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Atlantic: COVID Won’t End Up Like the Flu. It Will Be Like Smoking. (archive.is)
posted 4 years ago by Ahaus667 4 years ago by Ahaus667 +27 / -0
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– bamboozler1 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0

It’s The Atlantic…

Along with its fellow shit rag, The New Yorker, I don’t think “factual accuracy” is at all a requirement there…

The problem is, however, these are the papers the elite read. These are their opinions, and what they really think of us, crystallized and distilled to sound “clever, witty and thought-provoking”…

These are the fucking modern-day bourgeoisie (yes, yes, irony), and this is honestly what they think of us “little people”… 🙄

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– The_Gay_Deceiver 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

2 Safe 2 Effective

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– Ahaus667 [S] 22 points 4 years ago +22 / -0

The Atlantic is actually claiming being unvaccinated is the same as smoking.

The pandemic’s greatest source of danger has transformed from a pathogen into a behavior. Choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID is, right now, a modifiable health risk on par with smoking, which kills more than 400,000 people each year in the United States. Andrew Noymer, a public-health professor at UC Irvine, told me that if COVID continues to account for a few hundred thousand American deaths every year—“a realistic worst-case scenario,” he calls it—that would wipe out all of the life-expectancy gains we’ve accrued from the past two decades’ worth of smoking-prevention efforts. The COVID vaccines are, without exaggeration, among the safest and most effective therapies in all of modern medicine. An unvaccinated adult is an astonishing 68 times more likely to die from COVID than a boosted one. Yet widespread vaccine hesitancy in the United States has caused more than 163,000 preventable deaths and counting. Because too few people are vaccinated, COVID surges still overwhelm hospitals—interfering with routine medical services and leading to thousands of lives lost from other conditions. If everyone who is eligible were triply vaccinated, our health-care system would be functioning normally again.

The amount of pure bs here is hilarious

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– almond_activator 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

If everyone who is eligible were triply vaccinated, our health-care system would be functioning normally again.

He's off by a factor of three, given the compounding rate of complications. We'll be free of leftism by 2025 if they keep getting shots every few months.

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– deleted 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0
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– bamboozler1 22 points 4 years ago +22 / -0

What. The. Fuck…

At this point, how are we not fucking stringing these sorts of “journalists” up, or at the very least, fucking demolishing their “livelihood”…??

This is just… Beyond belief, at this point. Evil…

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– the_nybbler 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

So it will promote weight loss, mental energy, and sexiness at the cost of fucking with our sense of smell?

Sounds about right.

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– realerfunction 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

who was the guy that had the idea that the demonization of smoking was just a cover for the aftereffects of nuclear testing?

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– GimmeFuelGimmeFire 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I want to hear more about this. I wonder if there's any data correlating a decline in alleged negative effects of smoking with the measured decline in smoking. If there's no correlation and people keep getting cancer and COPD then maybe the nuclear testing theory holds more weight.

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– realerfunction 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

i wanted to hear more too, but the guy never responded. i can't even find the comment now.

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– ailurus 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Hundreds of thousands of deaths, from either tobacco or the pandemic, could be prevented with a single behavioral change.

Yep, that's correct. A simple behavioral change - stop being a fat, lazy, diabetic landwhale with high blood pressure and heart disease, and your chance of death from the coof is virtually nil if you're below 70-80 yo.

Oh, wait, we're still not supposed to talk about that? Sorry!

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– censorthisss 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

We've never had anywhere near 400k Covid deaths in a single year. The overwhelming majority of them died "with Covid", not because of Covid, which is a classification that has never been used in the history of modern medicine. They only changed it to make Trump look bad.

94% of Covid deaths had at least 2.5 co-morbitities. 75% had 4 or more.

The average age of a Covid death is something like 73.

We wouldn't even know Covid exists if it weren't for the media.

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– Decrixxx 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

delusional

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– WhitePhoenix 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Benjamin L. Mazer is a board-certified anatomic and clinical pathologist. His interests include diagnostic surgical pathology, evidence-based medicine, and health policy. He works as a gastrointestinal and liver pathology fellow at Yale New Haven Hospital.

Yale...

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– deleted 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0
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– bamboozler1 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

Bill (Gates), too. I know, I know, he’s a man, but let’s not pretend he isn’t a fucking monster, too, especially after the last two years or so…

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– deleted 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

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