Considering I provided references and you do not that is hardly a mic drop come back. I don't have a problem with the quote per se. I have a problem with hypocrites. You complain about unsourced opinions and yet you rely on an unsourced opinion. That is funny and sad all at the same time. I am sure the Germans or the Swedes have a big long word for this, but I will just coin one: Tuchidiocy. I like the sound of it and it is a clever pun on your username so we will need to make sure that it catches on. Perhaps one day we will see it next to goblin mode and other neologisms in the dictionary. The UrbanDictionary is probably a good place to start disseminating this lexical masterpiece.
Here's how the word can be used in context:
- Your tuchidiocy is showing!
- Don't be a tuchidiot!
- That is the most tuchidiotic thing I have heard all day
- You have reached new levels of tuchidiocy
- Tuchidiots are always confidently wrong.
Your thoughts are increasingly incoherent as you scramble to deflect the truth.
The point I was making - because I truly want to help you - is that just like flat earthers reject all evidence that does not fit with their world view, you do the same. There is however a bog difference between flat earthers and covidians like you. I have never heard of flat earthers advocating to imprison and punish those who do not agree the earth is flat. In that respect you are certainly worse, though both are a variety of idiot.
Your anonymous quote is SOOOO clever! Would that not be one of your unsupported opinions?
It seems clear that you suffer from a delusion that makes you impervious to common sense and facts. You are basically a flat earther but to smug to realize it, completely unscientific but convinced your wrong theories are true.
You are an interesting study in delusion. You don't like the fact that tens of thousands of people die each year from correctly prescribed medication and so you just dismiss it as , oh it's just an article. The concept of iatrogenic disease is well known in the medical profession and the lethality of prescription medication is a well known, but conveniently ignored, fact when they sell you their poisons. Have you seen the commercial for lamasil, to cure goddam toe fungus, and one of the side effects that the pharma company lists - in a cheerful voice narration - is liver failure and death. I bet the ones that found out the hard way about those side effects would have preferred to keep their liver and their toe fungus.
As for the number of people who die each year from correctly prescribed medication the figure comes from a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. The fact that it has been popularized by articles is not only fine, but good for them for getting the news out. It does not in any way invalidate the findings.
Notably, out "of the 33 million hospitalized patients in 1994, some 2.2 million had a nonfatal reaction serious enough to require medical attention" And you want to use the overloaded hospitals argument to shill for the vaxx.
You're equating the best science the globe has to offer with 2-bit shysters. That says something about you.
Your naive faith is touching, but at the same time repulsive because it is people like you who were and will again be the willing accomplices to vaxx mandate tyranny, all from a misguided faith in these money grubbers. Remeber that these are the people who gave us thalidomide, and the people who intentionally allowed hiv tainted blood products to infect thousands with hiv at a time when there was no treatment. Time and time again they have shown that they cannot be trusted but you persist in your child like faith.
As has been pointed out by many medical ethicists and studies, the regulatory process for new drugs has been subverted. In the peer reviewed paper: "Institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs" appearing in J Law Med Ethics 2013 Fall;41(3):590-600.
Over the past 35 years, patients have suffered from a largely hidden epidemic of side effects from drugs that usually have few offsetting benefits. The pharmaceutical industry has corrupted the practice of medicine through its influence over what drugs are developed, how they are tested, and how medical knowledge is created. Since 1906, heavy commercial influence has compromised congressional legislation to protect the public from unsafe drugs. The authorization of user fees in 1992 has turned drug companies into the FDA's prime clients, deepening the regulatory and cultural capture of the agency. Industry has demanded shorter average review times and, with less time to thoroughly review evidence, increased hospitalizations and deaths have resulted. Meeting the needs of the drug companies has taken priority over meeting the needs of patients. Unless this corruption of regulatory intent is reversed, the situation will continue to deteriorate. We offer practical suggestions including: separating the funding of clinical trials from their conduct, analysis, and publication; independent FDA leadership; full public funding for all FDA activities; measures to discourage R&D on drugs with few, if any, new clinical benefits; and the creation of a National Drug Safety Board.
All of the lack of safeguards which allow deadly prescription drugs on the market continued to exist when these vaxxes came out, except that whatever safeguards existed were swept away by the moral panic of people like you clamoring for the safety of the vaxx, for the hope and faith in a brightest brains, or so they thought. You could not think for yourself and now here you are. I bet you are a good and loyal customer of the pharma treadmill, taking a few prescriptions and a few more to counteract the side effects of the primary ones.
