When you thought people couldn't get more stupid

[Scooter]

There is a measles outbreak in South Carolina. Antivaxxer MAGAts are referring to them as "freedom freckles".

We are doomed.

[Burning Petard]

Oh you Canadians are so naive. Freedom is never free. Freedom freckles are proudly the evidence that some truly partiotic parents are willing to kill their children in the name of true freedom. Or perhaps it obedience to the voice of the wonderfully wise voice of the Secretary of Health, speaking as the chosen servant of G-d.

It is truly interesting times in which we now live.

snailgate

[Joe Guy]

Them South Carolinians are lettin' their freedom freckles fly!....

[Bicycle Bill]

When you thought people couldn''t get more stupid...

liberty will be showing up to post any moment now and prove that you ain't seen nuthin' yet.

-"BB"-

[BoSoxGal]

Oh you Canadians are so naive. Freedom is never free. Freedom freckles are proudly the evidence that some truly partiotic parents are willing to kill their children in the name of true freedom. Or perhaps it obedience to the voice of the wonderfully wise voice of the Secretary of Health, speaking as the chosen servant of G-d.

It is truly interesting times in which we now live.

snailgate

We’re cursed, indeed.

[liberty]

When you thought people couldn''t get more stupid...

liberty will be showing up to post any moment now and prove that you ain't seen nuthin' yet.

-"BB"-

No thanks, I don’t care much for measles. I like to avoid them if I can.

[Joe Guy]

No thanks, I don’t care much for measles. I like to avoid them if I can.

Did you get vaccinated for covid?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Does one not get vaccinated against Covid? I've been doing this all wrong . . .

[Burning Petard]

May be off topic but here it is anyway.

"Why 696 pennies sold for more than $16.7 million" Headline on a Yahool news item. Said the last pennies produced at the government mint at Philadelphia were sold at auction. Some were produced on solid gold blanks.

Any body have the skills to discover if the president or any of his family ended up with a cut from this auction?

I am still getting pennies in change from local merchants in cash transactions

Snailgate

[BoSoxGal]

I don't use cash much but a few weeks back I got a super shiny new 2025 penny in change for a cash transaction and I put it aside in the little collection of rocks, acorns, feathers and the 1970 Canadian penny with a sea star on one side that I keep because that's the year of my arrival. I will miss the penny - but then I miss the dial phone on the wall and the TV with only 5 channels.

[Joe Guy]

Does one not get vaccinated against Covid? I've been doing this all wrong . . .

So, I asked Google, and the AI response was....

You are vaccinated for COVID-19 (meaning in favor of or to protect against the virus), not against it, as the vaccine helps your body build immunity to fight the actual virus, which is generally a good thing for public health and personal safety. People use "vaccinated for COVID" to mean they received the shot to get protection, while "against COVID" usually describes opposition to the virus (e.g., "fighting against") or the vaccines themselves (anti-vaxxers).
Here's the breakdown:

• Vaccinated for COVID: You got the shot to gain immunity and prevent severe illness from the virus.
  
  • Against COVID: Refers to the virus itself (e.g., "we're against COVID"), or sometimes, it's incorrectly used to mean being against the vaccine (anti-vaxxers).
  
  
  So, the common, correct phrase is being vaccinated for COVID-19 (to protect yourself from it.

And, of course we all know that AI long ago replaced Emily Post as the go-to source for grammar etiquette or the answer to any question whatsoever that anyone may have. So we must accept AI as the source authority for all answers to our questions.

As an aside, I'd like to suggest that instead of using the short cut "AI" for Artificial Intelligence, people either write Artificial Intelligence or we all agree on a new name for it. Otherwise, because the capital 'I' looks a lot like the lower case 'l', on Facebook, for example, when someone says, "That's AI", it always appears that they're attributing something to Albert, Alfred, Alexander, Alan, Allen, Alphonse, or Alvin.

Just a thought.

[liberty]

No thanks, I don’t care much for measles. I like to avoid them if I can.

Did you get vaccinated for covid?

Yes, you know that.

[Joe Guy]

Did you get vaccinated for covid?

Yes, you know that.

I do now. If you mentioned it before, I forgot.

A lot of Trump supporters are anti-vax, even though their hero gets vaccinated.