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Author Topic: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!  (Read 199008 times)

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #300 on: August 08, 2021, 09:43:12 PM »
That credibility didn't just evaporate on its own.. Let's not forget to credit the numerous conspiracy theorists that the internet has allowed to thrive.
It wasn't things like representatives of the government claiming they didn't fund gain of function at the Wuhan lab when they did?

Good to know.

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #301 on: August 08, 2021, 09:54:32 PM »
Operational capacity is not based on parking lots. Moreover, when non-essentual services (including admin) are not present, and visitors are not allowed, the parking lots are going to look far less busy than on a normal day despite a much higher concentration of clinical personnel.

LOL. This is so cute!

The hospital is FULL of Corona patients! More are flooding in every hour! The dead are piling up!!! But...where are the lines of ambulances? How is the ER quiet? Where are the parking lots full of nurses and doctors needed to take care of this flood of patients that's crushing the ICU? Why does the lots look like the night shift crew are the only ones there?

The gig is up. Nobody except the sheep buys your Corona shit anymore.

Oh noes, here comes the "delta plus" variant!!! Maybe that will work?

   Seems like a good time to release Captain Tripps and go ahead and get it all over with.   A lethal pandemic at this point would do far more damage than it could have a couple years ago, since "leaders" have fucked themselves over at every turn with regard to having any credibility at all.
That credibility didn't just evaporate on its own.. Let's not forget to credit the numerous conspiracy theorists that the internet has allowed to thrive.

      Yeah, it was the internet.  That was what did it.
Of course.  It's not like the "experts" first said that masking wasn't needed for normal people.  Then told us that we'd only need to lock-down for 15 days to flatten the curve.  Then decided that we did need masks, even outdoors.  Then told us that there were no therapeutics that could work, despite the fact that other medical professionals disagreed.  Then told us that vaccines were developed that would return life to normal, if we'd only get them immediately, with no passports (that would be too totalitarian).  Then told us that after vaccination, we wouldn't need masks.  Then told us that, even after getting vaccinated, we'd have to wear masks.  Oh, and the vaccines didn't prevent illness, just lessened it.  Oh, and we might need to lockdown again.  And show our proof of vaccine in order to do anything.

And, most importantly, they said all of the above with the certainty of the Pope, and silenced anyone who disagreed with them.  If you dared suggest the virus might have been a lab leak, you were silenced on every platform.  Until, a year ago, when suddenly it was possible it was a lab leak.  The sheer certainty of every pronouncement, followed by the same certainty when the next one contradicts the first.  If the "experts" had have talked in terms of uncertainty, what they knew, guessed, and didn't know, maybe people would react differently.  But there was never a "we think this, but we could be wrong.  We don't know that."  It was "This is what you need to do or you'll kill us all!  Now do the opposite, or you'll kill us all!"  Yeah, but it was internet conspiracies that destroyed the credibility of the "experts"...

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #302 on: August 08, 2021, 11:08:21 PM »
When does the pandemic end?
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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #303 on: August 09, 2021, 12:04:40 AM »
When does the pandemic end?

The real pandemic was the friends we made along the way.
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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #304 on: August 09, 2021, 12:45:15 AM »
T.L;D.R : Hypothesis > Tests (if proven correct then) > Law > Theory

Or put in math terms: Theory > Law > Hypothesis
1 > 0
0 < 1
Can't both be correct.

Maybe because they aren't the same?

Which is why I say to put it in math terms?

First I'm stating in which order things occur

Then I'm stating which thing is greater than which other thing.
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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #305 on: August 09, 2021, 01:04:53 AM »
When does the pandemic end?

It will never end.
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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #306 on: August 09, 2021, 06:50:08 AM »
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H.L. Mencken

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #307 on: August 09, 2021, 07:02:47 AM »
When does the pandemic end?

It will never end.
It will end on a Tuesday. Still not sure which Tuesday.

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #308 on: August 09, 2021, 10:52:24 AM »
When does the pandemic end?

The only off-ramp leads to Sweden, but the people in the driver's seat keep doubling down on ineffective bullshit because they're so deep in it they can't admit they destroyed the world economy and ruined billions of lives making things worse.

