So, how many long-term studies have been done on a vaccine that is less than a year old?

It is LIKELY very safe. But I have had the virus, and I KNOW that it won't kill me.

I am not anti-vaccine, but every vaccine that I have ever had has had years (or decades) of testing.

This is the FIRST time that RNA (or even DNA) based vaccines have ever been used on a large scale. What could possibly go wrong?

But if you want to be a lab rat, go right ahead. For the elderly, get it. It is a simply risk vs. reward calculation. If you at elevated risk of complications from the virus, get the vaccine. But if you are young and healthy, there is a POSSIBILITY that the vaccine could be worse for you than the virus.

Yeah, I and my family will get it eventually. I just want to wait for the first human guinea pigs to have healthy babies.

Yeah, because we wouldn't have a military if we didn't have our own currency. Wow, that is one of the dumbest things that I have heard all year. Please let the adults talk here. Come back once you graduate middle school.

Cryptocurrencies are literally evil. They consume vast amounts of resources to make them. A paper $20 bill only costs pennies to make. How much electricity to mine most cryptos? And how much CO2 does that make? How much is this contributing to the silicon shortage? Have you tried buying a graphics card lately?

How many of those objects have any appreciable amount of atmosphere?

They would all melt.

It is NOT about race, it is about culture.

Some cultures value hard work and honesty more than others. Some cultures have the parents pressuring their kids to be doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Other cultures don't do this. Culture just happens to loosely follow skin color (or, more accurately, where your ancestors came from).

If you don't want to lose money, DON'T SELL! Wait for the market to bounce back. Then you sell.

If you have extra cash, there is a big sale on stocks at the store on Wall Street.

Yeah, in capitalism, there are winners and losers. We would be much better under socialism, where everybody is a loser (except for the guys running the government, they are still winners.

America is one of the richest nations in the world. Our average standard of living is a source of envy to many countries. We got that way from capitalism. Every single person to have ever set foot on the moon is an American. The transistor was invented here. The microprocessor, the cell phone, and the internet were invented in America. I think that we are doing just fine.

You act as if the economy is a zero-sum game, which is FALSE. Rich people don't have to get rich by stealing money from the poor. They can actually CREATE wealth, and that is usually what happens. How HORRIBLE that a person can start a business and get rich. How dare his company employ hundreds or thousands of people.

A liberal sees a mansion and says "nobody should live like that."

A conservative sees a mansion and says "everybody should live like that."

Yup, let's blame the GOP. This particular guy gave $1,000,000 into politics, a group called "Priorities USA"...

https://www.opensecrets.org/ou...

Well, that "Priorities USA" must be super-conservative, right? Whoops, they spent 64 millions dollars AGAINST a GOP candidate.

https://www.opensecrets.org/ou...

So, even when the evil dick is a democrat, the republicans are still to blame.

Yup. "We investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong." Riiight.

But if you expect me to believe that report, then why can't people believe the report that didn't find any evidence of Russian Collusion? The guy that put out that report was strongly biased to try to prove guilt, and yet was unable to.

Well, Trump should learn from Obama. Obama just sent the IRS after conservative groups. I wonder if Trump will eventually return the favor and use the IRS instead of just trying to ban Tweets...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But speech against white people, and against men, is acceptable to you. Bonus points for attacking white men. Got it.

I am a liar? No, I was making a point. Was that CNN link that I pointed out a lie, just because you might not like what it says?

Do you remember that liberal loony who shot up a Republican softball practice, injuring several congressmen? I sure do. While no official motive has been found for the Las Vegas mass shooting, the audience was largely conservative. The 2014 Isla Vista attack was the son of a prominent liberal.

Both sides have bad people, but don't believe for a moment that there is nobody on the left that would use violence.

Really? Democrats are the ones with the antisemitism problem, and in Israel, they have named a train station and a park after Trump. Are you sure he wan't a left-wing nut? He shot up a house of worship, and we know how democrats push atheism...

Israeli train station named after Trump
Israeli park named after Trump
Democrats divided over whether to denounce antisemitism.

I'm just saying that there is plenty of crazy on BOTH sides. Unhinged, violent people don't exclusively belong to the left or the right.

but the bodycount for the radical right is much higher than the radical left in US in the last 20 years,

I am not so sure about that. Call it "selective memory."

If you take into account just "terrorist attacks," the data does not seem to support you.

The web page linked at the bottom is a list of terrorist incidents in America. As near as I can tell, it seems to be unbiased. If you look at incidents since 2000, it would appear that "TER-left" and "TER-right" are both approximately equal. Even more interesting is that "TER-islm" is also right up there with left and right, which is curious since people practicing "islm" account for less than 1% of the population, and yet manage to hold their own against the other 99% combined. You can read into that whatever you want to.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.ne...