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SHALASHASKA HAWKE
Nov 10, 2016

No child soldier in poverty by 1990
not sure wtf homecoming is but what’s coming home is the rona :crnasickos:

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theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

facetoucher cat posted:

As someone who takes antipsychotics you don't know how correct you are

yah, anybody who is taken any sort of psychoactive drug is already there

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

SchrodingersCat posted:

I worked in a second rehab facility today to cover for another speech pathologist. The company neglected to tell me that he was off because he had COVID, I had to find out from the staff there. After I had treated all his exposed patients.

One of the patients on caseload popped a positive result just as I was about to walk in. One of the floor nurses grabbed me by the collar as I walked by and was like, yeah, you don't wanna go in there.

I hate to say this, but all my treatments today were garbage because I just wanted to nope the gently caress out. Sorry, patients.

At this point it's just a matter of time until my lungs are a pile of goo on the floor.

All these "stupid workplace" stories need to be collected in a book or something like anecdotes of the Dust Bowl

robot roll call
Mar 7, 2006

dance dance dance dance dance to the radio


facetoucher cat posted:

I took a few pics of it. It plays this huge thing by a lake





This is where the music comes out



that's some Kentucky Route Zero poo poo right there

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Rynn posted:

I have a legit fear that someone in my family or someone I know personally is going to die of COVID before the vaccine is available. :(

With the holidays this poo poo is going to spread like wildfire because Americans are dumb and do zero forward thinking.

my dad lives in metro dc and he went and got a hair cut and then to a bar to celebrate the marines birthday.

they're all dumb as loving rocks

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


galenanorth posted:

All these "stupid workplace" stories need to be collected in a book or something like anecdotes of the Dust Bowl

The Worst Stupidest Hard Times

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


https://twitter.com/LeftAccidental/status/1327449144089260033?s=19

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

I am convinced that if we limited all interactions to <15 minutes, didn't talk into each others faces and when we HAD to (eye exam, dental work) everybody wore PPE it'd all be over in 2 weeks. This of course means that school, office work and public eating/drinking go away and that's apparently unacceptable.

Nothing is going to end this in two weeks and people should really stop saying this.

It took Australia months to crush their outbreak in Victoria with an extremely strict lockdown. It took China months after literally welding people indoors. There's nothing we can do that's going to end this in less than a few months, and that includes a vaccine roll-out.

facetoucher cat
Dec 20, 2013

by sebmojo

Lacrosse posted:

Seattle. Back when I worked downtown I used to go for walks in Freeway Park but one of the resident homeless there took a fancy to me and started stalking me. This continued for several months until he started getting more and more aggressive and came at me. I don't know how I got away but I think another homeless guy stopped him as I escaped up a flight of stairs. That was the second incident, the first incident was a homeless woman who was outside the downtown Library branch on Second who got in my face, spittle and all, demanding money. Third time was a homeless guy around Third/Pike who asked me for change, I told him no I didn't have any, he followed me through the intersection then came right up behind me and started shouting aggressively at me. By this point I had a weapon and I flashed it at him and backed right off. Fourth time was this Spring in Federal Way, I was going for a walk near my office complex and a homeless guy decided he wanted me to be his wife, when I rebuffed him he followed me, then chased me through a neighboring business park and I had to escape up an embankment to get away from him. I also was followed through Pike Place Market during the early part of the pandemic, but I don't really count that since I wasn't assaulted, just freaked out. I usually have a way of defending myself but I just don't put myself in a situation to get attacked anymore.

Unfortunately I've been single for over 10 years because guys only want to gently caress me, not actually date me, so I don't have a male escort to keep me safe when I want to go anywhere. So I just don't go anywhere anymore. :(

Jesus that's so incredibly traumatic. I just want to give you a big hug and feed you ice cream and pizza

Lovelyn
Jul 8, 2008

Eat more beans

facetoucher cat posted:



I need this gang tag

This.

