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I'm not ignorant of coercion. I'm also well aware that more principled parties resisted it, and that the conservative parties were not the primary targets, for reasons that are obvious to honest observers.
You should probably not depend on things just seeming obvious to you for an argument.
 

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They're gonna fuck it up so bad, and I'm here for it.
 
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You should probably not depend on things just seeming obvious to you for an argument.
The history of cooperation between conservatives and Nazis before the enabling act, & the shared political ground, have made it obvious.

The conservatives were not the primary targets of coercion because there wasn't much need to coerce them. The SDP and KPD faced magnitudes worse from the far-right, and managed to vote against the act/ abstain respectively.
 

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The history of cooperation between conservatives and Nazis before the enabling act, & the shared political ground, have made it obvious.

The conservatives were not the primary targets of coercion because there wasn't much need to coerce them. The SDP and KPD faced magnitudes worse from the far-right, and managed to vote against the act/ abstain respectively.
Abstain? Silvanus, their entire political party was being rounded up and imprisoned. Not just the 80 or so politicians, thousands of people jailed. Habeus corpus was suspended, and opposition to the Nazis was sufficient justification for arrest. Not a single KPD member was allowed to vote, it wasn't a choice.
 

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You have either misunderstood what Paul Offit is writing here, or you've not recognised the difference between what he's saying and what you said.

Paul Offit is speaking here on a national level. He is stating that covid cannot be eradicated from the country by vaccination programs, due to its short incubation period and the time-limitations of vaccination. This is categorically not the same as saying the vaccine gives no protection.



But people do get colds pretty much every winter. The idea that "you'd get more than 2-4 colds a year" is just your pure speculation; it's groundless.



You don't comprehend what people such as Paul Offit are actually saying. It's telling that you've posted several long tracts from him here that don't back up what you're claiming, but you're acting as if they do. This shows how little you comprehend of it all.



"Kids need the vaccine" is a value judgement, a political question depending on a lot more than the science. After all this time, you still fail to distinguish between policy and science.

You made a claim. You claimed the cost-benefit analysis showed more harm than benefit for these groups. That is an exceptional, positive claim. You need to substantiate it.



OK, so you've just shifted the conversation entirely. You're now talking about aid, arguing that one country locking down and reducing aid forced other countries to halt programs. That's not the same claim; the country's own lockdown didn't force any such shutdown in that scenario.

A country locking down does not necessitate its own nutritional and immunisation programs to end. That's not debatable. They simply didn't.



People get infected-- even severely infected-- more than once. Paul Offit supported getting kids vaccinated in resource-rich countries, but suddenly your deference to authority falls apart.
Can you not fucking read what I say?

I said the covid vaccine protects against severe disease. It does not protect from getting mild disease and being infected again whatsoever. The narrative that you get the vaccine and you are protected from getting covid and from transmitting covid was bullshit, it was never true. The fact that they called covid reinfections, breakthrough infections, literally proves that. That is what Paul Offit said.

Paul Offit literally said what I claim:
And for the first year, the question was, did protection hold up against serious illness? ‘Cause that’s the goal. That’s the only reasonable goal for this vaccine. It’s the only attainable goal for this vaccine. You’re not gonna be able to protect against mild disease for this kind of virus for any length of time.

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2-4 colds / year is the average a person gets. You don't catch colds by merely walking around the grocery store (not saying it's a 0% chance but it's extremely low). You catch colds from family, friends, co-workers; the people you are around for long periods of time that are sick.

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Uhh... Look at the percentage of kids that got covid before the vaccine was even available for them. If you got covid, natural infection, the vaccine provides no benefits whatsoever... just like, you know, any other vaccine (sometimes you need a booster after so many years but covid is still way to recent to be needing boosters for healthy people). Show me any data showing healthy people that got covid gained any benefit from a vaccine. If you're saying I or anyone need or should get this, you need to provide data to validate your claim.

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No, I didn't shift the conversation, that's what I said literally the whole time (that's what UNICEF said in the article I posted). You keep insisting that other countries didn't have issues with immunization programs when that was never my claim.


