Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@freemo

I suppose it's a parody on COVID disinformation.

@freemo
It doesn't mean anything.

It's just a joke. I saw this interview shortly after I joked about the virus being sentient, so I took her comments out of context to make a funny video.

#COVID19 #masks #vaccine #CDC #satire #sardonic #sarcasm

What happens when the virus mutates into a super-intelligent AI hive mind?

It may fool people into thinking that the vaccine is dangerous so it will have more hosts to invade.

What happens when the virus mutates into a super-intelligent AI hive mind?

It may fool people into thinking that the vaccine is dangerous so it will have more hosts to invade.

****** BREAKING NEWS ******
--- video below ---
CDC Director confirms that the COVID-19 virus is sentient...

#short #satire #unfair #edit #masks #vaccine

In a recent interview, the CDC director confirmed that the COVID-19 virus is sentient. Maybe this is how it can tell which people are illegal aliens and which are US citizens.

(play video for details)

#CDC #COVID19 #satire #sardonic #unfair #edit #masks #vaccine

Play the video:
https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/67d450ee-1c57-4791-b0c7-82d64f707ec5

@louiscouture
Does it mean having tax-payers paying a lot of money to build mitigation construction so a few people can continue to live at the shore of the ocean (where they've known for decades would be uninhabitable)? Does it mean paying for mass relocation of humans and animals?

@louiscouture

What does "offset" mean? Does it mean using carbon capture to "offset" the CO2 that people put in the atmosphere when they drive a gasoline car?
Does it mean a driver driving slower so that she uses less gasoline (and spits out less CO2), thus requiring more hours to deliver stuff, thus her boss makes less profit because the boss has to pay the driver more?...

@zstark Yes, I knew that - it was obvious from the context. My toot was a joke and somewhat of a callback to my previous rant about using abbreviations in toots.

My dry humor strikes again!

freemo>All very reasonable. I'd say the most responsible thing to do is wait about 2 years from the initial vaccine being released and at that point consider the safety. Anything less just seems a bit reckless to me unless your high risk or something.

@freemo @sergeantcat

pat>Thank God that the guys who stormed the beaches during Operation Overlord didn't use that same calculus.

freemo>Not sure I see the connection.

@freemo - I meant to do something that helps everyone even if you believe you may be taking on some personal risk.

(Incidentally - During the beginning of the pandemic, people in the US were facing about the same risk of death as those who participated in Operation Overlord.)

@freemo @sergeantcat

Thank God that the guys who stormed the beaches during Operation Overlord didn't use that same calculus.

@freemo
I'm sorry to hear about your mother. You have my condolences.

For an elderly person, I mean a 80+ years, they don't worry much about an issue that might come up 10-20 years down the road.

Prion disease is very rare, but yes it cooks for a long time before the damage is detected. I haven't seen any research suggesting that the specific spike protein coded in the vaccines could become self-replicating in a way like a prion does.

Also, the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) molecules in the vaccine are broken down very quickly in the body, so there's not much chance for mutations to occur. Such an occurrence would be very rare.

@freemo
The choice varies by each individual's situation. For an elderly person in a group home at very high risk from the virus, it's a no-brainer to get vaccinated. Or someone who lives with a high-risk family member who doesn't want to bring the virus home and infect a loved one.

For a young person who is healthy and who hasn't done much research on the vaccines, it makes sense from a purely self-centered view to take a chance with the virus, but I wouldn't want it on my conscience if I infected someone and it spread and caused a thousand people to die.

@freemo
I wondered how you'd react to that one -- you've commented on masks before...

The toot was just satire, there's a spectrum opinion and everybody's an individual.

>"people who are just waiting for the obvious safety reasons"

Yes, I think that's why they chose the phrase "vaccine hesitancy" -- to implant in people's heads that they are not rejecting it outright, only "hesitating" and will get vaccinated eventually.

There are perfectly valid reasons why a particular individual might not choose to get vaccinated, but those reasons a very specific and rare.

What we need is a prophylactic of critical reasoning education.

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Here's a summary of the logic of the anti-maskers / anti-vaxers in the US:

#satire

"There is no virus, there is no pandemic, it's a government conspiracy."

"And the pandemic will miraculously disappear in a few weeks."

"Also, the vaccine doesn't work against the virus."

"And masks won't stop the pandemic either."

"Besides, the pandemic has only killed less than 1% of the population -- only about 600,000 people."

"Also, it's the illegal aliens who are spreading in the virus (because the virus is sentient and knows who is legal and who isn't)."

"And Biden isn't vaccinating the illegals."

"And hey, why are we spending tax dollars to vaccinate the illegals?"

"Plus, I have a constitutional right to carry a biological weapon."

"And I have a right to control my own body (as long as I'm not trying to prevent myself from breeding)."

"Also, wearing a mask makes me uncomfortable, and so does watching all those people dying in the hospital from COVID-19."

#COVID-19 #social #distancing #masks #vaccine #USA

@freemo

The best revenge is to hunt down your enemy while he's hiding his compound in Pakistan, kill him, dump is body in the ocean, and then tear down the compound and build an amusement park in its place.

@zstark

I don't use IDE anymore, I only use SCSI.

@Acer
很好的解释。 很好，怎么解释。 我们无法解释，这很好。

（我只是在开玩笑。）

@Vectorfield
我同意。 体育只是分散对更重要问题的注意力。

For God's sake, if you use an acronym please SIO (spell it out) within parenthesis after the first use in EVERY toot even if you are 100% sure that everyone on the planet knows what it means; because they don't.

What the fuck does mfs mean? Here's what duckduckgo says, and I'm sure none of them are what the poster intended:

Investment Professional - MFS
MFS mutual fund,...
MFS Access For Shareholders
MFS Service Center, Inc.
MFS sponsored employer plans
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Monadnock Family Services
MFS ACT Team
MFS Supply
Multifamily Managers, and Real Estate and REO Professionals.
Modular Fuel System (MFS)
Motorcycle Safety Foundatior
Mass Firearms Store
Search domain massfirearmsshop.commassfirearmsshop.com

Maybe the M means mastodon, maybe the F means federated? Who knows?

I'm sure this is some acronym that that you guys use all the time in in your tight little circle, but if you're going to toot something out in a public toot to whole world and want anybody to know what the fuck you are talking about -- SPELL IT OUT!

It's a pain in the fucking ass to have to look up an acronym and half the time it's so god damned esoteric that even the search engines have no idea what the fuck it is.