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not_superiority posted:this really is the crux of the bullshit and i hate aaallll of it. i wish we had the cdc that was in contagion tbh I searched the thread for contagion while I'm now 10 minutes into the movie, this is gonna be a good night 
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I wish we had the almost everything that was in Contagion. The populace, the Information Warriors, the law enforcement, the virus’s R0. One of the very few things that is actually worse in Contagion is the IFR, but to be clear that is a big difference.
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Fenarisk posted:Just got done at the pediatrician for our son's 6 month shots and checkup, and she passed on some info on what they have seen these past 2 months:
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She even mentioned she foresees it getting really, really bad by the time April hits due to schools having no masks here in the Chicago suburbs.
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Soap Scum posted:judging from gradenko's Philippines updates and some convos with my friends there, I've gotten that sense that Philippines politics is like a bizarroworld fun-house mirror reflection of US politics in a lot of ways. not that I disagree with you, just an observation from the last couple years of following That's pretty accurate. I can do a longer effortpost later but we're basically on a six to twelve month delay on political trends relative to the US It's frankly a miracle that our COVID policy has been as comparatively effective as it was. It's still worse than it could have been but they didn't (yet) throw us to the dogs entirely
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Steve Yun posted:so you know how the Democratic governors are lifting all these mandates because of stupid focus groups? Pingui posted:Why would pro business chud operatives infiltrate a focus group of pro business chuds? Steve Yun posted:polls show that the majority of Americans want mask mandates, so it’s really weird that focus groups are saying that mask mandates are unpopular Pingui posted:Edit: at the same time, there is also a lot wrong with polling. Like wfh people are both more likely to want a mask mandate and more likely to pick up the phone. Many sides. and pushing out a lovely poll that will push that narrative will happen reminds me, i hate listened to pod save america to hear the awful post-biden-sotu takes and they kept saying how the speech was loved and adored and cited this poll that consisted of only folks that were 'on the fence' and that either voted for biden or considered it or some such bullshit anyway number rules all and covid is over  edit yea this, Thoguh posted:The focus groups are Trump to Biden voters. They aren't representative of Americans. They are representative of idiots. Tzen fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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nexous posted:another customer at the store asked me to remove my respirator because it was distressing to see Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Lol yeah, I got that poo poo at Costco when I had my 6200 on. “You’re scaring my kids!”  edit, Gwyneth Palpate posted:I think I terrified some poor woman at the gas station today with my caver doom mask that I upgraded with the huge black filters. 
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I’m just going to move heaven and earth if necessary to not go to Costco on a Saturday ever again. I’ll take PTO to go on a weekday if necessary. I don’t want to deal with these people and their poo poo anymore. it's just not worth the stress otherwise
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NeonPunk posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/Gab_H_R/status/1500284929636278274
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Thoguh posted:I am a broken record on this but as someone that you will almost never see at a store in a mask, it is this. You won't see me because I do not go. Since last May I have been to the grocery store one time, takeout pickup one time, and that is it. Everything else has been curbside or delivery. You aren't seeing Americans in masks because masked Americans are noping out. i've only done curbside pickup once during this pandemic, in the early 2020s when a business was curbside only i haven't caught the plague yet, thank you based secure click
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lol I'm trying real hard to not live blog this movie
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tangy yet delightful posted:I searched the thread for contagion while I'm now 10 minutes into the movie, this is gonna be a good night
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tangy yet delightful posted:lol I'm trying real hard to not live blog this movie
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Platystemon posted:I wish we had the almost everything that was in Contagion. people instantly dropping dead in horrific fashion would I loving HOPE cause a better government response lol hope? lmao
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Tzen posted:hahah loving do it it's on netflix btw thread, it wasn't on there last time I checked somewhere after this pandemic started thru till now I'm assuming netflix got it for cheap to put up now that the pandemic is OVER much like everyone still going around maskless 47 minutes into CONTAGION and taking poo poo all for precautions, pre-potential-RIP to the lead investigator in MN that was investigating this deadly disease with apparently no precautions
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Mar 6, 2022 08:05
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oh no it mutated to an Rnought of 4 (FOUR)
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Just had an idea for a bit Ukrainian Emily Oster and she's demanding schools be reopened in Kyiv because the chances of getting hit by Russian artillery is remote
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Oh I forgot I had another movie to recommend this thread! As The Wind Blows. It's a little animated piece about an elderly couple living in the English countryside, in an alternate timeline where London got nuked. It explores the breakdown between government communication and population preparedness for catastrophic disasters. Be warned it starts a bit slow, it's got some slightly weird very 70s-y bits, and it's also relentlessly grim (especially if, like me, you have elderly parents who are half following barely-understood and insufficient government directives). Idk if it's on streaming because I  all my media. It might be on YouTube? Anyway, worth watching if you can track it down.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Just had an idea for a bit I'm pretty sure that if you take the absolute worst casualty numbers from both sides that you are still less likely to die from violence on the front lines of Ukraine than you are to get COVID at an Applebees.
