Comments on: Widespread Rejection of a Covid-19 Stick is a Click-Baiting Falsehood

By: dean

dean — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:37:09 +0000

If you had trump’s people fucking up the distribution of vaccines and shorting states, congratulations. If you didn’t, you should have.

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:01:00 +0000

On human stupidity, nothing demonstrates it more clearly than the response to Covid. Consider the message in the image depicted at the head of this article:: As Pandemic Toll Rises, Science Deniers in Louisiana Shun Masks, Comparing Health Measures to Nazi Germany and there is always Texas: ‘Like ants on sugar’: Covid-fatigued Texans shrug off mandates for holiday fun Of course we have similar examples of stupid here in the UK, nearly every 'news' edition on TV includes an interview with one on the street who just doesn't get it, also notice the many around in public who are not using a mask or are wearing one improperly. Saw one 'politician' wearing it upside down and others with it inside out. Uncovered noses often seen. One person was agitated enough to complain about having to miss a holiday abroad because of restrictions on travel. Such people just don't get it!

By: Jeffh

Jeffh — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 10:46:14 +0000

Roderiko is my friend and colleague and he is also a philosopher. His views are poignant and relevant. Christopher’s optimism is misguided, when we consider in retrospect how our species is accelerating the full-scale onslaught we are waging on our ecological life-support systems. To suggest, or even hint, that we will somehow slither our way out of the abyss we are rapidly descending into is not only unwise, it is blindly naive.

We are in deep trouble, and no amount of wishful thinking can change that. As a scientist, I see it as clearly as the contrast between day and night. The great unraveling is imminent.

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 03:55:28 +0000

BTW: I’m old enough to remember when it was forbidden to show a hypodermic injection on TV. Now I see two or three every night on the TV news — and often in photographs, like the one that leads off that TPM article.

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 03:48:12 +0000

My friend, scientist Roderiko Kampen, recently suggesting, while agreeing that resistance to the vaccine will diminish over time, to “never underestimate human stupidity. Nothing is stable or ‘normal’ now, every single day some butterfly may flap the global hurricane. Humanity has thoroughly outlived its stay and is now beginning to meet that cool adversary – i.e. my great friend – called reality.”

I have to say I think your friend takes way too pessimistic an outlook. Yes, human stupidity is a constant problem. But I think we will survive it.

By: dean

dean — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:56:02 +0000

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tx-doctor-says-half-of-nurses-in-his-unit-wont-get-vaccine-for-politically-motivated-reasons

By: RickA

RickA — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:55:08 +0000

I agree. My whole family intends to get the vaccination, when available.

I am actually very excited to take the first messenger RNA type vaccine, and think this is an amazing scientific development which bodes well for the future of fighting all types of disease.