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Comment Personal Count: 9-0 (Score 1) 363

I know of 9 people in my life who have died of covid and zero who have died of the vaccine.
Just a personal anecdote so everyone can take it with a grain of salt.

Also my best childhood friend can no longer walk and can't move one of his arms after fighting covid-19 on a ventilator for 11 days.
Another person who is good friends with my parents just got incapacitated with it and is struggling to breath.
We don't know how things will go long term with either of them.

So when I hear anti-vaxxer nonsense and anti-mask nonsense, it really makes me sad. Than it makes me angry.
People had no problem with polio or measles vaccines. Most people routinely took flu vaccines, and yet all of the sudden vaccines are the problem.
Very very sad.

Comment Re:Blood clots or blockage? (Score 1) 139

Might worry about any artificially added particles in the bloodstream clumping up or depositing somewhere that would lead to some sort of significant problem.

It is like when the industry started loading everything up with extra "Calcium" for the bones of old people. The additional calcium became problematic and started leading to greater arthritis due to calcium crystal deposition in joint spaces.

Comment Re: These were put into the vaccines (Score 1) 139

Seems like sound analysis & hypothesis. At the very least an interesting point to posit.

I have been on SD for a while now. I was always a full adult from the beginning of SD, but I was reading it mostly for the tech articles.
Political articles always cropped up and were hotly debated from the beginning.
I think that the polarization that has evolved tracks with the polarization of society.

Differences between people have always been there... the stridency is a bit more intense now is all.

Comment Re:These were put into the vaccines (Score 1) 139

My question is what are you or any of these "censored" folks questioning about the vaccine?
I hear things like this.

"nobody will tell us what is in it." False
"bill gates is trying to control our minds with nanotech" False
"the vaccine will give us auto-immune diseases" False
"the vaccine will give you cancer" False.

These are all real world assertions I have actually heard from people sitting in the chair next to me and not someone behind an electronic screen.

So I suppose it depends upon what your actual questions/assertions are that might as to whether one is mocked or ridiculed.
I haven't really seen anybody with whatever type of legit question being censored... but some of the assertions made by those opposing the vaccine actually do have real answers which make sense. And yet I have personally found it nearly impossible to dislodge these "friends" from such misbegotten assertions about the vaccines and their fast held beliefs. Just the other day, one of them stormed off in their car rather abruptly when they heard too much logic and actual information about the vaccine. Once they found out I have been vaccinated they fled like a scared rabbit because I suddenly became a source of some unknown calamity in their mind because I had gotten the vaccine. They thought I was a danger to them personally.... so yes. There is some very strange lunacy going on out in the real world on this topic.

What are your legit questions that haven't been answered?

Comment Re:Oh great, one more reason (Score 1) 139

The part of, the government is slipping something in which can interface with our neurons and mind control us remotely is pretty much completely fringy with our technology just now. And even the Government or Corporations putting something extra in that can be seen under a microscope would be a non-starter really. Doesn't take anything more than a 7th grader in science class with a microscope to spot that anomaly. Lawsuits anyone?

Comment Re: 113 million out of 192 billion (Score 1) 60

I like an internal battery with a secure case giving me a more water resistant battery. The old days of a super easy swappable battery are a thing from a bygone era in most ways. Priorities have shifted. Still it is not terribly difficult to swap out the batteries. Once a newer generation of batteries comes along, most of this argument will be academic as the batteries will likely outlive a persons interest in keeping the same phone.

I used to replace my own batteries in iPhones, but now it is just as simply to pay someone to do it.
I have had 3 replaces in the last year on my kids older devices and it cost like $40 bucks at a shop.

Drop it off, go for a walk and enjoy the days. Swing by and pick it up after 1/2 or so depending upon our walking distance.
Easy and cheap.

Comment Re:Get Over the Politics (Score 1) 204

Regulation can serve many purposes. In the case of net neutrality it is to keep the big players from using their size and power to be a controller of internet traffic. If they can't do that then they can't leverage their position over time to create distortion in the flow of traffic over the internet.
I'm not sure regulation to keep things open and free flowing is a repressor of innovation. Quite the opposite it seems to me.

I look at it this way... you have an open playing field with everyone having access to the playing field. Everybody is allowed to compete on this field and provide their services with no advantage over other players.
This can only be a good thing for the citizens of the internet who paid for it to be there in the first place. The ISP's did't create the internet... they are merely players on the field that we all put there.

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