Republicans cut taxes and red states won’t do anything to mitigate this damage or save for when it happens.
Then democrats bail them out, even tho what little tax income we have should be for helping everyone. Not bailing out the idiots who keep electing republicans as state leaders.
Why the fuck are we not requiring these states to pay the aid back into a common fund? As long as we keep doing this, republicans get what they want: less money for the federal government.
We need the only (mostly) sane political party to start acting like these aren’t “once in a century” events and havent been for decades. It happens pretty much every year these days. How about we stop pretending it’s 1955?
I’m not as offended at the mere existence of these places as many of you are. There are people whose religious beliefs are that life begins at conception. We keep complaining that these people don’t value people post-birth enough, yet here they are helping mothers who want to keep their babies. These people who are backing up those beliefs with their own money and effort. As long as they’re being honest in what they do and not deceptive, what’s wrong with that?
I don’t even have an issue with government money going to it, but it has been proven that some in Government can’t resist the urge to play favorites. Any arguments that apply to Planned Parenthood’s government funding also apply to these places. I’m my view, they are doing the same work, and should be dealt with the same way.
Supporting a woman’s right to choose should also include supporting her right to keep her pregnancy. Of course, Planned Parenthood supports that, too. But there’s no reason to dismiss these other organizations out of hand because they won’t help women who want to end their pregnancy, due to their religious beliefs – as long as those women still have accessible choices.
No, they’re not. But if these people are willing to help (and still get the mom access to medical care, even if the doctor isn’t on staff), what’s the harm in letting them? I’m all for anything that helps pregnant women, as long as they want the help from that place, and are aware of what they are getting into.
These organizations exist to actively deny women the ability to choose by (1) not making it crystal clear that they do not provide abortion services, (2) surreptitiously eating up the time a woman is legally allowed to get an abortion. They are designed to fool unsophisticated women into NOT HAVING A CHOICE, and purposefully increasing the emotional toll of the decision to have an abortion. Fuck them all. EDIT: I’m an attorney. When I use the word “unsophisticated” in this context, I mean “unfamiliar with the phenomenon of religious organizations pretending to be pregnancy centers, that are designed to run out the clock from having an abortion.” If you’ve got limited time to make a decision, and you make an appointment with one of these places saying you need an abortion, they will tell you to come in, and will not volunteer that they don’t offer abortions. It is well documented that women have run out of time to have an abortion because of these asshats. But go ahead, fuckface, be a disingenuous shill.
You don’t find that attitude to be just a bit insulting to women? Like they don’t know what abortion is, and need it properly mansplained to them?
There are women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant, and decide out of their own free will to keep their baby, in spite of the huge financial burden. That’s a choice, that’s just as valid as the choice to have an abortion. If these places can help, why not let them?
If we’re going to respect women’s choices, we need to respect all of them, and not dismiss women who choose to keep their pregnancy as “unsophisticated”.
No, what I see here is a bunch of people thinking these places deprive pregnant women of their free will once they walk into the place, or something. I think women, in general, are smart enough to realize what these places offer, and what they can and can’t get there.
I keep asking, if a woman wants to have a child, and these people want help, why not let them help? And all I get are response questioning their motives.
Yes, many of these places do it for religious reasons. The same places may also run soup kitchens. Would you tell a hungry person to not accept free food because they might get preached at?
I have no problem with these places existing, as long as women still have access to everything else they need for health care, including abortions, in the area.
Gee, maybe because of our abysmal health and sex education. The fact that there are all ages of people who can visit these clinics and teenagers who think you can’t get pregnant standing up. Maybe because women are lied to about abortion risks, gestational age until it’s too late to get an abortion, and lied to about pregnancy risks they may have or risks that could go unnoticed because the staff dresses up like medical professionals even though they aren’t. Women could easily not see an actual doctor because of insurance or cost. Seems like you have zero idea what you’re talking about.
These people are not medical professionals. To be as you describe, they would have to make it abundantly clear that they are not a medical clinic, they do not provide medical advise, but religious counseling. They don’t. They cosplay as medical personnel and lie to vulnerable women. It doesn’t matter if most people wouldn’t be taken in by it. Some are. The lies work.
Just to give you some reading on it. Also comparing these centers to a food kitchen is a gross misstatement. Food kitchens aren’t lying to people about what food is or intentionally serving them food that will harm them.
Aside from what others have said, part of what these places do is delay the woman’s choice, make her second guess herself/feel unnecessarily guilty, long enough that an abortion is no longer a viable option the state they’re in.
They trick the women into unknowingly waiting too long
Instead, go to cocaine Steve behind the McDonald’s. He’s coming from a place of help… As he can help you resolve your pain with his life long experience and cocaine.
I mean, what’s the harm? It’s just information and anything that helps people who are sick and aware of what they’re getting into.
