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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/timnelson_mpr/status/1431677254350819330?s=20

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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Oh and I guess Tibet before that lol

In short,

ram dass in hell posted:

this is why we must accept no substitutes. no tankie? no thank ye.

post COVID
Mar 5, 2007

free college, free healthcare, free Shmurda


ram dass in hell posted:

no tankie? no thank ye.

Rhesus Pieces
Jun 27, 2005

Kreeblah posted:

I literally do not understand how somebody can be dead-set against putting chemical A in their body, but are totally fine with freebasing chemicals B, C, and D which explicitly say not to do that on the packaging, and to call poison control if you accidentally do. How loving broken does your brain have to be in order to get from point A to point B in that chain?

Atrocious Joe posted:

horse paste is chuds bringing the pandemic to the one field they think is real, consumer choice. the vaccine is the liberal choice. like Nike after they signed the guy who kneeled or Starbucks after they said racism is bad. They rejected those brands, and saw that as a real exercise of political power. they thought that was freedom. the only political sphere between elections is what they buy.

So faced with mass death by a preventable disease, they buy horse paste.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Epic High Five posted:

We'll be seeing a lot more of this mask dropping in the coming weeks as well, since the pump is primed with so many people falling over themselves to accept the astroturfed "endemic" and "pandemic of the unvaccinated" PR campaigns lol

It's gonna be twitter socialists standing in solidarity against Cuba but looking deeply uncomfortable because they're surrounded by Trump hats and screaming chuds writ large, just like this was just a natural continuation of notional allies on the left "standing with Taiwan" or whatever

the segment just smoothly goes from saagar (vaccinated) has covid and passed it to people in his household, to this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated and vaccinations will cure everything. a smooth transition, just like my big beautiful smooth brain from listening to dipshits bloviate about poo poo they don't understand

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
https://twitter.com/CryptoSenorita/status/1431628506203660301

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass
god drat we are four major surges into this thing and still running out of god drat tests right as case growth hits exponential

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-covid-19-tests-again-short-supply-infections-soar-schools-reopen-2021-08-27/

quote:

Aug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. companies are scrambling to boost production of coronavirus tests increasingly in short supply as COVID-19 cases soar and schools and employers revive surveillance programs that will require tens of millions of tests, according to industry executives and state health officials.

i wouldn't trust any report that's trying to say we've 'peaked' right now.. it's clear we're undertesting a lot

Serf
May 5, 2011



i live in the deep south and do not believe in eternal life. checkmate, tater reef

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Pillowpants posted:

https://twitter.com/patricklsimpson/status/1431694797060853762?s=20

Here's a Twitter thread I just made using HHS data on staffing shortages and ICU Occupancy now and expected. I turned the data into color-coded maps for everyones pleasure.

The first 8 tweets are good.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

I pretty sure more US companies will do vaccine mandates for making numbers go up:
-High cost for COV19 hospitalizations
-Having to do constant quarantines or people out because they didn't get the vaccine would
impact day to day operations
-The worse case in which someone with SME / Tribal knowledge dies from it due to not getting
the vaccine

I know at my aerospace supplier the surge has been really disruptive when you get situations like
half a department having to go into quarantine or un-vaxed people going on disability leaves

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

HiHo ChiRho posted:


Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Oh, Ivermectin
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Oh, Ivermectin!

Horse paste, Ivermectin
What's wrong with me?
-I think you're crazy.
I need a second opinion!
-You're also lazy.

Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Oh, Ivermectin

Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Oh, Ivermectin
Ivermectin, Ivermectin

Can I play the banjo anymore?
Of course you can.
Well, I couldn't before!

Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Oh, Ivermectin
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Ivermectin! Ivermectin!
Oh, Ivermectin

I hate every lib I see
From liberal-a to liberal-z,
No, you'll never put a vaccine inside me.

Oh, my God, I was wrong,
I've had vent tubes all along.
You finally made a sheeple...
Yes, we finally made a sheeple...
Yes, you finally made a sheeple out of me!

:golfclap:

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Delta-Wye posted:

the segment just smoothly goes from saagar (vaccinated) has covid and passed it to people in his household, to this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated and vaccinations will cure everything. a smooth transition, just like my big beautiful smooth brain from listening to dipshits bloviate about poo poo they don't understand

People in this thread seven months ago were raising the question of infection of and transmission by the vaccinated while everyone in the media screeched about how the vaccines would definitely turn you into a completely immune being of pure light.

