CaptainViolence posted:

i watched this with horrified fascination and the cut at the end just as it starts exploding right about now lol is perfectly terrifying

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

38 of the 57 new cases today were from the same Muslim school that was the centre of the outbreak at this same time last year. This is right after the fundamentalist Jewish engagement party super spreader event. Must be a fun time for racists.

Steve Yun posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryp8GyqBpN8

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

Famous last words.

The most annoying thing about covid destroying the last bastions in the western world is that I wasn't able to lose any weight in the last 18 months despite doing everything I could without gyms open. I drank nothing but goddamn water this entire time and walked home from work every day. I only eat two healthy meals per day, no snacks. Yet I'm still 30lbs overweight with high blood pressure and asthma and covid knocking at my door. Cut me some loving slack world.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Americans are stupid and selfish but we're also violent and while you can debate whether or not most parents truly love their children, I think it's reasonable to say that at the very least they think they do and would be angry if their children were murdered or maimed. I highly doubt we won't see some kind of reaction to a modern day Massacre of the Innocents - only real rather than fictional.

Granted, as mentioned, we're stupid and selfish, so whether or not the reaction is in any way constructive, helpful, or even aimed at the right people is anyone's guess. I'm already anticipating peopel somehow blaming the vaccines and the vaccinated.

SpaceDrake posted:

alright, but. im sorry cspam, i have to realpost for a minute here

I'm actually super loving worried about the next 6-8 weeks. like. it is now virtually guaranteed that millions of children are going to be infected with covid-19 — probably north of 75% of the entire school-age population, especially the elementary demographic — and the sheer overload of the health system this will cause is going to kill tens of thousands of children in the space of a month or two. I am deadass actually expecting that we are going to be facing down a hundred thousand dead children by some point in October. and I have no loving idea what happens after that. what happens after the biggest child mortality crisis in this country in more than a century, and this one self-manufactured.

like, the leadership and certain parts of the bourgeoisie are going to try to not give a poo poo beyond platitudes, and at least at first I expect a Sandy Hook-esque shrug, but by the time the death wave really sets in, even at only like 50,000 dead that's going to be six digits worth of parents who are just. just totally and completely out of their minds with grief and rage. and power will try and do nothing, and. they're going to want to express their anger.

i'm not predicting ~~civil war~~ because i don't expect it to be a war; war implies some level of organization. i just keep imagining this white-hot ball of rage erupting all across the country, and. it'll just be people doing poo poo because gently caress it, our children are dead, our world has already ended, and so far nobody has given a gently caress. well we'll make you give a gently caress.

like. tell me the molochian virus furnace we're about to shovel 60 million children into isn't going to result in massive child death, cspam. tell me the next few months I see ahead of us is just me doom-braining.

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

I mean, we've seen a massive amount of death so far, and almost all of the violence has come from people who think it's a hoax. I could easily be wrong, but I don't think the victims being children is actually gonna change much, people have been indoctrinated with learned helplessness way too thoroughly.

papersack posted:

can corn catch covid?

Zisky posted:

It rules having a wife in one of the largest public health departments in the US because you get to hear leading indicators like "yeah in the next couple of weeks shits gonna get really really bad."

i am harry posted:

“we’re not going back, that’s what.”

-jenn psaki

osprey posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1428202423210889220

Stevie Lee posted:

SpaceDrake posted:

alright, but. im sorry cspam, i have to realpost for a minute here

I'm actually super loving worried about the next 6-8 weeks. like. it is now virtually guaranteed that millions of children are going to be infected with covid-19 — probably north of 75% of the entire school-age population, especially the elementary demographic — and the sheer overload of the health system this will cause is going to kill tens of thousands of children in the space of a month or two. I am deadass actually expecting that we are going to be facing down a hundred thousand dead children by some point in October. and I have no loving idea what happens after that. what happens after the biggest child mortality crisis in this country in more than a century, and this one self-manufactured.

like, the leadership and certain parts of the bourgeoisie are going to try to not give a poo poo beyond platitudes, and at least at first I expect a Sandy Hook-esque shrug, but by the time the death wave really sets in, even at only like 50,000 dead that's going to be six digits worth of parents who are just. just totally and completely out of their minds with grief and rage. and power will try and do nothing, and. they're going to want to express their anger.

i'm not predicting ~~civil war~~ because i don't expect it to be a war; war implies some level of organization. i just keep imagining this white-hot ball of rage erupting all across the country, and. it'll just be people doing poo poo because gently caress it, our children are dead, our world has already ended, and so far nobody has given a gently caress. well we'll make you give a gently caress.

like. tell me the molochian virus furnace we're about to shovel 60 million children into isn't going to result in massive child death, cspam. tell me the next few months I see ahead of us is just me doom-braining.

Casey Finnigan posted:

what is the american endgame here? just keep things open until every single hospital in the nation is overwhelmed? and then what? What the gently caress are we doing

Kreeblah posted:

Most of this country operates under the belief that if it doesn't hurt them, personally, it can't be that bad. I don't know how you shake that.

