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2021-08-30 at 4:31 PM UTC in Why won't Aldra get vaccinated?
Originally posted by Meikai I mean honestly it doesn't make sense for the *vaccine* to be the vector for population control or whatever. If you were planning on intentionally culling the herd, you'd spare the most domesticated among them. A willingness to follow the Rules, listen to the powers that be, etc - these are all behaviors that any theoretical sinister NWO UN illuminopoly would value and encourage. If they're going to harm a bunch of people it's not going to be the obedient ones.
its social conditioning.
a population that would not resist getting injected with chemicals of unknown safety and efficacy can be induced to accept anything the powers to be want them to get next.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-30 at 3:34 PM UTC in Why won't Aldra get vaccinated?
Originally posted by stl1 You post things that you pull out of your ass that you never back up with credible proof and expect that everyone else is as stupid as you are and will believe it.
while you only post "credible proofs" that has been researched and regurgitated in to you by the approved sources.
how does this make you feel.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-29 at 11:28 AM UTC in Why won't Aldra get vaccinated?It's the fault of the government for making the shot out to be really sketchy and suppressing honest information on side effects. It's also their fault for keeping up insane and disproportionate lockdown measures in place, and inflict cruel and weird psychological terrorism upon the whole population, playing on their fears and neurosis, which makes intelligent people hate and despise the whole concept of coof prevention.
It's the fault of the people who developed the vaccine for creating such a shitty product, that makes you sick, can kill you, and barely even works to do what it's supposed to do, stopping the coof from spreading and stopping you getting sick.
It's the fault of some of the unpleasant people here who shill the vaccine, almost as if they themselves understood or knew anything about the science (¡I fucking love science!), and take it as a personal triumph whenever unvaccinated people die. -
2021-08-28 at 9:15 AM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-28 at 2:31 AM UTC in Fona 8-27-2021Weekend is finally here.
Got most of the last of Michelle's stuff moved.
The last bit is going in the morning.
I told her I would help her get a few things set up like her tv mounted and wifi connected.
She is staying at our apartment tonight because she has school work to finish and needs internet.
We talked quite a bit about everything we have been through and discussed our feelings which are mutual.
This isn't easy for either of us and it is scary.
I have no doubt everything will be okay and that we both will continue on keeping on.
I just beat the End Dragon with Rabbitweed for the first time ever without cheating at all but he ran in and took the achievement.
Tonight Im doing a little laundry and just taking it easy.
I got a new recliner today and I think Ill relax in it for a few.
When I was moving it in the back of a truck it started to pour rain and I was sad thinking it was ruined but it actually just cleaned it for me and I drove really fast so it go blow dried after I got out of the rain.
We had KFC for dinner.
Tomorrow I am going to resume cleaning out my Aunt's house and hopefully I will be able to start cleaning my apartment.
We lived here a year and it was brought to my attention that I need to clean my oven so I did get some cleaner.
There's dishes, laundry and trash piled everywhere that I need to do something about.
Tomorrow is going to be busy busy but exciting too I hope.
Really happy that my life has been so good in recent times.
Im not regretting anything and will continue to prosper at whatever cost.
Im not about to give up or slip up.
Hope you all are having a wonderful night.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-27 at 10:57 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
Originally posted by stl1 Popular Science
Breakthrough cases won't stop vaccines from ending the pandemic
Kate Baggaley
The highly contagious delta variant of the novel coronavirus continues to surge across the United States. And while the unvaccinated are feeling the brunt of this wave of the pandemic, they aren’t the only ones testing positive. Data from the past several months indicate that the delta variant has weakened the vaccine’s ability to prevent infection from occurring entirely.
Even against the delta variant, vaccines do a great job at preventing serious illness and death.© Unsplash Even against the delta variant, vaccines do a great job at preventing serious illness and death.
“We are seeing an increased number of infections in vaccinated people,” acknowledges John Wherry, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Immunology.
These breakthrough cases are thought to be relatively uncommon and are usually mild. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have emphasized that vaccines aren’t 100 percent effective at preventing illness, and some infections are expected to occur even in vaccinated people.
None of this means the vaccines aren’t working. In fact, they still do a great job at preventing hospitalization and death. So far, data suggests that vaccines limit the spread of COVID-19, even if they can’t quash it completely, and even people who have already had COVID-19 benefit from their protection.
There are a few possible reasons for COVID-19 cases to be on the rise in vaccinated people. One is the wildfire spread of the delta variant. Another is that even though only a small fraction of vaccinated people will likely get a breakthrough infection, with over 171 million people in the U.S. now fully vaccinated, that percentage will add up to a lot of breakthrough infections.
