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skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

Coworker: hey how was your weekend?

Me having lost the ability to lie: spent it getting high, jerking off and filling my brain with covid doom reality hellworld information

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

My sister and I aren't talking anymore because right after she got vaccinated in early March she started posting videos in the family snapchat of her and her friends hitting the bars. When I said that it's probably a bad idea to do that in places where the workers are guaranteed to be unvaccinated she lost her poo poo at me. She and her husband (who has a pacemaker lol) haven't said a word to me since then.

I already had a huge shouting match with my whole family over my brother refusing to get vaxxed because he was waiting for Moderna to become available, on top of not telling me I was potentially exposed to COVID when I saw him on New Year's, and on top of them trying to guilt-trip me into visiting them to have lunch while we all watch my sister's virtual graduation (why not just watch it separately if it's loving virtual!!!)

he already has gotten vaxxed since, but the next inflection point is going to be Christmas

some days I wish they'd stop talking to me just so I wouldn't have to keep telling them to stop inviting me to things

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar

skewetoo posted:

Oh now it's a tragedy

never fgorget

https://twitter.com/curtain_flower/status/1433607939965734915?s=20

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

CSPAM is the second best Spam after jalapeno Spam, I'm not going to brunch

Golli
Jan 5, 2013



Shitpostradomus posted:

i'm in chud-world so i just lie my rear end off.

we're thinking about going to the lake or this concert series in the next state over.
an old friend is also holding a BBQ and now that COVID is over we can all hang out to make up for last year.
IVM? yeah i have heard of it. oh, you looked it up via Duck Duck Go because Google is censoring the truth?
I mean there are a lot of information aggregation services not letting people make their own informed decisions, I agree.

ain't gonna change hearts and minds if i push back and i don't mind making poo poo up that doesn't matter on the fly.
just make sure to notate it so when you come in Tuesday and they ask how the concert was, you remember not to respond "why the gently caress would i go to a concert in a pandemic."

My standard answer is "No big plans, just have some stuff I been wanting to do around the house." (like breathe)

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

My sister and I aren't talking anymore because right after she got vaccinated in early March she started posting videos in the family snapchat of her and her friends hitting the bars. When I said that it's probably a bad idea to do that in places where the workers are guaranteed to be unvaccinated she lost her poo poo at me. She and her husband (who has a pacemaker lol) haven't said a word to me since then.

this seems like normal family behavior to me

One More Fat Nerd posted:

So I posted about this almost exactly a week ago, and I don't know if this is even a good thread to post about it, but my oldest brother died today of COVID. He was intubated saturday and stable till about 2am. Guts backed up, kidneys failed, he died around 6am.

He refused vaccination on explicitly political grounds. Hated Bush, voted Obama 08, got disillusioned. He was a fairly regular white male American until sometime around 2015 or so when got into long haul trucking, AM radio, TRUMP, and 4chan, in that order. I loved him and tried to talk sense into him but he died a 50 year old conspiracy theorist, alone in a hospital 20 hours from family.

The rest of us survive him, in this hellworld, for a while.

im really fuckin sorry man.

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003


Lmfao Love to see how the chuds in that photo are doing today

VomitOnLino
Jun 13, 2005

Sometimes I get lost.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

when my coworkers talk about what they've been doing and ask me what I did last weekend I just say 'I rode my bike,' much easier and much less controversial than pointing out that American society is deliberately committing suicide.

Yeah, I basically do the same when my co-workers ask me if I had a nice weekend. I just go "Yeah, walked, took some photos - the usual."
I mean they expect reports on restaurants I liked or places I went.

But the above answer is sufficient to meet social conventions, even if they likely think I'm a loving weirdo.
The feeling of getting gaslit by nearly every one the entire time is truly crazy making.

Once I have my respirator I can finally use public transport again and hopefully see some loving nature!

