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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 29, 2021 at 7:33 pm
When I want the lowdown on global health crises, Russell Brand is my chief source for reliable information.
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 29, 2021 at 7:41 pm
Stay tuned for more quakery from Irreligious Atheist. Get your shovels ready.
In fairness - he's consistent in his spreading of ignorance.
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 29, 2021 at 7:45 pm
(August 29, 2021 at 7:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: When I want the lowdown on global health crises, Russell Brand is my chief source for reliable information.
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Could be worse, I suppose. He could be relying on Eric Clapton.
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 29, 2021 at 7:57 pm
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Moderator Notice Irreligious Atheist's posts containing YouTube clips re: COVID have been moved to Skepticism and Pseudoscience where they belong.
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 29, 2021 at 8:00 pm
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(August 29, 2021 at 6:08 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The guy from Texas, Caleb Wallace, who is mentioned in the meme FM posted above arranged protests did everything he could to put a stop to any sort of efforts to reduce the spread of COVID...masks, closures, vaccines, etc. He leaves behind a pregnant wife and three kids. The wife claims to have worn masks, not being as nutty as her husband.
There's a GoFund me page to help pay for expenses incurred by this man who took vitamins and Ivermectin instead of taking reasonable precautions.
There's a local guy who is raising money for kids who don't have money for the book fairs at school. That's where a few bucks from me will go instead.
It's unbelievable the number of people who, on their death beds, suddenly believe in COVID and the vaccine...I don't think that's the light they thought they'd see at the end of their personal tunnel.
What is more unbelievable to me are the families that are watching their loved ones die right in front of them and they STILL buy into the lies. A friend of mine lost her militant anti-vax cousin today to Covid, and his son is absolutely doubling down.
My husband's coworker is recovering from Covid and is currently taking medicines. Medicines you say? Prescribed by a doctor? NO.
Prescribed BY HER CHURCH.
I wish I could arrest these motherfuckers.
(August 29, 2021 at 6:54 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: (August 29, 2021 at 6:18 pm)brewer Wrote: I've given up on responding to the utter bullshit you and your ilk post. I no longer care if the willfully stupid/ignorant get sick, have long term medical complications, go bankrupt or die. I just hope that you/they don't infect others, the innocent that don't have a choice, along the way. To be fair, IA actually did admit he finally gave into taking the vaccine. The bad-faith attempts at arguing that the vaccine is risky (at least any more than eventually getting COVID, which, by this point, may be inevitable for those who refuse to take the jab), of course, does deserve all the criticisms it can get Yet he continues to try to spread that bullshit.
He says he "can't endorse" it. WHO THE FUCK IS HE TO ENDORSE ANYTHING? UGH. Can you tell I am just DONE with this whole fucking pandemic of lies surrounding Covid?
I mean, seriously, get the vaccine, don't get the vaccine, I don't fucking care at this point. If you're that stupid you deserve covid.
But don't fucking spread lies about it and claim to have done your rESeaRCh.
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 29, 2021 at 10:43 pm
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(August 29, 2021 at 7:33 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: When I want the lowdown on global health crises, Russell Brand is my chief source for reliable information.
Boru Yeah, Russel Brand with his advanced medical degree. Does AI know I can find evidence of Lizard People and the Flat Earth on Youtube
(August 29, 2021 at 7:20 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Youtube is where I do all my serious research. Yeah because the absolute best source ever. No BS is ever spread their and Bret of all people such credible source
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 29, 2021 at 11:52 pm
The governor of Mississippi as the state surpasses NY in Covid deaths per capita: “When you believe in eternal life — when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of things.”
https://dailymemphian.com/article/23792/...cted-faith
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 29, 2021 at 11:57 pm
(August 29, 2021 at 11:52 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The governor of Mississippi as the state surpasses NY in Covid deaths per capita: “When you believe in eternal life — when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of things.”
https://dailymemphian.com/article/23792/...cted-faith
Unless those things can be killed by guns, in which case FEAAARRRR
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 30, 2021 at 12:51 am
(August 29, 2021 at 8:00 pm)Mermaid Wrote: In school if I had used The Blaze, Youtube or The American Thinker as references for my research, I'd have flunked out.
YouTube can actually be good for research, even if it is just as a start. But you need a bullshit detector that actually works. A YouTube video by Russell Brand might cut the muster if you're somehow writing a paper about Russell Brand and/or how his videos represent some larger phoenomenon of some kind, but he's clearly not a good source for information about a pandemic.
Fun fact: I actually wrote a small paper for Business Law class about the ethics of data harvesting. Not a big research paper, just a little two-or-three page reflection piece on the subject. The prompt was specifically about Clearview AI scrubbing Facebook profiles for billions of photos without the consent of the owners of said faces or photos. And I talked about a major problem muddying the waters in the discussion of the ethics, one that I had been made acutely aware of because, a year before, a YouTuber I admired, The Mysterious Mr. Enter, created a long series called Technocracy that was all about the insidious ways tech companies control our lives. I used a lot of examples he included in the video, like how Facebook kept data on all of one man's phone calls and text messages for over a year, or how Target of all stores managed to figure out that a girl was pregnant before anyone knew, even her. Of course, if this was a proper paper where I needed to cite my sources, I could probably do so. Hell, the simple act of finding and pasting the links in shows I just did.
But the only times I actually cited Technocracy were times when I couldn't use any other source because it was talking about his own experiences with these programs. I did so twice: first when he talked about how he managed to get Google to give him all the data they had collected on him. It took them 16 hours to compile 67 ZIP files of 148.93 GB of data they had collected on him. Second when he pointed out that someone had spoofed his email and sent terroristic threats to foreign governments and how trivially easy it was for the government to subpoena Google so they could give them all his information. The teacher saw the bit about the 67 ZIP files and said "Good Find." That said, I wouldn't dare cite The Mysterious Mr. Enter as a credible source on COVID. Especially given some of the dodgy shit he managed to swallow in that category. Especially not to a teacher.
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RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 30, 2021 at 4:30 am
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