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daspyknows
Who's Next? Great album.
Czech Hana Horka died after deliberately contracting Covid-19
Singer Dies After Deliberately Catching COVID-19 So She Could Obtain A Recently-Recovered Pass
[www.msn.com]
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SomeTorontoGirl
Reading the paper this morning, I have encountered a new word:
Vaxenfreude (like schadenfreude) - the joy the vaccinated feel when the unvaccinated get COVID-19.
Saddened to see that this has become so polarizing.
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SomeTorontoGirl
Reading the paper this morning, I have encountered a new word:
Vaxenfreude (like schadenfreude) - the joy the vaccinated feel when the unvaccinated get COVID-19.
Saddened to see that this has become so polarizing.
Are you saying you feel joy?
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SomeTorontoGirl
Reading the paper this morning, I have encountered a new word:
Vaxenfreude (like schadenfreude) - the joy the vaccinated feel when the unvaccinated get COVID-19.
Saddened to see that this has become so polarizing.
Are you saying you feel joy?
Did you actually read her post?
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The Sicilian
Actually I did read it. However, by saying it's polarizing doesn't say where YOU stand. No offense intended, but I didn't want to guess at your stance.
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Hairball
From the Washington Post:
Anti-vaccine activists, reveling in their pandemic successes, will rally in D.C. against mandates
As anti-vaccine activists from across the country prepare to gather on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, they are hoping their rally will mark a once-fringe movement’s arrival as a lasting force in American society. That hope, some public health experts fear, is justified. Almost two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the movement to challenge vaccines’ safety — and reject vaccine mandates — has never been stronger. An ideology whose most notable adherents were once religious fundamentalists and minor celebrities is now firmly entrenched among tens of millions of Americans. Baseless fears of vaccines have been a driving force among the approximately 20 percent of U.S. adults who have refused some of the most effective medicines in human history: the mRNA vaccines developed against the coronavirus by Pfizer, with German partner BioNTech, and Moderna. The nation that produced Jonas Salk has exported anti-vaccine propaganda around the globe, wreaking havoc on public-health campaigns from Germany to Kenya. That propaganda has also found its way into many reaches of American life. It has invaded people’s offices and shaped the daily decisions of school principals. It has riven families and boosted political campaigns. What was once an overwhelming public consensus on vaccine safety is now a new front in the nation’s culture wars. It is no accident that some in the anti-vaccine movement are describing Sunday’s rally as their first equivalent of the March for Life, the annual antiabortion rally that took place in Washington on Friday. “Our worst worries have been manifested,” said Joe Smyser, chief executive of the Public Good Projects, a nonprofit group that tracks and seeks to combat vaccine misinformation. “These fringe ideas are no longer fringe ideas.”
Despite signs from the earliest days of the pandemic that the anti-vaccine movement was advancing its cause by preying on the uncertainty and social division that accompanied the virus, the U.S. public health establishment never mounted a true counteroffensive, Smyser said — a view shared by other public health experts and epidemiologists. “I think we were really naive,” he said. “This movement was allowed to get stronger and stronger with almost no pushback.” The 153 most influential anti-vaccine social media accounts and groups have accumulated 2.9 million net new followers since January 2020, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an advocacy organization focused on fighting vaccine misinformation. Imran Ahmed, the center’s chief executive, said those gains are especially remarkable in light of social media platforms’ renewed efforts to crack down on vaccine misinformation. Vaccine skeptics notched another victory just last week, when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s vaccination requirement for large employers. (A smaller mandate for workers at health-care facilities that get federal funding was left intact.) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist who will speak at Sunday’s march, said the widening distrust of vaccines is an organic outgrowth of people’s firsthand experiences with negative side effects from the coronavirus vaccines. He pointed to the large number of reports of reactions to those vaccines now on file in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a database maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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SomeTorontoGirl
Reading the paper this morning, I have encountered a new word:
Vaxenfreude (like schadenfreude) - the joy the vaccinated feel when the unvaccinated get COVID-19.
Saddened to see that this has become so polarizing.
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The Sicilian
Actually I did read it. However, by saying it's polarizing doesn't say where YOU stand. No offense intended, but I didn't want to guess at your stance.
(Psssst…the ‘I’m saddened’ bit was a clue.)
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SomeTorontoGirl
Reading the paper this morning, I have encountered a new word:
Vaxenfreude (like schadenfreude) - the joy the vaccinated feel when the unvaccinated get COVID-19.
Saddened to see that this has become so polarizing.
For those unvaxxed who spew their antivaccine propaganda they are getting what they deserve. If that's considered joy by some, so be it.