Der Meister
May 12, 2001


soyboy joe rogan

Fuck Man
Jul 5, 2004

euphronius posted:

eventually you will get so many different variants their names will spell out a rune word and you will be able to teleport

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

One More Fat Nerd posted:

So I posted about this almost exactly a week ago, and I don't know if this is even a good thread to post about it, but my oldest brother died today of COVID. He was intubated saturday and stable till about 2am. Guts backed up, kidneys failed, he died around 6am.

He refused vaccination on explicitly political grounds. Hated Bush, voted Obama 08, got disillusioned. He was a fairly regular white male American until sometime around 2015 or so when got into long haul trucking, AM radio, TRUMP, and 4chan, in that order. I loved him and tried to talk sense into him but he died a 50 year old conspiracy theorist, alone in a hospital 20 hours from family.

The rest of us survive him, in this hellworld, for a while.

I'm so sorry. :cry:

good lord help us all even though we don't deserve it

Demon Of The Fall
May 1, 2004

Nap Ghost

just an utter piece of poo poo, i really hope she dies

VomitOnLino
Jun 13, 2005

Sometimes I get lost.

Iron Crowned posted:

I recently took two whole days off in a row, and everyone was asking me where I went. I did take my roommate to an appointment, but outside of those two hours I sat on my rear end at home.

This is both infinitely depressing and also infinitely relatable. God.
Hellworld. lmao

Vesi
Jan 12, 2005

pikachu looking at?

skewetoo posted:

Coworker: hey how was your weekend?

Me having lost the ability to lie: spent it getting high, jerking off and filling my brain with covid doom reality hellworld information

ah, the sir mix-a-lot syndrome

Mr. Pizza
Oct 5, 2009


there are definitely times to not reaveal your non-openbidenness

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar

One More Fat Nerd posted:

So I posted about this almost exactly a week ago, and I don't know if this is even a good thread to post about it, but my oldest brother died today of COVID. He was intubated saturday and stable till about 2am. Guts backed up, kidneys failed, he died around 6am.

He refused vaccination on explicitly political grounds. Hated Bush, voted Obama 08, got disillusioned. He was a fairly regular white male American until sometime around 2015 or so when got into long haul trucking, AM radio, TRUMP, and 4chan, in that order. I loved him and tried to talk sense into him but he died a 50 year old conspiracy theorist, alone in a hospital 20 hours from family.

The rest of us survive him, in this hellworld, for a while.

gently caress this sucks, I'm so sorry. I don't post about it but one of my younger brothers passed away this past February from a severe asthma attack (weird coincidence huh?) which, as you can imagine, has been beyond hellish for my parents, especially for my conservative emotionally damaged alcoholic father. The only "good" thing to come out of it was I told my parents and my surviving brother they need to get vaccinated ASAP, which they all did at the time.

poo poo sucks man, life is unfair and you're not alone.

Shitpostradomus
Sep 19, 2020

by sebmojo
Being in a chud workplace is nice because they all hate Joe and I can always throw some hot takes into that discussion.

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

Cabbages and Kings posted:

yep, and our local situation in Bristol isn't that much better. getting in with pcp easy, even local specialists not so much. of course Porter is part of UVM now.

my partner needs post labor pelvic floor help and it's looking like we may pay out of pocket to go out of network rather than wait another month. of course if you can afford totally private care for everything, you're just as fine here as anywhere else.

we can't... we already spend $30000 a year post tax on insurance plus deductible for 4 people and it breaks my brain to think how different our life would be if we just even half that money back :allears:

Medicaid for everyone could go into effect today with each ssn serving as the unique identifying number.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017



Lol

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Shitpostradomus posted:

Being in a chud workplace is nice because they all hate Joe and I can always throw some hot takes into that discussion.

:hmmyes:

Piggy Smalls
Jun 21, 2015



BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR,
YOU MAKE A DIME,
I'LL LICK HIS BOOT TILL THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS SHINE.