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tenderjerk posted:The cool thing about those apocalyptic HK numbers is that is a populace that is generally amenable to universal masking I'm not sure they'll be much different. Over the last year, we've seen several highly effective pandemic containment efforts fail. Vietnam. New Zealand. South Korea. Now, Hong Kong. The thing they all seem to have in common is the sudden catastrophic nature of their failure. Month X: doing fine. Month X+1: case numbers almost dead vertical, and tons of news about the collapse. OTOH, the US never had a pandemic containment effort worthy of the name. Never. So we're liable to see dramatic case increases, sure. But we were never in a place where the pandemic was under even the most transient control, so we don't have as far to fall. How do you fall from elevation zero?
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Pingui posted:What is going on in HK? Disagree. BA.2 is going on. It was that one straw too many that breaks the camel's back. Grady McGregor posted:Hong Kong contained COVID for 2 years. Now it has more cases than New York City and London quote:Since January, Hong Kong’s case numbers have roughly doubled every three days.
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T-Paine posted:You'd think this would be a common place belief, because it's undeniably true, but talk to a significant number of Americans and they'll happily tell you that masks aren't 100% and are therefore a waste of time Of course they will. You cannot expect anything better from a population that is innumerate by choice.
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bi crimes posted:BA.2 is definitely going to gently caress the US up, right? is it not over here yet? I’ve been sticking my head in the sand and not paying attention until an alarming amount of people around town stopped wearing masks again My brass is on BA.2 growing to 2/3 of the total "new case" numbers in the US in two weeks' time, i.e., by the weekend of March 19-20. I'll be amazed if it takes 4 more weeks, rather than 2. Whether we get a major wave out of this or not depends on the degree to which these results hold true. H/T to Nocturtle for posting this back on Feb 28.
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CPU Abuser posted:Disagree. It also lines up with New Years celebrations, the same as the original 2020 diaspora. Indoor parties are unsafe yet people just can’t stop having em.
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Zugzwang posted:This person must have previously been through a lot in life that miscalibrated their horribleness meters. 4 letters: COPD Living with chronic asthma and seasonal bronchitis (1 month sick, every spring and every fall) will do that to you, with a fair degree of efficiency.
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Goreld posted:It also lines up with New Years celebrations, the same as the original 2020 diaspora. Indoor parties are unsafe yet people just can’t stop having em. It most certainly does line up. But the connection with BA.2 does not require inference. It's a result of direct observation. Read the piece in the OP, or just read those few sentences I cited.
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Kylaer posted:I am absolutely certain that the majority of Americans don't want mask mandates, because the majority of Americans don't wear masks. Something is off with the polling. Bingo. I never trust the results of polls when they are contradicted by the evidence of my eyes.
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I think you're getting a certain amount of selection bias by going off of how many people you see unmasked vs masked, the people who still care enough to mask are also likely limiting their exposure to the public
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A Bakers Cousin posted:You can buy 99% iso alcohol on amazon for a reasonable price these days. I use it to clean weed glass but its lab grade stuff. You don't want 99% alcohol for disinfection, for anyone reading this. You'd need to water it down to about 70% (50-90% is good for disinfection)
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CPU Abuser posted:Disagree. That was a sarcastic summary of the article's framing.
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tangy yet delightful posted:oh no it mutated to an Rnought of 4 (FOUR) lmfao our imagination was so limited
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gently caress it, why not...https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-experts-balkans-measles-outbreak.html posted:'A question of time': experts fear Balkans measles outbreak
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Iron Crowned posted:Whenever I'm out I always overhear kids telling their parents that they think my mask is cool
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HazCat posted:Oh I forgot I had another movie to recommend this thread! As The Wind Blows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJKdTqYijY
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HazCat posted:Be warned it starts a bit slow, it's got some slightly weird very 70s-y bits, and it's also relentlessly grim (especially if, like me, you have elderly parents who are half following barely-understood and insufficient government directives). Oh hey that's my mom to a T! I'll watch this to torture myself. My dad died a year before COVID appeared, and was the most stubborn man who ever lived. He almost certainly would have been sucked into all the Q poo poo and I would have gone further insane a few years ahead of schedule trying to argue with him. Not glad he's gone but I can finally understand being glad someone didn't live to see something. I still talk to him sometimes even though I know it's just a void listening. About as effective as talking to some of my living family, really.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Just had an idea for a bit I’ve been kind of involuntarily Osterizing stuff in my head for a while now. Did you know that almost no American children actually die OF starvation? On top of that, these free school lunches create a horrible division between the students who have to pay to eat and the students that get everything handed to them. Most insidious of all, these so called free lunches foster a culture of dependency that does irreparable damage to the kids who most need to learn to hustle. End the food for children mandates, it’s gone on long enough.
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Anecdotally, my one year old is perfectly well and happy and hitting all of his milestones despite spending the first year of life in a bubble. Guess I’m just a crazy person, sacrificing his socialization to make certain he doesn’t catch an autoimmune-kamikaze of diseases.
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Ran into an old acquaintance who told a funny story about going to a birthday party for kids. She was thinking it was a bad idea the whole time, but expected cupcakes and instead a cake was brought out. And the birthday kid did an intentional fake sneeze onto it So she had to drag her crying kids out while they demanded cake and got told no they had to go buy some at a store
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Struensee posted:You don't want 99% alcohol for disinfection, for anyone reading this. You'd need to water it down to about 70% (50-90% is good for disinfection) 70% is easily purchasable as an FYI for anybody wondering if watering things down is annoying (it isn't but again youcan just buy 70% iso for quite cheap at amazon or a pharmacy)
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