papa horny michael posted:

https://twitter.com/MrsT106/status/1474048541911916544?t=Q88cDHwZscb_EUAP8mG96g&s=19

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

If they were afraid of long term consequences to their business model, why haven't they been riding Biden 24/7 about doing something more than nothing? Because like as it stands, their business model isn't in any immediate danger, that I can see? People are still too loving stupid and sociopathic to change their behavior. So who cares if people die within 12 weeks of riding a plane; you still got their patronage until they die because they aren't going to stop using airlines.

If people were too afraid to fly right now, then we wouldn't be in this situation because people would be too afraid to do many other similarly psychotic things.

Stereotype posted:

the spike in cases literally just started lmao. we still have at least a month before people who are getting infected right now will die. the hospitals still have weeks before this hoard of newly infected start clogging their hallways and parking lots. and more people are traveling to spread the disease than have ever traveled in history lol

olives black posted:

gandlethorpe posted:

I got boosted at Kaiser Permanente today and didn't see one N95 or better apart from my own, staff included

Real Mean Queen posted:

It’s pretty funny because the MILD messaging is now fully just deranged screaming about how this exciting new study shows hospitalizations are less than delta. I don’t think that matters when we’re clocking a quarter million cases a day during the traveliest time of an unusually travelly year. We’re already throwing numbers like we did at the height of delta while testing is bottlenecked to poo poo, and this one looks like it’s barely getting started.

text editor posted:

I hope we all die

Mysterious Jim posted:

Yeah even Al Qaeda had an air force.

Lacrosse posted:

the status quo works until it doesn't and nobody had a backup plan prepared

it's incredible to watch unfold in real time

text editor posted:

I hope we all die

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Ah.
Well, I mean, the National Guard are already working as doctors and teachers. How hard can it be to literally fly a plane?

Stereotype posted:

stop talking about all this bad news guys. let’s share some good news for once.

Real Mean Queen posted:

It’s pretty funny because the MILD messaging is now fully just deranged screaming about how this exciting new study shows hospitalizations are less than delta. I don’t think that matters when we’re clocking a quarter million cases a day during the traveliest time of an unusually travelly year. We’re already throwing numbers like we did at the height of delta while testing is bottlenecked to poo poo, and this one looks like it’s barely getting started.

Stereotype posted:

I mean, yes. WE have known. but we also knew about all of the horrible things that have happened and will happen. we knew that the variants would eventually break through vaccines and that schools would cause big outbreaks and that zero covid is the only rational policy goal.

the problem is that only we know

Stereotype posted:

the spike in cases literally just started lmao. we still have at least a month before people who are getting infected right now will die. the hospitals still have weeks before this hoard of newly infected start clogging their hallways and parking lots. and more people are traveling to spread the disease than have ever traveled in history lol

Potato Salad posted:

do large 3M Aura masks exist?

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Look, Jack, Omicron only just happened now. How the gently caress could any one of us have seen this coming? You act like we had the better part of two years to both react and prepare to this. We didn't. Omicron has only been around since late November. There is simply nothing in recent history that could have prepared us for something like this.

text editor posted:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailygazette/name/michael-malecki-obituary?id=31981585

eulogy when you're a prick

Zeroisanumber posted:

They know. They're smarter than us and they know. They have a million people with a million PhD's. But they think they can ~*manage*~ this so that they won't hurt the economy/their political prospects/their rapedungeon.

It's obvious that a MERS + Omicron variant is where this is headed. But all we can do is stand here and scream.

text editor posted:

I hope we all die

Business Gorillas posted:

i've been doing some heavy lifting trying to find one of my friends' dads a job so he can be there for his daughter and i think we may have found something so he can move back home. he had to leave her to take care on his dying mother and now that she's gone, he's trying to find a job in my state so he can rejoin his daughter.

also got an interview for someone who applied for one of my jobs who has lots of experience but frankly, i knew he could do better than what i was offering. he had a meeting with a goon today and to that goon, if you're reading this, i want to thank you

empty whippet box posted:

I'm a little confused about the timeline of covid test performed -> positive case reported; I know it's different in different states but in general I understand there to be a lag of at least several days. It seems to me that the aggregate case count is basically useless for predicting timelines at this point because of this. There is definitely a giantic, insanely huge surge coming, or is it already here and our reporting is so far delayed so that they can backfill it later to keep pretending things aren't so bad?

