I have the worst #OCD about #COVID.
I wonder if this happened to others before me. I keep thinking I test positive on lateral flow tests when seeing an extremely faint line, only when looking from certain angles from up close with a flash. Looking online ofc it says a faint line means positive.
But, I just noticed that when doing the same to an empty test, before I put any sample in at all - I can still see those lines around both the C and T.
So lost rn. Doctors??
The faint line you see is the chemical placed there that reacts. You should be able to see it regardless.
what they mean by a faint line is positive they mean if the line is colored pink but light, not if you can see the discoloration at all.
You look good here.
By the way I have had COVID at least 7 confirmed times. It is a serious disease, and be mindful of course. But I wouldnt let it stress you too much. Not the end of the world if you get it.
Thank you I appreciate that. I had it 4 times, I'm not stressed so much about getting sick, I'm stressed about infecting anyone else :/
There was no doubt an element of harmful hysteria. But to try to claim it as some evil conspiracy theory to sell some new tech of vaccines is a pretty absurd claim as well, just as bad if not worse than the hysteria.
> I use 4 basic criteria: means, motive, opportunity and historical track-record.
I notice this has the usual failing of conspiracy theorists to consider 1) Actual evidence of the truth 2) feasibility of the conspiracy... if those arguably far more important qualities were considered most conspiracy theories wouldnt get very far.
The evidence on the topic of some giant conspiracy regarding vaccines is.. basically none. There is no evidence supporting it exists.
I am looking at a lack of evidence, along with the absurdity of carrying it out simply being impractical, and concluding that it does not deserve attention or time until actual evidence comes up suggesting it is true.
The default when you lack evidence is to not make an assumption that a thing exists until you have that evidence.
I do agree that there has been bias due tot he hype around COVID that has caused bias and stifling of true academic debate and criticism. No doubt, when things become political that is common. But that is all there is evidence for, people becoming political and biased and unable to reason fiarly and objectively about the topic in many social settings (and even sometimes in academic ones)... That is not, however, evidence of a global coordinated conspiracy.
> Unfortunately I have other pressing stuff to deal with today, so won't be taking the time to dig up a fraction of the copious evidence which exists
As I expected would be the case.
Have a good day then.
> That said, if the point here is that there's not enough evidence to get off the fence
Umm, no.. I mean no more so than there isnt enough evidence to get off the fence about unicorns or fairies being real.
> If I had more time, I'd love nothing more than to dig up some stuff to show you. But if you're interested, you could always take a scroll down my timeline, as I've posted about it repeatedly over the past years. I just don't have time to spoon feed you today as I have other work to do, and trying to force a horse to drink water isn't really my idea of a good time.
I already follow you and have seen your posts on the topic. My comments were made fully aware of what you think is evidence to support your claims but is really just absurd failures in logic.
> :) Same to you, in the same spirit this was intended.
And what spirit is that? Sounds like that paranoia may be cranked a bit too high. I truely wish your day to be a pleasant want, while explicitly ending this conversation. It is worded that way to show 1) in no uncertain terms I wish to end this conversation due to any lack of value for my time and 2) to show I hold no ill will by wishing you a good day despite the absurdity of your argument.
> I could say the same about you bud. Claiming I have a failure in logic is quite a different matter than demonstrating what that failure consists of. Your silence in that regard says more than your baseless accusation.
No you couldnt. You are the one making the claim and presenting absurd evidence. I am making no such claim or presenting evidence. Much as I have made no claims about unicorns or presented any evidence that they dont exist either.
> You tell me? It was your statement.
I just did, and told you it is meant at face value.
> I'm just not taking it at face value.
What happened to "you tell me", i told you it was meant at face value in my last message, now your asking me to tell you what it meant and that you arent taking it at face value... which is it?
> Yet it doesn't stop you from proffering a derisive opinion about it, without any example or evidence to speak to.
Correct, I have strong opinions about theories which draw conclusions based on a lack of evidence, very strong opinions.
> Pardon me, but your attitude belies that claim.
My attitude has been polite but honest. I have refered to ideas as idiotic, but refrained from any personal attacks. Any feelings you have about my attitude is completely fabricated in your head based on the fact that I mock ideas you hold dear, which you take personally. Thats on you, I have stated in no uncertain terms what my words meant so you didnt have to speculate but here we are... This deserves no more energy or thought from me, you continue to waste my time.
Good bye (read: leave me alone) and have a good day (read: I still want you to be happy despite you insisting on wasting my time further)
> Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
Never claimed it was. In fact my wording was quite careful not to make this claim.
I have asked you twice now, each time with increasing levels of assertiveness to make sure it was stated in no uncertain terms.
Go away, right now you are welcome to reach out to me on future threads. If you continue to insist on spamming me when I asked you multiple times to go away the next time I just block you.
You didnt offend me. You insisted on enaging me when I didnt want to.
Which now you did, yet again, as another chance to force your opinion on an audience when you otherwise dont have one.
I am not offended, I simply have no wish to interact with someone who acts this way
Less of a conspiracy and more people just acting a fool... But yea, there were plenty of pretty dodgy actions in the response because everyones paranoia was cranked up to 11 with the fear mongering as is usually the case, doubly so when someone becomes political.
