Aug 11, 2023 22:20:39 GMT iron maiden said:

Caycee's bf has a family tree like a hockey stick. His sister has married both of his dad's first cousins. Mind you they are from Saskatchewan...

And royalty bangs their cousins too. So if anything my people are better than regular folks.

Aug 11, 2023 22:06:20 GMT All34LOL said:

Aug 10, 2023 1:22:57 GMT NATH45 said:

Marrying your cousin is quite progressive.

Also I’d like to point out that statically speaking we in the south don’t fuck our cousins any more often than the rest of the country. And for most of us it’s not the sort of thing that will get us fighting mad. Now say our mamaws didn’t fix the best banana puddin at the church social and we’ll beat the fuck out of you.


I know I already joked about this but I was itching to use my new banana puddin line.

I'd argue that your sister's banana pudding is the best, but they're the same person.

Aug 11, 2023 22:06:20 GMT All34LOL said:

Aug 10, 2023 1:22:57 GMT NATH45 said:

Marrying your cousin is quite progressive.

Also I’d like to point out that statically speaking we in the south don’t fuck our cousins any more often than the rest of the country. And for most of us it’s not the sort of thing that will get us fighting mad. Now say our mamaws didn’t fix the best banana puddin at the church social and we’ll beat the fuck out of you.


I know I already joked about this but I was itching to use my new banana puddin line.

What's with the South's obsession about where they're puddin their banana?

They just want to make sure the banana stays in the house where it belongs.

And actually the south does cousin fuck more than most places, except perhaps New England. Mainly because it is illegal in most of the US to marry your cousin, and in some places to even live alone with them. The south had a long tradition of it though in the plantation days and was among the first to legalize cousin marriages after New England, which by definition of marriage, gives you fucking permission legally.

But really middle America and west coast, sans, Cali, still prohibits cousin marriage and in many places coliving.  Some extend as far as third cousin.

Dating in the south be like...

Aug 12, 2023 8:28:05 GMT iNCY said:

Aug 11, 2023 22:06:20 GMT All34LOL said:

Also I’d like to point out that statically speaking we in the south don’t fuck our cousins any more often than the rest of the country. And for most of us it’s not the sort of thing that will get us fighting mad. Now say our mamaws didn’t fix the best banana puddin at the church social and we’ll beat the fuck out of you.


I know I already joked about this but I was itching to use my new banana puddin line.

What's with the South's obsession about where they're puddin their banana?

Nice

Aug 12, 2023 5:53:05 GMT NATH45 said:

Aug 11, 2023 22:06:20 GMT All34LOL said:

Also I’d like to point out that statically speaking we in the south don’t fuck our cousins any more often than the rest of the country. And for most of us it’s not the sort of thing that will get us fighting mad. Now say our mamaws didn’t fix the best banana puddin at the church social and we’ll beat the fuck out of you.


I know I already joked about this but I was itching to use my new banana puddin line.

I'd argue that your sister's banana pudding is the best, but they're the same person.

Lol

Not sure about other states, but CT gave hospitals and doctors limited malpractice immunity related to covid. This is super, super rare. Only cases of gross negligence will be allowed to proceed.

OSU study just confirmed what almost everyone knew, vaccine mandate were effective at lowering the spread of covid. They measured spread via randomly sampling students with swab tests and measuring concentration of virus found. They consistently remained lower than unvaccinated people from the towns the colleges were situated in.

Sept 7, 2023 10:05:21 GMT c said:

OSU study just confirmed what almost everyone knew, vaccine mandate were effective at lowering the spread of covid. They measured spread via randomly sampling students with swab tests and measuring concentration of virus found. They consistently remained lower than unvaccinated people from the towns the colleges were situated in.

Everyone knew that?
It's bullshit and I refuse to believe any such study as it is moronic at every conceivable level

It is common sense. Vaccines reduce viral load in people reinfected, and the reduce viral load decreases the density of the virus when spread by vaccinated people. Epidemiology 101 stuff.

Sweden found that people who received their COVID vaccinations earlier had higher cognitive ability on average than those who waited on their vaccines. Everyone in Sweden needs to take a professionally administered cognitive evaluation as part of military enlistment procedures that is then kept on record.

Sample size was 700k.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629623000796

Yes, everyone that doesn't subscribe to a particular political ideology is dumb. We get it.

Yes that is what they are saying. Simple monotonic relationship between vaccination speed and intelligence. They suggest that because people with lower levels of intelligence may not seek to get vaccinated that policy like mandate be implemented so the rest of society does not have to pay the costs in labor, supplies and lives.

They note that similar findings were seen in the UK as well.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34022372/

It is officially a new COVID wave. The Yankee Candle reviews prove it once again.

One of the most hilarious strange indicators there is. 

It took years but I finally tested positive for COVID yesterday. It presented as a mild cold, although I did have some brain fog.

