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Was it Winston Churchill who said Americans will always do the right thing, but only after they've exhausted every other option?

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Blame W for that fuckery/

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Oh my laws. You have SNL’s The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With, parenting in your district!!!

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Maybe if you wear it as a bikini bottom ....

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Teachers were second on the priority list in qatar. Because we come into contact with lots of people. And we all want to be back in school, teaching.

For the second year in a row school is starting online. I miss my kids.

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Australia did a mild version of that with normal childhood vaccines (pre-pandemic). To qualify for a certain government payment for children, the child had to be either current with their vaccines, on a doctor-approved catch-up schedule, or have a stringently scrutinised medical exemption. Vaccination rates rose something like 70%. The sum involved was something like...a little over a dollar a day.

And that really enraged me. I don't care whether these fuckers were casual anti-vaxxers or people who "just hadn't gotten around to it", they neglected to give their children - their children - vital medical protection until they lost money by it. And not even a lot of money, they could have bought one coffee a week but not two with it. They put a literal price on their children's lives, with a real dollar value, and that price was less than ten dollars a week. What kind of pathetic, soulless, self-absorbed fucking ghoul leaves their child vulnerable to deadly disease for ten dollars a week? This trash, that's who.

I cannot fathom that level of arrogance, callousness and selfishness. If I could guarantee Covid would only kill anti-vaxxers, I'd say let the cleansing fire burn free and rid us of them for good. But of course they're endangering everyone and especially kids with their stupidity, so we have to bite our tongues and keep flattering their egos. Damn them.

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I understand the 'help' she is seeking is the name of person who shot her traitor daughter so she may find 'peace' they can be assassinated by some MAGA fanatic.

FTFY.

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Will taking vitamin D hurt you? Mostly not.

Will it hurt you if you do that instead of getting vaccinated? It sure as fuck will.

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Let's compare how we deal with the un-vaccinated to how we deal with other threats to our safety.

The NHTSA says we lost ten thousand lives to drunk drivers in 2019. Drunk drivers have been the target of heavy enforcement, long sentences, and social pressure.

The non-vaccinated are killing hundreds of thousands.

Prison would backfire, since putting non-vaccinated people into tight quarters would spread the virus that we're trying to stop. But I'm on board with everything else.

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Yeah, there are already anti vaccine protestors at my hospital on Wednesdays open carrying. It does not take much imagination for me to think that the guy with the gun on his hip and the sign comparing people giving the vaccine to Nazis might actually shoot someone. (but his rights...)

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>"Immune systems end pandemics"

Exactly why I got vaccinated, so my immune system could neutralize the virus.

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Bullshit detection is apparently an advanced sophisticated cognitive function. It's missing in a lot of young people and it's the first thing to go in age-related decline.

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Meat packing plants too. Tracking migrant workers for a second dose would be a challenge but for sure someone should be offering them J&J.

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The worst second-dose experiences I've heard of have been milder than a non-hospital case of "it's just the flu".

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Well, if you dose yourself with colloidal silver and Magic Miracle Bleach and horse dewormer, your immune system will jumpstart itself to take on anything!

Well, actually, you'll just die. But you'll be 100% guaranteed not to contract COVID after that.

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They do cause UTIs.But only for those who won't wear them.UnpenetrableTraumaticIdiocy

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