OT: The Official COVID/Omicron Variant+ thread

[DOT]

Actually I can dispute that.

It’s not even in the top 100 on Apple Music, not in the top 100 on Spotify and only #45 on billboard. Looks to me the song is failing pretty bad.

https://spotifycharts.com/regional/
https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/top-100-usa/pl.606afcbb70264d2eb2b51d8dbcfa6a12

And it continues - Let's go Brandon!!!

yeah so you have no rebuttal to what I just said. instead you keep posting that he’s doing well on a platform that nobody uses in 2021 but in reality the song is actually failing in all major platforms. trump supporters hate facts

I always find it interesting when people post stuff like that but don't use actual numbers, cause it makes me think it's a small sample size. So I actually searched for the numbers and found this snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/10/29/lets-go-brandon/

But since Trump supporters thing snopes is communist propaganda, I followed the links to Billboard for their data and found that in its first week, let's go brandon had 1.2 million streams and 35,000 downloads sold (which I assume is the iTunes number, cause I can't find anything definitive about that). Compared to "Easy on me" by Adele which debuted the same week and was the actual #1 song in the country, it had 54 million streams and 74,000 downloads its first week (the same week as let's go brandon)

So even if those numbers are off by a factor of 100, that's only 3.5 million downloads, or roughly 1% of the US if we assume 1 download per person. Which is just a pitiful number when you look at how many people use streaming services. YouTube Music alone had 30 million users in 2020, Amazon had 55 million, Apple music was at 72 (meaning at best, the song had 5% of Apple music's base listening to it), and Spotify is king at 138 million users

35,000 downloads is just negligible. People don't use iTunes any more because it's fundamentally not worth it. For the cost of just under 9 iTunes songs, I can listen to Spotify ad-free for a month.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9651733/loza-alexander-lets-go-brandon-emerging-artists-chart
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9650488/hot-100-dated-10-30-top-10-story/
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-music-statistics/

[3toheadmelo]

And it continues - Let's go Brandon!!!

yeah so you have no rebuttal to what I just said. instead you keep posting that he’s doing well on a platform that nobody uses in 2021 but in reality the song is actually failing in all major platforms. trump supporters hate facts

I always find it interesting when people post stuff like that but don't use actual numbers, cause it makes me think it's a small sample size. So I actually searched for the numbers and found this snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/10/29/lets-go-brandon/

But since Trump supporters thing snopes is communist propaganda, I followed the links to Billboard for their data and found that in its first week, let's go brandon had 1.2 million streams and 35,000 downloads sold (which I assume is the iTunes number, cause I can't find anything definitive about that). Compared to "Easy on me" by Adele which debuted the same week and was the actual #1 song in the country, it had 54 million streams and 74,000 downloads its first week (the same week as let's go brandon)

So even if those numbers are off by a factor of 100, that's only 3.5 million downloads, or roughly 1% of the US if we assume 1 download per person. Which is just a pitiful number when you look at how many people use streaming services. YouTube Music alone had 30 million users in 2020, Amazon had 55 million, Apple music was at 72 (meaning at best, the song had 5% of Apple music's base listening to it), and Spotify is king at 138 million users

35,000 downloads is just negligible. People don't use iTunes any more because it's fundamentally not worth it. For the cost of just under 9 iTunes songs, I can listen to Spotify ad-free for a month.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9651733/loza-alexander-lets-go-brandon-emerging-artists-chart
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9650488/hot-100-dated-10-30-top-10-story/
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-music-statistics/

yep iTunes is practically dead now


Tbh I never even heard of this song until this guy started spamming it all over the board

[DOT]

yeah so you have no rebuttal to what I just said. instead you keep posting that he’s doing well on a platform that nobody uses in 2021 but in reality the song is actually failing in all major platforms. trump supporters hate facts

I always find it interesting when people post stuff like that but don't use actual numbers, cause it makes me think it's a small sample size. So I actually searched for the numbers and found this snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/10/29/lets-go-brandon/

