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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by QGator2414, Aug 25, 2022.

  1. jhenderson251

    jhenderson251 Premium Member

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    TIC, but has anyone considered that Djokovic isn't being kept out due to risk of spreading COVID, but instead due to risk of spreading douchebaggery? He has a particularly lethal strain that appears to afflict you for life once you're infected.
     
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  2. OklahomaGator

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    If he just went down to Mexico and waded across the Rio Grande river he wouldn't need a vaccine to get into the country. (runs away.........lol)
     
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  3. ncargat1

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    Not allowing posters to start the same thread that he started about Djokovic several weeks ago would also help. Did we really need Q to start a second thread on this specific topic?
     
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  4. WarDamnGator

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    Q… aren’t you a secretary at a dental office? What makes you qualified to advise other people on vaccines and medical related topics?
     
  5. Orange_and_Bluke

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  6. QGator2414

    QGator2414 VIP Member

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    Really appreciate the response. I don't mind some good tongue and cheek and myself have a snarky back and forth going on the fauci resigns thread.

    In a similar way that is what had me respond the way I did. To be constantly accused of being anti-vax because of my position on the covid shots got to me.

    I concur 100% with your post. It can be really hard typing and trying to provide proper context compared to being in person. I just wanted to set the record straight again that I am not anti-vax. And I hope we are able to poke with some fun going forward. If I came across too strong in my response I apologize. As I do not want it to feel like we cannot add some humor or embellishment at times either. Gotta love trying to communicate sometimes...:)
     
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  7. WarDamnGator

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    It's a serious question. What are Q's qualification to give vaccine advice? That he watches youtube videos?
     
  8. Orange_and_Bluke

    Orange_and_Bluke Premium Member

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    Serious answer. I don’t view Q as an expert and I do not take healthcare advice from an internet board. Why he upsets you so much is the real question.

    side note: how did you not laugh at my gif? I’m still chortling like a little girl.
     
  9. QGator2414

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    What does not stop one from getting Covid? What does not stop the spread? What does the data say about healthy people and Covid? How many have had Covid at this point?

    Can I leave the country and come back unvaccinated?
     
  10. WarDamnGator

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    Well, he obviously thinks he's a vaccine expert. Good for you for not listening to him. Hopefully nobody takes him seriously.
     
  11. Orange_and_Bluke

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    I don’t take anyone seriously on the board. This place is pretty wild.
     
  12. tilly

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    Did he give advice or offer an opinion? I mean how "qualified" are we to discuss 3rd down calls in the 4th quarter?

    Yet for the next 4 months we will all do it.
     
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  13. HeyItsMe

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    Arm chair QB’ing over a football game versus something that could have dire consequences if the wrong opinion gets into someone’s head is a slightly different matter, but I digress.
     
  14. Orange_and_Bluke

    Orange_and_Bluke Premium Member

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    At the end of the day, we’re all just strangers on a message board.
    Maybe we’re taking ourselves too seriously. Idk
     
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  15. QGator2414

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    What are your qualifications? I have not told anyone not to take the shot. Granted I would say giving this shot to a child (this was and never has been an emergency for kids which begs the question why it was EUA of them and worse 6 month olds) is a bad decision. And now taking it is pointless at this time but if one wants to they should.

    Most know my situation. I have a Masters in Industrial Engineering. My wife is a Doctor/Dentist. Our practice has always strived to not only provide the best dental care possible but even more. The amount of time we have with a patient is typically far more than the your normal GP or even specialist. Two checks a year with being in the chair for 45 minutes usually. There is so much that can be accomplished beyond just your oral care at a dental visit. Integrative Dental Medicine is a purposeful focus for us.

    With that said…make the decisions you wish to make. I have made mine based on the data and communication with well educated people. Some got the shot(s). Some did not. I did not. My kids did not.

    Why do you listen to authorities that say it is okay to go sit in a big stadium right next to people unvaccinated but you cannot come play in a tournament unvaccinated? Authorities that allowed him to play in the US Open last year?

    You wonder why Public Health officials like fauci are looked at as a joke now? They have and continue to cause generational damage.
     
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  16. QGator2414

    QGator2414 VIP Member

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    That thread left the first screen a while ago. This was the latest news that broke.

    It is worth discussing as our Public Health policy continues to ignore science and lose credibility.

    It should bother you we are peddling such a ridiculous policy. Instead you want to complain about the messenger…

    Sigh!
     
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  17. WarDamnGator

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    So the TL/TD version is that you have no medical expertise at all and are not qualified to give your option about vaccines other than “this is what Seth Rogan thinks”. Got it.
     
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  18. G8trGr8t

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    Vaccines don't always prevent infection. They do lessen the severity, long term impacts, and greatly reduce death rates. You know this, it just doesn't fit your agenda.

    The reduced severity decreases the amount of spread.

    Who knows?

    Yes you can
     
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  19. docspor

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    Not a Q fan, but give me a break with this need for qualification crap. that's super weak sauce. &, given all the "economists", "climate scientists", etc. on here, quite hypocritical.
     
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  20. WarDamnGator

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    I read his post as him trying to persuade other people to his antivaxer view point.
     
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