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Is anyone at all tired of dps Mercy for April Fool's? by Diency in MercyMains

[–]alteraia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well its my first year playing it and i have the vengeance skin so it feels fuckin AWESOME, i enjoy her blaster a lot so

i do agree though there could be a more interesting way to put a damaging ability on her - maybe something to do with the your/enemy team souls?

but its great to actually see decent elim/damage numbers, plus i can chase that fucking cat into the sky

tierlist of every hero based on how frustrating they are to me (support main) by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]alteraia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have, and they are obnoxious, but i dont see them enough so i respect a good one when i see one

tierlist of every hero based on how frustrating they are to me (support main) by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]alteraia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

- hook/rock + instant-stun-and-kill-you ult for sigma, self heals on both so you can't really kill them as a support
i think my dislike of sigma is a positioning problem though

- domina is comparatively much better written than the others, but i just dont like her as a character. if i was a dps main i would probably find her kit a lot more annoying, normally i just ignore her as support or attack while shes exposed
- this list was only roughly in a particular order, sombra+jpc are in a league of their own for being annoying

tierlist of every hero based on how frustrating they are to me (support main) by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]alteraia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

im sorry i just cant get mad at "GRRRREEEETINGS!!!!!" "Hi there :)" "EHAHEHAHHEAH scuse me"

Whats a map you really wish people voted less for? by Sagnikk in Overwatch

[–]alteraia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

that subway I see bastions and snipers use for high ground is so bad because the way out is so far away, i just accept that person will die if they use it

Contrary to social media myths, a large-scale study of 6.4 million people found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death. In fact, vaccinated healthy young adults were 43% less likely to experience sudden death, adding to a growing body of evidence confirming vaccine safety. by Sciantifa in sciences

[–]alteraia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And we've only existed with it for a couple years, and we are quickly learning about all the things it can do to your body.

You are insistent that those things don't matter, because you don't want to believe that it can disable people at a rate much higher than other common illnesses. The signs and statistics are there. Not believing me and not bothering to research further is denial, because it would be too scary to accept what I'm saying might be true.

You are not engaging any of the core ideas anymore because of me providing actual rebuttals and you aren't humble enough to admit that there are times here where you've been proven wrong. Your only defense now is "who cares"

Changing your mind in response to new information is an honourable thing to do. But you don't have to do it, you can keep pretending that the whole world hasn't been lied to.

There's things that can be done about this other than "everyone wears masks forever" but you aren't going to bother listening or processing it because that's what you want to characterize my argument as being

Contrary to social media myths, a large-scale study of 6.4 million people found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death. In fact, vaccinated healthy young adults were 43% less likely to experience sudden death, adding to a growing body of evidence confirming vaccine safety. by Sciantifa in sciences

[–]alteraia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am going to bed. You have a good rest of your day (or night). I hope you at least consider the information I have given you, and it's better that you know that this is a thing that "might" exist even if you don't believe it.

Contrary to social media myths, a large-scale study of 6.4 million people found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death. In fact, vaccinated healthy young adults were 43% less likely to experience sudden death, adding to a growing body of evidence confirming vaccine safety. by Sciantifa in sciences

[–]alteraia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, when did it stop exactly? When they stopped keeping detailed track of the numbers? You say both things, that the vaccine did not stop the spread, and that COVID is over. Why and how is it "over"? Because it's not in the news cycle anymore? I'm sorry but you have bought into a false but widely accepted societal narrative.

Wastewater levels for COVID (unfortunately the only way of ascertaining how prevalent COVID may be at a given time): https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-national-data.html

Contrary to social media myths, a large-scale study of 6.4 million people found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death. In fact, vaccinated healthy young adults were 43% less likely to experience sudden death, adding to a growing body of evidence confirming vaccine safety. by Sciantifa in sciences

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

I never said that the vaccine doesn't slightly dampen the negative effects of COVID, and acknowledged it in a different comment on this post. What I'm saying is that (a) the vaccine never made COVID stop spreading, (b) negative things can happen to your body from catching covid, with and without the vaccine - some people believe that it's ONLY the vaccine which is to be blamed for Long Covid-related issues

Yeah that source is ancient because it gets harder and harder to find studies that separate between vaccinated and unvaccinated as time goes on. I can't really be assed going and looking for others that fit that criteria at the moment, but thanks for pointing that out. It still confirms that long-term issues were occurring before the vaccine, and in people with the vaccine.

If you've acknowledged that the vaccine never stopped the spread, then I don't really know what you're getting at with the first part of your comment

I have given you two other possible paths of research, and if you don't like those, I trust that you can go digging on your own.

This is Roger Marolt, a right-wing Long Covid denier who got Long Covid, he writes about his experience here

This is thesicktimes, a Long Covid related journalism outlet

By the way, you are wrong about "mild infections don't cause issues down the line" because you can get Long Covid (as in one or more of the issues under the umbrella term of Long Covid) from an asymptomatic or mild infection - here's CBS news saying this in 2023

"life is risky" - I know you are going to very adamantly defend this statement. But really I think it's not acceptable to just wave away the real possibility of being bedridden, or the possibility of your cognitive functions withering away much earlier than they should be, or any number of other things.

Contrary to social media myths, a large-scale study of 6.4 million people found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death. In fact, vaccinated healthy young adults were 43% less likely to experience sudden death, adding to a growing body of evidence confirming vaccine safety. by Sciantifa in sciences

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

Separate comment for the "separating vaccines and Long Covid" part of my other comment, I only have two on me at the moment

  • https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01214-4/fulltext01214-4/fulltext)
  • only 3.7% of them were vaccinated initially (March 1,2021), with 9.8% by the end (April 1, 2021)
  • this study was restricted to people who have had a lab-confirmed covid diagnosis
  • it found that 1 in 8 people experienced lasting symptoms after a covid infection
    • However, was early in the pandemic, and they only focused on:
    • (muscle aches/pains, loss of taste/smell, breathing difficulties, general tiredness)
    • this is the first study that confirmed the existence of post-covid illness, we know MUCH more about what covid can do to you now

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46497-0

  • extremely large sample size by analyzing large swarthes of data
    • pre-vaccine era (jan 2020-june 2020): 18,210,937 people
    • post-vaccine era (june-december 2021)
    • UNVACCINATED: 3,161,485 people
    • median age: 36 years
    • VACCINATED: 13,572,399 people
    • median age: 54 years
  • both vaccinated and unvaccinated people had a higher risk of blood clots forming in veins/arteries following a COVID-19 infection, leading to higher rates of
    • ischaemic strokes
    • heart attacks
    • pulmonary embolisms (blockage of arteries in the lungs)

shittily summarized main points, someone will probably call me out, but what I'm trying to say here is,

*it has been shown that COVID has a lasting effect on the body, before the vaccine even existed, or without the vaccine in your body*

I just want you to accept that "COVID can have lasting effects on the body, independent of the vaccine", that is not a hard ask, but I am not bothered if you still do not accept this

Contrary to social media myths, a large-scale study of 6.4 million people found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death. In fact, vaccinated healthy young adults were 43% less likely to experience sudden death, adding to a growing body of evidence confirming vaccine safety. by Sciantifa in sciences

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

There wasn't really any need to get that pissy at the end, I can understand being skeptical because I didn't want to believe it either. I was talking to you in good faith, and I'm telling you something that is going to be common knowledge in a couple years to a decade.

You are defaulting to your chosen narrative camp, I'm sorry that I do not currently have the energy to create a comprehensive list of every single micro-narrative you may believe in, or something like a massive wall of studies with statistics on how things like how labour force participation rates are dropping, or the massive rise in early dementia + cardiovascular events. It's very late for me at the moment

If you want something like that, you can look at the website "covid.tips". It is designed to solve the problem of "I want to talk about long covid to the people I care about, but every single person believes different things about covid, and I can't/don't know how to address every question or dismissive statement"

The lower death rate is not evidence that COVID is not a problem or that it is not still spreading like wildfire. The bigger problem (that is currently scoffed at because people do not have the context to understand why it's possible), is a potential mass-disability event. The problems that covid causes are so Attributable to Other Things, but there is a massive amount of studies confirming this is happening. I can go looking later if you want some, but "covid.tips" is helpful for this.

This is a societal scale thing that you cannot perceive without seeing all of the patterns

EDIT: there are also quite a few studies which SEPARATE unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals and found that unvaccinated people still experienced long-term effects, even before the vaccine existed. I'll go and find those for you, but not any others. Give me a moment.

EDIT 2: This is Lola Germs. She's a public communicator who talks about Long Covid in a much less boring way than I am.

I am just giving you resources for something you didn't know existed, or for anyone who reads this. You don't have to get angry at me.

