IS THAT SO?...... I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

[ea56]

The flu is as real as the ocean and the sky! In 1971 just before my 20th BD I got the Hong Kong Flu. I was a healthy young man, but that flu put me in the hospital for 10 days with pneumonia, the doctor told me that if I didn’t go to the hospital I could die.

After that I’ve gotten the annual flu shot like clockwork every year. And even with that I used to get the flu while I was still working about every 5th year or so, but never severely like the time I landed in the hospital and thats because the flue shot isn’t complete protection from the flu, but if you do get it, its a mild case. And I’ve received each and every Covid vaccination that I was due for. Knock on wood both my husband and I so far haven’t come down with Covid.

I believe in science and taking precautionary measures to remain healthy and so far in my 74 years its served me well.

To each his own.

Eddie

 

[phillymatt53]

The flu is as real as the ocean and the sky! In 1971 just before my 20th BD I got the Hong Kong Flu. I was a healthy young man, but that flu put me in the hospital for 10 days with pneumonia, the doctor told me that if I didn’t go to the hospital I could die.

After that I’ve gotten the annual flu shot like clockwork every year. And even with that I used to get the flu while I was still working about every 5th year or so, but never severely like the time I landed in the hospital and thats because the flue shot isn’t complete protection from the flu, but if you do get it, its a mild case. And I’ve received each and every Covid vaccination that I was due for. Knock on wood both my husband and I so far haven’t come down with Covid.

I believe in science and taking precautionary measures to remain healthy and so far in my 74 years its served me well.

To each his own.

Eddie

Yes, the flu is real, agreed, but I stick to my story about it, and how it spreads.
I've never gotten a flu shot in all of my 72 years.
Maybe once about 25 years ago I got a bad cold.
Washing my hands, not rubbing my nose, and handling tons of customers' broken tv's, stereos, etc in the shop, I knew to be smart.
With all respect, it's apparent that you have become "conditioned and dependent" - to Big Pharm, who thanks you.

 

[ea56]

This is not the proper forum for this topic.

I apologize to my fellow members for helping to lead the thread in this direction. I’ve nothing more to say.
Eddie

 

[william8]

This is not the proper forum for this topic.

I apologize to my fellow members for helping to lead the thread in this direction. I’ve nothing more to say.
Eddie

No need to apologize. One of the reasons I enjoy this forum, is to get a break from all the conspiracy theories I read elsewhere.
People like philly thrive on them. They are also one of the main reasons we now have a pedophile ruining our country.

All these California bashers never seem to mention that CA has the 4th largest economy in the world, not the the country (No. 1), but THE WORLD. If it's so poorly run, how did it get the fourth largest GDP in the world?

 

[qsd-dan]

Something to keep in mind is most of the pollution in this world is created by governments and corporations, not the commoners. This is a problem the so-called voters have zero control over.

Here's an article, and a left wing one at that, that admits the US MIC is the worst polluter in the world.

https://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-us-military-pollution-carbon-emissions-2094434

Other than bitching (which accomplishes nothing), there isn't anything we can do about this unless you can get at least 50 million people to start a revolution over it. Good luck with that!

 

[william8]

Something to keep in mind is most of the pollution in this world is created by governments and corporations, not the commoners. This is a problem the so-called voters have zero control over.

Here's an article, and a left wing one at that, that admits the US MIC is the worst polluter in the world.

https://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-us-military-pollution-carbon-emissions-2094434

Other than bitching (which accomplishes nothing), there isn't anything we can do about this unless you can get at least 50 million people to start a revolution over it. Good luck with that!

No doubt about it. But right from the article:
The study, led by Ryan Thombs of Penn State University and published in PLOS Climate on July 2, drew on publicly available data from the DOD spanning 1975 to 2022, linking reductions in military spending to significant decreases in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

So we can do something about it. Get voters to stop voting for administrations, like the current one, that do nothing but unnecessarily increase military spending:

In February 2022, the Army released a strategy pledging net-zero emissions by 2050 and a goal to electrify its military vehicle fleet and shift bases to carbon-free electricity. Climate change has become much less of a priority during the current Trump administration.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a statement on March 10, downplayed the role of climate change within the DOD, The Independent reported. "We do training and warfighting," Hegseth said, rejecting climate initiatives as outside the military's responsibility. His stance diverged from both Pentagon climate policy in previous administrations and the department's own research

No revolution needed. Just stop voting against science and progress.

 

[phillymatt53]

LOL!

 

[agiflow]

You say combating climate change but it's just a youth of mism for

As a lifelong Native Californian I’m really sick and tired of this “California Bashing”! Just because we Californian’s recognize the necessity of combating climate change and the relentless attack on Human and Civil Rights by the GOP we are considered to be the enemy. California has always been ahead of the curve as far as environmental and social progress. Most Californias love their state.

The quest to go back to “the good old days” when racial discrimination was the norm and Gay people were locked in the closet, and wholesale pollution and destruction of the environment was rampant is offensive.

The only folks that would benefit by this trip Back to the Future are the bigoted and the obscenely wealthy. If we fail to preserve our natural resources and the rights of ALL human beings we eventually will be living in world that will be good for no one.

Eddie

Climate change is a joke. In the '70s it was going to be a global ice age and in the '80s it was acid rain control under the guise of "saving mother Earth". Why are you folks so concerned about saving something that biblically is going to be destroyed and recreated ? You can't do it. It's not possible. All it is is for the elites on the top to have more control over you.... And I think many of you think you're in that club.
Faith in humanity will let you down.

 

[vacerator]

While Matt stated some facts regarding climate, seasons, etc. there are many more facts proven by scientists and medical research experts. Is he one?
We are over 8 billion living on earth. Many of us have grandchildren whom we care about the future quality of life for. Yes life is short, but do we need to add avoidable pollutants, etc to the atmosphere and waters?
As for diseases and health, my mother was an R.N. who personally knew Dr Jonas Saulk who discovered the polio vaccine. Measles were non existing until uneducated parents quit having kid's immunized.
My mother in-law had shingles and it is excruciatingly painful. We both got the vaccine shots. We knew healthy in shape people who died of COVID-19 so we get boosters too.
I don't dissagree that too many drugs taken are good, and many have horrible side effects. Additional ones can be needed to counteract, and it's a catch 22 gamble. So do the best you can to control your weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood glucose. An annual blood screening is necessary to monitor these. Many don't care, and all you have to do to see is it is to pass by a group of people waving flags, signs and selling the red items. Or dine in a restaurant.
In closing, too little knowledge can be dangerous. Ignorance can be bliss or deadly.

 

[vacerator]

Agiflo, I have to aggree that faith in humanity has let us down. I've lost faith in quite many since 2020, and more since last year.
The ice ages were covered by my sixth grade science teacher in 1971. No one predicted an ice age was coming soon. It's is a fact that each one was preceded by substantial warming.