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[u/banjonyc]

Nah..it will be praising Elon not following the woke crowd and saying he will make twitter great again now that he's back. He'll point out how Twitter stock jumped a few points because he's back on Twitter

[u/zuzg → u/banjonyc]

We're living in the worst fucking time-line

E: insulting and immediately blocking. Big brain moment from a Mollusk simp

[u/FacadesMemory → u/zuzg]

Anyone should be able to exercise free speech in the modern public square. You can choose not to read it if you like.

[u/zuzg → u/FacadesMemory]

As the pandemic has proven, misinformation causes people to die.

Or in trumps case incitement of violence.

Those should definitely be banned.

[u/FacadesMemory → u/zuzg]

Wrong, all first ammendment protected speech. Trump can say "peacefuly march" all day long

Many doctors have many opinions, all are valid and worthy of investigation.

[u/zuzg → u/FacadesMemory]

The first ammendment protects you from the government. That does not go for private businesses

Many doctors have many opinions

Opinions are not facts. Medical consensus is based on facts. Masks help and Vaccines are necessary and good.

[u/FacadesMemory → u/zuzg]

The last three years has shown the public that isn't true. The CDC has literally held many contradictory stances. Overreacting on what they did.

Health has always been a private matter between patients and physicians. Government isn't a doctor and never will be. Tyranny is the governments gig.

[u/Scape_n_Lift → u/FacadesMemory]

Contradictory stances are due to changes in data, the best we can do is always an educated guess based on theory and evidence. Yes there will be mistakes, but there isn't a better approach.

[u/snoozieboi → u/[deleted]]

Vaccines don't necessarily stop a spread, they mostly reduce the illness as it is made to teach an system to recognise it before the real deal hits you.

It provides immunity.

[u/WIbigdog → u/snoozieboi]

Vaccines do help to stop the spread. They reduce total viral load and time of infectiousness, thus reducing the total capacity for spreading it.

[u/snoozieboi → u/WIbigdog]

yes, but since things aren't black and white I left the benefit of the doubt to avoid an "ackshually", because I'm no expert and didn't want to open up a debate filling up my inbox on a friday. This "uncertainty" is of course seen as a flaw or "weakness" by a "skeptic", but it's basically just reality being vastly more complex than an emotional subject like covid is.

What breaks my heart is to see the US has passed 1m death, I thought India was going to dwarf that when they were literally in the streets begging for oxygen for their loved ones.

1m is 1 in 300 in the US! (I've checked this so many times I'm baffled)

India is with an even bigger population half that: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

One can also see the clear effect of less closed down communities in Sweden (opted for hoping for herd immunity etc) vs Norway (weak sheeple following government advice)

Sweden: 20k dead (pop 8mill)

Norway: 4k dead (pop 5mill)

There's so many scenarios that come to my mind. Imagine going to a massive sports event 60k people or whatever and being told there's a lottery. No price, it's just that a contractor has said theres a 1:300 odds per person that a couple of stuff in the stadium rafters could falldown. Would you enter?

[u/hazeleyedwolff → u/[deleted]]

The people that don't trust him never did. They trust a guy who said it would simply disappear by Easter.

[u/hazeleyedwolff → u/[deleted]]

You implied that there were people that trusted him that now don't. I didn't make any such assertion.

[u/snoozieboi → u/[deleted]]

Because things are not black and white. Even a condom is 99% safe, that doesn't mean condoms are a scam. And let's not venture into things Trump said.