But since Trump supporters thing snopes is communist propaganda, I followed the links to Billboard for their data and found that in its first week, let's go brandon had 1.2 million streams and 35,000 downloads sold (which I assume is the iTunes number, cause I can't find anything definitive about that). Compared to "Easy on me" by Adele which debuted the same week and was the actual #1 song in the country, it had 54 million streams and 74,000 downloads its first week (the same week as let's go brandon)

So even if those numbers are off by a factor of 100, that's only 3.5 million downloads, or roughly 1% of the US if we assume 1 download per person. Which is just a pitiful number when you look at how many people use streaming services. YouTube Music alone had 30 million users in 2020, Amazon had 55 million, Apple music was at 72 (meaning at best, the song had 5% of Apple music's base listening to it), and Spotify is king at 138 million users

35,000 downloads is just negligible. People don't use iTunes any more because it's fundamentally not worth it. For the cost of just under 9 iTunes songs, I can listen to Spotify ad-free for a month.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9651733/loza-alexander-lets-go-brandon-emerging-artists-chart
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9650488/hot-100-dated-10-30-top-10-story/
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-music-statistics/

yep iTunes is practically dead now


Tbh I never even heard of this song until this guy started spamming it all over the board

I heard about it cause my mom saw someone on Facebook comment "let's go brandon" and asked me what it was about, so I google'd it

It really is just popular on all the boomer social media sites. Next they'll be bragging it's the #1 page on MySpace or something lol.

[Clyde_Style]

I always find it interesting when people post stuff like that but don't use actual numbers, cause it makes me think it's a small sample size. So I actually searched for the numbers and found this snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/10/29/lets-go-brandon/

But since Trump supporters thing snopes is communist propaganda, I followed the links to Billboard for their data and found that in its first week, let's go brandon had 1.2 million streams and 35,000 downloads sold (which I assume is the iTunes number, cause I can't find anything definitive about that). Compared to "Easy on me" by Adele which debuted the same week and was the actual #1 song in the country, it had 54 million streams and 74,000 downloads its first week (the same week as let's go brandon)

So even if those numbers are off by a factor of 100, that's only 3.5 million downloads, or roughly 1% of the US if we assume 1 download per person. Which is just a pitiful number when you look at how many people use streaming services. YouTube Music alone had 30 million users in 2020, Amazon had 55 million, Apple music was at 72 (meaning at best, the song had 5% of Apple music's base listening to it), and Spotify is king at 138 million users

35,000 downloads is just negligible. People don't use iTunes any more because it's fundamentally not worth it. For the cost of just under 9 iTunes songs, I can listen to Spotify ad-free for a month.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9651733/loza-alexander-lets-go-brandon-emerging-artists-chart
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9650488/hot-100-dated-10-30-top-10-story/
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-music-statistics/

yep iTunes is practically dead now


Tbh I never even heard of this song until this guy started spamming it all over the board

I heard about it cause my mom saw someone on Facebook comment "let's go brandon" and asked me what it was about, so I google'd it

It really is just popular on all the boomer social media sites. Next they'll be bragging it's the #1 page on MySpace or something lol.

Had to google the meaning. Ugh, so lame. If Jesus was a Democrat they'd be saying the same thing. What a bunch of losers

[Clyde_Style]

This was always a bomb waiting to go off if it was investigated fully

I was posting about this four years ago and it is coming back into the spotlight

Watch on YouTube

[thebuzzardman]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/30/trump-2020-election-steal-presidency-coup-inside-story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/eastman-pence-email-riot-trump/2021/10/29/59373016-38c1-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html

[Clyde_Style]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/30/trump-2020-election-steal-presidency-coup-inside-story

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/eastman-pence-email-riot-trump/2021/10/29/59373016-38c1-11ec-91dc-551d44733e2d_story.html

Media coverage is amping up now. The profitability of pumping Trump’s 2024 candidacy has faltered so look for more reportage on the brewing storm. Pelosi is making it impossible for the MSM to sweep the insurrection aside. I commend her for this.

