I've worked in state government administration under four different governors and separately in state and local politics for so long that that part of my resume can legally buy cigarettes, and nothing tickles me quite like right wing pseudo-libertarians who come in hard about hating the left and the right and then continue right on into the typical copy and paste right wing nonsense you can find on any "maga" hashtag. It ain't new, and it ain't clever, but it's still funny every time. I love you guys, but please... Facebook isn't research, and data isn't pinkolibcuckpogtankie propaganda. Please just be more curious. Go with primary sources.
For the past few years, I've been working in the infectious disease field (specifically with STDs, Hep, HIV/AIDS, and now, working on data and new self-care information dissemination to the public, state legislature, and every health unit in the state to people that have autoimmune diseases (based on anything).
For one year, the first thing I did at the literal crack of dawn to process daily state and country-wide death tolls as well as hospitalizations due to infection (broken down to walk ins-n-outs. critical care, and deaths under medical observation). When the outbreak first happened, we were in the middle of Mardi Gras, so it took absolutely no time until we started seeing our hospitals flood over with Covid patients. We designed our body count app for the public in an unheard of amount of time (it pulls data from the CDC and the Louisiana Office and Dept. of Health (OPH and LDH respectively). Super spreader event number one.
When the initial outbreak came, we were tasked to work remotely (fine for me, as it doesn't matter where I am to do my work), but a lot of my fellow friends/staff members volunteered to assist all of the medical facilities (a huge portion of the people I work with were medical doctors before being admins). We lost a number of them as well (this was obviously pre-vaccine).
Anyway, I know there's a fringe part of the left that has an antivax stance, and while they're kooks to be sure, the base of the current parties on the right are literally running for office as antivax candidates.
The fact is, Republicans have a strong record of being against science and data. There are still strong pushes to allow creationism to be taught in science classes, pushes to create flat taxes that are just insane in their logic, wanting to ban a collegiate level theory that isn't taught in primary education, and just.. a plethora of other things that are so patently absurd that it's hard to wrap my head around the amount of people that believe this garbage.
I don't blame Ben. If anything, he's a good example of a potentially smart guy that was convinced by a very convincing guy. Kennedy and his ilk are the real ones to blame.. and I'd also add that he himself is definitely on the left side of the spectrum politically, and has actually done some really great work in litigating for people (he used to do big cases & talk about them with another attorney named Mike Papantonio on an old show called Ring of Fire). Kennedy's biggest problem (aside from relating vaccines to autism) relates to an aluminum derivative that hasn't been used in vaccines in forever, and I don't even know if that aluminum even caused problems.
As for the "it's my body and my choice and fuck you I'll catch it cause I have an immune system and I'll be fine" people, on this onet, please fuck the fuck off. This is a virus that's very easily shared, and not everybody has the fabooo immune system you think you may have. Masks are an act of consideration to others (the masks are meant to prevent particulates from leaving your mouth and into the air as opposed to blocking incoming traffic, though they help with that too).
Hell, to anyone that just wants to yank their dicks out at Covid and not give a shit, I invite you to have unprotected sex with an HIV+ partner with no protection, and make sure that partner has not taken any viral load suppression medication (to ensure that you get it).
Funny thing, we can give you a much higher guarantee of a long and healthy life if you acquire HIV. Not only that, we can give you post exposure medications that can bring your viral load down so low, you'll not only be undetectable, you'll also be 100% unable to pass the virus to a partner.
Not so with Corona (post exposure). We still don't know how long it takes for "long covid" patients to manifest their first symptoms, and as many people are asymptomatic carriers, it's hard to gauge as to whether or not they experience any issues in the far future.
The hippie dippy bullshit about "finding my own truth" is great in discussions revolving around personal philosophy, but that shit is irrelevant as it pertains to communicable diseases.
Only a tiny minority of Americans (29.1 people out of 100) even have their boosters. There's a proactive attempt by the right wing to do things that are driving all of us on the medical end insane. Had people just not acted like fuckwits and taken the advice of people that live in the medical sphere, this would have been a manageable situation and our death toll could have been incredibly lower. If it were only affecting the gung-ho willfully ignorant crowd, I'd be sad, but that would be your choice. I take issue with the fact that an irresponsible choice could lead to the death of a person that has a weaker immune system. It's a pointlessly selfish way to act, and the end effect can be fatal to someone minding their own fucking business.
This is going to keep mutating and killing people as long as mask and vaccine mandates are called back too soon (or never implemented) or militantly scoffed at by the fiercely stupid.
Favorite non-harmful conspiracy is Wendigo and skinwalker stuff. It's nonsense, but some of the audio stories I've heard make for some entertaining and spooky things to listen to while going to sleep.
Topic: Ben Degros is into the alt-right and conspiracy theories (Read 8979 times)