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[09:32:21] <janrinok> Had a good day yesterday followed by a good night's sleep. Taking it easy today just pottering around. Anyone doing anything exciting/interesting?
[10:03:05] <ted-ious> https://youtu.be
[10:03:08] <systemd> ^ 03Marketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) ( https://www.youtube.com )
[10:03:33] <ted-ious> Now do one for vaccines please.
[10:51:08] <chromas> =yt john oliver vaccines
[10:51:09] <systemd> https://youtube.com - Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (27:15; 27,240,535 views; 👍264,040)
[10:52:00] <chromas> I haven't seen it, so of course I'll speculate: he probably says you need to get triple vaxxed and boosted or else you dumb
[10:53:13] <Ingar> I got double vaxxed and my upper arm still hurts
[10:53:51] <Ingar> and then I got 'rona
[10:54:24] <Ingar> so my vaxx experience has been modified through personal experience
[10:55:26] <Ingar> obviously, I'm not that stupid to claim all vaxxes are bad
[10:55:43] <janrinok> Here in France they are not offering 'routine' COVID vaccinations nationality but only in areas where there is actually an identified risk. They are still doing flu vaccinations for free each autumn for those who require it, or for a very small price for those who just want it.
[10:55:56] <janrinok> *nationally
[10:55:57] <ted-ious> It's funny how I don't know a single person who had the kind of experience that you would expect if everything we were told about them was true.
[10:56:26] <janrinok> I'm not watching the video - but what sort of things do you expect?
[10:56:29] <Ingar> ted-ious: "secret deals" were made, that says enough
[10:56:47] <ted-ious> But everybody I have talked to instead has told me about everything from getting sick to family or friends dying shortly after.
[10:57:33] <ted-ious> But I'm a crazy nazi democrat because I ask questions so what do I know.
[10:57:49] <Ingar> ted-ious: the powers that be do not like people who ask questions
[10:58:16] <janrinok> There is no significant correlation of any of those claims and vaccinations here. There are a few coincidences - but nothing more significant than the number of people knocked down by a bus shortly after having a vaccination.
[10:59:31] <janrinok> Over 99% of those who pick their nose eventually die....
[10:59:52] <Ingar> I dind't check the numbers, all I say is my arm hurts where I got my last shot, usually when I'm tired
[11:00:22] <Ingar> in bad cases it goes all they way though my neck to the other arm
[11:00:36] <Ingar> and I felt exactly that when I got that shot
[11:00:53] <Ingar> even the tetanus shot wasn't that bad
[11:01:20] <Ingar> bad
[11:01:27] <Ingar> tonight we make fried rice!
[11:01:56] <Ingar> need to prepare some chicken
[11:03:04] <ted-ious> So much for safe and effective.
[11:07:23] <ted-ious> chromas: That one is from 2017 so of course vaccines are perfect but somehow big pharma is evil?
[11:07:47] <ted-ious> Also donald trump is a moron because he thinks they shouldn't be given all at once.
[11:16:36] <ted-ious> Wow this moron has the nerve to make fun of donald trump but he actually said the mercury that has been used in vaccines is not the same kind that is harmful in fish.
[11:41:28] <chromas> janrinok: bus hits should count
[11:41:53] <chromas> if they had the rona a bus hit would have counted as a rona death
[11:41:59] <chromas> so it should count as vax too
[11:46:39] <ted-ious> Don't forget the motorcycle accident deaths.
[11:48:15] <chromas> motorona
[11:48:21] <janrinok> Fortunately, neither of those things were counted here as being COVID related. It seems that some countries have more sense....
[11:49:01] <chromas> probably why your stats were so much lower
[11:58:06] <ted-ious> Dr. Pino tells FOX 35 that one "could actually argue that it could have been the COVID-19 that caused him to crash."
[11:58:23] <ted-ious> He probably sneezed.
[11:59:04] <ted-ious> That's all the justification necessary to put a swab into whatever was left of his nasal cavity to get a sample.
[12:00:23] <ted-ious> I guess we shouldn't expect anything better from the state that gave us the hanging chad debate.
[12:04:25] <ted-ious> Those two cases became famous but I wonder how many more there were that nobody heard about.
[12:26:56] <Ingar> I recommend the speech from Ezry Dax to Worf, DS9 7x22 Tacking Into The Wind
[12:28:07] <Ingar> (25min15s in)
[13:02:35] <ted-ious> This? https://www.youtube.com
[13:02:37] <systemd> ^ 03For Cardassia-His Cardassia is dead and won't be coming back.
[13:04:47] <ted-ious> Hmm no.
[13:22:22] <ted-ious> https://www.youtube.com
[13:22:24] <systemd> ^ 03Star Trek Deep Space Nine Ruminations S7E22: Tacking Into The Wind
[13:29:17] <ted-ious> Oh well I guess the episode isn't available.
[13:55:35] <Ingar> https://www.youtube.com
[13:55:38] <systemd> ^ 03Lieutenant Ezri Dax talk to Lt. Commander Worf
[13:56:55] <Ingar> skip to 1m10s iif you're impatient
[14:02:46] <Ingar> after which I recommend
[14:02:48] <Ingar> https://www.youtube.com
[14:02:51] <systemd> ^ 03I Made an Ancient Greek "Bra"
[14:22:19] <ted-ious> Ok but I don't understand the point.
[14:45:56] <Ingar> I assume the empire vs nation analogy is easy enough to notice, but in in our nations, it is the people who keep putting corrupt leaders in power. it is hard to fix the people.
[14:47:25] <ted-ious> I think the people would fix themselves if they could actually vote for someone competent and good and then they actually did what they promised once they got into office.
[14:51:14] <janrinok> ted-ious, yes probably. But there would be too many who have too much to lose personally for them to allow anyone to succeed. Having 1 person at the top of the pile with the best of intentions will not prevent the obstruction from below.
[14:52:37] <janrinok> That is evidenced by the obstruction that many Presidents have received - they have been voted into power by the people but are unable to do what they hoped that they would. (I am not suggesting that any of them had only the best of intentions though...)
[15:05:51] <Ingar> the only way to fix the situation (temporarily) most likely involves torches and pitchforks
[15:08:09] <janrinok> I don't think we are there yet, but I can certainly see it happening in my lifetime (what's left of it!)
[15:31:06] <Ingar> it's the cycle of social madness
[15:31:19] <Ingar> but to resolve the cycle, the madness has to reach ludicrous speed
[15:44:57] <ted-ious> How do you fix things with torches and pitchforms without having a civil war that hurts millions of innocent people?
[15:48:03] <janrinok> You can't - so you either continue as you are or you decide that the change is necessary and worth it. Talking about it isn't going to change anything. For perfectly understandable reasons you and many, many others realise what the costs will be - but there are those who recognise your fear of those costs.
[15:48:48] <janrinok> They will continue to push to the edge of what you fear in the hope that you will not withstand the pressure. History is full of similar events.
[15:50:22] <janrinok> I don't want to see another civil war - I have seen enough of them during my lifetime. And if one starts in America or in Europe there will be a snowball effect which will take us back 80-90 years again.
[15:51:18] <janrinok> Those who do not learn from history ......
[18:45:27] <Ingar> my fried rice was awesome
[18:52:02] <Runaway> Is this #revolutionaries?
[18:52:13] <Runaway> Viva la revoluccion!
[18:53:04] <Runaway> But I thought that one of us thought that just doing your job was a good thing?
[19:03:29] <Ingar> Runaway: no, it is an observation
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