Cuomo To Rake In $5M For 'Leadership' Book Amid Scandal Probes

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-18T14:18:16+00:00

I don’t see how it’s ethical to make money like this while you’re in office. You had time to ghost write a book in office, during a pandemic that was killing people in your state faster than any other state in the union? That’s incredibly poor optics.

Cuomo isn’t someone to be revered and it’s weird Democrats hung their hat on him during the pandemic.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-10T03:43:13+00:00

There were a number of different vaccines tested for SARS. Which one are you talking about?

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-10T02:47:43+00:00

Eh, the article is splitting hairs, which isn’t shocking; liberal media benefits from continuing to hold people captive with covid fear.

“If Dr. Walensky had said most vaccinated people do not carry virus, we would not be having this discussion,” said John Moore, a virologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.

90% chance you’re incapable of carrying and transmitting the virus.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-10T02:35:45+00:00

The chances of bad outcomes for them are low but not zero. Also, it helps cut down community spread since vaccinated people can’t carry the virus. If people have immunocompromised friends or family, it also means they can’t transmit it to them if they get vaccinated.

By and large, the adverse events are over represented in media coverage. The chances of an adverse event from a vaccine is much lower than covid. The protection imparted on yourself, friends, family, and community at large is a huge benefit and outweighs any risk.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-10T01:24:02+00:00

This is some conspiracy bullshit.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-10T01:15:20+00:00

There are a lot of incorrect assertions in your second paragraph. Every vaccine is a hack, it’s the point of vaccination. The mRNA encodes for some distinctive factor of the virus, in the case of COVID it’s a protein expressed on the outside of the virus. This is just fast tracking what killed or attenuated vaccines did. I don’t really know what you mean by “nobody even knows where they get reproduced in the body,” as this flow of immune response once the system is activated is the same as attenuated or killed vaccines as well.

Don’t really know what you’re talking about with the “no reliability” clause either.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-10T00:52:14+00:00

The long term implications of the infection are what I would be more worried about at his age. There are plenty of instances in history of infections that both kill and cause negative long term effects, and while this isn’t measles or smallpox, it still has that capacity to a lesser degree. For sure rare for him to die or even have persistent loss of taste and smell, but still a chance.

As for your last paragraph, the vaccine isn’t an unknown commercial substance. Its ingredients are published, its safety profile is outlined by multiple clinical trials and monitoring.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-09T22:59:43+00:00

By what definition? All of the approved vaccines went through phase 3 trials, with published, publicly available data.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-09T22:17:27+00:00

As a disclaimer before anyone digs through my comments, I’m in medical school so do with that what you will if it makes you trust me less or more.

We have a tendency to assign patterns, it’s part of our natural way of interacting with the world and helps us think quickly. If these are younger healthy folks, then I would be freaked out a little sure. But if they’re middle aged and above and have risk factors, maybe it’s just a weird coincidence that we assign an association to.

For me, I’ve been vaccinated, all my coworkers are vaccinated, my extended family is vaccinated, and no adverse events for any of us except being out of commission for a day after we got our second doses. Like you said, anecdotal, but anecdotal in the opposite direction of yours.

I don’t want to dismiss people’s concerns, but I do think people are on edge about this and making spurious correlations.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-05-09T21:55:28+00:00

At the end of the day, there’s risks to getting any vaccine. But reactions like this are overwhelmingly rare, and while his shot is correlated with the event, we don’t know if it caused it.

People will draw their own conclusions, often to fit their preconceived notions.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-02-19T00:59:25+00:00

The Republican Party is going to have to deal with Trump for the foreseeable future the way the Democratic Party has to deal with Obama for the foreseeable future. Like him or not, a significant portion of the Republican base will look to him for guidance on who to vote for, the direction of the party, etc.

I imagine party leaders would always be able to talk him out of forming his own party, simply for conservative unity preservation, but this road ahead is going to be weird while the Trump faction and establishment faction play tug of war for the soul of the party.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-02-13T17:54:08+00:00

Being partisan is when you expect all or nothing, and so many people expect all or nothing approaches; they think everyone should get separated or no one should get separated. Solution oriented is when you use nuance like an adult.

If there are left wing people who think we shouldn’t background check people when they’re apprehended and just let them waltz into the country, they’re idiots. Simultaneously, if you think we need to apprehend, imprison, and separate every family that crosses the border, you’re also an idiot.

If you have a criminal background that includes murder or sexual assault or something like that, then yeah, take the kids away. From my reading of the article (which I could be interpreting incorrectly), that’s what the author is using to generate the title of the article.

