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A more optimistic (for the most part...) take via Zakaria's newsletter:

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The Year Science Won

As vaccines make their way into the public’s willing arms, The Atlantic’s Ed Yong writes that science has pulled off the nearly unthinkable, by producing a Covid-19 vaccine less than a year after the virus’s genome was sequenced. In achieving this feat, the scientific community has passed through a sort of crucible.

“In fall of 2019, exactly zero scientists were studying COVID‑19, because no one knew the disease existed,” Yong writes. “But by the end of March 2020, it had spread to more than 170 countries, sickened more than 750,000 people, and triggered the biggest pivot in the history of modern science. Thousands of researchers dropped whatever intellectual puzzles had previously consumed their curiosity and began working on the pandemic instead. In mere months, science became thoroughly COVID-ized.”

It was a triumph of collective intelligence, with papers flooding into academic journals and preprint servers by the thousands—more voluminously, by a large factor, than ever before in history—and new disciplines came to bear on public health. Work that had already gone into mRNA technology, which amounts to a “platform” for developing different kinds of vaccines for different diseases, proved prescient.

The story was not so purely positive: Experts in other fields rushed to publish some questionable work for what Yong describes as questionable motives, and 2020 has seen science’s gender divide deepen. Along with its triumph, and the fear and trembling at humanity’s brush with the virus, Yong writes that science can draw important lessons. “Warped incentives, wasteful practices, overconfidence, inequality, a biomedical bias—COVID‑19 has exposed them all,” Yong writes. “And in doing so, it offers the world of science a chance to practice one of its most important qualities: self-correction.”

From The Washington Post:

America’s biggest companies are flourishing during the pandemic and putting thousands of people out of work

A Post analysis found 45 of the 50 biggest U.S. companies turned a profit since March. The majority of firms cut staff and gave the bulk of profits to shareholders.

This is absolutely brutal, and at the same time exactly what you'd expect from savage unregulated fuck-you capitalism. Too many graphics to post here, so please click on the link.

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Nurse passes out on LIVE TV just after taking C19 vaccine

"I have to add for context, she did say later she faints when there is pain. So take that as you will."

Sit down, you crank.

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

"I have to add for context, she did say later she faints when there is pain. So take that as you will."

Sit down, you crank.

YES - I linked the tweet so everyone can read the replies!

The comments are typical twitter toxicity.

'They want to kill us. We will all react differently. How fucking sad. Over my dead body.

I’ve been sick for over 20 years from a "safe and effective" flu shot.

They can keep that crap to themselves....'

etc etc. fanx for the laffs from a pure rancid platform, brav

My mother (76) gets a shot against influenza every year. Some years she's under the weather for a coupla days after getting the vaccine, has to spend a day in bed, shit like that. But guess what: SHE DOESN'T GET THE FUCKING INFLUENZA, even though she spends a lot of time in crowded places, including clinics and hospitals (well, she used to before the pandemonium), because she still has to work given that her pension covers, what, one trip to the supermarket per month. Anyway, vaccines WORK; they do sometimes have side effects, the vast majority of which is bullcrap you just have to suck up and then you're good as new unless you're part of the 0.5% of the population who gets anaphylactic shocks from eating shellfish or whatever the fuck. SO TAKE THE GODDAMN VACCINE. Good Lawd people are stupid.

Trump's legacy:

A death every 33 seconds

Every time you listen to Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas,” about five people have died of the virus between the beginning and the end of the song.

"But he didn't create the virus" - yes, we know, dipshits; the point is it did not have to be this way. :mad:

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

"I have to add for context, she did say later she faints when there is pain. So take that as you will."

Sit down, you crank.

Wait....is Bytor an anti-vaccer?

If so, I'm shocked!! SHOCKED, I tell you!!!

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Originally Posted by tw2113

Pfizer behind the vaccine is the mother of all christmas gifts for memers

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Originally Posted by Skuj

Wait....is Bytor an anti-vaccer?

If so, I'm shocked!! SHOCKED, I tell you!!!

I realize that we are probably just 8-10 years away from someone such as Mario Lopez doing commercials that say: “if you took the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020-2021, you may be entitled to cash compensation.”

The above being said, I’m not an anti-vaccer......but I nor my immediate family have any desire to take it. Either we are extremely lucky or what we’ve been doing since this craziness began has been working. I’m not going to criticize anyone for taking the vaccine, but from what I’ve seen, it’s not for me.

My wife and daughters went to Nashville back in August, this weekend they were in Fredericksburg, Texas, staying in a rented home, shopping and doing tastings at West Texas wineries. I’ve gone on two 4-6 day golf trips since the pandemic started. We had a nice size family gathering at Thanksgiving and we plan on multiple gatherings this Christmas weekend.

No reason to be Anti anything......stay safe and take care of you!

its not a vaccine. its a genetic therapy.

Of course now in the UK they have a new "killer" strain and apparently are fleeing London to spread the new strain far and wide.

Isn't Unrestricted Warfare a joy? To take liberties with a phrase from the late industrial archeologist Ed Reutsch: "when they have warehouse of genetically engineered viral biowarfare weapons they tend to want to use them".

Let's do some math. When the death rate is .02%, what is a 40% increase? Real scary. Burroughs had it right with the Immortality Racket.

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Originally Posted by tesla69

Another example is California/New York vs. Texas/Florida.

California/New York shut everything down and they are right back where they started. Texas/Florida allowed many things to remain open with reasonable accommodations and each are thriving, well, thriving compared to California/NY.

Perfect example today, the Dallas Cowboys played a home game with 20k fans in the stands. Their opponent, the San Francisco 49ers, came from Arizona because this is where they’ve been living/playing “home games” because they are unable to do so in California.

Just yesterday it was announced that the Rose Bowl, traditionally played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, will be played in Dallas due to the State of California not allowing spectators in the stands.

Let me add something my mother-in-law pointed out. When she flew to Cleveland, Ohio last month, she was served a meal during the flight. Once in Cleveland, she found restaurants were closed, even to outdoor seating. Why is it permissible/safe to eat on an airplane and not at a restaurant?

Does the airline industry have better lobbyist?

here's to the willing morons catching it but not spreading it to others!

I'm hoping alcoholism accidentally helps avoid