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One, it just bothers me to see all these politicians urging people to do all this stuff to mitigate the impact of the virus (most of which I agree with by the way) while being terrified of and in many cases supported by the tobacco lobby and not ever speaking up about the dangers of smoking. Maybe it's apples to oranges but something doesn't sit well. Two, there are things we could do short of banning cigarettes, I think. Better education about the dangers (I mean, you don't hear a word about it ever any more, but you hear 24 7 about the coronavirus). Better measures to protect children against second hand smoke in the home. More help to people trying to quit.
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As far as smoking goes, they've raised the prices so high that if you want to smoke you're basically gonna go broke, or pay an arm. They raised the age to buy them to 18, so it's not like you are selling to "kids". I know middle schools and high schools have signs up regarding smoking and vaping and the harms of it. You got commercials with goons with no jaws and pulling their teeth out. You basically are being told this WILL happen to you, you will get lung cancer, you will get emphazima (sp), you will die! If after all that, people still want to smoke, go back to my first sentence or 2. |
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I'm getting my 2nd Moderna shot Friday. Why? Because I care. Even though I'm healthy and have a great immune system and probably don't need it, but I care about the old and infirm, I care about my tribe, my community and my country. I'd never forgive myself if I gave it to someone and they died.
This is my first pandemic so I'll err on the side of caution and go slowly with my reintroduction to normalcy. I've known 3 people who died of Covid and had a colleague lose 7 nurses who died in the shitshow that was NYC. So if I need to do my part to get us to herd immunity so folks will stop dying, sign me up. Besides, in my wayward youth I've ingested random drugs off a dirty barroom floor with some bar slut and went home with her to have unprotected sex, not knowing who manufactured the drugs or the bar sluts name. Just sayin'... I think I'll be okay with a little Covid shot. |
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Just this weekend my wife visited her sister at her lakeside home. She received the shot a week or 2 ago and based on what she told my wife, she thought she was fully protected/immune from ever getting covid. She rarely, if ever watches the news or reads newspapers and the biggest reason she moved to where she is, is to get away from it all. I have no idea what made her or who told her to get the shot, but, just as one example, here is someone who obviously didn't look into things further before getting it. My wife said the look on her face was shear shock when she told her that she would likely need a booster in another 6 months as that is what they are saying, that these vaccines are only good for 6 months or so. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/pfiz...12-months.html Quote:
Like I said before, many are also getting filthy rich off this covid vaccine rollout, but that is another story altogether. Anyone notice the graph in the link above I posted above how the case numbers, pre election, went through the roof but right after, when they lowered the PCR testing threshold number and began testing far less people, that the covid case numbers plummeted? Anyone notice that right after the election that CNN quit showing the covid case numbers and deaths in their ticker tape? Things that make you go Hmm.
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Peter even mentioned in his thread, maybe there is a reason for that but I guess you missed both?
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