To me, this is no longer good enough

There are around 340 million people in the US. 27 million in Australia. So Australia is around 8% of the US population.

Around 600,000 to 650,000 people died in America in 2020. 8% of this is around 47,000. So, if Australia treated COVID like the US, you could, as a rough estimate, guess that 47,000 Aussie

Guess how many people died in Australia in 2020? 920. 1/50 of the number of deaths. Having 98% fewer deaths seems like a community benefit. It also reduced deaths to suicide and dementia, schools were open, no masks were needed, and Australia's economy was great. Seems like a benefit to me.... not only that, I was making this info known to him sometime in 2021. This is not news anymore

Phoenix is so wrong that it makes me question what they mean by 'cost-benefit'. Applying only costs to the idea you want to demonise and only benefits to the ideas you want to lionise is not a cost-benefit analysis. If you are going to use a term like cost-benefit analysis, use it like everyone else, not your own made up definition
You can't treat the rest of the world like Australia. Australia closed up before covid got in essentially. The US or Europe or most other places could not do the same thing as Australia. You keep making these massive logic mistakes.
 

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Abstain? Silvanus, their entire political party was being rounded up and imprisoned. Not just the 80 or so politicians, thousands of people jailed. Habeus corpus was suspended, and opposition to the Nazis was sufficient justification for arrest. Not a single KPD member was allowed to vote, it wasn't a choice.
Ah, right you are-- i had thought that was later. My mistake.

And the SPD, under more severe intimidation than any other party present, provided all votes against. Were the conservatives just that much more susceptible to milder intimidation? No: their history tells us coercion wasn't required to secure their assistance.

Habeus corpus was suspended
Odd, this doesn't concern you much nowadays.
 

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Can you not fucking read what I say?

I said the covid vaccine protects against severe disease. It does not protect from getting mild disease and being infected again whatsoever. The narrative that you get the vaccine and you are protected from getting covid and from transmitting covid was bullshit, it was never true. The fact that they called covid reinfections, breakthrough infections, literally proves that. That is what Paul Offit said.

Paul Offit literally said what I claim:
And for the first year, the question was, did protection hold up against serious illness? ‘Cause that’s the goal. That’s the only reasonable goal for this vaccine. It’s the only attainable goal for this vaccine. You’re not gonna be able to protect against mild disease for this kind of virus for any length of time.
Paul Offit is not saying what you claim. That you fail to recognise this shows how poorly you understood his words in general.

Once again: in context, he is speaking on the national, societal level. He is saying that attempting to prevent mild disease circulating, through vaccination, is a fool's errand-- because protection is very time-limited.

Here's another quote from Offit: "We know that when Pfizer did its trial of 44,000 people or Moderna did a trial with 30,000 people, what they both showed was that those vaccines could prevent disease, mild, moderate, or severe disease".

2-4 colds / year is the average a person gets. You don't catch colds by merely walking around the grocery store (not saying it's a 0% chance but it's extremely low). You catch colds from family, friends, co-workers; the people you are around for long periods of time that are sick.
Yet people do.

Tell me this. If a virus is transmitted through coughs, airborne droplets or fomite transmission, why would it be only possible to transmit through extended contact? Viruses don't need a bridge to sit there for hours. The droplet reaches you, it can infect you.

Uhh... Look at the percentage of kids that got covid before the vaccine was even available for them. If you got covid, natural infection, the vaccine provides no benefits whatsoever...
K. So when Offit says something you don't like, suddenly your appreciation for his authority disappears.

No, I didn't shift the conversation, that's what I said literally the whole time (that's what UNICEF said in the article I posted). You keep insisting that other countries didn't have issues with immunization programs when that was never my claim.
No. Initially you insinuated that lockdowns somehow necessitated these programs ending. But that was bullshit. So now you're complaining about aid getting cut, though nobody here supported that and lockdowns didn't require that either.
 

