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1 hour ago, TCB said:
Not sure if I understand what you’re saying. Are you, as a healthcare worker, saying the vaccines are making people get Covid? If so could you explain the mechanism that makes that possible?
I am saying it does not appear that the vaccine or boosters are effective against the current variant. I do think it's interesting that my unvaccinated coworkers (as I said some of whom had covid in 2020) seemed to be doing better than the vaccinated with this variant.
I am vaccinated and have not had Covid ever.
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1 hour ago, scholastica said:
What percentage of your unvaccinated staff have had Covid this year already? They would have some immunity for 3-5 months, so this surge would likely miss them.
I'm not sure but will try to find out. I do not know of anyone at work that is unvaccinated that has had Covid in 2022. Many of them had Covid prevaccine.
Honestly, everyone I know of that has had it at work in 2022 has been vaccinated. Some of them have had Covid more than once in 2022, even within the last few months.
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Praying for him now.
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I work in healthcare where those that are unvaccinated are required to test weekly. We have seen a definite uptick in Covid infection among the fully vaccinated staff members, many of whom have had previous infections (some very recently).
So far, we have had 0 infections among the unvaccinated staff.
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On 5/21/2022 at 4:03 PM, Halftime Hope said:
Please link one that you deem accurate.
I stand corrected. Only two recorded the rape and one of them "probably" alerted SEPTA. From the article posted by bibiche:
Two people may have recorded video of the attack on their cellphone, one of whom “probably” alerted SEPTA of the attack, Stollsteimer said.
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Sadly, after hearing about the incident below I'm not surprised by the inaction of the other passengers you describe. You are probably more likely to be on a social media video than to get back up from your fellow passengers.
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8 hours ago, busymama7 said:
I don't actually see any positives coming out of this movement including how it's expressed on this thread. You can have a positive view of sex and still wait for marriage and avoid casual sex. In fact, I would argue that that is a MORE positive view than what is being described here. Also somewhere here someone said that in this culture if they get pregnant accidentally they will just go get an abortion. This is exactly what some of us mean by using abortion as birth control. (No I am not in favor of the current political changes happening even though I am generally conservative). Everyone talks about reducing the need for abortions and while things like easy/free BC are part of that, let's also acknowledge that waiting until marriage for sex also reduces the demand. Not completely no but it does play a role. Yes I am deeply religious and that is where my upbringing was so that influences this because I believe it is a commandment. But I also believe it is very much for the best for everyone involved in the sexual relationship including any potential baby/fetus. I look around and think, nope. I want no part of that. I am happy to have waited for marriage. (For some people a long term committed relationship could serve this same purpose). This casual, hookup culture is SO damaging.
This.
This discussion helps me to understand how we got to the current casual attitude regarding abortion. Sad.
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7 minutes ago, Baseballandhockey said:
It hurts sometimes and not others, but it's a specific spot, not the whole eye.
For me pain means opthalmologist asap.
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1 minute ago, Baseballandhockey said:
Maybe a little, but with significant airborne allergies in the household, I'm not willing to do anything that increases mold or dust mites.
My slightly irritated eye is way better than an asthma attack for my kid.
Is it just irritated or is it painful?
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Because you are having intermittant pain I would recommend seeing an ophthalmologist asap.
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2 hours ago, shawthorne44 said:
Mathematics whiz and Thiel Capital exec Eric Weinstein cheered while pointing out, “I’m excited to see what happens next. Here’s to the future! But one request for @elonmusk: can you use Twitter Logs to show us how our communications were manipulated? Who was shaddowbanned or targeted by bots? How algorithms limited our reach? Why we were throttled?”100% hope this happens!
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So very sorry. Praying for you all.
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This sounds like a great idea to me to allow for free speech on Twitter.
Were Musk to eliminate Twitter’s censorship, he would thus benefit small shareholders and those of us who adhere to traditional liberalism – to the detriment of the cause of ethical wokeism. The ripple effects of such a move, however, could prove to be even more profound.
Were any major social network to reopen itself to free speech, it would create demand for a new, competitive filtering industry that would provide the “protection” that today’s major social media companies insist is indispensable. Individual users could then subscribe to one or more filters – or none at all. Competition would lead to filtering that is superior in quality and better targeted to individual taste than the current monopolistic, paternalistic approaches the social networks impose upon their users.
Competitive filtering would thus be great for consumers. Its impact, however, would run far deeper. It would undermine the entire basis for CDA 230 – the exemption that lets social media companies apply editorial discretion to determine what their users see while remaining exempt from editorial liability. The basic argument behind that exemption – plausible when written in 1996 – is that the only alternative is a free-for-all publishing of graphic pornography for children (hence its inclusion in the Communications Decency Act). Without such an exemption, the folks running social networks might have to take responsibility for their actions and decisions – including the decision to label perspectives they dislike as “misinformation.”
A genuinely free-speech Twitter would thus motivate competitive filtering and erode the liability exemption that has helped elevate a handful of tech companies into the controllers of American speech. A Musk-led, free-speech Twitter would restore the true freedom of speech that has served America so well since its founding.
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9 hours ago, Clarita said:
Also, one of Twitter's founders, Jack Dorsey, seems to like the idea. What Jack Dorsey Has Said About Elon Musk (newsweek.com) He was also the CEO of the company until late last year. So, I'm not sure the McDonalds buying a health food store is a good comparison.
If you own a company you don't have to it to the highest bidder you can choose to sell it to anyone or not to sell it at all. Twitter is just a publicly traded company so in that sense anyone is able to buy a lot of shares and request to have some say in the company. In that same sense shareholders (current owners of Twitter) don't have to sell their shares to Elon Musk if they are so offended at his desire to own it.
@Melissa Louise 's quote said it best "same toilet different brush".
It is not the shareholders choosing not to sell. The board members, not the actual shareholders, are making the decision to choose the "poison pill" rather than sell to Musk.
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On 4/20/2022 at 12:47 AM, Frances said:
If only it actually worked that way. But research has shown that repeating lies, misinformation, and propaganda enough actually helps make people believe it. Certainly we’ve all seen daily evidence of that repeatedly for the last six years.
Recent examples of repeating lies, misinformation and propaganda enough...
Moderator, please remember Hunter Biden is not a political figure as Jen Psaki has pointed out.
On February 19, 2020, The Lancet, among the most respected and influential medical journals in the world, published a statement that roundly rejected the lab-leak hypothesis, effectively casting it as a xenophobic cousin to climate change denialism and anti-vaxxism. Signed by 27 scientists, the statement expressed “solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China” and asserted: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
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15 minutes ago, KSera said:
Time magazine actually did a pretty good article on why opening social media platforms like Twitter up to be completely unmoderated ends up resulting in the opposite of free speech.
‘The Idea Exposes His Naiveté.’ Twitter Employees On Why Elon Musk Is Wrong About Free Speech
“Since the explosion of social media usage more than a decade ago, researchers and technologists have forged an understanding of the ways that the design of social media sites has an impact on civic discourse and, ultimately, democratic processes. One of their key findings: sites that privilege free speech above all else tend to result in spaces where civic discourse is drowned out by harassment, restricting participation to a privileged few.”
Restricting participation is already happening on Twitter. I doubt he intends for there to be no moderation. Perhaps more even handed moderation would be nice.
Because you have decided he isn't a "rational person" he should not be allowed to make this purchase?
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31 minutes ago, KSera said:
Lol, yeah, no, that’s not the issue. You’re unaware of his particular issues perhaps? I would prefer to see Elon Musk start his own platform if that’s what he wants. No one (in the US) has lost their right to free speech either. It makes me laugh when I see people ranting about how they don’t have free speech anymore while live streaming their rant about their lack of free speech all across the internet 🙄. There are certainly other countries people can look to for examples of what loss of free speech looks like. Here’s some from Russia: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/kremlin-crackdown-silences-war-protests-benign-bold-84075238
We're not talking about free speech "all across the internet". We're talking about free speech on Twitter which currently does not happen.
What's the "issue" with Elon Musk that you think makes him ineligible to buy Twitter? I too would like to see him start his own platform, sell all of his shares of Twitter, and sit back and watch the upcoming lawsuits filed by the shareholders against the Twitter board that would likely be filed.
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22 hours ago, KSera said:
People aren’t unhappy at the idea of any old billionaire buying Twitter, it’s Elon musk in particular. He is not a rational guy. I don’t like to diagnose people on the Internet, so I won’t, but there’s some stuff going on there.
Right, I know, he's not the right kind of rich guy! He actually believes in free speech, whereas the right kind of rich guys do not.
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https://taibbi.substack.com/p/twitters-chickens-come-home-to-roost?s=r
Elon Musk has reportedly attempted to purchase Twitter, and I have no idea whether his influence on the company would be positive or not.
I do know, however, what other media figures think Musk’s influence on Twitter will be. They think it will be bad — very bad, bad! How none of them see what a self-own this is is beyond me. After spending the last six years practically turgid with joy as other unaccountable billionaires tweaked the speech landscape in their favor, they’re suddenly howling over the mere rumor that a less censorious fat cat might get to sit in one of the big chairs. O the inhumanity!
A few of the more prominent Musk critics are claiming merely to be upset at the prospect of wealthy individuals controlling speech. As more than one person has pointed out, this is a bizarre thing to be worrying about all of the sudden, since it’s been the absolute reality in America for a while.
David Sirota @davidsirota
as someone who isn't a fan of Elon Musk, I still find it darkly funny that billionaire-owned media is suddenly having a moral panic about a billionaire possibly buying Twitter
April 14th 2022
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Probably the funniest effort along those lines was this passage:
We need regulation… to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.
That was Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit, railing against Musk in the pages of… the Washington Post! A newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos complaining about rich people controlling “channels of communication” just might be the never-released punchline of Monty Python’s classic “Funniest Joke in the World” skit.
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I can't wait to see how this shakes out.
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That was a great game! I didn't really care who won. I just wanted it to be a good game.
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10 minutes ago, Faith-manor said:
Here is my question about this whole thing: A criminal assault took place during the event. It is not the Academy's place to decide if Chris Rock wants to press charges or not. It is a matter for police. The people involved are moved to a room with security members and close witnesses to wait for police to arrive and take statements. This is sorted out by police and DA, not the Academy.
Why is there no backlash from the DA's office about not calling police? I do not get it. Has the world gone so around the bend that Hollywood, in pursuit of a show that exists for the sole purpose of patting themselves on the back, is exempt from even the most basic legal guidelines? Yup. But this is a rich man's privilege because I am pretty sure that if the local high school witnessed a basketball coach smack a ref in the face, the expectation would be stop the game, call the police, have statements taken. The fact that the show went on is just so gross.
Will Smith needs to grow up. The lout laughed at the joke, saw that his wife was annoyed, and then acted like a buffoon, committed a crime, and then spent five minutes defending it. Way to role model middle school playground behavior. I had boys in my 6th grade class exactly like this.
And apparently the academy did not ask him to leave as they had originally claimed.
https://www.tmz.com/2022/03/31/academy-lied-asking-will-smith-to-leave-oscars-slap-chris-rock/
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Fauci (who after 2 boosters now has Covid) on Vaccine booster efficacy in children
in The Chat Board
Posted · Edited by Fritz
Echo chambering!
I'm assuming you have no interest in knowing if there are any studies to support boosters in children.