Darwinism at work.

Yes, sadly, they do not cure mental illness.

> Where's JFK Jr. when we want to see some dumb-ass quote?

Busy exposing his perineum to the sun. The key to health.

Didn't JFK jr. die in a plane crash?

> Where's JFK Jr. when we want to see some dumb-ass quote?

The same place he's been for the last quarter century: dead. You're picking on the wrong Kennedy scion.

The American right wing had a absolute conniption fit about trans mice. And money spent on trans mice.

What they were actually talking about is transgenic mice which are mice who have had some Gene edits for use in specific research scenarios.

But somewhere out there is an uncle or an aunt that is absolutely furious that their taxpayer dollars paid for a little boy mouse to wear a dress or something. I don't know I don't listen to those people... I only hear about them because the president of the United States is apparently one of them...

Intelligence is much more a function of environment than genetics. One's genetic contribution, in theory, sets an upper limit on intelligence potential , but to actualize that potential one needs a solid education. Someone with genius level IQ born into poverty and with no access to education will wind up just as superstitious and backwards as all of their peers.

This goes doubly so for critical thinking, because critical thinking is not natural. Our brains naturally operate on a survival program that relies on logically fallacies and snap judgments because these are right enough most of the time to keep a person alive out in the wild. This is normally combined with learning from pack mates, which is how our species endured for millions of years. So, without the right education, critical thinking is very difficult for us.

The same is true of scientific knowledge. To someone who has not received the necessary in-depth education to understand clearly why science is better than religion, it looks like just another religion, and even worse, a religion with government backing. Governments are notorious liars, so when you combine that with the unintuitive conclusions of science and no foundational understanding, something like a vaccine looks like an outright trap.

Anti-vaxxers are still wrong, and the misinformation they spread is still harmful, but I must have a drop of compassion for them, given that they clearly haven't had the advantages that I've had.

The Scamdemic shots caused massive amounts of Pericarditis, Myocarditis and massive blood clots. My next door neighbor's mom died 2 days after her first Pfizer shot and my best friend lost both her father and uncle to turbo cancer within 2 months of their shots. These were the most untested drugs in modern regulatory industry and I think they killed 1% ~ 2% of people who took them and they were and still are incredibly dangerous. I've written about this extensively with sources.

[1]https://battlepenguin.com/ [battlepenguin.com]

[1] https://battlepenguin.com/politics/untested/

JFK: Just Fucking Kidding.

RFK: Really Fucking Kidding.

Sorry to hear you have those issues. I have some auto-immune issues too, though not that bad, and I was really worried during COVID.

Even now I usually get a private COVID and flu vaccination every year. I'm not in any of the categories that get them for free, but aside from the safety they provide, I usually travel over the new year and I don't want to get sick while I'm on holiday.

> As someone who is severely immuno-compromised (and has to take a specific injection each month to suppress my B-Cells) due to IgA neuropathy, I'm hoping this rolls out past that age range for those in the other categories of at-risk including cancer patients, HIV, transplant, etc...

Given that status, you may be able to find a provider who would prescribe it off-label. You'll probably end up paying out of pocket for it. But, as the article points out, because the [1]ACIP [wikipedia.org] is such a circus sideshow now, hardly any insurance plan will cover these new vaccines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Advisory_Committee_on_Immunization_Practices&oldid=1359042019

I sort of have the opposite problem, a super agressive immune system. Sounds good right? Not fucking really. Flus have hospitalized me multiple times nearly drowning me in phglem. Vaccines tend to make me feel lousy because the reaction is so strong but dear lord is it an improvement over the disease itself.

Needless to say, covid scared the shit out of me. Still havent had it yet. I think.

> As someone who is severely immuno-compromised (and has to take a specific injection each month to suppress my B-Cells) due to IgA neuropathy, I'm hoping this rolls out past that age range for those in the other categories of at-risk including cancer patients, HIV, transplant, etc...

I have some cousins who through a family member I'm not biologically related to inherited a congenital disease that the only current "cure" for is to have to have an organ transplant at some point in their lives. I have an idea of what you go through from knowing what they go through. I want to point out that you may be able to get your doctor to give you a prescription for the mRNA flu vaccine even if you aren't in the approved age range.

In my personal experience, for what little that is worth, the traditional AstraZenica vaccine really screwed me up. Badly enough that I couldn't work for a while.

The mRNA COVID vaccines have been fine. Maybe a day or two of feeling off, some shivers the first time. The traditional flu vaccine is much worse.

If they could create a generic flu one that would be great, so they don't have to predict it every year.

With their COVID vaccine, the first time was the highest dose they knew would have only acceptable side effects, and they reduced it for the next iteration when they saw how effective it was. (If you remember the myocarditis rare side effect, that was only seen with the first version.) I would guess that the next step is backing off on the dosage to reduce the side effects now that they have results on effectiveness, which will also let them make a better case for younger people at less risk from the flu.

> Personally the Covid mRNA vaccine made me the most sick Iâ(TM)ve been in my life, and a significant amount of people I personally knew, not antivaxers, had very adverse effects from it, many who needed 2-3 days off work

Then imagine what COVID would have been like?

The initial COVID vaccines were a bit over-powered in my view, but they wanted really high effectiveness, so I suppose that's the tradeoff.

I have auto immune issues, and it seems like the exact nature of the response is different enough that it doesn't affect me as badly. I'm not a biologist but my understanding is that mRNA vaccines bypass a step in the process of creating immunity, so maybe it's that step that is causing me problems.

They don't justify it. They just move the goalposts. "Oh the world didn't end this year? I mean next year obviously."

I knew someone who died of coronavirus after refusing the vaccine due to all the FUD.

So this disinformation does kill people. I don't know how many, but more than enough.

> I often wonder how all these people who believed that COVID vaccines were a plot to sterilize or murder humanity have justified to themselves the continued-unchanged existence of babies-in-specific and humans-in-general

Easy, they deny that's the actually state of things, claim everyone is lying about everything, etc.

> This has to be a troll. Nobody on Slashdot is actually this stupid.

I'm skeptical about that second part.

As for trolls, I wonder if some anti-vax propaganda is being pushed by hostile foreign powers as a way of hurting us.

It came across as intense satire/sarcasm to me, but then I maybe failed to consider that there may be some here who actually are that stupid. *shrug*

It's too perfect in being wrong for it not to be a troll.

Thanks, Bill Gates!

The OP is also wrong in that flu is also not a coronavirus

> You're intentionally ignoring the side effects of ivermectin.

which are?

I'm friends with a couple who took their 6 year old daughter to go live in a country with malaria endemic for a year. Docs put the kid on ivermectin for the whole time. Zero side effects. I don't get what the big deal was with this during covid. Does it work for covid? No. Does it hurt anything? Also no. Why did anyone care?

Someone in my local hospital dying of covid wanted to take horse dewormer. Hospital wouldn't let them. It went to court, and the patient lost. Guess what? They still died.

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> Well hopefully the authors are not dumb enough not to consider this

Of course they considered it, they not only considered it, they told the world. They aren't trying to hide it, it's not nefarious.