Antibody levels in vaccinated people may also wane over time, leaving them more vulnerable to infection. The good news, Wherry says, is that “there’s a backup plan built into the immune system.” In addition to antibodies, vaccinated people also produce white blood cells known as memory B cells and memory T cells. As their names suggest, these cells can recognize the virus if the person encounters it in the future.
“If the antibodies fail, or the antibodies have sort of a chink in the armor and a little bit gets through, those memory B cells and memory T cells…respond very quickly to detecting that new infection,” Wherry says. “They can limit that viral replication very quickly and actually prevent the virus from spreading around your body, which is what leads eventually to disease.”
The vaccines seem to be better at protecting the lungs than the upper respiratory tract. “Somebody can acquire the virus, it can multiply in somebody’s upper airway, they can transmit it to somebody else theoretically,” says Martin Blaser, director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers University, “but their inner core, their lungs and other tissues, seem to be well-protected by the immunity given by the vaccine.”
The true number of infections in vaccinated people isn’t known. When they do become infected, though, vaccinated people are much likelier than the unvaccinated to have mild or no symptoms (for this reason, breakthrough infections are probably underreported).
Despite the rise of the delta variant, COVID-19 vaccines are still very effective in preventing serious illness and death. A recent report from California indicates that unvaccinated people in Los Angeles County were five times as likely to become infected and 29 times as likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 as their fully vaccinated peers.
“People who do get the vaccine have much milder illness or no illness and are much less likely to end up in the hospital or to die, so the main reason to get the vaccine is to protect yourself,” Blaser says. “Anyone who doesn’t want to get a severe case of COVID should take the vaccine.”
People with compromised immune systems are less likely to mount a robust immune response after vaccination than other people. The CDC recently recommended that immunocompromised people receive an extra shot.
“It just seems to be enough of a kick to get at least some of those people over the hump of making a decent antibody response,” Wherry says. “If people are worried about that, it’s a good time to ask your doctor, have that discussion, and see whether a booster may be in your future.”
The three most important tools we have in stopping the spread of COVID-19 are masks, social distancing, and vaccination, Blaser says.
“What we had hoped was that the vaccine would lower transmission,” he says. The delta variant seems to be making this task substantially more difficult. Researchers have found preliminary evidence that vaccinated people who catch this swiftly-replicating variant can accumulate similar levels of virus to unvaccinated people. Scientists have also grown live viruses from nasal swabs taken from vaccinated COVID-19 patients, and used it to infect and kill human cell cultures. This lends support to the idea that vaccinated people may still readily spread the virus if they become infected.
However, another recent report suggests that vaccinated people who catch COVID-19 are less infectious than the unvaccinated. Researchers found that viruses sampled from vaccinated people replicated less efficiently than viruses from unvaccinated people. The findings, which haven’t yet undergone peer review, could mean that people who develop breakthrough cases don’t “shed” as much virus as unvaccinated people who catch COVID-19.
When the virus does invade the noses of vaccinated people, it will quickly be swarmed by antibodies, Wherry says. “That virus that you’re detecting or that you may expel from your nose is likely to have antibodies coating it that may limit its ability to infect another person.”
Vaccinated people who catch COVID-19 also seem to be contagious for a shorter window of time than those who weren’t vaccinated, which dramatically limits their chances to spread the virus to others, he adds.
“We have to accept the fact that setting a 100 percent threshold for success in this scenario is setting ourselves up for failure,” Wherry says. “Not 100 percent of people will be protected from disease, nor will we 100 percent prevent transmission in vaccinated people, but we sure are dropping it by a huge amount in vaccinated people.”
After catching COVID-19, Wherry says, “You do generate a pretty good immune response, and [there’s] good evidence that it is pretty durable.”
During a real infection, a person’s immune system is exposed to the entire virus, rather than just the parts targeted by the vaccine. This could lead to a broader immune response. On the other hand, people who survive mild infections have lower levels of antibodies than would develop after vaccination, Wherry says. According to data published this month by the CDC, COVID-19 survivors who stayed unvaccinated were more than twice as likely to be reinfected as survivors who got the shots. Furthermore, getting vaccinated seems to give COVID-19 survivors a powerful boost in immune cells and could even lead to an especially potent kind of “hybrid immunity.”
“Altogether this points to the idea that the vaccine strongly boosts immunity,” Blaser says.
Researchers aren’t sure how long this immunity will last. Unlike the coronaviruses that cause the common cold that people are regularly exposed to, SARS-CoV-2 had never been seen in humans before late 2019. This means that we were completely vulnerable when it first swept across the globe, and there’s still a lot to learn about how the virus behaves and changes.
