Kansas Crimson

ousdahl wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:20 pm If Merica ever did get any kind of actual systemic reform, if not some sorta full-blown revolution, we citizens of this greatest country in the history of greatness can all rest assured that the revolution is a bajillion times more likely to be ushered in by Randy and lobster, than by Qusdahl.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:52 pm But someone who simply does not believe that Person A has any responsibility at all for Person B would of course not have capacity for understanding this sort of basic idea of collective good.

StayCurious wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:24 pm JFish, you can live in your fantasy world. It reminds me this dude I saw at Trader Joes last week who put his 2 year old girl in a mask. Some customers were looking at this guy wondering what the hell he was thinking. Poor girl, gonna grow up with that kind of ignorant parent. As Leana Wen pointed out, masks harmed her child's speech development. They are not completely free of risks, although far safer than the vaccine. But totally unnecessary and useless. Children are at almost no risk from covid.

The Rittenhouse thing, I'm just pointing out that you should have known better. You're in the legal field, and you didn't even get that right. Reminds me of someone else on here who has a phd.

randylahey wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:28 pm [*]Having a degree doesn't necessarily mean you are more intelligent than someone who doesn't. All it means is you had the time and paid (or borrowed) the money to complete the courses that related to the career path you chose. But its no measure of intelligence

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:52 pm
When reasonable people say masks work - because they DO work - it is because masks are pretty good (remarkably good, really, given the costs involved) at preventing Person A from getting Person B sick. Any incremental preventive benefit to Person A is a plus, but Person A's health is simply not the point.

randylahey wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:41 pm At the end of the day you are paying to be certified with a degree, which is mainly about memorizing information

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:43 pm “Children are at almost no risk of Covid”

My child, at age one, had to go to the ER because of Covid so you can rightly fuck off with your stupid story about a kid in a mask at a grocery store.

randylahey wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:40 pm I wouldn't take it that far. But I would say people with degrees can seem less likely to think outside the box. Or assume everything they learn in their field is 100 percent correct. Which is false. Science is constantly evolving. Sometimes what we thought was correct we later learned was missing variables

PhDhawk wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:33 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:52 pm But someone who simply does not believe that Person A has any responsibility at all for Person B would of course not have capacity for understanding this sort of basic idea of collective good.

An ironic thing about this, is that based off political and religious affiliations, many of those people who think an individual with a respiratory pathogen is under absolutely no moral obligation to take any measure to prevent its spread were the same people who in the 1990s had me terrified of STIs. They had me convinced that HPV, crabs, or gonorrhea would ruin my life, make me forever unfuckable, and permanently ostracized from society for my sinful and wreckless behavior and that absolute abstinence was the only appropriate course of action. But, today, the inalienable right to cough on someone cannot be infringed upon.

StayCurious wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:37 pm

randylahey wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:28 pm [*]Having a degree doesn't necessarily mean you are more intelligent than someone who doesn't. All it means is you had the time and paid (or borrowed) the money to complete the courses that related to the career path you chose. But its no measure of intelligence

I'm starting to believe those who have them are less intelligent than those who do not. All the evidence you need is in this thread. Something about common sense completely disappears when people become "experts".

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:51 pm They’re name is DC.

pdub wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:43 pm “Children are at almost no risk of Covid”

My child, at age one, had to go to the ER because of Covid so you can rightly fuck off with your stupid story about a kid in a mask at a grocery store.