CDC contradicts RFK Jr. by still recommending COVID vaccine for kids

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I was more thinking "sans comédie", you're right. Not sure there's a good font for stuff that's all spite, with a solid sprinkling of AI generated nonsense (tariff rates set with idiotic formula, health care advisories with non-existing references, etc.)
Wingdings, sans any semblance of good-natured humor, perhaps.
 
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I am sure the Germans have a word or two we could use.
Funnily enough, not really! You will find that they borrow English terms now, from Shitshow to Shitstorm. Haven't encountered anybody using Clusterfuck yet, though.

(capitalised because they're nouns in German 😆)
 
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What can you even comment, anymore? At this point, they're just metaphorically opening your mouths with a jack to vomit rotting shit in it 24/7. Going against recommendations, common sense, protocol in a setting that can be a matter of life or death isn't enough. They HAVE to throw in the "peak-incompetence-du-jour" with fake AI generated study citations, just to be sure that they actually hit ABSOLUTE rock bottom.

I can not for the life of it understand how nothing truly awful has happened yet, in a reaction to the constant barrage of insanity that the USA is facing. Something's gotta break in someone, at some point...
 
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I think people are confusing cause and effect here.
The AI nonexistent studies were quite clearly based on RFK Jr's rough draft -- or more likely on the outline -- of the report.
In other words, the AI used was NotebookLM, and the input was nothing but Bobby Brainworm digitized babbling.
 
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Funnily enough, not really! You will find that they borrow English terms now, from Shitshow to Shitstorm. Haven't encountered anybody using Clusterfuck yet, though.

(capitalised because they're nouns in German 😆)
hmm what about the Poles or the Danes? someone has to have the loose vernacular to fit...
 
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His 'report' was based on AI non-existent studies. Strangely enough.
Not sure if I can give a link but here it is:
https://cybernews.com/news/white-house-health-report-ai-hallucinations/

And here is the title just in case:
AI at play? White House health report cited non-existent studies
"ChatGPT, generate me a report scientifically explaining why seed oils cause autism. Accept as a fact that meat is manly and vegetables are gay. Also, whatever you output will be made actual law, so do good, ok? No woke stuff."
 
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I am sure the Germans have a word or two we could use.
Disappointingly, according to Google translate,a the German equivalent for clusterfuck is clusterfick. However, German displays it's true power when I input "self induced clusterfuck". The output is "selbstverschuldetes Chaos". Now that's a powerful mouthful of consonants with minimal vowel usage.
 
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Jesus, are We really still pushing those ineffectual MRNA jabs, in spite risk/reward benefits being next to nothing now?
For what, exactly, the sniffles?
RFK's pulled them for 6mnths old babies and pregnant women, regardless of your views on RFK, what was(indeed ever)the scientific argument, for giving to children, especially babies? Answer = none.
Sorry, I know ARS is an echo chamber but, the fact this is even a discussion, is almost cultish....

I see a sleeper agent was activated. Until next time bot.
 
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I'm sure it's just a formatting issue and not an actual disagreement:
Sure, the listed studies were found to be false by non-administration researchers, so now we have to work really hard to search for other phony studies that we can format to look like they are real.
These morons are actually both massively stupid and incompetent at every level imaginable.
 
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I need some help smithing a word or phrase that means "unforced error" but with the raw vehemence of a "clusterfuck". I'm lightly inclined to keep it simple and just go with "unforced clusterfuck" but I feel this misses the opportunity for some real creativity.
Circle Cluster-jerk?
 
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The Biden administration jumped the shark with COVID already as they said it is no longer an issue. If I end up having to pay out of pocket for my family, we will, as you certainly can't rely on the government to do the right thing. (350 a week are still dying)
Jesus, you know jack shit about how reporting works.

These things have cycles, with the flu compounding the issue. When "flu season" hits, you get more deaths. Almost all of them (90%) among the UNVACCINATED.

If you bestir yourself to look at the actual death rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Of those 350 COVID deaths in a WEEK (which is far less than the 2500 per DAY during the peak of the pandemic), about 315 of them were NOT vaccinated.

Moreover, fewer people are getting vaccinated, staying up with their vaccinations and of course, some avoid them altogether. So that 10% is shrinking because more people are foregoing vaccinations - mostly because of fucking assfucks like Kennedy, and their own stupidity.

The Biden administration never said COVID wasn't an issue. In fact, it went out of its way to let people know that it went ENDEMIC, meaning it's with us FOREVER. Trump played a huge role in that happening, too, by eliminating the CDC department that dealt with that kind of thing in 2017.

So pay out of pocket, but don't go blaming Biden for this shit. This is ALL on Trump, and the Fascist fuckers gloating over the chaos they're inflicting on our country at the behest of mobster qintillionaires who just want more and more and more for themselves.

I swear, if we took out about 100,000 specific people at the same time, the earth would be on the right path again.
 
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As I posted up thread, selbstverschuldetes Chaos, in English, self induced clusterfuck, is the phrase of the hour.
You are not wrong, but it is a rather clinical phrase, something that you might find unironically in an academic paper. I think I might go with something like selbst eingebrockte scheiss-suppe (although my German slang is decades out of date).
 
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Who to believe? Qualified epidemiologists who've worked at the CDC for decades since gaining their medical degrees? Or an arts major and sometime lawyer with worms for brains who swims in sewage? Choices, choices...

Edit: RFK Jr got over 750,000 votes in 2024, despite pulling out of the race, and who knows how many voted for Trump because of his endorsement. Somehow, as a society, we've got to a place where this, incredibly, is an actual dilemma for some people.

GOP literally planted Brainworm Bobby as a ratfuck, then realized the ratfuck was blowing up in their faces since he was mostly pulling from Trump, so they had to buy off their own plant to get him to drop out and endorse Trump.

This shit has tentacles too. The Los Angeles for RFK people went all in on the "how DARE you accuse us of being Republicans!" crypto Republican incumbents in my local city council race for instance. Superficially dress it up as a nonpartisan "Mobilizing Civic Engagement" nonprofit thing but it was literally all the same people as the local RFK campaign staff and their fundraising link is hosted on Anedot (another Winred basically, but also tied up with No Labels).

[edit] "Crypto" as in hidden, although one of their aligned councilmembers who was not up for reelection is a crypto Republican in both senses of "crypto", and was photographed with Mr. Brainworm at events explicitly labeled as RFK campaign events not just their fake-nopartisan events.
 
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Get while the gettin's good. If the "every accusation is a confession" pattern holds true, the vaccines next year will make frogs gay and implant a tracker in you.
Good. Always thought Kermit and Frogger should be an item, and really need to keep track of Frogger so he doesn't go splat so easily.
 
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Disappointingly, according to Google translate,a the German equivalent for clusterfuck is clusterfick. However, German displays it's true power when I input "self induced clusterfuck". The output is "selbstverschuldetes Chaos". Now that's a powerful mouthful of consonants with minimal vowel usage.
The jaw grinder selbstverschuldetes apparently means self inflicted - "self inflicted chaos" doesn't quite have the force of an image of a roomful of MAGA homophobes forced at gunpoint and with cattle products into said cluster fuck.

Curiously the word selbstverschuldetes isn't very common in modern German but during 1914-18 its use dropped rapidly then rebounded well above its initial frequency before dropping back. (Almost one cycle of a perfect sinusoid.)
 
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