My current conception of it - and I have no way of knowing if this is accurate, which is of course how the us government wants it - is that we could be anywhere from 'the omicron surge has not started at all yet, and it is just taking hold in the USA' to 'a week or two into the surge'.

I also can't look at daily deaths to try to figure it out because those have long reporting lags too. It seems to me like the hardest to gently caress with data point is hospitalizations, both new and how many there are total. As far as I know those numbers can't be reported weeks after the fact the way deaths and cases are. So I watch that number to try to get a sense of what's really going on. Even that is reading tea leaves, of course. It's all so maddening

euphronius posted:

Has anyone recently been able to order any tests

empty whippet box posted:

I'm a little confused about the timeline of covid test performed -> positive case reported; I know it's different in different states but in general I understand there to be a lag of at least several days. It seems to me that the aggregate case count is basically useless for predicting timelines at this point because of this. There is definitely a giantic, insanely huge surge coming, or is it already here and our reporting is so far delayed so that they can backfill it later to keep pretending things aren't so bad?

My current conception of it - and I have no way of knowing if this is accurate, which is of course how the us government wants it - is that we could be anywhere from 'the omicron surge has not started at all yet, and it is just taking hold in the USA' to 'a week or two into the surge'.

I also can't look at daily deaths to try to figure it out because those have long reporting lags too. It seems to me like the hardest to gently caress with data point is hospitalizations, both new and how many there are total. As far as I know those numbers can't be reported weeks after the fact the way deaths and cases are. So I watch that number to try to get a sense of what's really going on. Even that is reading tea leaves, of course. It's all so maddening

Bullfrog posted:

Mike's Mild Lemonade

ErrorInvalidUser posted:

poo poo bout to get real after all the family christmas parties

quote:

A month since our booster shot, my husband and I chose to host a small Christmas party, the first gathering we've had in two years due to the pandemic, this past Sunday with a few close family and friends who were all fully vaxxed + booster. Only 8 people. A couple days later we all started feeling poor. 7 of the 8 have tested positive already and Christmas plans ruined for each one. Family that flew in town is stuck in hotels trying to get flights back before Christmas. My newly divorced parents are going to be stuck at home alone instead of having the two separate special Christmases I had worked so hard to plan this past month. gently caress covid. I'm so angry at the world right now and I'm devastated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/comments/rn2dt4/it_happened_to_us_christmas_ruined_due_to_the_rona/

smoobles posted:

i have some good news for you

Goobish posted:

no matter how brain damaged I become,

WampaLord posted:

empty whippet box posted:

I'm a little confused about the timeline of covid test performed -> positive case reported; I know it's different in different states but in general I understand there to be a lag of at least several days. It seems to me that the aggregate case count is basically useless for predicting timelines at this point because of this. There is definitely a giantic, insanely huge surge coming, or is it already here and our reporting is so far delayed so that they can backfill it later to keep pretending things aren't so bad?

My current conception of it - and I have no way of knowing if this is accurate, which is of course how the us government wants it - is that we could be anywhere from 'the omicron surge has not started at all yet, and it is just taking hold in the USA' to 'a week or two into the surge'.

I also can't look at daily deaths to try to figure it out because those have long reporting lags too. It seems to me like the hardest to gently caress with data point is hospitalizations, both new and how many there are total. As far as I know those numbers can't be reported weeks after the fact the way deaths and cases are. So I watch that number to try to get a sense of what's really going on. Even that is reading tea leaves, of course. It's all so maddening

empty whippet box posted:

I'm a little confused about the timeline of covid test performed -> positive case reported; I know it's different in different states but in general I understand there to be a lag of at least several days. It seems to me that the aggregate case count is basically useless for predicting timelines at this point because of this. There is definitely a giantic, insanely huge surge coming, or is it already here and our reporting is so far delayed so that they can backfill it later to keep pretending things aren't so bad?

My current conception of it - and I have no way of knowing if this is accurate, which is of course how the us government wants it - is that we could be anywhere from 'the omicron surge has not started at all yet, and it is just taking hold in the USA' to 'a week or two into the surge'.

I also can't look at daily deaths to try to figure it out because those have long reporting lags too. It seems to me like the hardest to gently caress with data point is hospitalizations, both new and how many there are total. As far as I know those numbers can't be reported weeks after the fact the way deaths and cases are. So I watch that number to try to get a sense of what's really going on. Even that is reading tea leaves, of course. It's all so maddening

Durf posted: