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Chief McHeath posted:I can feel the nanobot population inside me increasing daily. 
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Cthulu Carl posted:I'm watching a show about Jonas Salk developing the polio vaccine and LMAO, if the internet and 21st Century chuddism existed in the 50s we'd still have kids in iron lungs and just be like "Welp, whatcha gonna do?" Especially since those children were less than 1% of people infected and ~90% of people infected had either very mild symptoms or were asymptomatic.
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May 11, 2021 17:22
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I just completed Resident Evil 8 and the credits had a whole section for “COVID-19 Compliance Officers”
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Chrs posted:I just completed Resident Evil 8 and the credits had a whole section for “COVID-19 Compliance Officers” tangentially related, this is something i wonder about - now that it's been around for a little while, how many pieces of contemporary media are set in "covid-earth"? i don't really watch tv or movies, are there any that have their characters wearing masks all the time? or dealing with covid storylines? i wonder if there'll be a bunch of teen dramas and comedies and poo poo that have a super serious episode about a character dying from covid or something lol (if there haven't been already)
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May 11, 2021 17:48
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i think i saw an ad for the walmart sitcom where they were wearing masks
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May 11, 2021 17:49
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just realized I misremembered my second vaccine date and its not until next Wednesday  re: ppl posting at eachother while I was gone yesterday, if i have to probe anyone for that poo poo im going to probe everyone who adds on, so I would kindly thank boar guy/fluffy bunnies to stop interacting with each other at all. the thread seems completely fine when it's not about that 
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May 11, 2021 17:49
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Inept posted:i think i saw an ad for the walmart sitcom where they were wearing masks  lol
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May 11, 2021 17:53
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:tangentially related, this is something i wonder about - now that it's been around for a little while, how many pieces of contemporary media are set in "covid-earth"? i don't really watch tv or movies, are there any that have their characters wearing masks all the time? or dealing with covid storylines? i wonder if there'll be a bunch of teen dramas and comedies and poo poo that have a super serious episode about a character dying from covid or something lol (if there haven't been already) "Host" is a very fun horror movie about a seance on a Zoom meetup. They're doing the zoom meetup because of covid and covid shaped where they're at in life (one girl is stuck isolating with a boyfriend she only recently moved in with, one guy is with his super rich girlfriend and loves it), but it doesn't drive the plot at all.
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May 11, 2021 17:55
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Dope sending this to my friends thanks.
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May 11, 2021 18:01
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Aardvark! posted:just realized I misremembered my second vaccine date and its not until next Wednesday Thank you. And I'm sorry you don't get poked tomorrow  this looks like the covid version of that dumbass employee of the month movie from years ago
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May 11, 2021 18:13
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Most of my team for work is pretty much vaxxed, with one person who just got her first shot. I hopped onto a meeting and she was in the middle of talking about how she and her family wasn't planning on getting shots but they were at her grandmother's funeral on Saturday and found out she kicked because of covid and found shots on the way home.  Then she was talking about how hard she got hit by the side effects Sunday and Monday " but I still had errands to run and people to visit" and I was glad I was muted because JESUS. She's already had covid in March and got wrecked, and she's a low key chud with a hyper chud husband... I'm so glad that my two weeks after the 2nd poo poo is next Wednesday and no one comes in on the Mondays and Fridays I have to be in the office...
