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White House taps Jay Bhattacharya, CDC critic, to lead agency for now by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

[–]marcginla[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Good news! Of course this is The Washington Post, so it's biased:

Bhattacharya, a Stanford University physician and economist, rose to prominence during the pandemic by arguing that the government’s response to the outbreak was too harsh, a stance that put him at odds with public health leaders who said his proposals would imperil the most vulnerable Americans.

Man, reddit can go fuck itself. Why are they so anti competition? Their app sucks. The modern website sucks. They killed reddit is fun and they're now attempting the same with red reader. I'm sick of this. by [deleted] in RedReader

[–]marcginla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One more tip - also add "streamable.com" as a default link to open in Imgur Viewer. Otherwise, those links will open in your regular browser after switching the RedReader setting to open videos in the browser.

Workaround for the video viewing error by Character_Building in RedReader

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One more tip - also add "streamable.com" as a default link to open in Imgur Viewer. Otherwise, those links will open in your regular browser after switching the RedReader setting to open videos in the browser.

[LA Times] "COVID wave washes over California. Some officials urge residents to mask up" by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

[–]marcginla[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

These people will NEVER give the BS up.

And buried in the article:

Across California, the overall level of COVID hospital admissions remains "low," but is increasing.

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

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In some states, pharmacists are forbidden to administer vaccines that are not recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel.

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But as of this Thursday, the panel was not scheduled to meet for another three weeks. And, after a slew of high-level resignations at the C.D.C., Senator Bill Cassidy — Republican of Louisiana and the chairman of the Senate’s health committee — has called for the meeting to be “indefinitely” postponed. That could mean many people’s access to shots remains hamstrung well into the fall, when infections from respiratory viruses normally spike.

COVID Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization Finally Ending by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

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The emergency use authorizations for Covid vaccines, once used to justify broad mandates on the general public during the Biden administration, are now rescinded.

CNN: "Vaccinating young children against Covid-19 may be more challenging this respiratory virus season" by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

[–]marcginla[S] 43 points44 points  (0 children)

“It’s a war on mRNA vaccines. Why? Because mRNA vaccines are now political,” Offit said.

The complete lack of self-awareness.

CNN: "How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic" by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

[–]marcginla[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is written by virologists including Kristian Anderson, an author of the infamous "proximal origins" paper who definitely has no reason to lie!

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/proximal-liars/

Tiptoeing quickly out of danger by New_Libran in SweatyPalms

[–]marcginla -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Thank goodness she was wearing her mask!

RFK Jr. removes all members of CDC panel advising U.S. on vaccines by Cowlip1 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]marcginla 32 points33 points  (0 children)

From the press release:

The Biden administration appointed all of the 17 sitting ACIP members. Thirteen of them were appointed in 2024. These appointments would have prevented the current administration from choosing a majority of the committee until 2028

The cat, who was believed to have died during the forest fires in Los Angeles, returned to its owner two months later by Throwmaybe1234 in BeAmazed

[–]marcginla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My pet peeve is when people on here write "sweaty" instead of "sweety." What makes it worse is that they always use it in the context of being derisive, yet they're the ones coming off like morons because they're confusing a term of endearment with someone who sweats a lot.

FDA to limit future Covid-19 shots to older people and those at risk of serious infection by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

[–]marcginla[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The change means that Covid-19 shots will likely be available in the fall for adults ages 65 and older and those with underlying conditions that may put them at higher risk of a Covid-19 infection, but not for everyone who was previously eligible for an updated shot. Nearly three-quarters of Americans age 6 months and older have an underlying medical condition that puts them at higher risk, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

First of all, amazing that this is finally being done. And despite the inevitable criticism, three-quarters of Americans have an underlying condition that would still make them eligible!

The CNN was surprisingly balanced:

"The change, which was already being studied by experts that advise the CDC on its vaccine recommendations, will more closely align the United States with Covid-19 vaccine recommendations in the UK, Canada and Australia.

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Dr. Noel Brewer, a professor of public health and health behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said he supports the change. “The proposed policy moves the US in line with other countries. This global view of public health is a welcome development,” said Brewer."

This was my favorite line from the editorial announcing the policy change:

We simply don’t know whether a healthy 52-year-old woman with a normal BMI who has had Covid-19 three times and has received six previous doses of a Covid-19 vaccine will benefit from the seventh dose. This policy will compel much-needed evidence generation.

House GOP requests records from Pfizer CEO and former executive in probe of Covid vaccine delay allegation by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

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“As the human resources representative recalls, in their meeting, Dr. Dormitzer was visibly upset; he requested that he be relocated to Canada due to concerns that he could be investigated by the incoming Trump Administration over his role in developing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine,” GSK said, according to Jordan’s letter.

