Fred Bloggs

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.

Didn’t he leave when google groups dropped us?

Well done, Bill. That thesaurus you've obviously invested in is serving you well in expanding your limited insult vocabulary. 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. :(

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.

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.

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. > :(

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.

Very likely. The last messages from Fred Bloggs on my computer were 4 messages on Feb 21, 2024. Google stopped accepting new Usenet postings on Feb 22,