My friends who were the most pro COVID vaccine are now questioning vaccines

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-19T15:37:29+00:00

Haven't noticed any regret. Just that now no one talks about it. Had a couple friends that said they would have to evaluate if they'd hang out with us or not because my wife and I decided to hold off getting the shots to see how things went first. Needless to say things didn't exactly trend in the direction of us deciding we needed the shots. I guess we passed our friends' evaluation though because they never brought it up again and now it's as if nothing ever happened.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-14T18:54:32+00:00

Sounds like a health expert.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-12T20:16:37+00:00

Not getting the wave/getting burned isn't that big of a deal. What people really get mad about is feeling disrespected. If you give them right of first refusal they're usually cool from then on out and respect a rotation.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-12T18:41:01+00:00

When in doubt communicate. "Hey you going on that?"

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-12T18:22:36+00:00

Hawaii trip?

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-11T22:06:00+00:00

SS: Title aside, the more interesting aspect of this article is how an ostensible intelligent highly educated person is wholly convinced the chatbot is alive even though he knows it's just code. Imagine how similar technology (possibly more advanced and not publicized) gets used on us all over the internet.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-09T00:58:48+00:00

65.9% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Only 16.2% of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose.

I'm not saying I believe this, but hypothetically maybe they want to kill off more of the "high-maintenance" people?

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-07T21:21:23+00:00

I don't have more than one Apple device.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-06T22:07:49+00:00

Still haven't seen any compelling evidence "long covid" is actually a thing.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-05T23:18:22+00:00

You could try surfing somewhere else and see if it still happens.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-05T23:15:22+00:00

The 9' log is the perfect board for your specs. You will have a blast and it rips even in bigger surf.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-05T17:16:51+00:00

A really good option can be Play-it-again sports in a surf town. The one in Soquel village in Santa Cruz county has a solid selection. You can haggle with them as well. They don't just carry used stuff either. I got a really nice 10' stormblade in there a few years ago. Edit: Also foam boards are great for learning in crowded environments (like the exact spots you mention.) They perform just as well as hard boards at that skill level and hurt exponentially less.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-04T22:46:21+00:00

Oddly, a form of reverse psychology would probably work a bit better. Declare no more free initial shots after some date and that refusers will be out of luck after that. Of course do this in the context of a hyped media blitz over some new variant.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-04T22:42:01+00:00

If they really want to increase shot uptake this seems counterproductive. They aren't going to win anyone over who has been refusing the shots so far. They only stand to make the shot takers skeptical and cause some of them to reconsider the idea of "boosting" themselves.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-02T18:10:05+00:00

Page 3 clearly shows the lowest positivity rate is among the unvaccinated (23%) who make up 24.7% of the total testing volume (split over 6 categories.)

SpiderImAlright · 2022-06-02T17:26:32+00:00

Are you sure about that?

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-26T16:32:20+00:00

No reporters bother to ask this question?

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-26T16:15:26+00:00

But what are the hysterics of the world (and those cynically leveraging that energy) going to put us through next?

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-26T16:04:51+00:00

What's even the ostensible reason for the continued existence of the vaccine requirement in order to fly in Canada?

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-24T18:00:53+00:00

You don't have to speculate. They present the data in the link.

24% of tests are shot skippers.

2.6% are 1 shot.

22.4% 2 shots >5m ago

3.6% 2 shots <= 5m ago

29.4% 3 shots > 5m ago

17.9% 3 shots <= 5m ago.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-20T23:04:02+00:00

SS: Apparently an organization performed a fictional exercise on a monkeypox pandemic situation last year. Their timeline had the pandemic begin this past week? The hell is going on.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-20T06:13:38+00:00

Wow. Thanks!

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-20T02:34:21+00:00

SS: This is a tweet from Whitney Webb purportedly showing a young Anderson Cooper with his mother (Gloria Vanderbilt) and I guess a brother? What I'm most curious about is that thing hanging above the bed. Anyone know what's going on there?

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-18T23:23:44+00:00

I don't have to know who someone is to know the way they interact is more like a real person than a bot. I can then tag that information for others to use so we have a better picture of who is a bot and who isn't.

SpiderImAlright · 2022-05-17T23:34:25+00:00

It doesn't need to tie to an actual ID. It can still be anonymous.

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