BLACK PANTHER Star Letitia Wright Teases Shuri's MCU Return: "There's A Lot Coming Up!"

@Evansly - Wakanda Forever has been one of the betters ones for it post Endgame. I'm not Letocia fan, but her Shuri levelled up decently.

@DeadClunge - Toussaint is not a recast

@BrotherQStark - but is a replacement.

@JonC - What is T'challas boy like 10??

@RitoRevolto - Thanks, for your empathy. Very kind of you! Glad you understand :D

@SonOfAGif - Could still happen! I could see her cropping up in Cap 4 or Thunderbolts. Maybe both!

@mountainman - Hey man . . .

@mountainman - Setting aside the fact that the science, in as much as it's settled, doesn't support your claim (that the lack of vaccine uptake did no harm) you're also calling some of your fellow commenters (like me!) fascists.

@mountainman - Oh I damn sure remember. I wish I was home I can share the screenshots I saved on my desktop.

The usuals here who claim everyone is a racist and sexist had no issues calling her subhuman filth, uncivilized trash and a bitch. Why? Because she had questions about a rushed product she was told she had to inject into her body.

@mountainman - "Low risk of he virus means they didn’t need it and it didn’t prevent spread so it had nothing to do with protecting the community."

Vaccines absolutely slowed the spread and lessened the impact of infections. But yes, because so many young, healthy people refused vaccinations, vaccines were not as effective as they could have been.

"They could have easily tested her for COVID every day on set to ensure she wasn’t sick (although you would think vaccinated people would actually trust their vaccine to protect them)."

Tests were less widely available at that time, but sure. But . . . did she ever actually get vaccinated? She never said she did. I always just assumed the falderal was more about her sharing anti-vax videos, not her refusal to take the shot herself. She and Evangeline Lilly just kept on working.

"And yes mandating it was absolutely fascist."

There is a long history of vaccine mandates in the US, and outside of a few fringe holistic health folks, it's never mattered to anyone until very recently. Because they work, and protect public health. But, yeah, that ship has sailed, and now we have reached the point we would have reached eventually anyway, where COVID is, essentially, a seasonal bug (albeit one with potential long-lasting impacts on cognitive and cardiovascular fitness.)

"Leticia, much like all young and healthy people faced no danger from the virus."

Leticia did, however, pose a danger to older, less healthy people that needed to go to work on that movie's set, including some that could not receive a vaccine due to underlying conditions.

"No science ever supported the mandate."

Not sure which mandate you're referring to. There was never a blanket mandate. Some states and businesses made the choice to institute mandates, but that's just the invisible hand at work, baby. There were some federal, state, and healthcare workers that were required to be vaccinated, but, again, what else is new?

And, again, the science didn't have time to catch up. Things were moving very quickly, and millions of people died. One of my oldest friends had to retire from his landscaping business because he developed rheumatoid arthritis and cognitive impairments following a COVID infection. My brother-in-law ended up with a neurological disorder that made it feel like his feet were on fire, that took years for him to mostly recover from. We STILL don't know what the longterm health effects will be.

But, hey, it's all over now. The public has been turned against vaccines completely following the misinformation and disinformation spread during the COVID pandemic, so we can add the rampant spread of preventable diseases to the long list of things that historians will look back on when describing how we entered the new Dark Age. Fortunately, I'll be dead by then, and I don't have any kids, so [frick] it. Do whatever you want, man.

@clintthahamster - Can you show me an example from the last 5 years of large groups of minorities being fired from their jobs, minorities being blocked from entering public spaces, or minorities being demonized on TV to the level that the unvaccinated were in late 2021? Biden wished the unvaccinated a winter of death in late 2021. Did Trump ever wish any minority group a winter of death? I know your biases mean that you’ll ignore these facts, but it doesn’t make them less true.

@mountainman - Eh, didn't see much of anyone attacking anyone for making a choice to not take a vaccine ever, not saying there wasn't any of that at all but...

...what tended to cause visceral reactions was folk openly spreading what was at least percieved as disinformation that was counter productive to public health, that is not the same as attacking someone for the choice they made but only critiquing what and how they say things.

The mandate line is overblown however as there wasn't one, just some specific temp limitations in what you could do in some areas if you made the choice not to take a vaccine in order to try and mitigate spread of a deadly virus.

That isnt something new and has oft occured as in order to work for the NHS 40yrs ago you were contractualy required to have certain vaccines unless medical grounds for not being able to and the military also has oft required specific vaccinations but even then there is free choice cos just don't become a Nurse or a Squadie if unwilling to meet requirements of service.