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Hairball
From the Washington Post:
Anti-vaccine activists, reveling in their pandemic successes, will rally in D.C. against mandates
As anti-vaccine activists from across the country prepare to gather on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, they are hoping their rally will mark a once-fringe movement’s arrival as a lasting force in American society. That hope, some public health experts fear, is justified. Almost two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the movement to challenge vaccines’ safety — and reject vaccine mandates — has never been stronger. An ideology whose most notable adherents were once religious fundamentalists and minor celebrities is now firmly entrenched among tens of millions of Americans. Baseless fears of vaccines have been a driving force among the approximately 20 percent of U.S. adults who have refused some of the most effective medicines in human history: the mRNA vaccines developed against the coronavirus by Pfizer, with German partner BioNTech, and Moderna. The nation that produced Jonas Salk has exported anti-vaccine propaganda around the globe, wreaking havoc on public-health campaigns from Germany to Kenya. That propaganda has also found its way into many reaches of American life. It has invaded people’s offices and shaped the daily decisions of school principals. It has riven families and boosted political campaigns. What was once an overwhelming public consensus on vaccine safety is now a new front in the nation’s culture wars. It is no accident that some in the anti-vaccine movement are describing Sunday’s rally as their first equivalent of the March for Life, the annual antiabortion rally that took place in Washington on Friday. “Our worst worries have been manifested,” said Joe Smyser, chief executive of the Public Good Projects, a nonprofit group that tracks and seeks to combat vaccine misinformation. “These fringe ideas are no longer fringe ideas.”
Despite signs from the earliest days of the pandemic that the anti-vaccine movement was advancing its cause by preying on the uncertainty and social division that accompanied the virus, the U.S. public health establishment never mounted a true counteroffensive, Smyser said — a view shared by other public health experts and epidemiologists. “I think we were really naive,” he said. “This movement was allowed to get stronger and stronger with almost no pushback.” The 153 most influential anti-vaccine social media accounts and groups have accumulated 2.9 million net new followers since January 2020, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, an advocacy organization focused on fighting vaccine misinformation. Imran Ahmed, the center’s chief executive, said those gains are especially remarkable in light of social media platforms’ renewed efforts to crack down on vaccine misinformation. Vaccine skeptics notched another victory just last week, when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s vaccination requirement for large employers. (A smaller mandate for workers at health-care facilities that get federal funding was left intact.) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist who will speak at Sunday’s march, said the widening distrust of vaccines is an organic outgrowth of people’s firsthand experiences with negative side effects from the coronavirus vaccines. He pointed to the large number of reports of reactions to those vaccines now on file in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a database maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Unfortunately "Darwinism" will rear it's ugly head and this lot will pay the price disproportionately. What bothers me most is the ones that can't make their own decisions on it, their children.
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Nikkei
People might believe the vaccines to be completely benign and still disapprove of the proposed digital passports. It's a perfectly reasonable stance being articulated, no medical hysteria whatsoever factoring into it. None of the coverage dare touch that issue with a ten foot pole.
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Nikkei
They work fine as in what do they do, exactly? My point is that the concerns are deliberately misrepresented. A giant strawman is being built that's an uneducated, irrational antivaxxer, self-medicating with horse preparates. Of course people can pat themselves on the back for winning arguments against that guy, but it won't help them understand what is actually happening.
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Nikkei
People might believe the vaccines to be completely benign and still disapprove of the proposed digital passports. It's a perfectly reasonable stance being articulated, no medical hysteria whatsoever factoring into it. None of the coverage dare touch that issue with a ten foot pole.
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SomeTorontoGirl
Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation
‘They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,’ writes musician in an open letter to his management that has since been taken down from his website
Sian Cain
@siancain
Tue 25 Jan 2022 05.45 GMT
Neil Young has demanded that his music be removed from Spotify due to vaccine misinformation spread by podcaster Joe Rogan on the streaming service, saying: “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.”
In an open letter to his manager and record label that was posted to his website and later taken down, Young wrote: “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”
Young specified that his decision was motivated by The Joe Rogan Experience, which is currently Spotify’s most popular podcast and one of the biggest in the world. Rogan signed a US$100m deal in 2020 giving Spotify exclusive rights to the show.
“With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE, which is hosted exclusively on Spotify, is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence. Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, though the company presently has no misinformation policy,” he wrote, adding: “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform … They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.”
The letter was addressed to his manager Frank Gironda and Tom Corson, the co-chairman and chief operating officer of Warner Records, which releases Young’s music through its Reprise Records imprint.
Gironda confirmed the letter was authentic to The Daily Beast. “It’s something that’s really important to Neil. He’s very upset … we’re trying to figure this out right now.”
Last month, 270 doctors, scientists and healthcare professionals signed an open letter requesting that Spotify implement a policy for dealing with misinformation because of Rogan’s “concerning history of broadcasting misinformation, particularly regarding the Covid-19 pandemic”.
The letter cited an episode in which Rogan interviewed Robert Malone, a virologist who was involved in the mRNA vaccine technology that led to some of the leading Covid-19 vaccines but has since been criticised for spreading vaccine misinformation. Both men were criticised for promoting several baseless conspiracy theories, including the false claim that hospitals are financially incentivised to falsely diagnose deaths as having been caused by Covid-19, and Malone’s assertion that world leaders had hypnotised the public into supporting vaccines.
The Guardian has approached Spotify for comment.
[www.theguardian.com]