Posts made by Shami94

@raphjd Clearly the word "transmission" is being used in (at least) two different ways in different contexts. Unsurprisingly, those with a conservative mentality are confused.

1. Vaccines are proven to reduce rates of infection. If you're not infected, OBVIOUSLY (to most), transmission has been prevented to you and from you. You are not a link in the chain of transmission. You HAVE protected your grandmother.

2. However, if you ARE infected, does being vaccinated reduce you ability to infect others? PROBABLY if it reduces the viral load, but it is basically unknown in the case of covid vaccines.

The doubt around 2 doesn't impact 1 AT ALL.

You (and most other covid conspiracy theorists) wilfully misunderstand is the whole concept of transmission in immunology.

They are not talking about the prevention of a vaccinated infected individual's capacity to transmit to a non-injected person but the FACT that vaccination reduces rates of infection and therefor transmission because obviously (to most but not to you), UNINFECTED PEOPLE CAN'T TRANSMIT THE VIRUS.

@Shami94

“Several studies have provided evidence that vaccines are effective at preventing infection,” it states, “Uninfected people cannot transmit; therefore, the vaccines are also effective at preventing transmission.”

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o298

The idea that the rollout of vaccines didn't reduce transmission is obviously laughable.

@raphjd

Wrong

Re: Influenza (virus) vaccines from the CDC.

"The CDC recommends that all healthcare professionals receive an annual flu vaccination to prevent transmission to patients."

https://www.nfid.org/infectious-diseases/fact-sheet-for-healthcare-professionals/

Vaccines can prevent transmission. It is a function of how effective the particular vaccine is in reducing the viral load.

@Rotron There has long been an obsession with issues surrounding the sexuality of young teens in the USA but more recently the conservative right have weaponised and misappropriated words like "groomer" to try to push back against LGBTQIA acceptance. People have been called "groomer" just because they've had a pride flag in their shop where minors might see it.

It is however a very effective strategy and very difficult to fight. So effective that it has created an internalised homophobia in the gay community so that adults are afraid of having anything at all to do with young teens, let alone admit that sexualisation happens by puberty, not my some miraculous event that occurs at midnight on the person's 18th, 16th, 15th, 14th birthday (depending on where they happen to live) and certainly not by seeing a pride flag or a drag queen.

I'm guessing you're getting one stars because of that.

@raphjd Where and when precisely did Fauci say that the Covid vaccines absolutely stop transmission?

Here in Feb 2021 he said when asked that question that it's a "looming question" and that studies SUGGEST that covid vaccines might SLOW transmission.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/looming-question-fauci-says-studies-suggest-vaccines-slow-virus-spread-n1258142

The main reason for covid vaccination was to prevent the collapse of the health system which would have been catastrophic.

That it succeeded in doing and we didn't have the situation Italy had early in the pandemic where doctors had to decide who lived or died because of a shortage of ventilators and beds.

Vaccination clearly reduced to excess death rate and saved millions of lives.

Making stuff up, calling people names and bleating conspiracy theories into the echo chamber no longer constitute convincing arguments. The trump era is over.

"Murder she wrote" was the most irrational show on television. Most of the times I saw the culprits suddenly break down and admit everything when confronted with some flimsy evidence.

A good lesson that if you're ever accused of a crime, keep your mouth shut.

Angela Lansbury was good though. She was nominated a dozen times for an Emmy award for that show but won zero.

I grew up in Mysore in South India, a medium size fairly liberal city by Indian standards but still very conservative when it comes to sex, gender and sexuality. On the dating apps, it was rare for someone to identify as gay. There were a lot more bisexual guys than gay. Of course in Mysore it's basically impossible for an unmarried guy to have sex with a woman other than a prostitute.

However, statistically it is the other way around. In men (not in women), being truly bi is much rarer than being gay. 85% of gay men say they identified as bi when they were younger (that includes me even though I never wanted or tried to have sex with a woman). I read a study that on some dating app that accepts all genders and sexualities, men who identify as bi only ever made contact with other men.

I think this leads gay men to say that anyone who identifies as bi is lying or a half closeted gay. I don't agree. Bisexuality is real and people can identify as bi if they want to for whatever reason. I don't know why some gay people make it an issue.

I'm still looking for this.

@raphjd Yes, picking extreme examples and assigning them to “liberals” is transparently part of the new conservative project to tear down education; part of the defining conservative project to deny, hide from and discredit facts and fact based theories that falsify their stagnant, simplistic, nostalgic and usually hate filled ideologies.

There are a lot of things that teachers SHOULD be teaching their students: e.g. the theory of evolution, climate change, diversity of gender and sexuality, the fallacy of trickle-down economics, the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and not least (in English speaking countries), English grammar.

For example that:

“The customer called. They said that they’re coming in this afternoon to pick up their order. Please thank them for their patience.”

Is normal and correct English grammar and that we use the pronouns “they/their/them” for a single person ALL THE TIME.

Conservative parent: “I’m not going to call THESE gender binary people they/their/them. That’s not correct grammar for a single person!”

Son: “But mommy, we do it all the time. (Quotes example)”.

Conservative parent: “But but but… that’s only when we don’t know what gender they are, not when they don’t know what gender they are!”

Son: “Ooooooh kaaaaaaay.”

Also, they should be taught some critical thinking:

Conservative mother: “I agree with that Harry Potter woman. Trans women aren’t really women because they’ve never experienced menstruation!”

Daughter: “But don’t 1 in 3000 cis gender women never menstruate?”

Conservative mother: “but but but but but but but but but but…”.

@raphjd What? You still don't understand that the story you originally posted was fake?

AND, both stories, the fake one and the real one that the fake one was based on are about a PARENT teaching THEIR children.

AND, if you read the top left corner of both the fake and real stories, you will see that the forum is "PARENTING". The whole fact that you posted this fake topic in the first place shows that you think you have the right to have an opinion on what parents teach their children about sex.

@raphjd

Yes, I don't have a problem with parents teaching kids about kink because it's none of my business what parents teach their kids (about sex).

The typical conservative. "I don't want the government to interfere in my life but hey, look at those people, the government should interfere in their lives!"

@bi4smooth

I don't have children and I wouldn't comment on anyone else's but when it comes to sex education, there are three sources:

A) parents
B) teachers
C) their peers
D) the internet

A would think that most parents would prefer as much of A and B to counter the unrealism and misinformation of C and D as possible.

If the subject is dildos, BDSM and kink, the same applies.

Strangely conservatives routinely object to both A and B as we can see in @raphjd's replies.

@dretafari Yes. The simplest explanation of the conservative mentality versus the progressive "liberal" mentality is:

Progressives change their ideas to suit the facts, Conservatives change the facts to suit their ideas.

Conservatism is a set of political and psychological strategies to defend ideology from fact. "Fake News", "Political Correctness", "virtue signalling" etc. etc. are examples of these strategies.

@dretafari Also funny how worked up he gets about an obviously fake article. It's the typical conservative media motif. Make up a story about "liberals" so that they can all get outraged about it.

The only place I found this posted was on "funny.com".

You can read the actual, un-conservative-doctored article here:

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-21924/why-i-taught-my-daughter-what-a-vibrator-was-when-she-was-10-years-old.html

Just checking in to see how raphjd's personal echo chamber is going. It's been a while but I see it hasn't changed.