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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by dang on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:37AM (#28218255)
If you attack others like this on HN again we will ban you, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are.

Even in a wretched, dumb, and hellish flamewar like this one, this comment stands out as crossing the line. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by bigcorp-slave on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:21PM (#28225924)
How can you sleep at night? There are literally millions of dead and you are letting these right wing trolls opposed to medical care run freely over this site behind this fig leaf of civility.

Five minutes ago on the front page there was a post about the new NYC executive order with multiple comments calling for the murder of scientists. Not saying history will remember them badly, calling for their murder. This is sick, and you’re helping it. It is time to stop coddling these people who are actively trying to prolong the pandemic.

Every day on this site I see dozens of comments that are pushing a lethal agenda of preventing common sense public health actions like vaccination and masking. Making your predominant concern enforcement of tone is enabling mass death. Normally the moderation on HN is pretty good and evenhanded, but on this topic for some reason you seem to be pretty okay with people calling for the deaths of innocents as long as they do it with nice words. It has been ALMOST TWO YEARS! Every step of the way these people have tried to poison the well of public discourse. First it was a liberal hoax, then it was going away any day, then it was the flu, then it was “it’s only in blue cities so let it kill them”, then it was China did it, then it was lockdowns are bad, masks are bad, now it is vaccines are bad. The constant drumbeat of bad faith opposition to getting this catastrophe under control needs to stop - how can you not be exhausted by it?

Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by jmnicolas on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:52PM (#28212751)
Thanks for your kind words I guess. Please remember your comment and reflect on it in 10 years when the politicians will have stole all of your freedoms and you won't be able to do anything in life without being tracked, judged and denied.
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by bigcorp-slave on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:53PM (#28212771)
You’re twenty years too late for this sentiment. You’re already tracked constantly by everything around you. The vaccines are not a useful method of tracking or control. Computers and cameras are much better.
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by jmnicolas on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:33PM (#28213884)
I was speaking about the QRCODES which are mandatory to vote, go to the hospital, shopping mall and restaurants in France.
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by native_samples on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:56PM (#28212809)
My god the insanity here is wildly out of control. As he has pointed out, vaccines don't stop transmission in any way, so people's individual choices about whether to get vaccinated or not is absolutely not making them "killing people" or "murderers". If you really want to go there, consider that people are definitely being killed by the vaccines themselves, that is proven beyond doubt now. So it's easy to turn that around and say those trying to push vaccines on people who don't need them are the "murderers".
Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by bigcorp-slave on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:38PM (#28213945)
4.5 million dead people disagree with your conspiracy.

No one is getting killed from the vaccines. It’s rounding error.

Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by octaonalocto on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:59PM (#28213534)
This is a ridiculous comment.

1. Vaccines do stop transmission because they make it less likely your internal systems will get infected

2. Vaccines also prevent hospitalizations very effectively

3. Known side effects from the vaccine are very, very low. Much lower than the risk of getting COVID, for the same health outcomes.

4. Getting COVID (the bad outcome caused by the virus) has some chance at Long Covid. The vaccine reduces this because it makes it less likely you get the syndrome after infection.