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There was a woman on the BBC’s Big Questions program a while ago talking about the effects of lockdowns, in particular the student suicides that have ...

As an avid social distancer he’s probably more up your street.

You read this stuff and you conform. No questioning—only frightened, dim-witted conformity.

Conformist assumptions. You assume mass vaccination of the young and healthy is substantially helpful. You assume the consequences of the vaccines are...

If person deems those dangers to be significant then I’d at least say it’s fine for them to avoid them if doing so does them and others no substantial...

This is from the article: “The coroner said: "Lisa died due to complications of an AstraZeneca Covid vaccination."” Yeah, sometimes people with dogs g...

You’re entirely impartial, sure. If evidence supports a view then that’s what it does I’m afraid. Check. I posted a quotation from the article that sh...

Plus, even without a strict mandate there’s coercion happening as a consequence of views such as yours, so speaking against mandates comes into this.

If you bring up the potential consequences of other things like ibuprofen then it’s pertinent for me to give the same view about them: you don’t have ...

Looking for evidence to support a view is called “thinking”, so it’s quite funny that you pour scorn on the endeavour. I disagree with the parts that ...

I misread your post and thought you’d said something about unrelated car accidents. But to my awareness cognitive difficulty is another possible sympt...

And so I don’t wish to see the driving of cars mandated and it’s reasonable for people to decline using them.

I’ve been told this before, also by someone who liked begging the question. You’re inclined to argue simply by assuming your position is true. I disag...

I point out that you’re arbitrarily dismissing the examples and statistics I linked to and begging question. Your response is to do the same thing aga...

You said there was no evidence whatsoever to support the claim that death and debilitation are occurring among healthy vaccinated people. This isn’t t...

Now what?

It does detract from that statement, because people still get ill despite being vaccinated and need further shots for the vaccination to work adequate...

I’m quite certain that you’ve hinged your identity on this issue because you argue about it poorly. This just isn’t true: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-...

I wouldn’t pull a rather gruesome trigger on a set of people simply because others were upset about me not doing so, no. If vaccinating the world prov...

There’s a particular saying that should immediately enter your mind on reading this back.

If there are figures showing these side effects are occurring and also anecdotal reports of ones that have gone unreported then this is worth consider...

My point is that, regarding blood clots, there’s cause for concern with the other vaccines and we don’t know how many clots are going unreported. I ta...

One example is a runner called Sage Canaday who developed a blood clot after his second Pfizer dose. From what I’ve just gathered it wasn’t confirmed ...

This in turn casts doubt on the claimed severity of the virus if both sides are inflating the figures in this way. But presumably those numbers will i...

The type caused by blood clots, for example. Are you disputing that blood clots are a potential side effect of these vaccines?

How so? Then I find odd the reluctance to provide an answer to my question about why viral loads are supposedly lower in vaccinated individuals compar...

Whether vaccinating the young and healthy on balance helps the vulnerable community enough to warrant the death and debilitation that occurs within th...

It would. I question in all areas of life. I enjoy it. We all have a “side”. Have I though? This is basically saying I believe things for reasons. Thi...

They haven’t to my awareness dealt with those questions—I thought of those because I think. If my second question in particular has an answer then it ...

John Ioannidis and Jonathan Sumption are two good examples of reputable persons who have advocated for caution and freedom since the beginning.

I don’t derive my opinions solely from myself. Some of those who informed my thinking probably deserve a prize.

That would actually be a good one if I’d described something resembling a conspiracy theory.

Before I posted searched and watched the video here: https://www.immunology.org/coronavirus/connect-coronavirus-public-engagement-resources/covid-19-v...

QED

Really I think this whole affair has been a catastrophic mistake in proportionality causing untold amounts of unnecessary harm to people, and everythi...

It seems to me that declining to get the vaccine is entirely reasonable since the official line is so open to questioning: “The vaccine will protect y...

The meaningful element of your question seems to me to be whether there are scientists who question the use of the vaccine. The word is that Chris Whi...

I was offering a reply to your post above mine, asking for examples of scientists questioning the use of the vaccine and the reasons for this. (Posted...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-updated-advice-on-covid-19-vaccination-of-children-aged-12-to-15 Apparently this changes as soon as a p...

The answer to this seems to be that this pandemic isn’t really like the ones you mention and is more akin to the 1968 flu outbreak. No measures then o...

No problem :up:

Well there you go. As in possibilities that no one has thought of, yeah, I figure there must be. I think perhaps we’re talking past each other here - ...

It strikes me that you’re making a rather nebulous point which doesn’t address what I’ve been saying. Nominalism and conceptualism can accept possibil...

I’d say we do have experience of possibility, of an indirect sort: the sense that things could have been different and the often unpredictable nature ...

Perhaps the myopia is mine since I don’t actually know what point you’re making that I haven’t answered already. Naming and explaining things we have ...

It seems to me that the content of a possible world is the potential state of things it amounts to. I don’t see a problem with naming all the potentia...

If nominalism and conceptualism want to sit inside realism saying we all believe in the same possibilities but disagree about the nature of them then ...

That wouldn’t fit my understanding of each view in this context. Nominalism denies possible worlds exist apart from the world, conceptualism denies th...

Is that an explanation? It only seems to me like a representation of expanding possibilities as the dolls grow in size, or of how much each view is wi...

That to my understanding is the use of positing substantial properties and accidental properties. Something remains the same by virtue of its substant...