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 (DIR) Post #AFRGQFWJsMzlP9nsSu by TonyStark@democracy.town
       2022-01-14T13:43:21Z
       
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       "'The truth is, we’re still in the emergency phase of the pandemic, and everyone who is downplaying that should probably take a tour of a hospital before they do,' Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Massachusetts, told me."People have died, and will, because they cannot get not-so-elective procedures like colonoscopies and so forth, due to the overloaded healthcare system.Most of the people clogging it up are anti-vaxxers. The anti-vax attitude depletes our mutual sense of community, as much as their long denial will continue to deplete our resources. People like NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers declare that "they have done their research" on COVID, as though sifting through internet trash is equivalent to years of scientific expertise in extraordinarily difficult fields like virology and immunology.It's everyone's responsibility to do their part to end this. Period.COVID-Hospitalization Numbers Are as Bad as They Look:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/for-covid-with-covid-hospitals-are-mess-either-way/621229/
       
 (DIR) Post #AFRGQFwCK9hAhPuXnk by AgentCarter_SSR@democracy.town
       2022-01-14T14:52:18Z
       
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       @TonyStark Whenever someone tells me they have 'done the research' on COVID and the vaccines I congratulate them on all the years of hard work and study they must have done to get their doctorate. Then ask them if was in virology or epidemiology, what school(s) they got their doctorate from and why they didn't invite me to their graduation party.That usually ends the conversation with a huff& some retort that includes the word 'smartass' somewhere within.
       
 (DIR) Post #AFRGQGL0ptXpwNWMTo by LearnTribe@mastodon.social
       2022-01-14T17:31:23Z
       
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       @AgentCarter_SSR @TonyStark Perhaps we should use the same process when encountering blinkered views around racism, economics, religion, political ideology, refugees, climate change...
       
 (DIR) Post #AFRGQGqCxuUxV87H6W by GreenFire@climatejustice.social
       2022-01-14T17:58:23Z
       
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       @LearnTribe @AgentCarter_SSR @TonyStark Google "experts" that "Do their own research" are a stain on humanity. Disinformation and propaganda are too easy to disseminate to expect rational human behaviour to ever become the norm again I fear.