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There's a lot of stuff in the news cycle right now about a new and worrisome disease
called Bucky pox. It's definitely alarming given that there have been other diseases in the
past, which had the suffix pox, such as smallpox, which killed untold millions of people
until a vaccine was developed. Even our animal friends aren't immune from the dreaded
foxes. In 1798, cowpox ravaged the countryside, causing pusillus sores to frequently
appear spontaneously on the nipples of our poor Beaubien friends, some deut doctors of
the time thought there might be some kind of correlation between cow and smallpox. But
it took many years and many deaths, both human and animal to test that theory, and act
accordingly. It will probably come as no surprise to you that even when a smallpox
vaccine was finally developed, there were those who resisted, claiming that doctors were
trying to spread the disease rather than prevent it. Some people thought that the vaccine
was immoral, because it was developed from animals. In our own day, at least 1500
service people in the US Navy have refused the COVID vaccine for similar reasons.
Strangely enough, though, even people who resist the vaccine, nine out of 10 of them
have no problem cashing those 1500 bucks stimulus checks. Not surprisingly, there's also
a correlation between low IQ and anti-Vaxxer sentiment. While the IQ vaccination
comparison has not yet been scientifically proven. A 2020 study by Texas Tech
University concluded that some people find vaccines risky because, they overestimate
the likelihood of negative events, particularly those that are rare. That's all rather
depressing. So let me just close by answering a question posed by the late great Madeline
Kahn in the classic film Blazing Saddles, in which she asked, perhaps rhetorically is
Bismarck a harrowing? Yes, Madeline? Yes, it certainly is.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of stuff in the news cycle right now about a new and worrisome
disease called Monkeypox. It's definitely alarming given that there have been other
diseases in the past, which had the suffix pox, such as smallpox, which killed untold
millions of people until a vaccine was developed. Even our animal friends aren't immune
from the dreaded foxes. In 1798, cowpox ravaged the countryside, causing pusillus sores
to frequently appear spontaneously on the nipples of our poor Beaubien friends.
Some duty doctors of the time thought there might be some kind of correlation between
cow and smallpox. But it took many years and many deaths, both human and animal to
test that theory, and act accordingly. It will probably come as no surprise to you that
even when a smallpox vaccine was finally developed, there were those who resisted,
claiming that doctors were trying to spread the disease rather than prevent it. Some
people thought that the vaccine was immoral because it was developed from animals. In
our own day, at least 1500 service people in the U.S. Navy have refused the COVID
vaccine for similar reasons. Strangely enough, though, even people who resist the
vaccine, nine out of 10 of them have no problem cashing those 1500 bucks stimulus
checks.
Not surprisingly, there's also a correlation between low IQ and anti-Vaxxer sentiment.
While the IQ vaccination comparison has not yet been scientifically proven. A 2020
study by Texas Tech University concluded that some people find vaccines risky because,
"They overestimate the likelihood of negative events, particularly those that are rare".
That's all rather depressing. So let me just close by answering a question posed by the
late great Madeline Kahn in the classic film Blazing Saddles, in which she asked,
"Perhaps rhetorically is Bismarck a harrowing?" Yes, Madeline? Yes, it certainly is.
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Speaker 2: I have no idea yet what is going to be contained in this particular test.
It'supposed to include things that you would have to look up in the guidelines. Like, for
example, if I say the number 1500 or if I say that all right is supposed to be two words.
Problem is a lot of you won't look up anything in the guidelines if your life depended on
it. I mean, not that does Okay. Still getting this particular job does depend on it. So right
here, in the first paragraph, I'd sprinkled a few things you'd have to look up in the
guidelines to get right. Will you do it, though? I'm wondering because a lot of people
seem to think all they have to do is apply, they think it doesn't matter if they actually
finished the audio test, not realizing then it's actually the most important part.
This is where we find out whether you can follow simple instructions, like checking the
GoTranscript guidelines to see how to format it, if the speaker puts two numbers in the
same sentence, like three and 18. That's very important. So let's see if you do that
correctly or not. Another thing you need to look up is how long your paragraphs are
supposed to be. There's a section in the aforementioned guidelines, telling you exactly
how long they should be, and yet, we get a lot of tests that are just one big blob of a
paragraph. Sad, really, because even when people get every word of the audio
transcribed correctly, they still fail because of formatting errors. In fact, I'd say that only
five out of 100 people actually get through.
Another problem people have with formatting numbers is some not understanding the
difference between how you format numbers used to denote years versus the same
number used to describe the year. It's even more confusing when you have the same
number describing the same type of thing but in different ways let me clarify that, for
example, someone might be talking about an event that occurred in the year 2000. And
then the very next sentence, say that it has been over 2000 years since that event
happened. It's the same number, and they're even describing the same thing years, but
one of them will have a comma and one won't. If you get that right, you may be well on
your way to making hundreds of 1000s of pennies as a transcriber. So good luck.
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