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And usually the actors/ athletes/ musicians do what she did...keep walking and don't engage.

I certainly wouldn't reward this behavior with an interview. Y'all seem pretty content with invading someone's personal property for folks claiming to support personal freedom.

No, because it's the same specious reasoning that led to people thinking vaccines cause autism. Young men, as a demographic, are far more likely to have myocardial issues than others, whether they get the vaccine or not. The correlation of getting the vaccine and then having an incident, especially given the huge number of vaccines and the relatively small number of incidents, tells you nothing about causes. https://heart.bmj.com/content/99/22/1681

I'm baffled. How, after 20 years of doing the training, organizing, and equipping for them, did we not know their capabilities? The cynic in me believes we knew their capabilities, and each level of leadership painted an unrealistic picture to show "progress" while they were in charge.

It's unfortunate, because it means there is literally no way to get them to listen to new information. The people doing the research are the experts they don't trust. The people collecting the data are the medical experts they don't trust. The people publishing the information are the MSM sources they don't trust. I don't know how you introduce any new information to this group of people. It is fascinating to me, however, that a large number of people who claim not to trust the CDC or FDA will jump all over any data that confirms their own point. The CDC and FDA say vaccines are safe and effective? "Can't trust them". The CDC reports a rise in breakthrough infections? "See, the CDC says the vaccines aren't effective".

Yep. A lot of people will talk a big game on the internet, but when faced with getting the same shot over a billion others have or losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, most will get the shot.

Been seeing a lot of stories like this. But I fully admit that some anecdotes don't add up to statistically significant data. It'll be interesting when we collect the data in a large-scale study, for sure. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/unvaccinated-hospitalized-patients-say-they-regret-not-getting-shot-n1273342

Maybe this one will have fewer spelling errors.

Like the Pope? Seriously... find me a quote from the Pope that matches what the archbishop is saying.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-08/pope-francis-appeal-covid-19-vaccines-act-of-love.html “Thanks to God’s grace and to the work of many, we now have vaccines to protect us from Covid-19,” he said in the video released on Wednesday. He added that vaccines “bring hope to end the pandemic, but only if they are available to all and if we collaborate with one another.” Weird...I don't see anything in here about trying to opt out of the vaccine.

Is it common for catholic archbishops to countermand the pope?

I've heard of people renting UHaul trucks because it was cheaper than getting a regular rental car.

I guess in this market anything is possible...but it's pretty rare to sell a car and make a profit over what you paid for it. Cars are depreciating assets. Unless you're putting up a rare sports car at auction or something...

I wonder how all the folks cheering Abbott would feel if California banned companies from drug testing employees.

Oh no, is your post-discharge job looking like it's in jeopardy? What do you think...gonna vote with your "deeply held beliefs", or with your wallet? I know which one I think you'll take.

Just curious... do companies get to impose whatever restrictions they want, and if you don't like it, go somewhere else? Seems like I've seen that argument in a few threads on here... Would you feel different if he'd gotten fired for smoking weed?

Well, well, well... if it isn't the consequences of his own actions.

He's willing to talk to people on the right. That makes him the enemy to the left.

Unfortunately, yes, because it keeps some enterprising "whistle blower" from framing a photo with him all alone and claiming he's being kept in solitary confinement.

Depends. Military readiness depends on a lot more than just not dying, for example. Doctors and nurses are in contact with a lot of people who are more at risk than the general population. And the Israel study showed that antibodies from being infected were effective protection against a second go-around with Covid...that doesn't render the vaccines useless for people who have never been infected. I don't know how you think people who get infected, even if they are at the pinnacle of health and never see the inside of a hospital, aren't a risk to other people.

1. They reduce severity 2. It's a much less risky way of getting some protection than contacting covid for the antibodies.

Yep. But people still keep quoting him.

I guess I stand corrected.

Well, for starters, the first line is nonsense. If we want to arrest the pandemic, we need to reduce the spread. Which means getting fewer people infected, so that they in turn infect fewer people. From a "spreading Covid" standpoint, it's almost better if they end up in the hospital, because then they aren't out in grocery stores, at football games, in bars and restaurants... I have no idea why the CDC is revoking PCR testing...but I do know that the same testing methodology was used before the study as during the study, so you're getting an apples-to-apples comparison. If they had used a different test, Glockenspiel would have had a long rant about how the different test methods were what threw off the results. I mean...if natural immunity is THAT good, surely there's a study somewhere that shows it?

Oh, I 100% got vaccinated. I have the scar and everything.