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2022-02-19 Science & Technology

Omicron Hits 73% - Herd Immunity? Unexpedtedly!

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Posted by Bobby 2022-02-19 07:21|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 The medical insider "Boriquagato's" substack has a field day with this latest Peak Stupidity delusion ("An epidemic of self-delusion" -- the comments and discussion btw are excellent, esp the discussion of ADE vs OAS):

this stage of the pandemic is really one of the more mystifying parts. if you listen closely, you can hear the popping of burning wires:

i got vaccinated.
i got covid.
i got really sick.
thank goodness i got vaccinated!
you should get vaccinated too!

... it’s like the last vestiges of observational capability have finally been beaten out of a meaningful portion of the population.

truly, we have entered the post rational world of the unfalsifiable claim: “it would have been worse if i had not!”

it’s such a wonderful meme. so pervasive. so persuasive. and so totally, utterly impervious to contradiction. it’s the perfect brainworm to justify what you did.

you can show them all the societal data you like about higher rates of hospitalization this year than last in groups that were 95%+ vaccinated.

it does not matter. no aggregate data can refute any individual belief about one specific datapoint among many.

“i’m sure it helped.” < this belief lets anyone feel good about vaccination and boosting even as they fall ill.

it literally turns the contraction of covid by vaccinated people into the belief that covid vaccines worked for them.

this may be the most successful piece of product positioning in human history. Cognitive bias becomes cognitive dissonance becomes an iron bar certainty that your virtuous behavior saved you.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-19 09:16|| 2022-02-19 09:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Religion is not an exercise in reason.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-19 09:18|| 2022-02-19 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 And now that the 'vaccinated' are the ones falling sick, being hospitalized and dying, certain public health agencies are simply shutting this data off from public view. Boriquagato, again:

we’ve reached the point where agencies will no longer publish objective data because it does not support their conclusions.

“we cannot provide data because people might analyze it!” is not much of a mantra, is it?

NEW - Public Health Scotland will stop publishing data on Covid deaths and hospitalizations by vaccination status because there are "significant concerns about the data being misused deliberately by anti-vaccination campaigners."

LOL

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-19 09:19|| 2022-02-19 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Best described as "A game where you never get to shuffle, cut or deal."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-19 09:27|| 2022-02-19 09:27|| Front Page Top

#5 No worries. Even as he admits that natural immunity was the way to go, Ghoulish Gates assures us we'll have another DemPanic in no time -- so he and Fauci can pretend to be heroes and get on the Nobel shortlist.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-19 10:47|| 2022-02-19 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't place wagers, but I'll ~~bet~~ predict neither Fauxi nor Gates will get as close to a Nobel Prize as Algore did. And you know it's still driving him wild that Bath House got one and he didn't.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-19 10:52|| 2022-02-19 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Do they give a Nobel in the Blood Clot category?

Funeral directors and embalmers around the country and in the U.K. are beginning to report an extraordinary increase in the incidence of bizarre blood clots in the bodies of the vaxxed. Description, links, and photos here.

... the materials look like fibrin, a major component of a blood clot. Fibrin is defined as “a strong insoluble protein produced by the body in response to bleeding.”

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-19 11:07|| 2022-02-19 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 At the point where my corpse is being processed, I'm beyond caring. Of course, I can make choices (whether the gummint likes it or not) to hasten or delay the day I become a corpse. Fauxi, Gates et al can go F themselves.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-19 11:10|| 2022-02-19 11:10|| Front Page Top

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