Are you going to take the vaccine?

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The wish to change terminology from autism spectrum disorder to autism spectrum condition is because 'disorder' is pejorative/inaccurate - but autism is a 'disability'... because (as for other disabilities) the world isn't usually constructed/structured with us in consideration.

'Disabled/disability' isn't a pejorative because it's a truth (plus nearly everyone alive is disabled in some way - mostly unknown to themselves).

Re the link I posted about covid in India- a friend confirmed today it's literally so many dead bodies at the moment they're desperately cutting down trees/fences to cremate people right there in the streets (other than major streets in large cities - where they're cremating thousands of people per day in set aside areas).

I find this thread extremely insensitive and self indulgent given no matter what the causes, reasons, origin, plots/plans/conspiracies, opinions, ideas etc anyone has about covid - millions of people have died and are dying as each word here is written, as members blithely and dispassionately insist they have the truth about current events.

What's the overall point of a thread like this? (Of Bring 4th - for that matter?)

We came to help, to have compassion, to bear witness, to shed light.... not to back and forth about unprovable conspiracies yet refuse to accept provable cross referenced statistical data. Covid's origin may not be organic/nature based/accidental - it may be nefarious - but 'masks aren't protective' silliness, and disputing figures (which will be UNDER stated - not overstated)... oh - don't get me started - it's like - grow up - this is a pandemic - a plague...

that there hasn't been worse, more frequent and more lethal pandemics breaking out in the past few hundred years is a freaking miracle. (or gee - maybe because of science, hygiene standards, vaccinations, better nutrition, masks and massively improved medical knowledge.)

I went to the shops in the last fortnight without a mask for the first time in a year !  No one in my part of Australia needs a mask on at the moment - because we didn't waffle on about unproven conspiracies and congregate mask-less... we have a low death toll and the economy is beginning to slowly pick up again.

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Threads like this are embarrassing.