Judge Dredd Scott posted:

lmao i had no idea it was getting that bad here. holy poo poo

Kunabomber posted:

lol it's like a zombie decided to write an essay on how the walled compound should totally let them in

Kreeblah posted:

Serious answer, Republicans loving love wedge issues because it means they don't have to give their base anything that would upset their constituents (rich fuckers). Don't get me wrong. Dems love 'em, too, and for the same reasons, but they seem to be too lazy and/or incompetent to go out and find new ones.

So, a few decades ago (IIRC, part of the Civil Rights Act fallout), the GOP was looking for something to use to gently caress the Dems with, and latched onto abortion. Up until that point, a lot of churches saw it as the humane way to go instead of bringing a kid into the world who was going to have a supremely lovely life of poverty. But, they started in with the propaganda, and suddenly abortion was murdering babies.

A little while later, some stem cells were harvested from an aborted fetus and used for research purposes. Instead of seeing that as something good that came out of the abortion (since the fetal stem cells still in use for research today come from the same original line), they started fear mongering about how medicine (and vaccines) relied on baby murder.

Add in the continual whittling away of our education system in order to remove any troublesome issues like "critical thinking" and you've got a base that's ripe for being told that vaccines are evil, that they have 5G magnetic tracking chips in them, or that they turn you into a crocodile, especially if a Democrat says that they're necessary.

silicone thrills posted:

You dont know on purpose. The news is barely fuckin talkin about it.

quote:

SEATTLE -- Amid rising COVID-19 cases in the state, some residents said Sunday that they suspect another lockdown could be rolled out to help reduce the confirmed case counts and to help free up capacity in Washinton hospitals.

“Probably going to have to close things down," said Adrew Buttz, a Lacey native, who attended a Seattle Mariners game Sunday. "I would imagine."

The weekend baseball game brought a throng of fans to T-Mobile Park to watch the Mariners play the Toronto Blue Jays as the teams closed out a thrre-game series.

Buttz said he is aware of how the cases are trending, and he has heard reports about local hospitals being overrun by COVID-19 patients. He fears that large gatherings like a baseball game could be put on hold once again.

“I think I am concerned of it,” Buttz said. “I think it’s probably going to happen at some point because a lot of the guidelines aren’t being followed and some of the rules and suggestions aren’t being followed.”

More than 160 cases of COVID were linked to a music festival in Grant County that happened in late July. The Seahawks will play their first pre-season home game at Lumen Field Saturday.


But Dr. Richard Besser, former CDC director, told ABC News Sunday that shutdowns similar to what happened last year are not likely to be repeated.

“There has to be a full-on press to get people vaccinated who are not vaccinated,” Besser said. “That’s what’s going to do the most. But it’s not going to be the same type of situation that we saw a year ago.”

Besser said the rising number of vaccinations among those most vulnerable to the virus are providing hope that locdowns can be repeated despite the delta variant.

“There is a vaccine," Besser said. "And we’ve done a very good job at vaccinating people who are at the greatest risk.”

If anything, Besser says it will depend on where outbreaks are happening that determines what measures might be taken.

“I think what we’re going to see is schools closing when cases spread through schools," he said. "We’re going to see more recommendations for use of masks."

But until more people get vaccinated, it will leave people like Buttz hoping that we don't take a step backwards.

“It makes me concerned because we might lose it again soon," he said. "So, I guess we’ll see."

The governor's office said earlier last week that the state is continuing to review multiple options to figure out how to limit the spread of the virus. But officials did not specifically say if limited gatherings would be happening in the near future.

OK baizuo posted:

Entirely predictable and it just keeps happening lol, what a country

silicone thrills posted:

also wildfire smoke is coming back in tomorrow. lol really fuckin rules. love this hell world.

silicone thrills posted:

lmao

I take it back, the right wing news peeps are talkin bout it.

https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/rising-covid-cases-in-washington-stirs-concern-about-another-lock-down

also wildfire smoke is coming back in tomorrow. lol really fuckin rules. love this hell world.

quote:

“I think I am concerned of it,” Buttz said.

