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Platystemon posted:This thread being consistently months ahead of the expert consensus would be the funniest thing on this comedy forum it it weren’t so sad. What's really funny is the reason why it's true. Posters in this thread keep making predictions based on incredibly simple rules like "if someone coughs on you, it's bad." For some reason, experts keep trying to make predictions by figuring out all the specific ways that it's okay for someone to cough on you or how many people can safely cough on each other in an enclosed space. It's totally understandable since the question has always been "how can we open things up?" and not "should we open things up?" but it's also kind of crazy how pervasive the delusion is despite being wrong over and over and over again. And when this is all over, everyone will agree that those experts were right all along because we're not literally all dead and human society still exists.
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Freezer posted:To non-Americans it is baffling that people wonder whether they should drive a couple of hours to get a vaccine. Hell, I'm considering flying to the US with all the overhead that entails just to be able to get a shot this year. yeah seriously all the posting in this thread gives me the impression that the US is practically swimming in shots and it's just bureaucratic bullshit that's stopping people from getting them my sister is supposed to get her first shot of AZ tomorrow, and I have a cousin who got Sinovac last week, but that's because they're both doctors I don't know when I'm going to get mine, if ever
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facetoucher cat posted:So uh, I kinda wonder what type of HVAC system they've got. Building wide systems should be switching from heat to cool here soon it’s a hundred year old converted tenement, so a couple radiators in the hallway lol
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Paradoxish posted:What's really funny is the reason why it's true. Posters in this thread keep making predictions based on incredibly simple rules like "if someone coughs on you, it's bad." For some reason, experts keep trying to make predictions by figuring out all the specific ways that it's okay for someone to cough on you or how many people can safely cough on each other in an enclosed space. someone once posted that if there was a disease that infected people through eye contact people would go "can I peek a little bit?" and "I've been really good at not looking at other people for six months, so therefore it should be safe for me to look at people this one Saturday"
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Platystemon posted:It’s twenty‐five degrees right now in New York City with a forecast high today of thirty‐eight degrees. Sounds about time to flip the heat bc landlords hate their tenants
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Mar 15, 2021 11:49
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jetz0r posted:my parents got vaccinated last week. my mom got a 'Is that a respirator?!' from the admissions nurse, and my dad got to have a nice chat about his respirator while getting the shot. I want to meet your parents someday to remember what it feels like to relate to someone older
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Mar 15, 2021 11:50
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gradenko_2000 posted:yeah seriously all the posting in this thread gives me the impression that the US is practically swimming in shots and it's just bureaucratic bullshit that's stopping people from getting them It's more like we're in a weird spot where we're not distributing all of the vaccines that we have, but we also don't have enough vaccines for everyone. That's leaving a perfect donut hole for anyone willing to put in some effort, because it turns out there aren't that many people willing to put in the effort/lie on a form.
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theflyingexecutive posted:it’s a hundred year old converted tenement, so a couple radiators in the hallway lol Why did this make me laugh?
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I just switched tv providers and now get Fox News for the first time in my life. (Australia, home of Murdoch monopoly) The first thing I saw was a propaganda piece on "safely" reopening schools, followed by Fox and Friends gushing about how important teaching religion in school is. Truly bizarre.
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*me sitting on my porch looking at the busy sky* "Wonder why there's so many planes, let's check it out!"  "Well that doesn't seem TOO bad, let's look at the rest of the US!"  *starts singing the sound of silence, but the disturbed edition*
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Mar 15, 2021 12:03
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Strong Sauce posted:checked back a couple pages and didn't see this posted yet, apologies if it was. Here's the bodycam footage in case anyone hasn't seen it yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zc2KyarK7w Also: quote:Wright told The Washington Post that she has never covered her face inside stores, even when the statewide mandate was in place. She said she was in an RV park across the bay from Galveston in Hitchcock, Texas.
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Mar 15, 2021 12:14
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An entire solid year of Americans shoving every other American off of the top of cliffs, where the random upward winds can sometimes be enough to protect those who fell but then they run right back to the top of cliffs to rejoin the shoving, because respected capitalists made everyone feel that this is ok to do.
