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VMFA187

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  1. 16 minutes ago, pawnman said:

    In the same house. 

    Meanwhile, unvaccinated people are 8 times as likely to get covid in the first place. 

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/16/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-work-protect-others/8106810002/

    Great, that should be a choice that they themselves are able to make for an illness that has a mortality rate that is incredibly low for a relatively healthy individual when the alternative is a vaccine that doesn't function like a vaccine, and has absolutely no long-term known side effects, and that skipped many of the normal vaccine testing requirements to receive authorization. 

  2. Well, I was coerced into receiving the JJ vaccine on Thursday around 2pm. I woke up 10 hours later and felt like absolute garbage, as bad as when I had covid two months ago - Fever, worst muscle soreness I've ever experienced (truthfully), headache, and joint pain. Lasted until a few hours ago. 

    Can't wait to see what long term side effects will be revealed in the coming years... At least I'll have about a year head's up on most of the willing test volunteers. 

    Of note, there were people in there who were a week from even being eligible for a booster asking if they could get it early. Astounding. 

  3. 2 hours ago, TreeA10 said:

    I'll also throw this into the hopper, if the flight lead is a weak instrument pilot, odds are that power changes, configuration changes, and control inputs to fly the approach will be large and late creating a much larger and later correction by the wingman. The decreased response effectiveness of the throttle(s) and flight controls are made worse at slower speeds like an approach. You work your butt off flying on the wing of a weak instrument flight lead. 

    I hope your lead brought you in for a straight in to ILS or PAR... If it warrants a legit section penetration to section landing it warrants an emergency declaration.

    If he's leading a hurt bird on a Hi-TCN triple arcing procedure then he's AFU. Tell your flight leads to suck less. 

  4. 28 minutes ago, Prozac said:

    Does Webster’s definition change what the vaccines do? Does it matter at all? The vaccines (or prophylactics or whatever you want to call them) we’re effective before the definition change and they are effective now. If I had to guess, the definition was probably changed because people were acting like a bunch of eight year olds, stomping up and down and saying “Nuh-uh! Websters says it isn’t a vaccine so you can’t make me take it!” Regardless, it makes no difference to me how you define vaccine, or what you call these shots. The only thing that matters is that they’re an effective tool in the quiver when it comes to fighting Covid. 

    Call them effective if you want, but they're not required for a vast majority of the population and their use puts that majority at risk for other factors they wouldn't have to face if not being coerced to take a "vaccine" that they don't need. 

    There are a lot of other "effective tools in the quiver" but no one is pushing those - Why?

  5. 12 minutes ago, Prozac said:

    More semantics. The flu vaccine that we all agreed was, in fact, a vaccine for years wouldn’t have fit the definition either. 

    Why was the definition just changed? Isn't that odd? Are you cool with changing the definitions of words just to fit a certain viewpoints narrative? Seems you are and that it's just "semantics."

  6. 40 minutes ago, Prozac said:

    It’s a vaccine. It’s not gene therapy (not even close).

    Except its not, at least the way Webster's dictionary defined the word "vaccine" until a week or so ago. 

    I guess its a valid to change the definitions of words so they meet your intent. The left has been doing it for years for social justice, why not this?

  7. On 12/3/2021 at 3:15 PM, ViperMan said:

    Yeah, not to be a jerk, but you're not understanding it correctly.

    Married people are the benefactors in our current tax paradigm because they can make more income subject to a lower tax rate. i.e. a single person starts paying 35% as soon as they trip $216K. A married couple doesn't pay 35% until they make double that. The benefit to filing jointly is that it allows a couple with basically one bread winner to pay less taxes. If a married couple so chose (as some may because they are equal earners, etc), they could both file as single people and avoid the so-called penalty which you identify.

    Bottom line, a married couple can choose whichever path suits them best. No such choice is available for someone who's not married.

    Also, this is really how it has always been, under Rs or Ds.

    Got it. Thanks dude. 

  8. 1 hour ago, tac airlifter said:

    As someone who has never flown a T-38 please educate me: what is the DLO of form takeoff & landing?  

    We did it in the Hornet in the RAG/FTU and fleet to show that you could bring back another aircraft through bad weather that didn't have the ability to ability to navigate or fly safely on its own due to aircraft malfunctions like a failed INS/GPS or lack of airspeed indications due to failed sensors. 

    I had to bring back a Hornet for a section landing once due to the latter.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, pawnman said:

    So if I told you mRNA vaccines have been in development for 30 years...?

    THIS vaccine. I don't care about the technology behind it. No knowledge of future complications exist because of the rush to get it to market. If you are comfortable with that, cool - Take it and be happy. Why do you feel compelled to force others to have to take it?

    I believe in gun ownership but I'm not forcing everyone to have one in their home. 

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  10. 13 minutes ago, pawnman said:

     https://institutions.newscientist.com/article/2294250-how-much-less-likely-are-you-to-spread-covid-19-if-youre-vaccinated/

    Vaccines reduce the odds you transmit even the Delta variant by 63%, ASSUMING YOU HAVE IT.