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

Why did Republicans become anitvax?

kater posted:

I’ve been having peaceful time staying the tuck away from everyone in a nearly empty office but some gently caress just ran by coughing next to me like this huge loving compound there’s maybe five people here he had to loving come find me to cough near me you loving kidding

silicone thrills posted:

Always be wearin that respirator. These stupid sick fucks at work will always find you.

Stereotype posted:

"lockdown"
gatherings over 10 or 20 people

gradenko_2000 posted:

when I was working nights I'd drink a lot of water so that the constant need to get up and take a piss would keep me awake

the alternative was taking up smoking

Stereotype posted:

telling people to wear a mask a month ago, or never telling them they could take it off, might have worked. but it's too late for that now. you can't just slightly decrease the spread, you can't have it plateau right now because that's going to result in a million deaths, you need it to decrease dramatically quickly. we need to do a "lockdown," by which i mainly mean stop all these insane huge packed crowd super-spreader events at the very minimum, and probably stop all gatherings over 10 or 20 people. and close the restaurants, and the schools. so what i'm saying is we are doomed.

zone posted:

regruglicans playing themselves with downplaying this pandemic, especially when their base was mad enough about mango mussolini losing the election to refuse the vaccine at any cost, will never not be hilarious to me.

pillsburysoldier posted:

https://www.fixthemask.com/

Or free instructions/small fee for ones from Uni of Wisconsin

https://making.engr.wisc.edu/mask-fitter/

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

The place I got my vaccines in march and April literally have 100% availability. You can get an appointment any time between now and the 30th.


I'm less than 4 months out from my second shot. I work from home, wear n95 masks, and stay away from folks. I'm down for 6 months out, but less than 4 sounds like a lot.

zone posted:

regruglicans playing themselves with downplaying this pandemic, especially when their base was mad enough about mango mussolini losing the election to refuse the vaccine at any cost, will never not be hilarious to me.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I can't tell you what percentage that is for covid or anything else. I can tell you that it's happened already for measles in my lifetime. Why we suddenly can't kill off a highly communicable disease when we've already killed one off in my lifetime is left to the reader to figure out.

Sweet_Joke_Nectar posted:

pho bac? we’re all gonna die on that cute little red boat

gradenko_2000 posted:

1. I think it's a little preemptive to speak so conclusively on these timelines

2. I specifically think eight months for J&J is a little optimistic

3. The way it's phrased makes it sound like protection just stops after the six months, which is a dangerous way of conveying the information

4. While I appreciate that they're setting up the narrative for acceptance of boosters, at 10% fully-vaxxed in the PH it doesn't seem like we should be doing that yet

(other news today was that two guys got arrested for taking a shot of Moderna after already having been fully-vaxxed with Sinovac. That makes the third booster arrest so far)

Kreeblah posted:

Another benefit of being respirator crew. gently caress clogging my lungs with that poo poo.

Kreeblah posted:

How the gently caress are they getting a year for AZ? I thought we were already seeing efficacy issues with it a couple months ago.

gradenko_2000 posted:

1. I think it's a little preemptive to speak so conclusively on these timelines

2. I specifically think eight months for J&J is a little optimistic

3. The way it's phrased makes it sound like protection just stops after the six months, which is a dangerous way of conveying the information

4. While I appreciate that they're setting up the narrative for acceptance of boosters, at 10% fully-vaxxed in the PH it doesn't seem like we should be doing that yet

(other news today was that two guys got arrested for taking a shot of Moderna after already having been fully-vaxxed with Sinovac. That makes the third booster arrest so far)

jetz0r posted:

BUY GOOD MASKS. STOP USING PLASTIC JUNK WITH lovely MASKS TO MAKE SLIGHTLY LESS lovely MASKS.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

It's incredible how we were handed a cheat code such that everyone in this forum, doomers through and through, sighed a sigh of relief, and then... nobody loving got it. lmao. hahahahhahaha.

Google Butt posted: