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Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Platystemon posted:

Regarding Deltacron,

Several lineages are definitely circulating in the wild, but it’s too early to say what they’re going to do.
meanwhile, Omicron is accruing spike mutations that are making it ever more infectious.

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Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Paradoxish posted:

I don't get this poo poo.

Getting your friends sick sucks. I still feel guilty about giving some friends the flu years ago because I didn't know I was sick until after we were together, and that was literally just the flu. Giving your friends a potentially life-threatening or debilitating illness is extremely rude.

The friend in question is a teacher and has 1000% blackpilled himself. He gets mad whenever I even talk about covid to the point I have people avoiding the group chat to ask me COVID questions. He's also desperate to get out of teaching and I've tried to line up jobs for him, but he drags his feet and doesn't want to put any work in

Long story short, he's a coward who gets mad whenever he's reminded he's putting himself and others at risk for a job hes too lazy to walk away from

Forseti
May 26, 2001
To the lovenasium!

Platystemon posted:

:wrong:



Thoreau here might have trouble with Aura and Vflex, but his facial hair is compatible with most elastomeric half‐masks.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

LOL I was about to post the exact same thing with Nero


Touche... I stand corrected

Sunny Side Up
Jun 22, 2004

Mayoist Third Condimentist

mawarannahr posted:

communism will win

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Scanning Danish news, the experts don't seem too worried about recombinants because we got that herd immunity against Omicron spike protein from infecting everyone deliberately and letting thousands die. :)

Janitor Ludwich IV
Jan 25, 2019

by vyelkin
who would want to work for a company that consumes all the health anyway

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

SplitSoul posted:

Scanning Danish news, the experts don't seem too worried about recombinants because we got that herd immunity against Omicron spike protein from infecting everyone deliberately and letting thousands die. :)

The United States is similarly endowed.

Here’s the new czar:

tenderjerk
Nov 6, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 360 days!

Joementum posted:

I see a specialist doctor in Boston and got an email from Tufts Medical Center yesterday that they're providing paxlovid to anyone 12+ on the CDC high risk list. The one that contains stroke and organ transplant, but also being overweight, inactive, depressed, and/or drinking too much. So maybe availability is improving a bit.

(Safely) reenacting the simpsons ep where homer gains alot of weight

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
Are people like Jha and Monica Gandhi secretly good doctors IRL? Or are their institutions content to let them hang around because they somehow bring in lots of money?

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Iron Crowned posted:

The office is supplying donuts because St. Patrick's Day. Everyone on the second floor is currently gathered, maskless in the break area waiting for them to arrive

lol

That's loving sad. When I used to work at an office I'd wait till the frenzy was over and pick over the remains of free bagels on Fridays because the initial rush felt too much like pigs at a trough. But waiting in a big mass for food to even arrive?

Sunny Side Up
Jun 22, 2004

Mayoist Third Condimentist

olives black posted:

Sanctum posted:

I was wondering why the cspan forum had a covid thread with far-right neckbeards that seemed to agree covid was no joke but were united in blaming 'open biden' for all things covid.

Now that they can blame a dem covid is suddenly a big deal and also Open Biden's fault. What a cute little echo chamber they have. :allears: Tweets about bipartisan covid underreporting so they can ironically post "just the flu" while unironically saying this shows Open Biden dems are equally bad actors. How much brainrot does it take to still be posting BOTH SIDES takes in 2022 :lmao: :eng99:


gbs: not even once

when i say a lib is "both sidesing" something i'm usually attacking the BS "truth is in the middle"

is this the opposite? are they really against the almost universally accepted fact that both sides (USA's two right wing parties) are evil? like this is an easy "in" with any apolitical USAian

and i can't imagine anyone's position on this left of a demsoc has changed except to believe it harder

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




how many deaths/day we at ive been opening up everything but this thread since last year

Insanite
Aug 30, 2005

loving ashish jha? really?

this is to make the silence on <5yo vaccines hurt me more, right?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Zugzwang posted:

Are people like Jha and Monica Gandhi secretly good doctors IRL? Or are their institutions content to let them hang around because they somehow bring in lots of money?