And yes, it does say something about me, which is that I am not gullible. You should try it sometime.
A better analogy would be a rusted frame. The car would have been repairable if the frame hadn't failed during the accident.
The fact that you actually don't get it makes your entire reasoning suspect.
But to help you: the analogy I used was correct and points to the flaw in your basic assumptions about covid, its lethality, and how many are even hospitalized because of it.
You seem enamored by vaccines, why is that?
Doesnt it bother you that these the pharmaceutical industry chronically puts profit ahead of safety?
For example it is well known that correctly prescribed and taken medications cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year:
A more recent analysis estimates 128,000 Americans die each year as a result of taking medications as prescribed – or nearly five times the number of people killed by overdosing on prescription painkillers and heroin.
In fact, taking a prescription is likely the fourth leading cause of death among Americans https://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-advice/articles/2016-09-27/the-danger-in-taking-prescribed-medications
From the same article:
“By far the greatest number of [prescription drug-related] hospitalizations and deaths occur from drugs that are prescribed properly by physicians and taken as directed,” says Donald Light, a medical and economic sociologist and lead author of a 2013 paper that detailed the estimate, entitled “Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Safe and Effective Drugs.”
And:
More than 2 million Americans become seriously ill every year because of toxic reactions to correctly prescribed medicines taken properly, and 106,000 die from those reactions, a new study concludes. That surprisingly high number makes drug side effects at least the sixth, and perhaps even the fourth, most common cause of death in this country.
The analysis, the largest and most complete of its kind, suggests that one in 15 hospital patients in the United States can expect to suffer from a serious reaction to prescription or over-the-counter medicine, and about 5 percent of these will die as a result.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/health/daily/april98/drugs041598.htm
This is not to mention the fact that some pharmaceutical companies intentionally pushed Oxycotin knowing that they would make people addicted and turn them into life long money generators:
It also admitted paying doctors through a speakers program to induce them to write more prescriptions for its painkillers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/purdue-opioid-epidemic-guilty-1.5814318
While other companies such as Bayer were just as murderous, intentionally selling hiv tainted blood products once they had the ability to screen for the disease, making the cynical calculus that it was cheaper to keep selling what they knew was tainted in third world countries where regulation was lax: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24785997/
When Bayer's Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or antihemophiliac factor (AHF), were contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory. Cutter misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk.
Pfizer, the lead vaxx manufacturer, and one with an effective campaign of stifling dissent over the vaxx, was fined 2.3 billion dollars - the largest criminal fine in US history - for PLEASE NOTE - deceptive marketing of its drug products. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-largest-health-care-fraud-settlement-its-history
And yet you are inclined to believe what Pfizer tells you. And yet you are inclined to also believe that there is not widespread corruption when there is so much money to be made.
Companies that would cynically work to get you hooked on pain killers, infected with hiv, and commit fraud and make false claims about their products are not to be trusted. Yet you seem to have a covidian faith in them. Why is that?
You can keep posting "unsupported opinion" like a glitching bot if you want, but you should examine why you are willing to be such a willing sheeple.
If your local grocer was known to kill a few hundred people a year with its food, would you keep buying there? If a used car salesman had been convicted of fraud for making misleading claims about the reliability and safety of his cars, would you put on your sucker hat and go buy a car from him because this time its different?
shutting down "elective" surgery for cancer, heart, etc.
You would make some sense if the entire fiasco weren't the result of woke virtue signalling that made the problem worse.
The fact that they fired doctors,nurses and other health workers at the same time they claimed the hospitals were over run sums up how idiotic the vaxx mandates are, and how invalid your argument is. The only reason that elective surgeries were delayed is because of a health care system run by morons who misallocated resources.
Or what about those disgusting nurses who found time to put out tik tok videos where they twerked and choreographed some sexy dance. Really overworked. I call them disgusting because nothing says I am sorry you lost your grandma like twerking on tik tok These bitches lacked basic compassion and should leave the profession so they can spend more time on onlyfans.
Furthermore, know that your figures of how many died are highly suspect. Time and time again, it has been found that the numbers were ridiculously inflated. How can you trust any of the figures when the official statistics crumble when scrutinized.