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Mar 15, 2021 12:16
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's the bodycam footage in case anyone hasn't seen it yet i wasnt expecting to like this video as much as i did
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Mar 15, 2021 12:33
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A Queensland health team working in Papua New Guinea found that 50% of Covid tests they did in the last few days were returning positive, which is really, really bad and shows uncontrolled spread there. https://twitter.com/sbsnews/status/1371330990614802435?s=21
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Mar 15, 2021 12:35
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BigOlTater posted:Went out to eat for the first time since the lockdown yesterday evening, it was great. Tables were a little farther apart than I remember last year, but other than that and the fact all the wait staff had on cloth masks, it was back to normal. Both of us were vaccinated, so no worries there. Feels great to get back to real life again. This post is a trap.
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Mar 15, 2021 12:41
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Mar 15, 2021 12:46
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gradenko_2000 posted:yeah seriously all the posting in this thread gives me the impression that the US is practically swimming in shots and it's just bureaucratic bullshit that's stopping people from getting them There's still a huge shortage. About half of states are opened up to a very large group of nebulous health conditions and people in those states can F5 thier way in to a shot reliably if they are willing to drive somewhere that might be a couple hours away and people in the other half of states still don't even know when they'll get a shot. It's all stupid bullshit all the way down.
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Mar 15, 2021 12:48
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Thoguh posted:There's still a huge shortage. About half of states are opened up to a very large group of nebulous health conditions and people in those states can F5 thier way in to a shot reliably if they are willing to drive somewhere that might be a couple hours away and people in the other half of states still don't even know when they'll get a shot. It's all stupid bullshit all the way down. yeah I'm sorry that came off pretty glib and bitter
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Thoguh posted:There's still a huge shortage. About half of states are opened up to a very large group of nebulous health conditions and people in those states can F5 thier way in to a shot reliably if they are willing to drive somewhere that might be a couple hours away and people in the other half of states still don't even know when they'll get a shot. It's all stupid bullshit all the way down. Yeah, like it's still impossible to book an appointment in CT if you don't qualify, and it doesn't really matter how much effort you're willing to put in. Anyone who really wants to get jabbed is probably looking at a 6-8 hour drive or a flight somewhere.
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Mar 15, 2021 12:54
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this guy is really popular among the parent-child death pact set in my community: https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1370107941550845953?s=20 what is it about supposed healthcare professionals that takes them to such a dark place
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Mar 15, 2021 13:20
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RBC posted:i wasnt expecting to like this video as much as i did Lol that was fantastic.  : "People are recording this!" : "I'm recording this." : "Are you trying to speak spanish to people???" : "This is what happens when you don't wear a mask people!!!!" : "*sigh* Jesus chri" *video cut*
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Mar 15, 2021 13:24
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Insanite posted:this guy is really popular among the parent-child death pact set in my community: This loving guy. https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1332349435997679622 Vinay Prasad and Jeffrey S. Flier April 27, 2020 posted:And scientists agree that it will likely take 18 months or longer to develop a vaccine, if one ever succeeds. As for cloth masks, we see arguments on both sides. calm_hitler.png
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Mar 15, 2021 13:27
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We're going to be at 150m doses administered by the end of the month if the distribution mismatch keeps getting solved by people willing to drive. At 103m now, +2.5m/day and climbing, 15 days left. 135m already delivered. Edit 70m people dosed at least once. I still think that's gonna stall hard around 100-110 mastershakeman has issued a correction as of 13:32 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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As a fun side effect of all you guys driving 20 hours out to nowhere Pennsyltucky to get a shot, when Ozzy Flu hits in ‘28 we’re going to make sure nowhere Pennsyltucky is top priority for Koalavac distribution.
