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Penny Arcade - Comic
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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Maybe it's a meta thing. Macho Man's character in Spider-Man didn't take the little "bug" seriously either. And we know who won that fight.
Being fat or being able to grow a beard isn't part of an argument against them.
Considering the current climate and the sheer nerve of people like this: I suppose we will be seeing a *round two* of said incident.
I ... never said it was.
It was pretty clear from your post that you considered these derogatory characteristics that were important to point out to belittle a person. Now you're backpedalling. You can own up and try to do better in the future, ignore this and move on, or just continue to dig deeper. Your choice.
(We all say some things that are dumb, myself included. I try to do better when I screw up, though.)
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So by having a vaccination requirement on your con, you've effectively added a strong filter to keep a lot of whackjobs away, and that seems like a great thing.
Yeah its really self selecting really toxic elements not to invite.
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Speaking of people who should really figure something out,
Reading comprehension would probably help since Tycho said his mother, who's older and thus the 6 friends would also be older.
"Oh man old people know old people lol don't tell me about vaccines." That's certainly a take.
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you ended that with a comma. were you planning to say somethign else?
what should i figure out exactly? that online gaming comic creators aren't health experts? It's fun this echo chamber you've all setup here, arrogantly, snidely judging others for their personal health decisions, meanwhile your bodies are bulbous, decaying, human stress balls.
Well, for one thing, making light of a senior citizen losing a bunch of friends in a very short span of time is pretty terrible, Translucia.
For another thing, someone being out of shape doesn't put other peoples' health at risk. Someone refusing to get vaccinated and wanting to attend large gatherings does put other peoples' health at risk. Based on vaccination rates and general support for mandates I feel confident that most people would agree that "You can do what you want with your own health, up until it puts other people in danger" is a pretty good place to draw a line. I'd say Jerry's got a solid position to cast aspersions from on this.
I'm not making light of it. I'm saying someone clearly doesn't have a good plan for dealing with this stuff if people close to them are dropping like flies. Were the people who died all vaxxed? Btw, are you an expert yourself? Doubt it.
Oh cut the crap, you absolutely were making light of it with these remarks (or you have no concept of how to write tone):
As for the rest:
They probably weren't since Jerry's mother is or was an active member of a fairly conservative Christian religious group.
My lack of medical expertise has nothing to do with whether or not your remarks were in poor form. Nor does it have bearing on whether there's a consensus that supports Jerry and Mike's position with regards to PAX. Maybe you could try arguing with some substance before dismissing other people for lack of credentials? Because so far all you've provided is 'your position on vaccination didn't save your mother's friends, and you are out of shape', which is a pretty sad argument.
Lastly, resorting to accusing people of being overweight as a response to them calling you out for tasteless statements is just proving them right. It's an ad hominem logical fallacy, it's not really relevant to the subject of whether convention organizers have a right to enforce a vaccine mandate to protect attendees and exhibitors, and frankly it's downright childish. No matter how fancy the words you use, it's pathetic when your best response to people saying you've been a jerk is equivalent to "Oh yeah? Well you're fat!". This isn't a schoolyard, and you obviously think you are smarter than the average elementary student, so act like it.
how will we endure without all his dbz trivia to guide us
Or to use another analogy, it's the difference between drinking until you make yourself sick (a stupid but common choice) and being a drunk driver (a crime in most jurisdictions). The distinction is made when your life choices start to jeopardize others.
Not being vaccinated means you are at greater risk of getting the disease, making you a part of a reservoir of population among which the disease can become endemic. The bigger the reservoir, the more chances the disease has to produce new strains that might be able to bypass vaccine-based resistance, putting those who did get vaccinated at greater risk. Also, the more people there are who aren't vaccinated by choice, the more potential vectors for contagion there are for people who can't be vaccinated due to other health issues. Third, people who aren't vaccinated are much more likely to experience severe symptoms if they get Covid, to the point of needing an Intensive Care Unit bed and a respirator. Throughout the pandemic there have been multiple instances of entire regions having to turn people away due to a shortage of resources in ICU wards. So unvaccinated Covid sufferers can result in people with other health emergencies not being able to get care. The ridicule and hostility towards anti-vaxxers is based on their choices putting others at risk. That's why it is not hypocritical for nerds whose poor life choices only endanger themselves to be critical of the anti-vaccination crowd.
If your precious vax worked, you would have nothing to worry about. Why do you care if Joe Shmoe over there didn't get the poke if you did? Isn't the point of a vaccine to prevent contraction of the disease? Hell, you're probably still wearing that mask too despite getting poked. That's supposed to be yet another layer of protection, according to Saint Fauci right? Well, I mean, now it is according to him -- when this all started, he said masks didn't do anything but you know, whatever.
I know you guys are a hugbox echo-chamber and logic has no bearing on anything, but this is pretty simple stuff to figure out. If you're vax'd and mask'd, you should have nothing to fear from Joe Shmoe. But sure, pretend him being "vulnerable" somehow means you are, too. It's fun to watch.
Maybe try to learn high school biology before denouncing others' logic on the subject?
In brief, breakthrough infections, mutations, and also any sort of empathic concern for broader society when it is unable to reach herd immunity.
You mean in the interview where he said 'masks are important for someone who is infected to stop them from infecting someone else'?
Nobody in this thread I can see is expressing fear for their own wellbeing, nor in Jerry's post. I know a lot of people like to persoanlize every aspect of these things, but honestly a lot of people think thousands of preventible deaths isn't a good thing and it's worth making the small effort to help prevent that.
Honestly I wouldn't want him there, or anywhere, even without Covid going on.
I've never really seen any antivaxx arguments made in good faith. They're always intentional misunderstanding the most basic shit and building gigantic strawmen to argue against.
Also almost every adult in america has dealt with vaccine mandates if they went to a public school in america.
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