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For anyone who has been convinced that "The Vaccine is safer than COVID." Researchers at University of California have found that teens are more likely to experience Cardiac Adverse Events (CAE or myocarditis) from the vaccine than they are to experience hospitalization from having COVID. The research paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v1 Why? Why would the vaccine cause more problems in young men with no comorbidities than COVID does? Our government says it doesn't and that it is completely safe? Who do you believe? Why is the CDC providing lower estimates while real research presents significantly higher numbers? "Our post-second-dose-vaccination rates of CAE among adolescent boys aged 12-15 was 162.2/million which exceeded the rates reported by the CDC[2,6] by 143-280% (2.4-3.8 times). Among boys age 16-17, our estimate was 94.0/million, 31.5-41% higher than the CDC estimate. For girls 12-15 years old, our rate was 13.0/million, which was 43-100% higher that the CDC’s estimate.[2,6] Among girls 16-17, our estimate was 13.4/million, which was 47-65% higher than the CDC’s estimate." "Our report found post-vaccination CAE rates following dose two of 162.2 and 94.0/million for boys 12-15 and 16-17, respectively. For boys with no underlying health conditions, the chance of either CAE, or hospitalization for CAE, after their second dose of mRNA vaccination are considerably higher than their 120-day risk of COVID-19 hospitalization, even at times of peak disease prevalence. The long-term consequences of this vaccine-associated cardiac inflammation are not yet fully defined and should be studied. In lieu of pediatric vaccination mandates, the US may: 1) consider gathering data on previous infection in this age group and/or 2) follow the example of Germany,[31] Sweden [32], Norway [33] and the WHO[34] and hold off on definitively recommending vaccination of low-risk children against COVID-19, or 3) offer one dose to adolescents as the UK has just announced [35] while more information about risks, benefits, harms and alternative dosing or vaccination strategies are studied and considered."

They are all hanging it up. To be fair, 3 of them were over 20 anyhow. The 4th has met his original commitment, but well short of 20, and 2 years into an airline career. Super well respected and a natural leader, so his departure is going to make some people stop and think. The 5th guy, I'm not sure of his circumstances. Leadership shrugs. They're all Techs and AGRs and content to punch a clock if nothing else. The SQ had already become a revolving door for AD folks clamoring to get out and bum at the Guard, saying they're going to "make a career of it". They soon find out it's just Active Duty Light, so they quietly work to get their real job, then go non-current, and leave shortly thereafter. So, the shot was just another drop in the bucket of grievances that was already full for most.

Doesn't matter who? What? I literally named the name of one person. Why? Because, in the article, Gen Milley is quoted as saying... himself...that, "“Because there were secondary explosions, there is a reasonable conclusion to be made that there was explosives in that vehicle.” So, yes, I do think "the Generals" were one ones saying "yep, that's a secondary, good strike" because.... that is, in fact, what the General said according to the words in quotation marks in the article. "Those at the top can be ultimately responsible." I don't understand who you disagree with. Me or yourself? I'm not asking for a guillotine. If you're the guy in charge during what might be the biggest military embarrassment in our history, and then immediately follow it up with another fukup two days later...maybe you should go ahead take that promotion to board member at a top tier defense contractor.

How can anyone trust this guy? He is literally admitting he has no idea as to why, just that you should. https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1436366439901024262?s=20

Remember that drone strike a couple days after the fall of HKIA? (Page 30 of this thread) Embarassing. How much can you lie, fcuk up, and fail as the CJCS and still keep your job? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html The New York Times: Since the strike, U.S. military officials justified their actions by citing an even larger blast that took place afterward. “Because there were secondary explosions, there is a reasonable conclusion to be made that there was explosives in that vehicle,” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, said last week. But an examination of the scene of the strike, conducted by the Times visual investigations team and a Times reporter the morning afterward, and followed up with a second visit four days later, found no evidence of a second, more powerful explosion. Experts who examined photos and videos pointed out that, although there was clear evidence of a missile strike and subsequent vehicle fire, there were no collapsed or blown-out walls, no destroyed vegetation, and only one dent in the entrance gate, indicating a single shock wave. “It seriously questions the credibility of the intelligence or technology utilized to determine this was a legitimate target,” said Chris Cobb-Smith, a British Army veteran and security consultant. While the U.S. military has so far acknowledged only three civilian casualties, Mr. Ahmadi’s relatives said that 10 members of their family, including seven children, were killed in the strike: Mr. Ahmadi and three of his children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 10; Mr. Ahmadi’s cousin Naser, 30; three of Romal’s children, Arwin, 7, Benyamin, 6, and Hayat, 2; and two 3-year-old girls, Malika and Somaya.

