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6 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I feel some empathy for this guy, because he lost a family member. Still, this logic is infuriating: “My uncle didn’t take the medicine that could keep him alive. The doctors and nurses didn’t give him medicine that isn’t approved to treat the disease he got. He wanted it though, because of internet. I’m mad at the doctors and nurses.”

 

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I didn’t realize one of the best parts of being a doctor, after going to school and going residency and shit for over half a decade, is giving out whatever medicine or treatment Jim Bob the pipe welder tells you to. 

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Eh, you gotta find empathy when you can and hold on. Boomers and Fox Junkies who get brainworms are victims of propaganda as well as their own bad decisions. They have people who love them and hopefully in balance were people who did nice things for loved ones and their communities even while having those brainworms.
Now people who have platforms and actively spread this propaganda at scale and hurt others, like pols and radio hosts? Probably their deaths are a net positive. 
For a lot of them, it's a John Locke social contract level of survival. I had a heart to heart with my mom a couple of days ago about how I realize that she moved out of state and lives in a small town and her church group are the only friends that she has. Of course she feels she has to parrot all of the talking points and question the vaccine. Her friendships and social survival depend on it. It's all she hears about every day. She has probably seen others ostracized and banished over opposing opinions. So, no matter how long she has been in the medical field, no matter how many infectious disease continuing education sessions she's been in, and even when her own eyes tell her the real story when she works in a local care facility, her social well-being depends on toeing the line.

My rural roots will always give me an avenue of sympathy for these people. I've been there. I lived it. I know the community pressure they are under. And in a lot of those towns, the youth that would be a benefit to those towns go off to college and never come back because Muleshoe or Iraan or El Campo or Trinity have nothing to offer an educated individual trying to earn the best living possible. On top of that, the internet has become a window into the urban settings that rural youth didn't have in the 90s and early 00s. So, indoctrination of the idea that big city living is a horror show doesn't work anymore, either. Rural America, deep down, knows that it is dying. Not just from COVID, but from lack of progress. The communities that do remain are tight-knit because they feel like they are fighting for survival. Of course they are going to act like this. In a very fascist way, the rural people better hit that like button on Facebook and stay on message, or they lose the only friends and connections they have.

Unfortunately for them, progress always drags people forward, eventually, no matter how much they kick and scream over it.
21 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

The vets are siding with the paste eaters. This conspiracy goes deeper than I thought.

 

Your dog has a cough.  Sure I can prescribe ivermectin.  Total will be $375.

 

A hell of a lot of veterinarians in Texas are aggy.  That's about as deep as the conspiracy needs to go.  

Had a run-in with an anti-vax, covid-is-a-hoax chihuahua. Dude was about 5'3". He said I was brain-washed.

Bring back lawn darts!
And smallpox and polio while we’re at it.

I liked Jarts.
The vets are siding with the paste eaters. This conspiracy goes deeper than I thought.
 
Your dog has a cough.  Sure I can prescribe ivermectin.  Total will be $375.
 

Do they accept the Good Rx app?
26 minutes ago, Bojack said:

A hell of a lot of veterinarians in Texas are aggy.  That's about as deep as the conspiracy needs to go.  


let them take it 

12 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Bring back lawn darts!

And smallpox and polio while we’re at it.


make jorts great again !!!!!

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Full approval for Pfizer.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/23/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

 

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The Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and up, making it the first to move beyond emergency use status in the United States.

The decision will set off a cascade of vaccine requirements by hospitals, colleges, corporations and other organizations. United Airlines recently announced that its employees will be required to show proof of vaccination within five weeks of regulatory approval.

 

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Pfizer said it presented the F.D.A. with data from 44,000 clinical trial participants in United States, the European Union, Turkey, South Africa and South America. The company said the data showed the vaccine was 91 percent effective in preventing infection — a slight drop from the 95 percent efficacy rate that the data showed when the F.D.A. decided to authorize the vaccine for emergency use in December. Pfizer said the decrease reflected the fact that researchers had more time to catch people who became infected.

 

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The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will continue to be authorized for emergency use for children ages 12 to 15 while Pfizer collects the necessary data required for full approval. A decision on whether to authorize the vaccine for children younger than 12 could be at least several months away. So far, more than 92 million Americans — 54 percent of those fully inoculated — have gotten Pfizer shots. Most of the rest received Moderna’s vaccine.

