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Atrocious Joe posted:Do people still get mad if you compare dying of COVID to dying of AIDS please, it's dying with aids
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Relentlessboredomm posted:after congress passed the farm bill that made CBD legal, the FDA held a series of hearings ~8 mos later on regulating the burgeoning CBD industry. i was taking notes for the hearings, for my company at the time. every industry person, every state official, every health official, every researcher, every medical doctor, everyone begged the FDA to implement some form of regulations. in just a few months states had already begun to see a huge rise in sketchy CBD products with dosing all over the map and occasionally with straight up amphetamines mixed in. it was a poo poo show. Jesus Christ. I mean, this tracks with all of the COVID poo poo, but, still. gently caress.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 07:47 |
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Platystemon posted:The episode about China and the zero COVID Olympics is actually really funny, though, and I was going to quote some of the Times’ Beijing correspondent’s best lines today, but there’s no transcript for that episode even though the paper swears that they post them the next business day. The Grey Lady got around to paying someone to type this up, but all of Chinese is in there for flavor and in the transcript is represented only as “[NON‐ENGLISH SPEECH]. Laffo. They have this weird framing that Xi Jinping has to fight for zero COVID because he mishandled the initial outbreak, and not because it’s the right thing to do and it’s all upsides for ~the economy~ if you command a functional state capable of achieving it. I’m not going to subject the thread to the whole thing. It’s right near the top and it’s bonkers. Even this NYT correspondent with her Hot Takes shuts down the idea that China is hiding millions of cases. quote:Amy Qin They’re still horny for China’s failure, mind. quote:Sabrina Tavernise They tell some funny stories, and then: quote:Amy Qin My god, can you imagine that? One point two million people locked down? That’s almost as many as America has put in the ground. The episode ends with: quote:Amy Qin The only time that The New York Times can acknowledge that this poo poo is getting worse is when they’re lusting for Chinese death.
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Atrocious Joe posted:Do people still get mad if you compare dying of COVID to dying of AIDS I think ppl still get mad if you act like the government treated both pandemics the same because it’s a dumb take but I don’t think ppl get mad outside of Twitter if you’re trying to compare things like pneumonia or opportunistic infections or stuff like that.
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Steve Yun posted:
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 07:59 |
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man she's one of my favorite tweeters https://twitter.com/hilaryagro/status/1492826681949761540?t=adbpM7Mmi_r5xRna0BXeZA&s=19 Hope her baby turns out ok
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 08:00 |
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Platystemon posted:
The most laffo thing is the idea is that the society of 1.4 billion people going about their normal rear end every day lives except for the couple of weeks a year 1% of them need to be in quarantine are the ones who need to reintegrate into normal life, normal being the loving plague lands where I need a respirator to safely buy cabbage, and to avoid lifting heavy objects during the certain times of the year when a herniated disc could go untreated because the hospitals are collapsing, rather than the other way around.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 08:02 |
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Lol the bizarre cog dis of China telling it's citizens look at the west and their awful lockdowns. Trying to do some weird thing where they put words in the mouth of China saying woah we're tyrannical communists but even your western covid lockdowns were too much for us, trust us you fine readers of NYT the lockdowns were very bad for you! China would routinely legit lock down entire cities of millions for a couple of cases. People having to stay in their homes and get food delivered by the military. Yeah those brutal lockdowns that happened two years ago for a couple weeks when you had to learn about sour dough starters and tiger king.
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Trixie Hardcore posted:I think ppl still get mad if you act like the government treated both pandemics the same because it’s a dumb take but I don’t think ppl get mad outside of Twitter if you’re trying to compare things like pneumonia or opportunistic infections or stuff like that. I think the part that is more likely to be an accurate comparison is the decades of suffering and early death for people who now have a virally induced syndrome that the government can't acknowledge exists on a large scale, people who at best will be largely ignored by the medical establishment and who at worst will be told that they are responsible for their own condition.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 08:03 |
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The same NYT podcast did the thing today where they think that “Alpha” is the ancestral strain of SARS‐CoV‐2. And, like, yeah, WHO’s naming scheme is really bad and I’ve seen quite a few people make that mistake, once or twice even on this own forum, but aren’t you supposed to be the paper of record with experts and editors and poo poo? They also admit that our vaccines aren’t sterilizing, in discussing the problem that veterinary vaccines aren’t, either, but the same reporter is gobsmacked that the simple country boy isn’t interested in her vaccine status. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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I don't think anyone in the trump/biden admin burst into laughter at a reporter asking about people dying to covid, but I can't say for sure.
