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Hypochondria
- Thread starter Ifallalot
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Post a picture of your gun, either firearm or surfboard, or beat it liar.
I already have (both). It isn’t difficult if a barely high school graduate can do it (me).
You won’t do it. You skared.
I led a 30-something healthy guy through a series of socratic questions contesting his idea that we can't go back to normal and still need to wear masks and socially isolate today. His grammar school son is wearing masks in school and they never did this in Europe and there are no RCTs supporting it. He refers to kids as disease vectors.
Him: "Well, the virus will spread!"
Me: "But we have vaccines."
Him: "But the kids haven't been vaccinated."
Me: "But they're more likely to be struck by lightning than hospitalized from COVID."
Him:"But Omicron is surging!"
Me: "But it's milder than Delta and we have vaccines that prevent hospitalization. We all got it last week and it lasted about a day. It was milder than a cold. My kids got slightly sicker even though they were unvaccinated."
Him: "But they can still bring it home to grandma.:
Me: "They can do that even if vaccinated, and grandma can get vaccinated."
Him: "But the Supreme Court just ruled that not everyone has to get vaccinated, so we have to stop the spread to the unvaccinated!"
Me: "Why is this my problem or my obligation? I'll stay home if sick like I did last week, but otherwise I have my own problems to deal with. They can get vaccinated. My obligations do not extend beyond staying home if sick, which is where they were before COVID."
On and on we went. Finally I reminded him that this would likely ruin his upward trajectory in the company and mid-career guys like us were getting screwed having spend 5% of our lives in COVID mitigation. I don't think they're actually thinking through any of this. I think they're trying to conform to a narrative (regime propaganda) and to each other. It's a hivemind of the most-leftward part of the electorate that Biden is trying to appease while the other 75% of us are done with this.
Then he moved onto the threat of low-cost index funds (Vanguard) to ARE DEMOCRACY and I had to counsel him that this narrative was likely to screw guys like him and enrich billionaires.
NGMI.
Ok, always willing to trot out this image from the early 00s.
PS
Should have had this board with me this past Saturday and Sunday. But nooooo, I had to prove something to myself on a 7'6" and see more than a few waves go right by me.
Low cost index funds are a threat? How/Why?
No, what I'm saying is that I'm in Tahoe, ifailalot is in Phoenix and his diaper is so full of sh!t that I can smell it from here.
100% wrong
Most people here got tested because they either started feeling shitty or somebody in their household tested positive.
Also, anecdotal evidence is not evidence.
Just like your ITS IMPOSSUBLE THAT TRAMP LOST AZIRONA BECUS I SAW MANY FLAGS vomit.
My job is keeping regulated businesses in compliance with regulations. I work with government employees from a multitude of agencies on a daily basis.
Yes, I fear government overreach. If you have experienced what I have you’d fear it too.
BTW, I love how human life means nothing if they have comobirdities.
This is Joe Rogane's favorite fallacy.
GrapesDad loves it too.
Coincidence?
Nuh-huh.
So let me get this straight, you make your living off of regulations while spending your days crying on the internet about regulations?
Some people LIKE government overreach.
They will save us from ourselves, I guess?
Which "side" favors this more, lately?
They will save us from ourselves, I guess?
Which "side" favors this more, lately?
I think he read this in the news.
He said Vanguard was the largest shareholder in some big corporations. I replied, "Well, last I checked half the money in the market was indexed through Vanguard or Fidelity, so that's probably why. AFAIK Vanguard doesn't invest in individual stocks." Then I explained the history of index funds and Bogle and suggested, "Where are the customers' yachts?" and "A Random Walk Down Wall Street."Bogle gored some oxes: