Polls regularly show that about 30% are either waiting or outright refusing to get vaccinated. So we should just hit that 70%, although whether that’s enough in practice is a different matter.

We’re probably going to need a stick-and-carrot approach. Absolutely we need to deny services and benefits to adults who choose not to vaccinate, because that’s irresponsible and prolongs the pandemic unnecessarily. But at some point we’re probably going to have to start essentially paying people to get the fucking…

No, we won’t.  You’re fooling yourself if you think those types of people won’t just latch on to some other stupid excuse if the one they are currently sucking on gets obliterated.

so this was always possible but they preferred putting children in lunch debt

I have the Pfizer but I’m willing to get the Moderna and the J&J for triple protection if they need me to.

Pain is the only teacher.

The American Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended all pregnant women receive the vaccine as early in their pregnancy as possible. If your wife’s “doctor” is telling her the opposite, she should run to a second opinion.

100% this. Make it so inconvenient for them to go unvaccinated that they practically have no choice unless they never want to be able to go anywhere or do anything significant. Travel, theme parks, schools, employers, etc. Limit access to all of that, and these idiots will have to get their damn shots.

Logic doesn’t matter to these people. I was talking to a guy from work earlier. Nice guy, but has no plans on getting the vaccine. He figures he is only potentially hurting himself and doesn’t see past that. No amount of logic surrounding the prevention of variants will matter.

We have two pandemic ravaging this country.

Covid...and rampant, emboldened, blissfully arrogant stupidity.

Then, at the inevitable anti-vaxx protests, send up people in helicopters armed with tranq guns filled with vaccine.

just goes to show this country will never win another world war. Our citizens are just too selfish. Imagine asking our current populous to sacrifice as they had to do between 1941-45. Huge Draft, with all sorts of rationing of food and products for YEARS. Hell today citizens are too selfish to sit on a couch all day…

Simple.

There was no time for the officer to have chosen another course such as pulling his baton and disarming the the young women instead before at least one stab if not more. I do believe that officers choose to shoot way to often out of too much fear that has been trained into them. However, in this situation no option…

Yeah, medicine has a long history of excluding women from research trials out of convenience (even female animals were excluded through the early aughts due to concerns that menstruation would interfere with research data).

Sugar (and flour) dust tends to be explosive, not just flammable. 

Since the BFD spokesperson herself made the crème brûlée joke, I’m going to feel safe in saying...

Whenever someone says they were “misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder” my first thought is not “Oh, I guess they really aren’t bipolar then,” but “Well, they’re probably just in a manic phase”. I’m sure there actually are some people who have been misdiagnosed, but based 0n my experience, the claims of misdiagnosis are…

I think it’s derived from her own lack of control, given that’s multiple former addicts have called her out for using substances during her recovery. She may be in a manic period, though she says her BP diagnosis was wrong (though I’m not very knowledgeable about her life, I read that she believes that her diagnosis…

I find their story deeply tragic. Married off to an old creep at 16, and shuffled around talk shows to gawk at for years.