 

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6 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I feel some empathy for this guy, because he lost a family member. Still, this logic is infuriating: “My uncle didn’t take the medicine that could keep him alive. The doctors and nurses didn’t give him medicine that isn’t approved to treat the disease he got. He wanted it though, because of internet. I’m mad at the doctors and nurses.”

 

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Rural America isn’t dying. It is just not populated by the best and brightest.

And the social pressure of conforming after being largely rejected is why people believe stupid shit. It is less about the content than their identity within a group.

As i type this on a Longhorn fan message board....

18 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

I enjoyed reading this guy’s response. The tweet explains the context.

 

 

 

 



Gee, who would ever guess that this guy would be a prime candidate for fucking around and finding out?

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46 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:


I liked Jarts.

I did too. I probably would’ve liked them less if I was one of the kids who got impaled by them. 

I'm too lazy to go back and read everything since Trump's wingnut rally on Saturday but I think his sort of "get the vaccine" comment was completely planned to fail like it did.  

1.  He had a the right kind of audience to boo it (low vax rate, completely pro-Trump/Big Lie believing crowd.)

2.  Doing it with so little emphasis and so much "golly gee whiz, maybe you should, I understand why you wouldn't, it's totally up to you, such a personal decision" part of the speech allows him to say later "see, I did speak up."

3.  Hemming and hawing like he did still let's him appeal to other mouth breathing knuckle draggers.

And after all of that, he still gets to say to the Maria Baritomo's and Sean Hannity's of the world that he had spoken up and told people to get it all the while falling back on "maybe the vaccines aren't for everybody and it's your choice."

His deliver sounds like everything else he says; lies and completely disingenuous but his dumb ass supporters lap that up because "he sounds like them" and he doesn't believe in modern medicine, science or the sun rising in the east every day either.  

1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

I want one of those wordy, aggressive t-shirts about this

 

yes I'm a 
VETERINARIAN
who gives
DEWORMER
to patriots who
LOVE OUR COUNTRY
and I won't
APOLOGIZE
for killing
DOZENS
of overweight, elderly
HEROES

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24 minutes ago, Nivek said:

Rural America isn’t dying. It is just not populated by the best and brightest.

And the social pressure of conforming after being largely rejected is why people believe stupid shit. It is less about the content than their identity within a group.

As i type this on a Longhorn fan message board....

I should have added that an extreme punishment used in prisons is social isolation.  Being socially isolated in a small town is likely more debilitating as there is a smaller pool of people to interact with.   In a city, I can find homeless people that bark at the moon or find a knitting club.   

When the idiots joined facebook, flat earth society, or the proud boys, they joined because they were idiots, and found other idiots to say 'that is a great point' and welcome them and their violent idiocy.   They linked up with anti-vaxxers and other idiotic people to expand their network.   They homogenized their beliefs, in order to keep that network which has become important to them, both in real life and online.    

Like most of you, I could fuck right off and be fine if our Surly overlords could banned me.   I wouldn't turn into that insane person on the old Shaggy site, posting replies upon replies to himself in an empty room (yeah, I get the irony of stating that after quoting myself).   I have other outlets.   These people however do not.   They are willing to pull guns on unarmed people and engage in a physical confrontation because they need the feedback from their friends.   It is why they attack in groups.   

I did too. I probably would’ve liked them less if I was one of the kids who got impaled by them. 

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if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a lawn dart.
Rural America isn’t dying. It is just not populated by the best and brightest.

And the social pressure of conforming after being largely rejected is why people believe stupid shit. It is less about the content than their identity within a group.

As i type this on a Longhorn fan message board....

50 years ago they knew they were not the smartest, best educated people. 50 years of talk radio and Fox - and Facebook - have turned the non-critical thinkers into a block of people who know if you recite some talking points you see on Fox and Facebook, THEY are the keepers of knowledge. THEY are the smart ones now!

It also is a tremendous self esteem boost to be smarter than the so-called educated elite, college egg heads and scientists and such. Suck it libtard doctors, Imma eat my cow paste mask and vaccine free, like Jesus did!
33 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:



Gee, who would ever guess that this guy would be a prime candidate for fucking around and finding out?

