Quote: @greediron said:
lololol
https://100percentfedup.com/foo-fighters...ets-covid/
& on the flip-side, we have Eric Clapton.
Clapton has announced he will not play to any audience where being vaccinated (‘discriminated’, as he puts it) is a requirement. This was a response to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest policy, announced via his sinister Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi, whereby people will need vaccine passports to attend events like music gigs and club nights.
He has stated:
Quote:Following the PM’s announcement on Monday the 19th of July 2021 I feel honour bound to make an announcement of my own: I wish to say that I will not perform on any stage where there is a discriminated audience present. Unless there is provision made for all people to attend, I reserve the right to cancel the show. Eric Clapton.
Though Clapton has himself been double-vaccinated he has expressed regrets about having done so.
He wrote:
Quote:“I took the first jab of AZ and straight away had severe reactions which lasted ten days, I recovered eventually and was told it would be twelve weeks before the second one…,” Clapton wrote.
“About six weeks later I was offered and took the second AZ shot, but with a little more knowledge of the dangers,” he continued. “Needless to say the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks, I feared I would never play again, (I suffer with peripheral neuropathy and should never have gone near the needle.) But the propaganda said the vaccine was safe for everyone….”
Clapton’s principled, anti-Establishment stand is in marked contrast to those of many younger musicians, such as the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl who has happily acceded to vaccine Apartheid for his audiences.
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Quote: @medaille said:
@ MaroonBells said:
Everything is political now. The country as it is now would not be able to eradicate polio or small pox or come together to win a war. It's just too divided. My sister in law won't get vaccinated...and not as much because of her distrust of science. It's more because she's a Trump supporter. And that's what they do. It's the "lefties" who want everyone to get vaccinated. It's just so incredibly stupid.
Meanwhile....Putin smiles... Just out curiousity, why do you think her support of Trump
is the causative factor for not getting vaccinated? Trump created Operation Warpspeed for fasttracking
the vaccine, he pre-bought hundreds of millions of vaccines putting the US at
the front of the line for getting vaccinated.
He and his wife got vaccinated.
I do think you’re right in the sense that Republicans are
much more likely to be vaccine hesitant than Democrats, but I just don’t think
it has anything to do with Trump. I
think Trump just appeals to the group of people who are likely to be vaccine
hesitant in a correlation not causation type of way.
No, my whole point here is that it's irrational correlation rather than causation. That it's a result of simply being divided into camps or teams, and that often our behavior is dictated by the team we're on, the color of the jersey we wear, red or blue.
However, it would be wrong to suggest that Trump played no part in dividing those camps, with his downplaying the seriousness of the virus, his ridiculing of mask wearing, hyping of alternative cures and continued insistence that "fake news" is not telling us the truth about the virus or its vaccines.
But since this topic has taken a political turn it should probably be moved to ST.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ purplefaithful said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ StickyBun said:
@ JimmyinSD said:
@ MaroonBells said:
3. BUF - WR Cole Beasley not long for Buffalo?
Source: The Buffalo News - Jay Skurski
Buffalo Bills WR Cole Beasley is unlikely to be released after recording career highs with 82 receptions and 967 receiving yards, although he has threatened to retire because of the NFL's COVID-19 protocols for unvaccinated individuals. However, the Buffalo News' Jay Skurski speculates that, although unlikely, the Bills could remove 'the potential distraction themselves' and release Beasley. Skurski also notes that cutting Beasley would save $5.341 million against the 2021 cap.
well then there is our #3, WTF as long as our starting QB and 1B receiver are on the same boat, why not?
lol. Hey, Cole can be as ignorant as he wants, but I don't think he should be cut from the team as a byproduct of it.
i am over it all, I am over telling people to take the virus seriously ( I was one of the first on these boards to warn people to take notice of it well before it became something that became political cannon fodder) i am over being lectured at, i am over defending peoples right to choose, I am just fucking over it already. the virus has such a moving goal post I am just done and dont care anymore. the politics have won over the science (and that can be said for both parties on about any subject) there just isnt any middle ground left in this country any more so all I am going to do is smile, and move on.
I am just going to do my best to be more like Wooderson...
I was hoping the earth might be rid of COVID-19 by maybe end of next year. When we can get Vaxes out to more continents. Now I think it might be around for a decade.
