@geobear40 said in Russia rejects European Court of Human Rights order to recognise same-sex unions:

@bi4smooth

So you joined the Republican party because you thought they were the elitists' you think you are. Now that they are becoming the party of the "great unwashed" so you are taking on the mission of purging the "deplorables" from your Grand Old Party.

You silly TWIT I joined the Republican Party in 1980 because I believed in the leadership of Ronald Reagan! I have never left, though I must admit to being tempted to do so as a result of the Trump "sore loser" and other aftermaths of the 2020 election!

@geobear40 said in Twitter suspends Daily Wire's Matt Walsh after he posted gender critical 'transphobic' tweets:

@bi4smooth

Being trans and being homosexual are not the same thing. Trans persons are a minority so small that they have to become part of a larger group to get any respect.

You really think that the trans community encompasses all of homosexuality?

You silly fool (and I do not use the term loosely):

• L - Lesbian (as in homosexual female)
• G - Gay (as in homosexual male)
• B - Bisexual (male or female)
• T - Transexual (or Transgender - depending on who you ask)
• Q - Questioning

You, my dear queer, are a transphobe... sad, but you've proven it!

@geobear40 said in UPDATE: Alleged Antifa member targeted Florida rally with a bomb; more explosives found at his house:

@bi4smooth
Talk about mudding the waters with the shit you spew.

No, I didn't read your article - because I live here! I watched the Sheriff's actual news conference vs reading someone else's reporting of it!

There is NO evidence (at least, not yet) that this kid is leftist or rightist, nor do they know (yet) why he was even there! As I noted, he was taken into custody running AWAY from the protest, with the IED still in his backpack. They searched the area and found no other explosives - except more in his car, and more still at his home.

The kid's a nut-job to be sure, and needed to be arrested. But attaching other labels is premature, and just Russian Propagandists feeding you lies - lies that you happily devour because it feeds into your sick head.

@eobox91103 said in Leftie NFL is trying to move the Superbowl from California to Texas:

@geobear40 said in Leftie NFL is trying to move the Superbowl from California to Texas:

@eobox91103
Not statewide but Sofi stadium is located in Los Angeles county which has some of the country's greatest restrictions on personal freedoms in the Country.

So if it's a county government thing, then we should purge this thread of mentions of the state governor (Newsom--note correct spelling).

But the essence of my question remains: "Can someone identify the most recent county-wide lockdown for us?" See https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-21/l-a-county-says-no-lockdown-needed-now-as-california-require-boosters-for-health-workers from about two weeks ago.

Is there a rabbit hole @raphjd won't go down to prove he isn't wrong?

But - he was wrong - plain and simple.

As noted in my first response: he's shouting "FIRE" when it's just a candle in the window!

Nothing is happening to the Super Bowl - at least, not yet!
And the plans to move it are the NFL's standard "backup plans" - so that their $billion exercise isn't wasted!

Oh! Look! There's a dog chasing a cat!

@hingstkuk said in Turn-on: Mixed condom use:

Thanks for the tip! Stealth is not really what I'm looking for though. More a consensual situation where some where condoms and some don't, preferably in the same bottom.

That's very specific... I can recall some scenes where this happened (many years ago) - when the barebacking was done by a couple, and the condom was used by the "3rd"...

In all honesty though, with the advent of PrEP, the use of condoms in porn has been on the decline for a while now... you can think that's good or bad, but that's where the industry is now!

My point is: look for content from the late 20-00's to mid 20-10's... by 2018 or 2019, most sites were already largely bareback.

In Florida (where I live and am an activist for children's rights), a mother was jailed when neighbors heard the extended screams of a child coming from a home.

It seems the mother locked her 2-year old in the bathroom - with the lights out - knowing the child was terrified of the dark - because she had "messed herself" (she was potty-training).

Neighbors reported the child's screams had persisted for over 15 minutes before police were called, and continued until police arrived about 15 more minutes later.

The "mother" was taken into custody for "aggravated child abuse", the child was put into foster care.

My point is: child abusers don't need an excuse like COVID-19 to abuse children!

Hopefully this teacher is removed from any and all professions that involve supervision of children!

