Capitalism. Capitalism caused this. Big Tech is just a vessel that is used by capitalists to further their agenda.

At the end of the day those people chose to believe some random blog over medical journals, university publications, and the advice of doctors. There is no other word for that than stupidity, algorithms or no.

I worked in nursing for a while

I worked with a few excellent people, many average people, and a horrifyingly large number of absolute fucking halfwits

Nurses are either brilliant, wonderful, helpful people, joe-schmoe's looking to make a buck, or radical traditionalist women who think that it's ok to be a nurse because it's women's work.

If it were a different country, I'd be ratting her ass out to the medical board.

we also curtail other vaccines too, like HPV limited to women MOSTLY unless some how you can convince your doc/insurance to approve it, Meningicoccal menigitis vaccine, we know majority isnt "susceptible" enough to be eligble but still.

but they’d still bitch about the vaccine.

My favorite were the ones that refused the vaccine, mocked others for getting "the jab", posted daily on social media how the government was evil for mandating vaccinations (which it wasn't). And then, after they contracted covid and at the 11th hour dying from the infection, they beg for the vaccination (which would be like throwing a cup of water on a wild fire) and cry about the unfairness as they wither away and die.

Fuck anti-vaxxers

Thanks, and yeah I remember. One older guy was dying in the hospital because his lungs were practically melting and he was asked if he regretted not getting the vaccine. He replied that not only did he not regret it, but that he'd do the same thing again given the chance. He literally died rather than change his mind. It's the definition of insanity.

I don't want to pull on any strings that are too painful or nothing but ... did you tell your mom that you vaccinated your kids? if you did, how did she handle it?

At some point, rest-of-the world will mandate a vaccine proof from US travelers, because you know: that backward country with people carrying disease...

I would even say 2004

thanks!

Mormons believe that their children are pre-selected in the pre-earth life, so the children chose to come to that family in their theology.

I have to agree here. Those bairns didn't ask to run the risk of lifelong complications like blindness, deafness, brain damage, loss of motor control of a body part, lung damage, immune system damage and a whole slew of others I needn't list to labour a point.

The parents should be no longer so, but condemning those kids to yet more abuse at the hands of the system strikes me as nothing short of sadistic.

I loved the stories too for the most part. But we grow and there's some real shit to be reckoned with...

• He cheated on his wife, had a years-long affair that would eventually end their marriage with a friend of hers.

• He was an admitted anti-Semite. In 1983, he announced in the New Statesman that Hitler had his reasons for exterminating six million men, women and children. "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity," he said. "I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason." In the August 1983 edition of the British periodical Literary Review, Dahl wrote, in reference to Jewish people, “Never before in the history of man has a race of people switched so rapidly from being much-pitied victims to barbarous murderers.” He made reference to “those powerful American Jewish bankers” and asserted that the United States government was “utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial institutions over there.” A few months before his death in 1990, Dahl stated outright that he was anti-Semitic in an interview with The Independent.

• The British Royal Mint officially decided against issuing a commemorative coin to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, noting that Dahl was "associated with anti-Semitism and not regarded as an author of the highest reputation"

• After his death, the Dahl family issued a public apology for the hurt caused by his anti-Semitic statements. Dahl’s family “apologized unreservedly for the hurt and suffering" caused by Dahl and said, "Those prejudiced statements are in marked contrast to the values of kindness and inclusivity at the heart of Roald Dahl’s stories.”

• Dahl’s children’s books aren’t considered notably anti-Semitic. However, his publishers—especially longtime editor Stephen Roxburgh—are credited with cutting racist and misogynistic content from some of his most famous stories, including The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG. For example, Dahl’s original portrayal of the Oompa-Loompas depicted them as African pygmies that Willy Wonka shipped to England “in large packing cases with holes in them,” Wonka explains that he found the Oompa-Loompas ‘in the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had ever been before.’ They were near starvation, living on vile caterpillars, so Wonka smuggled them to England for their own good,” The NAACP began protesting this depiction of the Oompa-Loompas, Dahl was apparently reluctant to rewrite the characters. But he did eventually revise the book, reimagining the Oompa-Loompas as “long-haired, rosy-cheeked, and white, hailing from the island of Loompaland.”

Well, we had politicians doing covid parties, dumb christians doing retreats, fucking foolish rejects crying that they were told to stay home for two weeks because it was just so important that they can make the run to their local hardware store to pick up the 5 gallon bucket to fill with their carbonated and sugary beverages...

When people can override basic logic about avoiding contagion because it 'owns the libs,' then it's definitely going to be overridden when it's something that 'means something' in their life, such as a kid's competitions.