I can’t believe two Kennedys were assassinated, and this guy isn’t one of them.

My favorite JFK conspiracy is that no one killed him. His head just did that.

I like to imagine that he entered a Mandela trance that gave him a peek into our timeline where he saw RFK Jr. Then his head blew up.

Please send help - an Albertan

"Pestilence" is such an underused word. They're a lot like locusts.

Yah while I'm aware of the situation and what's been said, what has been said wasn't exactly from a highly reputable source, it wasn't even from the DHHS, it was someone who "talked to" RFK, and somehow every news outlet picked it up.

That all said, it could indeed happen, the administration is unhinged and a spike in covid deaths would be great for their plan of manufactured chaos, but they also have a much longer track-record of leaking crazy implications in order to fuck with the valuation of stocks.

They may also be planning to do the Chairman Trump thing again and leverage their threats for a 10% cut of Moderna and Pfizer's profits. I just don't see them cutting off a profitable company for no other reason than an-anti vax narrative they never really cared about, and just pushed to fleece the country's stupidest fucks.

All in all, it's way too unverified and unpredictable to know for sure what's going to happen, however this infographic/poster thing is really terrible. It's framed like an announcement, posted in first-person, and has no links or sources. It's so terrible I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone in the administration made it and leaked it also.

Go get your boosters/vaccines and your kid's vaccines anyway, it shouldn't take this to do the right thing.

Yes

Or are extremely delusional and have a terminal savior complex. You'd be surprised to know how much people believe these kinds of bullshits, even if they start out as lies.

"A good liar will eventually believe their own lies if they were truth from the very beginning." - some of the people of the early far-right I could talk to personally. I even heard the "Truth is not on our side" line a bit too much.

At the rate that things are devolving, if you have the means, you may consider emigrating somewhere else. And maybe not Canada because we'll probably be invaded by your country in the following years, or months.

Lupus is on the list of conditions that merit a vaccine for the under 65 crowd, since it is an autoimmune disease with immune compromising medications.

It's actually a pretty long list. Being overweight (BMI over 25), having ADHD, depression, being sedentary, being a current or former smoker, having substance misuse disorders, along with all the other ones you'd expect, like asthma, cancer, heart disease, transplant recipients, and anyone who needs a careworker.

As of now, you can self certify as being in one of these groups (you don't need a doctor's note). And your doctor can still recommend it for you if you're not on the list, as long as you don't have an anti vaxxer doc.

https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html

There's more people in the US. Plust the US is not collectively vaccinating people

Cant speak for the US, but in general, Covid is still more dangerous during the acute infection than the flu and also causes much larger numbers of post-viral sequelae. Those are all potential reasons to recommend the vaccine, which can reduce the severity of both

I'm Swedish, live in France.

Here: vaccinate vaccinate vaccinate, in Sweden : meh do whatever.

Also Swedish people: hello neighbor please you're only 5 meters away from me it makes me uncomfortable.

In the meantime in France: Hello friends and neighbours, kiss kiss kiss kiss!

On a more serious note, Sweden had the medical capacity that France didn't have, which is one of the big reasons in the very different response to the pandemic in those two countries.

I saw a study the other day that mentioned that Sweden during the pandemic had a median time of 30 days sick leave for those who had Covid.

In the US that would be rare if not impossible for a lot of people. I would think if someone could get a shot that would lessen symptoms or duration in a country that has such a poor health care safety net it might be worth while.