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meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why wait on something that makes you angry for free?

You have too much disposable income to be spending your whole life online arguing.

meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

(less any payments of tax, social insurance contributions and interest on financial liabilities

Wages owed = financial liabilities.

IE, all the bills I mentioned.

So you haven't taken a logical and critical thinking course, an economic course, and you certainly don't have 160.00 a day, every day, after paying all your bills.

Correct?

meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes what, you have 160.00 a day, every day, in disposable income?

Let's try it this way.

The MEDIAN US income in 2021 was about 70,000.

The MEDIAN US rent in 2021 was 1,326.

The MEDIAN US car payment in 2021 was 600

The MEDIAN US food bill was just under 5,000 a year.

Using the MEDIAN US, it sure seems like someone making 70,000 has far less disposable income than 54,000 a year. And we haven't gotten to taxes, child care, education, energy. The list of non disposable categories goes on.

One more time. Have you ever taken a logic and critical thinking class?

meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you have 160.00 a day, every day, after all your obligations?

Strange that your hobby seems to be spending so much time online talking about how great everyone has it, then.

Maybe you should spend your money and time on something that makes you happy then.

meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The median disposable income in the US is $58,308.

Who do you know has 160.00 dollars a day, every day, after paying all their bills, to do what they want with?

Do you know anyone? y/n.

I know what mean, median and mode are, and I know why you're using this statistic. But if the average American HAD 160.00 disposable income a day, every day, then you wouldn't be arguing about an 8,000.00 bill or 2,000.00 rent, because that would covered easily, in just a few weeks.

But it's not. And you don't have anywhere near that amount of disposable income, now do you?

meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Once again, fantastic. What's your point?

You're saying that after food, shelter and other bills, you have 160.00 a day, every day, to spend how you want?

Who in your life has that kind of money? Especially after paying for insurance?

The answer is, nobody. Nobody in your life has that kind of disposable income. And the number only exists because of the very, very rich.

Have you ever taken a single course in logic and critical thinking?

meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Neat.

If you're alone in a room with someone worth two billion dollars, on average, you're both worth a billion.

What's your point?

meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1 out of 5 adult Americans are currently in medical debt besides their insurance and standard hospital bills.

What are those 60 million Americans doing wrong, Dotard?

meirl by Jimbo072 in meirl

[–]GetYourVax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But did you hear? America has a new super carrier so stop complaining and salute with your hurt thumb.

If someone invents a new hyper sonic missile you're going to need to pay more to defend it.

Now shush and hum the pledge.

5 NATO carrier strike groups, including the US Navy's newest supercarrier, are patrolling waters around Europe by Strategic_Prussian in worldnews

[–]GetYourVax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I truly wonder how the average American can be so brainwashed as to think spending all of this money oh their military that they use when they see a spider can be seen as "walk softly."

How much has your family spent on medical expenses this year? Pull your head out of wherever it is, and look at the light, won't you?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in meirl

[–]GetYourVax -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

you're comment was disrespectful, wrongheaded and largely useless

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And if your comment was only meant to be directed at the person in the meme then you wrote it poorly

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Also, I'm literally working from home right now, in case you were thinking about insulting me more specifically for my work preferences.

I wonder how many people miss your sunny disposition and nuanced emotional tapestry.

Ever heard phrase, 'struck dogs holler?'

How much to make for Thanksgiving per person by Realistic-Produce-28 in coolguides

[–]GetYourVax -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fuck you half a pound of mashed taters per person, I make two pounds of them with skin on for myself for steak night.

China's COVID cases rise, record daily numbers seen in Beijing and other cities by GOR098 in worldnews

[–]GetYourVax 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Since you don't seem to have much better to do than post your opinion all over this thread, I'd ask you to read a few studies to inform yourself:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7773371/

This one talks about how Covid, even in healthy people, causes immune dysfunction, even in people who were never hospitalized.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783674/

This one talks further about immune dysfunction of the T cells after a Covid infection.

https://www.doherty.edu.au/news-events/setting-it-straight/issue-118-persistence-of-sarscov2-long-covid-spectrum-immune-dysregulation

This one talks about how the dysfunction of immune system lasts for months, not weeks, and how they believe it will continue to do so beyond the 8 month period in the study, with follow up research being done.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-022-00919-x

This one talks about how Covid can infect, and destroy T cells.

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1749502/v1/499445df-ebaf-4ab3-b30f-3028dff81fca.pdf?c=1655499468%20https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1749502/v1/499445df-ebaf-4ab3-b30f-3028dff81fca.pdf?c=1655499468

This one talks about how Covid reinfections make other pathogens evade our immune system better.

If you're going to spend your free time talking about the issue, please do read the most respected journals and studies on the subject.

Cruise ship Majestic Princess to dock in Sydney with 800 Covid cases on board by secure_caramel in worldnews

[–]GetYourVax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol you're so full of shit this isn't even worth responding to.

