OMG everyone needs to get over it. Two wrongs don't make a right. This obligatory XKCD reference applies to both side of the isle... https://xkcd.com/169/
-Ben ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, February 27th, 2023 at 7:30 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [email protected] On Behalf Of Ben Koenig > > Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2023 11:28 PM > To: Portland Linux/Unix Group [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] > wrote: > > > > > Good grief. A COVID denier, or what I call, a Covidiot. > > > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023, 20:52 Ted Mittelstaedt [email protected] 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.
