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The Living Dinosaur is back!

His long running series taking down creationists in a poetically nsfw manner had been gone for a long time. But he has been moved to comment on some COVID conspiracy nonsense


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Fuck you Rep. Scalise.

Rep Dumbass said:
Especially with the delta variant becoming a lot more aggressive and seeing another spike, it was a good time to do it.
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No, the good time to do it was in the beginning when the vaccine was made available, to help provide the optics that the vaccine was safe and that everyone should get it. Not to pussyfoot and wait for things to get worse in a fourth wave!

Article said:
“When you talk to people who run hospitals, in New Orleans or other states, 90% of people in [the] hospital with [the] delta variant have not been vaccinated,” he continued. “That’s another signal the vaccine works.”
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Fucking idiots! It is a signal it works against the Delta variant. The study with 30,000 or so people was the indicator that the vaccine worked!

I mean, it is nice to have the change of heart, but the trouble is, a lot of the hesitancy against the vaccine was encouraged by people like him not getting vaccinated.

So I'm glad he recognizes that fire extinguishers can and do work... it is just too bad he let the house burn down before coming to that recognition.
 
We are having a spike here. City recommends but not require masks, again. Damn, we almost had this,morons screwed it up!
 
bleubird said:
We are having a spike here. City recommends but not require masks, again. Damn, we almost had this,morons screwed it up!
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We've had the vaccine for half a year... and are now #1 globally in daily new cases.... again!

In Ohio they are looking into whether masks should be a thing in schools until under 12s can get vaccinated. I can only imagine the state Legislature passing a bill forbidding masks.

I got vaccinated a couple months before I thought it'd been possible. I was really looking forward to reopening. And idiots (many of them right-wing partisan idiots) in America have finally managed to really fuck things up royally.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/22/coronavirus-latest-updates/


A full course of two of the most widely available coronavirus vaccines is about as effective against the more contagious delta variant as it was against a previously dominant version of the virus, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine offer 88 percent protection against symptomatic disease caused by the delta variant, compared to 94 percent against the alpha variant that was first discovered in Britain and became dominant across the globe earlier this year, the study said.
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The study stood in contrast to preliminary data made public by Israel’s Health Ministry earlier this month that said the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was only 64 percent effective in preventing symptomatic infection caused by the delta variant.
Some public health experts warned that the data from Israel was observational and not the result of a controlled study.
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It appears as if the Pfizer vaccine is still highly effective against the delta strain.

Happy to say that I know of two more people who were refusing to be vaccinated that have finally changed their minds. If only all Americans weren't so stupid and willing to belief conspiracy theories instead of science.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I was talking with my Doc Father-in-Law and he was saying those who were infected, most likely had the best protection.
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Generally it's true, but in this case it looks like the mrna vaccines are providing better protection against variants compared to infection alone. On the other hand, infection plus vaccine works better than either infection or vaccine alone, and that applies to the infected getting only one vaccine dose.

The moral of the story is to go out and get infected then get your one-and-done vaccine.*

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blastula said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
I was talking with my Doc Father-in-Law and he was saying those who were infected, most likely had the best protection.
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Generally it's true, but in this case it looks like the mrna vaccines are providing better protection against variants compared to infection alone. On the other hand, infection plus vaccine works better than either infection or vaccine alone, and that applies to the infected getting only one vaccine dose.

The moral of the story is to go out and get infected then get your one-and-done vaccine.*

*/snark tag disclaimer
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I have been shouted down for saying that. Though I did not get infected and got two shots myself.
 
blastula said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
I was talking with my Doc Father-in-Law and he was saying those who were infected, most likely had the best protection.
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Generally it's true, but in this case it looks like the mrna vaccines are providing better protection against variants compared to infection alone. On the other hand, infection plus vaccine works better than either infection or vaccine alone, and that applies to the infected getting only one vaccine dose.

