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Act now and we'll send you a free UV light probe as
a thank you gift! |
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Brilliant - combined with salt-water gargling, and some magnetic bracelets to stop nausea, and the problem is completely solved. |
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And putting half a potato in your neighbour's coalscuttle will cure your arthritis. |
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What could possibly go wrong ? |
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What was all the fuss about, anyway ? |
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<Gratuitous and unnecessary pedantry> |
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An "Anti-Covid-19 Vaccine" would be a compound formulated to provoke an antagonistic immunological reaction to a Covid-19 vaccine. Thus, if a patient had been immunised against Covid-19 (if such a thing were possible, which it isn't) then an " Anti-Covid-19 Vaccine" would destroy that immunity, leaving them unprotected. |
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It could theoretically destroy the immunity of a patient who has experienced Covid-19 and recovered, leaving them open to re-infection by the same strain. |
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Apart from funeral directors, pharma companies*, and Mengele-like psychopathic doctors**, it is not apparent what benefit this would confer to the general population |
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</Gratuitous and unnecessary pedantry> |
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*Who will sell anything to anyone if they can make a dollar on the deal. |
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**non-Mengele-like psychopathic doctors presumably exist, but appear to be less common than Bigfoot. Sighting reports are rare, fragmentary, and unconvincing. One useful working definition of a doctor seems to be "Someone who has turned Munchausen's-by-proxy into a well-paying career". |
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I'm so embarrassed I live in this country, sometimes. |
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Why, is there any other sort ? Who knew, huh ? |
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S'OK, [bliss]. Remember, we're laughing at you, not with you. |
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Can we interest you in any of our extensive range of Magic Holy Bleach-dipped Healing Stones with Holes in them ? Reasonable prices for regular customers, free shipping and handling on larger orders.
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//Magic Holy Bleach-dipped Healing Stones with Holes in them// Aren't these called chickens in the stable genius' land? |
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<Quiet applause for gramatically correct use of the hanging apostrophe/> |
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Same building, different production line and packaging. Same process, equipment, chemicals. The cost savings and the retail margins are truly fabulous. |
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We're about to start offering a service that will convert any domestic swimming pool into a bleach dip-tank. Are you interested ? |
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We consider The Don should be awarded a Nobel Prize. After all, the people who chose to ingest cleaning products wil be, on average, credulous and/or stupid. Intelligent and/or thoughtful people will not do so. |
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This process neatly eliminates the credulous and/or stupid from the population (hopefully). Explain why this is a bad thing, please. |
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To quote; "I'm not advocating that we should criminalize stupidity. I'm just suggesting that we could try taking down all the warning signs and then see what happens." |
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I had been telling my family members that Covid-19's main vector of
infection was stupidity. However, after seeing some of the neurology
results, and also witnessing some of the things done by recently-infected
people which are not only stupid, but wildly out of character for those
people, I'm starting to wonder if this disease may actually have a
toxoplasmosis-like behavior-modifying aspect. |
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I dread the thought of "herd immunity" if it comes at a cost of an average of
25 IQ points. Driving is bad enough already. |
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In geographies where the median IQ is no more than 23 to begin with, that's going to play out very badly. |
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<Cue "Muppet Show" Theme/> |
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Actually, the Muppets would probably do a better job. At least they're professionals. Not very competent ones by all appearances, but at least professionals. |
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Around here, the vector has been more like being in the
wrong field in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
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It is, fundamentally, mostly luck. The genetic makeup of the individual, the previous exposure of their immune system, plus their overall state of health, all factor in. It's not deterministic. |
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In order to become seriously ill, the cards have to fall very badly for you. |
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the stats on the disease are super weird. Wonder if
someone had done a cross-correlation study on herpes, or
some other widely spread STD. It's just too strange how
varied outcomes are |
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It's certainly got the researchers scratching their heads, and very possibly other bits of their anatomy too. |
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As [Ray] correctly pointed out in another thread, "Biology is still subject to physics." ... and chemistry. |
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But the way some researchers are writing at the moment, they sound like they almost give credence to some really "fringe" concepts verging on pseudoscience. It's unprofessional, unhelpful, not big, and not clever. |
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The biggest problem seems to be a paucity of good quality data in some (not all) areas, because the fragmentary information available to date gives a distorted view. |
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Those other infections have been intensively studied for decades. Coronaviruses have been a bit of a Cinderella field up to now. Suddenly they're important but the long term data is limited. |
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It's a bit like Pearl Harbor; most people hadn't taken the threat sufficiently seriously to do enough to mitigate it. When it happened, shock, panic, anger. |
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None of those are actually helpful. |
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//I dread the thought of "herd immunity" if it comes at a cost
of an average of 25 IQ points.// |
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Something that says "herd" and refers to humans gives me
nightmares. It just can't be a good thing. I ain't no damn cow. |
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I think the term "herd immunity" only came about
because some mistook the name and thought it
was cowronavirus. |
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What ? Wait, you can get it from cows now ? |
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<Scribbles "bovines" on list under chiroptera, mustillids, primates and felids./> |
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It's next in a long line.... Swine flu, Bird flu,
Cowronavirus.... KFC (from Kangaroos) The list is
endless. |
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// KFC (from Kangaroos) // |
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People will be hopping mad if they catch that... |
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I knew you would get that one. How about the one
you can get from sheep? |
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Oh, there's a whole flock of those, some of them baaaarely believeable .... |
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Do you know that young sheep are called hoggets? I
thought you should know that. |
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Yes, we knew that, thankyou. Besides, sheep puns are shear bad taste... |
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But ewe can always ram one through, wether it plays well with the flock or no |
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We already used "flock". One point to us. |
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The use of "wether" was neat, though. |
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//BZZZZZZT Repetition//
<sees who posted that>
<facepalms> |
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Oooh, that's a nasty bruise you've got on your forehead ... any idea what's caused it ? |
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Now, we have the subject .. how many seconds do we have left ? |
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The Two Key Factors to How Quickly a Virus
Spreads in any Particular Country are: |
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A) The density of the population |
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B) The density of the population |
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Thanks for clarifying that so succinctly, it's one of those complex, counter-intuitive and highly technical things that a lot of media consumers really struggle with... |
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I think Domestos should take advantage of this Trump endorsement of using bleach as a vaccine, by adopting the slogan "Tremendous Domestos". |
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Nice rhyming slogan, but to catch my interest I’m
looking for something along the lines of “Removes
Orange Stains”. |
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//density// - quite curious that one of those is by area, and the other by volume |
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[AusCan], that up there was downright funnsy. |
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