And also:

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


I keep thinking about that post earlier from the guy who crack-pinged hard enough he went antimask and frankly I think he's correct -- at least for America

COVID is in EXPLOSIVE GROWTH! right now, masks are hilariously impotent against the sort of spread we're seeing (185 THOUSAND!!! cases! in one day!!!), we needed full mask compliance starting immediately in February/March

Even if we had perfect, full compliance right now the results would take like months to start kicking in, without any actual shutdown of public congregation spaces

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Lacrosse posted:

Seattle. Back when I worked downtown I used to go for walks in Freeway Park but one of the resident homeless there took a fancy to me and started stalking me. This continued for several months until he started getting more and more aggressive and came at me. I don't know how I got away but I think another homeless guy stopped him as I escaped up a flight of stairs. That was the second incident, the first incident was a homeless woman who was outside the downtown Library branch on Second who got in my face, spittle and all, demanding money. Third time was a homeless guy around Third/Pike who asked me for change, I told him no I didn't have any, he followed me through the intersection then came right up behind me and started shouting aggressively at me. By this point I had a weapon and I flashed it at him and backed right off. Fourth time was this Spring in Federal Way, I was going for a walk near my office complex and a homeless guy decided he wanted me to be his wife, when I rebuffed him he followed me, then chased me through a neighboring business park and I had to escape up an embankment to get away from him. I also was followed through Pike Place Market during the early part of the pandemic, but I don't really count that since I wasn't assaulted, just freaked out. I usually have a way of defending myself but I just don't put myself in a situation to get attacked anymore.

Unfortunately I've been single for over 10 years because guys only want to gently caress me, not actually date me, so I don't have a male escort to keep me safe when I want to go anywhere. So I just don't go anywhere anymore. :(

Yikes, I've seen the sketch in all of those places and am glad they leave me alone. I even tend to skirt around places like Freeway park tho, some parts of Seattle are in pretty rough shape.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

What's it from? Is that Bowser?

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



SKULL.GIF posted:

I keep thinking about that post earlier from the guy who crack-pinged hard enough he went antimask and frankly I think he's correct -- at least for America

COVID is in EXPLOSIVE GROWTH! right now, masks are hilariously impotent against the sort of spread we're seeing (185 THOUSAND!!! cases! in one day!!!), we needed full mask compliance starting immediately in February/March

Even if we had perfect, full compliance right now the results would take like months to start kicking in, without any actual shutdown of public congregation spaces

without a nation wide lockdown (lmao) we're going to see million case days by new years

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Steve Yun posted:

What's it from? Is that Bowser?

yeah, it's for the nevada bowsers, their hockey team

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

SKULL.GIF posted:

I keep thinking about that post earlier from the guy who crack-pinged hard enough he went antimask and frankly I think he's correct -- at least for America

COVID is in EXPLOSIVE GROWTH! right now, masks are hilariously impotent against the sort of spread we're seeing (185 THOUSAND!!! cases! in one day!!!), we needed full mask compliance starting immediately in February/March

Even if we had perfect, full compliance right now the results would take like months to start kicking in, without any actual shutdown of public congregation spaces

I mean, I totally get where that guy is coming from. The problem is that an apparent panacea like masks really fucks with a lot of people and leads them to make bad choices. Masks aren't even close to being a silver bullet unless you've got everyone running around in N95s all the time, which means that bars and restaurants are de facto shut down since you can't eat or drink through a mask.

Obviously everyone should be wearing masks, but they're complete garbage and as good as nothing without additional measures if your goal is to actually slow anything down. My city's school district just went full-remote due to outbreaks at every single school, and I know for a fact that the schools here are taking mask rules very seriously.

Zeriel
Nov 6, 2004


This wasn't the only school in Missouri to do this.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
My fellow Americans, we have reached an agreement. Using the twin guns of grace and tact, I blasted our worthless viral enemies with a fair compromise. They will not infect everyone on Earth.

just America inshallah

Pump Jockey
Mar 15, 2019

i believe in love
I had to call an emergency plumber, first outsider in my house since February. The problem was a smelly dishwasher, so the guy took his mask off a few times to sniff for clogged pipe smells :stonklol:

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

Steve Yun posted:

What's it from? Is that Bowser?

it's the Las Vegas Golden Knights' mascot, Chance the gambling Gila monster

Ebola Roulette
Sep 13, 2010

No matter what you win lose ragepiss.
All these people talking about "can't let the cure be worse than the disease"

ARE MISSING THE loving POINT that the cure is never worse when the disease is caught and treated early :bang:

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


still laugh about how people turned off their thinking goo after hearing "stay at least six feet apart" and so now everyone acts like some sort of invisible force field pops into existence at six feet no matter what other stupid poo poo you are doing at the moment.

having a maskless coughing competition inside? 5'11" = death but 6'1" = happy times.

snake and bake
Feb 23, 2005

:theroni:

triple sulk posted:

without a nation wide lockdown (lmao) we're going to see million case days by new years

The US is probably already at million case days if we're managing to process over 185k poz test results in a single day

Ham Cheeks
Nov 18, 2012

Feeling hammy

oh my

Twerk from Home
Jan 17, 2009

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Paradoxish posted:

Obviously everyone should be wearing masks, but they're complete garbage and as good as nothing without additional measures if your goal is to actually slow anything down. My city's school district just went full-remote due to outbreaks at every single school, and I know for a fact that the schools here are taking mask rules very seriously.