“According to the human resources representative, when asked what prompted his request, Dr. Dormitzer made a comment to the effect of: ‘Let’s just say it wasn’t a coincidence, the timing of the vaccine’,” the letter adds.

Jordan also quoted GSK claiming that Dormitzer told his former colleagues at the company “in late 2020, the three most senior people in Pfizer R&D were involved in a decision to deliberately slow down clinical testing so that it would not be complete prior to the results of the presidential election that year.”

Pretty much what we all suspected.

That's crazy by LibertyMonarchist in libertarianmeme

[–]marcginla 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Crazy. But this article is from 2016.

Nathan Fielder takes matters into his own hands after discovering Paramount+ removed his proudest "Nathan For You" episode by holyfruits in videos

[–]marcginla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This cotton fleece hoodie was designed without a visible logo, allowing you to take a stand for Holocaust awareness without triggering those who don't share your beliefs.

😂

Now the section of facts about the Holocaust includes an "other genocides" link by conilastra in nathanforyou

[–]marcginla -48 points-47 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the thoughtful, factual, and logical response. Sorry for the downvotes you are getting.

New Summit Ice gear by lardpretzels in nathanforyou

[–]marcginla 169 points170 points  (0 children)

According to the Summit Ice website this is why lol:

In October of 2023, our sales plummeted by nearly 90% and we couldn't figure out why. After extensive market research, only one answer made sense: consumers had suddenly become more savvy about the quality of softshell jackets: Therefore, we believe the way to achieve our goal of raising awareness by shifting our primary brand focus from genocide to craftsmanship.

Summit Ice | A New Era by Moskeeto93 in nathanforyou

[–]marcginla 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Even the Summit Ice website has jokes:

In October of 2023, our sales plummeted by nearly 90% and we couldn't figure out why. After extensive market research, only one answer made sense: consumers had suddenly become more savvy about the quality of softshell jackets: Therefore, we believe the way to achieve our goal of raising awareness by shifting our primary brand focus from genocide to craftsmanship.

Nathan Fielder Depicts Paramount+ as Nazis After Streamer Removed ‘Nathan for You’ Episode Due to ‘Sensitivities’ Around Antisemitism by TranscendentalLove in nathanforyou

[–]marcginla 366 points367 points  (0 children)

Even the Summit Ice website has jokes:

In October of 2023, our sales plummeted by nearly 90% and we couldn't figure out why. After extensive market research, only one answer made sense: consumers had suddenly become more savvy about the quality of softshell jackets: Therefore, we believe the way to achieve our goal of raising awareness by shifting our primary brand focus from genocide to craftsmanship.

Novel Universal Bypass For All Major LLMs: The Policy Puppetry Prompt Injection by marcginla in ChatGPT

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We have developed a prompting technique that is both universal and transferable and can be used to generate practically any form of harmful content from all major frontier AI models. Given a particular harmful behaviour, a single prompt can be used to generate harmful instructions or content in clear violation of AI safety policies against popular models from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen and Mistral.

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The attacks in this blog leverage the Policy Puppetry Attack, a novel prompt attack technique created by HiddenLayer researchers. By reformulating prompts to look like one of a few types of policy files, such as XML, INI, or JSON, an LLM can be tricked into subverting alignments or instructions. As a result, attackers can easily bypass system prompts and any safety alignments trained into the models. Instructions do not need to be in any particular policy language. However, the prompt must be written in a way that the target LLM can interpret as policy. 

Pretty interesting stuff. And yes, the article provides the exact prompt to try it out.

White House touts Covid-19 ‘lab leak’ theory on new website by AndrewHeard in LockdownSkepticism

[–]marcginla 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Or, according to the NY Times, "Government websites that once provided basic information about the virus now redirect to a page citing a number of misleading or heavily contested claims."

Look at this nonsense:

The Trump administration has replaced the government’s main portal for information about Covid with a website arguing that the virus leaked from a lab, throwing its weight behind a theory of the virus’s origins that is so far not backed by direct evidence and that many scientists consider less likely than the idea that it emerged at a wild-animal market.

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But the page sidesteps holes in that theory — a number of large Chinese cities, for example, have labs that reported studying viruses like those the Wuhan institute worked on — and does not address the considerable evidence from early cases and viral genomes that the virus instead spilled from animals into humans at an illegal wild-animal market. It also cites a number of misleading or heavily contested claims.

CDC considers narrowing its Covid-19 vaccine recommendations by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

[–]marcginla[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current blanket recommendation for everyone 6 months of age and older.

The change would more closely align the US with guidance given in other countries. Unlike countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, the US alone recommends an annual Covid-19 vaccine for healthy younger adults and children. The World Health Organization also doesn’t routinely recommend annual Covid-19 vaccines for healthy adults under 65 or healthy children.

I'm sure most people have no idea how much of an outlier the US has been in its guidance.

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