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I loved him as the old, immobile program in the original "TRON" 

40 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:



Gee, who would ever guess that this guy would be a prime candidate for fucking around and finding out?

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Is his suit jacket inflatable?

1 minute ago, HenryJames said:

Is his suit jacket inflatable?

Never inflate your life jacket when you're still inside the plane.  He ain't that dumb!

24 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

I'm too lazy to go back and read everything since Trump's wingnut rally on Saturday but I think his sort of "get the vaccine" comment was completely planned to fail like it did.  

1.  He had a the right kind of audience to boo it (low vax rate, completely pro-Trump/Big Lie believing crowd.)

2.  Doing it with so little emphasis and so much "golly gee whiz, maybe you should, I understand why you wouldn't, it's totally up to you, such a personal decision" part of the speech allows him to say later "see, I did speak up."

3.  Hemming and hawing like he did still let's him appeal to other mouth breathing knuckle draggers.

And after all of that, he still gets to say to the Maria Baritomo's and Sean Hannity's of the world that he had spoken up and told people to get it all the while falling back on "maybe the vaccines aren't for everybody and it's your choice."

His deliver sounds like everything else he says; lies and completely disingenuous but his dumb ass supporters lap that up because "he sounds like them" and he doesn't believe in modern medicine, science or the sun rising in the east every day either.  

He's crazy like a fox.

26 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

I'm too lazy to go back and read everything since Trump's wingnut rally on Saturday but I think his sort of "get the vaccine" comment was completely planned to fail like it did.  

1.  He had a the right kind of audience to boo it (low vax rate, completely pro-Trump/Big Lie believing crowd.)

2.  Doing it with so little emphasis and so much "golly gee whiz, maybe you should, I understand why you wouldn't, it's totally up to you, such a personal decision" part of the speech allows him to say later "see, I did speak up."

3.  Hemming and hawing like he did still let's him appeal to other mouth breathing knuckle draggers.

And after all of that, he still gets to say to the Maria Baritomo's and Sean Hannity's of the world that he had spoken up and told people to get it all the while falling back on "maybe the vaccines aren't for everybody and it's your choice."

His deliver sounds like everything else he says; lies and completely disingenuous but his dumb ass supporters lap that up because "he sounds like them" and he doesn't believe in modern medicine, science or the sun rising in the east every day either.  

Just replace vaccine with the N-word. Trump:  "you shouldn't say the n-word, but you have your freedoms, so it's up to you". Sean Hannity: The President told people not to say it, Gawwwwwd. What's the big deal? 

 

3 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

He's crazy like a fox.

Not him, his people.   It's an easy sell to someone as narcissistic as him.   Tell him, "You need to say something about getting the vaccine.   You don't have to over sell it or praise it all that much.  You only need to say something because then we can run with that.  And it will help raise more money." 

1 minute ago, HenryJames said:

 

FDA approved Pfizer. So that point is gone.  Glad to see this and hope to see more. 

2 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Oh my:

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It makes total sense.  The logic is there:

1.  You have a cough and horses have coughs

2.  Horses are bigger than you and get stronger medicine

3.  Covid is stronger than a regular cough, you take the horse cough medicine and get well!

4.  ??????

5.  Profit

 

 

Cannot wait to see the excuses to not get vaxxed now that Pfizer has full approval.

Idiots going to continue to be idiots. Wish they'd hurry up to the finding out phase.

Also, interesting article about pregnancy and COVID om Bloomberg.

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Do y’all remember the AIDS panic urban legend about gays or junkies or gay junkies hiding AIDS needles in gas pump handles and movie theater seat cushions? 
 

I bring it up because I have an idea to get more shots in people.

because of the texags post on the last page, i wandered over there.  there's a thread by a guy who tested positive on 8/7/21. 

Rex Racer
 
AG
 
 
Just tested positive for the 'Rona. They count today as day 2 since my symptoms started last night.

So far VERY mild and infrequent cough, and temp as high as 99.3. I still have taste and smell so far.

not surprisingly, he is not vaccinated.

agsalaska said:
Were you vaccinated?
No.

started taking ivermectin on 8/12/21.

Just took my first dose of ivermectin! I will report here on its effectiveness.

went to the hospital on 8/16/21 and is now on remdesivir.