This Eastman guy is another one of Trump’s donkey attorneys. What a crew

[Kampuchea]

I was going to get my son vaccinated as soon as it’s available for under 12 age group. Some family said I shouldn’t allow them to experiment on my child. Who is “them”?

[Clyde_Style]

I was going to get my son vaccinated as soon as it’s available for under 12 age group. Some family said I shouldn’t allow them to experiment on my child. Who is “them”?

Ignore them. Somehow vaccines became suspect all of a sudden. People are sheep. Protect your kids and your family

[Jalen Bluntson]

I was going to get my son vaccinated as soon as it’s available for under 12 age group. Some family said I shouldn’t allow them to experiment on my child. Who is “them”?

Ignore them. Somehow vaccines became suspect all of a sudden. People are sheep. Protect your kids and your family

So you're willing to advise someone about their child's safety? I'm not anti vax or anything but...you can't pretend to have any knowledge on this topic. I have family in the medical profession...that got the vax...and don't want to give it to their kid.

I'm truly curious how you are so confident as to suggest this? I'm also drunk so...I might have missed a word that makes sense.

Unless I'm mistaken...the vaccine doesn't prevent spread and doesn't guarantee protection. It is a symptom reducer. No studies on long term effects because... it's been less than a year for adults.

Again... I'm vaxxed... I'm not sure if that's the best decision for ME but... I'm not telling others to shoot their kids with an experimental shot.

[thebuzzardman]

I was going to get my son vaccinated as soon as it’s available for under 12 age group. Some family said I shouldn’t allow them to experiment on my child. Who is “them”?

The lizard people who live on the underside of the disc who want the chip implanted so they can track your son for his pineal gland.

[Clyde_Style]

I was going to get my son vaccinated as soon as it’s available for under 12 age group. Some family said I shouldn’t allow them to experiment on my child. Who is “them”?

Ignore them. Somehow vaccines became suspect all of a sudden. People are sheep. Protect your kids and your family

So you're willing to advise someone about their child's safety? I'm not anti vax or anything but...you can't pretend to have any knowledge on this topic. I have family in the medical profession...that got the vax...and don't want to give it to their kid.

I'm truly curious how you are so confident as to suggest this? I'm also drunk so...I might have missed a word that makes sense.

Unless I'm mistaken...the vaccine doesn't prevent spread and doesn't guarantee protection. It is a symptom reducer. No studies on long term effects because... it's been less than a year for adults.

Again... I'm vaxxed... I'm not sure if that's the best decision for ME but... I'm not telling others to shoot their kids with an experimental shot.

They were speaking about "them" so I think you missed the context entirely. They are already inclined to vaccinate their kids so I was not giving them medical advice

[Kampuchea]

Oh yeah, I am getting my kids vaxxed as soon as I can no matter what someone posts. My daughter is not yet 3 so will be waiting, plus she is rarely sick so seems to be immuno-strong. My son is prone to sickness historically, he has repetitive fever syndrome - I am looking forward to him being protected ASAP. Even if his occurrence of repetitive fever has dissipated greatly over the years I do think he is more of a priority for us.

With my post - I was more thinking of the absurdity of "them" trying to get us with the vaccine.

[HarthorneWingo]

Well, somebody finally figured out who's at fault for the all the vaccine-mandate crappola.

We need to divide up the country and I think Clyde_Style needs to move out of Florida sooner than later before these cretins nail him to the cross. (The way this woman says it while pointing her finger/hand like she's making an out call at first base and walks away without any further comment. Just out of their fcking minds.)

Watch on YouTube

[robillionaire]

Well, somebody finally figured out who's at fault for the all the vaccine-mandate crappola.

We need to divide up the country and I think Clyde_Style needs to move out of Florida sooner than later before these cretins nail him to the cross. (The way this woman says it while pointing her finger/hand like she's making an out call at first base and walks away without any further comment. Just out of their fcking minds.)

