Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding (Post 3420714)

There you go again - tossing the "f" word around casually. You made a claim about studies demonstrating the inefficacy of masks. I asked you for a citation to those studies you claimed supported that assertion. You have not provided any. Instead, you mount an ad hominem based on a claim of my fear.

I ran into an example of this BS last night. I went to a meeting of my gun club. The room was about 50% full. I sat in the back with a few (dispersed) others. The guy running the meeting said something like, "You guys in the back move up front into some of these empty seat." I replied that, "we're social distancing." He said, "well, if you're afraid you can sit over on the side.' My response was, "it's not a function of fear, it's that situations like this are an IQ test."

I don't fear you or others. I'm pushing 70 - a LOT of things and a few people have tried unsuccessfully to kill me. I'm quite satisfied with it. If it all ends in 5 minutes, I have absolutely no complaints. You and others with your attitude, don't scare me, you just piss me off. You spew rubbish masquerading as "fact." I find your and their behavior anti-social. Not according to my ideals, but in the context of the reality we confront and the conclusions of people who know a lot more about that reality than either of us.

I care about this because I have this fleeting hope that someday our species will come to its senses and realize the only thing that can save us, from us, (collectively) IS us. And yet, we continue to be beset by roving gangs of bullshit artists who seem intent on bringing the "age of men" to a close. Why is it so difficult for you and the "others" you refer to to comprehend that other human beings can be motivated by anything but selfishness? That may be what keeps you going, but some folks care about things bigger than their selfish wants.

You claim to weigh the data. OK. Provide the citations I asked you for to the studies that demonstrate the inefficacy of masking.

Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding (Post 3420656)

But that's not what anyone is tryng to do, now is it? As I requested of Opie, show me a citation to some credible source that supports your fear. Then, let's discuss it.

Originally Posted by weederr33 (Post 3420783)

You obviously don't care about anyone but yourself, so why are you in here then? What do you plan to contribute other than just be a naysayer of anything anyone says?

Originally Posted by Opie (Post 3420790)

Aw, you care enough to respond, how cute.

It is a discussion on vaccines, I am discussing. That's why I am here. I am an individual, each individual here has different needs, wants, medical histories, etc. I discussed my opinions, others discussed theirs and others just attack anyone that doesn't share their viewpoint.

Originally Posted by weederr33 (Post 3420792)

If Rage Against the Machine has taught me anything it's to know your enemy.

But from my observation you don't seem to be discussing anything. Besides, your views and actions negatively impact others, which is the problem of this whole situation. If it only effected you, and you alone, that would be different and I would agree with you. But it doesn't.

Originally Posted by Opie (Post 3420795)

You learned how to find an enemy by listening to a rock band? OK

My views and actions don't positively or negatively affect anyone else, they do only affect me. They are MY views. If some other being wants to live their life based on my views that is their choice. Also your views affect anyone. Regarding the topic, the vaccine, my choice, based on the medical recommendations of those that asses my health (that would be doctors) is a no go currently. As stated previously, I have played the game of responsibility and wore a mask even after Fauci said it was ineffective, washed and cleaned surfaces (now proven unnecessary) and socially distanced (12ft, then 6ft, now 3ft....) and somehow still got this killer virus that was about as bad as a common cold. So stop preaching to me like I'm the anti-christ of super spreading.

Originally Posted by Opie (Post 3420776)

None of them have recommended I get the vaccination if that is what you are asking.

Originally Posted by Opie (Post 3420782)

You apparently are late to the discussion and chiming in without all the details, look back....

Originally Posted by Opie (Post 3420788)

Listen old angry guy, from another old, but un-angry guy, you said, and I quote:



You asked for a citation that supports my fear, a fear I don't have.

You are so fearful over this virus that you research only one point of view to strengthen your views while closing your mind to any differing possibilities. You want citations, stop posting your useless babble here and go find them yourself. You want everyone else to meet YOUR expectations of defense against this virus, your gun club, other members here, innocent bystanders at your local store. You want them to alter their actions to SUIT YOU. Talk about selfishness. Your reality is not mine. When I am advised TO NOT take a vaccine by the experts and professionals that monitor MY health, I listen. Then all the idiots on the internet tell me I'm wrong for doing what medical experts have recommended to me, Now I'm called a conspiracy theorist, an anti-vaxxer, a Maskhole just to try and peer pressure me to GO AGAINST THE MEDICAL ADVICE I HAVE BEEN GIVEN? And regarding the effectiveness of masks vs the virus, I posted one of the opposing studies previously, but as normal, you are to busy yelling your points from the rooftop to stop and see it. Keep throwing your intended insults and labels out, you aren't changing my mind, you are just demonstrating how you want to spread your misery to others.

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon (Post 3420810)

Been here all along. Link?

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon (Post 3420810)

No. I asked if you asked and if yes, what was their advice.

edit: the second "if yes" is an addition for clarification.

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon (Post 3420720)

Smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis... Just off the top of my head.

I do not understand the opposition.

Originally Posted by Opie (Post 3420831)

Cliff notes for the lazy, plus it was repeated 3 posts or so back, 1) Prior severe complications to flu vaccines, 2) Robust immune system, 3) Have been advised against getting it (the vaccine) by my doctors.

Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding (Post 3420825)

Dude. You must be an engineer (edit: apologies to legit engineers). Pilot implied he was concerned about being forced to stay inside by some nefarious outside force. I asked him to support that claim or concern with data. Just as I asked YOU to support your claim of multiple studies indicating mask inefficacy with citations. He has not done so and neither have you. Therefore I must conclude that you have no such support and there are no such studies and you are just MSU. Your "research skills" were honed, no doubt, with the help of Q.

Instead you resort to standard internet yahoo modes of "argumentation" - in the absence of credible support for your positions, you wave your arms and attack your interlocutor. You have convinced me of one thing - you are incapable of or unwilling to engage in reasoned discourse and as such are not really worth consideration. Like some others, you're just here to troll. If you get off on that, well, it's not my place to tell you how to get your jollies.

I see no need, however, to allow you to hump my leg to do it.

Originally Posted by weederr33 (Post 3420834)

What was the logic for your doctors advising against the vaccine? Did they say or just simply state not to get it?