darksabre

I am begging the G-men to up the dosage

He's upset about the price of chicken wings

Being a hermit is basically the only good excuse for not getting the vaccine. No need to bring any other kind of justification into the equation. Own your reclusiveness!

lol you're disgusting

Or he's back to break up with his girlfriend

To be fair to pi, his source is always wrong

I was trying to make a joke lol

Based on the job descriptions, which seem to require quite a bit of experience and skill, probably about $50k.

How?

Come on, you just gotta do a drivetrain swap! And then fix all the hidden rust you can't see in the pictures. And cage it. And...

Why would it matter if they did that?

They weren't known for being particularly good lol

You have good taste my friend. You wanna make your Renault 5 dreams come true? I can get you halfway there lol https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/539994077049115/

How dare you lol

It's totally worth it. I was there back in the spring when they were getting the planes out of the hangar. I've got a bunch more rolls of film from that day I need to process soon.

What is the point you're trying to make

Also, does anyone think the FDA isn't going to approve the vaccines now that so many people have gotten them? This is a rubber stamp.

I'm not saying it's bad or anything, I just think it's a somewhat arbitrary line to draw in the sand for people who are short on trust for exactly the kind of things the FDA is.

I'd like someone to give me a good reason why FDA approval is such a consequential yardstick. It's not like the FDA has never approved things that are bad for you...

The fact that so much of the work had already been done on coronaviruses in general absolutely helped. If this situation had been some other newer, weirder virus, maybe we're still waiting on a vaccine. Right? Luck definitely played its part.

And to be fair, more vaccines (and new medical treatments in general) could likely be put together this quickly if the urgency required it. Vaccine development usually takes a loooot longer due to the lack of manpower and funding. But these pharma companies and world power governments threw all of the resources they could muster into the vaccine effort for a virus type that research had already done a lot of the work to figure out. It was unusual, but not inexplicable or problematic. Honestly, we just got really lucky.

Fair enough.

I think if Delta starts killing kids people might care. Most vaccines in history were for diseases that afflicted the young. COVID not having much impact on kids has allowed a lot of people to more easily dismiss it.

That's interesting. A public university being allowed to enact a vaccine mandate. It looks like there's case law that supports Barrett letting it stand. "Lower courts have ruled against the students, citing a Supreme Court decision from 1905, which said that a state may require vaccines against smallpox."

Privilege. We are blessed to live in what is possibly the healthiest era to be a human being in the first world. So many of the things that afflicted past generations are out of sight and out of mind. We really, truly, have no idea how good we have it. We don't know a world where life expectancy is a lot shorter, or where things like polio are common. And so we get confident and reckless. We think we're untouchable, and then something like a global pandemic comes along and, thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, manages to kill far fewer people than it would have otherwise, and that just ends up strengthening the cockiness. A lot of people have died from COVID, and yet it wasn't enough that support for the vaccine would be unanimous. The blessing and the curse of our immense privilege to exist in the time that we do.