The tiniest bit of research would have revealed to you that they are not some innocent lambs and it isn't a case that they simply "won't provide abortions", they are actively anti choice disguising themselves as "crisis centres" where people who are actively looking for an abortion go only to end up pressured and manipulated in to changing their mind by any means necessary, including impersonating medical staff. I've read cases where these "crisis centres" will make appointments for an "abortion" which they will then keep postponing until it's too late to do it.
There is absolutely nothing pro choice about this organisation, it's just another way in which patriarchy religion and capitalism combine to keep women "producing", and you could have easily found this out with a 2 second search before ignorantly jumping to their defence:
I've been wearing a mask in public since I saw people start dropping dead on the streets of wuhan in january of 2020, right through when fauci himself was advocating against public mask wearing (a purposeful lie at the start of the western pandemic, to free up ppe for first responders), and the entire time since then, i'm as vaccinated and up to date on the latest bivalent boosters i can possibly be, and I'm still agog at home many people are walking around like it's over, there's nothing to worry about, grammy will be fine, maybe
right through when fauci himself was advocating against public mask wearing
It was specifically advocating against people who were stockpiling/hoarding disposable masks, which were in limited supply and needed far more by first responders, doctors, nurses, etc. Hospitals at that time literally were running out of masks.
The CDC recommendation at the time was to use reusable cloth masks, which werent/arent as good most of the time, but way way better than nothing at all.
It was a temporary recommendation as the economy was pivoting to bump up supply to compensate. The US proceeded to enlist a bunch of fabric companies to start producing more masks as fast as possible to compensate, so there was about a 2~3 week period where the public needed to prioritize.
It’s unfortunate a lot of people have taken to misquoting this time period as “Dr Fauci said using masks was bad” or such, which is deeply misrepresenting the state of things.
It’s unfortunate a lot of people have taken to misquoting this time period as “Dr Fauci said using masks was bad” or such, which is deeply misrepresenting the state of things.
Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that he doesn't know what he's doing. He knows EXACTLY what he's doing.
Bite me : https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-said-masks-not-really-effective-keeping-out-virus-email-reveals-1596703
Fauci knew precisely what he was purposefully doing and what he was saying, and sided with trying to defend as many first responders/medical professionals as he could, which is completely understandable, but it's a choice that was made by him, and the trolley question he answered at that time which he later revised to "for gods sake everyone should be wearing masks", which anyone who was watching the people drop dead in Wuhan, already knew
yeah people don't seem to get nuance. Ive seen folks complain about people with insufficient masks as being useless and its like. They are not useless and as a matter of fact there are diminishing returns on quality which is why I use a kn95 over an n95 and keep a gater around in case I went out not expecting to be near folks but stumble into needing one. Is it as good. No. Is it wwwaaayyy better than nothing. Yes.
The mortality rates were overstated, even in The beginning. The science around the vaccines still isn’t fully complete. Actually having the virus and allowing your immune system to fight it has shown to give you better immunity response than boosters. Even when the messaging said otherwise. Even in light of that some in the community are sticking to the original hypothesis.
At this point the CDC advisory board is showing concerns that too frequent “boosting” may actually be training your immune system to ignore the disease and could have adverse affects.
Unless you have some serious Comorbidities (ie: severe hypertension, super high BMI, arrhythmias, cancer, organ transplants and on immune suppressants etc) then I don’t see much point in severely altering your life around it. If you feel bad, stay home. But otherwise treat it like the flu.
Have had it multiple times c including incredibly recently and it’s just a bad cold for most healthy folks. Just incredibly transmissible.
I don’t really understand all the dog whistling that is still going on about masks and being “bivalent protected”. Also, what China did literally locking people up in their apartments was far more authoritarian and disturbing than anything I saw of the virus in wuhan.
Maybe it’s because you didn’t even bother to read them?
You claim natural infection gives you better immunity response, the article states “experts say, that’s on par with what’s provided through two doses of an mRNA vaccine.” and that “Still, experts stress that vaccination is the preferable route to immunity, given the risks of Covid”
Then you claimed “the CDC advisory board is showing concerns that too frequent “boosting” may actually be training your immune system to ignore the disease and could have adverse affects.” while the proof you posted says "Boost too soon, and you don’t ramp up protection in any meaningful way, in part because the body hasn’t had enough time to build up a proper immune memory of that first vaccination yet. “It’s not detrimental, it’s just not necessarily as effective as a later boost,”
The immunity generated from an infection was found to be “at least as high, if not higher” than that provided by two doses of an mRNA vaccine, the authors wrote.
While Murray and Wachter agreed that vaccination remains the safest route, having a past Covid infection should at least be considered in policymaking decisions going forward, such as vaccination requirements, they said.
Its also important to note that paper was just after the “Omicron” variant, so relatively new in the timeline of what we knew.
Then you claimed “the CDC advisory board is showing concerns that too frequent “boosting” may actually be training your immune system to ignore the disease and could have adverse affects.”
These are concerns that have been voiced. Both in the EU and the US.
Marco Cavaleri, European Medicines Agency’s head of vaccines strategy, expressed similar concerns over doling out additional vaccine doses every few months—an approach he said is “reactive.”
