"Soon, I'll take mine."
The two-time world champ Gabriel Medina caused a little ruckus yesterday when he told viewers watching him play Fortnite on Twitch that ‘cause he wasn’t vaccinated he wouldn’t be competing at the Tahiti Pro in a few weeks.
Bedecked in jewels, Medina, who is twenty-seven, said he’d refused the Brazilian Olympic committee’s offer of a COVID-19 vax prior to the Tokyo Games, and therefore couldn’t meet France’s strict-ish quarantine laws.
“There’s no time to go from Mexico to there, because it’s one after the other. I’ll be forced not to go,” said Medina. “But good. I can rule out a stage, so it’s good.”
Now, as any celeb knows, unless you want to exist as a pariah and in a permanent state of parody and ridicule, you don’t offer any opinion contrary to group-think, however heartfelt.
Publicly, anyway.
Hence Medina’s latest Tweet, IG Story.
Translated,
“Vaccine saves lives, guys! It was a mistake that I couldn’t fit the immunization into my training schedule for this year’s challenges because I was focused on the world championships. But soon I’ll take mine. In the meantime I continue to be careful and follow the safety protocols.”
No word, yet, from Kelly Slater who revealed he wasn’t anti getting jabbed, necessarily, but wanted to sit back a little, examine the side-effects.
Responding to a claim a couple of months back that he was pushing “anti-vax nonsense”, Slater wrote,
“Why does this account always end up with these triggered, bitchy people who can’t take a joke? And second, I’m not anti vax. I’m anti mandating medical procedures. But I’ve never even pushed that.”
Asked whether he’d be getting the vaccine, Slater wrote, “probably not anytime soon… It hasn’t been studied long enough to know long term cons. A friend’s dad also died a couple days after getting it from blood clots, so there’s that. Think I’ll wait for the antibodies naturally if I get COVID.”
Hah! Given that, at the time, both myself and the guitarist were heavily bearded, one of the possible band names was ZZ Bottom. In memory of Dusty, I maintain the face fur.
You can’t kill em if they vaxxed.
Kill em, so dramatic
beyond stupid brazzo
spot on
Yep even that idiot TWright has seemingly learnt to shut her public trap.
I have been doing some proper etymological studies on ‘Conspiracy Theories’, as so often recommended by my more experienced internet friends. Here’s what I learned, (but I strongly suggest you do your own research and I’m not going to provide any sources).
The word conspiracy is a compound word made from ‘cons’ and ‘piracy’. It comes from the idea that in order to really profit from a ‘con’, you have to recognise it as such and then ‘pirate’ it. Usually, the pirate will adapt the con in such a way that con is extended into a wider stream.
A good recent example is the ‘Pizzagate’ con. While most people recognised early on it was a con and laughed it off. Enough people saw the value in keeping it running and developed other cons around it. Saving all the missing children that this one pizza shop was using as toppings. This was further extended out into neo-world orders and cabals and so on. Themselves all long cons running back into the Middle Ages in some cases, although in more recent history, the German Reich really had a good crack.
It’s hard to imagine a better example of pirating a (series) of cons ever. But people still keeping buying them.
What’s pizza Gate?
Exactly. Fortunately, those who were sucked in found some dirt on Bill Gates. Didn’t take much imagination.
Ah, Bill Gates.
I Knew it
What a creep
Please see my conspiracy theory posted below.
I’d appreciate a score out of 10
Yes, there is truth in that. But end of the day, the large majority of people are just trying to do the right thing. That’s a good starting point to work from I think. Then we can weed through and find the garbage. A lot of times it’s pretty obvious.
Put aside the entire bag of dogs$%t that is vaccination/anti-vaccination madness… these are sad times when our world champ surfers are communicating over the platform of a stupid, brain cell-reducing video game. Idiocracy 2.0
The one guy in VA documenting his experience had the original strain of Covid. Thought he was okay. Got this variant and now fighting for his life.
The medical/religious exemptions are not the issue. It’s the thick headed morons that just want to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. It’s off the charts around here – glad I got the jab.
Heroes are hard to find.
Thought you were the true legit deal for a second there Gabe. Still top 2 gnarliest competitors ever.
Slater and Djokovic. Da Boi’s
Or just buy some Hurley lube.
20? I would argue this started well back in the 70’s/80’s
Scopes monkey trial, at least. Probably even the publishing of The Fundamentals of Faith in 1905 to 1910 range.
Not Trusting an experimental ‘vax’ (mRNA tech) is a sign of intelligence. Remember C19 death rate is below 0.3% . Clearly the only winners is the pharmaceutical industry and their stakeholders. Also big tech & government and big brother win in this devils game. Wake up people as evidence is more and more coming through that this,in fact, is all set in place to usher the great reset / NWO agenda. …but go ahead and get your jab. Just stop forcing people to take it. Freedom of choice for everyone!
