blue squares posted:

I know surgical masks don’t protect the wearer from inflow but do they still contain enough that the wearer is spreading less? I would imagine no

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Well you see this is all well and good but I ordered take out for a while instead of going to restaurants and I got like at least 2 vaccinations so I did everything, literally everything right gently caress YOU for saying I am not perfect

Real Mean Queen posted:

Exactly. Either the doomers in the respirators are wrong, or the people at the applebees have done something unconscionable. We have to be wrong in order for them to maintain their view of themselves as intelligent, moral human beings. Our saying “gently caress this” and wearing scary masks and not going to Christmas is, on some level, an attack on that. Me gearing up good and hunkering in the bunker can correctly be interpreted as me saying that I think there’s something wrong with doing less.

On top of everything else that covid is, it’s a morality problem, and people often respond to perceived slights to their moral character with extreme hostility. How many times has a dude who doesn’t give to homeless charities told you to give money to charities instead of directly to homeless people? That’s not about approaching the problem in a better way, it’s about the guy squaring his personal indifference against somebody who takes action and makes the first guy feel weird for not doing anything. The good thing has to be bad, actually, or the guy doing nothing is going to have to acknowledge some things about himself that he doesn’t want to acknowledge.

I often walk by a bar I used to go to every night, and I see a lot of people I used to hang out with every night, and it’s slightly tense now. We’re long past the point where they ask if I’m going to join them, we barely even wave any more. They’ve all had to find ways to believe that it’s fine to crowd around a table and breathe into each other, I’ve made it pretty clear that I won’t be joining them in that belief, so that’s pretty much it. We have mutually exclusive views about what the world is and how a person should behave in it. I mostly had good relationships with these people and I don’t wish them any harm, but if I’m ever going to come back and hang out with them, it won’t be soon.

Somebody has to be wrong here. The thing is bad or it isn’t, and if it is, that means it’s been bad to pretend it isn’t bad all this time. That’s a pretty heavy idea, I totally understand why people are coming up with reasons why they can’t possibly be culpable in any of it, but I can’t join them in that. The bar was empty when I walked by earlier tonight. It’s cold, but that doesn’t usually stop anybody. Maybe they’re thinking about it again. I hope so.

Arivia posted:

I did everything perfect too and I got the corona anyway so I think you’ve got bigger problems than just being told you’re not perfect

blue squares posted:

loving poo poo everyone itt needs to watch Station Eleven on HBO Max. it’s about a superflu that ends all society

xiaoren posted:

meanwhile i am calling daily cases breaking the weekly periodic pattern we've had for two years within i a week.

Nothus posted:

I love how they trot the lab leak out everytime there's a surge.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I feel like this is the sort of stuff they'd be blasting on the evening news if they wanted to scare people into doing something

Schmeichy posted:

https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/1471585971028254728?t=id6D9O5mQacvqZz3mKjodg&s=19

Schmeichy posted:

https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/1471585971028254728?t=id6D9O5mQacvqZz3mKjodg&s=19

triple sulk posted:

covid

External Organs posted:

Just realized that it's too bad home improvement isn't around to make a Wilson in a mask joke to convince America that wearing a mask is good and proper.

Schmeichy posted:

https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/1471585971028254728?t=id6D9O5mQacvqZz3mKjodg&s=19

Hopper posted:

Good thing moustaches have never had any tangential connection to mass death of any kind before.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

What the gently caress does the tiger represent in this metaphor if delta covid is just a pigeon

Cup Runneth Over posted:

I speculate there will not be an Omicron targeted vaccine.

Platystemon posted:

The Dentec 400 NX is more distinctive, but, well, I’ll let you decide.

Mr. Pizza posted:

whoa I'm hearing that Trump "undermined" covid response for politics?

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

What the gently caress does the tiger represent in this metaphor if delta covid is just a pigeon

Schmeichy posted:

https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/1471585971028254728?t=id6D9O5mQacvqZz3mKjodg&s=19

quote:

The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant," Obama said, resorting to an uncharacteristically flip analogy. "I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.

"Let's just keep in mind, Falluja is a profoundly conservative Sunni city in a country that, independent of anything we do, is deeply divided along sectarian lines. And how we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology are a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.

Grabnar posted:

blue squares posted:

loving poo poo everyone itt needs to watch Station Eleven on HBO Max. it’s about a superflu that ends all society

Real Mean Queen posted:

Exactly. Either the doomers in the respirators are wrong, or the people at the applebees have done something unconscionable. We have to be wrong in order for them to maintain their view of themselves as intelligent, moral human beings.

Spoondick posted:

great now i gotta worry about pigeon hitler now too

Leon Sumbitches posted:

Having read the book, it's far too positive a story for this thread.