Researchers at the University of Georgia found that White people who assumed the pandemic had a disparate effect on communities of color — or were told that it did — had less fear of being infected with the coronavirus, were less likely to express empathy toward vulnerable populations and were less supportive of safety measures, according to an article in Social Science & Medicine.

I guess the anti-lockdown folks who these researchers found are even stupider than the ones who know how to use websites other than Facebook, because I have never seen that rationale come up.

I've been an immunological data scientist for a while, throughout the pandemic and until now I've become incredibly jaded. That frustration, similar to what I imagine most here feel when seeing MSM talking points about Russia re: Ukraine, lead me to following online anti-lockdown/mask/vaccine argumentation/discussion/disinfo, just to see if any of them could be corralled to the "right" reasons why the big pharma medical products suck. And while I'm sure a lot of those folks are racist I never once heard any of them attribute biological supremacy as the basis for the disparity. When the disparity between health outcomes did come up, they usually focused on how much better Jewish persons fared than white people and pointed to the higher number of people of color in "essential" work and that they have worse health outcomes in general, due to economic inequality. So they're not too off the mark, I really don't think many of them were motivated by a belief that COVID was literally less dangerous for White people due to a biological constant. Most just didn't consider it that dangerous, some acknowledged it was very dangerous for the aged or those otherwise at greater risk due to a health condition.

I've never understood the self-immolation guy. I guess he just didn't expect the motive to be completely swept under the rug, but that's so very trivially easy for the press to do if you only affect yourself, pretty much regardless of where.

I guess the confusion for me is that he was committed to dying, and it's so easy to get a gun in the US... Like the Congressional baseball game guy, the Bernie bro, he had a better idea of what could even possibly help. Did his best, but his best wasn't enough.

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Michael Yeadon, Pfizer's former chief scientist and vice-president of the allergy and respiratory research division, is one of the early anti-mask/anti-lockdown figures and key in attaching 99% discredited misinfo to people dissatisfied with the manner in which COVID medical products' trials were conducted and how widely they were recommended despite other valid concerns.

Trying to think if this would actually cause things to deteriorate enough that the :data-laughing: from this guy acting out his humiliation fetish amongst the the paedos would no longer be worth it...

:maybe-later-honey:

Either way, the notion that bikers use 8x the social spending as walkers feels like horseshit to me.

I could believe it - this is Canadian data and I've sure as shit seen Canadian bicyclists mowed down by automobiles on unsafe roads. I'd assume that gets divvied up between the two modes of transport in the "externalities" :doomer:

DIRCDC Walensky states:

And we have -- we can kind of almost see the end. We're vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real world data.

https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-3-29-21-n1262442 (they use backticks for ' for some reason so Ctrl+F "WALENSKY: First of all, I just want to note that I share this optimism")

Ignoring that we were failed in terms of preventing the initial spread of this virus, these big pharma products are really not particularly great. But the state did fail to contain the virus, had to preserve the almighty :stonks-up: etc so just abdicated responsibility to big pharma and literally whatever shit they could pump out the fastest. So I'm sympathetic to your brother's concerns and others like his. They are somewhat correct unfortunately, though claims about it being "poison" are not. There is no long term data sufficient enough to disprove the idea that it could carry unknown harms. We do know it has plenty of potential harms for younger healthy people only, in terms setting them up for lifelong reinfection. For background, I'm a clinical data scientist, worked on hundreds of trials including many of the COVID medical products' trials.

There's a phenomenon in immunology which humans have known about for a number of decades, the Hoskins effect (or original antigenic sin, depending on how Biblical you like your terminology). Essentially the first version of a virus someone is exposed to is generally the only one that their immune system remembers during subsequent infections, no matter how many infections they have acquired subsequently. This is why someone's first influenza exposure can dictate how they handle every subsequent influenza season to a greater extent than other factor including immunization via flu vaccines.

COVID vaccines work by exposing you to a spike protein subunit, until recently this was what's called "Alpha", the one from the virus isolated at the end of 2019 in Wuhan. For some reason this was used in a rollout to the general population (not just the elderly or immune-compromised individuals). Imprinting individuals' immune memory with these moving target spike proteins essentially just sets those individuals up for recurring infections. If someone was younger and healthy, this was unnecessary.

A vaccine series targeting proteins other than the spike protein subunit would be much more effective as the drift from one mutation to the next is reduced. Additionally, leaky vaccines which don't stop transmission enhance mutagenic selection. Something mainstream sources were aware of when they could slander the Sputnik V vaccine, which ended up being more efficacious than any Western vaccine against Omicron. Sputnik V probably did create all of the risks identified at the time this article was written, but no more so than Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Janssen, BMS, Inovio, Novartis, Sinopharm, Sinovac, or any others that have been used in emergency or fully approved capacity.

Also FDA's approval for Pfizer's shot specifically is for something it doesn't do, and never did (emphasis mine):

Under this license, you are authorized to manufacture the product, COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA, which is indicated for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 16 years of age and older.

The only time I recall going there was on road trips as a child for some reason.

I couldn't imagine being at home or near any other source of sustenance and deciding to go there though.

This guy pegs

I've seen two different copies of the list. It's possible they sent it in batches based on a limit of recipients somewhere.

Why even go to the Viagra line? There are so many easier way to do some kind of campaign of sexual violence if it existed at all in a coordinated way.

Yeah be careful around these parts with it, her source for AFP being a "propaganda multiplier" (which I agree with) is SWPRS (which has some good and bad takes on COVID-19 policy, some of the bad ones will get you banned here because you can't question big pharma's covid vaccines, and some are just bad like anti-lockdown stuff, and not anti-lockdown-the-way-most-of-the-west-did-it).

Probably people who've only ever used a countertop coffee maker (possibly at work and never cleaned it).

I'm not a coffee drinker, I think I've spent money at Starbux once in my entire life, but I'm aware that there is obviously labor involved in making it well and cleaning shit...

Who is even running the Black Hammer Times now? You'd think after the rapes, raids, and whatnot it'd be defunct...

Some warez groups take the precaution of using two copies of the video obtained from separate accounts/connections to make sure their sources aren't detectable via watermarks (like compromised hardware SKU for decrypting the high res streams). Some don't though, or just use compromised accounts for the service which don't tie back to them.

Depending on how much effort people invest, these copies on torrent sites will likely have some random users' product placement unless they bother doing the diff on two copies to remove the product placement. Might get weird if the different product placement affects the total number of frames in the video stream and stuff like that... I assume they'll just be pre-rendered (automated to a large extent) segments sitting on the CDN that get compiled into the M3U playlist of chunks sent to the client based on their ad profile when they initiate the stream. I'm surprised this wasn't done like 8 years ago, nothing's fundamentally changed technologically.

hey he also starred in some kid porn!

In 1988, Lowe, who was 24 years old at the time, was involved in a sex scandal over a videotape of him having sex with two women: Tara Siebert who was 22 and her younger friend Lena Jan Parsons who was 16 years old at the time.

while campaigning for Dukakis the night before the DNC no less:

They were videotaped the night before the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. [...] At the time, Lowe was campaigning for Michael Dukakis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Lowe#Sex_tape

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