My blood oxygen was 71 this morning, so I came to Caprock Hospital. They got me right in, and got my oxygen numbers back up to 93. Just finished Remdesivir IV treatment, as well. They expect me to be here for 2 days or so.

posted an update on 8/18/21.

On day three of Remdesivir treatment of a 5 day course. So far, so good.

hasn't posted since that day.

https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3215580/1

 

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2 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Cannot wait to see the excuses to not get vaxxed now that Pfizer has full approval.

Idiots going to continue to be idiots. Wish they'd hurry up to the finding out phase.

Also, interesting article about pregnancy and COVID om Bloomberg.

Their new reason will be "This was rushed" or "The FDA only approved it because Biden told them to" or "It's still poison.   I've done the research."

21 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:
because of the texags post on the last page, i wandered over there.  there's a thread by a guy who tested positive on 8/7/21. 
Rex Racer 5:33p, 8/7/21   AG     Just tested positive for the 'Rona. They count today as day 2 since my symptoms started last night.

So far VERY mild and infrequent cough, and temp as high as 99.3. I still have taste and smell so far. not surprisingly, he is not vaccinated.
Rex Racer In reply to agsalaska • 6:16p, 8/7/21   AG    
agsalaska said: Were you vaccinated?
No. started taking ivermectin on 8/12/21.
Rex Racer 4:27p, 8/12/21   AG     Just took my first dose of ivermectin! I will report here on its effectiveness. went to the hospital on 8/16/21 and is now on remdesivir.
Rex Racer 4:57p, 8/16/21   AG     My blood oxygen was 71 this morning, so I came to Caprock Hospital. They got me right in, and got my oxygen numbers back up to 93. Just finished Remdesivir IV treatment, as well. They expect me to be here for 2 days or so. posted an update on 8/18/21.
Rex Racer 10:48a, 8/18/21   AG     On day three of Remdesivir treatment of a 5 day course. So far, so good. hasn't posted since that day.
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3215580/1


 

And when he gets better and goes home he will think the ivermectin worked! Profit!

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3 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Cannot wait to see the excuses to not get vaxxed now that Pfizer has full approval.

Idiots going to continue to be idiots. Wish they'd hurry up to the finding out phase.

Also, interesting article about pregnancy and COVID om Bloomberg.


yep.  Moving of the goal posts to commence in 3..2….

That stated, the amount of employers with vaccine mandates should go up fast I hope.  

Their new reason will be "This was rushed" or "The FDA only approved it because Biden told them to" or "It's still poison.   I've done the research."

You’re 100% correct but at least employers/schools/etc now have much more latitude to institute vaccine mandates for employment/enrollment. They will get shots under duress but at least they’re getting shots (presumably).
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33 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:


50 years ago they knew they were not the smartest, best educated people. 50 years of talk radio and Fox - and Facebook - have turned the non-critical thinkers into a block of people who know if you recite some talking points you see on Fox and Facebook, THEY are the keepers of knowledge. THEY are the smart ones now!

It also is a tremendous self esteem boost to be smarter than the so-called educated elite, college egg heads and scientists and such. Suck it libtard doctors, Imma eat my cow paste mask and vaccine free, like Jesus did!

Here's the kicker: for the longest time, with respect to certain things, they aren't wrong to think "we're the smart ones."  They know about certain things better than any city-slicker, for real.

When I was high school/college age, we used to go spend weekends at my uncle's S. Texas ranch -- my grandfather was the de facto foreman.  He would put us to work doing various things, most of which were geared at demonstrating how little "country common sense" all of us college boys had.  And he was right.  He'd give us some task that we would puzzle over and couldn't figure out, and after laughing at us for a while, show us the obvious way to do it.  Live in the country, and you learn stuff that the city folks don't.  You don't just reach into the bottom of the chicken coop to grab eggs - you look to make sure there's not a rattler in there eating them.  Gonna burn brush?  Wait till a dry stretch with no wind in the forecast, but not so dry that it's burn-ban weather.  Need to get to the back pasture?  Stick to the path on the left side, because the right side holds mud and you'll get stuck.  All kinds of little ins and outs that you learn from living a rural life.  They ARE experts on that -- that's their subject matter.