They're being paid to repeat the administration's line like a bunch of formerly decent voices have suddenly been doing over the past six months, and imho a physician who compromises their oath for money sucks poo poo and was never good at their job

you can't separate ethics from the job

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Real hurthling! posted:

how many deaths/day we at ive been opening up everything but this thread since last year
The US is still seeing 1500+ per day IIRC

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




amazing job joe

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Real hurthling! posted:

how many deaths/day we at ive been opening up everything but this thread since last year

Last time I checked back in early January we were at an average ~1440 deaths per day every day since the US's first death from covid

It's almost certainly worse now after our ~126K dead in Jan-Feb.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Platystemon posted:

Regarding Deltacron,

Several lineages are definitely circulating in the wild, but it’s too early to say what they’re going to do.

nice! good to know when everyone is saying "covid is over!" 5 months from now when the ba.2 wave is dying down we already have a new one ready to go

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Zugzwang posted:

The US is still seeing 1500+ per day IIRC

1500+ dead WITH covid

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Insanite posted:

loving ashish jha? really?

this is to make the silence on <5yo vaccines hurt me more, right?

uh, what’s his connection to that? Because I’m already sad at just the implication that this is bad for infants.

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Sunny Side Up posted:

is this the opposite? are they really against the almost universally accepted fact that both sides (USA's two right wing parties) are evil? like this is an easy "in" with any apolitical USAian

Modern liberals have bought extremely hard into the idea that they're the good guys, in part because Republicans are so comically evil. It's also a really easy rhetorical win because the GOP is filled with drooling morons who constantly say the quiet part loud, so there's always someone you can smugly point at and say "are you saying Joe Biden is as bad as this idiot?" :smug:

All of this is really good at effectively obscuring the fact that Democrats push the same policies as Republicans and often do so more effectively, without even getting into how super bad Democrats often are at the local level.

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

They're being paid to repeat the administration's line
The tell-all books from this time are going to be horribly depressing.

Rutibex posted:

nice! good to know when everyone is saying "covid is over!" 5 months from now when the ba.2 wave is dying down we already have a new one ready to go
When the next wave hits, people will again say that no one could’ve predicted it, and then when it dies down, we’ll be right back to covid is over

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

PostNouveau posted:

1500+ dead WITH covid
1500+ mildly dead

Insanite
Aug 30, 2005

Thoguh posted:

uh, what’s his connection to that? Because I’m already sad at just the implication that this is bad for infants.

nothing special. the silence and the jha are just happening in the same month-long span.

jha has been bad on most of the things that the lib medical-industrial consent complex is bad about, e.g. mask policy, but he is at least pro-vaccines for kids last i saw.

he didn't want schools going remote at the omicron peak, for example.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


I know everyone here knows that reddit sucks but the city / state subreddits I look at occasionally (and I've been banned from both for 'doomerism' and 'not following the science) are once again being brigaded with 'why are we still masking' poo poo with regard to the school district in the city and 'covid is over' poo poo (again) state wide.

so yeah, someone's definitely spending money to assert a narrative.

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Zugzwang posted:

When the next wave hits, people will again say that no one could’ve predicted it, and then when it dies down, we’ll be right back to covid is over

No one is going to acknowledge the next wave at all, or the one after that, or the one after that.

We're already at the point where Omicron was starting to dominate the news and it's crickets right now, aside from pearl-clutching over China. Some parts of the country might already be rolling into a BA.2 wave. We're going to get extremely muted reporting when hospitals start overflowing, just like you get some second or third page news stories about really bad flu seasons. Coincidentally, that total lack of coverage is why so many people think the flu isn't a big deal when it's actually a really, really big deal.

Insanite
Aug 30, 2005

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I know everyone here knows that reddit sucks but the city / state subreddits I look at occasionally (and I've been banned from both for 'doomerism' and 'not following the science) are once again being brigaded with 'why are we still masking' poo poo with regard to the school district in the city and 'covid is over' poo poo (again) state wide.

so yeah, someone's definitely spending money to assert a narrative.

i dropped those and never looked back. they are _clearly_ being brigaded and i wouldn't be surprised if there were some money behind it. :)

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Paradoxish posted:

No one is going to acknowledge the next wave at all, or the one after that, or the one after that.

