#covid minimizers

[willowreader]

The public needs the truth. The studies and statistics tell the real story.

[wat3rm370n]

Vaccine uptake is really low, so why are the anti-vaxxers still so riled up?

To really be effective public health, and to have any chance at quelling transmission, most people should be vaccinated, and really there should be a better campaign to get uptake much higher than to have as of October 25th, 2024, just 13.5% of U.S. adults up-to-date as of the 2024─25 COVID-19 vaccine, which came out in August 2024. 

But there are very few covid vaccine mandates nowadays in the U.S., and yet there are these stories of people with grudges willing to join raids, make shit lists, and making outrageous fictional claims about the vaccines - from claiming they’re gonna be in lettuce or the food supply generally, that they’ll implant eggs, or actually claiming that they’re products of the antichrist. This hysteria about vaccines is really out of proportion, to say the least. 

There are some jobs, for example in healthcare, that might require vaccinations, and actually always have. People in the military are required to get all kinds of vaccines and most are grateful because at any time they might be deployed somewhere that there's stuff in circulation that isn’t at home. If this were anyone else complaining about work mandates, conservatives would say “you signed up for it” or “just find another job” and be told to quit whining. So it’s very difficult to understand this enthusiasm for gripes.

The minimizers and anti-vaxxers are enthusiastically aggressive which is peculiar since their Great Barrington Declaration, minus the protection of the vulnerable of course which we always knew was a lie, has been enacted pretty much everywhere anyway! It’s like the trucker convoy people protesting public health mitigations that had no longer existed for quite awhile. 

So why do they have to persist in a culture war against health & safety? I wonder if it’s because it was never about the particulars, it’s just about being against public health in general and finding targets to blame to distract from real problems with real solutions that some people with a lot of money and power don’t like.

Because it’s like Anne Nelson said on the Bucks County Beacon podcast The Signal: “follow the money. Because the greatest beneficiaries of their operations are the plutocrats that don’t want to pay any taxes and they don’t want any public services to the rest of us that cost them taxes, such as public schools, public roads, public libraries, public health. So they want to hold on to as much money as they can.”

[wherestoriescomefrom]

rian johnson took all that time, put in all that effort to make glass onion a fantastic period piece to the first four months of pandemic, a prescient narrative that anticipates the stupidity of rich billionaires, and then pulled the rug from under us because the world of benoit blanc just straight up doesn't have the mona lisa anymore

[some-sort-of-ecologist]

i think one of the biggest scams i've seen in my lifetime is the idea that it looks better to have to have all matching mugs, preferably that match your dishes

reblog and tell me about your coffee mug

[checkoutmybookshelf]

...Ok I need to take a break from bookish things for a second to scream to the skies at NPR for this absolute monstrosity of an article:

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1236975472/wrestling-with-my-husbands-fear-of-getting-covid-again?fbclid=IwAR2ZAjoo9nXFTxN23oqaTfeFIVvdJ-VNv_OUlmWrSR8y34rUwymFHOVJ7d8

Let's just be really, really clear for a second: asking someone to risk death or disability so you can *eat indoors at a restaurant* is unreasonable on every possible level.

Also, can we stop perpetuating the myth that only vulnerable people can die or be disabled by covid? EVERYONE is at risk. So holy shit, maybe value your partner's health and happiness rather than forcing them to risk covid???

This says it just about right:

[lowpawly]

i’m gonna do more traveling in december than i’ve done in. well actually ever LOL it’s not that much it’s just basically two plane trips to see family that are one after the other but waow. uh anyways everyone please spirit bomb together to give power to my covid vaccine strength OTL

[thewickerking]

MY ROOMMATE HAS COVID. SO FUCK EVERYTHING

[princesseevee06]

tbh i have no clue what’s been happening today but i saw bunny midori on my dash several times and immediately knew i needed to contribute in some way 👍 this a trout i think

[shr0mwzrd]

The block button may as well be my fuckin prostate the way I just LOVE smashin that thang. Buttons were made to be pressed is all I'm saying

[neiptune]

I cannot being to tell you how furious it makes me that masking is now considered stupid and people get literally bullied for it like we could've learned so much from this pandemic, we could've internalized respect and the idea of caring for others and the reasons behind giving up certain behaviors but NOOOO I have to live in literal fear someone's going to take a picture of me on a plane and post it on twitter and jerk off to the idea of how dumb I'm being

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

what if you wanted to enjoy your new job but god said MYSTERY ILLNESS

[severeprincesheep]

FAFO applied to the carnivore diet community

I want to make an observation about MAGA + carnivore diet in these trying times. Stay with me.

Very briefly, the carnivore diet is an elimination diet: you eat just meat for 90 days, after which you slowly start reintroducing foods, one at a time, back into your diet and gauging your body's reaction.

Some people find that after this purification they can still eat most of everything without getting symptoms, some find they are intolerant/allergic to some of the foods everybody's typically allergic to (peanuts, dairy, gluten, etc). Some find they're allergic to everything but meat and these are usually autoimmune patients, meaning they have a leaky gut which translates to lots and lots of food allergies. Some people who found they can eat whatever nonetheless stick to eating carnivore regardless because they just feel better this way.

Carnivore displeases mainstream medicine that still labours under the delusion created by bad and corrupt science that diet is irrelevant to your overall health, or that for health purposes you can never be too vegetarian. And carnivores are typically accused of being right-wing conspiracy believing ignoramuses, when in reality most are elderly people who only late in life arrived at this way of eating after decades of obediently listening to their doctors and following the dietary guidelines... with disastrous consequences to their health. They're not eating meat because Trump says so - Trump eats and drinks sugar all day long and all you have to do is look at him to know that this is true. They eat meat because it heals.

