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He’s suggesting we can’t possibly know it’s safe until latest phase of trials ends in 2023. He’s repeating this despite correction earlier in the thread about how phases work

TBH, I have no idea what this thread is about, even though I'm fairly expert myself.

Jebus, man! No lubrication? That's a fairly critical component, you monster!!

https://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/

It’s even worse… the very people there to help and heal those cancer patients are the ones refusing to vaccinate / demanding that their caricature of personal freedom trumps the right of their patients not to get infected by them.

My kids and sick parents can’t catch your cancer. Children under 5 aren’t even eligible yet, so no. Not vaxxed. Pot. Kettle. Black.

Six MILLION people dead, and still counting Yeah, fuck all those unhealthy people and at risk children. They’re free to find other work if the requirements of the job they’re in feel too burdensome, and that’s before we even consider the burden they’re placing on vulnerable patients. You need repeating this invalid claim despite repeated correction. Why is that?

This isn’t really true, but it is irrelevant to the thread.

Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but you can’t send your kid to school with chicken pox, or go barefoot in a restaurant, or take a dump on public sidewalks either. Your entire life has been a trade-off between public health and individual freedom and the precedent you seem to fear so much was actually set long ago and has been repeatedly upheld over the decades when challenged in courts.

Biden took his strongest stance yet today speaking from the WH

You're doing a fair bit more than that, actually. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

So, after creating a new member profile, you require every requester to unscramble polite words for 10 minutes before they post? Okay, that might work for day 1, but then the effect falls off when they return next week / next month. Even if the effect the persistent, the marginal ROI this would bring doesn't IMO seem to warrant the burden this would place on new members. It adds a lot perceptual friction to the process and a massive percentage of people will simply refuse and close their browser never to return. It's an interesting study, though.

Out of the 130,000+ troops Russia has amassed along the Ukraine border, Russia has CLAIMED they're going to pull back about 10K of them. They have not yet done so, so you (or at least Maria Z, the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation... obviously not an objective 3rd party commenter) seem to be putting proverbial carts before obvious war horses. Meanwhile, the US is relocating its Ukraine embassy Kyiv to the western city of Lviv, a city not stuck in the middle of the country and located roughly 50 miles from Ukraine's western border with Poland, "out of concern for the safety of the staff." We also know through hundreds of crowdsourced videos being shared across platforms that there are literally TONS of Russian military equipment and units still moving TOWARD the Ukrainian border. Things like Russian citizens sharing videos of tanks rolling through their local roads and highways. More Americans are also right now being deployed to Europe in response.

Or a Trump rally

So now you’re telling people what their gender actually is after they’ve explained that you’re wrong and have corrected you?

Like the NSA, for example? Or maybe in confidential nuclear weapon and bioweaponry research settings? Actually, I believe the word you're looking for is "hyperbole."

He continues to evade. His “excuse” is he’s not here in good faith

To be clear, I never said I would, nor is there any onus on me to do so. All I did was ask what it would take to change your mind. I never said I would bother trying to change it myself. Given the ludicrously tight questions you've asked, I see this as a complete and total waste of my time. You're the type of poster who will just dismiss any answers, misrepresent them, and instead pivot to some other justification for your preferred conclusion. Cheers.

This view is pretty insightful into why the court is currently made up the way it is. https://www.vox.com/2022/2/14/22925457/supreme-court-senate-confirmation-ketanji-brown-jackson-leondra-kruger-michelle-childs

An interesting take here that's extremely thread relevant (from Axios):

Depends on what you mean by valuable and in what context. An old tool that belonged to my grandfather is valuable to me, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t get more than $1-2 if I tried selling it. Likewise, there’s certain sports memorabilia that would sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but couldn’t care less about it. My tool is worth more to me. If I need plants pollinated and honey to survive hypoglycemia then bees are more valuable, but if I have an issue with caterpillars eating my crops or insects and other pests making us ill, then the wasps are more valuable. The only answer is “it depends.” Value has many meanings, and rather often cannot be measured nor counted at all (I value my child’s health, for example, but cannot offer a number to explain how much).

Obligatory xkcd reference FREE SPEECH

Do you also arrive to a friends house when they invite you over for dinner, proudly proclaim how you’ve had dinner everywhere and bemoan their menu selection, then start shitting on their carpet and pissing on the furniture and condemning them for not decorating the exact same way you would?

https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/02/08/the-hacked-account-and-suspicious-donations-behind-the-canadian-trucker-protests/

Which government? Covid is a global problem, aka a pandemic.