• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    This is what happens when you break words by altering their definitions. We recently broke the word vaccine, and already we have people who don’t know that a weakened virus is a vaccine.

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    6 months ago

    That’s how I fought off covid the 3 times it jumped me. And no I am not antivax just never managed to make time for it and since it was broadcast as not stopping the infection I didn’t feel the urgency. Worst covid did was a medium flu like setup so just rode it out

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      6 months ago

      You fought off covid by being exposed to a weakened form of it? Did you get the Novavax shot? Or has the brain fog persisted and you’re just a little bit confused

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        6 months ago

        I got no shot, no antibiotics, nor any palliative attention from anyone. Just hunkered down at home and kept hydrated.

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          6 months ago

          That’s great for you. My grandfather died from it. And he hadn’t died from the common cold or a flu.

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            6 months ago

            My mom died of it too back in '21. She had copd and kidney and heart issues as well, so it was not unexpected

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              6 months ago

              Not my grandfather. He had come through colds, several cases of flu and even pneumonia. COVID got him.

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          6 months ago

          Antibiotics don’t do shit for viruses and shouldn’t be taken for cold, flu or covid unless you have underlying conditions that make you susceptible to a bacterial infection forming.

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    6 months ago

    This is why I see the political spectrum as just a circle … there is no far right or far left

    There is a center at the top and if you move to the right or left, you end up at the left side of the circle or right side of the circle … if you politics go any further, the start traveling inward and meet at the bottom … the far right is no different than the far left.

    So our job is to have this never ending circus balancing act of standing on this circle … it is constant work to keep it all balanced because if we drift to one end, we are liable to drift too far and end up at the bottom.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      What you’re describing sounds a lot like the Horseshoe Theory.

      In a nutshell, the far extremes of “left” and “right” are more similar to each other than the center, i.e. the ends of the horseshoe actually terminate at “authoritarian” and which way you go to ultimately get there winds up not mattering much in the end.

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      6 months ago

      Far left: we want healthcare and fair wages

      Far right: we want to genocide anyone who doesn’t like our version of fundamentalist “Christianity”

      Yeah ok bud totally the fucking same

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        6 months ago

        Modern far left: we think other people should be treated with respect, dignity, and have inalienable human rights to things like food and education. Modern far right: Chattel slavery was great and so was the Trail of Tears.

        I can’t see any differences between these two.