The moral of the story is to go out and get infected then get your one-and-done vaccine.*

*/snark tag disclaimer
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What if you get infected after? Is that as good as infected then vaccinated? ;)
 
https://gov.texas.gov/news/...
May 18, 2021 | Austin, Texas
Press Release
Governor Greg Abbott today issued an Executive Order
prohibiting governmental entities in Texas — including counties,
cities, school districts, public health authorities, or government
officials — from requiring or mandating mask wearing. Public schools may
continue to follow current mask-wearing guidelines through June 4.
After June 4, no student, teacher, parent, or other staff member or
visitor can be required to wear a mask while on campus.
Beginning May 21, local governments or officials that attempt to
impose a mask mandate or impose a limitation inconsistent or conflicting
with the Executive Order can be subject to a fine of up to $1,000.

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Oh great! Governor poo for brains has just helped Covid-19 kill more people. Abbot is brain damaged.
 
My company is trying to get people back in the building again. Currently we are required to be in the office 20% of the time (one day a week, not bad). Unvaccinated required to wear masks at all times, everyone else masks are optional (I'm wearing mine). Got an announcement today that anyone who went to a particular city in the last month must stay out of the office for at least 10 day, so guess there is an outbreak there.

In other news, Tokyo is spiking new cases. Feel sorry for the Olympic athletes. They have to either skip an event that would be the pinnacle of their career, or risk getting a virus that could end it.


Then there is this guy, who is in the hospital with covid, and when asked would still take hospitalization over getting the vaccine. I hope his wife gets the vaccine while he is in there, and for their kids if she can. Wonder if he will still complain about the government trying to force a vaccine down their throats when a nurse has to put a breathing tube there instead.
 
repoman said:
blastula said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
I was talking with my Doc Father-in-Law and he was saying those who were infected, most likely had the best protection.
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Generally it's true, but in this case it looks like the mrna vaccines are providing better protection against variants compared to infection alone. On the other hand, infection plus vaccine works better than either infection or vaccine alone, and that applies to the infected getting only one vaccine dose.

The moral of the story is to go out and get infected then get your one-and-done vaccine.*

*/snark tag disclaimer
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I have been shouted down for saying that. Though I did not get infected and got two shots myself.
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For saying to only get one shot? Depends on what exactly was said.
 
Linda Zuern, former Bourne selectman (and anti-vax activist), dies of complications of COVID-19

Zuern was one of the first members of the United Cape Patriots, a local grassroots conservative group that frequently held Trump support standouts on the Bourne rotary, along with other rallies.

She was often seen holding a Trump support poster as motorists drove by honking in support or against, said Adam Lange who founded the group in 2017. Lange was one of four people who protested last week in opposition to the state VaxBus program — which distributes COVID-19 vaccines — when it arrived in Provincetown.
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ZiprHead said:
Linda Zuern, former Bourne selectman (and anti-vax activist), dies of complications of COVID-19

Zuern was one of the first members of the United Cape Patriots, a local grassroots conservative group that frequently held Trump support standouts on the Bourne rotary, along with other rallies.

She was often seen holding a Trump support poster as motorists drove by honking in support or against, said Adam Lange who founded the group in 2017. Lange was one of four people who protested last week in opposition to the state VaxBus program — which distributes COVID-19 vaccines — when it arrived in Provincetown.
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Republicanism killed her.

At a Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates meeting in December, Zuern spoke about a report on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of the COVID-19 virus. Zuern questioned why some doctors were not allowed to use the medicine on patients.

"That's just a concern of mine that politics has gotten into the way of really helping people who are sick," she said during the meeting, which was her last as an assembly member.
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She wouldn't take the vaccine but spoke out for hydroxychloroquine.
 
blastula said:
Republicanism killed her.

At a Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates meeting in December, Zuern spoke about a report on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of the COVID-19 virus. Zuern questioned why some doctors were not allowed to use the medicine on patients.

"That's just a concern of mine that politics has gotten into the way of really helping people who are sick," she said during the meeting, which was her last as an assembly member.
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She wouldn't take the vaccine but spoke out for hydroxychloroquine.
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Ironic that she "thought" that the non-use of hydroxychloroquine against Covid is somehow political. But being anti vax is not. She lived in an anti-reality universe.
 
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