Watch on YouTube

whoops she accidentally said the quiet part out loud, and cenk is right it's going to get so much worse, just unimaginably worse

[Clyde_Style]

Well, somebody finally figured out who's at fault for the all the vaccine-mandate crappola.

We need to divide up the country and I think Clyde_Style needs to move out of Florida sooner than later before these cretins nail him to the cross. (The way this woman says it while pointing her finger/hand like she's making an out call at first base and walks away without any further comment. Just out of their fcking minds.)

Watch on YouTube

whoops she accidentally said the quiet part out loud, and cenk is right it's going to get so much worse, just unimaginably worse

She’s one of the ground troops. We’ve already had brown shirts storm the capitol. Anyone who gets offended when it is said Nazism is alive and well in America is the sort of person who says incredulously “I didn’t see that coming” when people get rounded up and put into camps. Some could justifiably say that has already been the case with how our prisons got fed young men from black communities. After skin color comes blood lines, AKA the Jews. Based on the extreme cowardice of the GOP and their complicity in a fascistic attempt to overthrow a free election you know they are harboring many Nazis now who will do whatever they can get away with should the opportunity to exercise their desires arises.

[Thepaintismine]

yeah so you have no rebuttal to what I just said. instead you keep posting that he’s doing well on a platform that nobody uses in 2021 but in reality the song is actually failing in all major platforms. trump supporters hate facts

I always find it interesting when people post stuff like that but don't use actual numbers, cause it makes me think it's a small sample size. So I actually searched for the numbers and found this snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/10/29/lets-go-brandon/

But since Trump supporters thing snopes is communist propaganda, I followed the links to Billboard for their data and found that in its first week, let's go brandon had 1.2 million streams and 35,000 downloads sold (which I assume is the iTunes number, cause I can't find anything definitive about that). Compared to "Easy on me" by Adele which debuted the same week and was the actual #1 song in the country, it had 54 million streams and 74,000 downloads its first week (the same week as let's go brandon)

So even if those numbers are off by a factor of 100, that's only 3.5 million downloads, or roughly 1% of the US if we assume 1 download per person. Which is just a pitiful number when you look at how many people use streaming services. YouTube Music alone had 30 million users in 2020, Amazon had 55 million, Apple music was at 72 (meaning at best, the song had 5% of Apple music's base listening to it), and Spotify is king at 138 million users

35,000 downloads is just negligible. People don't use iTunes any more because it's fundamentally not worth it. For the cost of just under 9 iTunes songs, I can listen to Spotify ad-free for a month.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9651733/loza-alexander-lets-go-brandon-emerging-artists-chart
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9650488/hot-100-dated-10-30-top-10-story/
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-music-statistics/

yep iTunes is practically dead now


Tbh I never even heard of this song until this guy started spamming it all over the board

The reason I posted the Let's Go Brandon thing was merely to respond to a Covid thread becoming a Trump (hate) thread. That point was missed completely and tried proving the LGB thing wrong. It was a joke. Thanks for helping a brother out.

[thebuzzardman]

The Vaccination Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion

[ellobo]

None of those opaque data tables have any ability to convey co-morbidities. It is hard enough isolate a vaccine as the cause of illness or death, but you're going to want more granular data than this to dig into the issue with any teeth.

I had a really bad reaction to a malaria vaccine once. It sucked. I lost my equilibrium for half a day and was crapping blood. I'd still risk that rather than contract malaria though.

Let's not throw aside government statistics when it hurts the cause. VAERS is The system, the gold standard, we have for reporting vaccine side effects.

The side effects (enlarged hearts, blood clots, prolonged energy loss, etc.) are happening more with the young, so all the statistics shown should not be conflated with old people with comorbidities receiving it.

I would be curious to compare the gene therapy vax with a more tradition CV "dead or weakened virus" variety.