It may be a simulator animation, but the cockpit separation from the fuselage and fall gave me some serious chills.

Slow down, dude. If we can't even establish if this is true, you're just beating up a straw man.

Your personal opinion is duly noted, but I'm just asking if it's true.

I keep seeing reports of significant numbers of USAF pilots and crew quitting over the vax, but can't find the source. There's likely not going to be an official statement regarding such. Specifically, at Langley F-22 and Barksdale B-52 squadrons. I have my doubts, but I personally know 4-5 guard pilots who plan to make it known that they're retiring during tomorrow's drill. True or False?

Clinicaltrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04460703?term=COVID-19+messaging&draw=2&rank=12 Persuasive Messages for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: a Randomized Controlled Trial, Part 1 Guilt, Embarassment, Anger, Trust, Cowardice.

Same. I use Chrome for iPhone. Ads are blocking much of the screen as I type this.

This is how you ensure future military leaders stay in line. CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-trump-military-academy-board-appointees-spicer-conway/ What do these boards do? Wake up.

Apologies for the consecutive posts, but things are happening fast. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1667751

Looking back on history, when a nation experiences tough economic times, shortages, and a declining standard of living, what types of problems do governments tend to experience from it's population? When people come to believe that the government is the cause of their troubled lives, do they lose faith thereby exacerbating the problems? What happens when people lose faith in the government and it's economy/currency? If you were a high-ranking member of government or someone who has a large financial stake in it's success, what steps would you take to ensure the people remain obedient? Would you increase the cost of disobedience? How? How would you convince them it's for their own good? https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017b-c604-d5dd-a3ff-ef0464aa0000

Jen Psaki announced yesterday that Joe Biden will announce 6 steps today to combat COVID. Count the number times of she uses the word "mandate" when referring to previous actions. Let's watch the remarks today and note how much more our liberties will be permanently eroded. Video begins at the pertinent timestamp:

I honestly didn't realize we agree on this. Mandates are not the way. That's really the crux, isn't it? If you're not going to force me to make the same life decisions as you, we can disagree indefinitely and nothing of consequence happens as we each assume responsibility for our own personal risk assessment. I will concede that things may be far, far worse than I imagined. Someone waited "thousands of minutes" for a rural ER. I'm not laughing at the people waiting, I'm laughing at the media desperation.

I would love to come over for dinner, but you strike me as a vegan. (I, kid) Honest question: Why would her coworkers, who have the same job, and see the same things she does, refuse to get vaccinated?

You just now used statements from articles you earlier quoted to fabricate an entire future conversation with your wife to convince me that you've got a handle on reality. It's a bit of a stretch, bro. Don't blame your wife for things you clearly read online.

I should have said it differently. Don't sit and watch cable news and think you're informed. Televised news is designed to appeal to your emotions more so than written articles. I posted a Youtube clip that was embedded in an article of the CDC Director just so you can see and hear the same people that got you worked up over this are now walking back and changing the narrative. It won't be long until all your other narratives get the same treatment. In one sentence, you're "worry free". Immediately following that declaration, there's all this hand-wringing, stress, and frustration over the unvaccinated. You say you're not worried, yet every single thing you post outside of that statement indicates otherwise. "The healthcare shortage is going to make the pilot shortage look like child's play!" "You're gonna wait hours and hours for the ER!" "We're rationing healthcare! The AP says so!" Relax, man. You are going to be fine. Your wife is going to be fine. Did you not read the articles I posted links to from years prior? It's the same exact shit. Rationed healthcare, overflowing ERs, stressed healthcare workers... etc, etc, etc. All of it occurred prior to 2020, and will occur years from now. You can't run a healthcare system or any other industry with huge amounts of excess capacity (military industrial businesses excepted). There are ebbs and flows in demand across every industry.

Like a baby. You should try it. 1. Exercise 2. Only read the news. Never watch it. 3. No screens after 10pm. 4. Stop being afraid. You're going to die anyway.

Don't be gullible. It's the same recycled headline and hysteria. The AP is getting lazy. 2018: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5279685/California-hospitals-looks-like-flu-war-zone.html 2019: https://www.dispatchhealth.com/blog/ers-are-overwhelmed-with-flu-patients-mobile-urgent-care-is-the-solution/ January 2020: https://www.foxla.com/news/flu-tent-set-up-at-loma-linda-as-cases-on-rise-oc-suffers-first-flu-death-of-season Also, you can cross off "Vaccines stop the spread" as one of the arguments virtual-signalling pro-vaxxer's can use.

