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Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



pancake rabbit posted:

my pet conspiracy theory right now is that the elites actually do recognize the existential threat of climate change and they have decided that the only way to preserve their power & wealth while keeping the planet at least somewhat inhabitable is to simply remove XX% of the population, hence the unrelenting push to open biden

although i am probably giving the rich too much credit and it's just a serendipitous coincidence for them

there's always been a eugenicist school of thought among the rich

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tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)
Hey covid thread how y'all feeling about the eviction moratorium ending?

I'm 🤣 but the tears are despair

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

BONGHITZ posted:

is donda any good?

:fireman:

Covok
May 27, 2013

Yet where is that woman now? Tell me, in what heave does she reside? None of them. Because no God bothered to listen or care. If that is what you think it means to be a God, then you and all your teachings are welcome to do as that poor women did. And vanish from these realms forever.

pancake rabbit posted:

my pet conspiracy theory right now is that the elites actually do recognize the existential threat of climate change and they have decided that the only way to preserve their power & wealth while keeping the planet at least somewhat inhabitable is to simply remove XX% of the population, hence the unrelenting push to open biden

although i am probably giving the rich too much credit and it's just a serendipitous coincidence for them

It doesn't matter. Even if everyone stopped polluting, 10 companies will start cause the Apocalypse. The belief in individual attempts to stop climate change is victim blaming.

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


spaceblancmange posted:

Someone post the Breaking Bad clip. pls and ty

Real Mean Queen
Jun 2, 2004

Zesty.


Delta-Wye posted:

i have more respect for paste eaters than some sad sack of poo poo who fancies themselves a journalist, looking around at things and thinking 'hrm, it is the prc that is Wrong and Bad when it comes to covid responses'

stupid motherfuckers

Most of my deal before this was working in a restaurant and getting blotto at the bar after work and going to concerts with my friends when something cool came through. I can’t learn to live with covid when all the poo poo I like to do doesn’t work with covid. Gimme that PRC approach over this bullshit every single time, I miss doing stuff.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011


lol what are the chances the national guard gets deployed to the capital again before the year is over

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

pancake rabbit posted:

my pet conspiracy theory right now is that the elites actually do recognize the existential threat of climate change and they have decided that the only way to preserve their power & wealth while keeping the planet at least somewhat inhabitable is to simply remove XX% of the population, hence the unrelenting push to open biden

although i am probably giving the rich too much credit and it's just a serendipitous coincidence for them

I often find myself wondering the same thing lol. It seems exactly in character

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Wonder if North Korea will get on the Ivermectin train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tkXgw2OMY

nomad2020
Jan 30, 2007

tokin opposition posted:

Hey covid thread how y'all feeling about the eviction moratorium ending?

I'm 🤣 but the tears are despair

We all knew it was coming, but on the other hand the crazy bastards actually did it.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

i feel like people who ended up on life support didn't have a 100% death rate before

LionArcher
Mar 29, 2010


Lenin Stimpy posted:

Sinovac/CoronaVac doesn't seem to be holding up very well against Delta:
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1431028624342142980
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1430532842212053001

I'm really jealous that the Chinese government is doing nearly everything in their power to protect their population, but I'm not envious in a negative way. None of us deserves this hell that we are living in, and I wish the US had the same sort of will to protect its people from harm, no matter the cost to industry.

The current Chinese strategy seems to be almost necessary with the relatively poor performance of the CoronaVac vaccine against hospitalizations. Unfortunately, a lot of other countries outside of China also rely on CoronaVac, but they aren't adopting the same strategy.

I sincerely hope these vaccine effectiveness numbers are wrong. But this situation presents a strong case for the US (and other countries with powerful vaccines vs delta) to force its companies to publish all of their vaccine IP and manufacturing processes. We need powerful vaccines vs delta in the hands of as many people as possible in the world, and relying on just a few producers for the best vaccines is harming all of us.

sir, that’s all reasonable and logical adult choices, and the people running all of this are not going to do that.

this is a Wendy’s to them.