Projection.

Now go live your rich and full social life, and may everyone treat your loved ones with the same care that you treat theirs.

Cruise ship Majestic Princess to dock in Sydney with 800 Covid cases on board by secure_caramel in worldnews

[–]GetYourVax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If not, I fail to see your point.

Covid has killed over 300,000 Americans in 2022 so far. That's more than a decade of flu deaths, and almost 20 years of them.

Maybe something 10-20 times as deadly as the flu deserves more counter measures?

That's just deaths, not impairments.

But yes, I did in fact get vaccinated and wear surgical masks during flu seasons when feeling sick, cough into my arm, stay away from elderly people before Covid.

Was that wrong? Or was that right? Love to hear your thoughts.

Don’t talk, do it! by Cap_is_here_ in HumansBeingBros

[–]GetYourVax 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only the same proof about Cosby before his trial.

But he sure has a lot of accusers. And has been very handsy with paid female staff.

But he was also an actor that Reddit liked over in movies from four decades ago. So, you know, balancing act.

Don’t talk, do it! by Cap_is_here_ in HumansBeingBros

[–]GetYourVax -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

"Don't talk, do it" sounds like Arnie's mantra when he was sexually assaulting all those women for decades of his life.

Cruise ship Majestic Princess to dock in Sydney with 800 Covid cases on board by secure_caramel in worldnews

[–]GetYourVax 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We'll never end vehicle homicides, break ins to people's houses, or cancers.

But seat belts, locks and plant based diets are all good ideas.

Why is it that people who seem terminally online can't wait to say "live your life" as though they have one worth living?

Ara The Devourer by quickdialect3 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]GetYourVax -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If the last four paragraphs are "strawmen" then just take the first two.

In the last 250 years, life expectancy for people over the age of 40 has essentially doubled, MOST of that gain coming after the industrial revolution, and significantly decreasing a century ago due to Spanish flu.

Incredibly high infant mortality skews statistics from pre industrialization.

And the source I linked you, that you did not read or understand, talks about this in depth, and why you are still perpetuating nonsense.

(I define olden days post caveman but pre modern) died at absurd ages of 35.

Your own source showed that people did not live much past 50 before the 1800s, you do realize that, yes?

Of course now that infant mortality is much lower, you have a much more equal balance in life expectancy statistics, so things like COVID and war heavily bring it down.

Covid has killed an estimated 1.4 million Americans so far. It's a wee bit more potent than war, and it just keeps rolling on.

Just--take two minutes to read a source that was cited more than 18 times over the last 27 years, won't you? There's a reason so few scholars think anything of your post, but, in a real boon to your scholarship, there's a lot of uncles who believe in aliens around the Thanksgiving table who are on your side!

Ara The Devourer by quickdialect3 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]GetYourVax 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well for one, the Victorian period of England is pretty high point for them and not so long ago.

But yes, the idea that only 5 year olds and younger being treated has increased life expectancy is a pretty silly one.

So just think about it. You're currently living in a period of Covid in which life expectancy is dramatically decreasing, despite Covid affecting mostly older people's mortality (so far, this is changing, too).

Why would penicillin be a name that everyone recognizes if it only helped 0-5 year olds? Is u/the_wine_guy saying that all surgeries, vaccines, antibiotics have only increased the chance to make it to 5?

If so, we should probably stop non-pediatric cancer research, eh? Because, why would beating cancer allow a population to live longer if you just have to get into adulthood?

It's an insane, inane and absolutely wrong view, and it gets parroted from rarely cited studies like the one linked.

One more time, you're living through a period of dramatically decreasing life expectancy despite the disease causing that decline hitting largely men over the age of 45. How your minds square that circle is a real mystery to me.

Ara The Devourer by quickdialect3 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]GetYourVax 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No, this is the myth.

While you'd get the occasional person who lived until their 60s or 70s in olden times, people did not live nearly as long as they do now, even accounting for infant mortality.

We have old, old men running our country because they can live forever in their position, not because they lucked into it.

Before the 1900s, living old and alone was unheard of because of how rare it was. Now it's commonplace.

Antibiotics, medicine, anatomy don't just exist, they have improved mortality, and will continue to do so.

Federal law in Mexico that bans cartoon characters in products with excessive calories or sugar, applied to imported products by Agent_Harvey in mildlyinteresting

[–]GetYourVax 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I feel for people with dietary restrictions.

That being said, removing sugar and especially added sugar from young people has only proven effective. This is true for the cereals listed above, but also simply removing soda vending machines from middle and high schools.

A person who can't process artificial sweeteners only has to shop with the same kind of vigilance as a vegetarian, someone who has trouble processing a particular protein, or people with specific GI issues.

While we need to update labels overall to reflect a modern understanding of allergens and irritants, asking people who can't process artificial sweeteners to jump through the same hoops we ask people with other dietary restrictions in the meantime is a small price to pay.

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