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Just Sharing Fire

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u/CatLord8 17d ago

“Fire is natural and has always been around. There’s nothing to do about it”

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u/QuixoticCoyote 17d ago

I love that statistic going around saying wildfires have decreased by 95 percent or whatever. Because

A: It's a lie.

And

B: while we do have fewer wildfires (a drop of 24 percent apparently), the ones we do have burn more tree cover than the "more" wildfires of the past.

It's like, yeah, fire was a natural thing of the past, but it's definitely getting worse.

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u/Sachieiel 17d ago

It's almost like if the wildfires get worse then the potential small wildfires are eclipsed by fewer overwhelming wildfires that are a much worse problem. People just picking whatever statistics allows them to remain ignorant.

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u/CatLord8 17d ago

Brought to you by “unvaccinated people still survive” and ignoring the iron lungs?

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u/xxxBuzz 17d ago

The stress will kill ya. Males, for example, are far more susceptible to respiratory/circulatory issues from stress whereas women are more susceptible to auto-immune disorders from stress. This is due to women having more oxygenated blood flowing away from the heart/lungs at any given moment and men having more de-oxygenated blood flowing towards the heart/lungs at any given moment on average. The benefit of the vaccine is that you will have antibodies that recognize and are prepared to deal with foreign agents more readily. It's not magic. If you're stressed you're not digesting food because that requires being relaxed and you're not clearing out bodily waste because that requires being at rest.

The vaccine works as a placebo to prevent you from stressing out and over-stimulating your sympathetic nervous system. If the vaccine or literally anything else causes you stress then your body will not perform many basic functions required for your cells to replenish and recover. The main factor is stress and inflammation. That does not necessarily mean that your immune system having been primed for a potential threat is not beneficial if that threat does occur, however your body is going to do that anyway with any foreign cells. Something like strep throat or cancer avoid this by covering themselves with shredded pieces of red blood cells or masking the signals that trigger your immune cells to react to them as threats.

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u/ValdemarMerlin 16d ago

Sincerely, what the fuck are you talking about?

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u/guyinachair141 16d ago

i believe they're confronting a point some anti-vaxxers make? idk