We're already at the point where Omicron was starting to dominate the news and it's crickets right now,

The Ukraine poo poo was the greatest gift the media class has gotten in my lifetime

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Insanite posted:

i dropped those and never looked back. they are _clearly_ being brigaded and i wouldn't be surprised if there were some money behind it. :)

Back when a black kid got shot in the back while running from the cops here I decided to track who posted what, there were about thirty accounts I kept track of that posted pro cop poo poo, all sub-1000 karma and all deleted three months later. The site is absolutely a psy op

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The Ukraine poo poo was the greatest gift the media class has gotten in my lifetime

It's psychotic that deaths still aren't really going down and we're acting like nothing is happening.

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/heatherscope/status/1504462426988859402
we are gonna get even less done!

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Paradoxish posted:

No one is going to acknowledge the next wave at all, or the one after that, or the one after that.

We're already at the point where Omicron was starting to dominate the news and it's crickets right now, aside from pearl-clutching over China. Some parts of the country might already be rolling into a BA.2 wave. We're going to get extremely muted reporting when hospitals start overflowing, just like you get some second or third page news stories about really bad flu seasons. Coincidentally, that total lack of coverage is why so many people think the flu isn't a big deal when it's actually a really, really big deal.
Oh yeah. There’s also that.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Paradoxish posted:

It's psychotic that deaths still aren't really going down and we're acting like nothing is happening.

We had the fourth and fifth deadliest months of this pandemic and while the death wave was still ongoing our leadership said "poo poo looks great, let's get everyone back in the office" lol

Insanite
Aug 30, 2005

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Back when a black kid got shot in the back while running from the cops here I decided to track who posted what, there were about thirty accounts I kept track of that posted pro cop poo poo, all sub-1000 karma and all deleted three months later. The site is absolutely a psy op

i think about this sometimes.

so much of the web is awful now. search engines bubble garbage seo-optimized blogspam up.

reddit discussions can "feel" organic and real, but still bigger than one's own social media network. they're the closest a non-goon has to a forum like this.

there are probably worse places to spend money if you want to drive opinions about things.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003






hehe. :stonkhat:

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


regular reminder for beardos to use Singh Thattha to get good seals

Pingui posted:

When it turns out the consequences of the lockdowns are limited, suddenly it is the cases they feared would disrupt...

THIS time keeping people healthy will have negative, rather than positive, economic effects. Ah well nevertheless...

Business Gorillas posted:

Right and if they're gonna treat you like that from the onset, they're probably not the best people to work for

yeah i know the common mentality is to treat an interview as a one-way phenomena where only the candidate is being tested, but as the interviewee you should absolutely be willing to fail a company that does utter bullshit in the interview. people are supposed to be putting their best face forward in an interview, like a first date, and if they act like loving lunatics in the interview they're not gonna be any better in the future

e: I realized that my apartment is tight enough that i can't figure out ecent place to put the corsi cube so i'm looking at my ceiling. Are MERV filters structurally sound enough to hold the box fan or will they tear?

Tulip fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Mar 17, 2022

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

That’s special.

D&D may not understand the exponential function, but they do at least understand the word “spreading”.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Platystemon posted:

That’s special.

D&D may not understand the exponential function, but they do at least understand the word “spreading”.

Dude's post history indicates he's from Cincinnati but he's posting on multiple other city subreddits about how masking is bad. Makes you think.

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

Real hurthling! posted:

how many deaths/day we at ive been opening up everything but this thread since last year

last i checked we were at somewhere between .4 and .5 9/11s a day

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Grabnar
Nov 24, 2017

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Dude's post history indicates he's from Cincinnati but he's posting on multiple other city subreddits about how masking is bad. Makes you think.

Eglin Air Force Base is the top "Reddit city" by number of visits

https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html

It's also one of the pilot programs for astroturfing operations by the US government:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

:thunk:

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