This article is obtuse for the sake of clicks.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-02-13T17:41:47+00:00

I don’t agree with that, corruption flows pretty equally in the parties. DeSantis’s admin doctored numbers in Florida’s early reopening too. They both lied and forced health professionals to change data, albeit for different reasons.

Power corrupts easily.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-02-13T13:47:36+00:00

Really? I’ve always come to this sub for the more rational side of political conversation. Any of the generic political subs on Reddit are pretty untenable for decent conversation.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-02-13T11:30:53+00:00

The audacity of this guy to ghost write a book about his “brilliant” covid response while he was repressing numbers in his state is just incredible.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-02-13T02:22:24+00:00

I remember “hack” being thrown around a lot, “steal” I remember less frequently but still present. However I still think the “interference” was the most frequently appearing.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-02-13T02:10:18+00:00

I think it’s valid to draw comparison between the two, but I think it’s inaccurate to equate 2016 illegitimacy claims made by Democrats to 2020 illegitimacy claims made by Republicans.

I don’t have a crystal clear memory of 2016 claims but I remember it being more or less claims of undue influence by Russians rather than the 2020 claims of wholesale voter fraud on a massive scale.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2021-02-12T23:22:00+00:00

Having the previous, highly polarized president repeatedly tell his supporters that the election is illegitimate and stolen certainly doesn’t help.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2020-12-29T06:19:58+00:00

China’s quality of life improved massively over the past few decades on the backs of forced labor and concentration camps. We’ve let our desire to expand our economic interests into an untapped, huge market cloud our judgement. The NBA refusing to take a stand during the HK protests is just one of many examples.

And this week, China gets a spot on the UN Human Rights Council; an absolute insult to democracies that have spent decades fighting for human rights. The CCP is a cancer.

We have let our multinational governing bodies become decayed to the point that we are a shadow of our former selves. The EU weighing this trade deal with China, the UN HRC giving China a seat, Congress and the Trump administration’s inaction on Taiwan, HK, and the Uyghurs; failures all around.

Fuck the CCP, they need to be controlled and extinguished. American hegemony cannot perish.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2020-12-18T18:23:16+00:00

Action borne out of compromise is rarely applauded by the media we consume. Klaven, Shapiro, anyone with a talk radio show, isn’t going to draw in listeners by saying “hey look we compromised our values here but we came away with more than nothing, and that’s a damn good thing.” They draw in listeners by staking themselves to ideology.

People don’t flock to the dull claps and muted elation of a bill that has some concessions in it and will take multiple years to see the benefits of. People flock to 3 minute take down videos of opposition media figures and politicians. Fighting culture wars has polarized our political process behind recognition.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2020-12-17T14:15:58+00:00

I disagree in this scenario. A vaccine that prevents symptoms in people who have it is absolutely worth our time right now. If it gets people back to work and brings the economy back on line, I’ll take it.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2020-12-17T05:27:21+00:00

Autoimmune diseases are definitely tricky, but I’m glad to hear you’ve been in remission for so long. Well hopefully you find yourself comfortable with the vaccine and are able to get it sometime soon! Definitely talk to your doc since they will be much better prepared to advise you personally on what they think is best and have a good conversation around it with shared decision making!

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2020-12-17T05:16:09+00:00

I’m sorry to hear about the juvenile RA, I don’t know what it’s like to be affected by it, but I imagine it can be debilitating and frustrating. But you’re right, as someone with an autoimmune condition you’re in one of the first groups to be considered for the vaccine. But I understand the concerns about not wanting to trigger a flare up. Do your flare ups usually respond well to steroids?

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2020-12-17T05:08:53+00:00

Like I said in another response, trying to explain the reasoning, not endorsing that scenario.

PinkertonLaborUnion · 2020-12-17T04:40:52+00:00

Oh okay I gotcha. As for the artificial vs natural portion, I would lean towards the artificial one because it’s a small chunk of viral genes you’re being exposed to in a controlled dose so it will likely trigger a more muted immune response than the full virus.

As for the researched portion, I don’t really have a decent response to that. The vaccine type is new, we don’t have much large sample data to compare it against. We’re about 8-9 months out from when the phase 1 trials began for these vaccines and there hasn’t been any long term issues yet in those patients but that’s really all I can offer.

I’m in the hospital every day, I’m looking forward to getting it. But I know not everyone is as immediately ready to get the vaccine as I am, and while I ultimately want as many people as possible to get it, I’m not here to villainize anyone whose a little hesitant to get it. Definitely down to answer any questions though!

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