

Boru

Apologies - all my years of working closely with payroll and human resources means I have dealt with OSHA reporting and such...forgot this is an international forum.  

Further info states that Biden is going to "move out of the way" local officials standing in the way of mask mandates, etc. in schools.  Gov. Abbott isn't going to like that.  

Shit's gonna hit the fan real quick around here.