LOL. 3 minutes, 29 seconds. How are you not embarrassed by mindlessly parroting these "scientific truths" that are constantly changing? Try to keep up.

Which of our pro-vax friends here disagrees with the ACLU? American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Pandemic Preparedness The Need For a Public Health -Not A Law Enforcement/National Security-Approach https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/privacy/pemic_report.pdf Government agencies have an essential role to play in helping to prevent and mitigate epidemics. Unfortunately, in recent years, our government’s approach to preparing the nation for a possible influenza pandemic has been highly misguided. Too often, policymakers are resorting to law enforcement and national security-oriented measures that not only suppress individual rights unnecessarily, but have proven to be ineffective in stopping the spread of disease and saving lives. The following report examines the relationship between civil liberties and public health in contemporary U.S. pandemic planning and makes a series of recommendations for developing a more effective, civil liberties-friendly approach. Conflating Public Health with National Security and Law Enforcement Rather than focusing on well-established measures for protecting the lives and health of Americans, policymakers have recently embraced an approach that views public health policy through the prism of national security and law enforcement. This model assumes that we must “trade liberty for security.” As a result, instead of helping individuals and communities through education and provision of health care, today’s pandemic prevention focuses on taking aggressive, coercive actions against those who are sick. People, rather than the disease, become the enemy. Lessons from History American history contains vivid reminders that grafting the values of law enforcement and national security onto public health is both ineffective and dangerous. Too often, fears aroused by disease and epidemics have justified abuses of state power. Highly discriminatory and forcible vaccination and quarantine measures adopted in response to outbreaks of the plague and smallpox over the past century have consistently accelerated rather than slowed the spread of disease, while fomenting public distrust and, in some cases, riots. The lessons from history should be kept in mind whenever we are told by government officials that “tough,” liberty-limiting actions are needed to protect us from dangerous diseases. Specifically: • Coercion and brute force are rarely necessary. In fact they are generally counterproductive—they gratuitously breed public distrust and encourage the people who are most in need of care to evade public health authorities. • On the other hand, effective, preventive strategies that rely on voluntary participation do work. Simply put, people do not want to contract smallpox, influenza or other dangerous diseases. They want positive government help in avoiding and treating disease. As long as public officials are working to help people rather than to punish them, people are likely to engage willingly in any and all efforts to keep their families and communities healthy. • Minorities and other socially disadvantaged populations tend to bear the brunt of tough public health measures. ...History warns that vulnerable populations may well be subjected to unnecessary and arbitrary detentions if a pandemic strikes.The same point is applicable to vaccinations. The problem will not be that force is needed to vaccinate the population, rather that vaccine will be unavailable or in limited supply and will have to be rationed while people line up to demand access. Nonetheless it is worth emphasizing to public officials that the Supreme Court has ruled that competent individuals have a right to refuse any medical treatment, including life-sustaining treatment, and this includes vaccinations.. And it goes on, and on, and on... Read it

The Intercept just published 900 pages of FOIA released documents regarding the origins of COVID and it's research funding. I've only spent about 20 minutes reading through and I've already read some unbelievable shit. Do yourself a favor and read some of it. It's insane. You won't be seeing it on the nightly news. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21055989-understanding-risk-bat-coronavirus-emergence-grant-notice https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21055988-risk-zoonotic-virus-hotspots-grant-notice page 114 of the first link: Aim 3: Testing predictions of CoV inter-species transmission. We will test our models of host range (i.e. emergence potential) experimentally using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments in cell culture and humanized mice. With bat-CoVs that we've isolated or sequenced, and using live virus or pseudovirus infection in cells of different origin or expressing different receptor molecules, we will assess potential for each isolated virus and those with receptor binding site sequence, to spill over. We will do this by sequencing the spike (or other receptor binding/fusion) protein genes from all our bat-CoVs, creating mutants to identify how significantly each would need to evolve to use ACE2, CD26/DPP4 (MERS-CoV receptor) or other potential CoV receptors. We will then use receptor-mutant pseudovirus binding assays, in vitro studies in bat, primate, human and other species' cell lines, and with humanized mice where particularly interesting viruses are identified phylogenetically, or isolated. These tests will provide public health-relevant data, and also iteratively improve our predictive model to better target bat species and Co Vs during our field studies to obtain bat-CoV strains of the greatest interest for understanding the mechanisms of cross-species transmission.