    A 63% drop in transmission, combined with a risk of 1 in 5000 of even getting it in the first place, is what I would call a "huge" reduction.

    The Covid vaccines is more effective at preventing Covid than the flu vaccine is at preventing flu (flu vaccines hover in the 40-60% efficacy range).  Guess we need to reclassify flu as "not a vaccine" since it's not 100% bullet-proof either.

    Seriously...what is the level of data you would need to change your mind?  Because I'm starting to think that there isn't any.  That no amount of scientific research, no number of papers, no mountain of statistics, is going to convince you.

    And y'all think I'm the one that's "lost my whole identity".  

    10 years of research, like any other vaccine. And transparency - Release those documents that they want 55 years to review before it is released to the public. 

  11. 3 minutes ago, pawnman said:

    1. In a tiny portion of the population, yes. But your argument is like saying peanut butter isn't safe because some people have peanut allergies. 

    2. It does lower the odds of getting Covid. By a lot. It's not 100%, but no vaccine is. 

    3. If you don't catch Covid, you don't spread it. Lower probability of catching it means lower odds of spreading it.

    I wonder...do you put up the same fuss over the flu vaccines that are less effective, statistically, at preventing flu than the covid vaccine are at preventing covid?

    1. So it is harmful? Thank you. And you can make that statement only if peanut butter had just been invented less than a year ago and people were "unexplainably" having adverse reactions and. Peanut butter has been around for quite some time so we know there are no long-term adverse effects. 

    2. Not an answer to my question. By how much does it have to lower your odds to actually be a "vaccine?"

    3. Not an answer to my question.

    Thanks for only answering one of my questions and side-stepping the others. "Alot" and "tiny" are also very useful numbers. Appreciate the thoughtful response. /sarcasm

    I have received the flu vaccine twice in the four years since I've departed active duty. It is well-established. 

    I'll wear your down votes as a badge of honor from here on out!

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  12. Am I not understanding this correctly? I was just browsing the 2022 tax brackets and found it terrible that in the 35% and 37% bracket married couples are taxed far more harshly than those who are single. 

    Bracket / Single / Married Filing Jointly

    35% $215,950 to $539,900 $431,900 to $647,850  
    37% $539,900 or more $647,850 or more  

    So two people who live together and share a life together, but are not married can make $1,079,7999 together and not enter the 37% tax bracket. Yet at $647,850 a married couple enters the 37% tax bracket? Is that correct?

    What does that say about this administration and the democratic party? Any thoughts on why this is happening?

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  13. 16 hours ago, VMFA187 said:

    I concur. That being said, it's about the same as saying "The vaccine is safe and effective."

     

    @pawnman, you gave me a minus for this statement. 

    Does the vaccine have side effects that we know about that are harmful? Does it prevent people from catching covid? Does it prevent people from spreading covid? 

    Answer those questions and then tell me why you think that statement is deserving of a down vote. 

  14. 1 hour ago, pawnman said:

    Did you balk at any of the other vaccines your kids required before you sent them to school? 

    Did you do a deep-dive on the VAERS data for MMR before taking them to the pediatrician? 

    You guys are taking a political stand and trying to disguise it as concern for your health.

    Do you always tell people their thoughts and reality? Dude, get a grip on reality. 

    Why would they not be able to release data on the "vaccine" for 55 years? Sounds super sketch. You don't think so? They skipped several steps in the typical vaccination approval process and got it approved in 10% of the time of a typical vaccine - How does that not make you question this whole situation?

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  15. Just now, pawnman said:

    As opposed to people willing to risk a 99% survival rate but not a 99.9999% rate of no adverse effects?

    There are potentially significant effects that we may not know about for years because how rapidly the vaccine was approved. Several steps were skipped during the process - Effects on cancer, potential for birth defects, etc...

    And the survival rate for a healthy person is far above a flat 99%. 

    How can you trust the people who have been making these decisions when there is zero transparency, they have no accountability, they have downright lied and changed their stance on multiple issues several times, and they don't want to release data for something like 60 years?

    I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona if you're looking...

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  16. 15 minutes ago, FDNYOldGuy said:

    Instead of trying to turn this into a partisan issue, maybe we should keep focusing in on how a lot of wealthy people, whatever their political affiliation, seemed to spend a lot of time with a guy who preyed on and abused underage girls? All while having a couple decades of allegations, investigations, and convictions, yet seemingly minimal repercussions.

    Concur. Anyone, regardless of political affiliation, who is linked should be investigated. 

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  17. 2 hours ago, JackWhite said:

    I think nothing will happpen at least in that timeframe which media says. It's stupid to attack at time when everyone knows it and expect. 

    We, both our military and our nation, are weaker now than we've been since I've been alive. 

    That is not to degrade our warfighters - We've been betrayed by politicians and the media. As a nation we have never been more divided and as a fighting force we've been out-procured by our biggest threat to a degree not fathomable in the past. 

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