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May 11, 2021 19:20
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Well, at least it is nice to hear that the vaccination is working and places with herd immunity can go back to normal. Meanwhile in our Northern Socialist Hellscape -Government decided to also shelf J&J vaccines, after admitting that they have at least 200k doses in their storage (we are a population of 5.4 million). -They also decided to shelf all remaining AZ (also 200k+), and the ones still coming (1M+) with the exception to those who already got their first shot. It will not be available anywhere, even for the volunteering people. -Since the ages 60-65 threw a tantrum over not being allowed to pick what they want, we vaccinated over the weekend less than 2k people, and are sitting on just around 35-40% depending if you count the kids in or not. Some areas are still stuck on the 60-69 -group, some are in the 50-59 and few in the 40-49. -Being asked "why aren't the infection case numbers getting lower even if around 2/5 of the population is vaccinated at least once" the officials answered "because our strategy right now is not to vaccinate those age groups and people who most likely get the infection". No followup questions. -We are still getting around ~220k doses per week, and the government just keeps moving the timeline once per week, because our officials declared that "After April it is 400k+ per week". The fact that the parties forming the government right now are mostly backed by elderly people and rural folk does not affect this in any way. There is also the municipal elections happening at the end of June. So there is no incentive at all to stall the vaccination rollout to younger people and focus only on the old baby boomers. -There will be no leniency or re-negotiations on allowing younger people to get the vaccines in any near future. Regardless of if we get the promised AZ, more J&J or even Sputnik. This means that anyone under 40 will be sitting home for the most of the next Summer also, while the government sits on a stockpile of almost 1M vaccinations by the end of June. We are still a population of 5.4 million, and parties forming the government right now are mostly backed by elderly people and rural folk, in which the regional coverage will be hitting 50% by the end of the month. -Vaccinations for my age group will, if it happens in any time scale, be just few weeks before the summer ends, so everyone who actually pays taxes will sit home also this Summer, and be nice and ready for the next year of work. Looks like I am going to have to vote for the loving nationalists to get rid of these babyboomer-cuddling social democratic and centrist assholes. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 20:01 on May 11, 2021 |
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May 11, 2021 19:57
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:tangentially related, this is something i wonder about - now that it's been around for a little while, how many pieces of contemporary media are set in "covid-earth"? i don't really watch tv or movies, are there any that have their characters wearing masks all the time? or dealing with covid storylines? i wonder if there'll be a bunch of teen dramas and comedies and poo poo that have a super serious episode about a character dying from covid or something lol (if there haven't been already) there's a few different ways media have been handling COVID, and some are good, some are not so good. 1. Just pretend it doesn't exist in the universe, and go about your day. This has been working pretty well for some shows, and has led to some interesting cinematography choices (The Rookie did an episode a few weeks back that was shot solely from cameras that while a bit forced, only would exist in universe, so the body camera shots they've already used, police car cameras, a surveillance camera, stuff like that). It does result in awkward framing of shots sometime where you're obviously trying to keep your primary talent 6+ feet away from a 2 line actor. 2. It exists, but plot armor protects the main characters. This would be your FBI: Most Wanted. Background actors? wearing masks, literally everyone else, no masks, no reference to covid or them wearing masks ever. 3. COVID exists but is kinda treated as masks not important all the time (which from a "we hired you to be pretty and act" is kinda understandable), Grey's Anatomy and others live in this world. I'm fine with 1 and 3, 2 is just ridiculous.
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May 11, 2021 20:00
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This show is decent, I put it on in the background while I work. But this season started playing when I was feeling like poo poo after my 2nd dose and I had to turn it off. Who wants to be reminded of the garbage we're dealing with every day? Not to mention the performances all being hidden behind masks for a lot of the episodes. dumb dumb DUMB
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May 11, 2021 20:03
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:tangentially related, this is something i wonder about - now that it's been around for a little while, how many pieces of contemporary media are set in "covid-earth"? i don't really watch tv or movies, are there any that have their characters wearing masks all the time? or dealing with covid storylines? i wonder if there'll be a bunch of teen dramas and comedies and poo poo that have a super serious episode about a character dying from covid or something lol (if there haven't been already) Lots of arthouse cinema exploring the themes of isolation and quarantine came out in the past year. Plots that happen all on zoom, or similar abound.
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May 11, 2021 20:07
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Der Kyhe posted:Well, at least it is nice to hear that the vaccination is working and places with herd immunity can go back to normal. Meanwhile in our Northern Socialist Hellscape Obviously because of these decisions there are also talks arising from the "Moomin mamma social democrats", the care bears of the world, on "if we should donate our unneeded AZ and J&J vaccinations to the countries that really need them" while sitting on a national level of 35% of all, 44% of adults, in our own country. I just ----can't process this stuff at all. Now this is still on the social media stage, but knowing our government care bears its only a matter of time (and it is day after the municipal elections).