@geobear40 said in UK - Primary school teacher banned for life for funding Islamist terrorists:

@raphjd Thanks for the new link

Wish they had something like that in the US to purge the teaching profession of all the supporter of BLM & Antifa,

Sigh - and by injecting your politics into the school systems, you're making them better????

There need to be rules, but not based on whether your personal beliefs are leftist or rightist. Supporters of terrorist organizations may need to be quashed - I know, you're going to claim BLM and Antifa are terrorist organizations, but that's not the label our State Department or the FBI uses - but where do you draw the line?

It's easy to say "they support terrorists, so they're out!" - but how will you feel when Dems gain real power (which they do NOT have now, but historically will - eventually, although hopefully for only a short time!) and then its "they support Trump, so they're out!"???

As it stands - I can agree that I don't want a terrorist supporter teaching my kids... but this case gets a little murky: the teacher had been arrested fro her prior support activities, but UK prosecutors also said she broke no laws.

For me, this is one of those difficult cases: where the individual instance seems quite reasonable and even responsible... but extrapolating it to the "general case" becomes difficult to defend or support....

If only the Universe were made of simple rules and simple situations!

@geobear40 said in Leftie NFL is trying to move the Superbowl from California to Texas:

@raphjd

Typical Liberals, when they are forced to live by their crazy policies they change the rules.

You guys are seriously deranged!

Another example of shouting "FIRE" when someone just lit a match! It's sad and funny at the same time!

I live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida - home to multiple Super Bowls. The NFL always has backup plans for the Super Bowl!

• What if an Earthquake destroyed SoFi Stadium a week before the game? There are plans!
• What if the fires in CA made the air quality too poor to safely play? There are plans!

In fact, until the 2000's, if the host city's own team made it to the Super Bowl, an "alternate city" would host the game - so that there could be no "home field advantage"...
That policy was changed as more and more "festivities" got added to the game, and the logistics of moving all of that to another location became untenable....
Thus, a year ago Tampa's Raymond James Stadium hosted the hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers - albeit in the visitor lockerroom - for Super Bowl 55 (LV).

Long story short (I know, too late for that!)

• Are there contingency plans to move the Super Bowl, if needed? YES
• Is this new or different from any other recent Super Bowl? NOT SO MUCH
• Is this politically motivated? laughably no!

Getting away from the content, let me re-state my position about Twitter:

• They are a private company - they can suspend all confirmed male accounts, or all accounts in Ireland, or all accounts with people with blond hair - if they want to!
• They shouldn't be suspending accounts based on politics - even borderline hate-speech - unless it is promoting violence.

Thus, unless Mr Walsh was promoting violence against trans people, his account should not have been touched. Indeed, he should have been allowed to have been lambasted by the troves of people who support trans-rights...

Shutting down these voices doesn't silence them...

The term homophobic includes those who believe that true homosexuality doesn't even exist.

The same is true for the term transphobic.

Look in the mirror... are you queer? Do you exist?

Agreed, you're not trans - but does that mean that they do not exist?

Mind you: I have no problem with the Jeopardy Champion being labeled a woman - because she says that's what she is.

But I do agree that in sports and many other areas that are dependent on genetics differentiating male from female, that it is wrong to allow athletes whose bodies have male genetics to compete as females because the person believes they are more "personally" female, in spite of their genetic makeup... it's an unfair advantage, to be sure.

Still, to claim that trans people are, in general, "faking it" is literally being transphobic...

Fact: some idiot - a 22-year-old named Garrett Smith - in Florida (in the actual county where I live, so there was a lot more coverage here!) brought an explosive device (apparently made from M80 fireworks) to a protest about a detainee who participated in the Jan 6, 2021 insurrection in DC.

He hasn't said which side he was on - and there has been nothing in his personal effects or online presence that would identify whether he was in favor of, or against the protest. The kid had other explosive devices in his home, and the investigations continue - but our local Sheriff (Gualtieri - who I voted for, LOL) hasn't been able to determine what the intent was at that rally.... the explosives were still in his backpack (even tho he was running away from the rally)... and he's not talking.

