We could afford them easily if we rolled back tax cuts from the 80s forward just like health care, public education, infrastructure, and all the other things government is supposed to provide.
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Just .. fuck reagan.
He's been dead a long time. Not sure how long the embalmed body would stay together for that. 🤔
ETA: looks like it's too* late.
*2nd edit for autocorrect
Gotta get that body count up so they can fill more "nobody wants to work [low paying, soul-crushing] jobs.
Oh great, I guess I’m getting Covid this year
Not how vaccines work, they lower the chance of extreme symptoms and increase survival chances. They don't prevent catching the illness.
While it’s not a 100% guarantee of prevention, they absolutely can help prevent infection by significantly boosting immunity. Even previous boosters can help prevent future variants:
True! I was more or less being lazy and keeping it simple.
No, you were just wrong and being a dick about it
They can also greatly lower the chance of catching the disease in the first place by increasing immunity, so it seems like I’m not the one who needs a lecture about how the vaccines work.
Unless someone asks you, keep your fallacious medical advice to yourself.
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😬 Same.