Airports are also at a standstill. Handwriting tickets in KC at the moment and “awaiting the manifest before we can board” - where do you think they store that manifest, a drawer in Mr Airline’s basement?? Uhhh same place as their entire system, which is DOWN
I haven't had a respiratory illness since N95s were a little more normalized. I don't wear one when I'm walking around, but I keep them handy for flights and public transit.
It's fucking great, I haven't had so much as a runny nose in nearly half a decade.
I used to be pro abortion as well. I’m now anti abortion because the science has proven at this point beyond a shadow of a doubt that at conception there is a distinct, DNA-unique human being present. Call it what you want to make yourself feel better if you must, but at the end of the day you’re deciding to kill another human life by choosing abortion.
Call it what you will, but it's unable to survive until birth, so its not really alive is it?
Do we consider ejaculation murder too? They survive on their own, and can navigate their way to an egg... clearly they are from a human, living, and independent:)
Then why is there no large-scale moral outcry over IVF? The process creates and discards a number of fertilized eggs, each of which has unique DNA. Isn't that the much more pressing issue, both considering the procedure is never medically necessary for survival of the woman, and considering that the embryos are created in the knowledge only few will develop into a full human?
Not sure how you define large scale but there are religions who do have a moral objection or at least rules around Ivf. As an example for Catholics each embryo must be treated as sacred and respected as human life. If you have extra embryos you must do everything possible to respect that life (ie transfer the embryos to someone in need and/or keep in cryo until that can happen). These rules aren’t typically known because ivf is a small minority of people that actually go through the process.
Sure there are religions, but I'm asking about the political movement. Are there strides from any parties attempting to ban abortion to also ban IVF?
The reason I'm asking is pretty simple - I believe that many, many people are simply "for births", and politicians capitalize on that. They won't go against IVF since it leads to more births, but they go against abortions because they lead to fewer. Do you have any evidence going against this?
Yes, absolutely nothing has changed. The national security complex regards itself as above the law and superior to all democratic control mechanisms. It does not see any reason to bother itself with public consent or constitutionality. If anything, it has gotten much worse.
There are things like this going on right now. We won't find out about them until later, absent somebody leaking the details. Indeed a lot of stuff in the Church committee findings mentioned by a sibling commenter has not only been massively expanded, but is widely accepted as normal and a good thing, actually.
The difficult thing is that the concept of law implies law enforcement, which leads to a national security complex.
Ideas like human rights etc are great but only get applied to the extent that the most powerful entities allow them to be applied.
This is why a proactive and well-informed (and some would say well-armed) citizenry is crucial. All entities like governments, corporations, the UN, the EU, down to individuals, will obey the laws of physics because they have to, and the laws of humans... if they are made to.
Personally I think what private companies are doing in that department is more egregious than what governments (even other governments) are doing.
Just pick up a mobile phone and start grabbing random games and apps and look at how they're built. They're all Skinner box devices built using the same control techniques as slot machines to suck people in and gradually addict them and then get them to make endless purchases or invite other people to the app. It's really incredibly toxic.
Then you have social media whose weighting and manipulation of content to "maximize engagement" drives not only social media addiction but a host of mental health problems across our entire culture including among the young.
If governments did half of this they'd be compared to Nazis.
That does not mean that governments are not doing it as well, or that we should discount their practices just because corporations are doing it a lot as well.
Even just the fact that the US army allows Hollywood directors access to military equipment with a say on the script as an exchange, so that they can brainwash young uneducated men to enrol and go fight an imperialist war in some foreign country could easily be labelled internal propaganda.
Profit motive provides plenty of motivation without government prodding. It's all about making you stare at that device as long as possible so you watch ads or making you send payments for loot boxes. It's just amoral profit seeking behavior.
Not saying there couldn’t be government involvement just that it’s not necessary to explain this stuff.
I wouldn't be surprised. There are a large number of historical examples of human experimentation before 1975 when the Church committee did it's work.
I think these shady agencies figured out a new way to hide this kind of research after that date in ways that have made it much harder to show the world the truth.
Strong second on this. It will feel like the last thing you want to do, but start lifting heavy stuff and be consistent. You will feel better, I promise.
I had the exact same thing happen with my three kids (ages 11, 8, and 2). My wife and I had it a little worse, flu like symptoms for 3 days followed by cough and stuffiness. I would say that we are fortunate to have gotten omicron which has mild symptoms, and this also seems like a situation where you can run, but you can’t hide from this particular variant.
So Perfectly said. We are in the exact same situation with our children. I would happily accept a nasty bout of COVID (and did so last week in fact!) in exchange for letting my children experience a proper childhood, complete with friends, education and experiences.
Anything is possible when you decide to change the definition of what something means. The CDC used to define “vaccinated” as “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” They changed that key word in the definition to “protection”, so sure if you move the goalpost on what something is, you absolutely can call this a “vaccine” and not an MRNA treatment!
