Stupid Shit in Timbuktu and WTF are you talking about?
[QUOTE=JustTK;2636470]Does anyone here know the history of how Timbuktu came to be the go-to place to use when referencing some place that never matters?[/QUOTE]Google, the medical source, failed me, so I used BBC [URL]https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17583772[/URL].
Sorry for thinking you were the author of that well-written piece. Following your post, I looked him up, listen and learned [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_uAwsVn10Y&ab_channel=UnHerd[/URL].
It is good to see the odd Briton can still think for himself and can use "the King's". Badgers here and elsewhere yelping about "the science" remind me of what the late and great Nazi fighter Joachim Piper (played by Robert Shaw in The Battle of the Bulge when he fought the American surrender monkeys) said of the men who fought under him. They only knew rudimentary of Nazi race theory, as most of them had little formal education. But could handle weapons and hated the American scum whose planes were incinerating their families.
It reminds me because the pro Nazi lockdown / apartheid lot are similarly uneducated bozos who don'; t even wash their hands after using the toilet. The difference is the bozos are gutless.
Relax Paulie97, you will live longer LOL.
[QUOTE=Paulie97;2636221]I'm beginning to suspect that you've never read a good book. Those were the ramblings of a clueless blogger / conspiracy theorist who was out of court before he got started. Truth was optional. His whole argument centered on Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa and he misinterprets both. A surge in infections was expected in Ireland as we enter winter. What's telling is that the death totals of the last two months are drastically lower than a similar surge back in January / February. The cases to deaths ratio has greatly diminished which is evidence that the vaccines are working. Improved treatments are also a factor, though not near enough over the last 9 or 10 months to account for the great disparity. In fact their total deaths linear scale has moved only a bit since the summer.
As to Sub-Saharan Africa, that's easy. They have a very young population, median age 16 to 17. We all know the young are less effected by Covid. They also have few if any long term care facilities and limited testing capabilities. None of this applies to South Africa and their stats look very different. Check the data yourself.
[URL]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/ireland/[/URL][/QUOTE]I found it to be a very interesting read. I also don't respect your tone and it takes away from the point your are trying to make. There's no need to insult someone and laugh at them because they found a short reading interesting. Your reactions seem childish and you should show some more maturity if you are going to debate a serious topic. I have never enjoyed debating with someone who was only interested in winning the debate rather than actually trying to gain a deeper understanding of what is being discussed. Just not my style. You seem hurt more people don't agree with you in the moment so you lash out with insults as a desperate attempt to validate your argument. Most adults don't respect that type of emotional instability, especially on a forum where you have the time to calculate your response.
As for the reading, it stated a lot of things I think many have been feeling, but the media doesn't cover and it was refreshing to read. Obviously there is still a pandemic raging which has killed millions and no one is saying that vaccines are useless or there is some global conspiracy like you are trying to insinuate. I thought the author did an excellent job at illuminating the connections between tech companies, pharmaceutical companies, the media, their profits, and their vaccine stance. I do think to a certain degree the importance of "Free Speech" has been diminished and the reaction to the vaccine and pandemic goes much deeper than many realize or understand to an almost tribal level like the author stated. I found it be intellectually stimulating and of course anyone who is remotely educated realizes the author is exaggerating a bit to entertain the reader. Nothing wrong with that, no one is going to join an anti-vax cult after reading it, so just relax bro. It's all good. Should we bully and insult those who enjoy novels like Animal Farm or 1984 as well? The reactions of people like you are exactly why someone like me appreciates an author like Paul Kingsnorth. As I have stated before, I just feel people are educated enough to make decisions regarding their own health, especially with such an unproven vaccine. I also don't agree with the lockdowns at this point as the vaccine has not done what it was supposed to. If you want to make me out to be an idiot or an evil anti-vaxer, that's your right, but don't expect me or most people with basic common sense to have any respect for your intelligence and maybe even morality.
God bless America! Haha jk.