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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Fred Bloggs
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:23:50 +1100
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On 30/12/2024 4:44 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 17:02:42 -0000 (UTC), piglet wrote:
> 
>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>> On 30/12/2024 12:36 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> I've noticed our resident omniphobe and climate catastrophist, Fred
>>>> Bloggs, has been absent of late (which is most unusual for him). Did
>>>> he finally succumb to anoxia due to greenhouse gases? Did the blood in
>>>> his veins boil due to an increase in global temperatures? Anyone hearg
>>>> anything from him?
>>>
>>> An eventual rise in average global temperature by three degrees Celcius
>>> isn't going to boil anybody's blood, and rising CO2 levels aren't going
>>> to give anybody anoxia. The atmospheric oxygen content is about 21%,
>>> and as we convert more of it to CO2 it is going down (and has been
>>> measured as having gone down a bit, but by less than you get by going
>>> from meteorological high to a low).
>>>
>>> He's more likely to have succumbed to Covid-19 (which is still killing
>>> people, but not the numbers we lost during the pandemic), and even more
>>> likely to have decided that that this user group is a waste of
>>> bandwidth. Your contributions certainly are - but they are execrable
>>> enough to be worth jeering at.
> 
> Well done, Bill. That thesaurus you've obviously invested in is serving
> you well in expanding your limited insult vocabulary.

I'm sure there's an English-language thesaurus somewhere around the 
house - I can see a Dutch one from here (Synoniemen Wordenboek) - but I 
don't need to use one to provided descriptive terms for your inanities.

> So the Covid shot felled poor old Fred, then. Lord knows there were enough
> warnings against taking it from the internet cognoscenti but he presumably
> trusted CNN more and paid the ultimate price for his misplaced faith in
> the legacy media. He will be missed.

Covid-19 inoculations killed perhaps one in 500,000 of the people who 
got them. Your chance that Covid-19 would kill you even after you got 
the inoculation was higher, but still way lower than the chance that 
Covid-19 would kill you if you caught it, if you had avoided 
inoculation, which is still a pretty effective - if less than perfect - 
way of avoiding infection. As you get older your immune system get 
progressively less effective, and so do inoculations.

Fred is highly unlikely to have died of Covid-19, but it is a feasible 
explanation of why he gave up posting. >   :(
> 
>> Didn’t he leave when google groups dropped us?
> 
> Mon cher Piglet, much as I'd like to believe that, I fear we must simply
> accept Bill's view as being definitive this time. Even a busted clock is
> right twice a day.

My comment merely offered a couple of possible explanations for his 
absence. You seem to have stopped reading after the first line, as you 
frequently do.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney