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Maryland Bear's avatar

"This was particularly impressive, as many of them had only heard of hantavirus days or even hours before."

FWIW, I first heard of the hantavirus years ago. That's because I am a well-informed person who likes learning about a wide range of scientific top...

Narrator: He only knows about it because Krusty the Klown once mentioned it on an episode of The Simpsons.

D'oh!

Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

I know what it is because I was banging an epidemiologist for four years.

Kay Ducky's avatar

Take any shit you want, just stay the fuck out of our (society's) hospitals. Die at home like the big, strong, tears-in-his-eyes, free thinker that you are.

Also, is it ironic that all of these free thinkers found the exact same two "miracle" drugs?

EyeQueue's avatar

Can we have a law that they don't get to take up a hospital bed from someone else for their own self-inflicted stupidity?

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5mEdited

People have been talking about Kari Lake going to be an ambassador to somewhere.

This whole time I thought the talk show host (Ricki Lake), but I got the names mixed up. :/

It's that bint from AZ. *gags*

Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

Ricki Lake was in a John Waters movie. Kari Lake is too crazy for John Waters to deal with.

*The More You Know*

EyeQueue's avatar

Yes! I loved her in Hairspray!

PrimerGray's avatar

<dispensed by pharmacists, sort of like Sudafed is now.>

You have to be careful even after you get it from the pharmacist. My lovely lady had it taken out of her cart at Target many years ago.

It reminds me a bit of when I was kid and used to build plastic model cars. They had to keep the glue at the counter because too many kids were buying it to get high. My dad had to explain it to me, which he definitely did not want to.

EyeQueue's avatar
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They also lock up the cold sore medication. I got pissed one day and cut the hook thing on the plastic package with my pocketknife to get it off of the "security hook" thing b/c there was no clerk to be found. I told them at the check out that if they were going to treat their customers like thieves I would not be back.

And I haven't been.

EyeQueue's avatar

The grocery store near me now has Tide products locked up like that. Just Tide. Nothing else.

It's fucking ridiculous. They are INSURED FOR THEFT! It is baked into their system. But they think they need to do this and it's ridiculous.

Lawyers, Guns 'n' Money's avatar

If you are even slightly jaded and can get past any qualms regarding morality, marketing to godawful stupidity is fairly lucrative.

EyeQueue's avatar

We're trying to think of a way to bilk MAGA out of their $$$$$$.

josephebacon's avatar

Exhibit "A" are those TV Preachers raking in millions of tax-free cash from their brainwashed suckers.

goCatgo's avatar
5mEdited

Pretty sure Hawvud gives an MBA for that.

Their poster boy is Lenny Radvinsky.

Resource NW's avatar

I think there are lots of horse people in FL who might be conservative and are tired of fighting MAGATTY idiots for a *horse* medication they need and that actually works as described ... on HORSES! It kills intestinal parasites... in HORSES. Then again, if it kills fly larvae perhaps MAGGATTS should use it.

Being released's avatar

Why can't these people just use nice, antiseptic gin like a normal person?

Baconzgood's avatar

"can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension (low blood pressure), allergic reactions (itching and hives), dizziness, ataxia (problems with balance), seizures, coma and even death. If you are allergic to it dont take it. Consult your Doctor when you self prescribe this medication". Is EVERY "Get out of jail free card" that every pharma-pseudo company hides behind.

Have you noticed that the symptoms of taking the "medication" are the same as a severe flu?

Rhand Holm's avatar

We can't stop morons from doing stupid things. They'll do them anyways and hate us for trying. Here's the sad thing, they won't learn from consequences. If covid taught us anything, it's that they're totally willing to die of stupidity and their family will proudly display the Darwin Award.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

During the height of the pandemic I used to love reddit's "Herman Cain Awards" sub.

Because I'm a sicko ("YES! YESSSSS!") and I was watching people die a lot and needed something to keep me sane.