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May 11, 2021 20:48
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Buff Hardback posted:there's a few different ways media have been handling COVID, and some are good, some are not so good. I want this to be the case going forward as well. No docudramas, no period pieces, no thank you - let's just all memory hole this loving year forever.
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May 11, 2021 21:22
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I got a text to make an appointment for my first dose of the vaccine. It was an NHS URL but I'm not over 40 so I spent a long time deliberating before putting my DOB in... Hooray! I didn't realise we were vaxing regular joes at 37 yet!
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May 11, 2021 21:43
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freebooter posted:I want this to be the case going forward as well. No docudramas, no period pieces, no thank you - let's just all memory hole this loving year forever. Death to 2020 on Netflix is the only one we need, although it was made before the insurrection which is a shame.
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May 11, 2021 22:13
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This years last and final season of Shameless (US) was set in pandemic Chicago. In fact one of the main characters dies of COVID in the final episode.
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May 11, 2021 22:55
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i mean, anyone in range of driving/getting to south orange county, there is a walk in appointment place a mile from my house and i'm glad to share info/resources/whatever
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May 11, 2021 23:09
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as someone who had to work at a grocery store for 10.80 an hour (and a tiny bit of hazard pay for a couple months) dealing with lovely customers during this whole thing, this just made me 
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May 11, 2021 23:23
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Cthulu Carl posted:I'm watching a show about Jonas Salk developing the polio vaccine and LMAO, if the internet and 21st Century chuddism existed in the 50s we'd still have kids in iron lungs and just be like "Welp, whatcha gonna do?" we were talking about this in a discord channel, they've always existed and they always will but if you want to catch the idiocracy-type people you need to use idiocracy-type nets. that free burg and fries crossover deal biden is working on with mcdonalds is a good example of how to get them on board
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May 11, 2021 23:48
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Fur20 posted:we were talking about this in a discord channel, they've always existed and they always will but if you want to catch the idiocracy-type people you need to use idiocracy-type nets. that free burg and fries crossover deal biden is working on with mcdonalds is a good example of how to get them on board Pretty accurate - there’s plenty of skeezy companies like Citibank who get college kids to sign up for credit cards using free burgers (literally one free burger) as incentive, and it works like a charm.
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May 12, 2021 00:17
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Communist Toast posted:This show is decent, I put it on in the background while I work. But this season started playing when I was feeling like poo poo after my 2nd dose and I had to turn it off. Who wants to be reminded of the garbage we're dealing with every day? Not to mention the performances all being hidden behind masks for a lot of the episodes. dumb dumb DUMB The mask thing would be a bigger problem for a new show, but it's season 6 so anyone who has been a fan for 5 years should be familiar with the facial expressions these characters use when mugging for the camera. Besides it's a light sitcom, it's pretty clear what is going on even without looking at their faces.
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May 12, 2021 01:21
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Black-ish had a pretty good series of episodes, with some emotional heft since the mother is a doctor. I feel like they moved to option 3 as the season progressed, though. Queen Sugar has gone full depiction, with the main characters wearing masks in each other's households and a neighbor who goes full shut in paranoiac when a character tries to deliver him a care package.
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May 12, 2021 01:55
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Been double vaxd for a month but feel like I’ve been run over by a truck the last few days. Blah. Possible a bad reaction to penicillin I was on, but I have to wonder…
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May 12, 2021 04:42
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Communist Toast posted:This show is decent, I put it on in the background while I work. But this season started playing when I was feeling like poo poo after my 2nd dose and I had to turn it off. Who wants to be reminded of the garbage we're dealing with every day? Not to mention the performances all being hidden behind masks for a lot of the episodes. dumb dumb DUMB I’m fortunate to not have lost anyone to COVID and my whole family minus children are fully vaccinated, and I really haven’t been affected in the way that many others have. But I just feel so anxious looking at that poster. I mean kudos to them for getting creative with the pandemic or whatever. I just feel weird about the whole thing.