Our current hell started when they became convinced that they know EVERYTHING, and they're smarter than EVERYONE.  No.  Stay in your fucking lane.  If I want to know how to keep from getting bitten by a rattlesnake, how to avoid losing my chickens to a raccoon, how to tell which cow is going to go into labor first, I'll talk to a rancher.  If I want to know if a particular plane is fit to fly, I'll talk to a pilot and/or mechanic.  If I want to know about a specific medical treatment, I'll talk to a doctor.  That doesn't mean that I'll just flat take their word for everything, but it means that I recognize that a lifetime of real-world knowledge and experience has real value, and I'd be smart to listen to the guys with that expertise.

Instead, these guys are the functional equivalent of the city slicker out at the ranch who ignores the rancher's advice not to take their Lexus sedan to the back pasture, because that road's shitty and you'll get stuck -- holler "I don't think so, you aren't so smart!"......and 3 minutes later, the phone rings from the back pasture because city boy's Lexus is stuck up to both axles.  "Come get me!  You have to tow me out of here!  And don't you DARE scratch my paint when you do!"

12 minutes ago, C-Man said:

No. started taking ivermectin on 8/12/21.
Rex Racer 4:27p, 8/12/21   AG     Just took my first dose of ivermectin! I will report here on its effectiveness. went to the hospital on 8/16/21 and is now on remdesivir.
Rex Racer 4:57p, 8/16/21   AG     My blood oxygen was 71 this morning, so I came to Caprock Hospital. They got me right in, and got my oxygen numbers back up to 93. Just finished Remdesivir IV treatment, as well. They expect me to be here for 2 days or so. posted an update on 8/18/21.
Rex Racer 10:48a, 8/18/21   AG     On day three of Remdesivir treatment of a 5 day course. So far, so good. hasn't posted since that day.
https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3215580/1
 

And when he gets better and goes home he will think the ivermectin worked! Profit!

 

15 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

because of the texags post on the last page, i wandered over there.  there's a thread by a guy who tested positive on 8/7/21. 

Rex Racer
 
AG
 
 
Just tested positive for the 'Rona. They count today as day 2 since my symptoms started last night.

So far VERY mild and infrequent cough, and temp as high as 99.3. I still have taste and smell so far.

not surprisingly, he is not vaccinated.

agsalaska said:
Were you vaccinated?
No.

started taking ivermectin on 8/12/21.

Just took my first dose of ivermectin! I will report here on its effectiveness.

went to the hospital on 8/16/21 and is now on remdesivir.

My blood oxygen was 71 this morning, so I came to Caprock Hospital. They got me right in, and got my oxygen numbers back up to 93. Just finished Remdesivir IV treatment, as well. They expect me to be here for 2 days or so.

posted an update on 8/18/21.

On day three of Remdesivir treatment of a 5 day course. So far, so good.

hasn't posted since that day.

https://texags.com/forums/84/topics/3215580/1

 

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Apparently ol Rex Racer hasn't posted since the 18th.

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5 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

Apparently ol Rex Racer hasn't posted since the 18th.

He's dead, Jim?

5 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

Apparently ol Rex Racer hasn't posted since the 18th.

Blood ox level of 71 is really, really, really bad mmm'kay

2 minutes ago, lmao said:

Interesting to see how the goal posts will get moved after the 'It's not FDA approved' argument can no longer be used. I think it will be simply attacking the FDA as not being trustworthy, what do you think?

I said upstream already but:

1. The approval was rushed.

2. They only did it because Biden said to.

3. It's poison.  I've done the research.

We can also add:

1.  This is Satan's doin'.

2.  I don't need a shot.  I have God's antibodies/natural immunity.

3.  I've already taken Ivermectin.  Why do I need it?

 

2 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

I said upstream already but:

1. The approval was rushed.

2. They only did it because Biden said to.

3. It's poison.  I've done the research.

We can also add:

1.  This is Satan's doin'.

2.  I don't need a shot.  I have God's antibodies/natural immunity.

3.  I've already taken Ivermectin.  Why do I need it?

 

That about covers it.

These are people who would deny that the law of gravity exists as they are simultaneously plummeting towards the earth.  Not only do facts and evidence not convince them - they cause them to double-down on their idiocy.

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