Dumb Lowtax posted:

Grey Fox posted:

I can't even laugh at this anymore because I'm watching people in real time start to warm up to this line of thinking

absolute hellnation with gutless leadership

Rectal Death Adept posted:

It's kind of like a twilight zone episode.

Some really capable people I used to think were smart have turned to either "The Virus has Been Defeated" or "If the Virus comes back then Shutdowns don't work and the cure can't be worse than the disease" arguments.

It's really bizarre. We owned ourselves with a halfassed shutdown that kneecapped our economy while solving nothing and are going to get hit 10x+ worse the second time around as people screech that shutdowns obviously didn't work and our economy gets double tapped. All while tens of millions of people hoot and cheer the whole way down to the bottom of the cliff because they've convinced themselves it's true freedom to fall on your own terms.

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

fknlo posted:

In other news, Aspen is a hotspot of virus havers and there have been a shitload of mexican registered aircraft in and out of the Aspen and Eagle airports all day dragging it back to to Mexico.

Skypie posted:

she's now extra worried about going to work and i keep telling her to stay home if she isn't safe

we have some money saved but also i have a union tradeskill so make a good wage and we could survive a while on just my income

Zberan Madowinty posted:

hahaha, so for the fun of it I decided to see if there was some way I could get a test, and the soonest I can get tested according to the state is next Tuesday in a town 3 hours away

sure hope i don't die in the next 9 days cool

sum posted:

So what's the deal with Singapore? Back in March the line was that their World Class Public Health System was defeating the virus and they're up to 28000 cases now

sum posted:

So what's the deal with Singapore? Back in March the line was that their World Class Public Health System was defeating the virus and they're up to 28000 cases now

Squizzle posted:

Squizzle posted:

slippery doc posted:

A cashier at the store just now was wearing a mask but momentarily pulled it down so that she could cough into her hand

Funion posted:

I think someone predicted a thread or two ago that the USA would do the worst possible thing in terms of the economy and death, by having ineffective lockdowns followed by opening up prematurely. Good thing that didn't happen.

Anime Store Adventure posted:

One of my friends’ fiancée is back from a military deployment overseas but has to be in another state in quarantine for three weeks.

So naturally instead of making an 8 hour drive, he’s going to get on a plane to gently caress. This is why horny needs to be prohibited, folks.

That and some friends invited me for dinner, insisting they had adequately quarantined. Except one was still semi regularly going to an office and oh also a relative was in town visiting so they just dropped in awhile (which they weren’t going to tell me but let slip.)

Even otherwise intelligent people think social distancing is a loving parents’ curfew - like if no one else finds out you broke it, nothing bad will happen. At this rate I’m not going to have a single friend I want to see in person until a full on vaccine because you literally cannot trust anyone’s word since they’ll lie to save face and do what they want despite the potential risk.

Facebook Aunt posted:

They have decided that letting 1% of the population die is better than letting 15% of the working population be temporarily unemployed. Of course they say it isn't that bad and it will be much less than 1%, but even if it was a guaranteed 2% of the population they'd go with let 'em die. Mostly elderly, sickly, or poor people dieing? Hell yeah, let 'em die. (They won't say this part out loud yet, but letting those people die may even improve the national finances.)

Once things open up they won't close again regardless of the numbers of deaths. Sacrificing a few hundred thousand citizens to Mammon for continued prosperity is a bargain they are willing to make. The government isn't going to protect anyone.


So that puts the ball in your court.

• You can try to hold out in seclusion for a year while it rips through the population, hoping for herd immunity or better tested and proven treatments to be released.
  
  
• You can go back to work, do what you can with sanitizer and masks (and face shields?) to try to prevent yourself from getting it for as long as possible -- this has the advantage that you don't need to forage for nuts and berries to survive.
  
  
• You can throw up your hands, return to your normal lifestyle, and embrace the bloodshed -- accept that you will inevitably get the roni and just hope that you'll be in the majority of infected who don't have serious complications. Once you get it be one of those people who doesn't even bother to self-isolate. Embrace your destiny as a plague rat and breath on every boomer chud you see and hope to take them down with you.
  

I'm lucky, since I'm on disability I can try for seclusion without having to learn how to snare squirrels for protein. If you don't have a guarenteed income you'll have to work out the best plan with what you got.

Paradoxish posted:

Nah.

"Mild" cases are too harsh and long-lasting, even when they affect younger, healthy people. China pressed the panic button because they were afraid for their economy, not because they were so worried about people dying. We're just too stupid at this point to understand how much damage this is going to do when you have whole offices or stores burning through a virus that can knock someone on their rear end for 2-3 weeks or longer.

quote:

A research report by brokerage firm Zhongtai Securities in late April put the real jobless rate at 20.5 per cent with 70 million unemployed, while Liu Chenjie, chief economist at fund manager Upright Asset, estimated at the end of March that the pandemic may have pushed 205 million Chinese workers into “frictional unemployment”.

InsertPotPun posted:

*deep breath*
thurston howell iii was a terrible, terrible person but at least he was a good man. he was actually capable of love, compassion and on more than one occasion charity for charity's sake. he was able to work with others and was competent in both his very evil business practices and the more practical day to day island life.
while he was a spoiled, rich, entitled, evil rear end in a top hat but at least there was actually another side of him.
in other words he was better than trump in every single way.

SKULL.GIF posted:

On top of that, China pressed the panic button and their economy is still suffering badly. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3083823/coronavirus-china-prepared-handle-unemployment-crisis

slippery doc posted:

A cashier at the store just now was wearing a mask but momentarily pulled it down so that she could cough into her hand

quote:

https://twitter.com/taydolven/status/1261984027029929984

https://twitter.com/ABC7NY/status/1261812551966285825

https://twitter.com/erickbellomy/status/1261440771837829122

Squizzle posted:

ascii genitals posted:

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/hhs-secretary-says-trumps-warp-speed-vaccine-may-not-be-safe-and-effective-but-well-have-it/


what the gently caress

shovelbum posted:

A lovely vaccine could kill more people than like the absolute ceiling kill count of the virus

Mummy Xzibit posted:

It still boggles my mind that people looked at the second largest economy in the world kneecap itself and went LOL LOOK AT THOSE OVERREACTING AUTHORITARIANS.

Bernie Panders posted:

I thought the line was

Bar Ran Dun posted:

just the possibility of a poo poo vaccine will increase the percentage of the population that refuses to get it and will kill people even if the vaccine is good.

SKULL.GIF posted:

On top of that, China pressed the panic button and their economy is still suffering badly. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3083823/coronavirus-china-prepared-handle-unemployment-crisis

mystes posted:

I just feel the need to observe that if more chuds were anti vax, Trump would be trying to block development of vaccines.

RandomBlue posted:

Mass producing a dangerously untested vaccine is worse.

Hopper posted:

So the fiancee is in quarantine and your friend who isn't is flying over to gently caress? Granted, flying is a bigger risk than driving but shouldn't your friend stay put anyway because the fiancee is under quarantine and should not see anyone? Will the base even let him in? Will he also be in quarantine then? Being so horny you can't wait 14 days to make sure both stay healthy should be prohibited.

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

yeah it took gen x to start home brewing and being like man my beer sucks but I’d like to try some made by someone who knows what they are doing