Can't have the companies maintain the pipes though, that would be "big government" and 'impose' on their fictional-skywizard-given right to only ever make profit while socializing the losses!

It's life or death; the only choice is whose.

Ditto, I used to be meh on the yearly flu shot but hey I can pick stuff up at Costco while getting it done so may as well.

Get rekt for Hoarding vaccines. Hope they overpaid for them too.

There's a lot of evil in this world but this is pretty fuckin gross. Those doses could have gone to the developing world instead of being chucked out but no...

I can give a perspective.

I have had 4 shots: 3 Pfizer and 1 bivalent. I have also had a bout of COVID (Omicron, I suspect) with very mild symptoms. The shots and boosters were recommended by my government (Singapore) and free, so I took them. Just a reference: Singapore has a full vaccination rate of over 90%.

The last shot (the bivalent) took me out for a day. Arm felt bruised, slight fever. Got better in a couple days. But basically I do wonder how much my immunity could have waned when my body reacts so strongly even to another dose of the vaccine. Each dose the reaction generally gets stronger, which I suppose is good if I get exposed to COVID again, but I feel like maybe I can afford to space out boosters more.

I’m sorry , did you say the fish has too much murcury and they send the water for rice farming. Who wants that rice.

While I agree, I suspect the major issue at this point is not availablity (well, maybe for the newer vaccine variants), but the cost and complexity of distribution.

That isn't to say they should just let them expire, but it is a bit different than sitting on vaccines that could have easily been used elsewhere.

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Ah the old name was DoDDS.

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The whole post is a Swiss Miss. May as well shit on the cheese, while they're at it.

It was amazing back then! I bought a lake house and it’s still fun and all but it is not what it was growing up. Always exciting to see the water rise but we all dread June irrigation season that keeps getting prolonged.

School of Hard Knocks = High school dropout

Same. “Finally” got it late this past January. XBB variant I believe. Think I got it from our gym. I may have had a mild case March 2020 but can’t know for sure. One day woke up, felt headachy and woozy, then by mid day BAM felt like absolute shit. Chills, muscle aches, nausea. Then that was gone the next day but turned to a bad cough. That chronic cough and chest heaviness hit me hard for a solid week. Lost taste and smell too. Difficulty with deep breathing, intermittent shakiness, minor phlegm… looked fine and felt fine otherwise. Got over it after one week but did not recover breathing and some scattered chest tightness for a good month. Healthy, fit, no health concerns, no “vices,” no genetic diseases at all. No, it’s not “mild.” Just because you don’t die doesn’t mean it’s not concerning. You don’t want it. It’s not a normal cold like people say it is (still). I can absolutely see how scary it would be for someone compromised already, not that I ever doubted that. Hope you fully recover asap

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> You continue to mischaracterize Israel’s defensive actions as conquest

Annexing territory through force without the consent of the people living there is conquest. I don't know what else to tell you. It's the difference between Israel's occupation of the Sinai and it's annexation of the Golan Heights, one is different than the other.

Can you answer me a simple question, when Israel annexed the Golan Heights did it ask any of the people living there what they thought about it?

>You mischaracterize as conquest how Israel came to exist; the territory was granted by the previous owner, the British, who took it from the Ottomans, who took it from…, who took it from the Jews

If we're going to go this far back in history, let's not forget that the Jews took what became Israel from people living there already. I think it's dumb to talk about who conquered who in the Iron Age when it comes to informing modern international relations but if we must let's remember the Israelites took Canaan though force. It's in the Bible

>You claim that Israel is undemocratic when it’s the only fucking democracy in the entire fucking region and, although as imperfect as any other democracy, uses that government to protect the rights of its citizens to a far greater extent than any other country in the region, including the fifth of the population who are Arabs who enjoy far greater rights than any other Arab in any other Arab nation.

The authoritarian of Arab states around Israel doesn't excuse Israel's behavior. I can talk all day about how the Arab states around Israel violate basic human rights of people, and they absolutely do. I mean look at Syria. But none of that excuses another country commiting its own human rights violations.

You never once acknowledged that Israel didn't ask the people who it forcibly took into it's territory if they wanted to be part of Israel

You can't pretend that's not real

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This woman falsely accused a teenager of being a child molester. He’s labeled for life. She deserves no less than life in prison. She’s a disgusting animal.

I’ve had this discussion a thousand times already…. You continue to mischaracterize Israel’s defensive actions as conquest, which is what was attempted by their enemies. You mischaracterize as conquest how Israel came to exist; the territory was granted by the previous owner, the British, who took it from the Ottomans, who took it from…, who took it from the Jews. You claim that Israel is undemocratic when it’s the only fucking democracy in the entire fucking region and, although as imperfect as any other democracy, uses that government to protect the rights of its citizens to a far greater extent than any other country in the region, including the fifth of the population who are Arabs who enjoy far greater rights than any other Arab in any other Arab nation.

The fact is that you know all of this. You twist your words to fit your antisemitic narrative. You take advantage of the fact that those who respond to you feel the need to use words responsibly. I will not be responding to any more of your replies. I’ve given you more of my time and energy than an antisemite deserves.

Much worse is all the good food we throw away daily…

Experts say as much as 1/3rd of all food produced is wasted. That is absurdly gross!

Looking at it again, yeah, it looks more like a charter. So it's probably that (unless this is something specific to Germany) it doesn't have an escape aid (hammer).

That’s the school buses there. The big yellow school bus isn’t a thing in Germany.

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