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Imperator wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
On what basis can these sources not be trusted?
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by Imperator in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
Unfortunately, these sources cannot be trusted.
burnerben wrote
surprised twitter doesn't collect tons of data, especially if you configure your settings properly.
burnerben OP wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted846 in Im getting a 504 on NotEvil by burnerben
its a real shame, notEvil is a fantastic search engine
burnerben wrote
Reply to comment by Imperator in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
I just refuse to take anything from china. But people have good reason to not want to take it, politicians just want to create narratives and now days its hard to know who you can trust.
Imperator wrote
Reply to comment by zab_ in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
I completely agree with you that it remains to be seen what, if any, long term effects the vaccines will have. I certainly understand your reservation in this regard. So that's a fair argument.
I trust the judgement of the various medical agencies when they say that the benefits outweigh the risks, I'll send you a message when I grow an additional toe :)
zab_ wrote
Reply to comment by Imperator in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
I believe that authorities genuinely have the best interest of the public in mind. I also believe they tend to be incompetent idiots.
I don't buy any of the conspiracy theories floating around either. I do buy that it's physically impossible to foresee any side effects that may appear 5 years after vaccination for a vaccine that has been in development for 9 months or so.
So, everyone, please go ahead and beta-test this thing for me. I'll join you in a couple of years.
Imperator wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by zab_ in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
Not from the UK so can't comment on that.
Call me naive but where I come from the authorities traditionally have the interest of the public at heart. Sure, I might not like all of their methods: the lockdown sucks, mismanagement happens and wrong decisions are made from time to time. But if you, like me, share the opinion that a vaccine really is the only way out of this mess (because natural herd immunity isn't really taking off), then of course you want to encourage people to get one by using social media and influencers. It's a good strategic move. I absolutely don't think that critical news should be censored, on the contrary that's imperative for a healthy discussion. On the flip side, much of that "critical news" is unscientific populist fearmongering that does not contribute at all to an end to the situation. I certainly understand that it can be frustrating (for politicians and authorities) to see this impair genuine effort to fight the virus.
zab_ wrote
Reply to comment by Imperator in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
So just say and leave it like that. Why enlist celebrities, heads of state, who-knows-who-else to promote the vaccine? Why is the Labour party in the UK proposing to pass laws that censor news critical of vaccines? Something smells fishy to me.
Imperator wrote
Reply to comment by zab_ in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
"They're selling it too hard, so something must be wrong."
Man, I really wonder what kind of reason they could possibly have for wanting people to get vaccinated. It's not like 2.7 million people have died because of covid-19.
Imperator wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
This information was included in a briefing document published by the FDA ahead of Thursday’s meeting. As in Pfizer’s trial data, which showed that six people had died but that none of those deaths were related to the vaccine, the Moderna data also included some deaths. Thirteen people in Moderna’s 30,000-person trial died as of December 3. Seven of those people were in the placebo group and didn’t receive the vaccine, and six were in the group of people who got the vaccine. None of the deaths were deemed related to the vaccine treatment.
It’s worth noting, for context, that the deaths of over 307,000 Americans have been attributed, definitively, to Covid-19.
Imperator wrote
Reply to comment by burnerben in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
Same. It is rather interesting to read how many people on the internet consider themselves to be experts on virology and pharmacy and believe that they are more knowledgeable on matters of science than the experts in the global academic community. There's been a metric fuckton of peer-reviewed research, both theoretical and practical on the various vaccines and the vast majority consider them to be safe. Only incident I've heard of recently was a small minority of people getting trombosis from the AstraZenic vaccine, but that's already being disputed.
not_bob wrote
Reply to First Impressions of Ghost BSD by HMTg927
I'm a fan of BSD, but your review makes me not want to even try that version.
I'll stick with NetBSD. It's easy.
not_bob wrote
Reply to All my I2P stuff should be back up. by Rambler
Good to have everything back up! Thank you for your hard work.
Rambler wrote
Reply to It's a mystery by Wahaha
What, your parents didn't give you birthday money as a kid by having you pull it out of some dude chick's thong? /s
div1337 wrote
Will resist as long as I can, I ain't gonna volunteer to be a guinea pig for it!
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
From what I hear there's actually a death rate associated with the vaccine, so I think I rather take my chances with the holocough itself, which I might not even get.
zab_ wrote
I've been offered it twice already and I'm not getting it. Reason is very simple - they're selling it too hard, so something must be wrong.
If I were a religious nutcase I would compare the vaccine to the mark of the beast. I've made a bet with friends that in five years one won't be able to make any financial transactions AND will have their property seized by the government unless they're vaccinated.
dontvisitmyintentions wrote
Reply to Just two weeks to flatten the curve so hospitals aren't over ran started 52 weeks ago. by Rambler
*overrun
Which succeeded, if they wanted to acknowledge it, in weeks or months. Then they changed the criteria. Now every article treats "case" and "infection" and "positive test" (regardless of number of PCR cycles) as the exact same thing: a toxic danger to your fellow man which you should feel ashamed for allowing to exist.
It would be clever if it weren't so ham-fisted.
dontvisitmyintentions wrote
No, no, and because I can.
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
I haven't got my COVID vaccination, and I'm not planning to (provided the ruling vermin won't force me...). The side effects are just too serious (tilde.club clear net mirror, Tor v3 mirror, Tor v2 mirror, Freenet mirror, I2P mirror):
BNT162b1— another mRNA-based vaccine candidate — resulted in considerable adverse events,4 including fever, which occurred in 50% of individuals who received the highest dose (100 micrograms), fatigue, headache and chills.
Especially after additional injections:
Side effects were even more common following the booster dose, after which more than 70% of participants experienced a fever at the mid-range (30 microgram) dose.
Maybe I should write a script that can automatically fill in those mirrors... Anyway, since COVID is harmless to children (clear net only), and, by the way, I'll be 15 in six days, I probably shouldn't take the vaccine anyway, since it's pointless.
And I'm not really an anti-vaxxer, it's just that this vaccine might be harmful. I mean, looking at the actual reasons, it looks like the vaccine will modify your programming:
Here’s how an RNA vaccine works: rather than injecting a pathogen’s antigen into your body, you instead give the body the genetic code needed to produce that antigen itself
So that's not really a good thing.
burnerben wrote
I'll get it if i can, ive read the white papers and looked at how these were made, i trust the science. im young and healthy and it helps contribute to herd immunity. if your not gonna take it thats your choice but i think theres not actual bad risk unless your getting some foreign chinese bullshit.
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
This news site uses Clownflare (clear net only), view it with archive.org (clear net only) or archive.is (.fo clear net mirror, .li clear net mirror, .md clear net mirror, .ph clear net mirror, Tor v2 mirror, Tor v3 mirror) instead.
Also, I have a feeling that even if Goolag phases out third-party cookies (which are mentioned in this article), they're still going to track their users, even across sites. I mean, do you really think third-party cookies is the only thing tracking you? Yes, they are responsible for most tracking, along with third-party scripts (that's why I should learn uMatrix...), but first-party scripts and cookies can also collect your data. Do I really need to also mention the fact Goolag Hrom is the most used browser in the world, and it's also filled with spyware?
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
Same here. It's not that I'm anti-vax, it's just that I have no reason to get the vaccine since it:
- Is not required
- Does not make me immune from getting COVID or passing COVID to others.
- Still too new.
I may get it in a few years if it's still a thing and people aren't giving birth to three arm babies and stuff. If my life becomes inconvenienced by not having it, I'll work around it as best I can.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by Imperator in Have you gotten your COVID vaccination? Do you plan to? Why or why not? by Rambler
It's some nobody writing words on the Internet. How would you be able to trust that? Media have been caught lying too often. The only way to trust this would be the ability to verify all the claims. For example by having a list of all the names of the 307.000 Americans that have died supposedly from Covid-19 with time stamps of their deaths, location etc. and then personally investigating every single one of them.
Obviously this is impossible. It's truly unfortunate that we live in a world were nothing can be trusted that isn't personally verifiable.