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May 12, 2021 06:55
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Der Kyhe posted:Well, at least it is nice to hear that the vaccination is working and places with herd immunity can go back to normal. Meanwhile in our Northern Socialist Hellscape The actual answer is that herd immunity isn't the point where the virus disappears, it's the point where the reproduction rate R0 = 1 and the virus stops increasing exponentially, and it's only once you pass that point that the numbers start getting lower. There's still going to be a long tail of cases & deaths after the herd immunity point has been reached. Of course if the government is also imposing other kinds of restrictions (masks mandates, social distancing, crowd limits etc etc) that'll artificially push the number of infections down and if they manage to keep them in place until herd immunity is reached that means the tail of cases & deaths will start from a much lower count and will be a lot shorter, but if they open 'er up prematurely cases will just shoot up all over again. The NY Times did an article about different paths towards herd immunity where they looked at how increases in vaccine supply/restrictions/variants will effect how quickly the population reaches herd immunity and the rate of deaths in each scenario and the obvious conclusion is "Increase vaccine production and for the love of god don't drop the precautions"  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/learning/whats-going-on-in-this-graph-covid-herd-immunity.html Note that I think their estimates for "total immunity" (number of vaxxed people + number of recovered infections) is incredibly optimistic and massively overestimates the number of recovered infections, plus their graphs which show vaccine supply continuing "at the current pace" obviously show an increase in supply, plus assuming that vaxx uptake will remain at a steady pace and not drop off at all or hit an upper limity thanks to vaxx hesitancy is also pretty naive. Also note that they don't cover the 5th scenario "vaccine supply continues at current pace, more contagious variants appear but we also ease up on restrictions" which is what most of the US seems to be doing
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May 12, 2021 08:16
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freebooter posted:I want this to be the case going forward as well. No docudramas, no period pieces, no thank you - let's just all memory hole this loving year forever. We’re memoryholing it, but only in the history books. No lessons will be learned, but you will have to suffer terrible pop culture depictions of it forever.
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May 12, 2021 11:39
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Uhhhh I guess this is good news???!?? https://twitter.com/MackLamoureux/status/1392122037175390210
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May 12, 2021 11:54
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Platystemon posted:We’re memoryholing it, but only in the history books. Write it out of the history books imo. Just make this year 2020 and destroy all records that last year ever happened.
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May 12, 2021 11:57
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Uhhhh I guess this is good news???!?? If it works, it works. Though I won't be surprised if that was started by pro-vaccine people.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Uhhhh I guess this is good news???!?? How the gently caress is this real life
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May 12, 2021 12:06
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Is anyone else weirded out by all the corporate PR tie-ins to the US pandemic? It started with free Krispy Kreme donuts but a whole lot of businesses are getting in on the act now. I haven't seen anything like this in Australia https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1392231056984707072 https://twitter.com/bangordailynews/status/1392177986384900102 https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1392167740354580484 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 12:25 on May 12, 2021 |
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May 12, 2021 12:09
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Is anyone else weirded out by all the corporate PR tie-ins to the US pandemic? It started with free Dunkin Donuts but a whole lot of businesses are getting in on the act now. I haven't seen anything like this in Australia I’m mostly depressed about it because it means that things are so broken in terms of science communication, leadership, etc. that corporations are filling the void. I like getting free Krispy Kreme though.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Is anyone else weirded out by all the corporate PR tie-ins to the US pandemic? It started with free Krispy Kreme donuts but a whole lot of businesses are getting in on the act now. I haven't seen anything like this in Australia A lot of us Americans are dumb and selfish as gently caress. Get a vaccine to help save lives of other people? Hell nah, might be aborted fetus souls in there. Get a vaccine to get a free donut? Well, maybe I can take a few aborted fetus souls into me.
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Yeah bad Americans whatever. Why do we have to keep relearning lessons on what motivates huge chunks of our population? Should’ve set up a partnership with Coca Cola and Valvoline in the first place instead of wasting a ton of time appealing to a mental organ that doesn’t exist in half the people.
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