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And the SPD, under more severe intimidation than any other party present, provided all votes against. Were the conservatives just that much more susceptible to milder intimidation? No: their history tells us coercion wasn't required to secure their assistance.
To what history do you refer? When prior did they ally with the Nazis that would lead you to believe hellthe enabling act was continued support? The parliament went 6 months without a ruling coalition to function because nobody would work with them.
 

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To what history do you refer? When prior did they ally with the Nazis that would lead you to believe hellthe enabling act was continued support? The parliament went 6 months without a ruling coalition to function because nobody would work with them.
Have a look at DNVP approach to the 1930 election, their joint effort to force Prussia's government to collapse in 1931, the Liberty Law campaign, & the Harzburg Front.
 

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Have a look at DNVP approach to the 1930 election, their joint effort to force Prussia's government to collapse in 1931, the Liberty Law campaign, & the Harzburg Front.
"In the end, the participants found no common ground beyond their enmity against the Brüning Cabinet and Otto Braun's Prussian government"

You listed a bunch of examples of them failing to cooperate for a few years before the Nazis claimed unilateral control and banned all the other parties.
 

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"In the end, the participants found no common ground beyond their enmity against the Brüning Cabinet and Otto Braun's Prussian government"
Concludes whoever edited Wikipedia. Yet the DNVP itself was pursuing a venomously anti-Semitic agenda, and released a statement saying there was little meaningful difference in policy between them.

You listed a bunch of examples of them failing to cooperate for a few years before the Nazis claimed unilateral control and banned all the other parties.
"They failed so therefore it didn't happen".
 
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You can't treat the rest of the world like Australia. Australia closed up before covid got in essentially. The US or Europe or most other places could not do the same thing as Australia. You keep making these massive logic mistakes.
This does not make sense. Yes, Australia closed up before Covid got in. THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT, YOU ACTUAL DUMBASS

For example, Trump knew about COVID in Jan 2020. HE decided to keep everything open and let COIVD become unmanageable. He literally killed hundreds of thousands of people to keep the economy open
 

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For example, Trump knew about COVID in Jan 2020. HE decided to keep everything open and let COIVD become unmanageable. He literally killed hundreds of thousands of people to keep the economy open
Oh, the link between economy and Trump's actions is more than that. Trump was busy telling everyone that Covid was under control until March 16th 2020, when he finally started calling it a pandemic and started doing something. Do you know what had just happened to prompt this?

The stock market crashed.

That's the real guide to how the USA works. Covid wasn't treated as a problem until business decided that it was. Once the finance industry telegraphed their concerns to the government via share prices, then the government decided maybe it needed do something.
 

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Oh, the link between economy and Trump's actions is more than that. Trump was busy telling everyone that Covid was under control until March 16th 2020, when he finally started calling it a pandemic and started doing something. Do you know what had just happened to prompt this?
The WHO declared it a pandemic only a few days earlier, and he was following their lead at that point. That's what happened to prompt it.
 

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The WHO declared it a pandemic only a few days earlier, and he was following their lead at that point. That's what happened to prompt it.
This claim is ridiculous given Trump's long history of not giving a shit what international bodies think.
 

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This claim is ridiculous given Trump's long history of not giving a shit what international bodies think.
Let's set that aside for a second then.

The WHO did not declare a pandemic until mid-March of 2020. Do you think their decision to make that declaration was determined by the stock market?
 

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The WHO did not declare a pandemic until mid-March of 2020. Do you think their decision to make that declaration was determined by the stock market?
The issue is not the "declare a pandemic" part than the "started doing something". The fact you're concentrating on the wrong part tells me you're just doing that same old dishonest right-wing shill stuff or don't understand what's going on.

The WHO warned that Covid-19 was a major public health emergency towards the end of January 2020 - that was the trigger that should have moved action. Instead Donald Trump (and he wasn't the only offender) just told everyone it wasn't a problem and was just going to go away. All the warnings, all the risks, but it was the stock market that really made the decision, and thus Trump wasted weeks of preparation time.