Ya donât say.
Sigh. While I understand the frustration and sentiment, and personally feel the same way often - this way, madness fascism lies.
To be clear: noone should ever be able to force doctors not to treat a patient and try to safe them. Ever. Noone should decide who is worth living, and who is not worth living.
That said, I am of course aware that in reality, this happens all the time. From various angles.
This timeline? I hate it.
We still remember, Lori.
And their coffee sucks.
The Japanese health ministry has just announced that they are (finally) approving the Pfizer vaccine for children between the ages of 5~11, with plans to start vaccinations of young children starting in March.
this way,
madnessfascism lies.
The past two yearsâ display of human foolishness has driven a certain teenager in my family to planning the takeover of a medium sized sovereign state with the intent to implement IQ-based eugenics. Iâve had to explain, carefully, that it has been tried before and never ends well⌠
Given that said childâs ancestors did something similar, they at least come by the instinct honestly⌠
Harrington Hospital says it wonât discuss the details of Tsantinisâ case. The hospital is part of UMass Memorial Health, which also declined to answer specific questions about Tsantinis. But the networkâs president and CEO, Dr. Eric Dickson, says there are problems at every level of care right now.
âEverybody wants to believe that the system is holding up just fine, but it isnât,â Dickson says. âItâs breaking down. And when it breaks down, patients are harmed.â
Like the majority of people who have died in this phase of the coronavirus pandemic, Tsantinis was not vaccinated. Tsantinis-Roy says she begged her father to get the shots, but âhe was old-school and didnât believe in vaccines.â
I thought that old school was celebrating vaccines.
Maybe she meant âold-people school,â aka Faux News.
VAERS is a self-reporting system, useful for suggestions, useless for analysis. You can find reports of âmy child turned in to Hulk / Wonder Woman / Spider Man after vaccination.â Seriously, these are there. Not a reliable source, although antivaxxers use it all the time. Specifically because it is not reliable, and feeds fear and misinformation campaigns.
According to Mr. Bolsonaro: âThe best vaccine you have, logically some may not resist it, is the contamination itselfâ.
Some people say he is isolated, appealing to his hardcore base, yet his government is vaccinating even children. I donât know, but importing culture war stuff doesnât always work if applied without adapting to the local reality. People in Brazil since the 1970s have approved of vaccines as they have saved millions of lives. I think at the end of the day, they just want to cause confusion and make people perplexed, just like Madonna did in the 1980´s.
But at the end of the day, thatâs what matters to this kind of people. For them, dropping some random data and institutions into a conversation is a feature that will guarantee them âwinningâ and end the discussion. A layman, like me, will hesitate when hearing a name that sounds respectable or numbers that can mean something, even out of context. I think Mr. Schopenhauer wrote something about these tricks in the 19th century.
May the ghost of the German philosopher forgive me if I said something silly about his work.
