over 5 million people have died from covid and youre here crying about how its āmore like the fluā maybe try stepping outside your conservative echo chamber and realize that this is 5 million family members, loved ones, brothers/sisters/moms/dads. five million.
its clear youā re just here to spread dangerous covid misinformation and fearmonger, and arenāt here for productive discussions on implants. i am surprised you havent been banned yet. go back to parler
Consider for a moment the reason covid seems so much less dangerous to you is because people are taking it so seriously. Spanish flu during wartime had ample ability to spread uncheckedā¦ there was a war on, no reason to worry about āthe fluā. People today are working to flatten the curve, thus leaving more hospital beds open for intense treatment of those people seriously affected by it, vastly increasing their chances of survival vs dying at home. Youāre simply not seeing or accounting for all the work going into keeping the impact of covid to a minimum, and instead youāre doing the opposite by indicating itās no big deal.
You know who else talks like that? People who complain about polio vaccines because āthey aināt seen anyone with polio so why bother?ā ā¦ itās ignorant and dangerous to spread this kind of thinking.
I donāt work in a University, I work for one of the larger hospital chains in the US. Covid is very much a problem for hospital capacity, and anything that can be done to lighten that load is a good thing. If you are unvaccinated in the US I can make a good guess as to your political views, and while you seem upset about this mandate, you donāt seem to have been particularly unhappy about any of the previous mandates, so donāt claim that it is all about āCivil Libertiesā. If it was you would be campaigning to change a whole bunch of current laws and procedures.
As for the 6 months, there are a lot of components to a vaccine, and in this case a lot of them donāt need to be tested. Pfizer and Moderna are both MRNA vaccines which have been researched since the 1970s. The only reason we donāt have lots of MRNA vaccines is that the earlier ones were developed for Ebola which isnāt an issue in the US so itās been flying under the radar.
The only thing to test was the protein spike fragment, both for vaccine efficacy and detrimental side effects.
There are actually protocols in place for ending double blind trials early if the results are exceptional. In the case of Covid the results were good, the threat is significant, and the trial numbers were high.
exactly. the government regulates and legislates what we can and canāt do with our bodies all the time already. drug laws, abortion laws, helmet/seatbelt laws, lack of voluntary euthanasia, etcā¦ no ones crying about mandates to show your āage passportā to buy alcohol or mandates to show your meningitis vaccination to go to school for an education.
Making it explicitly about Vaccine Mandatesā¦ There are vaccine mandates for all immigrants. I havenāt heard any of the anti Covid vaccine people complaining about those. Those mandates donāt require a single vaccine either they require several different vaccines.
But in English the use of He/Him is technically correct when pronouns arenāt known. Having said thatā¦ Let us all salute @mrln for all that they do.
I might just have adapted it through this forum, but when Iām not sure of the correct gender, I tend to use āthey / themā anyways - but I have honestly no clue if that is considered okay or not (mind to tell me if it is, Satur9 or Mrln?). But when Iām surrounded by tons of nicknames that give me no clue of the gender (are you Mr. or Mrs. Zwack?^^) I feel I step on the least toes that way^^ It feels kinda āneutralā. Itās sad that there is no German way to do this - we have er / sie / es (like, he / she / it), but our ātheyā is translated to āsieāā¦ itās the plural version of it, but you couldnāt tell. Complicated stuff^^
Well just because it was correct doesnāt mean it still is. Language is a constantly changing construct
Yeah, totally. Most people seem to think thatās the smart way to go about it. I donāt think anyone who isnāt just looking for trouble would be upset if they were misidentified as a ātheyā
I wonder if there is a way in discourse to add some pronouns to this drop down field for those who would want to display pronouns next to their nameā¦ @Pilgrimsmaster
My point was that use of he/him is acceptable in the language and that
He, unless it was done maliciously. I generally try and refer to people by their name to avoid confusion. If I know they prefer certain pronouns I will use those. If I donāt know then I will not be at all upset if I make a mistake and am corrected. I would also hope that my making a mistake would be both corrected and not cause offence.
Yeah correct, they are called Trust levels, which would cause issues, but the canāt be changed or edited anyway, they are an un-editable discourse setting
Yeah, I know Was just kidding a bit - from several users here, I know the gender, and so Iāll always address you as he / him
But funny enough, I grew up with computers being a āthing for guys onlyā, so I assumed for a pretty long time that most people I meet in games or forums are male - even though I was already an exception to this. To be honest, some of the gender-related discussion we had here made me more aware of this topic - thanks to yāall for that! Even if I didnāt always agree with everything (and probably never will), and even though the tone was heated up sometimes
Was just kidding a bit - from several users here, I know the gender, and so Iāll always address you as he / him 
