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“That which does not kill me has made a tactical error.”
I pretty much gave up after he gave a homeopath as an anti-vax source, though it does prove that there are people dumber than Jenny.
And I love that the Depression seems to have lasted so long because of FDR’s damn Keynesian economics in 1929.
But I think Jro should be pronounced the way Scooby-Doo would pronounce it, don’t you?
I’m trying, man, but the spider that lives just inside my front door has been missing for a couple days, and I can’t concentrate for the worry.
Oh boy, now he is trying the ‘why do you hate medical freedom?’ gambit.
“That which does not kill me only makes me sleep until 3:30 the next afternoon”
–Jim Carroll
Going for the obvious - “That which does not kill me, only makes me . . . stranger.”
Good thing my mouse has a scroll wheel. My finger is about worn out though.
The one that said vaccines can result in diseases made me spit coffee onto the keyboard.
I wonder if he thinks showers result in BO? Could explain what’s rubbing off on his posts.
Good god, that anti-vax/homeopathy stuff was painful. At least opinions like that provide a warning “Caution: I am an idiot! Ignore what I have to say!”
Didn’t reach the anti vax. Made it as far as defense of ignorant, illiterate, racists Tea Partiers, as ‘no harm, no foul’, as long as they swell the ranks of my political agenda, I can overlook that. Seriously, people show you who they really are, all the time, all you have to do is keep your eyes open. This shows me everything I need to know about you and what sort of political tradeoffs you’d be willing to make for expediency, and it makes my skin crawl, shiver.
“If it doesn’t kill you it will make you stronger, but if it kills you you’ll be dead.” - Jonathan Coulton
That which does not kill me is about to wish it did.
That which does not kill me probably wasn’t treated with Homeopathy.
That which didn’t kill me was probably because my mommy had me vaccinated.
I don’t see what’s so bad about that. He’s just saying your body builds up resistance to some diseases after having those disease. Does it not?
That which does not kill me does hurt like hell.
Well, if I understand the immune system well (and I don’t), it builds up resistance to specific entities after having encountered those entities and “determining” that they’re “hostile”. The symptoms of the disease caused by the entities have nothing to do with strengthening the immune system, although they may well weaken it indirectly. That mechanism of strengthening the immune system is exactly the mechanism that vaccines exploit: they let your immune system encounter the entity without making you suffer the symptoms of the disease.
He didn’t say anything about symptoms, and unless you’re picking the smallest of nits, I don’t see much daylight between “fighting illness” and “encountering those entities”.
I think what you’re not getting is he’s (Jro) arguing against vaccinations by saying that we should get sick more. Except vaccinations protect against things that kill you. So wanting people to get more smallpox so they’re immune to it is pretty silly.
He seems to believe that getting sick generally provides an overall level of resistance to diseases you haven’t had. Like the immune system is a muscle and it just needs some exercise.