“I can’t tell you that after the delta virus goes through and more and more people are vaccinated, everything’s going to quiet down, or [if] we will be susceptible to a new wave or a new variant that will come around,” Blaser says. “But at least we will have some level of preexisting immunity because of the vaccination.”
It’s possible that we’ll eventually get COVID-19 boosters every year, he says, similar to the seasonal flu shot. Still, Wherry notes, getting shots into unvaccinated people’s arms remains the top priority.
“We do not end the pandemic by giving vaccinated people boosters. We end the pandemic by vaccinating unvaccinated people,” he says. “That’s still the giant source of fuel in the fire; vaccinated people are barely a wet log.”
Another ridiculous word salad. Almost as if a bunch of horseshit means anything in the real world.
78% of jedis in Israel are vaccinated and they still have Covid there.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-27 at 10:40 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sif u voted for biden this shit show is on you commiesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-27 at 2:28 PM UTC in what the fuck is inflation
Originally posted by Kev members of the working class make up a sizable majority of today’s workers.
The working class makes up the largest share of the labor force
the working class—made up of working people without a college degree
“Workers aren’t actually part of the working class” is a Jedi mind trick meme to pit the slightly less fucked part of the working class against the totally fucked part of the working class and distract us from the royal jediing we all get to enjoy under capitalismThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-27 at 2:15 AM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-26 at 9:47 PM UTC in New scary shit regarding Covid VaccineIN VITRO CARBON NANOTUBE CONSTRUCTION VIA RNA INSTRUCTION, BY DR. CHARLES M. LIEBER (PROMINENT NANOTECHNOLOGY EXPERT AND BIOCHEMIST FORMERLY WORKING AT THE WUHAN INSTITUTE)
COINCIDENECE I THINK PROBABLY NO RIGHT? HAHA BU T THE SHEEPLE STILL BELIEVE IT'S ALL CUZ SOMEONE ATE A BATThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-26 at 9:26 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sAh yes, using the courts for political suppression. Imagine going on and on about "muh democrecy" and being proud of that.
Compare and contrast: was anyone sanctioned for the "Russian hacker" lie?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-25 at 3:42 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!No, I will probably say it's Republican lying propaganda.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-25 at 1:21 PM UTC in all unvaccinated = all retardedThey are testing the general populations idiocy and willingness to swallow total bullshit. They tell you the unvaccinated will die out, that the unvaccinated are the ones spreading the disease and dying, even as the evidence comes out that the vaccine essentially isn't working. You can still get and spread covid with the vaccine, the only thing it is even said to do anymore is lessen the symptoms. So literally the only risk the unvaccinated are taking is getting a sEvErE cAsE of covid themselves, which they overwhelmingly most likely will not, especially if they are generally healthy. And they still are able to appeal to the arrogance they've managed to instill in Americans where they won't admit they were wrong even as the evidence piles up against them, but instead will double and triple down.
Since they dragged you down this road this far, there's no real reason they won't be able to convince you to get shots #3,4,5,6,7,8 and probably more, and even as you all start dying off, continue to blame "the UNVACCINATED." This is how I know this country and the world is about to absolutely implode.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-24 at 6:59 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-24 at 6:10 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-23 at 10:23 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
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2021-08-23 at 2:02 AM UTC in Sydney: Army to enforce lockdown
wonder how much support this actually hasThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-22 at 5:03 AM UTC in Afghanistan collapsing to Taliban, globalists leaving Kabul like SaigonThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-22 at 12:17 AM UTC in Afghanistan collapsing to Taliban, globalists leaving Kabul like SaigonThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-21 at 7:37 PM UTC in Afghanistan collapsing to Taliban, globalists leaving Kabul like Saigon
Originally posted by Technologist Can’t tell if serious or licking Putin’s balls🙄
lol, not that they're even relevant to the discussion but the current situtation is the one that Russia benefits from you silly bitch
the US left shitloads of military hardware behind which makes their local enemies stronger - think of how much a country like Iran can learn from live, working, current-gen US surveillance drones.
in terms of how they've treated the local collaborators - how many people are going to work with the US in the near future, knowing they'll be left to fend for themselves literally overnight?
Originally posted by Technologist I’m in no position to decide that, just like you arm chair department of defense officials don’t know shit.
One thing I know is they made a deal with the devil, and it’s all playing out.
you're going to assert blame but not even bother thinking about what should've been done instead? why bother posting at all?
let's go from "they made a deal with the devil", which is funny considering the US invaded Afghanistan, not the other way around. that aside, how do you propose the 'devil' be stopped? they've been trying and failing for 20 years, what do you think they did wrong? what could be done differently? how long is it tenable to keep trying, keeping in mind that the longer you try and fail, the more US soldiers die or come home in pieces?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