Casey Finnigan posted:

what is the american endgame here? just keep things open until every single hospital in the nation is overwhelmed? and then what? What the gently caress are we doing

pillsburysoldier posted:

Most Americans can't accept that there are problems that guns can't address

PDP-1 posted:

so is abbot dead yet or what

SKULL.GIF posted:

100k dead children is 2000 per state

barely a blip

america will shrug it off. the endgame of neoliberalism is utter indifference and outright contempt for people who are going "hey we should do something", constant mocking and YOOOOO THIS GUY ACTUALLY CARES XDDDDD LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo*howling* WHAT A CUCK LOSER!

SpaceDrake posted:

alright, but. im sorry cspam, i have to realpost for a minute here

I'm actually super loving worried about the next 6-8 weeks. like. it is now virtually guaranteed that millions of children are going to be infected with covid-19 — probably north of 75% of the entire school-age population, especially the elementary demographic — and the sheer overload of the health system this will cause is going to kill tens of thousands of children in the space of a month or two. I am deadass actually expecting that we are going to be facing down a hundred thousand dead children by some point in October. and I have no loving idea what happens after that. what happens after the biggest child mortality crisis in this country in more than a century, and this one self-manufactured.

like, the leadership and certain parts of the bourgeoisie are going to try to not give a poo poo beyond platitudes, and at least at first I expect a Sandy Hook-esque shrug, but by the time the death wave really sets in, even at only like 50,000 dead that's going to be six digits worth of parents who are just. just totally and completely out of their minds with grief and rage. and power will try and do nothing, and. they're going to want to express their anger.

i'm not predicting ~~civil war~~ because i don't expect it to be a war; war implies some level of organization. i just keep imagining this white-hot ball of rage erupting all across the country, and. it'll just be people doing poo poo because gently caress it, our children are dead, our world has already ended, and so far nobody has given a gently caress. well we'll make you give a gently caress.

like. tell me the molochian virus furnace we're about to shovel 60 million children into isn't going to result in massive child death, cspam. tell me the next few months I see ahead of us is just me doom-braining.

Shear Modulus posted:

the endgame that our leaders are aiming for is that eventually the problem goes away on its own

Glumwheels posted:

Genocide of its own people

It makes no sense, if only stupid anti-cancers would die then I’d be ok/whatever but they’re killing kids now and people with poo poo immune systems who probably are vaccinated and trying to keep themselves and their families safe.

If chuds were the only ones getting it and dying then I’m all for it and I’ll support them to do it.

Bastard Tetris posted:

hahaha holy gently caress:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108453

mod sassinator posted:

fauci flapping his jaws about boosters: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/dr-fauci-on-effectiveness-of-vaccine-booster-118989381977

lol he says we don't need a 4th shot after this one, that ~~the data~~ shows a third shot is good enough

a whole lot of non-answers otherwise

PostNouveau posted:

Somebody's tracking the obvious lie for a year from now when we're getting 4th boosters?

Business Gorillas posted:

i think the whole "this is an intentional genocide" thing is giving the government way too much credit tbh.

covid isn't unique, it's just the first major crisis in our lifetimes that can't be bribed, murdered by the police, silenced by lack of media coverage, or ignored because the damage is being done a thousand miles away. the people in power have ignored every problem they've ever come across and someone else either takes the fall or it goes away on its own. that's all they know how to do and its exactly what they're doing now

Atrocious Joe posted:

so this seems to say if you beat the original SARS and got a COVID-19 vaccine you are now immune to any related coronavirus?

Business Gorillas posted:

i think the whole "this is an intentional genocide" thing is giving the government way too much credit tbh.

covid isn't unique, it's just the first major crisis in our lifetimes that can't be bribed, murdered by the police, silenced by lack of media coverage, or ignored because the damage is being done a thousand miles away. the people in power have ignored every problem they've ever come across and someone else either takes the fall or it goes away on its own. that's all they know how to do and its exactly what they're doing now

edit: this is the first time that most of the elites and the people they serve (corporations and old white voters) have to face direct consequences for their actions that they cant deflect onto someone else and they're all going insane. turns out you can't blow someone else's lungs out if you go to the gently caress'n'suck

Bathtub Cheese posted:

I think all that will ultimately come of this pandemic is that it speeds up the process of the US turning itself into a country with a South American standard of living

Kreeblah posted:

Yep. And as a result, we have a government full of people who have never had to make a truly difficult decision (do the right thing, even though it's gonna be massively unpopular with a huge part of the country) in their entire careers. Like, it's literally a thing that they've never had to contemplate doing. What we're seeing now is the effects of that, where loving nobody is willing to do what needs doing, because they're hoping that somebody else will jump on that grenade instead. Then, if it ends up becoming blindingly obvious (even in spite of America's built-in apathy) that they completely hosed it up, they're just gonna point fingers at somebody else (presumably unvaxxed folks), because that's always worked in the past.

DesertIslandHermit posted:

It wouldn't surprise me either if our country goes full Nazi Germany and blames the long covid people for not working hard or being a burden on medical care.