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Very interesting story in the Intercept (half-hour podcast form) based on recently hacked data about the network of quackery that pushes vaccine hesitancy and alternative "cures," how it's making millions, and the Tea Party billionaire money that started it all.

https://theintercept.com/2021/10/13/int ... n-profits/

TL;DR: Always be alert for the name "America's Frontline Doctors," and its founder Simone Gold.

They were founded at the start of the pandemic for propaganda purposes to provide Trump with a medical-degree-having counternarrative against the medical consensus when it came to Covid-19, and now they're making millions pushing Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and other fake cures.
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Covid recovered here. Still not vaccinated. Got positive on July and fully recovered in 8 days. Lost complete sense of taste and smell... And that was it. Fortunately everything else was ok, didn't had any other symptoms. Me, my wife and oldest son. On another hand, my mother got 2 shots and still got positive a month later after the second shot. She recovered no problems. Strange times we live in.

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DenimDemon wrote:Covid recovered here. Still not vaccinated. Got positive on July and fully recovered in 8 days. Lost complete sense of taste and smell... And that was it. Fortunately everything else was ok, didn't had any other symptoms. Me, my wife and oldest son. On another hand, my mother got 2 shots and still got positive a month later after the second shot. She recovered no problems. Strange times we live in.

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I got it back in April/May, got hospitalized with fever & low blood oxygen. Got both shots afterward (at 2 & 3 months post), had zero interest in reliving it or incubating new variants. Neither shot was pleasant but the second one in particular KOed me for a couple of days, felt exactly like when I had it.

I've had some nasty flus in my lifetime, but Covid doesn't feel like any flu I've ever had, it had this nasty "flavour" to it, for lack of a better word. I was playing the Link's Awakening remake on my Switch while in the hospital. I got to the end, but I've never managed to motivate myself to go back & finish it because whenever I think about it I start remember the sensation.

Also FFS, no game of that length should have a 60 second loop for its overworld. Shit was driving me insane by the end.
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Sengoku Strider wrote:
DenimDemon wrote:Covid recovered here. Still not vaccinated. Got positive on July and fully recovered in 8 days. Lost complete sense of taste and smell... And that was it. Fortunately everything else was ok, didn't had any other symptoms. Me, my wife and oldest son. On another hand, my mother got 2 shots and still got positive a month later after the second shot. She recovered no problems. Strange times we live in.

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I got it back in April/May, got hospitalized with fever & low blood oxygen. Got both shots afterward (at 2 & 3 months post), had zero interest in reliving it or incubating new variants. Neither shot was pleasant but the second one in particular KOed me for a couple of days, felt exactly like when I had it.

I've had some nasty flus in my lifetime, but Covid doesn't feel like any flu I've ever had, it had this nasty "flavour" to it, for lack of a better word. I was playing the Link's Awakening remake on my Switch while in the hospital. I got to the end, but I've never managed to motivate myself to go back & finish it because whenever I think about it I start remember the sensation.

Also FFS, no game of that length should have a 60 second loop for its overworld. Shit was driving me insane by the end.
Damn, sad to hear. Its great to know you've made it ok and fully recovered. Yeah about that "taste" thing you mentioned, is funny but i had the exact same tought, even mentioned to some friends. There was this strange taste that i could almost smell and that didn't had anything to do with a simple flu or something i had experienced before.


P. S - i still gota play that Zelda remake. But Switch being my main system nowadays, it should happen soon.

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So had phizer #2 yesterday. Had a sore arm for awhile, but almost gone already. That was it though, no fever at all. My temp never went above 36.5C. In fact, I woke up earlier than usual today and feel more energy than usual too...lol
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First aliens and now this. The news moves so quickly nowadays, it's just impossible to keep up with everything.