Maybe he intended to do harm at the rally and chickened out?
Maybe he attended the rally and forgot the device was even in his backpack?
Maybe his target was something else, near the rally, and he was just passing by - and because the rally was being surveilled by the Sheriff, they lucked out in catching him?
Maybe he's an FBI plant, testing the Sheriff's office?
Maybe he's a CIA operative sent to cause general disruption and dismay?
Maybe he's a Russian Spy?
Maybe he's from the future and was sent to PREVENT a bombing, and the explosives are what he's taken from others so that he can alter the future!

Lots of unknowns - and he's not talking!

So, where does the Antifa part come from? Apparently, he recently went to Portland, OR and the Antifa activists there prefer to wear all black. (I had no idea my nephew - who is a kind-of modern-day "goth" - was also Antifa! I actually thought he was pro-Trump!)

So where does the rest of this made-up shit come from?
We don't (yet) know if he's a liberal or conservative - only that he's dangerous (because of the explosives) and likes to wear black... and that makes him a liberal and antifa?

But the Russian Propaganda Machine says that we take all these unknowns and fill in our own answers - specifically to make our enemies (liberals!) out to be violent, unreasonable, evil, and devious!

If you believe your own propaganda, liberals are elite intellectuals who are better organized, and generally superior to conservatives in every measurable way - except that they're wrong, and you're right!

Heil Putin!

... and I call bullshit (again!)

Honestly, this kid is where he belongs: in a jail cell about 20 miles from here. Additionally, all of his explosive toys have been confiscated (tho M80s are hardly difficult to find in these parts!).

As to his intentions, only the mind readers know for now, as his home and online environments have not been revealing, and he's not talking.

Oh, and you two - YOU TWO know more than our Sheriff ... well, because you just DO! (and because your Russian Propaganda Machine sources say you do!)

@phoenix2021 said in PREP problem with STD:

@paulflying said in PREP problem with STD:

PREP problem with STD

If you are on PREP and do bareback, then STD has chance.

How do you think of that?

In the UK, you get PREP prescription every 3 months, which means every 3 months you go the GUM clinic and get tested for STDs. So I find some comfort in that, as when speaking to people about PREP and they are not on it, they sometimes mention they know they are clean, but have never been tested for any STDs or visited a GUM clinic.

That's an excellent point: people on PrEP have to visit the Dr (aka clinic) on a regular basis and undergo regular, routine testing - which includes a blanket of STD screenings in addition to HIV - which, if nothing else tells you that someone on PrEP is legitimately aware of their "sexual health"...

IMHO, people who say "they're clean" and haven't had an STD screening or an HIV test in over 6-months are self-delusional.... they don't know, and they couldn't know! HIV doesn't present SYMPTOMS for sometimes several years! All the while, you have it and you spread it!

In my own personal dating, I'd strongly prefer someone who is either on PrEP or who is poz-undetectible and on HIV meds to someone who is "just winging it"...

That's me - and I don't posit it as being for everyone - but, that's my thought process!

@geobear40 said in US science teacher arrested for vaccinating 17-year-old student:

@bi4smooth

Do you always assume people who don't agree with your reality are less then you? You seem to talk down to people who don't share your interpretation of the "Raw" data.

Do you assume people who don't agree with you are less educated then you claim to be?

I have not needed to share my education background nor my profession to justify my opinion. You are like the person who wears a mask only to signal to others that they are above those who don't.

If you want to argue about things for which there really are two sides (like when you brought up the Patriot act in another thread), sure - there are actually opposing sides!

But when you're arguing that the moon is made of cheese, or that Martians are little green men with 4 arms and 8 eyes and are armed with laser rifles (or that vaccines that are saving lives every day are "worthless" because they're not 100% effective), then there really aren't opposing sides!

When I say that 2 + 2 = 4 and that 2 * 2 = 4, but that 3 + 3 = 6, but that 3 * 3 <> 6, but rather 3 * 3 = 9 - and you continually argue that my math isn't real.... well, yes, I can get a little sarcastic - and it can come off as condescending...

I don't apologize for pointing out folly. Maybe I should - an argument could be made either way... and that would be a legitimate argument!

@geobear40 said in “Pfizer CEO: New Pill Will Have a Microchip That Transmits Info Once You Swallow It!”:

@bi4smooth

It's not being paranoid I am a realist. Their has been to many benign discoveries that the federal government have twisted into something horrible.