Thing about VAERS is, it's an example of correlation, not causation

When someone reports a side effect, it's correlated with the vaccine, but not proven to be because of the vaccine. It's not scientists doing studies on side effects, it's people reporting things they noticed happening around the same time as the vaccine. So, 8,400 heart attacks in a year-ish sounds pretty bad, but 650,000 people died in 2019 due to heart conditions in the US alone. 8.4 thousand heart attacks would be about 1.2% of a year's worth of heart conditions. Statistically speaking, it's not too outrageous to suggest that you could find 8.4 thousand people who had a heart attack within a few days of getting a vaccine which nearly 80% of US adults have when 1.7 thousand heart attacks happen every day in the US. Same thing with miscarriages, there's roughly 100,000 a year in the US, finding 2,631 that correlated with the vaccine is statistically really probable

It's important to note that VAERS was never meant to be a correct representation of wide-ranging side effects of vaccines, but more so to tell researchers what to look for in actual scientific studies. So when the studies contradict VAERS, it's almost certainly more likely VAERS is wrong

There are side effects to the vaccine that are affecting younger people more yes, but in all, it's within what's to be expected of a vaccine. I'd be more worried about the long term side effects of getting Covid, but that's just me.

Here's an anecdote that vividly illustrates the difference between correlation and causation and how easy they are to conflate (the study mentioned at the end of the quote and discussed later in the article is pretty interesting too):

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/your-brain-is-primed-to-reach-false-conclusions/

Paul Offit likes to tell a story about how his wife, pediatrician Bonnie Offit, was about to give a child a vaccination when the kid was struck by a seizure. Had she given the injection a minute sooner, Paul Offit says, it would surely have appeared as though the vaccine had caused the seizure and probably no study in the world would have convinced the parent otherwise. (The Offits have such studies at the ready — Paul is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and author of “Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All.”) Indeed, famous anti-vaxxer Jenny McCarthy has said her son’s autism and seizures are linked to “so many shots” because vaccinations preceded his symptoms.

But, as Offit’s story suggests, the fact that a child became sick after a vaccine is not strong evidence that the immunization was to blame. Psychologists have a name for the cognitive bias that makes us prone to assigning a causal relationship to two events simply because they happened one after the other: the “illusion of causality.” A study recently published in the British Journal of Psychology investigates how this illusion influences the way we process new information. Its finding: Causal illusions don’t just cement erroneous ideas in the mind; they can also prevent new information from correcting them.

[Clyde_Style]

I always find it interesting when people post stuff like that but don't use actual numbers, cause it makes me think it's a small sample size. So I actually searched for the numbers and found this snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/10/29/lets-go-brandon/

But since Trump supporters thing snopes is communist propaganda, I followed the links to Billboard for their data and found that in its first week, let's go brandon had 1.2 million streams and 35,000 downloads sold (which I assume is the iTunes number, cause I can't find anything definitive about that). Compared to "Easy on me" by Adele which debuted the same week and was the actual #1 song in the country, it had 54 million streams and 74,000 downloads its first week (the same week as let's go brandon)

So even if those numbers are off by a factor of 100, that's only 3.5 million downloads, or roughly 1% of the US if we assume 1 download per person. Which is just a pitiful number when you look at how many people use streaming services. YouTube Music alone had 30 million users in 2020, Amazon had 55 million, Apple music was at 72 (meaning at best, the song had 5% of Apple music's base listening to it), and Spotify is king at 138 million users

35,000 downloads is just negligible. People don't use iTunes any more because it's fundamentally not worth it. For the cost of just under 9 iTunes songs, I can listen to Spotify ad-free for a month.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9651733/loza-alexander-lets-go-brandon-emerging-artists-chart
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9650488/hot-100-dated-10-30-top-10-story/
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-music-statistics/

yep iTunes is practically dead now


Tbh I never even heard of this song until this guy started spamming it all over the board

The reason I posted the Let's Go Brandon thing was merely to respond to a Covid thread becoming a Trump (hate) thread. That point was missed completely and tried proving the LGB thing wrong. It was a joke. Thanks for helping a brother out.

You want to counter justifiable emnity towards a traitor and an avowed racist by spamming the boards with a cowardly euphemism for Fck Joe Biden? Sorry, it is just incredibly lame