The day after my diagnosis. the cough is the worst part of this illness along with the splitting headache. coughed so much my back is hurting too. had the vaccine but still a bit worried. had a heart attack 6 years ago so my heart is fragile. cardiologist was called because my heart rate won’t go below 100 beats per minute and averages over 110. was told the virus will give your lung fibrosis whether you got the vaccine or not so that’s why my heart rate is elevated.

the head of the immunology center took a lot of samples and told me that the vaccine is poor at putting antibodies in the nasal cavity so they are developing a vaccine they can administer as a spray in the nose. he said the virus enters the nose for the most part.

SpaceParrot
Jul 18, 2006

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

[Dooting Stealthily]



https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1433803839493259269

right on time

kalensc
Sep 10, 2003

Only Trust Your Respirator, kupo!
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I bought a variety of regular and large for both sorts just now to ensure that I'd have a decent amount of headband style masks for the fall and winter.

Gonna need to organize some shelf space for respirators and masks to "air out". What a time to be physically but not emotionally alive.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010


He doesn't have the balls to do what needs doing

cr0y
Mar 24, 2005



My mom got really sick from moderna 3 and has successfully spooked my entire family away from boosters when I pretty much had everyone on the same page 😑

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

More sternly worded letters are coming!

Casey Finnigan
Apr 30, 2009

Dumb ✔
So goddamn crazy ✔

he's only doing this because we got lovely economic numbers today

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

he'll post the steps on twitter and call it a day

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Cabbages and Kings posted:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-australia-still-liberal-democracy/619940/

I'm not sure how useful this will be in Australia, but :lol: - I think this is hosed up and beyond the pale, and if you tried to do this poo poo in the US there would be shootouts as a result. My own general personal tendency would be to be vocally noncompliant with such a thing because I despise needing to ever know where my cellphone is. Unless my wife and I are apart, I see my phone as a one way conduit for me to contact the world, not the other way around. Also we don't even have service in many places including pockets of our own land, ha. I'll be curious to see how that goes, this one does not seem like a good model to follow.

lol thank you for telling us you read and take the atlantic seriously

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Step 1) Wash your hands more often, I don't know, whatever
Step 2)

biomonkey
Mar 8, 2004
Dubious Member
Moderna booster report : got the budget J&J back in March (1st available) and decided that I am not waiting on CDC to get around to deciding I can only have more J&J 7 months from now.

Registered online at CVS with real name, no insurance info. Tons of open slots. They didn't even ask for ID when I went in and got shot #1. Will also go back in a month for shot #2. Not much of a reaction to the shot outside of a sore arm and slight fever/chills at night. Had slightly more reaction to the J&J.

Skyl3lazer
Aug 27, 2007

[Dooting Stealthily]



JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

:qq: oh but there's no one to cover for you :qq:

it's your job to deal with that, bitch, manage better

:haibrower:

VomitOnLino
Jun 13, 2005

Sometimes I get lost.

cr0y posted:

My mom got really sick from moderna 3 and has successfully spooked my entire family away from boosters when I pretty much had everyone on the same page 😑

I don't understand this line of thinking - at all. A lot of people fall into it, though.
Like, look, if you get the actual virus it's gonna be exactly like that except 10x worse and 10x as long and bad. That is THE POINT.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


kalensc posted:

What a time to be physically but not emotionally alive.

cr0y
Mar 24, 2005




If one of the bullet points isn't "nuke the south" then yawn

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat
please wear a mask and get vaccinated. quit eating horse paste and don't lick the assholes of infected people

look at that, i solved covid a week before the president did

Casey Finnigan
Apr 30, 2009

Dumb ✔
So goddamn crazy ✔

cr0y posted:

If one of the bullet points isn't "nuke the south" then yawn

first nuke the south, then nuke the north

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


VomitOnLino posted:

I don't understand this line of thinking - at all. A lot of people fall into it, though.
Like, look, if you get the actual virus it's gonna be exactly like that except 10x worse and 10x as long and bad. That is THE POINT.

There are people who let their teeth fall apart because they're afraid of the pain from a drill.

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Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

conor friersdork

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