Examples:

The Patriot Act used to spy on American citizens, you do remember Carter Paige or maybe the over reach of the NSA as exposed by Wikileaks.

You can go back even further and turning the discovery of nuclear fission into the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

We can agree that the Patriot Act (enacted as a result of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on NYC and WDC) was an overreach and one of the most egregious assaults on privacy in the history of our country. I was awful legislation, wide open to abuse - by Republican and Democratic led governments alike! - by its very design.

I said at the time it was passed that we should heed Ben Franklin's warning: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, shall surely receive neither." (Mind you: Franklin wrote this same idea multiple times - writing from England before the start of the Revolution, writing to the the Governor of Pennsylvania, writing his own memoirs, etc. Not every instance is as ominous, nor as consequential - the one to the PA Governor was in support of NOT raising taxes to fight the French & Indian War!)

But back top the main topic:

If the fact that they put the equivalent of an RFID chip in a pill so that they could ensure that schizophrenic patients actually took their medication puts the "scare of God" into you, well I honestly pity you. Science will move on, in spite of your fears.

But just so you're aware: This chip is already in use, and was approved by the Trump FDA, not the Biden FDA - it was approved in 2017!!!

But let's look more closely at the underlying conspiracy theory here: that there are microchips in COVID-19 tests or vaccines....

Do you know where this comes from?

This comes from an IDIOT who conflated an idea floated by Bill Gates (the Lord Evil Rich One) who posited that we might use "digital certificates" to track who has, and who has not, received the vaccines.

BEWARE the Digital Certificates! (BTW: You download one every time you click on something in this site! If the URL says https then you're using a digital certificate!)

Somehow, digital certificates became tracking chips - why? because of idiots who jump to conclusions about tech they don't understand.

For the record: there is no hardware - needed, or even really possible - for a digital certificate!

If you're afraid of digital certificates, just turn off your computer and crawl into a dark corner and cry... they're literally EVERYWHERE on the Internet!

@raphjd said in Russia rejects European Court of Human Rights order to recognise same-sex unions:

@geobear40

As I always say, he only likes Pelosi Repubs.

ROFL - when I joined the Republican Party, we were the party of the educated! We were the party that boasted support from nearly every CEO in the Fortune 500!

That remained true until the results of the 2016 election.

I won't contend that the Party hasn't changed - I only contend that it hasn't changed for the BETTER!
What's more, I won't abandon my party to people who want to peddle stupidity, fear, and baseless conspiracy theories!

Interesting that former VP Richard "Dick" Cheney (a man with whom I had many disagreements while he was VP, but whom I nonetheless greatly respected) agrees with me... [source]

I don't pretend to be in the mainstream of the Republican Party anymore - but I won't concede my party to a cadre of fools and idiots! I fight for the values that made the Republican Party great once - the Party of both Lincoln & Reagan, the party of BOTH Bushes!

My prediction: this dark time will pass, or it will be the end of our current 2-party system - if not the end of our democratic-republic entirely!

@geobear40 said in Russia rejects European Court of Human Rights order to recognise same-sex unions:

The American Experiment has worked for almost 250 years it is not perfect and it will never be perfect but their is no system in the world that compares to it.

There are other systems that compare to it (even favorably!), many of whom are indeed BASED on the success of the "American Experiment" - but the fact remains that in a "free World" (which is still a goal, not an achievement) people are free to determine their own form of Government - whether built on our example, or not.

It is hubris to dismiss all other governments "out of hand" based solely on your own patriotism - nay, your own experience, which likely includes NO OTHER examples, but certainly does not include ALL other governments!

Correct me if I am wrong but are you assuming all Patriot Americans are poorly educated citizens? Why should matter what other people think about the unique American experience. Why if we are so horrible do so many peoples around the world struggle to come here? It sounds like Liberal elitist's talking points.

You clearly cannot discriminate between being patriotic - and being proud of the achievements of our country - from being arrogant and impudent about the rest of the world.

I would say that qualifies you as an "Ugly American" - (Reference)

I am a proud American... but I am not an arrogant one!

Also, if by "elitist" you mean "educated" and with a reasonable vocabulary, then I'm guilty - 2 Masters, 4 specializations, on faculty (adjunct, but still faculty) at 3 different Universities... yes, I'm educated.

