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Note that I'm not saying it's bad; I had the moderna vaccine myself. It's just that some people are very risk adverse and prefer older technological solutions until the new-fangled toys have proved themselves.

I look at it that Juneteenth is Thanksgiving day for slavery descendants. The symbolism is more important than the accuracy. Then again, we're all descended from slaves and kings, so maybe it should be celebrated everywhere?

Thanks. Yes it's funny what will trigger some people. I just thought it was an interesting curiosity.

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Some people choose astra-zeneca specifically because it uses existing well-tested vaccine technology and isn't an experimental mRNA vaccine. I don't think they'll be happy about it.

For a second there I thought he was going to admit he'd lost his mind. But no, he's still in denial.

They don't call him the Great Divider for nothing. His disagreeableness and falsehoods had a very strong polarizing effect. It's a similar effect to what you see with the Climate Change discussion, where the politicizing of the science has made it very difficult to stay neutral and unbiased.

I'm sure all the Federal slave wage earners will be happy to have another day off. 💝

I think it has more to do with scale. Mask wearing and social distancing effects the global spread, whereas protecting line cooks presumably only impacts a few. The goal is to reduce the viral replication rate in the whole population, which in turn will (hopefully) help lower the risk for line cooks.

I see. Thanks moderator, I forgive you. 🙂

Are you trying to troll me or something? Have you even looked at the paper? The threshold is set by peer review. The fact that it has been cited ten times in four months suggests it's fairly mainstream thinking. But thanks for your particularly unhelpful observations.

Yes it's science. I got curious about the psychology of anti-masking beliefs, so I went looking for useful papers. Most of that 2021 paper isn't especially controversial, and, tellingly, it has already been cited by at least 10 other papers, so it's not exactly fringe theory stuff. I just found that one statement about psychopathic personality traits rather interesting.

That'd be a fun P&P RPG shirt.

😄 Money managers working in the Washington D.C. area decide that New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are some of the best places to live. Ah... sure.

This was an interesting read on anti-mask behavior: Negative attitudes about facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic: The dual importance of perceived ineffectiveness and psychological reactance There's a disturbing conclusion at the end: Yoikes. Well that explains certain news stories.

Roughing up a few journalists will tend to make the autocrat look good. At least on paper.

The thing is, Trump didn't create this complaint. It has been around for a long time. Obama and Bush did the same thing. Trump was just more undiplomatic about it (diplomatic language for a lying jerk).

As I understand it, the underlying GOP grumble with NATO is that the US nuclear umbrella allowed the other NATO nations to keep their military budgets relatively low. More spending on butter and less on guns. Why the US can't do the same is unclear. It was always the GOP that wanted more, bigger, better guns.