also I forgot: one of the three available vaccines doesn't really work so you should get one shot of a different vax if you got the bad one, oh wait you can't do that without lying because the CDC hasn't made it a requirement yet, but yeah if you've been vaxxed go ahead and walk around in public indoors without a mask, if you have the bad vax I guess you just get infected and die

good job Fauci, clearly we have the right guy on the case here

Yes, the reality of public health is reactive, messy, and unideological. Scientific recommendations are based on the most educated guesses we can make today and are subject to change with tomorrow's data; they're written on stone tablets held aloft by Charleton Heston.

People who give confident, consistent answers to complex questions are not smarter than scientists, they're just simpler. They're not more honest, they're just more ideological.

I would rather put my life in the hands of an expert who says "It's complicated, but here's the best recommendation I can make," rather than a non-expert who says, "This is the only answer you'll ever need."

But you do you.

*they're NOT written on stone tablets

I don't disagree with you in general, but what this clown did was basically cover every possible eventuality, lied a few times, and then admitted to the lies. None of this has been scientific.

FAAAAAAAAAAAART

Who should we have been listening to through all this, Sean Hannity? Your auntie's facebook posts?

Oh I know, the lady who said the vaccine would make you magnetic.

By his own logic, Crackersmack was lying last summer, when he kept boasting over and over again that Trump was going to be reelected. The truth is that Crackersmack didn't lie. He couldn't see the future, and he didn't know every voter personally. He didn't know what was going to happen in November, and everyone should have known that. If you thought Trump was going to win because Crackersmack said he would, that's not on Crackersmack. That's on you. There are limits to human knowledge.

Of course, our Crackersmack prefers to test the limits of human ignorance.

One of the three vaccines was briefly suspended, not because it didn't work, but because there had been some concern about a particular side effect, and they paused the rollout long enough to make sure it was wasn't a problem. They pushed it out fast because we needed it right away, and they stopped to make sure because they needed to make sure.

Imagine what would happen if people's lives depended on Crackersmack being right about the crazy stuff he says. When Crackersmack pretends to know what's going to happen, that's a no stakes bet. Anthony Fauci can't fuck around as if he was Crackersmack, bloviating in the poe comments . He can't pretend to pull the future out of his ass. It's his job to cover every eventuality, because anything else is guessing.

The difference between Anthony Fauci and Rand Paul is the difference between good faith and bad faith, and if Crackersmack was acting in good faith, he'd know that.

typical case of terminal engineer's brain

Having an economy where Walmart is the largest employer and there is no functional social safety net is incompatible with a rational response to a pandemic. Government recommendations trying to balance keeping people safe while keeping the economy we've built afloat are like holding tissue paper in a horse's piss stream. The only option to save lives was war communism and we didn't want to do that, so we had 9/11 every day.

"Who should we have been listening to through all this, Sean Hannity? Your auntie's facebook posts?'

Perhaps they should have found an expert that *was not* the monster that exacerbated the AIDS crisis on behalf of Reagan, just a wild idea I know.

In the 1980s, Larry Kramer and ACT UP used Tony Fauci as a political target, even calling Fauci a murderer in an open letter. Fauci, to his credit, understood the political efficacy of activists having a target in a health emergency like AIDS, never took it personally, and now remembers Kramer as a friend, even though ignorant trolls occasionally appropriate the rhetoric of the 80s to own the libs.

https://tinyurl.com/meprpa3d

The same right wingers who try to dismiss Covid give Fauci shit for the handling of the HIV crisis all while still sucking Reagan's dead dick. Fuck that sanctimonious shit. Again, who was better positioned at the time to lead? And even if experts changed their minds on how many masks or what kind was needed, the right wasn't going to wear them anyways. The right took a defeatist attitude from the get go. Let covid do it's thing, kill the old and the sick, so I'm too inconvenienced.

I'm confident that we have pandemic experts in America that are not 100 years old and do not have a record of intentionally botching pandemics in the past for political reasons.

FAARRARATARRRTT!

stop making normal shitty Republicans sound so cool

they may not be the ones that crank your particularly bent shaft, but they're the ones that pull the levers in that political crack party you hover around

Really CS? THAT'S PATHETIC

our resident dilbert in a misfits t shirt, ladies and gentlemen

Here’s hoping a lot of anti vax neocons die this upcoming delta outbreak

The more libs they trigger, the stronger their support. Content doesn't matter, only the effect on the other side. It's a politics of pure opposition. This is being significantly mirrored by liberals, as evidenced by this video.

if people are not given an opportunity to vote to improve their material conditions, they will instead vote to harm other people that they don't like

Solro, your compassion speaks volumes.

I’m fresh out of compassion for people actively supporting fascism, violence, racism and spreading disease.

One day SolRo, I hope your eyes open and you see the meaning of what you wrote.

On the day that veil is removed, you will become unstoppable.

"if people are not given an opportunity to vote to improve their material conditions, they will instead vote to harm other people that they don't like"

bro.

We don’t feel sorry for people that get seriously hurt or die doing stupid things, dead neocon celebrities…I don’t see why I should feel sorry for dead amateur propagandists.

I'm just saying that some of these people would make more rational political decisions if the choices were between something better than the smug cosmopolitan finance party and the yeehaw racist party.

When you're dirt poor and neither side is even pretending to give a shit about your problems, you either stop voting (the overwhelming majority of America) or you vote for the people that might seem less actively harmful (Democrats) or you vote to fuck over the people that you blame for your predicament (Republicans), it's really pretty predictable.

Re; Fart

I was highlighting it because I thought it was trenchant!

"Is MarvelDisney's decision to make She Hulk NONBINARY political correctness gone too far, or just the representation we need?!?!" while unprecedented numbers of Americans become homeless, heat records are shattered daily, and billionaires compete to escape the planet.

I'm sorry, I meant They Hulk.

Although he's only at 4M deaths. Got a ways to go to be the new Hitler.

Your spray tan messiah said it’s less than a flu

Wait... people actually believe this?

Wow.. my Social Circle grows smaller.. thought you were one of the good ones enjoy

Well, who knows, Enjoy, maybe hydroxichloroquine will pan out. I hear Mike Lindell has been working on a cure in his secret My Pillow labs.

Hydroxichloroquinine is old news. The hip anti-vaxxers are all about ivermectin.

It's pathetic how much like a soap opera narrative people need the world to be. Stuff just happens, man.

@enjoy I can't remember if you're the guy who sucks at satire but keeps trying, or one of the actual fucking morons. A or B?