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Lenin Stimpy posted:

But this situation presents a strong case for the US (and other countries with powerful vaccines vs delta) to force its companies to publish all of their vaccine IP and manufacturing processes.

Yeah but pharma profits though

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Shear Modulus posted:

i had assumed the most horse-girl anime was the one where the guy has a harem of like a centaur and a snake-centaur and similar creatures but no there's apparently also an anime of girls with horse ears who compete in horse races like a high school track meet

anime is fuckin weird

seems good

Dolphin
Dec 5, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Covok posted:

It doesn't matter. Even if everyone stopped polluting, 10 companies will start cause the Apocalypse. The belief in individual attempts to stop climate change is victim blaming.
post this in the vegan thread

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.
The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Lovelyn posted:

He died.

Even days before he died, he didn't seem human anymore. When I checked his pupils, his eyes were half-way rolled to the back of his head. He felt clammy and puffy. His vent settings were so high - 100% O2, PEEP 16 and he was satting in the low 90s. The air escaped into his abdominal and chest cavities, and by the end of the day, into his neck as well. When I touched him, he didn't feel like a person, he felt like an air mattress. It was surreal.

He couldn't maintain his sats - they kept dropping lower and lower, and his heart sped up to try to carry what little oxygen was available to the rest of his body. HR in the 100s. 110s. 120s. 80s. 40s. 0. His heart was tired and starved of oxygen and it couldn't pump anymore.

Doc called it after 3 rounds of CPR.

But at least I know my bosses appreciate all of our efforts because they gave us


Jesus christ, man. Thanks for these stories but wow, what a workplace.

Sphyre
Jun 14, 2001

peanut butter cups are really good

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Dolphin posted:

post this in the vegan thread

and risk getting drone striked!? no thanks!

Crazypoops
Jul 17, 2017



9/11 everyday or I don't care anyway

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Lenin Stimpy
Sep 9, 2009

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Covok posted:

It doesn't matter. Even if everyone stopped polluting, 10 companies will start cause the Apocalypse. The belief in individual attempts to stop climate change is victim blaming.

Yep, voluntarism will never solve climate change without some magical technology. This is why libertarians will usually straight up deny climate change; because if they didn't deny it, they'd have to recognize that their ideology offers no solutions to the problem (as most forms of libertarianism are based on this naive idea of voluntarism to build their societies).

To prevent further climate change, a powerful entity (like a set of states) must enforce the end of carbon emissions, by all humans (including both consumption and production). A socialist/communist state would make sure that people's needs are met as industry & consumption transform to not emit carbon gases. Many of those needs will likely not be met if we implement neoliberal solutions like a carbon tax or cap & trade system, without a very heavy redistribution of wealth/income. (and many of our needs here in the US are not being met currently, regardless of climate change solutions, let's be real)

Voluntarism also doesn't solve pandemics. Unlike climate change, we have the magical technology available to us today to solve this pandemic. But it requires that vaccinations be mandatory, and other protective measures to be put into place. We just lack the political will to solve it. Doesn't bode well for climate change, a much harder problem.

Strabo4
Jun 1, 2007

Oh god, I'm 'sperging all
over this thread too!


:toot: Huzzah for antibodies!

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009


I was into it before it became popular :smuggo:

stump collector
May 28, 2007

Dolphin
Dec 5, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Strabo4 posted:

:toot: Huzzah for antibodies!


i can't believe you've done this

Strabo4
Jun 1, 2007

Oh god, I'm 'sperging all
over this thread too!


The tech was having some difficulties understanding me through my respirator. :smug:

Zokari
Jul 23, 2007

Spergin Morlock posted:

I was into it before it became popular :smuggo:

way before

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Strabo4 posted:

:toot: Huzzah for antibodies!



:hellyeah:

empty whippet box
Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Strabo4 posted:

:toot: Huzzah for antibodies!



heh

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Strabo4 posted:

:toot: Huzzah for antibodies!



