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Of course there's a point. Decreasing the chances of hospitalization and death if/when infected.

People at high risk are being advised to continue to take mitigating measures. Don't even bother to say that isn't true.

It's disgusting advice for people at high risk. Offensive actually.

For the people it hits hard, it is far from trivial. Yes we're more in a management phase but the virus is not going away, and people that are high risk are not being irrational to take more aggressive mitigation measures.

You do you. I'm not telling you what to do.

It actually is far from over.

I often get the evil eye for wearing a mask. From f-rangs. Never from Thais. That pisses me off big time. If I want to mask, it's not a political choice, it's a personal health choice that I have made. Also people saying that people that still choose to mask are STUPID are something much worse than stupid. My face, my choice. Kay?

This topic was obviously started with HOSTILE intent. We have enough of that kind of stuff on other topics. I suggest it is best IGNORED or we will keep getting more of these anti LGBT BAITING attempts here.

No they mustn't.

Cultural appropriation? Chonburi -- a town so nice they named it twice.

Can never get enough Bob Odenkirk. This a different kind of role but good fun with stylized violence.

With Thais it's relative to their noses and of course other appendages. No he di'int. Good time for this?

The politics of white fear and resentment over losing total dominance. Very ugly.

Bull. You're trying to shut me up because I'm American. If you liked my views, you wouldn't do that. Again, JUST STOP.

So you imagine I'm defending the racial history in the U.S.? Bizarre attack. All you've got are ad hominem attacks. Just stop it.

I'm quite aware of culture. I like my culture MULTI.

A current case to reflect on in relation to his politics is Poland. It's controlled by a very right wing, very white nationalist, anti-immigrant xenophobic government yet they've been remarkably welcoming to overwhelmingly white, similar culture Ukrainians. Not that that's a bad thing as they deserve to have hosts as refugees, but the racial overtones of the hypocrisy are unavoidable and very ugly. In the UK among the xenophobes the message is always REAL Brits are white. I guess you could make a case of some kind that it's good to try to keep white countries very white (as Australia did for so long) but you can't credibly be dishonest about it to claim such arguments aren't at the root very racist.

That was a sleazy ad hominem attack. Yes I have been although its irrelevant. Whether that word is specifically widely used or not the concept translates. I was responding to a post that did use that word in a right wing context but instead of whining about that, you launch a garbage personal attack on me. Very telling.

I reject your excusal and your insult.

I just love how the nativist right wing think they own the word patriot.

Definitely a racist.

I take Powell extremely negatively and am rather surprised to see a topic of admiration towards him. My initial feeling is that he was like the notorious racist George Wallace but here's another theory. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/12/donald-trump-enoch-powell-rivers-of-blood

Yes Reagan was very horrible on HIV but we had leaders and health officials at local levels at least in the hot spots that could at least get out good prevention info and testing as early as possible. It took several years for effective treatments and weirdly still no vaccine. The earlier years of treatments were a disaster doing more harm than good. I don’t think Reagan was very homophobic personally but his right wing base was and it helped him more politically to ignore HIV than to address it.

Yeah trump of the American carnage inauguration speech.

Revisionist history with very questionable intent. Again, as someone that lived the history the moment it was known that the main risk factors were unprotected butt sex and shared needles, the people at risk welcomed that knowledge immensely. Of course there were controversies over things like whether to close the bath houses or not. The arguments to keep open were that they could be used for safer sex education and testing. People still did risky stuff in many other places of course open baths or not. Much of the general public incorrectly still believed it was much more casually transmitted for many years creating unfair stigma for gay people to add to the misery of the plague.