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OT, but I'd really like an accurate timeline on the Punisher skull's transition from Punisher -> White Trash Icon ->American Flag version, insane patriots/white trash. Where I live I see these every day on trucks and beat up Oldsmobiles, and I'm not exaggerating on the frequency. I do recall about ten-ish years ago when Punisher shirts were like 6 bucks at Walmart and the normal tweaked out street walkers adopted them, then I saw more and more. Then the American Flag Punisher Skull™ started appearing everywhere too. Wonder if that's actually endorsed by marvel, but assuming it's just printed in China. What a world!
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drauch wrote:OT, but I'd really like an accurate timeline on the Punisher skull's transition from Punisher -> White Trash Icon ->American Flag version, insane patriots/white trash. Where I live I see these every day on trucks and beat up Oldsmobiles, and I'm not exaggerating on the frequency. I do recall about ten-ish years ago when Punisher shirts were like 6 bucks at Walmart and the normal tweaked out street walkers adopted them, then I saw more and more. Then the American Flag Punisher Skull™ started appearing everywhere too. Wonder if that's actually endorsed by marvel, but assuming it's just printed in China. What a world!
An artist named Nate Powell has actually done a really good and surprisingly in-depth essay in comic form about the process of the Punisher symbol's transformation here:

https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/

The ultimate irony is that it's owned by Disney.
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For those keeping score at home, the vaccine:
  • Allows the government to track you anywhere
  • Will kill you instantly within two days, weeks or years or definitely someday
  • Lets Bill Gates control your brain remotely through 5G cell towers
  • Makes you magnetic
  • Causes you to explode spike proteins
  • Contains sentient octopus tentacle aliens
  • Makes you sterile
  • Rewrites your dna to make you a nephilim and sever your connection with God, barring you from entry to Heaven
  • Gives you more covid than a person who doesn't take it
  • Is communism...somehow
  • Doesn't do anything and is just a scheme by big pharma
  • Was determined by the Supreme Court to render you no longer human and thus exempted from the Bill of Rights
And now according to the lastest reporting...

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Also as a hidden bonus track, the vaccine causes indifference and permanently steals all joy from your life:

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The Ayn Rand Institute took a PPP handout. (Loans get paid back. Don't say loan.) The handout required a marked box on the form. Your defacto signature and the marked box swore to the United States government that your business is affected by the pandemic. Of course, the program also had requirements for spending the generous windfall handout.

How was the Ayn Rand Institute threatened by COVID-19? How was the money spent? I keep reading headlines of people being prosecuted, yet the Ayn Rand Institute remains uninvestigated and there is still no justice?

I don't understand why they needed $1 million. Where did the money go? Did the non-profit's income increase (versus 2019) because of the handout? Should it have increased? Did they take the year off? Did they stop fundraising? Is there proof that employees were working for the taxpayer handout free money? Was it fraud?
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Gen X grew up as the apathetic slacker generation in a world in which traditional meaning structures were falling apart around them, replaced first by mindless consumerism, then by cynically self-aware consumerism.

The Millennials came of age in a post-9/11 internet-saturated social media mindfuck, one which expected the individual to become a #blessed digital media-being awash in expensive (~yet spiritual~) indulgences, even as postwar capitalism's unsustainable promises came crashing down around their ears.

The poor Gen Z Zoomers became Doomers, having to grow up hearing constantly how badly their adult world was going to be irrevocably unfit for human habitation. Sorry about that. Couldn't be helped, stock market & stuff. Maybe you'll win a draw and get to live on a Musk™ protein farm on Mars.

But man, the COVID kids are easily going to be the most messed up yet:

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Ladies and gentlemen, the 7 year-olds of 2021.
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Yeah, masks are so much worse than getting drafted.
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It'd probably blow their minds to learn that in other countries it's long been considered common etiquette and a basic part of being a good citizen to wear a mask if you think you might be sick with a respiratory illness to prevent the spread.
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GaijinPunch wrote:Yeah, masks are so much worse than getting drafted.
i almost died from mask yesterday. you shoulda seen me coughing on the ground in a parking lot. i think the woke thug mobs probably injected masks into my neck in a crowd
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i almost died from mask yesterday. you shoulda seen me coughing on the ground in a parking lot. i think the woke thug mobs probably injected masks into my neck in a crowd
They just doused it in VX gas.
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GaijinPunch wrote:Yeah, masks are so much worse than getting drafted.
Oh, they’ll get that too. The water wars of the 2030s are gonna suck…if they survive the doomed MAGA revolution of 2025.

But seriously though…the boomers who ended up having to fight in ‘Nam were the same ones who had the Leave it to Beaver/Mayberry childhoods. These kids’ formative years are happening in the middle of a pandemic that’s killed more people in the US than any war ever did, and it’s happening all around them, not overseas. And it’s gotten that bad because it’s caused a culture-wide psychotic break.
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I'm not sure I've ever seen a more feverishly polished turd. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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You can't expect European governments to have any sense.
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A new contagious variant has emerged in Africa, causing the UK to shut down flights from 6 countries.

Meanwhile, at a "woke Fortune 500 financial institution," bold patriot escapes from that being real, also from employment and supporting kids:

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Wait 'til that poor dumb bastard learns that The Matrix was a metaphor for coming out as trans.
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An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

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He and the rest follow in the most hallowed of footsteps.
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just found out that my sister ended up bribing one of her sons to get vaxxed. she didn't have any other way of getting him to do it bc 18 y/o

what a little shit i think. never would have done something like that to my parents
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Hope you are doing well Vol.2, any plans to head up this way?

Not a Fortune 500 company, but the NYC DOE lost 3,000 teachers that refused to get a shot. Three in my building. No I wasn't one of them.

One was a brilliant math teacher. He just also happened to be an anti vax/covid hoax/flat earther/holocaust denier. The last one always got me - he is from Poland.

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vol.2 wrote:just found out that my sister ended up bribing one of her sons to get vaxxed.
I never understood for a moment how bribing anyone to get vaccinated is even supposed to work; in the opposition's own words they purportedly haven't already gotten the shot because they either 1) Don't trust it, and think it will somehow harm them, 2) Are standing on some manner of grand principle against tyranny and being told what to do, or some combination thereof. Yet a few bucks or some other trinket is apparently enough to convince a number of them to "compromise" either their own health or their entire worldview, if not both?

I really should just be happy that one more person has been inoculated, but I find it increasingly difficult to put out of my mind how manifestly shitty a person has to be to not only put others' health (and a chunk of the world economy besides) at risk because of their feelings in the first place, but then after kicking up such a fuss saying "eh, y'know what, never mind" once you offer them a treat with enough sprinkles on it. And on top of that the people who constantly moan about the deterioration of society and common decency are the ones most vocally praising these mercenaries.
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Stevens wrote:Hope you are doing well Vol.2, any plans to head up this way?

Not a Fortune 500 company, but the NYC DOE lost 3,000 teachers that refused to get a shot. Three in my building. No I wasn't one of them.

One was a brilliant math teacher. He just also happened to be an anti vax/covid hoax/flat earther/holocaust denier. The last one always got me - he is from Poland.

*shakes head*
Sounds like a pretty decent self-purging exercise. I gotta think at least a few of the other 2999 fit somewhere close to the spectrum as that guy.
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The thing that slays me is all the mid-level rich pricks like Joe Rogan and Dennis Prager getting the monoclonal antibodies...

(literal lab cloned antibodies created through frankenstein-esque cell hybridization mad science and injected into their bodies like regurgitating pre-chewed food into a baby bird's mouth; an expensive treatment in short-supply that in any sane society would be limited to leukemia kids and AIDS patients)

...then saying they have "natural" immunity.
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An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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Third shot here.

We all know from another thread that I am in a good shape, but this time it felt like they injected me with water.
No pain, no tiredness, no after-effects whatsoever (OK, I also received a Sinovac variant, which seems to be "gentler" than Western versions).
I actually trained straight after the shot.

I would offer a joke against the anti-vaxxers here, but lately the sense of alienation I am experiencing towards most human beings thanks to this whole madness is staggering.
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I got my booster shot on Monday. But with word of a new variant breaking out... How will we ever see the end of this?
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BulletMagnet wrote:He and the rest follow in the most hallowed of footsteps.
"Coca Cola causes polio" has to be one of the hottest takes of all time.

And of course the guy ended up living in Florida.
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