Walgfeens

Crazypoops
Jul 17, 2017




lol

I got mine from Rigitaids

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



Strabo4 posted:

:toot: Huzzah for antibodies!



:toot:

T-Paine
Dec 12, 2007

Sitting in the Costco food court unmasked, Bible in hand, reading my favorite Psalms to my five children: Abel, Bethany, Carlos, Carlos, and Carlos.
I hope everyone's excited for my newest thinkpiece coming soon to the Atlantic, in which I argue that lack of access to horse paste in the inner city constitutes an unfair burden to disadvantaged COVID sufferers vis-à-vis the comparatively wealthy suburban communities where there are Tractor Supply stores on practically every corner. We must pressure the Biden administration to address these paste deserts and ensure that dewormers and sheep drenches are available to all Americans.

Ice Phisherman
Apr 12, 2007

Swimming upstream
into the sunset



pancake rabbit posted:

my pet conspiracy theory right now is that the elites actually do recognize the existential threat of climate change and they have decided that the only way to preserve their power & wealth while keeping the planet at least somewhat inhabitable is to simply remove XX% of the population, hence the unrelenting push to open biden

although i am probably giving the rich too much credit and it's just a serendipitous coincidence for them

Never let a crisis go to waste.

That said, I think you are giving them too much credit. This same thing happened during the Spanish Flu. Elites being dumbasses and willingly getting people killed to keep capitalism chugging.

All of the personal and professional incentives created by our system is to keep capitalism going at any cost. There is no strong position within the bureaucracies to protect human life. No one in charge anyway.

My personal position is that these are the positions of a system unable to adapt in any meaningful way. The position of capital is too strong and not since the very beginning of the modern age was there a worldwide plague. Certainly not within living memory of anyone in charge. No institutional knowledge was preserved. And we live in a society of elites who have been severely broken by capitalism. They are bad at assessing risk, insulated from the consequences of their actions and have low to no empathy.

You might have some people who are pushing the death toll up for their own reasons but my personal take is that the people in charge are just stupid, careless, craven and cruel.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/pbvcdu/uhh_are_any_of_these_unvaccinated_patients_in/

Jesus gently caress

quote:


Out of the hundreds or so that have been through our unit, I’ve seen 2 successfully extubated. They both went to a SNF, and one died within a couple weeks or so there. His family sent a card thanking us with the update. He was a super nice guy and this was before the vaccine was available.


quote:


There are really only 2 options we are seeing for patients here.

-you die

-you become permanently disabled. And they are sent to Rehab or Long Term Care

-I've watched one super young adult Lazarus in the past 45 days, only because the CT surgeon truly went above and beyond.

I'd say the most interesting patients I have some curiosity about are the unvaccinated pregnant folks. (10% of the Covid ICU) We have a lot more of them now and I'm not sure any of them are going to end up in Rehab. Most of them seem destined for long term care.


quote:


They’re dropping like flies in our ICU. 20- and 30-year-olds on vent and 99% of them unvaccinated. Even had a patient’s family member bring in a letter from a “lawyer” demanding that the doc give the patient ivermectin.

I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Aug 27, 2021

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Ice Phisherman posted:

my personal take is that the people in charge are just stupid, careless, craven and cruel.

uh please don't make wild assumptions we need to wait for the science to come in on this

Dolphin
Dec 5, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
yeah sucks to be them. shoulda gotten vaccinated

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.

Dolphin posted:

yeah sucks to be them. shoulda gotten vaccinated



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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-27/nsw-truck-drivers-test-positive-for-covid-in-wa/100412490 posted:

Two trucks drivers who travelled to Western Australian from New South Wales have tested positive to COVID-19 after going to several sites across WA.

The NSW Department of Health confirmed they had the virus after they had arrived in Perth.

The two men have been taken by ambulance to a hotel in Perth to self-isolate and quarantine.

More to come.

not sure how early we caught it, lockdown mayhaps

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