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This is complete garbage! You're suggesting that Fauci is to blame for the current disbelief in vaccines, when it was the current President who created this whole narrative on not trusting Fauci...or the hundreds of other professionals that disagreed with him in almost every department of the government. If they don't agree with Trump, then tell the populace he/she is doing a bad job and lying. All the people he hired himself and then fired...same thing...they don't agree, let's create this narrative that they are lying scumbags! Fauci, along with the President, both agreed on Operation Warp Speed that saved millions of lives...Trump just didn't like the fact that Fauci disagreed with him on other things like Ivermectin, bleach injections, etc. If Fauci played the good little soldier, instead of trusting his conscience he would still be leading the CDC. Cheers!

Again, bullshit on the stats and actual clinical information. Cheers!

According to UNICEF, 17,400 children died from Covid. In terms of side effects, various studies have put it at 15-20 per 2M doses. There are about 1.3B adolescents globally, so side effects could have possible affected between 10K and 13K of them...still far less than total deaths, let alone serious illnesses like pneumonia which were probably 10 times those numbers. Any way you want to cut, the vaccines saved lives, especially those over 50 years of age...and even all the way down to young children. There is just no disputing this fact! Cheers!

Not really! There are massive clinical studies backing one side, while a handful of small statistics and studies backing the other...and most aren't particularly reputable! Cheers!

I don't know...I've read the U.S. report, but haven't read the Danish report...except for one chart you posted. Cheers!

Stats suggest you are wrong about Japan. Cheers! https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/japan-demographics/

It looks like saying "immigrants" is too broad a generalization. The chart indicates that it is primarily unskilled immigrants that over time don't contribute as much as they consume to integrate into the system. I'd like to see the whole article as one chart doesn't provide me a lot of information. Cheers!

Can't speak for the Chinese yet, but the Japanese population and economy are heading towards a collapse of epic proportions one day. Primarily because of their lack of open immigration to support the aging population. Cheers!

While I'm not saying that current global immigration policies are correct or sustainable, immigration is no different than citizens having children. Children are a net drain to the economy until they are of working age and begin to contribute back into the system...it's at that point that their true long-term value starts to be realized. Immigration is similar. It takes time and capital to get immigrants integrated, working, and stable enough where they become a net gain for the economy. Now can countries focus more on skilled immigrants rather than non-skilled/refugee immigrants...sure! But I would hate to be a country that simply turns their back on refugees in real crisis! Cheers!

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You see, it's not a personal decision. Because your decision could indirectly affect someone else due to exposure or mutation of the virus. This was what was almost impossible to pound through the head of many people during the Pandemic...that it isn't just a personal healthcare decision...your decision impacts many others. Like the millions of seniors that died globally because someone walked into their home with Covid. Cheers!

+1! Yup, I don't know how many doctors I've talked to and all of them are just dumbfounded to this whole conspiracy around vaccines...just completely at a loss. Cheers!

Sorry to hear that! During Covid, we had 7 people in our immediate/extended family die. None died directly from Covid, but from complications created by Covid...all were older (over 60), a couple had underlying immune-related illnesses, and the rest were relatively healthy before getting sick. Covid itself won't kill you...the complications, in particular respiratory issues, is what takes its toll. If you have any sort of immune compromised illnesses, you should almost certainly get both the Covid and RSV shot...as well as an annual Flu shot. I'm 56 and I get them. No complications...no side effects...nothing. Same with my mother...no issues. Cheers!

Golf has lost almost all decorum in the last 25 years...started when jack-offs started yelling "In the hole!" after each of Tiger's tee shots...then they started doing it to everyone...I have no fucking idea why they do it and it annoys me to this day! Since then, and with the political climate, things have gotten worse. I've never seen the stuff we saw at Beth Page. Again sad that stupid behavior is permeating the landscape everywhere! Cheers!

People criticize Trump and his family, but the Kennedy's were the original gangsters/scumbags! Half of them are piece of shits like Hunter Biden or Don Jr. Wealth built illegally, were known as thugs privately to get what they wanted in politics, and cheated on their partners faster than jack rabbits! Yes, supporters of civil rights, but after John, Robert and Ted, the family is a shit-hole of nepo-babies...one heir was a convicted murderer...one was a rapist/doctor...another flew his plane into the water killing his wife and sister-in-law on a night he should not have been flying...another has brainworms, leaves animal carcasses in Central Park and wants to go back to cupping and blood letting. They are fucking crazy! Arnold might have saved the Kennedy clan...his family seems pretty normal! Cheers!

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The more people talk about something, the more likely that others will subconsciously believe that they are seeing something as well...it's called MPI (mass psychogenic illness) or mass hysteria. It's a very good way of persuading a mass group of the populace...a great example is Trump's comments on Fentanyl amounts coming from Canada. Even though every single statistic (US, Canadian and otherwise) indicates that very little Fentanyl comes from Canada into the U.S., the comments fueled massive belief that this was true. The same thing happens when it comes to things that are close to or near and dear to our heart, like our children's health and safety. Comments without factual research behind it is like yelling fire in a crowded movie theatre. You unwittingly end up hurting far more people by telling a fib or something that isn't accurate. This is very sad to me as a firm believer in science, because poor decisions based on inaccurate information leading to doubt will lead to more illness and death. If it's any comfort to you, even Trump says that some vaccines are necessary, and he's received all of them including Covid, contradicting his own Health Czar. I think Robert Kennedy is one of those people who thinks he knows far more than his qualifications and IQ would justify...the epitome of the Dunning-Kruger effect...and in the position he is in, makes him dangerous to the health of the general population! Cheers!

While in London, I stayed at the exact same hotel and room as two years ago. See the number cranes to the left of the London Eye: Even though the shot from last week was at night, you can see that the number of cranes is close to triple the previous amount...all of the red lights to the left of the London Eye. I also saw plenty of redevelopment happening, new restaurants and retail opening where others had closed. Things were bustling in stores and well known tourist areas. The same for Paris...in fact I've never seen crowds as big as I saw at the Galerie Lafayette on a Saturday afternoon...not on Fifth Avenue in New York, not on Oxford Street during London Fashion Week last week...London and Paris were extremely busy everywhere we went. Cheers!

Body has barely gone cold and they've found a new saviour! Like televangelists, there are always far too many to go around! Cheers! https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/teen-hailed-charlie-kirk-prot-103244872.html

You would be playing with fire. The people who work in health care that disagree are on the low side and I've talked to some of them and would say they don't what they are talking about. You can work in the investment industry and still not know how the stock market functions. By not vaccinating your children, you create two very big problems...one, they could develop illnesses that were virtually non-existent or controllable...two, every time someone is exposed to a virus, that virus can mutate as the body fights infection and create a form that may not be as treatable. The actual underlying risks from most vaccines that have been in use for at least a decade is somewhere around 0.001% or less. If seatbelts provided such security, you probably would wear them without a second thought...yet seatbelts are nowhere near that effective...neither are anti-lock brakes...or actually even driving a car. Cheers!

My bad! It was nice for a couple of days. Cheers!