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Paradoxish posted:What's really funny is the reason why it's true. Posters in this thread keep making predictions based on incredibly simple rules like "if someone coughs on you, it's bad." For some reason, experts keep trying to make predictions by figuring out all the specific ways that it's okay for someone to cough on you or how many people can safely cough on each other in an enclosed space. To built on your post: The way people interact with COVID information seems to be premised entirely on differing heuristics. It has completely overtaken rationality and logic, mostly regardless of sphere. One of the absolutely weirdest things in this thread has been the posters writing "so you changed your minds about the vaccine?  ", as if that was some kind of own. The thread changed once the phase 3 trial data rolled in and our own little heuristic was satisfied (the rich got it), which is pretty much the way things are supposed to work. The liberals consider that an own, because their blind faith in institutions makes them accept a priori that of course the vaccines will solve everything: the institutions they trust told them so.The chuddier posters post about how they've been going out to Applebee's and haven't gotten COVID, so therefore their heuristics are correct, that actually COVID is overblown and really it is just the flu. The institutions they trust told them so. The doomposting leftists on the other hand are jaded as gently caress and don't trust anybody, so we are relegated to look at facts, logic and numbers. The rare heuristics utilized are inverted (or mistrust based), like the rich going out of their way to get the Pfizer vaccine means it actually works. Now that seems like I have cast us as the rational crowd and the others as dumbasses (just like they have), but the key difference is this: we are correct more often than not. Unsurprising, considering we just follow the incredibly simple logic you mentioned.
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Insanite posted:this guy is really popular among the parent-child death pact set in my community: He's not wrong. All school reopenings require is not giving a poo poo about children and opening the gently caress up.
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Pingui posted:He's not wrong. All school reopenings require is not giving a poo poo about children and opening the gently caress up. the verbal components required to cast covid19 death ward include "data" and "science" and "psychological harm" masks shouldn't interfere with this excepting some heavier respirators (there is virtually nowhere else on the internet where you can talk like this without getting buried in "believe in science" poo poo and it seriously bums me out)
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Pingui posted:To built on your post: this is so dumb i cant believe i read it please nobody else make this mistake
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Pingui posted:To built on your post: img-big jerkoff motion
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It’s incredible how many people are shocked, shocked that the pandemic is in its second year. What the gently caress did they think was going to happen? Once there was community transmission on every continent, it wasn’t going to just pack its bags and go home.
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A heads up to anyone having gotten the AZ vaccine (from the Danish FDA): https://translate.google.com/transl...eneste-14-dage/ posted:(..)
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What a coincidence that the vaccine that is least effective is also the only one implicated in serious adverse events. Gates sure knows how to pick ’em.
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Platystemon posted:It’s incredible how many people are shocked, shocked that the pandemic is in its second year. weve_tried_nothing_and_were_all_out_of_ideas.mp4
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So - if i have this right. Between us not vaccinating kids and 1/3 of the deplorables in this country refusing to let Bill Gates Microchip them, we're ensuring COVID sticks around for a while. On top of that, we're opening schools up again just as solid studies come out showing that kid are petri dish super spreaders? And then on top of that, we have the British Variant (More Contagious, but not more deadly, vaccines still work), The South african Variant (Some of the vaccines don't work and immunity isnt there), two Brazilian variants (might as well get ebola) and a California Variant? Sounds like 2021 and 2022 are lost.
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RBC posted:this is so dumb i cant believe i read it A bit too close to home then.
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Platystemon posted:It’s incredible how many people are shocked, shocked that the pandemic is in its second year. That's the thing that really bothers me about the vaccine. It's full speed ahead openerup, despite the fact that it doesn't give you immunity to COVID, everyone is out there acting like it's over despite the fact, we're at what? 10% vaccinated. COVID-19 was the tutorial level, and America can't even deal with it properly.
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Platystemon posted:It’s incredible how many people are shocked, shocked that the pandemic is in its second year. honestly I think people just expected this to go away once everyone started to get bored edit: Iron Crowned posted:That's the thing that really bothers me about the vaccine. It's full speed ahead openerup, despite the fact that it doesn't give you immunity to COVID, everyone is out there acting like it's over despite the fact, we're at what? 10% vaccinated. we're still only like 20 seconds into the opening sprawl of the disaster movie lol
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Insanite posted:
The power over life and death
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^^^ gently caressIron Crowned posted:That's the thing that really bothers me about the vaccine. It's full speed ahead openerup, despite the fact that it doesn't give you immunity to COVID, everyone is out there acting like it's over despite the fact, we're at what? 10% vaccinated. it's completely insane to me that we're not waiting for better studies on post-vaccine transmission before jazzing people up to dine out and party down. it's beyond insane that testing kids 2-3x per week isn't even in the "back to school now" conversation. i guess it would be inconvenient to know for sure if kids are contributing heavily to community spread, though? Insanite has issued a correction as of 14:07 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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RBC posted:this is so dumb i cant believe i read it it's a solid gbs post circa 2008
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