Why Facts Don't Change Minds

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Why Facts Don't Change Minds

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people who form opinions based on misinfo are bad enough but when they can't change their mind when presented with facts they should be sent to gulag

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Sure. But there are some facts now, where just 2 years ago they were called conspiracy, lies, disinformation and people were being banned on social platform for speaking of this.  

 

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yeah they were sent to gulag. the system works.

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So, what are these "facts" then?

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Vaccine efficacy.

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Vaccine efficacy, hmmm, what do you mean? From the roll out there was an efficiancy rating attached to them. Only a fool would have thought the figures were not to be adjusted in time, especially considering variants. Nothing new, the same rules apply to flu shots. 

 

And before anyone loses their shit again:
Yes it was said that probably there would have to be repetitive (booster) shots.
And no, what happens in a small circle of someone's family or froiends has NO statistical significance whatsoever.

 

This is regarding the science. What politicians made of it is a different story. They are still scared shitless, and possibly/maybe rightly so......

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Oh how silly you are. You were fooled into believing the vaccines would be almost %100 effective at ending this, no mention of boosters. Yet here you are, making excuses, changing the storyline after the fact, still clinging on, still not admitting you were fooled. This would be hilarious if it wasnt so pathetic.

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only stupid people thought the vaccine would be 100% effective. none of the vaccines you've ever taken were 100% effective yet, you don't complain about it. you should spend some time working to get your grade 11

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no, i don't pivot, unlike you, most of my opinions are not based on a meme. if you look through my comments, you'll see stuff from last year like "no vaccine every created has stopped a virus from entering your body", you might also find me talking about the effectivness of other vaccines

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Always entertaining when the village idiot chimes in, now please, Clifford, let the grown ups talk.

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For those interested.

Here is a study issued in June last year:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101544

 

And one from the cdc:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7018e1.htm

Her is what Pfizer said in April, they also mention follow up doses:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-confirm-high-efficacy-and-no-serious

 

So this was really not unknown. People just have shit memory or believe what they want.

 

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Well, Clifford, this is of course the level of dumb one can expect from your replies, regardless of whether they are verbal or gif, but, just to amuse us, what do you think is wrong with the links I posted?

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Yeah the media and politician are largely to blame, I'm sure the facts can be found in the science papers but 99% of the population doesn't read them, so the public oppinion went from

 

"take the vaccine and it will be over" It's 95% effective, to

"seriously everyone take it, if we reach 80-90% vaccination level it will be over" to

"It is 80% effective" to

"It will prevent serious ilness and death"

 

Now with Omicron the efficacy still drops but they keep on drumming. 

 

It's got so idiotic here with understaffed nurses that they are taking quarantined nurses back to work as long as they are vaccinated (yet can clearly infect people) and healthy but unvacinated cannot work. 

 

Doesn't really matter what the science says if everything is done ass-backwards.   

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we should also blame people who think like this. "Haven't been vaccinated and I doubt I will. Non of my close family have and we never even really talked about. Everyone just decided not to. I guess non of us take it that seriously"

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Had covid. I'm fine. Most of our close family had it a few weeks back, some vaccinated, some not.

Only one got a bit more serious case as he got myocarditis now and he was vaccinated.

 

But remeber how funny it was when someone said the vaccine is leaky?

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you don't remember seeing that study put up that showed the unvaxxed were getting covid twice in the same time a vaccinated person got it once? its been put up a few times

 

sure do remember, but which person, the person that uses leaky to describe breakthrough cases or the person that uses leaky to describe the virus evolving because of the vaccine? pretty sure i've used it both ways when talking to those who used it the way they used it to further my point

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I was told that after contracting covid I'm safe for atleast 6 months and shouldn't take the vaccine for atleast for 3-4 months. Well, at last, I'm following the rules now, which you so desperately want me to do.

 

So far each variant has been more resistant to the vaccine. Doubt we will ever know if it's due to the leakiness or just natural evolution.  

 

 

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so you spent a year saying how the rules don't work and not following the rules to make sure that the rules don't work?

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I did what I wanted to do and let other do what they wanted.

Go take your 4th and 5th booster if you want, I don't care. 

