He said that in context of a few specific women, not black women in general. Seriously, taking things out of context is so habitual that I can’t believe anything.

I’d say the same thing to right wingers celebrating the death of someone on the left. Wrong is wrong.

It’s different already, because people are celebrating it.

Yes, as long as people are willing to resort to murder in support of their ideology.

Pretty sure they are already among us

If you ban books that you disagree with, you are a book banner.

Once we stopped needing cheap labor to build the railroads and mine ore and occupy native lands and farm crops and roof houses and paint walls and run the cash register at the gas station. Actually we still need immigrants for some of that in order to sustain the level of growth required to fund our retirement plans and do the jobs that we would rather not do for wages that we would rather not work for. It looks like Republicans are hoping to fuel that growth internally through reproduction among existing citizens (under the theory that kids will work for lower wages), while the democrats want to rely on immigrants. That’s my theory anyway.

Except any countries that have what you are talking about have even lower birth rates.

I went down a stoicism rabbit hole for a while, but got a little disillusioned with it because it doesn’t really leave room for joy, excitement, passion, because these can all be taken from you. While this is true, I think it is harmful to focus too much on that, and it is better for mental health to leave room for joy and hope. Stoicism is a little bit too cynical for me. My theory is that this is why it died out. People are meant to be hopeful, even more hopeful than they should be.

The fact that you can freely criticize and say whatever you want about Elon means that he is not even close to as oppressive.

Mifepristone is an abortion drug. It’s use for birth control is off label.

Well sure, it reduces risk of transmission to you, and then your transmission to kids, and subsequent transmissions to vulnerable adults. But how much does it reduce the risk. When you are talking about such low risks, then you need to start considering low risks associated with taking the vaccine in the first place. What’s the value, and is it worth it. At this point in the pandemic, covid is basically a non issue, so there isn’t sufficient urgency to justify emergency approval anymore.

The journal article also shows that the affect diminished over time, presumably because the covid variant reduced in severity compared to early versions. This reduces the affect on the population and reduces the need for a vaccine. Especially a vaccine meant for a group that was never high risk to begin with.

Better than I expected, tbh, but these aren’t very compelling conclusions. There are several major weaknesses in the study, and it’s only one among many that reached different conclusions. They acknowledge all of this and conclude that more study is needed. What i get from it is that there might be (may have been) some detriment to society from covid, and vaccines could possibly reduce that detriment slightly. With the benefit being pretty weak at this point in the trajectory of covid, it’s not surprising that the fda isn’t renewing the emergency use approval. It certainly doesn’t warrant the hand wringing from the guy I originally responded to.

What are you basing that on? That’s a pretty strong statement…

The good news is that her risk is very very low.

Not sure why the knee jerk hate on this one. I like the idea of opening up academic articles and other materials for free and open use.

Well in that case there probably isn’t a single nation ever that should be proud.

Whose was it? At what point in history was ownership established and why was it not the previously displaced people’s instead? How long does it take to establish ownership, and what means are justified to do so? Who exactly is the United States anyway?

It sounded like maybe you were secretly happy about the murders, or sympathized a little bit. If not, that’s my mistake and I apologize.