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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
"Herd Immunity" is essentially culling the wheat from the chaff (which I originally thought was "weak from chaff" but it turns out its wheat from chaff); Social Darwinianism in action.
This philosophy is exactly why the elderly are the ones abandoning Trump the largest; the disease hits them the hardest, and thus they are the chaff.
That's not quite an accurate description of herd immunity. It's much more "I don't care" turned into policy, sometimes with a "somehow magically we'll be able to protect all vulnerable people" fig leaf.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanOh, no, that's not herd immunity either. Herd immunity simply means that enough people in a group have immunity (either through having the disease before or through vaccination) that a virus outbreak does not readily spread. It simply means there are not enough available hosts around for the virus to spread.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesI'm genuinely confused they keep trying to do nothing when it's killing them, their chances, and their popularity. This is not just the definition of insanity, this is the definition of stupidity.
I am actually too horrified to use an Indigo Montoya meme that is very accurate about their interpretation.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Oct 15th 2020 at 8:22:54 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Chuck Schumer just posted on Twitter that Democrats denied Republicans a quorum on the Judiciary committee but chairman Lindsey Graham is moving forward anyway
. Anyone know the actual parliamentary procedure on this? Is Graham pushing through a rules change (can he do that without a quorum?), or is he invoking some alternate method of getting around a quorum, or is he just ignoring committee rules and doing what he wants without bothering to justify it at all?
A friend of mine said the fall of the Republican party began not with Nixon but with HW's loss to Bill Clinton. That's when they went utterly nuts, began embracing extremist ideologies, and cheating wholesale. Nothing shows them to be bigger losers than their extreme belief they have to do anything to win.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Herd immunity simply means the virus runs out of hosts in a given area such that even susceptible people are unlikely to get it. You build herd immunity through vaccination, since humans rarely develop long term immunity against a mutating virus that is firmly established and since the chance of a virus gaining a mutation that reduces its virulence is low.
That’s why antivaxxxers and newborn children can mostly live safely in communities with high vaccination coverage.
The GOP latched onto it because the implication that you develop immunity by doing nothing appeals greatly to a party that makes idleness an art form. But herd immunity is in modern times a manufactured phenomenon.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Oct 15th 2020 at 12:31:28 PM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."1. It's insane and stupid.
2. By the way, the fact Giuliani and the rest clearly made the fake e-mails for this "scandal" should mean someone should go to jail. I mean, I wonder if it was even a jump this time to ACTUALLY FRAMING PEOPLE.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Incidentally, to my understanding, the creators of South Park are annoyed that Trump won because he's actually very difficult to satirize.
Leviticus 19:34Someone took a truly amazing photo
of the International Space Station against the Moon...
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It actually took me some time to find good news while doomscrolling through Twitter and you had to mess it up.
Edited by Fighteer on Oct 15th 2020 at 2:19:22 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Rupert Murdoch thinks Biden will have a landslide victory
.
When even Rupert Murdoch is tired of your shit, you know its over.
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