How seriously can the schools be taking masks if people are eating lunch?

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



snake and bake posted:

The US is probably already at million case days if we're managing to process over 185k poz test results in a single day

yeah probably

Innocuous
Mar 1, 2003

It's a strange world.



brugroffil posted:

I wear one over my vented n95

:same:

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

lol imagine how many excess deaths there would be if the people who are wearing masks.. weren't

Twerk from Home
Jan 17, 2009

This avatar brought to you by the 'save our dead gay forums' foundation.

snake and bake posted:

The US is probably already at million case days if we're managing to process over 185k poz test results in a single day

I'm skeptical that the multiplier is that high still, people are going to get tested for the most part. Law of big numbers kicks in at some point. If we have a million poz test day would we speculate we actually had 6 million new cases that day?

Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

I wonder how much under reporting there is due to the chuds refusing to get tested unless they're practically dying

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

Pinche Rudo posted:

I wonder how much under reporting there is due to the chuds refusing to get tested unless they're practically dying

lots

Brogeoisie
Jan 12, 2005

"Look, I'm a private citizen," he said. "One thing that I don't have to do is sit here and open my kimono as it relates to how much money I make or didn't."

Twerk from Home posted:

I'm skeptical that the multiplier is that high still, people are going to get tested for the most part. Law of big numbers kicks in at some point. If we have a million poz test day would we speculate we actually had 6 million new cases that day?

Yeah it's more likely we're just better at testing than we were 6-7 months ago and we're geographically more spread out

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


Twerk from Home posted:

I'm skeptical that the multiplier is that high still, people are going to get tested for the most part. Law of big numbers kicks in at some point. If we have a million poz test day would we speculate we actually had 6 million new cases that day?

kinda feel like Halloween probably was a 1M infections day but it has been spread out a bit because of variations in incubation time.

Grabnar
Nov 24, 2017

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

my dad lives in metro dc and he went and got a hair cut and then to a bar to celebrate the marines birthday.

they're all dumb as loving rocks

Our collective chud relatives are definitely going to end up killing my ER doc dad which owns so hard
:smith:

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Twerk from Home posted:

How seriously can the schools be taking masks if people are eating lunch?

But... that's kind of the whole point.

You can't have kids in the building for a full school day if they can't eat or drink. You can't really make it safe for them to eat or drink if you want high levels of mask compliance. It's the same poo poo as bars or restaurants. Sure, you can have people standing around a bar in N95s that they never take off, but that's not exactly a winning situation for the bar owner.

Masks are completely useless for what we want them to do. They're useful for situations where you absolutely cannot avoid coming into contact with other people, not for letting us pretend that everything is fine and we can proceed as usual.

FORUMS USER 1135
Jan 14, 2004

SKULL.GIF posted:

I keep thinking about that post earlier from the guy who crack-pinged hard enough he went antimask and frankly I think he's correct -- at least for America

COVID is in EXPLOSIVE GROWTH! right now, masks are hilariously impotent against the sort of spread we're seeing (185 THOUSAND!!! cases! in one day!!!), we needed full mask compliance starting immediately in February/March

Even if we had perfect, full compliance right now the results would take like months to start kicking in, without any actual shutdown of public congregation spaces

Something I hold onto that keeps me from going down that road is breaking down the numbers. I assume Covid is going to infect about 70% of the population, with a death toll probably between 0.5 - 1%. Which is loving horrific when you look at the US as a whole. But in my area of florida, that works out to about 2,000 deaths across the county at the upper end. So all I have to do is not be one of those 2000.

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003


lot of letters to say "RAPIST"

Lovelyn
Jul 8, 2008

Eat more beans

Yoinked for a new avatar

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?
What I'm saying is that masks do nothing to protect the economy, and that makes them pretty "useless."

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Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

SKULL.GIF posted:

I keep thinking about that post earlier from the guy who crack-pinged hard enough he went antimask and frankly I think he's correct -- at least for America

COVID is in EXPLOSIVE GROWTH! right now, masks are hilariously impotent against the sort of spread we're seeing (185 THOUSAND!!! cases! in one day!!!), we needed full mask compliance starting immediately in February/March

Even if we had perfect, full compliance right now the results would take like months to start kicking in, without any actual shutdown of public congregation spaces

Didn't you say earlier that mask use was a probable factor in your symptoms being mild?

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