stalkersyndrome

CDC is a political vehicle. It’s a tragedy what’s happened over the last year as they flip flop.

VAERS and it’s predecessors did not track this kind of thing even though they were explicitly made with the intention to. Their own workforce was puzzled as to why they weren’t deployed early on to track vaccine side effects.

Look, stick to the basics. If you’re going to appeal to authority find one with some backbone and preferably one with less profit motive.

CDC didn’t make the vaccine. J&J did. Neither knows what it will do over the next N years, and even if they did you’d be the last to know. You’ve got all the evidence you need in how J&J handled the powder case.

So no, I’m not taking the vaccine or the aspirin.

Everyone should question the competency and “trust us we know” attitudes of these companies. They’re the kind of people you only want to deal with when you absolutely have no choice.

Yeah you’re putting your faith in a company whose talcum powder has been causing cancer for decades and saying “it doesn’t kill you it’s not that bad”

It’s an experimental vaccine that hasn’t even been out for a year mate. Use some better judgement.

“Oh but it prevents covid” - yeah and that powder helped with the rash too I’m sure.

We’ve got one vaccine that’s been blacklisted due to high prevalence of blood clots.

We’ve got another made by a company that’s been embroiled in a 4-decade long controversy over asbestos in baby talcum powder that only recently issued a recall, denying it all the way and claiming it’s safe.

I assure you, Zuck isn’t needed for any negativity here. These companies are awful and they’re not to be trusted. Period.

Not sure what to make of stuff like this honestly: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking...

But it’s interesting every time these variants pop up and they evade vaccines.

You wouldn’t happen to have a link to it would you? Not sure if it was flagged but stories tend to drop off the front page and into the void sometimes.

2019 but just as, if not more, relevant in 2021. And onwards into ‘22 and so on.

This is a great article.

What I’m about to say is a bit controversial and cannot be implemented by majority, or even a large minority. Maybe a subset of HN that isn’t already in this mindset:

Treat all devices as adversarial as you possibly can within some sensical reason. Use Tor, for example, but expect that everything you do is being logged and that sometime in the future if a vulnerability, exploit, whatever is discovered that can trace these logs back to you, that you know what you’re in for. Apply this to whatever else you feel like could have a negative impact on you.

Obviously this is now coming to light because of Apple but this has been an issue long before.

To put it into more morbid terms: assume that the government thinks you’re storing CP and they’re going through your trash, and behave accordingly.