Sept 27, 2023 18:07:20 GMT Gyro LC said:

It took years but I finally tested positive for COVID yesterday. It presented as a mild cold, although I did have some brain fog.

Feel better man. It’s going around my work, I’ve been lucky enough to miss it. I’ve only had it the once and mild or not, I’m cool with not getting it again.


I can’t remember how old you are… but expect that last part to perpetuate throughout the remainder of your life. It sucks at first… but now like I’ve forgotten whole people. And it’s great… I know to many people anyway. But goddammit I get sick of forgetting why I came into a room.

Get well quick Gyro LC, as everyone here knows I had the first Covid variant and it messed me up.
Having got Pneumonia I couldn't get the slightest cold for the following 2 years without getting pneumonia and getting totally wrecked.
I kept working, but it was like being run over by a truck.

The brain fog I had for about 18 months, it was unpleasent.

When I got Omicron there was only a couple of weeks of brain fog and no pneumonia so that was a win.
The fact that all the variants don't get into the lungs is a good thing.

I've had it 4 times and it seems to effect everyone differently. For me the body ache has been the worst part. Other than that it was like a cold. One of the pills blurred my vision both times it was prescribed. The first time it took several weeks for it to straighten out. This time its been since January and my vision still is not what it was.

I have seen growing calls from doctors to ban the MRNA boosters, some pretty frightening anecdotal information, especially with people who already have had cancer.

Mainstream medicine does not share those concerns at all. In some rare cases due to specific circumstances a booster may not be recommended, but that is true for all vaccine and medical treatment. There are no blanket calls to avoid boosters due to any condition though.

Also new boosters out next month anyway.  Applying from results from one class of booster to the next is shit science.

Do people still get boosters?

I haven't heard anyone mentioning boosters or having covid in months outside of a few people on here.

COVID outbreak in the US now. Some get boosted some don't. US has the flu / COVID vaccine so generally people who get one, get both. In general no one cares if you get it or not anymore though, we are just sick of the Russian anti-vax bullshit being spread. Like if you do not want it, don't get it. But don't come at me with this the vaccine is worse than the disease bullshit.

Whatever vaccine I had, it put me to sleep within 30 minutes, so either it as amazing, or terrible.

I don't dispute covid isn't terrible - having it, it was the sickest I've ever been in my life. Was it life threatening for the majority of people? I still don't think so.

That is how people here are treating it now. Basically like the flu. Most of the time you are fine, but it can kill you. However, there are treatments now for COVID and in mass production, something that when the vaccines first came out did not exist. Paxlovid was a gamechanger.

Oct 2, 2023 2:47:55 GMT c said:

Mainstream medicine does not share those concerns at all. In some rare cases due to specific circumstances a booster may not be recommended, but that is true for all vaccine and medical treatment. There are no blanket calls to avoid boosters due to any condition though.

Also new boosters out next month anyway.  Applying from results from one class of booster to the next is shit science.

Maybe in the USA where big Pharma makes the laws but it is a different story here:


Pretty much only those with Co-morbidities are getting encouraged to get the boosters and even then a lot of GP's are telling those people not to.

That is socialist medicine. The boosters cost $75 AUS a pop. Those recommendations balance the costs of vaccination verses the costs of death and treating adverse outcomes. Australia simply did not think the benefit was good enough to justify the cost.

In non-socialist countries, it is recommended as any chance to reduce adverse outcomes is a gain.

UK and most of the EU recommends boosters as well. Asia as well.

Oct 2, 2023 7:32:29 GMT c said:

That is socialist medicine. The boosters cost $75 AUS a pop. Those recommendations balance the costs of vaccination verses the costs of death and treating adverse outcomes. Australia simply did not think the benefit was good enough to justify the cost.

In non-socialist countries, it is recommended as any chance to reduce adverse outcomes is a gain.

UK and most of the EU recommends boosters as well. Asia as well.

No, government paying of Covid vaccines has ended.
The reason it is not recommended is due to the risk of heart issues given that Covid is a mild disease in most young people:

www.ama.com.au/ama-rounds/10-february-2023/articles/updated-atagi-advice-covid-19-boosters

www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/uk-drew-up-military-options-to-forcibly-take-covid19-vaccines-from-the-netherlands/news-story/0fb5c5ccbee8b418c2a9c8b66f9dfc2b

At the height of the pandemic, former UK PM Boris Johnson became so enraged ‘military options’ were drawn up to take action against an ally.

The Mail report said Mr Johnson was “enraged” by the EU’s actions which he put down to them drawing up a less stringent contract with the firm.

Two diplomatic sources told the newspaper that Mr Johnson asked for plans to be drawn up to physically take the vaccines from the plant in Leiden, 22km north of The Hague, by force if necessary.

It's like they learnt nothing, and were like, " yeah, I can make a worse one. "

www.news.com.au/technology/science/chinese-lab-crafts-mutant-covid19-strain-with-100-kill-streak-in-humanised-mice/news-story/ade46b3728465cf673a870e07935d209