That does not make me smarter than anyone else, but it does mean I've spent more time than the average person LEARNING about things...

So, smarter? no, I would never claim that... no matter how poorly educated you may demonstrate yourself to be...
But, more knowledgeable? it would seem so, in your case anyway...

World politics effect the US since we fund NATO the defense of all those democratic socialists' countries and there would not be a United Nation if the US didn't form it and pay the lion share of it's expenses.

World politics affect the US in many ways, but the effect is usually localized to specific ways. [Gee... if only you had the elitist education to know the correct word to use.]

But, to your intended point (which is as incorrect as your word choice): NATO (as well as the UN) is funded by all member nations. That said, it is certainly true that the US has traditionally paid an outsized share to both organizations. But "outsized" does not mean we pay "most" (much less "all") of the expenses of those organizations - which serve different purposes, I might add...

The UN (United Nations) was formed after WW-II... we (the allies who beat the German Kaiser) tried to make one after WW-I. It was called the League of Nations... in spite of strong support from the US, the League of Nations failed because not enough other nations agreed with us and joined... still, the fact that the League of Nations failed serves as a perfect example of how the US could not unilaterally "form it", as you have proposed.
It took a collaboration of ALL of the winning Allied Powers after WW-II to make it happen, and currently 193 member states belong (with only a half-dozen or so either choosing to not belong - e.g. the Vatican - or, being denied membership by some other country - e.g. Taiwan & Palestine). Without a near-complete world buy-in to the UN, it just wouldn't work! The League of Nations proves that!

I don't yet see were the actual content police have commented on my posts.

While there are other staffers in the Forum, by far the biggest "policeman" is @raphjd - he's "the boss" 'round here!
But, this is the politics section... there are VERY FEW rules here!
Thus, my statement was rhetorical...

I am not upset in the least with what Russia is doing. But it goes to trust of the Russian government. If they won't honor the Treaty then they should withdrawal from it.

The Treaty agreed to certain principles. It did not give "legal jurisdiction" to the EU Courts. Honestly, no non-EU country would agree to such a thing... not the US, not the Chinese, not the Russians!

If you ask the Russians, they are abiding by the treaty - their interpretation of it.

This is often a major problem with International Treaties: enforcement!

No I don't support your agreement. The US adheres to the treaties they ratified.

Sadly, the rest of the World disagrees with you... but certainly, from our own viewpoint (just as the Russians do as I noted above), we claim as much!

So there you go... the US does whatever it wants, ignoring international treaties along the way, and then claims later that "in some way" we're compliant.... and Russia does the same thing!

No enforcement mechanism = worthless treaties!

@geobear40 said in Over half of COVID-19 hospitalizations in NYC were not due to COVID-19:

https://www.foxnews.com/health/almost-half-reported-ny-covid-19-hospitalizations-not-due-covid-19

Lovely little rabbit hole here - let's dig in a little, no? Critical thinking anyone?

So, Alice - since Hospitals are reporting having 5x-10x more patients than "normal", and there is, indeed, a pandemic, but these extra people (patients) are NOT due to the current pandemic (COVID-19)...

What, pray tell thee, is the "real" cause for all the extra influx of patients?

Is there some NEW pandemic we haven't heard of?
Are they there, perhaps, due to "mask fatigue"?
Are the illnesses, perhaps, imagined - and not "real"?

I know, they've been watching too much Biden lately on TV! (Have you noticed he's started to take Trump's view of this - get on TV almost every day!)

In any case, inquiring minds want to know? WHY are our hospitals so full? Why are our healthcare workers starting to QUIT over the stress caused by 2+ years of this shit?

I want to know? What's your explanation?

@najo124 said in Can't upload a torrent:

@bi4smooth Solved it. Moderators messaged me that I should put my source folder on the destination folder of my torrent software. That did the trick for me. Thank you anyways for the response!

This site's helpdesk is an awesome resource!

Glad you got it managed

@geobear40 said in “Pfizer CEO: New Pill Will Have a Microchip That Transmits Info Once You Swallow It!”:

@bi4smooth said in “Pfizer CEO: New Pill Will Have a Microchip That Transmits Info Once You Swallow It!”:

(Those will be in the COVID-25 booster liquid-gels that the Nazi secret-police will force down your throats!)