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Platystemon posted:The same NYT podcast did the thing today where they think that “Alpha” is the ancestral strain of SARS‐CoV‐2.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 08:13 |
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yeah i always laugh when i hear western media breathlessly reporting how unsustainable china is being and how they need to get back to normal. what’s normal, some more international travel? i reckon most of china has been way more normal than we have the past couple of years
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Real Mean Queen posted:https://twitter.com/Slade/status/1493055348919386117 Don Jr. testing the waters for a 2024 run
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The Oldest Man posted:I think the part that is more likely to be an accurate comparison is the decades of suffering and early death for people who now have a virally induced syndrome that the government can't acknowledge exists on a large scale, people who at best will be largely ignored by the medical establishment and who at worst will be told that they are responsible for their own condition. Even that feels like an unnecessary comparison because you have to downplay the lethality of HIV and the government’s malice and glee in refusing to acknowledge its existence. If you got HIV at the beginning of the epidemic you were dead, there were no treatments, you might not be able to even get end of life care due to stigma, if you were outed for having HIV it could ruin what was left of the rest of your life and the government wouldn’t even acknowledge it’s existence. The government absolutely acknowledges covid exists on a large scale, the medical community has both the political will and the funding to research and develop covid treatments, you wont be refused care or treatment for covid, you won’t be fired if it’s discovered you’ve had covid, you won’t be stigmatized by society at large for having covid, covid isn’t an automatic death sentence. Like you can make a comparison but maybe not a good or appropriate comparison.
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Even that feels like an unnecessary comparison because you have to downplay the lethality of HIV and the government’s malice and glee in refusing to acknowledge its existence. If you got HIV at the beginning of the epidemic you were dead, there were no treatments, you might not be able to even get end of life care due to stigma, if you were outed for having HIV it could ruin what was left of the rest of your life and the government wouldn’t even acknowledge it’s existence. The government absolutely acknowledges covid exists on a large scale, the medical community has both the political will and the funding to research and develop covid treatments, you wont be refused care or treatment for covid, you won’t be fired if it’s discovered you’ve had covid, you won’t be stigmatized by society at large for having covid, covid isn’t an automatic death sentence. Like you can make a comparison but maybe not a good or appropriate comparison. great post.
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silicone thrills posted:Random comment here but gently caress i feel like take out burgers have totally gone to poo poo. I've got a couple of local spots like elliot bay and sunis where their burgers used to be good but lately they are always just burnt to gently caress or just not good in general and I dont know if its because my own cooking has gotten consistently good or because covid has eroded out the brains of every person still working in food service so poo poo is legit just burning on grills. If its the later, i really feel bad. Pizza at least is really hard to mess up, even intentionally. The pizza oven pulls it through the machine at a fixed rate of ~5 min/pie. We will get drive through burgers once a week out of neccessity, and take-out chinese once a month, and both are really bad now, if you can even get them to get your order right. I am half convinced that the food service industry is going to collapse due to a negative feedback loop of bad food -> fewer order -> less money to hire quality workers -> more bad food. We used to do take-out twice a week We are really tired of pizza, even good pizza at this point, though You're right though, take-out sushi is quite good still, for whatever weird reason
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Comparing covid to aids isn't about pulling HIV down to covid's level. It's about pointing out the absurdity of saying "there's no way we'll be wearing masks forever". Yes, things can actually change and prevention can become permanent, you don't just get to stomp your feet and announce you're done with a disease, and being endemic doesn't mean mild.
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Platystemon posted:Breaking news: GBS thread closed because
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Gildiss posted:Lmao 36k cases today in South Korea and I am here at a packed wedding hall because Korea can't stop won't stop. Well we made it through untouched! Unsymptomatic at least anyway. Meanwhile Number go up! New COVID-19 cases over 50,000 for 5th day amid worries over further spike http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220214000180 And at least one dude has a brain left. Too bad he retired! Test, trace, treat must go on, says ex-Korea CDC chief. Flu comparisons misleading, omicron likely as severe as original Wuhan virus. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220211000665&ACE_SEARCH=1 It also wiped out a healthly teen. S. Korea reports first teen COVID-19 death http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1030095.html
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empty whippet box posted:lol something which is killing 2400+ people per day in america right now, right this second, is not worth having even a GBS thread because nothing noteworthy is happening
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dragon_pamcake posted:Work just dropped its mask requirement in the middle of the day and you'd have thought loving armistice had been declared. I know it's wrong but I can't help thinking these people should just be left to die. There's no helping some people.
