Covid 19 conspiracies dump

[LadyForCamus]

[The Grand Nudger]

Conspiracists "read between the lines", and often feel as though the contents of their fantasies are or should be obvious despite it not being present on the page in a given article.

This is how nutballs wound up with the idea that there were kids in the basement at a pizza parlor, for example. I try to remember that whenever I'm dealing with the afflicted.

[Rev. Rye]

[The Architect Of Fate]

[Irreligious Atheist]

[Rev. Rye]

[Irreligious Atheist]

[Disagreeable]

Yeah, do the opposite of what this guy says. This is really bad advice. You should be spending plenty of time outdoors. Chance of spread is much lower outdoors and you need the vitamin D and exercise, and the internet can not replace real life interaction.

No.

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It simply is not your fault if a given poster cannot decide their own gender.

It might even be revealing in a way.

What if they're bigender, genderfluid, genderless or otherwise non-binary? I'm an enby myself. Revealing in what way?

[awty]

[Rev. Rye]

The vaccines likely would have been a route to herd immunity if enough people actually took them reach herd immunity. With Delta, it would have been something like 80%, so if 20% refused to take it, we wouldn’t reach it.

And, bear in mind, a lot of the “misinformation” that Sung, Khem, and I posted was backed up by peer-reviewed research into the vaccine. And when you tried the same thing instead of people just talking shit on YouTube, you managed to conveniently misread the results of the study.

Also, unlike you, I tend to draw a difference between information that’s out of date and outright misinformation. A lot of “the narrative” worked well for the first variants, but given that omicron was different from the alpha and delta variants, some things had to change to work.

To quote John Maynard Keynes (allegedly) “when the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do sir?” The mainstream narrative changes because we find out more about the diseases, either because time passes and things become clearer, or because a new variant comes along and changes the rules. And what has your lot (and if not exactly your lot, the lot you’ve fallen in with) been doing about the pandemic? Well, since a few weeks after shit got real, you’ve been doing everything in your power to downplay how serious it is and decry any and all measures to try and contain the spread. I suppose it might mean you’ve been more consistent over the last two years, but consistency is only a virtue if you aren’t a total fuck-up.