Scrutable

Anti what lockdown? You aren't in lockdown anymore.

Now they appear to have moved on to anti-COVID in general - it's all a conspiracy to control the population (by depopulation and controlling the remainder through fear...).

Good

Pity hell doesn't exist so he can't be there.

shpalman wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:47 am

Good

Pity hell doesn't exist so he can't be there.

Despite his struggle with the virus, Mr Harmon still said he would reject being jabbed, saying his religious faith would protect him.

Insert usual "two boats and a helicopter" joke.

FlammableFlower wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 25, 2021 8:47 am

Christ, the anti- lockdown lot are really bringing out the nutters. David Icke and son!

At least he's not Tommeh

Who I swear I also saw on the big screen

On Twitter, the #BoycottCosta hashtag is trending because of a Costa Coffee shop in Ireland requiring people to follow the rules.

E.g. tweets like this, with the hashtag being amplified by Gillian McKeith, Paul Joseph Watson, Laurence Fox et al.

Mind you, I don't completely feel comfortable having to show ID. However, I won't be going inside any Costas anyway but only because I'm not comfortable being in enclosed premises.

I have found great entertainment in the responses to Laurence Fox boycotting Costa Coffee in Killarney.

Brightonian wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:40 pm

On Twitter, the #BoycottCosta hashtag is trending because of a Costa Coffee shop in Ireland requiring people to follow the rules.

E.g. tweets like this, with the hashtag being amplified by Gillian McKeith, Paul Joseph Watson, Laurence Fox et al.

Mind you, I don't completely feel comfortable having to show ID. However, I won't be going inside any Costas anyway but only because I'm not comfortable being in enclosed premises.

In Italy you have to show ID when you buy coffee so that the name they write on it is correct. (You won't even need a Green Pass to buy coffee if you're just going to stand at the bar to drink it.)

No, of course that's not true.

However, many years ago in the early days of free WiFi but before everyone had 3G, there was a rule that you needed to identify yourself to use free WiFi in the same way that you have to identify yourself to buy a SIM. But then I think that was gotten around by the idea of just needing to register on free WiFi via an SMS to your phone number, which was still tedious.

I saw somewhere that there was a restaurant somewhere in the US basically saying that you could only come in if you could prove you hadn't been vaccinated. Lots of people of course pointed out that yOU Can't pRoVe a negAtIve but it's actually very easy to find out whose against vaccination and is also a mouth-breathing anti-mask covid denier by the very fact that they're in that restaurant when anyone in their right mind wouldn't be.

On the other hand, a local blog here recently posted a list of bars and restaurants that are requiring proof of vaccination. A number of antivaxxers in the comments shouted about boycotting. Which seemed to ... miss the point.

I hear that my (Italian) city is planning a pro-Green Pass demonstration to counter the unauthorised anti- one from whenever that was.

Meanwhile here’s why your efforts to convince anti-vaxxers aren’t working: the pro-vax messaging needs to come from within the social group and needs to offer a way in which to climb down from their positions without losing face.

Anti Vaxx protesters protest the BBC by protesting ITV's loose women.

Piers Corbyn was there, he got caught saying "we’ve got to take over these bastards".

I put this in the general Covid thread, but it's probably better here

https://www.logically.ai/articles/hart- ... estminster

The latest files from this chat log:
"I wonder what it would look like if the money tree stopped shaking out printed cash"

"I totally agree. I think we need to seed the thought that vaccines cause COVID before asking the second question of whether that means there is an overall benefit or not"

jimbob wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 12, 2021 7:59 am

"I totally agree. I think we need to seed the thought that vaccines cause COVID before asking the second question of whether that means there is an overall benefit or not"

I hope that the GMC, the BMA, the NHS, and for that matter the BFG make sure that she never works anywhere near science or medicine again.

sTeamTraen wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:37 am

jimbob wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 12, 2021 7:59 am

"I totally agree. I think we need to seed the thought that vaccines cause COVID before asking the second question of whether that means there is an overall benefit or not"

I hope that the GMC, the BMA, the NHS, and for that matter the BFG make sure that she never works anywhere near science or medicine again.

And here's a subsequent tweet by her:

https://twitter.com/ClareCraigPath/stat ... 43360?s=20

There is plenty of evidence that vaccine results in increased cases for the first 10 days to 2 weeks post vaccination:

https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n783/rr

(a letter by her)

Now to see how to complain to the RCPath...

jimbob wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 12, 2021 7:59 am

I put this in the general Covid thread, but it's probably better here

"I totally agree. I think we need to seed the thought that vaccines cause COVID before asking the second question of whether that means there is an overall benefit or not"

It’s grimly humorous watching the more moderately batshit insane ones try to reign in their more hatstand allies because of a justified fear that the optics wouldn’t look good if they were to let the mask slip (no pun intended).

So you end up with exchanges along the lines of:-

“Well I know we all support Dave’s theory that the Jews are all shape-changing lizards who want to implant tiny 5G-activated rabbis in us all to perform the Dreidel Song on Bill Gates’ command and I deeply appreciate Amethyst’s generous offer of a 10% personal discount on all purchases of Ancient Tibetan Anti-COVID Healing Crystal Mobile Phone Covers but perhaps we shouldn’t include all that in our 100% legitimate, independent, definitely trustworthy, proper real science advice for MPs. Also we should probably use a different shade of green crayon to Toby Young’s submission so they don’t look coordinated.”

Complete f.ck-knuckles to a man.

Little waster wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 13, 2021 6:12 pm

jimbob wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 12, 2021 7:59 am

I put this in the general Covid thread, but it's probably better here

"I totally agree. I think we need to seed the thought that vaccines cause COVID before asking the second question of whether that means there is an overall benefit or not"

It’s grimly humorous watching the more moderately batshit insane ones try to reign in their more hatstand allies because of a justified fear that the optics wouldn’t look good if they were to let the mask slip (no pun intended).

So you end up with exchanges along the lines of:-

“Well I know we all support Dave’s theory that the Jews are all shape-changing lizards who want to implant tiny 5G-activated rabbis in us all to perform the Dreidel Song on Bill Gates’ command and I deeply appreciate Amethyst’s generous offer of a 10% personal discount on all purchases of Ancient Tibetan Anti-COVID Healing Crystal Mobile Phone Covers but perhaps we shouldn’t include all that in our 100% legitimate, independent, definitely trustworthy, proper real science advice for MPs. Also we should probably use a different shade of green crayon to Toby Young’s submission so they don’t look coordinated.”

Complete f.ck-knuckles to a man.

Is it wrong that I now want an ancient Tibetan mobile phone cover?

Martin_B wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:44 am

Is it wrong that I now want an ancient Tibetan mobile phone cover?

I think we all do, deep down.

nezumi wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 14, 2021 8:09 am

Martin_B wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:44 am

Is it wrong that I now want an ancient Tibetan mobile phone cover?

I think we all do, deep down.

Which leads to the age-old question, if an Ancient Tibetan mobile phone rings in the woods does it make a sound?

nezumi wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 14, 2021 8:09 am

Martin_B wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:44 am

Is it wrong that I now want an ancient Tibetan mobile phone cover?

I think we all do, deep down.

And deep down, I think we can all see how that reminds me of Jesus, because you want to care for your valuable mobile phone, he wants to care for you

</Thought for the Day>

Two questions about that antivaxxer exchange: What do they mean by the money tree? Are they talking about changing government policy on things like furlough? And is their idea that vaccines increase cases deliberate cynical misinformation or something they genuinely believe or somewhere in between?

Martin Y wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 14, 2021 10:21 am

Two questions about that antivaxxer exchange: What do they mean by the money tree? Are they talking about changing government policy on things like furlough? And is their idea that vaccines increase cases deliberate cynical misinformation or something they genuinely believe or somewhere in between?

If we, the smartest minds in all of the world, can't figure that out, what hope do they have?

Well I can't help remembering climate change deniers pouncing on emails they thought were the smoking gun of scientists lying about their data.

Is this "let's make up a rumour and spread it" or is it "let's control how we make our case to generate the most effective publicity"? Just because they're wrong doesn't mean they're deliberately lying. I want to understand the context of what they're saying.

Martin Y wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 14, 2021 10:21 am

Two questions about that antivaxxer exchange: What do they mean by the money tree? Are they talking about changing government policy on things like furlough? And is their idea that vaccines increase cases deliberate cynical misinformation or something they genuinely believe or somewhere in between?

That would be a reasonable interpretation of the first comment. But not the response of Clare Honor Craig FRCPath (unlicenced)

"I totally agree. I think we need to seed the thought that vaccines cause COVID before asking the second question of whether that means there is an overall benefit or not"

Why did none of them pull her up?