“While use of additional boosters can be part of contingency plans, repeated vaccinations within short intervals would not represent a sustainable long-term strategy,” Cavaleri told a media briefing in January. “We should be careful in not overloading the immune system with repeated immunization.”
The point being, and maybe it was a bit more poorly structured initial, is that there isnt a giant consensus here in the medical community, by a long shot. Even if those expressing any doubt are shouted down because voicing doubt is now “misinformation”. The central point here is that repeated vaccination for an otherwise healthy individual is not a sustainable plan. COVID is here to stay, learning to live with it and structure your interactions around it isnt misinformation. I didnt say vaccines arent effective, especially for those with co-morbidities. I didnt say vaccines shouldnt be an option. I said its a personal decision and not something that should be some political dog whistle or joined to some sense of superiority over those that dont feel they need them. If you have some immunity because you have been recently infected, thats as good as a booster. Its lasts as long. That doesnt mean you are a bad person, or irresponsible or inferior to others. Same with if you wear a mask all the time.
I still mask not because of covid but because I have not been sick in any significant way since 2019. Maybe even late 2018. Before that I used to get sick about once a year. maybe go 18 months without being sick but maybe being sick again in 3 months. Now I have went practically 5 years (I don't recall the last time I was sick I just remember the approx rate it showed up in the before times) and if I don't have something specific I need my mouth hole for then its staying covered unless im at home or outside without being near anyone (like when I walk my dog)
Once a year. And yeah. I know. Crazy right. So. So. Onerous. To wear something on your face like you would your hands, or feet, or top of your head. For some silly reason like its a tad cold, or my religion says I should, or its in fashion. Yeah that is just the type of incredibly disciplined person I am. To take on such an arduous task.
There were 10 adults and children living in the home. Authorities removed six minor children from the Moores and placed them in foster care. Court documents showed the home was filthy, with animal feces throughout, nonfunctioning toilets, little lighting, and not enough beds for family members, Washington, D.C.’s Fox affiliate reports. The children were homeschooled and isolated, communicating with people outside the family only through video games.
“Homeschool” is becoming more and more a codeword for terrible. I don’t recall a single instance where this word has been in a news article and the result was positive.
I think it’s less homeschool itself and more that the type of people to do shit like this are more likely to try and separate from society, and homeschooling is part of that.
I learned gun safety at 6, on a bb gun, killed my first deer at 10. Trying to teach a 4 year old who probably isnt even sentient at this point on a real loaded firearm is the stupidest thing you can do. Firearms safety isnt a hard thing to teach, it should be taught in schools along with the home imo. Shooting sports used to be a big part of the american school system.
for my kids @ 4 I taught them if you see a gun, don’t touch it…go get an adult. @ 7 started BB gun and had to show muzzle / Triger discipline and recite the rules of firearm safety EVERY time we went out to shoot it.
Have…we tried cutting taxes??? I’m sure that will fix everything AND solve world hunger. All we need is more rich people to trickle down on the disaster areas.
“If you go back and look at the totality of the officers’ stuff, I would say 75% if not more … they’re being retaliated against from their agency,” Portillo said. “I try to look at the good in everybody and I believe everybody deserves an opportunity.”
The problem is that the police departments come down too hard on their personnel. /s
Wow, scholarships and tuition reimbursement meaning it’s not free. How the fuck is that an incentive? How about raise the pay so caregivers aren’t living out of their car? Or tent? I hate this tone deaf bullshit. The incentive is to pay someone what it’s worth to put up with someone’s demented abusive grandpa. Pay up or it will be taken from you. Not a threat. Just a fact of human nature.
I want to know if there’s a random unrelated bug going around too, or if this new strain just has heavy impact on the back of the throat and that is it. Seems like everyone I work with has had had some weird impossible-to-clear-your-throat virus that doesn’t lead to much coughing or any sneezing so folks aren’t staying home. If that’s the new covid it makes a lot of sense why it would be spreading.
Same here. Took multiple rapid tests, all negative. Maybe the new strain does not work well with the test, or it is an unrelated illness. Canada here BTW.
The mutations in this strain (EG.5) shouldn’t be affecting the rapid-test target. Most kits use both the N -gene and S-gene to account for potential future mutations, and both genes have only small number of point-mutations across those two genes. If you want to waste an afternoon check out outbreak.info and look at the lineage comparison tool.
My experience with the tests has been very mixed. My wife has had COVID multiple times, and she has tested negative many times, both at home and at the doctor and then as she’s starting to recover, around day 4 or 5 she will test positive.
I, in the other hand, have never tested positive although I did feel slightly under the weather for a couple days the last time she had it.
It sounds like those people had a lot more issues than just transphobia.
I’m not trying to downplay bigotry, but it sounds like a shitty(literally) environment all around for everyone. Just, this poor boy had one more thing against him.
Yes, is like to see more thought about how this whole family slipped through the cracks in spite of adult siblings for example that appear to care for him. Vague reference to “love and respect freely given to so many” what is this? First step of change is be specific about what should have happened.
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