Zippergate said:
Because I have a 20+ year relationship with my doctor and have found him to be exemplary in every way. I also understand that my doctor is part of a large health organization that aggressively pushes the Covid vaccines to this day. I don't doubt that he has received heat for his vaccine uptake rate.
Have you received the latest booster? How about all your family members? Would you want your children/grandchildren to receive the latest jabs according to CDC guidelines?
You ignored my comment about Vioxx. Why did it take The System 100,000 heart attacks to recognize the fact that Vioxx was dangerous, especially when it was known to a FDA whistleblower before it was even approved? What does that tell you about the FDA, medical advisory bodies and the nation's doctors?
Yeah, I'm vaxxed up. More pr@icks in me than a Porsche. My kids are in their 30's and call their own shots (pun intended). I doubt they are current.
Why do you keep posting your anti vax comments? It has a vibe like you want to impress on us that you are the smartest guy in the room and the rest of us are little more than compliant chumps.
I can't figure out any other
motive because no one here is arguing with you other than me occasionally on general principle (as Vincent Vega would say). Your side has already achieved its goal:
1. Only 22% of people in U.S. are updated on their COVID vax;
2. I brought my sister to a Stanford Medical clinic branch in Danville, which has a lot of Conservatives. A large sign on the door said masks are MANDATORY (Furd is one of the few Medical Centers with this policy). My sister and I put our masks on and went in. In the 45 minutes I was in the waiting room, I witnessed at least 4 seniors (averaging 30-50 pounds overweight) enter and never put masks on. One woman looked at the employee at the desk and sarcastically said, "Oh, are masks a thing again?" The employee said, "Only if you want to." She said that because the tRumpers turn into 10 year olds and have temper tantrums if you ask them to comply.
What I would have said is, "Do you trust and respect Stanford Medical Center and is that why you come here? If you don't want to comply with Stanford's mask rules then get the f@uck outa here and waddle your fat @$$ back to Kaiser or John Muir or the Urgent Care clinic or wherever the f you came from."
3. 6 ex BART employees just tattooed BART for $6M with an assist by a Federal Court jury because they got fired for refusing to get the COVID vaccine on religious grounds (at least you haven't raised that sketch argument). There goes BART's budget. They won't be able to afford to pay train operators $300K per year, it will have to go back to gluing fake security cameras in the trains and they won't be able to terminate the homeless subleasing trains as sleeping quarters.
The anti vaxxers won. I will go back into remission and you can go back to "owing the Libs" in this thread.
On my way out a couple of articles that disagree with you. Maybe the possibility exists the authors are not stupid or corrupt.
The role and influence of perceived experts in an anti-vaccine misinformation community - PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10398812/COVID-19 vaccine refusal is driven by deliberate ignorance and cognitive distortions | npj Vaccines
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-024-00951-8….and in the words of Ray Shoesmith:
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside