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Interesting thought coming from someone named Henry . . .

 

Six years ago we were promised hoverboards.

 

My last test came back negative but I’m starting to have a sore throat again. I’m really starting to not like this Covid thing!

 

It’s a very different, more traditional kind of environmental destruction than fossil fuels. Mining for fossil fuels, particularly coal, can be and has been just as environmentally destructive as mining for metals so it’s already not 10x worse. But it also doesn’t have nearly the carbon footprint that fossil fuels have, not even remotely close, so it doesn’t make much of a dent in the destruction climate change does.
However it is still very bad and shouldn’t be downplayed, it just doesn’t compare to fossil fuels in particular because of GHG emissions from fossil fuels. As I understand it the goal is to improve drastically on battery recycling and to cut down on the amount of the metals needed for the batteries in order to scale to a national electric car fleet that would take over gas. Personally I still don’t like that idea because of the environmental destruction mining has and think there has to be a better way/direction.

 

jeopardy, but for girls!

 

Prince Andrew makes 'unprecedented' request for all witness testimony in sex abuse case to be kept secret | Calgary Herald

 

I’m in north central IL. It’s only a 17 ER beds, 72 inpatient beds (12 ICU) but the last 2 days we’ve had ~5 ER beds used as ICU rooms because there’s nowhere to put them all. This is a Facebook post the doctor I worked with yesterday and he later went onto say in the comments that 3-8 unvaccinated are being admitted to the ICU daily (100% true) and most are dying. He hasn’t admitted a single vaccinated with Pfizer/Moderna positive patient to the ICU in the year that we’ve had these vaccines out.

 

My brother and I are getting a party bus. Anyone else in?

 

Killer boots man!

 

his bottom half looks photoshopped

 

He missed Leg Day

 

His face is too small for his head

 

That’s a chart

 

It's not even just that the data is so abundantly clear on the fact that the vaccines work that makes the whole "iF tHe BoOsTeR sHoTs WoRk" thing infuriating, is that the reason cases are also climbing among the vaccinated is because all of the unvaccinated plague rats roaming the streets. It is a self fulfilling prophesy to brainwash a huge portion of the country into refusing to get vaccinated, and then using the evidence of reduce effectiveness of the vaccine as proof that you made the right move, when in reality if you hadn't brainwashed everyone then we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place because the reproduction rate of the virus would be low enough it still couldn't spread.

 

It's a great chart, and it continues to baffle me why we don't see similar charts regularly published by governments and the media. The charts they do put out, which tend to focus purely on cases, are much less helpful.

 

This essay has been getting dragged all over Twitter today, so I just read it and uh...yikes