I agree this should have been originally posted to plug-talk but it was not, which is why my response was to plug and why this response is also to plug. I am not going to accept a label of "covid denier" since I am not one, nor was I advising people to take no precautions.
So I'm a "covid denier" eh? OK let's look at this particular logical game, called "cancelling someone" The CDC's rules are that that anyone who does not bother with getting additional vaccines is going to get COVID and thus is a COVID denier. Except, the CDC also stated that COVID was not in the US in 2019. I got sick in 2019 around Thanksgiving. So, if someone wanting to cancel me based on the CDC's rules asserts I had COVID in 2019, and am denying I had it, then they are asserting the CDC was lying. So if the CDC is lying about that, then it's lying about the basis for me being a COVID denier - so they lose. However, if that person accepts that I DID NOT have COVID in 2019, then since I did NOT get it even while being exposed (before vaccines were available), and because I have not taken the full course of vaccines, once more the CDC is lying, and so it's also lying about the basis for me being a COVID denier. So, once more - the person trying to cancel me loses the game. I've had plenty of experience playing the cancel culture game and most people who play it with me leave bleeding. LOL Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Ben Koenig Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2023 11:28 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting: Anatomy of a Mailing List Meltdown I've never seen a COVID denier admit that they had COVID. -Ben ------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, February 26th, 2023 at 10:38 PM, Jake Bottero <j...@botteronet.net> wrote: > Good grief. A COVID denier, or what I call, a Covidiot. > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 20:52 Ted Mittelstaedt t...@portlandia-it.com wrote: > > > The last time I had a severe respiratory infection was Thanksgiving > > 2019 through January 2020. I've only had the 2 original Moderna > > shots. However during the entire pandemic I was still out and about > > - since you can't do IT consulting on a server that's down remotely. > > Even long before the Moderna vaccine came out. I must have been > > exposed dozens of times. Never got it. And have never gotten a cold > > or flu or anything since 2019. I guess I'm a Typhoid Mary, lol. > > > > FWIW, > > > > I have always felt that there's a TON of stuff that "they" know > > about COVID that is being withheld from the general public. I've > > read so many stories of people repeatedly exposed and not come down > > with it, some completely unvaccinated, and stories of people > > vaccinated to the gills but still got it. I think that there has GOT > > to be a genetic marker that indicates susceptibility to it that > > "they" know about that they are not telling us about. And Trump must > > have been told he was most likely immune or if he did get it it > > would be a light case, otherwise he wouldn't have been running > > around unmasked. I never believed the stories about how the best > > medicine in the world saved him when he got COVID. He knew it would > > be a light case, he wanted to get it to seem like he was "one of us" and > > only after he got it and looked like a fool did he backpedal on that. > > > > I'll die of old age before knowing the truth but I hope my > > descendants generations files a Freedom of Information request eventually. > > > > Ted > > > > > Full disclosure: I recently had covid. I was fully (5 times) vaccinated. > > > I was exposed on February 8. I started having symptoms on February > > > 10. The symptoms weren't pleasant but remained pretty mild. > > > Started testing positive on Feb 12, had pretty much recovered by > > > February 15th, but continued >testing positive until my first > > > negative test on February 20. I tested negative again on the 21st, 22nd, > > > and 25th.
