For sure. And you could certainly call taking a stand in Montana more of a risk than doing so elsewhere. There would be a way higher chance of some fan walking into the store and opening fire.
8 Likes
Yeah, that too. Scary.
7 Likes
Tell me about it. I understand where you’re coming from. I have eight kids. All but one live in our family pod. The two oldest were infected quite some time ago, before vaccines were available. One got sick and recovered, one was asymptomatic or very mildly symptomatic. They have both been vaccinated since. The two teenagers have been vaxxed. That leaves the four younger ones. We keep them as isolated as we can until the children’s vaccine is available. They know the routine. We all mask up and wear our glasses when we go out, wash our hands often, avoid crowds, stay away from the unmasked. Is it enough? Who knows? Hopefully we will be successful; perhaps not. If they do get infected, we will deal with it.
The thing is, there is nothing we can do about this. There is also nothing we can do about the anti-vax adult idiots except infect them all as quickly as possible. I’m sorry if that seems harsh, but I feel it is reality. They are not going to see the light and decide to get vaccinated. So the sooner they become immune, whether naturally or via vaccine, the better off my kids will be.
We have a choice as a society: we can stay isolated and partially locked down for much longer. Or we can get everyone possible to immunity as fast as we can, in whatever way we can. That second option protects my kids better.
In the meantime, we do the things we can to keep the kids and the immunosuppressed from becoming infected. The longer the virus rages in our populations, the more risk we have of infecting the non-immune and the more risk of additional mutations. Herd immunity is the only solution at this point.
2 Likes
That video is fun to watch. I wish it went longer. What happened next?
5 Likes
The way he laughed it off makes me think that it happens to him fairly regularly.
10 Likes
Yea. I remember how that film ended.
5 Likes
I’m with my daughter….
1 Like
The problem is that we won’t get to herd immunity through natural exposure.
I don’t think that there has ever been a single disease that humanity has reached a “natural” herd immunity from through infection and exposure. The only ones that we’ve defeated have been through comprehensive vaccination programs (think smallpox, polio, etc…)
I’d speculate that there may be some “diseases” that we’ve reached a commensal or even symbiotic state with (think gut bacteria and some viruses), but that’s not “immunity” so much as a coexistence that probably took millenia to hammer out…
12 Likes
I don’t know whether humans have ever made a pathogen extinct through their immune systems alone (though there are some historical plagues, like the “sweating sickness”, where it’s unclear if they correspond to any modern disease).
But there are many pathogens which natural herd immunity has restricted to manageable forms. “Diseases of childhood” like hand, foot and mouth disease or chicken pox are highly contagious among people with no antibodies, and if they appeared out of the blue would be at least as serious as covid-19 was. So, there’s probably no scenario where covid is a major threat in 50 years’ time. But vaccination can at least speed that up, and reduce the number of deaths along the way.
4 Likes
In “A river runs through it”, TuckTuck is the guy with the Folgers can.
5 Likes
4 Likes
I didn’t think it possible, but his wig looks even worse without the studio lights.
2 Likes
Nope.
Tell that to my 11 year old kid who is still ineligible. Get your vaccine and shame those who do not.
11 Likes
Everyone who comes into contact with Tucker Carlson would tell him off, in a reasonable country.
Hopefully his children learn, sooner rather than later, that their father is a terrible human being. It’s a necessary part of their own growth.
9 Likes
Unfortunately the Nazi didn’t get punched, else it would’ve been on video.
4 Likes
yup.
it would be a video I’d watch again and again and again (like the vid clip of Spencer getting the antifa wallop).
if Tuckums were to take a Swanson swan song swan dive from a swift, sweet swing, that would be swell!
6 Likes