Where’d you get your 0.3% number from?
Just do the math mate
It’s not that hard.
2%death rate, that’s with cases under reported and deaths over reported and massive elderly numbers, sick units.
So easily under 1 %
Dont be a Covidiot
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Actually deaths have most likely been under reported. The death rate is around 1.75%. But that is only one plank. There are the longer term health effects to consider. It’s not just all about mortality.
That’s actually a really good point I hadn’t heard or considered before.
If you keep making intelligent and interesting post on here we will petition you to be banned
It’s really easy to compare the long term average amount of weekly deaths to the current weekly deaths. We hit something near 150% of normal at peak times during this and quite a few weeks were 140% of normal. It’s one way to get a more accurate account.
So anyone can argue what they will wrt to covid, but the fact that weekly death totals are well above the long term mean is an inarguable fact. This leads to the overwhelming likelihood that covid is the culprit.
To be fair to the other point – yes there are many cases that went unreported. But then that can go the other way too with double/triple reportings. Unfortunately when you don’t know, you don’t know.
As one would expect, the case fatality rate was initially pretty high since this was new and we had very limited knowledge. As we learned more about how to treat this the fatality rate dropped – as it should. It’s a lot lower now thanks to vaccinations. It’s not rocket science to see that the people dying/hospitalized are overwhelmingly un-vaxxed. Yeah – there could be long term health impacts, but this vax tech is actually not that new.
On top of that, with the huge advancements in everything science, vaccines should be developed at a faster rate than they were 100 years ago. To compare the dev time from 100 years ago to now is ludicrous and invalid. We already had some runway from SARS and MERS viruses, so it should not be surprising that scientists were able to produce something in record time. We should be thankful for that.
The actual working parts of the mRNA vaccine have been around for 20 plus years. Not really experimental at this point. The only new part is the adaptation of the virus sequencing, which as you would know, with your expert level of virology, ain’t all that technical. Being one of the longer studied genetic sequences and all.
You can trust a vaccine or trust that you’re not going to be the 27 year old bloke (no concurrent health conditions) who died in Sydney this week, or his wife who survived, but she was the one who passed it on to him. It might not be your life your saving.
Hey, I’m not telling you to get a jab. Just freeing up your choice.
You take way more risk on your postie round, woof!
Exactly again! A trip to the doctors to get a jab is a significantly higher risk than getting the jab, even as an under 40 getting the Astra Zeneca style.
And loving it!!
I think you have got the last bit right.
Your body, your choice.
It’s got nothing to do with a world reset.
China released it as an warning of what worse it can do if anyone try’s stop them when they retake Taiwan.
Our governments are now simply prepping us for the future biological war.
Personally I don’t think the woozle has done enough to support the future health of its “athletes”!
It’s a duty of care.
All pro surfers ( well, at least the top five) should be offered the vaccine ( of there choice) at every meal.
When they are ready they will take it but it should at least be on offer in case they feel like it.
Till than the most vulnerable in our communities should give up there chance of the vaccine knowing there lost has gone to give the choice to the truly elite of surfing.
As it should be.
Don’t get vaccinated, the latest anecdote will save you.
Serve your country
Get covid.
It’s nature’s spring clean
Apropos of nothing germane…this:
https://youtu.be/5_msHpEa3_Y
Just what this thread needed at this point. Some nice upbeat music.
Had my 1st astra shot wed arvo,just walked into the chemist,no wait.had 2 surfs thursday,no ill effects,too fucking easy!Lots of sydney “lockdown”people floating around here,spurred me into action.
Sliding door moment
Isn’t Medina one of those new breed of Christian evangelicals that is eschewing the more fun and ritualistic Catholicism that was forced upon the new world? Very popular now in most of the world’s colonized places. They typically believe that nothing matters in the real world because Jesus or God or someone will have a magical happy place for you when you die. Therefore fuck the environment, fuck global pandemics, fuck the gay sinners because…Jesus.
If Gabe wasn’t a catholic he most likely wouldn’t have ever got the scores he needed to get this far.
Same as Kelly in away. Every time the surf media said “Kelly “ a extra point was automatically added to each of his waves?
Aah the irony…Jesus was a carpenter…and they nailed him to a piece of wood!….Me…I’m going to hell…cause that’s where all my friends are.
I think the woke should have more grace but the bottom line is that fewer people will die if everyone is vaccinated than if COVID just runs it’s course. The truth isn’t groupthink.