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Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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AGAIN, Saxi offer NO effective or efficacious refutation. Keep trying, Saxi. Someone may listen to your false narratives. I choose to refute your false information, at least on this topic.saxitoxin wrote:Martin Kulldorff, an MD and expert on disease propagation at Harvard, said universal vaccination is unnecessary. (Of course a Twitter employee with a BA degree in Film Studies labeled it medical misinformation-LOL.)
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/sta ... 58018?s=09
I believe scientists on questions of vaccine. Others are free to get health advice from 80 year old law school almost flunk outs and Seattle software engineers who hang with Jeff Epstein. You do you. I'll do me.

That is his "MO". I ignore most of his posts for many reasons, including those you cite, Jonesy.jonesthecurl wrote:Saxi long ago passed the 'cry wolf' threshold for me, I no longer bother to follow links or check 'facts' because they will be exaggerated and cherry-picked at least. Even on the odd occasion when I agree with his conclusion.

Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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saxitoxin wrote:Martin Kulldorff, an MD and expert on disease propagation at Harvard, said universal vaccination is unnecessary. (Of course a Twitter employee with a BA degree in Film Studies labeled it medical misinformation-LOL.)
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/sta ... 58018?s=09
Quite the strawman. Almost no-one is suggesting that everyone must be vaccinated. Most epidimiologists have pegged the golden number for herd immunity at somewhere between 70 and 80%.Kulldorff wrote:Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should.
If one gets COVID after getting the vaccine, then the symptoms are less severe for that person.saxitoxin wrote:If someone can give me a rational reason why I should get vaccinated, I'll do it tomorrow.
According to the Johns Hopkins University vaccine mortality calculator, I have a 1-in-11 million chance of dying from COVID-19. Currently, in the U.S., 1-in-8 million people are dying of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to math, I increase my chance of death by being vaccinated. Why would I do that?
And no, "to help America get herd immunity" isn't a valid reason. We've already established, in human society, that bodily integrity trumps the right to life. Abortion is legal because a woman's bodily integrity trumps a fetus' right to life. I can't be forced to donate my kidney to a stranger because my right to bodily integrity trumps their right to life. So the "increase your chance of death to help America" argument is ethically incoherent and unconvincing.
But if others want to get vaccinated, I have no objection and - in fact - encourage those in high risk groups to do so.

Then no one will have any problem if I'm part of the 30 percent.Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Martin Kulldorff, an MD and expert on disease propagation at Harvard, said universal vaccination is unnecessary. (Of course a Twitter employee with a BA degree in Film Studies labeled it medical misinformation-LOL.)
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/sta ... 58018?s=09Quite the strawman. Almost no-one is suggesting that everyone must be vaccinated. Most epidimiologists have pegged the golden number for herd immunity at somewhere between 70 and 80%.Kulldorff wrote:Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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That's not enough to inspire me. I've known three people who got the COVID of which one was asymptomatic and the other two had mild symptoms for 2-3 days equivalent to a cold.jusplay4fun wrote:If one gets COVID after getting the vaccine, then the symptoms are less severe for that person.saxitoxin wrote:If someone can give me a rational reason why I should get vaccinated, I'll do it tomorrow.
According to the Johns Hopkins University vaccine mortality calculator, I have a 1-in-11 million chance of dying from COVID-19. Currently, in the U.S., 1-in-8 million people are dying of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to math, I increase my chance of death by being vaccinated. Why would I do that?
And no, "to help America get herd immunity" isn't a valid reason. We've already established, in human society, that bodily integrity trumps the right to life. Abortion is legal because a woman's bodily integrity trumps a fetus' right to life. I can't be forced to donate my kidney to a stranger because my right to bodily integrity trumps their right to life. So the "increase your chance of death to help America" argument is ethically incoherent and unconvincing.
But if others want to get vaccinated, I have no objection and - in fact - encourage those in high risk groups to do so.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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And you know NO one who died from COVID or who suffered a bad case of COVID? That is the RATIONALE that you need to convince you to get the vaccine?saxitoxin wrote:That's not enough to inspire me. I've known three people who got the COVID of which one was asymptomatic and the other two had mild symptoms for 2-3 days equivalent to a cold.jusplay4fun wrote:If one gets COVID after getting the vaccine, then the symptoms are less severe for that person.saxitoxin wrote:If someone can give me a rational reason why I should get vaccinated, I'll do it tomorrow.
According to the Johns Hopkins University vaccine mortality calculator, I have a 1-in-11 million chance of dying from COVID-19. Currently, in the U.S., 1-in-8 million people are dying of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to math, I increase my chance of death by being vaccinated. Why would I do that?
And no, "to help America get herd immunity" isn't a valid reason. We've already established, in human society, that bodily integrity trumps the right to life. Abortion is legal because a woman's bodily integrity trumps a fetus' right to life. I can't be forced to donate my kidney to a stranger because my right to bodily integrity trumps their right to life. So the "increase your chance of death to help America" argument is ethically incoherent and unconvincing.
But if others want to get vaccinated, I have no objection and - in fact - encourage those in high risk groups to do so.

riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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I sure as hell couldn't care less.saxitoxin wrote:Then no one will have any problem if I'm part of the 30 percent.Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Martin Kulldorff, an MD and expert on disease propagation at Harvard, said universal vaccination is unnecessary. (Of course a Twitter employee with a BA degree in Film Studies labeled it medical misinformation-LOL.)
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/sta ... 58018?s=09Quite the strawman. Almost no-one is suggesting that everyone must be vaccinated. Most epidimiologists have pegged the golden number for herd immunity at somewhere between 70 and 80%.Kulldorff wrote:Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should.
False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. Or you could talk to your buddy Putin about sending you some Sputnik.saxitoxin wrote:Like I said, I don't care if people do or don't get the vaccine.
However, according to math, the chance I'll die in the next year - small as though it may be - is 22% higher if I get the vaccine (Johnson & Johnson) than if I don't.
If your odds are that low, then you're under 40. Yet you claim to have escaped from East Germany, which hasn't existed in 32 years. So how old were you when you climbed the Wall?saxitoxin wrote: According to the Johns Hopkins University vaccine mortality calculator, I have a 1-in-11 million chance of dying from COVID-19.
Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical in the best conditions. And doubly so if this first ever use in human history was rushed to market with no long-term human safety observations. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.Dukasaur wrote: False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.saxitoxin wrote:Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.Dukasaur wrote: False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
They opened their wallets because they were granted 100% civil immunity. If they were sitting on the technology for 10 years but only deployed it into live humans after they'd been granted unprecedented, never-before-seen immunity from civil liability, that's, ummmm ... not exactly a confidence booster.Dukasaur wrote:The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.saxitoxin wrote:Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.Dukasaur wrote: False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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Actually, I said "10 years" without checking. Just looked it up -- it's 31 years. In 1990, the first m-RNA vaccine was proven effective in mice. It's taken that long for this very important idea to break through.saxitoxin wrote:They opened their wallets because they were granted 100% civil immunity. If they were sitting on the technology for 10 years but only deployed it into live humans after they'd been granted unprecedented, never-before-seen immunity from civil liability, that's, ummmm ... not exactly a confidence booster.Dukasaur wrote:The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.saxitoxin wrote:Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.Dukasaur wrote: False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
That's even more terrifying. After 31 years they were still not confident enough to give it to humans until getting immunity from lawsuits.Dukasaur wrote:Actually, I said "10 years" without checking. Just looked it up -- it's 31 years.saxitoxin wrote:They opened their wallets because they were granted 100% civil immunity. If they were sitting on the technology for 10 years but only deployed it into live humans after they'd been granted unprecedented, never-before-seen immunity from civil liability, that's, ummmm ... not exactly a confidence booster.Dukasaur wrote:The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.saxitoxin wrote:Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.Dukasaur wrote: False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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I think Gagarin lucked out myself. " Vostok 1 was Gagarin's only spaceflight, but he served as the backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash, killing his friend and fellow cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. Fearful that a national hero might be killed, Soviet officials banned Gagarin from further spaceflights. After completing training at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy in February 1968, he was allowed to fly regular aircraft. Gagarin died five weeks later when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting with flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin crashed near the town of Kirzhach." WikipediaDukasaur wrote:Okay, if I don't post after Thursday you'll know the Gagarin effect killed me.
Oh, wait... Gagarin lived! He trusted in science.
This discussion shows me several things:saxitoxin wrote:That's even more terrifying. After 31 years they were still not confident enough to give it to humans until getting immunity from lawsuits.Dukasaur wrote:Actually, I said "10 years" without checking. Just looked it up -- it's 31 years.saxitoxin wrote:They opened their wallets because they were granted 100% civil immunity. If they were sitting on the technology for 10 years but only deployed it into live humans after they'd been granted unprecedented, never-before-seen immunity from civil liability, that's, ummmm ... not exactly a confidence booster.Dukasaur wrote:The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.saxitoxin wrote:Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.Dukasaur wrote: False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
Duk tells him his math is off and that the J&J vaccine is not the only one available. Later, he attacks the mRNA vaccine as TOO new and Duk tells him it has been out for 31 years (the idea and the technology.)The only reason given for me to voluntarily increase my chance of death by 22% is to aid society.
1 in 5 Americans say they won't get COVID-19 vaccine
Filed Under: COVID-19
Stephanie Soucheray | News Reporter | CIDRAP News | Apr 15, 2021
A poll published yesterday from Monmouth University found that 1 in 5 Americans remain unwilling to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Partisanship continues to be the defining factor determining which Americans are willing to get vaccinated and which are not: 43% of Republicans say they will avoid the vaccine, compared with just 5% of Democrats, and 22% of independents say they want to avoid getting the vaccine altogether.
A new Quinnipiac University poll shows 45% of Republicans are unwilling to get the vaccine. A poll from the University of Michigan also suggests age may be a factor. Only 20% of teens and young adults polled last October said they were unwilling to get vaccinated, and that percentage shrank to 15% last month.
The polls underscore the uphill battle the United States will have to reach herd immunity, despite a robust vaccine rollout that is seeing 3 million plus shots administered per day. Experts estimate around 70% of Americans will need to be vaccinated or infected to produce herd immunity.
And the polls were conducted before federal agencies put the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on pause, as they determine whether or not or to what extent that vaccine contributed to a rare type of blood clo ... 19-vaccine