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for someone that doesn't care, you sure spent alot of time tryng to convince people that a vaccine that you haven't nor will take, doesn't work based on a shifting mindset. we all do what we want. except you got people in the morgue that thought the same thing as you

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I don't recall ever saying to anyone that you shouldn't get vaccinated. You like digging up old posts so maybe you can show me where I said that.  My take is, it's everyone's personal choice, some seem to have a hard time dealing with that.   

 

"except you got people in the morgue" 

LoL   

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"Now with Omicron the efficacy still drops..." 

 

And AGAIN, NOBODY tried to make a secret of it! Still the scientific consensus is "better get vaccinated, also for omicron." I read somewhere that a vaccine better suited for omicron is in development. In the end it probably (hopefully)  will end up like with flu vaccines in the future, get a shot or don't, who cares. Then the idiots get hung up again on 5G and other shit and make blockades over that.

 

Also YOU have been one of the advocates of "leaky vaccines babble" on here, backdraft. 

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"Also YOU have been one of the advocates of "leaky vaccines babble" on here, backdraft."

 

Yes, because it is a fact that it leaks. Some had problems believing it some time back.

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"Yes, because it is a fact that it leaks."

 

This is nothing new and true for all vaccines. 

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For some it was news.

And yes, we have eradicated some diseases with vaccines, those were the less leaky ones. Thats why they worked.

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leaky vaccines work, we use them for example for parvo in dogs and for the flu in humans and many more applications.

 

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Yes, they work, but not at eradicating the disease or at least keeping it down to levels that it only shows up sporadically.  Vaccinating during a pandemic it's even less likely.

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After ALL this time it has been preached by scientists and politicians people still don't get the NUMBER 1 reason for the covid measures, trying not to overload emergency rooms and ICU's. This was the case from the start. 
Vaccination is a huge part of this. We don't know whether this can be eradicated at all actually, like the flu or parvo it may remain with us, however, if not enough people get vaccinated we probably will never know. 

 

I personally don't know anyone who has had more than a day'r worth of minor side effects due to vaccination but I know a lot of people suffering "long covid" (not statistically relevant).

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"NUMBER 1 reason for the covid measures, trying not to overload emergency rooms and ICU's. This was the case from the start."

 

The main concern from the start was to stop the spread with the vaccines and lockdowns.

And really, it's still going on with the passport thing. 

"Have a covid passport?" "Ok good, you are safe so you can enter the country or get into what facility you want"  

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"The main concern from the start was to stop the spread..." 

 

nope, it was to limit the spread and protect the vulnerable.

 

The covid passport for international travel is no different to ther vaccination requiements for certain countries. In country passport is not necessary imho, but I don't make these decisions.

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"The main concern from the start was to stop the spread..."

 

"nope, it was to limit the spread and protect the vulnerable"

 

Stop the spread, limit the spread.  You really wanna nitpick this, huh? 

And yes, protect the VULNERABLE might have been the way to go, but it seems like it's everyone now.

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Boy, oh boy, nitpick?

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For two years we had to put up with your boot lickin ass. STFU! You want to now pivot and say you knew all along, BULLLLLSHIT! You were duped and called for mandating the vax while the rest of us were saying it was ineffective. You are a coward and a sleazebag. "I get my news from trusted sources like the BBC" LOLOLOL! You got fooled and cannot admit it. Now you want to change up your story! LOLOL You and Sal are fucking dumb and dumber! 

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"...called for mandating the vax..." When did I ever say anything to that effect?

 

Do you really not realise that you having your subtitle on here was not a friendly banter between mates but simply adding an accurate description of what kind of person you are, Clifford? And you blind rage makes you just look worse every day. When will you "explode", Clifford, and will it be on the news?

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I got that because I was making fun of Australians not being allowed to have fun with guns. And someone got their panties in a bunch.

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This may have been the trigger but all your comments beforehand led up to that.

Anyway, when did I ever promote vax mandate?

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It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."  Mark Twain [1280x1024] : r/QuotesPorn

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lol, this, coming from you is hillarious. Thank you!

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November 2016 – She Reigns

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