End preamble.

Having said that, it is very true that carnivore has formed an association with fascists like Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson, much like vegetarianism is associated with Socialism and "soy boys" and eco warriors. Most carnivores don't wear either their politics or religion on their sleeve at all, but those who do never identify as, say, Muslim or left-wing, they're always right-wing and Christian.

And yet the paradox is you will never find a more radically anti-consumerist, minimalist, anti-capitalist move than going full carnivore. I know it's never going to happen but in theory if everyone became a carnivore it would be a complete and unmitigated disaster for the world's economy. Think of all those crops and plants that would suddenly become pointless for anything other than feeding them to farm animals. A hamburger joint like MacDonald's, whose food offer is actually 90% plants and a sliver of meat, would be screwed. Add to that the fact that most carnivores practice OMAD (one meal a day) and fast the rest of the time and eat their one meal mostly at home and every restaurant is closed, every supermarket too.

Even if the transition from an omnivore, plant-based diet to a carnivore diet took place very gradually it would still mean that entire food empires that are dependent on stuffing you with seed oils, gluten and sugar every couple of hours would collapse. All those billionaires would go broke.

If the transition took place carefully it'd be brilliant for the world's health - but the food industry that makes you sick and the medical and pharmacological industry that depend on the money they make from unsuccessfully treating you for preventable diseases would lose an immense fortune, forever.

Which brings me to my point: MAGA guys, I know you. I know you wish the food pyramid were turned upside down. For years I've been hearing you decry the ignorance of doctors and the criminal greed of Big Pharma. I agree, it's bad. And I know, even though youtube won't let you say it and you only say it on Rumble, that you think Covid was created by a bat in a Chinese lab and was transmitted to people through vaccines. You're challenged.

And now you believe it's great that Trump has appointed Robert Kennedy Jr. to be his health secretary, because he's a psychopath who drove his ex-wife to commit suicide and because he's an antivaxxer - just like you. All the while you pointedly ignore that Trump also picked up Dr. Oz, famous plant-based diet guru who made Oprah fatter and sicker than ever.

But I know none of these appointments mean anything. Trump only follows the money, not some sort of higher calling to serve the people. So I know that whatever happens in the future will not be determined by these guys...

... but rather by whatever the money people, i.e. Big Pharma, mainstream medicine and the food industry, have to say on the matter.

For instance, it is possible that Big Pharma will allow Trump to get rid of vaccines. But only if they do the math and conclude that the money they lose by not selling those vaccines they'll more than make up by "taking care" of the sick. If that doesn't add up then Trump/Kennedy won't be allowed by that super powerful mega-billionaire industry to do a goddamn thing.

Prepare to see during the next years ahead the official guidelines change from telling kids to eat more fruit like Michelle Obama wanted (which is no good) to eating breakfast cereal every five seconds (which is worse).

You know I'm right.

I would agree that it's true enough that you wouldn't be any closer to your carnivore dreams if you had voted for Kamala instead. I don't even know what her diet is, except that she doesn't stuff herself every five minutes like Trump does, nor has she ever raped anyone. But at least your kids would still have Obamacare aka ACA - which should really have mattered to doctors in the carnivore sphere, who instead remained silent and did not use their platform to warn their viewers; and your kids would not be in danger of dying from the measles and other diseases preventable by vaccines. And under Kamala you would still be allowed to stuff them all you like with stakes.

But you couldn't suffer to have a woman of colour as your president. It all boils down to that. So you fucked around and now you're going to find out. I don't feel sorry for you but I do feel sorry for your victims.

[kulliare]

trying to write a sincere thank you note is so hard when you're genuinely so grateful to this person that the only thought racing through your head is that i'm soooo grateful instead of anything concrete but i will do it

[darkestelemental616]

Bruh, I think I may be a genius.

I think I may have solved one of the BIGGEST plot holes of the original Grishaverse trilogy: why didn’t any of the Grisha Mal touched--including Zoya--notice that he was a goddamn amplifier?

(spoilers for the Grisha Trilogy/Ruin and Rising under the cut)

BECAUSE ALINA HAD ALREADY CLAIMED HIM.

SHE CLAIMED HIM WHEN SHE REFUSED THE TESTER’S CALL IN THE BOOKS. SHE CLAIMED MOROZOV’S AMPLIFIER ALREADY, ALIVE, AND THEREFORE INCOMPLETELY OR SOME BULLSHIT WHEN SHE WAS A KID, AND THAT’S WHY HIS AMPLIFICATION DIDN’T WORK ON ANYONE ELSE.

And then when she killed him in Ruin and Rising, she closed the circle/disrupted the claim or something, and that’s why she lost her power, because she had lost her powers to keep him in the first place, so blah blah blah some equivalent exchange bullshit, but my point is that I just fixed a massive plot hole by being sick and sleep-deprived while rewatching season 1 of Shadow and Bone and prepping for season 2.

...Also that Inferni in the show with the blue ribbon in her hair that dies in episode 1 was totally Zoya’s girlfriend and that’s why Zoya in KoS/RoW wears a blue ribbon, thank you and goodnight.

[stonerzelda]

lol i think all my coworkers went to a restaurant and gossiped about me last night o7 every Single person here is treating me like shit. Think this might be my last day 🥲

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