This is a stupid conversation! and I’m not going to continue it!
literally so fucking correct
What I’m really proud of is the fact that he made SURE the audience understood why the caller was being an idiot. He made a PERFECT comparison, gave the caller an honest chance to re-evaluate and change his mind. His point landed, everyone knew it, even the caller (note his pause and almost hesitancy after being asked).
But when the caller decided to bulldoze on anyway, because god forbid actually listen to the other person in the conversation, the expert cut him off and refused his time. And good for him.
[VD: A tweet by @ g33kgurli, tweeted at 9:47 PM on Dec 17, 2021. It reads, “Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers.” Attached is a video from The Thom Hartmann Program, where Hartmann is talking with a caller. The conversation goes as follows:
Caller: Hey Thom. Uh, I was listening to you for the last hour so, um, I heard survival of the fittest. Um, you know some of us choose not to vaccinate and uh–
Hartmann: You’re nuts, Nicholas.
Caller: –because we work very hard about staying fit, eating healthy, and our natural immune system.
Hartmann: So Nicholas if you’re so healthy, would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis or gonorrhea?
Caller: You’re missing the point.
Hartmann: No, I’m not missing the point. They’re contagious diseases. Would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis and gonorrhea and not worry about it because you’re so healthy?
Caller: [pause] No, I wouldn’t do that.
Hartmann: Okay, then why would you expose yourself to covid without having some protection?
Caller: Because the protection is my natural immunity.
Hartmann: No, it’s not. Tell that–
Caller: Yes, yes, my natural immunity–
Hartmann: Tell that to eight hundred thousand dead Americans. Nicholas, this is- this is a stupid conversation and I’m not going to continue it.
A new COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers from the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is being offered patent-free to vaccine manufacturers across the world. Human trials have shown the vaccine to be safe and effective, with India already authorizing its use as production ramps up to over 100 million doses per month.
The vaccine has been named Corbevax and it is based on a traditional protein-based technology that has been safely used for decades. Like other COVID-19 vaccines, Corbevax focuses on the coronavirus spike protein, but instead of using mRNA to direct our cells to produce those spike proteins internally it delivers lab-grown spike proteins to the body.
The researchers took the gene that codes for the spike protein and engineered yeast to produce it. These proteins are collected, purified, and combined with an adjuvant to enhance immune responses. This exact method has been used to produce the hepatitis B vaccine for years.
“Protein-based vaccines have been widely used to prevent many other diseases, have proven safety records, and use economies of scale to achieve low-cost scalability across the world,” says Maria Elena Bottazzi, one of the lead researchers on the project.
It can not be overstates how important it is that this vaccine
can be stored in a normal refrigerator and is easy to produce with affordable standard equipment that is already available almost everywhere because low-income countries have been using this same equipment to create hepatitis B vaccines. As a result, production cost will also be low: about $1.5 - $2 per dose.
Other cool things:
They deliberately made the vaccine vegan and halal to make sure more people are willing to take it.
These researchers aren’t just doing this because they’re ‘too late to cash in’. They have a track record of releasing patent-less vaccines and for the last two decades have focused on creating vaccines that are considered ‘not profitable enough’, like vaccines for parasites that primarily occur in low-income regions.
Love the American healthcare system where I’m getting a colonoscopy, a totally routine procedure, and have no idea how much it will cost me until I get the bill because 1) I don’t know what medications or supplies will be administered during the procedure until they shoot me up and 2) I don’t know what the cost of those medications and supplies will be because the hospital’s prices and the insurance’s plan allowance are both secret
FUN FACT
AS OF THE NEW YEAR THIS SPECIFIC PRACTICE IS NOW ILLEGAL
CERTAIN SURPRISE MEDICAL BILLS FROM OUT OF NETWORK PROVIDERS ARE ILLEGAL AS OF LIKE LITERALLY LAST WEEK. LIKE THE THING YOU LITERALLY JUST DESCRIBED. ILLEGAL.
Regarding surgery, the anaesthesiologist specifically can no longer send you a separate bill if they’re out of network if your surgeon is in network!! You only pay your in network bills!!
It’s awesome and this is the biggest news in healthcare since Obamacare!!
‘divorce is selfish if you have kids because it messes them up’ as the child of a dysfunctional couple who stayed together ‘for the kids’, I can assure you seeing your parents constantly arguing and miserable in a toxic marriage messes kids up much more than divorce
