Jehovah's Witness files second suit over his firing as a Boston cop for refusing Covid-19 shots, tests

That suggests the death of meaning. We’re always living before the next pandemic.

Also, in spite of assertions to the contrary, our political leaders were engaged in the classical pandemic dilemma of saving as many lives as you can, yet knowingly spending the minimum number of lives to prevent societal collapse. How did Massachusetts do? I remember hearing Governor Baker on NPR shouting at journalists during a daily/weekly update/availability for their audacity, temerity in questioning the wisdom of jeopardizing the safety of kitchen staff and restaurant workers and others to which he barked, “COVID SPREADS IN THE HOME!” Well, that’s not wrong, but it also spreads at work. How well did the Governor’s panel of civic experts do in saving lives and choosing winners and losers?

What part of "the requirements of the job include interacting with the public at close quarters" don't you understand? "alternate duties"? You're talking about an alternate job, my dude, and no one is stopping him from going out there and finding one.

I was taught that "they" is plural, and a person of unspecified gender is "he or she".

In Old English, by the way, the word "man" meant a person of either gender. The word for an adult male person was "wer" (pronounced "ware"), which survives in modern English only as the first syllable of "werewolf".

it’s a question of fairness for all of humanity to discuss and ponder.

It isn't. It is simply none of your god damned business. Now put a sock in it.

They are self-selecting, for one thing. You don't want a self-selecting control group because there might be factors driving those choices that might end up invalidating the experiment.

A large group of high-risk folks with oversampling of minority participants (who were at higher risk due to jobs and living conditions) volunteered to test the vaccine. Those folks were randomized into treatment and control groups - control groups receiving a vaccine that was fully approved (I believe it may have been a hepatitis B booster - something this group could use). The cohort was followed for infections, side effects, and even deaths due to COVID (most were front-line health care and emergency workers). The vaccine worked - infections and deaths were far lower in the COVID vaccinated group - and the testing phase ended when vaccine was submitted for approval to be released to the general public.

There is no general public control group. The vaccine was tested with treatment and control groups and then approved because it worked.

Post-hoc, we do know that unvaccinated people were overrepresented among those who suffered permanent damage or died in subsequent waves of the pandemic. But that just supports the original testing data. It isn't how you test vaccines before releasing them.

There is a large difference between the rate of infection and the rate of symptomatic infection. The reported death rate applies only to those who develop symptoms. You said it applies to those who develop encephalitis; this would be equivalent, if all such cases are symptomatic.

An estimated 96% of people infected with EEEV remain asymptomatic; however, of those who have symptoms, 33% or more die and most of the rest sustain permanent, often severe, neurologic damage.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp1914328?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id...

This is from the New England Journal of Medicine, 2019. Anthony Fauci is one of the authors.

Some of the above quotes you give are flat-out wrong. The ones from media outlets are predictably so, but the one from the Cleveland Clinic is shockingly irresponsible.

There's a whole internet out there. I suggest starting with an online course in critical reading skills. You don't have to be a fast reader, just a careful one. If your education has been lacking (or often even if it hasn't), it can be a bit frustrating as you run into concepts or facts you're unfamiliar with, and you have to pause and learn about them before proceeding. But if you're not a complete bullshit artist, this is what you will do.

The thing about rhetorical questions is that they aren't looking really questions. They're trying to set the other person up to be lectured at, or "proven" wrong. This goes back at least to Socrates, who was sure he knew more than the other characters in his dialogues. He also had the advantage that Plato only wrote down what made Socrates and his arguments look good.

If any of the things you're "just asking" are sincere questions, you're asking in the wrong place. You need a reference librarian, not the comments section of an Internet news site. In the meantime, I suggest you look up "JAQing off."

But case in point, I just got 4 separate mini-essays as a replies to my single post. At least Magoo is like... a one sentence post per article. Magoo is worse, though.

...french fried fuck would you know about CRISPR?

I know.. I thought that when I read that comment... "Here comes John Costello"

Fasten your seatbelts, slutpuppy.. this gonna be no cake walk.

... and there are more than a few folks who claim to be Catholic who are, in essence, "maniacs". Hard to think of many large groups that do not share this problem.

and Homer is just a dumb bigot.