Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 3)

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Now this explains a lot.

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How to maintain your anti-vaccine stance in the face of a f**kload of evidence it’s working

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Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait

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In my admittedly anecdotal experience, these people seem pretty universally to be dumb as slightly concussed bricks.

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Holy shit, this is turning into a communications clusterfuck on an unbelievable scale.

@anon29537550, listen to this:

In the vaccination scandal involving a registered nurse in the Friesland district, the lawyer for the accused has contradicted the statements made so far by the police and the district: “It is inaccurate to say that our client’s behaviour ever resulted in vaccine doses being administered that consisted only of saline solution,” Christoph Klatt, a lawyer from Wilhelmshaven, told the Evangelischer Pressedienst when asked. Instead, she had tried to make up for the loss of vaccine from an accidentally broken ampoule by drawing up the syringes with leftovers from several other ampoules. The woman is accused of having exchanged the vaccine for a saline solution in at least six cases at the Schortens-Roffhausen vaccination centre in April. According to the investigators, the reason she gave was that she had broken an ampoule with the vaccine. On Tuesday, the district announced that the investigators could not exclude that the woman had already used saline solution several times before. Therefore, more than 8,500 people would have to be vaccinated. The lawyer vehemently contradicted this: it had been a “one-off incident”. “Our client neither acted out of a political motivation nor did she merely administer saline solution to those willing to be vaccinated.”
In addition, she had told the police during the first interviews that she had tried to make up for the spilled vaccine with leftovers from other ampoules. However, this had never been mentioned by the authorities so far. A spokesperson for the Oldenburg public prosecutor’s office confirmed “that this was indeed mentioned during the first interrogation”.

Source: tagesschau.de Coronavirus newsticker, translated on the fly using deepl.

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That is much less bad than originally reported. Breaking a vital should lose 5 or 6 doses, not 9000. So maybe just dumb rather than evil.

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Me only reading the headline: ohhh you can directly buy stock in a virus and profit greatly from human misery…this is all lining up now.

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vs how many have died by violence in the line of duty? And how many LEO’s support the RWNJ’s who are trying to kill them? But, yeah, let’s keep the myth that BLM is the real threat there.

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But we can’t require masks, oh no. :man_facepalming:

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Whe I worry about the dumb antimaskers, I worry about the influential antimaskers more.

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Is the lack of Zika in 2020 and 2021 Covid related or did they figure out how to manage the mosquitoes better or what? Would an mRNA vaccine for Zika be possible?

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Hm. It’s not like they’re bogarting the supply.

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ARE KIDS ARE CHOICE

Angry Season 3 GIF by The Simpsons

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Which brings up some interesting ethical questions.

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