Pengy

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When True 2k8 had His Lordship on speed dial

If RS abruptly shut down tomorrow, what would you do instead? If you could choose a skill that you would instantaneously become an expert at, what would would you choose? What is one thing that you have recently accomplished that you feel particularly proud of?

DF vs DI circa 2016

If you could build a lineup of officials (not including yourself), who would you choose? (Bonus points if you include why you chose particular people)

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Grats Bauz 🙂

You are more than welcome to post your evidence. However, calling the vast majority of physicians (and other healthcare professionals) liars is inappropriate. Doctors undergo a rigorous training to become specialists in the field, and provide important advice to keep us health and safe. The overwhelming majority of doctors and guidelines clearly recommend vaccination, both for COVID, and other infectious diseases. When you visit the CDC's adverse reports page, you are greeted with a warning at the top of the page. I have attached a screenshot here for your convenience. The CDC accepts reports of any adverse events around the time of vaccine administration, whether there is any true relationship to vaccine use or not. Considering that you claim to be well-read on this issue, I am sure you are familiar with the concepts of correlation and causation. There may appear to be some correlations between vaccine use and adverse reactions (whether these correlations are real or not). However, this does not imply that the adverse event was caused by the vaccine. This is a public forum, you are more than welcome to express your beliefs to others. Further, you are especially encouraged to use references if you think they will help convince others of your claims. Nobody on this thread is name-calling. However, several of us disagree with the claims you are spreading, and want to make sure that information about the COVID (and other) vaccines is rooted in evidence-based scientific reasoning. I am truly sorry that you are going through such a traumatic experience. Illness and death in the family, especially simultaneously, is very difficult. However, I urge you to examine all biologically plausible potential factors involved. Although vaccination may have occurred within a short period of time to these events, there may not be much evidence to suggest that it played a part.

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You wrote that the basis for vaccines is false. However, the basis for vaccines (regardless of whether in reality they help/hurt/etc.) is to end disease. Based on your most recent remarks, it is clear that your intended stance is that the basis for vaccines is positive, however, you don't believe that they are effective and further believe that they are actually dangerous. There is no doubt that there have been some dangerous vaccines in the past whether that be due to application in inappropriate individuals, manufacturing issues, or other reasons. However, generalizing these incidents are inappropriate due the varying biological mechanisms of individual vaccines. It is broadly accepted that sanitation has been a critical part of modern disease prevention . However, we can remove sanitation as a confounding variable if we examine more recent research that has been conducted in the setting of modern sanitation. In such studies we still find vaccines important in disease prevention. Recent outbreaks of measles in the United States (which overwhelmingly affected intentionally unvaccinated individuals) is a prime example of this. Happy to engage in a healthy discussion about the merits of such an important topic 🙂

What do you mean by this statement? Even if for a moment we pretend that vaccines are ineffective at the problem they intend to solve, your statement implies that you believe that human suffering and death due to infectious disease is acceptable and justified. It's hard to argue that the efficacy of vaccines in general is a hoax when they are the primary reason for the eradication of smallpox (~300 million deaths over the 20th century) and eradication of wild polio in all but Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Welcome @true's boy. Good to see you again 🙂

Grats!!

I'm not a big flowers guy, though I like sunflowers and marigolds. I'm more into veggies. Annuals I do tomatoes, peppers, leafy greens, cucumbers, zucchini and herbs. Perennials I have apple and pear trees, raspberry bushes, and probably a few other things that aren't coming to mind.

Yes, I like growing a variety of vegetables every year. Grow a variety of annuals each year and also just planted some new perennials this year.

Welcome Bryan 🙂

Personally not interested enough to pay that much on-top of a subscription to watch those movies. But I guess to some extent it makes some sense (to Disney) since the movies would typically be in theatres and unavailable to stream.

Nice job Mitch!

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Netflix, occasionally disney+ to watch the mandalorian

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