I've never had a smart phone and I've never been on social media (unless you count this place and youtube); by that metric I'd be seen as a hermit living in the woods. I do watch a lot of shit on youtube though, and that alone can often break my spirit. But then it also gives me the political exhaust I do not get at all from the people in my immediate family or the mainstream media from my country.
There are a few things I watch on YouTube for entertainment, mostly comedy and gaming-related. I don't use TikTok, I don't use Intagram, I don't use FKA Twitter or its minor competitors. I have logged onto Facebook once in the last 18 months, and that was to tell everyone I wasn't using it anymore and they should email me if they want to keep in touch.
I forgot to mention this, but even when you're not logged into youtube and coming in as a guest, the website itself will push alt right content or rage grifters. They'll almost always be at the very front of the page.
This one, specifically:
Lately I've been enjoying Space Quest Historian reviews and retrospective on old adventure games, most of which I played back in the 80s or 90s. Kinda wish he'd do Conquest of the Longbow and Conquest of Camelot because I feel like he'd have absolute polar opposite views of them, especailly given how Conquest of Camelot has some of the most severe dead man walking syndrome of any Sierra game. I think only SQ2 is worse in that regard, but it's close and there are a lot more ways Conquest of Camelot can dick you.
If you should ever desire to use something akin to Xitter or Reddit, etc without said shit, you could always try the various fediverse alternatives - part of the whole point is to not have monopolistic control, but rather an assortment of providers sharing a protocol. I use the the Lemmy (think fediverse Reddit) instance at SDF.org, for example. Because of course I'd pick the one ran by an American non-profit that started it's life as a dialup anime BBS (the name is a Macross reference) and that's best known for their public access unix server but does a bunch fo other cool stuff too.
I vaguely remember that dick wad. I didn't even know he had that big of an audience. It shows how little I cared or thought about him.
Spoken like a true lying biatch-in-a-box stand
Literally by the definition of infection, many vaccines are infections. Infection isn't necessary some bad thing, you and I both currently have active infections, they most likely will not cause any type of disease or symptoms. It's the immune response that causes the inflammation, ever heard of cytokine storm? Why do you think steroids like Dexamethasone are given to covid patients? It's to calm down the immune system, the drug doesn't attack covid. That's why viral infection (from ANY virus) is the most likely cause of myocarditis, it's the immune response to said virus that causes the inflammation. Vaccines recreate said immune response, hence that's why they end up triggering myocarditis.Of course. But it's certainly worth clarifying. Anti-vaxxers often conflate vaccines with diseases, in order to argue that vaccines causing the same issues as diseases is to be expected. It's not and they don't.
No, I've never relied on the total population for any of these risk rates.
For the myocarditis risk from the vaccine, I'm using the numbers provided in your original link, which originate in the report in Nature. That's where we get the 5 excess events per million from, from which we get 0.0005%. It is specifically within the group who had that specific vaccine, not the entire population.
You quoted 0.3% as the proportion ending up with a hospitalisation from covid, no? And 2% of hospitalised patients had arrhythmia. Which brings us to 0.006%.
How exactly is 0.006 smaller than 0.0005%?
Waning effectiveness against COVID-19-related hospitalization, severe complications, and mortality with two to three doses of CoronaVac and BNT162b2: a case–control study - PMC
Background: This study aims to evaluate waning effectiveness against severe and fatal COVID-19 with two to three doses of CoronaVac/BNT162b2, where data are limited. Methods: A case–control study included individuals aged ≥18 years, unvaccinated or ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
What I find funny when you quote Paul Offit, is how out-of-step you are with what he says. He's not saying there that immunity doesn't wane, or that boosters do nothing; he's recommending against a policy mandate.
But what has he been clear on? He recommends vaccinating young kids; he recommends masking, and masked even after being vaccinated; he supported a mandate; he's clear that vaccine-related myocarditis is a much lower risk than the disease...
Paul Offit: The myocarditis associated with the viral infection or a myocarditis associated with this MIS-C, this post-infectious phenomenon, is more severe than is the myocarditis associated with a vaccine. So there are never risk free choices. There are just choices to take different risks. And I think here, clearly, the choice is to get a vaccine, which is the lesser risk.
And by any definition whatsoever, mRNA ones are not. There is no virus. There is no harmful organism.
Because that's your number, not mine. Pay attention.
From the title of the study referenced in the PubMed article, from which comes that percentage:
You never seem to properly read sources you're given, do you? You just skim for something to rob of context.
So? This doesn't contradict what I'm saying.
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Stupid google speak. Are you in the podcast by any chance?wait RFK.jr is Chris Pratt's wife's cousin?! Why are these ppl all related omfg lol
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Oh lol! No, not connected to it at all, just really related to and loved the art commissioned for it
"It's a culture thing"? Lady, this isn't like making a peace sign with your hand in Britain or something; it's fucking bribery.
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.www.thecity.nyc
Amazing. No notes.
Yes, but it's a narrower case than you might think.
Well, i'm not seeing the next Mario movie now. I didn't know Chris Pratt. It is that far deep into the maga shit.wait RFK.jr is Chris Pratt's wife's cousin?! Why are these ppl all related omfg lol
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I pointed out the mRNA ones might not be infections based on semantics so many posts ago... The point is the vaccines trigger the immune response that causes inflammation and thus myocarditis. Just like it's not the viral infection (from say covid or say the flu) that causes myocarditis either, it's the immune response.
Yes, and then you kept arguing, for reasons that escape me.
Bud, the difference between your number and mine was 0.6. And frankly, although 0.9 is likely to be an overestimate, 0.3 is just as likely to be an underestimate.
Do you think there may have been some overlap between people hospitalised by covid, and people with severe covid?
Ah, so you believe immunity does wane but only in certain groups, and in others its everlasting? Fascinating, let's see your research!
Because he viewed the benefit as small or unnecessary, presumably, against a relatively minor risk. You'll have to ask him.
You kept saying all vaccines aren't infections and acting like I don't know what words mean. You are clearly wrong here. It's the immune response causing the myocarditis whether it's a "real" virus or a vaccine, your body doesn't care that it's a vaccine or not.Yes, and then you kept arguing, for reasons that escape me.
Bud, the difference between your number and mine was 0.6. And frankly, although 0.9 is likely to be an overestimate, 0.3 is just as likely to be an underestimate.
But that doesn't matter! Because even with 0.3, we still end up with a number so much bigger than 0.0005!
Do you think there may have been some overlap between people hospitalised by covid, and people with severe covid?
Ah, so you believe immunity does wane but only in certain groups, and in others its everlasting? Fascinating, let's see your research!
Because he viewed the benefit as small or unnecessary, presumably, against a relatively minor risk. You'll have to ask him.
Vaccination against MPox isn't recommended for most people either. Do you think that means the vaccines do nothing? Or do you think its just because its not generally necessary except for certain groups?
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Actually no, I didn't. Anyway. Doesn't matter.
Using a different stat =/= "can't do maths", any more than it does for you. But this is irrelevant; even yours shows 11x more likely, as you say. So there's no set of numbers that make myocarditis from the vaccine a greater risk.
Buddy, all of these numbers are rough estimations. Mine may be an overestimate; yours is just as likely an underestimate. This is irrelevant, because none of them result in a total lower than 0.0005%.
And unlike yourself, I read it. Stop digging for individual sections to rob of context, and read it. Immunity wanes. Its not ambiguous.
.... it seems you've forgotten what we were arguing, yet again.