For example, in Finland 20 percent of official covid deaths appear to have been from other causes:
while as many as 40 percent were counted as covid deaths because the person died within 30 days of getting covid even though there is no evidence that they had covid at the time of death
Now I realize that narrative engineers like Reuters try to debunk this and they include a quote in their fact checking from the Finnish ministry of health that says:
However, a health official in Finland says that including deaths to which COVID may have contributed avoids under-reporting COVID-related deaths.
Notice the use of the words may have contributed. So no proof. Just an assumption.
Of course including such deaths in the statistics does prevent under reporting. Dah. But it clearly contributes to over reporting. So is it 6 million dead or 4 million? Or even less. And by the way 6 million is actually a very low figure when you consider the total population of the world and how many people actually got infected. The mortality rate is much less than 1 percent. Things such as tetanus have a 6 percent mortality rate - but you are confusing prevalence with mortality. Even a widespread normal flu can cause millions of deaths if enough people are infected. The number of deaths in either case does not make either disease exceptionally lethal. You have to factor in how many people died as a percentage of the infected.
But getting back to the issue of overcounting covid deaths ..,
Shocking cases where people died of gunshot wounds or were literally run over by buses are striking examples of how ridiculous these statistics actually are. But even when the facts are not as stark, the statistics are still inflated. For example, here is an article that hints at the truth:
Never mind the spin it puts on it. The point is they didnt get hospitalized because of covid but because they were in hospital their numbers count towards the moral panic of over run hospitals.
The other posters constantly say you are a mechanic, so I am going to use a mechanic analogy. If a car has a bad muffler and gets hit by another car and totaled on the way to the mechanics shop to fix the muffler, can we say that a bad muffler will kill your car?
Note that even among health professionals there is debate on what should be counted towards the statistics. Here is an article about how a change in reporting guidelines immediately led to a dramatic drop in the number of covid hospitalizations.
And further, the NIH says that most covid hospitalizations are due to underlying conditions:
A study estimated that nearly two-thirds of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. could be attributed to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure
So it is clear that covid complications are attributable to in most cases to lifestyle choices. Health authorities and you should be extolling the virtues of eating well, of getting exercise, of losing weight and so on rather than pushing a dangerous vaccine. Even the non mrna vaccines carry serious known risks. And all have unknown risks due to the lack of robust testing over long enough periods of time, and the lack of any understanding of how multiple boosters will affect outcome.
But we know that in fact the vaxxed - not the unvaxxed as the stereotype would have it - are now more likely to end up in hospital or die than the vaxxed and this is just from covid, not even getting into mortality from other causes.
Now to avoid the rebuttal I will deal with the Reuters rebuttal https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-britain-idUSL2N2VK15E which says this is not true, that despite the government data that shows the vaxxed are 6 times more likely to die of covid this is - say it with me: COVID MISINFORMATION!!!! Why? Because the triple vaxxed are less likely to die than anyone else
But of course implicit in that statement is that the double vaxxed are more likely to die and overrun the health care system before they go into the undiscovered country.
And as the UK website points out the higher mortality among the double vaccinated is due in part to waning immunity. Soon the triple vaccinated will be dying more but we will cope by pointing to our success with the quadruple vaccinated.
By the way the higher mortality among the vaxxed is being replicated in all western countries. Ontario, which once gloated over the proportion of vaxxed and unvaxxed in hospital, stopped publishing that statistics after the trend showed much more dead and horpitalized among the vaxxed even adjusting for population
Notice also that the definition of unvaxxed is conveniently blurring and is now including people with only one vaccination or two vaxxes long ago. Only the triple, and soon the quintuple boosted are being counted in the good column, which skews the whole argument that the unvaxxed are more likely to get sick.
So if you are one of the ardent true believers in a product made by a company that received the largest criminal fine in US history for deceptive marketing, or others like it who also have had shady dealings (like the vaxx maker whose subsidiary knowingly sold HIV tainted blood products for hemophiliacs in Asia after those same products had been banned in Canada and the US), by all means stay on the booster treadmill but at least stop being an unpaid shill for them. They do not deserve your devotion. At some point the truth will penetrate even your armor of denial and you will realize what you have advocated for. So for the sake of your conscience, don't try to convince people to take these things. You are not doing good, if you convince even one person and their lives end up ruined like this pathetic woman, you will be morally culpable. Pack it in and go work on that engine.
I sympathize on one level but on on the other hand I think that she would have been one of the first to support rounding me and the other unvaxxed up in the cattle cars if things had not gone better for her. Lesson learned for her.
What a Tuchidiot!