We are both adults here, right? I think you can handle being told you didn’t think it through. I’m not going to use kid-gloves with you and lie to you to serve your ego.

you are still going on implying that COVID is the same as the flu or a cold. The flu has never altered my heartbeat rhythms for years after.

You are still ascribing to the false dichotomy I stated in my comment when you say “not everyone can lock down” absolutely, except tons of people I personally know were still going out on vacations, some knowing they had COVID before flying to their destination.

Just because a full lockdown wouldn’t have 100% wiped out COVID doesn’t mean we should have given up on stopping the spread. It’s not one or the other.

I feel like you are trying to make excuses for endangering the lives of other people so you can not be bored. My Grandfather is buried under 6ft of dirt because of this mentality in Texas. He died needlessly. He was an active man who was writing a novel and was constantly physically active. He had at least 10 years left

A lot of us are not going to forget the actions of our fellow man during the peak of COVID, especially those who lost loved ones needlessly

I feel like you haven’t thought this through. My cousin is young so he has very low risk of having serious side effects from his COVID. The thing is we had elderly grandparents at Christmas as well, one of which with stage 4 cancer.

There is a point to testing for COVID. If we don’t test for it we have no idea how much it is spreading.

I used to get the flu once every 10 years, roughly. I’ve been getting COVID nearly every single winter.

There are relatively young people who are completely bedridden from long COVID. I’ve never heard of someone having years of their lives taken from them because of the flu.

Ever since I first got COVID I have had a irregular heartbeats and periods of extremely low energy

I find it funny you’re creating a false dichotomy of either locking people in their homes for eternity or being free. We all had a chance to stop this in its tracks, nearly everyone around me was completely unable to sacrifice one summer of vacations. I know people who literally went on vacation knowing they had COVID, breaking state laws in the process.

If you didn’t lose anybody to COVID that’s great for you, but a lot of us did.

A lot of people believed our president at the time who said that it was nothing more than the flu, similar to what you are saying today.

I believe there should be legal repercussions for those who have spread that misinformation, leading to needless death

starting to wonder if my heart irregularities are from COVID. I get a ridiculously strong pulse after just a 1 mile walk with my dog.

Got COVID from my cousin during Christmas, still feeling terrible.

He went to the doctor and they didn’t even test him. they just assumed it was the flu and gave him Tamiflu.

Tested myself after I got it and came up positive for COVID. It seems that our medical professionals are complicit in the cover-up of diagnoses. Once it left the news people just assumed it was gone.

They see every Palestinian baby as a terrorist. They have manufactured their justification for slaughtering children.

Didnt almost very candidate Trump supported in the midterms lose?

No you are going to the Middle East, send me a DM so we can get the plane ticket purchased

Put your money where your mouth is coward

Not to mention the CIAs involvement in the formation of Al-Qaeda

These wars are not protecting America They are making us more vulnerable

What we do is not defense, it is conquest.

So edgy. Hand yourself over to Al-Qaeda or ISIS since you are responsible. I will buy your plane ticket for you.

That means that you are personally liable for the 1 Million dead civilians from our unconstitutional war in the middle east.

Using this logic you are fair game for a terrorist attack, and would deserve it.

50% of the population was not born yet during the most recent election where Hamas gained power (16 years ago)

Stop parroting this bullshit and think for yourself

I am getting the feeling that Israel (aka US) is creating more terrorists on purpose. If my entire family was killed and I survived I would be out for blood. I think anyone would.

Is this done just an excuse for the US to re-insert itself in a middle eastern conflict so our tax dollars can enrich the military industrial complex? Sure seems like it

We created our enemies in the Middle East, they would have no reason to hate us if we didn’t.

2 is my favorite letter, capital 2

this is what I did.
Used SpotDL to download my entire spotify library, put on USB, now I have my whole library available, even if my phone is dead

It’s funny how nowadays when a cow eats what is naturally supposed to eat we charge double price for it and consider it some specialty. It’s no wonder they have to jack them up with hormones.

So we shouldn’t reduce the problem on one front because we can’t get rid of the impact completely?

Without agriculture we would all starve, you can’t say the same for beef.

Why not reduce the damage that agriculture causes AND reduce the impact and scale of beef production?

All I hear is excuses to keep eating factory-farmed hormone-laden beef.

Alright, we are talking right past each other. Have a good one

That’s a lot of rationalization with no facts to back it up.

I’m getting a “well ackchually” vibe from your comment. If I put a mouse on the ground next to a flower and told you to stomp one of them to death, You would be comfortable with either option equally?

Yes plants respond to negative stimuli, that doesn’t imply suffering on the level of a conscious being.

You’re making a lot of assumptions about my beliefs in your comment. I do not believe any animal has more right to life than any other animal. With that said if you are in the woods trying to survive like our ancestors then your biological needs take priority, you can’t survive on plants in winter. The thing is that is not our reality. We are wolfing down red meat giving ourselves colon cancer needlessly. Trading suffering for joy, not suffering for survival

If we stopped eating meat we would have 50% more land for farming human food than we currently do (we currently use 33% of cropland for feed alone). Raising cattle is not efficient at all, it is a waste of energy and land and water.

It’s not like the land we used to grow the feed we’ll just evaporate. This is why so much lobbying has gone into pushing the narrative that we all need to eat a ton of red meat.

I’m not arguing that we should eat animal feed, but rather use that land to grow food for humans

I’ve heard this tired argument that plants and sentient mammals have the same capacity for suffering so many times. I think it is a disingenuous way of excusing the suffering your choices support.

A plant does not grieve when it’s offspring is removed from it. It does not have fear, or joy. Plants don’t play with each other and bond.

Yes. They communicate, and react to stimuli. So does a computer, but neither are sentient