jeffb comments

Good thing no one has to listen to the "Who?"

Never use the the rack on a crowded train. You'll get shoved just out of reach and when you try to get off, you'll have to go against the flow to grab your item.

Put your bag in front of you and scowl while avoiding eye contact. When someone pushes up against you imagine yourself as a brick wall but never push back or shove others.

Find a happy place and get to where you need to be.

I'm going to start a business throwing used car batteries into the ocean. In exchange for carbon credits, of course.

Nissan... Here's what I want to know:

Where's my Datsun?!

After all of that, there's still no denial that the response has had lasting negative effects just like was warned in 2020. Only the claim that "the experts responsible for the measures said it would have been so much worse!"

How about you search for any well recognized institution of science in the whole world that say the measures in general where unnecessary or did not prevented countless deaths? None say so?

The same authorities you fallaciously appeal are the very ones responsible for or beneficiaries of the overreaction I claim was unwarranted. The heavy handed opressive response was warned against by experts but that warning was disregarded. There's no way to know what could have happened because there was almost no legitimate observations made after the first wave. Just immediate excessive overreaction having lasting effects to this day.

For this claim you need to demonstrate first that the measures were not the best possible under the circumstances at the time and second that they did not prevented something worse, without it you are just making a baseless claim that nothing bad would have happened without those measures, which contradicts what the experts say about it.

Which experts? All experts? What about the ones that warned the overreaction would have long lasting negative effects on society especially those in lower socioeconomic status? That's what ended up happening.

To stay on topic, the reaction and excessive measures that were called out by the rejected Barrington declaration are what caused the lasting impacts of the pandemic period.

Anyone who says that was not in Japan in 2020.

Wrong.

Which is a well known factor that ends up causing the death, saying there are millions of children dying "with" malnutrition is a similar situation.

False equivalence. Starvation and malnutrition are directly related. The vast majority of deaths were listed with covid as a comorbidity (died with), not as a cause of or necessarily related to the cause of death. This was incentivized by providing additional funding to hospitals experiencing high rates of covid infection.

Did they die? Yeah. Did their PCR test show positive? Yep.

Japan did not have strict lockdowns. There was no enforcement only social shame for not following along with the charade. Private institutions like theme parks and hospitals made it their mission to enforce masking within their facilities. Businesses could voluntarily certify as "covid safe" and they would get the payout compensation for not serving alcohol or closing early. So no, no "lockdowns" in Japan.

The CARES act in the US incentivized hospitals to add covid-19 as a comorbitity to any death it deemed related, thus providing additional funding to that hospital. That institutional incentive paired with the rejection of the Barrington declaration which called for limited government response prolonged an otherwise insignificant disease. The mortality was massively inflated and the prevention measures were a farse.

Remember it was the overreaction to the disease, not the disease itself, that caused the massive disruption.

@TokyoLiving

What's the MAGA attack in this context? Were they told they can't perform there? Seems more like virtue signaling whiney indignation. Then again maybe this much ridiculous drama should be expected from a bunch of self righteous thespians.

Hidaka said there are many people who suffer from mental health issues

Bingo.

This kind of rhetoric is really reminiscent of neomarxist propaganda. They cheer on the destruction of the family because it allows the state to step in and control individuals. The nuclear family unit is the singular most important part of any healthy society anywhere. And the BEST defense against the tyranny of "progressive" ideologies.

She's not a racist, she's not a bigot, she's not a man.

So why did the number of infections, hospitalizations and deaths from Covid dramatically drop after the rollout of the vaccines? That was just a coincidence?

There's no way to prove what those statistics would have done had the vaccine not been rolled out since pandemics are temporary phenomenon of viral pathogenesis. So the argument is moot. Maybe the reporting on covid numbers was fudged from the start?

Don't care someone is telling you to take poison?

This is a ridiculous argument. It doesn't have to be poison to be a bad idea.

The covid shot was at best ineffective and at worse an unnecessary risk.

Trump didn't push it. Biden did.

...You just owned yourself with your own link.

I posted a link of the damage control, thus proving my point that they indeed changed the definition of vaccination. And this was during the massive state-backed push to enforce vaccine uptake.

My claims were that both the vaccine and covid have a similar risk of adverse effects. And as it did not prevent infection (whatever the definition might be), that it was completely unjustified to punish those who declined to take it.

It was experimental when it was rolled out and when the mandates were put in place. That was all done under EUA.

@I'veSeenFootage

We did. Then they ran damage control like this:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-976069264061

Yeah. So..... where are the tens of millions of dead people from the vaccine, then?

That's a nice straw man argument but I never claimed that.

That is not how vaccines (or science) works. I mean I get it, it's a very complex subject to understand. Let me help you:

Please, we all watched in realtime as the CDC "updated their language" on vaccination. But by all means, move those goal posts.

"You have to take a vaccine to prevent infection."

They don't stop infection.

"That's not how vaccines work!"

Hilarious.

It's hilarious when people admit there were serious adverse side effects like myocarditis and blood clots, etc. then move the goalposts by saying, 'well it's better than getting covid because that causes the same conditions!' Maybe covid does cause those as well.

Everyone who got the vaccine also got covid. It didn't stop infection at all. You just literally doubled your odds of a heart attack.

@I'veSeenFootgage

The Covid vaccine was literally the most tested in history.

Yeah, tested on the public by force and coercion. It was given emergency use authorization and allowed to be tested at scale on the public. People who took the covid vaccine are lab rats for big pharma.

This is an article from SoraNews so the humorous tone is expected. And no, I will NOT be making any jokes about female Asian drivers!

Idk, that show seems kinda gay, ngl.

Why are natural sources of fish being reduced? Pollution from industries. Solution? More industries. Not enough fish to feed the fish to feed the people? Feed them bugs. Not enough fish to feed the people? Feed them bugs.

Modern solutions to create modern problems!

@Desert Tortoise,

Thank you for the details. What else can you tell us about this story?

The strangest aspect of this is the connection to Israel. An Israeli billionaire started the company that owns the ship. But that's it. Was that the connection the Houthi made? It didn't depart Israel, it didn't have Israel crew or cargo, it wasn't being operated by an Israeli firm. What did they think they were accomplishing "on behalf of Palestine?" This particular boat heist smells extra fishy.

JA editors, thank you for updating the article to give some relevance to Israel. The jist being that the Houthi are targeting Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea on behalf of Palestine.

The AP article is far superior in it's explanation of this event so anyone looking for actual context would be better informed by that reporting.

Farfetched headline. Quirky story about nanotech invasive medical procedures. Yep, it's the Conversation!