Covid-19 Discussion (moderated)

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DiogenesDue
Optimissed wrote:

Between you and me, I don't think citations are the norm for polemic. This is someone I genuinely like very much and I've never seen her go off the rails quite like that. I just wanted your reaction.

The point is that you are also directly responsible for the crap YOU post. You post a darn sight more of it than me and YOUR crap is written by you and not by someone else. So I know your horse is always very high and you can't help that but try to stay off it for once, eh?

That's the point, isn't it?  You posted a rant to rankle me, specifically.

Don't post polemic again.  You are clearly here, not to actually discuss Covid-19, but to get yourself blocked so you can tell yourself (and others, more importantly) that I am unreasonable wink.png.  It's a common self-soothing tactic for those who feel they have gotten the short end of the stick in a debate (or in your case, many debates).  The key for you now is that you would prefer I block you after engaging in some personal back and forth (as dramatic as possible), as that fits your narrative better than just being blocked for breaking the posted guidelines and generally being objectionable.  It's not going to happen.  You act like a kid, and I can see you coming light years away.

Ironically, you are putting more work into this than any reasoned argument you make on the forums.  Please get back to the discussion at hand, or leave, but either way, stop being so transparent about your petty motivations.  

DiogenesDue
Optimissed wrote:

There might be some people, here in this thread, who take you seriously but you are heavily influenced by your emotions and also you really aren't very bright. I know I shouldn't mention that, because it's an attack on the person but you do make it so obvious. If you could avoid being so influenced by your emotions, then you would probably manage to seem cleverer than you seem at the moment. You're pretty ridiculous, or did you know that already? Ludicrous, really. Does anyone who actually knows you in r.l. take you seriously and if not, is that why you are always so completely stupid and bombastic on chess'com? It's pretty funny really. You haven't a clue about much and you take yourself so seriously. And there are others who take you seriously. I pity them! I won't answer you again. You're blocked,

Having been found out, he takes his toys and goes home...

Bye.

RonaldJosephCote

    "There might be some people who take you seriously but you are heavily influenced by your emotions"......  surprise.png    What does emotion have to do with the science of the vaccine.?  You either take it and live,..... or don't take the vaccine and die.  Its simple logic, not emotion.                                                                                                                                      In 50 yrs from now I'm sure there will be a vaccine for dementia, and there will also be enough idiots who don't want to take it.meh.png

power_9_the_people

"Outlier " bishop on ventilator. 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/16/us/cardinal-raymond-leo-burke-covid-hospitalized/index.html

IMKeto

Optimissed and I have always gotten along fine through the years.  But once he was blocked from posting here, he started messaging me.  I finally had to tell him to stop messing me about this post, and if he wants to chat about anything else thats fine. 

DiogenesDue

He's one of those people that just can't walk away if their ego gets dented.  It comes from a need to bolster confidence from without instead of within.  That being said, we need to be the bigger people and stop talking about him now that he cannot reply, since that will just poke the bear some more.

Moving on...

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/unvaccinated-couple-die-covid-19-100607537.html

This story's key point is that the notion that "I'm not going to get the vaccines until they are fully FDA approved" can in fact kill you.

IMKeto

Its funny how people react to if you got the shot or not.  When i wasn't vaccinated, it was fine with most of the people i know.  When after months of research i decided to get vaccinated, and was asked about it.  It was always the same answer: "Well...i respect your right to do what is best for you.  But for me i wont be getting it."  It was never said, but i could tell that I had somehow disappointed people.

DiogenesDue
IMBacon wrote:

Its funny how people react to if you got the shot or not.  When i wasn't vaccinated, it was fine with most of the people i know.  When after months of research i decided to get vaccinated, and was asked about it.  It was always the same answer: "Well...i respect your right to do what is best for you.  But for me i wont be getting it."  It was never said, but i could tell that I had somehow disappointed people.

...and impressed other people.  The reality of the partisan world we now inhabit.

The important thing is to remember to impress the people you respect, and save the disappointing for the people that you don't.

IMKeto

While the rest of us help pay for his poor life style choices with higher insurance/medical premiums.  I wish people would understands that its not always about their "rights".

IMKeto

My mom past away last April.  She was overweight diabetic, bad heart, bad kidneys, etc.  She was confined to a wheel chair from a fall she took about 10 years ago.  We used to get into it over her eating, and she would tell me: "I'm 80 years old, and I will eat whatever I want!.  Ive earned that right."  So i suggested that maybe she should take better care of herself since the rest of us are paying for her health choices.  She didnt like that either.  But multiply her mentality times how many millions.

ChampoftheBepoCamp

Bah i am not getting vaxxed cuz of my "Guardians" so called 

IMKeto
ChampoftheCommieCamp wrote:

Bah i am not getting vaxxed cuz of my "Guardians" so called 

And as a minor thats how things go.

ChampoftheBepoCamp

Well I am old enough to move & stuff... soon nough 

ChampoftheBepoCamp

Almost at least

Wolfbird

I can't resist.

 

ChampoftheBepoCamp

I couldn't resist at the 2 girls 1 conspiracy wink.png Your the one who brought it up womannn/mannn...

RonaldJosephCote

https://www.yahoo.com/news/virologist-suggests-coronavirus-origin-theorists-204106053.html   

ChampoftheBepoCamp

Straight to the source... thank the champ From Nature; Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic

DiogenesDue

And here we go again...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/video/texas-gov-greg-abbott-banned-234701360.html

IMKeto

I just read a yahoo story about a couple that refused to get vaccinated, and died from covid.  She just died 2 weeks after her husband.  Her dying wish was that their children get vaccinated. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mom-died-covid-days-her-185417009.html

 

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