I dont know who said it? Maybe Fauci -- but if Americans attitudes and behavior with vaccines during polio was like they are with covid? Polio would still be around.
Everything is political now. The country as it is now would not be able to eradicate polio or small pox or come together to win a war. It's just too divided. My sister in law won't get vaccinated...and not as much because of her distrust of science. It's more because she's a Trump supporter. And that's what they do. It's the "lefties" who want everyone to get vaccinated. It's just so incredibly stupid.
Meanwhile....Putin smiles...
Cuz he likes spooning Biden?
Quote: @StickyBun said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/too-doctor-sa...17137.html
Read this yesterday. It's a sad story that likely plays out every day at one hospital or another...
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” she said of her COVID-19 patients.
“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’.”
But they were wrong, she said, and they can’t go back.
“So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives,” she wrote.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ StickyBun said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/too-doctor-sa...17137.html
Read this yesterday. It's a sad story that likely plays out every day at one hospital or another...
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” she said of her COVID-19 patients.
“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’.”
But they were wrong, she said, and they can’t go back.
“So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives,” she wrote.
My 20 something nephew refuses to get vaxed, and he's a frigging bar tender...My niece refuses to let him around her toddlers who cant get vaxed yet.
Really has wrought such confrontation in the family. Sad indeed.
And more sadly is that Delta is just going to put a lot of un-vaxed people (younger people) in the icu, in the ground or suffering with long-haul. So avoidable, it's maddening.
Here is a prediction - once the FDA formally approves these vaccines? A lot of business and govt offices are going to mandate it.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ StickyBun said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/too-doctor-sa...17137.html
Read this yesterday. It's a sad story that likely plays out every day at one hospital or another...
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” she said of her COVID-19 patients.
“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’.”
But they were wrong, she said, and they can’t go back.
“So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives,” she wrote.
Maybe I'm turning into a curmudgeon. Maybe I'm just an asshole. But, I've got no sympathy for the terminally stupid. They put me and mine at risk.
Like I'm fond of saying, remove all the warning labels and just let things sort themselves out.
Quote: @"BarrNone55" said:
@ MaroonBells said:
@ StickyBun said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/too-doctor-sa...17137.html
Read this yesterday. It's a sad story that likely plays out every day at one hospital or another...
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” she said of her COVID-19 patients.
“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’.”
But they were wrong, she said, and they can’t go back.
“So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives,” she wrote.
Maybe I'm turning into a curmudgeon. Maybe I'm just an asshole. But, I've got no sympathy for the terminally stupid. They put me and mine at risk.
Like I'm fond of saying, remove all the warning labels and just let things sort themselves out.
Part of me feels the same way, but part of me understands where this doctor is coming from. Your first reaction is maybe anger and frustration, but when you attach faces and families to this avoidable tragedy, it's hard not to feel something. They're not "bad" people just misinformed. So most of my anger goes to the source of the misinformation--scratch that, DISinformation: Fox, Facebook, etc.
Quote: @"BarrNone55" said:
@ MaroonBells said:
@ StickyBun said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/too-doctor-sa...17137.html
Read this yesterday. It's a sad story that likely plays out every day at one hospital or another...
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” she said of her COVID-19 patients.
“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’.”
But they were wrong, she said, and they can’t go back.
“So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives,” she wrote.
Maybe I'm turning into a curmudgeon. Maybe I'm just an asshole. But, I've got no sympathy for the terminally stupid. They put me and mine at risk.
Like I'm fond of saying, remove all the warning labels and just let things sort themselves out. Apparently, Macron agrees with you.
“I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, my time, my freedom and the adolescence of my daughters, as well as their right to study properly, for those who refuse to be vaccinated. This time you stay at home, not us. "
In France, those who do not get vaccinated will no longer be able to go to restaurants, cafes (from the beginning of August), cinemas and museums (from July 21) and get on airplanes or trains (again from August). Alternatively, you will have to submit a negative test, which will no longer be free (49 euros for the PCR, 29 for the antigen).
EDIT: Apparently, this was not Macron who said this. But whoever said it, a votre santé!
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ StickyBun said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/too-doctor-sa...17137.html
Read this yesterday. It's a sad story that likely plays out every day at one hospital or another...
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” she said of her COVID-19 patients.
“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’.”
But they were wrong, she said, and they can’t go back.
“So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives,” she wrote.
And then there's this:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-hospitali...32588.html
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