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #309 on: August 09, 2021, 12:12:31 PM »
I wonder why more and more people don't trust the corporate media and the sophisticated elites on anything.

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #310 on: August 09, 2021, 12:12:43 PM »
Just remember, you proles need to mask up, while your noble betters get to party.

Serfdom ahoy, but hey, no more mean tweets, right?

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #311 on: August 09, 2021, 12:22:29 PM »
When does the pandemic end?

Today I spoke with a friend that is a Chief Nurse in one of the most important hospitals here in Milan.

Please, take the following as hearsay.

All started when I told her that my dentist has the third shot already booked. She told me that she, too, has her third shot already booked. This September the managers will reveal the precise date, but the third shot for doctors and nurses is a sure thing.

They are already planning the fourth shot. This is not a sure thing, but they want to have plans already in place should a fourth shot become necessary.

Lessons learned thus far: the World's economy cannot sustain anymore damage to the most profitable months: June-August and December. There always will be reopenings, the Covid cases will climb, if dangerous variants appear --> new shot.

Most of the bigwigs (in her hospital, to be clear) agree that this "dance" will go on until 2025. We will get out of the woods, and maybe sooner, but not this year or next year.

Communication from the top has been terrible in her hospital - even worse with the public. Yet, if people have enough and stop listening it will be a disaster, but if this happens only the "experts in communications" will be the ones to blame.

She finally cheered me up by confirming that her Covid ward is already filling again. Since she did a "three months" tour of duty, internal rules mandate that she is to be assigned elsewhere for at least nine months. There are already rumbles that these rules will not be respected.

Again, to be clear, these are the words of my friend. I paraphrased a bit but this is what she said.

As soon as I can I'll call my distant cousin in Florida. She is a bigwig, even if in another field. I wonder what she will have to say.
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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #312 on: August 09, 2021, 12:41:45 PM »
When does the pandemic end?

Today I spoke with a friend that is a Chief Nurse in one of the most important hospitals here in Milan.

Please, take the following as hearsay.

All started when I told her that my dentist has the third shot already booked. She told me that she, too, has her third shot already booked. This September the managers will reveal the precise date, but the third shot for doctors and nurses is a sure thing.

They are already planning the fourth shot. This is not a sure thing, but they want to have plans already in place should a fourth shot become necessary.

Lessons learned thus far: the World's economy cannot sustain anymore damage to the most profitable months: June-August and December. There always will be reopenings, the Covid cases will climb, if dangerous variants appear --> new shot.

Most of the bigwigs (in her hospital, to be clear) agree that this "dance" will go on until 2025. We will get out of the woods, and maybe sooner, but not this year or next year.

Communication from the top has been terrible in her hospital - even worse with the public. Yet, if people have enough and stop listening it will be a disaster, but if this happens only the "experts in communications" will be the ones to blame.

She finally cheered me up by confirming that her Covid ward is already filling again. Since she did a "three months" tour of duty, internal rules mandate that she is to be assigned elsewhere for at least nine months. There are already rumbles that these rules will not be respected.

Again, to be clear, these are the words of my friend. I paraphrased a bit but this is what she said.

As soon as I can I'll call my distant cousin in Florida. She is a bigwig, even if in another field. I wonder what she will have to say.
Interesting to hear that they plan on rotating personnel that work on Covid wards. Also interesting to hear that she believes it won't happen. Around here, there's no plans to rotate personnel (excepting travelers, but those are mostly funneled into the least desirable units in exchange for big pay). The rotating out plans don't work because anyone that's facing being rotated in just resigns and takes a higher-paying travel gig (more $ for the same shit) and so they don't push them to rotate. Besides that, the time to retrain personnel for PCU & ICU level bedside when they've been working in things like OR, pediatrics, or OB isn't worth it.

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #313 on: August 09, 2021, 03:07:15 PM »
Well, at least you're not the UK

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Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

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Re: Imprison anyone who refuses the vax!
« Reply #314 on: August 09, 2021, 03:08:27 PM »
When does the pandemic end?

It will never end.
It will end on a Tuesday. Still not sure which Tuesday.

   Doubtful, Friday is always the best day for a firing.  Gives the pandemic the weekend to cool off.