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Platystemon posted:The same NYT podcast did the thing today where they think that “Alpha” is the ancestral strain of SARS‐CoV‐2. NYT doesn't know poo poo about COVID and anyone with a functioning brain for journalism has clearly fled their halls years ago.
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Kreeblah posted:Jesus Christ. I mean, this tracks with all of the COVID poo poo, but, still. They are trying to push the spray in Idaho before its even legal. For MS only... https://apnews.com/01e0eb2fafa5e1c4bf2d83536658da24
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Hadlock posted:Can I get a link to said candles?!? they've gone downhill in the last two years, the new ones aren't scented at all
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Platystemon posted:The Grey Lady got around to paying someone to type this up, but all of Chinese is in there for flavor and in the transcript is represented only as “[NON‐ENGLISH SPEECH]. Laffo. "85% of the population is vaccinated" "this population with no immunity"
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I know it's wrong but I can't help thinking these people should just be left to die. There's no helping some people. in much the same way that "Trump might have been better on COVID, but I'm still not telling you to vote for him", there are some people who are going to kill or maim themselves with COVID of their own accord, but I still wouldn't actively wish for them to catch it
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 09:49 |
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Some people I know who were wearing cloth masks freaked out at the beginning of the year and started wearing N95s and now they’re wearing no masks and I really wonder how that makes sense to them. Like they definitely thought the virus was in the air two weeks ago… so I truly wonder this too. A mix of just giving up, "Y person doesn't wear a mask and hasn't gotten it yet X person always wears a mask and they still got it!" anecdotes, no critical thinking, cause and effect being nigh impossible to parse for a virus as widespread as omicron...
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Some people I know who were wearing cloth masks freaked out at the beginning of the year and started wearing N95s and now they’re wearing no masks and I really wonder how that makes sense to them. Like they definitely thought the virus was in the air two weeks ago… so It got hard and boring and it's tiring so they stopped. They're just done thinking or talking about COVID, okay? They want to go back to normal already. Just leave them alone.
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The Oldest Man posted:I haven't seen any studies on it yet but anecdotally I've heard of a fair number of long covid suicides. It's the perfect storm of being maimed in a way that destroys your life and simultaneously being gaslit or blamed for it. I think a friend of mine is getting close to this, sadly. She just picked up covid a second time, was already struggling through long-covid symptoms since last october; most of her peer group is anti-vax and/or covid denier
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Steve Yun posted:alright I’ll play your game you rogue
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Angryhead posted:I truly wonder this too. my wife started watching "Sister Wives" and part of the episode I heard in the background was tension in the family between the patriarch that wanted everyone to follow certain rules about COVID, and his other wives and their families, who resent not being able to see whoever they want as far as I can tell, the mentality is that "it's what the government tells us we should be doing, so I will follow that [and no further]". If you just ape whatever the CDC says (or what the TV tells you is what the CDC is saying, etc.), then you can be wearing an N95 one week, and then dropping it the next. It's only incongruous if you understand WHY you're wearing the mask, but if don't understand, and never tried to understand (and maybe that's not always someone's fault), then there's no contradiction to be formed in your mind.
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https://twitter.com/tom_tanuki/status/1492355426016722944
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The Oldest Man posted:I think the part that is more likely to be an accurate comparison is the decades of suffering and early death for people who now have a virally induced syndrome that the government can't acknowledge exists on a large scale, people who at best will be largely ignored by the medical establishment and who at worst will be told that they are responsible for their own condition. weird how it would be unreasonable to tell those people that their comments were responsible for the beating they received. i mean, sure, i'd point and laugh at them "you loving said WHAT to a long covid sufferer in open biden america?" but the libs & chuds take a dim view of that sort of thing.
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hail nurgle
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Lol, it's like when Homer gets kicked out of the house and within hours he's filthy and dressed in rags
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Platystemon posted:The only time that The New York Times can acknowledge that this poo poo is getting worse is when they’re lusting for Chinese death. If only anyone could work why covid isn't going away and why it keeps threatening China's successes or how travelers keep showing up with covid. Oh well no time to think about that gotta get to the Bee's to hang with the bros.
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Flavahbeast posted:hail nurgle also that two nations armed forces couldn't do anything about the terrorists but a couple dozen annoyed neighborhood watch stopped the convy in its tracks
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Treating pink eye with herbal ointment sounds like a good way to continue having pink eye
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08uhNMReiI0
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