If you don't think it is a possibility then I feel for you.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get you!

@geobear40 said in US science teacher arrested for vaccinating 17-year-old student:

The effectiveness of the Vaccine which was based on the original variant has become less and less effective against each new variant. Most of the population will catch Omicron or the next weaker variants to come.

Ok, two things here:

• Being less effective than the previously, never-before-seen-so-high, effectiveness the mRNA vaccines had against the original COVID-19 is a far cry from "being ineffective". In fact, they're still more then 75% effective at what a vaccine is supposed to do: prevent serious illness and/or death.
• Your assumption that the "next variant" will be weaker is based on what? Your wet dreams?
  Delta was both more virulent AND more deadly than the original! We just lucked out (literally!) that Omicron is way more virulent, but also way less deadly! (Maybe that was the Chinese virus lab's intention all along, eh Pinky?)
  Seriously, we have no idea what the next variants (there will likely be many) will be like: and that also means we have no idea whether the current vaccines will continue to protect us against them!
  That said: the current vaccines DO protect us against the current variants - all of them - well above the 50% rate that is the "floor" for FDA approvals.

Check your facts first please and stop lying about the FDA approval of the US vaccine.

Myocarditis and the COVID-19 Vaccines

Since April 2021, some people have developed myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the lining outside the heart) after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The problem occurs more often in adolescents (teens) and young adults, and in males.

Can you read past the headlines? These cases of myocarditis have been reported and studied... 100% of the noted cases have been mild and have self-resolved (meaning the inflammation resolved itself)

People have also reported headaches, dizziness, mild nausea, and many other symptoms seen with other vaccines... safe vaccines! (Some of these are psychosomatic - some people get really agitated over a shot!)

Deaths from Covid-19 is an interesting topic. Since whenever you go to the hospital for anything they test you for Covid and if you have it but not died because of Covid it is still listed as a Covid death. The reason for this is purely a financially one for the hospital. Medicare pays the hospital for expenses to treat Covid patients.

Your understanding of the inner workings of hospital billing and morbidity studies is astounding! I'll bet you'd get paid more than $10/hr (in Fla - $15/hr in CA!) for that kind of analysis!

That is a fair assumption.. It also has a lot to do with protecting the higher risk individuals. The obese and elderly who are still the greatest number of people dying vaccinated or not.

Not so much... the unvaccinated make up over 85% of current COVID-19 morbidity (at least in States that report those things)...

Again: the vaccines work! Just ask Trump!

Do they stop you from getting sick at all? NO! (not the role of a vaccine to begin with!).
Do they stop you from getting sick and dead? YES! And quite effectively, thank you very much!

Now that is way off base. More people have died in the year we had vaccines then in the year we didn't. The number don't lie according to the CDC in the last 30 days only 1.4% of the Covid positives have died. If you are unvaccinated and young and healthy and you test positive you have a 99.99% chance of just having mild flu-like symptoms. The Vaccine should only be used by high risk persons not the general public and especially not children.

What perilous times we live in!

• More people have died in the last 300 years than in all of history before then!
• More people have died in the 2000's than died in all the wars of the 20th Century combined! (including WW-1,WW-II, and all those "regional conflicts" with their "ethnic cleansing" and so on!)

Raw numbers are meaningless, as time marches on!

• Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's record for home runs in a season - but HIS seasons had 162 games, where Ruth's had only 154! So, who is the rightful "king"?

It's like the flu shot you can get it if you want it but it doesn't mean if you don't you will die and or kill someone else.

It may become like the flu: future variants may continue to become less and less deadly (which has been the case with the flu! DOH!) - But if you can tell the future - can you tell me what BitCoin will be at in December? I want to know whether to cash-out!

As it is, cold & flu variants come and go - and so long as their mortality rates remain low, no one raises an alarm. COVID-19 (the original) was more than 10x more deadly than the typical flu - thus, the alarm!

IF it ever gets to a point where COVID-19 (or, more correctly, one of its future variants) is "like the others", then we will have "made it through" the pandemic - much like we did in 1918! But we're not there yet!

As it is, comparing COVID-19 & it's vaccine to the flu and it's vaccine is like comparing a BB-gun to a Howitzer!