So yea, agreed to some extent there.
Aside from not being remotely true, i guess that sounds nice or something.
The reality is most people who support mRNA vaccines as safe are oftne in no way connected with money or in any way being paid to show that support.
Myself being a research scientist who worked on COVID-19 for two years without receiving a penny associaterd with vaccines (my research was unrelated to vaccines) yet I clearly support them.
So you are literally talking to a counter-example that shows your supposed evidence is factually false.
> The vaxxmaxxers and alarmists who persisted after that initial period despite the mortality data...
LOL, dont tell me you you bought into that conspiracy theory nonsense about the vaccines being dangerous and there being meaningful "mortality data"? Please tell me I am just misreading what you said...
Orn it just means i have nothing of interest or note to say about your main point.
I wasnt aware the subject was fixed and had to be maintained at the cost of all other conversation. That seems like a rather strange way to operate, I usually prefer conversations to evolve naturally and discuss the points of interest, particularly if the point of your statement has nothing worth pointing out in its own right.
A donkey raped me on my way to the pinnacle to watch the sunset. Once I got there it was a beautiful deep red sunset....
So we cant point out the donkey raping you because the point of the statement was to mention the sunset? We have to force ourselves to remark on the less interesting sunset that doesnt seem to have much value discussing rather than the donkey raping you, which may be of actual interest to me?
@freemo Haha fair enough
With the vaxx stuff, I’m kinda fuzzy on it. I don’t know if there have been a lot of large-scale studies on connections between the #mRNA #COVID19 vaccines and myocarditis, blood clots, etc., but from what I can tell, there are some undisclosed risks of dangerous blood clots for healthy people who get the vaccines. I don’t know what level that risk is, which is why I don’t call them dangerous (I call them “experimental”, as launching #mRNA vaccines of this scale is unheard of and unprecedented).
Undisclosed? How so? Those risks are all perfectly disclosed, well identified, real, and known. They are extremely rare, but real, and the people who are at highest risk are no longer given the vaccine and other vaccines are preferred. All handled exactly how it should have been, nothing undisclosed about it. They literally changed the administration protocols just to be even more safe than they needed to be.
@freemo I didn’t know that studies had come out quantifying all the risks (there might be a study about #myocarditis I forget), but then again it’s been a year or two since I’ve studied any #COVID19 data seriously. It doesn’t really matter much anymore since the virus has mutated into something far weaker at this point.
What is the quantified risk of blood clots from #mRNA vaccines?
There have been studies on the risks you mentioned for years now. It was studies done by the scientific community and the changes in protocol made that is how we know about it at all. Do you think the conspiracy theorists figured it out and scientists went "oh we should study this thing the flat earthers all keep saying about our vaccines"... lol... nah, the scientists found it on their own, announced it, did studies, changed protocols, all on a very very low risk event out of an abundance of caution.. then the conspiracy theoriests took it and went "seeeeeeeeeee its not safe after all!".
@freemo What is the rate of risk? Where are the studies?
These studies existing for years is news to me.
It varies depending on vaccine, but fir mRNA COVID-19 vaccine here is a more recent study with fairly accurate numbers.
The mycarditis and bloodclots first showed up in studies much earlier however.
> The incidence is reported to be around 1 per 100,000 to 250,000 vaccine recipients,
As for it existing for years... Pfizer for example announced the first risks in this regard April 2021, so about 3 years since they **announced** it. Of course you have to do studies first, so studies suggesting the risk were already availible sometimes before that, months to years.
So yea we can safely say this stuff has been public for 3-4+ years now in studies and even admitted and published by Pfizer directly for at least 3 years.
These numbers show extremely safe vaccines... one person out of a quarter million is insanely safe... Literally tylenol is many orders of magnitude more dangerous than numbers like this.
Why wouldnt they parade around numbers that show such an extreme level of safety as these?
@freemo That’s a good question, but the #MSM repeatedly saying “the vaccines are safe” would probably stick better with the public than “there’s a 4 in 1 million chance that you’ll get #Thrombosis” lol
> The vaccines are safe” would probably stick better with the public than “there’s a 4 in 1 million chance that you’ll get #Thrombosis”
Sure, but both these statements are just different phrasings of the same statement. They are just two different ways of saying it is safe. The reason the second one is less likely to be used is because most people wont understand what it means or that it is equivelant to saying its safe.
To put it in to perspective your chance of being struck by lightening in your life time is 16x higher than your chance of getting myocarditis from a covid vaccine. It would literally make more sense to never leave your home again for fear it isnt safe from lightening than it would be to get the vaccine.
@freemo Well, it cites something that debunks conspiracy theories. That’s kind of important to me. There is validity and weight to citing science and studies that just doesn’t exist when it comes to stating their conclusion without the underlying evidence.
There is no supported evidence of weakened mutation, rather those must susceptible have usually already been adversely impacted and whether through viral infection or vaccination (or both) antibodies have led to reduced rates of severity in the remaining population. Yet COVID remains many times more likely to cause severe illness or long-term health outcomes than flu (even if mild cases are often far milder).