VaselineHabits's avatar

Stupidty doesnt hurt THEM, just everyone around them

josephebacon's avatar

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is spending tens of millions of dollars on a secret research project aimed at fueling skepticism about vaccines, according to a report.

President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary is reportedly launching a behind-the-scenes campaign within federal health agencies to try to prove his long-debunked belief that vaccines can cause a range of medical conditions and diseases, including autism.

Kennedy, one of the country’s highest-profile vaccine skeptics, is spearheading the project in secret after the White House urged him to tone down his public distrust of vaccines, fearing it could hurt Republicans in November’s midterm elections, The New York Times reported.

The cost of the vaccine project, based on work conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alone, is estimated at between $40 million and $50 million.

As part of the project, Kennedy is asking government scientists to re-examine claims of a link between vaccines and children later developing autism—a disputed theory the health and human services secretary has promoted for decades.

Kennedy also hopes to further scrutinize thimerosal and question how harmful it may be.

The mercury-based ingredient has already been removed from almost all vaccines in the U.S. following an order from Kennedy last year, although it is still used in some flu shots.

Daniel Jernigan, who oversaw vaccine safety at the CDC until resigning in August, told the paper that he fears Kennedy may be spending millions of dollars trying to validate his own views on vaccines rather than relying on existing scientific research.

“It just demonstrates that no matter what the general tone is about vaccines, whether we talk about them or not, the secretary is going to continue to try and look at the data and analyze it in a way that will help support the conclusions that he’s already made,” Jernigan told the Times. “And that, to me, is a real problem.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-cost-of-rfk-jrs-secret-crusade-exposed/

"M"'s avatar

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is spending tens of millions of dollars on a secret research project aimed at fueling skepticism about vaccines,"

This is not research

This is propaganda

Can we maybe call things what they are so people can better understand the consequences

please

Stanta Knows's avatar

It'd be cheaper for Trump's "pool guy" to paint the vaccines blue.

"M"'s avatar

That's still your money they're spending

I can't believe people just ... don't seem to be collectively reacting to that

People are so passive and then have the temerity to wonder why so many things are terrible

VaselineHabits's avatar

Didn't RFK Jr need to get confirmed?

Cincinnatus's avatar

Bill Cassidy could have prevented. But here's his floor speech in favor. Cassidy should feel like an ass.

https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-delivers-floor-speech-in-support-of-rfk-jr-to-be-hhs-secretary/

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Yes, he did, and that fucking idiot Bill Cassidy fell for his lies.

Donald Laporte's avatar

Yes. and it was a party line vote.

RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

I think he was certified, having spent a number of years being certifiable....

TerseNurse's avatar

all the qualifiers. 'he fears that', 'he may be' 'a disputed theory'

we need to call this murderous shitstain what he is, loudly, and in public.

Elviouslyqueer's avatar

Evidently settled science is going the same way as settled law. Honestly, I want to slap the dick clean off these morons.

Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

No fucking shit, Sherlock.

PrimerGray's avatar

<I am definitely in favor of it being legal in Florida, of all places. After all, if it’s sold with the Sudafed, those folks might just think it can also be used to make crystal meth, and that would actually be a whole lot more safe>

I am one of those who can't take Sudafed or any pseudoephedrine medications. I took it in the mid '90s and thought I was going to die, like I was slowly being dragged to the other side. I probably should have sought medical attention but I wasn't aware of the seriousness of the situation, if you can believe it.

catsntrees's avatar

I really hope they shit themselves until they cannot shit anymore...and it is an ignominious end to these literal shitstains on the fabric of our country.

RefillingThorsBeer's avatar

well, I DO have nice shoes....

Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

Now? Things are kinda fraught.

Lawyers, Guns 'n' Money's avatar

Consuming Brussels sprouts prevented me from contracting COVID. It'll work for hantavirus as well, I'm sure.

goCatgo's avatar

A nice, buttery, garlic cream sauce. I'm wit chu!

VaselineHabits's avatar

Of course of course