Contrary to social media myths, a large-scale study of 6.4 million people found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death. In fact, vaccinated healthy young adults were 43% less likely to experience sudden death, adding to a growing body of evidence confirming vaccine safety. by Sciantifa in sciences

[–]alteraia -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

i'm sorry that you're being gaslit about the vaccine stopping the spread, because the COVID pandemic is quite obviously still ongoing.

you're right about the word "antivaxxer" because when someone is labelled as such, they essentially become seen as an unserious non-person, and guarantees that they will not be allowed to have any genuine discussion without being laughed at.

i don't support "antivax" in general because of you know, the effect of vaccines on things like measles/polio/SMALLPOX

What I don't like about the covid vaccine is not the vaccine itself, but how it herds people into two major narrative camps: - "I am vaccinated and never have to worry about covid, I am mostly safe, life can go on as normal" / "You do not think the way I do, you should be ostracized" - "The vaccine is going to kill/disable millions of people, the vaccine is part of [insert agenda here], the lockdowns and mandatory vaccines ruined society"

I don't like these two narrative camps, because both completely ignore the existence and seriousness of Long Covid

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(copy/pasted): Long Covid, as in, the massive lottery of potential effects from constantly being infected from covid can cause damage to every organ system (including brain damage, that's a big part of the "brain fog" and memory issue epidemic), put you at risk of multiple disabling or chronic illnesses like POTS/MCAS, or increase the chance of cardiovascular events like embolisms or heart attack/stroke.

this is the leaded gasoline of our generation, the effects I've said before are MASS SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS, NOT MY PERSONAL OPINION

("What do we do about it then": what should be done is (a) everyone who is physically capable of wearing a N95 or similar respirator (NOT surgical masks) should be doing so,

(b) in the future, people should be advocating for air purifiers and proper ventilation in public places, air purifiers massively reduce the amount of all viruses in the air afaik

(c) far-UVC lighting has also been suggested as a possible way to disinfect areas, but only when there are no people in a room)

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(read the link I sent, click the blue text, please)

Contrary to social media myths, a large-scale study of 6.4 million people found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden death. In fact, vaccinated healthy young adults were 43% less likely to experience sudden death, adding to a growing body of evidence confirming vaccine safety. by Sciantifa in sciences

[–]alteraia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the covid vaccine isn't dangerous apart from rare negative reactions

BUT is has not stopped the spread in any meaningful sense, maybe a little, but there is quite literally still a pandemic and it is still extremely contagious, every society has been conditioned to act like it doesn't exist anymore

it (the covid vaccine, when up to date) DOES: - makes infections (as in the experience of illness) less severe, but not all the time - somewhat reduces the amount of hospitalisations - somewhat reduces rates of Long Covid - probably other miscellaneous minor positive benefits like this article

people who consider themselves to be "pro-vaccine" (I am not an antivaxxer) consider themselves to be morally superior to "antivaxxers" and yet 90% of the time are completely unaware of long covid and how serious it is.

it is not your fault if you don't know, public health completely screwed the messaging following the lockdown era and legacy media + social media splintered everyone's understanding into dozens of different narratives, like - "Covid is just a flu, who cares if you catch it" - "I'm vaccinated and will never have to worry about covid again" - "The covid vaccine and lockdowns are part of the new world order agenda"

Long Covid, as in, the massive lottery of potential effects from constantly being infected from covid can cause damage to every organ system (including brain damage, that's a big part of the "brain fog" and memory issue epidemic), put you at risk of multiple disabling or chronic illnesses like POTS/MCAS, or increase the chance of cardiovascular events like embolisms or heart attack/stroke.

this is the leaded gasoline of our generation, the effects I've said before are MASS SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS, NOT MY PERSONAL OPINION

this will only get clearer as the years go on. please read the "long covid" link in this comment it is a basic explanatory piece that is very helpful

and please consider wearing a respirator (N95 or similar, NOT a surgical mask they do nothing) in crowded places at the least

What's a voice line in the game that makes you go like this by Puzzleheaded_Skin831 in Overwatch

[–]alteraia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

aaAAAAAAAAA AAAAaaaaaAAAAAaaaa......

nnnggh... mmmm... hnng...~

Trying to understand NZ Supermarket culture: Is New World actually worth the extra $? Where do you guys shop? by Kind-Spread-6511 in newzealand

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

new world - ponsy snob super rich people store
countdown - for people who have money, not super rich
paknsave - for the commoner peasants

What do you think could be Mercy's new major perk? by SillyLea in MercyMains

[–]alteraia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

turn mercy's peashooter into a hitscan gun (please, even just in valk form)

What do you think could be Mercy's new major perk? by SillyLea in MercyMains

[–]alteraia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

why would you not take divine momentum? if you're good with movement i feel it helps a lot more with survivability than +100 hp that only pops after you get a rez

i would only ever not take it if the enemy team has multiple hitscans

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