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/maurageorgemd/status/1431712453365207043

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Today


Yesterday


Since Jul 26
https://imgur.com/a/j5Ag7mG

covidactnow.org

thank u for keeping up with this. the surrender of ohio is nearly complete :gibs:

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


mod sassinator posted:

god drat we are four major surges into this thing

High school football is back. Everything is normal now.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Delta-Wye posted:

the segment just smoothly goes from saagar (vaccinated) has covid and passed it to people in his household, to this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated and vaccinations will cure everything. a smooth transition, just like my big beautiful smooth brain from listening to dipshits bloviate about poo poo they don't understand

Yep lol, the most wonderful thing about truly internalizing the immortal science and its most applicable current form, Maoism, is that you suddenly realize all this poo poo is going on. The worst part is the same thing but when you realize you can't do anything where you're at and you find yourself seeing people you're told are your allies talking gleefully about how you're a monster and how great it'll be when you're purged along with the chuds (in some event they can't detail because they'd never support anything that could possibly lead to that)

Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008

trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump trump

can you imagine even wanting eternal life

gently caress off with that poo poo

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Today


Yesterday


Since Jul 26
https://imgur.com/a/j5Ag7mG

covidactnow.org

It's really amazing seeing just how bad the fallout from a superspreader event can be. South Dakota was mostly green counties for the longest time before the Sturgis rally.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
luckily beta coronavirus pandemis operate via the tinkerbell effect. if we'd all stop believing in it, it would just go away!!

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Good Citizen posted:

can you imagine even wanting eternal life

gently caress off with that poo poo

I dunno, ask me in 500 years

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Good Citizen posted:

can you imagine even wanting eternal life

gently caress off with that poo poo

the only good eternal life is getting transformed into a Lich

cr0y
Mar 24, 2005



etalian posted:

I wonder why the CDC thinks the results will be magically different for someone that's 11 years old vs 12 that's allowed to get shots under the Pfizer EUA?

They have to draw a line somewhere, just like you can drink at 21 but not at 20 and 364 days.

Pingui
Jun 4, 2006

WTF?
2020 was such a great year, we should be doing a rerun with all the greatest COVID hits.

Completely unrelated:

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210826/Potential-variant-of-interest-in-South-Africa-assigned-to-the-PANGO-lineage-C12.aspx posted:

Potential variant of interest in South Africa assigned to the PANGO lineage C.1.2
(..)
Characterization of C.1.2 lineage
C.1.2 is highly mutated compared to C.1, and all other VOC and VOI identified to date. Researchers revealed that C.1.2 is phylogenetically more close to the Lambda variant (C.37).

Researchers revealed that the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 was 8x10-4 substitutions/site/year, which is associated with 24 substitutions per year. However, the global phylogeny, including C.1.2 sequences, has shown a marginally higher clock rate of 26.6 substitutions per year. Among the majority of the sequences, the substitution rate of C.1.2 sequences is found to be much higher.

Although C.1.2 shares similar mutations with C.1, it has certain additional mutations within the ORF1ab, spike, ORF3a, ORF9b, E, M, and N proteins. Many of these mutations have occurred in the spike region. More than 50% of the viruses designated to be C.1.2 contain 14 mutations. Researchers have revealed that five of the fourteen mutations are present within the NTD, three within the receptor-binding motif (RBM), and two adjacent to the furin cleavage site. The remaining four mutations are P9L, D614G, H655Y, and T859N.

Scientists have estimated that 52% of the spike mutations detected in C.1.2 have previously been identified in other VOI and VOC. Some mutations are common between C.1.2 and other VOI and/or VOC. For example, D614G is common across all variants, E484K and N501Y mutations are found in Beta and Gamma variants, N501Y in Alpha, and E484K is found in the Eta variant.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.20.21262342v1 posted:

The continuous evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: a new lineage with rapid accumulation of mutations of concern and global detection
Abstract
SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest have been associated with increased transmissibility, neutralization resistance and disease severity. Ongoing SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance world-wide has improved our ability to rapidly identify such variants. Here we report the identification of a potential variant of interest assigned to the PANGO lineage C.1.2. This lineage was first identified in May 2021 and evolved from C.1, one of the lineages that dominated the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections in South Africa and was last detected in January 2021. C.1.2 has since been detected across the majority of the provinces in South Africa and in seven other countries spanning Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania. The emergence of C.1.2 was associated with an increased substitution rate, as was previously observed with the emergence of the Alpha, Beta and Gamma variants of concern (VOCs). C.1.2 contains multiple substitutions (R190S, D215G, N484K, N501Y, H655Y and T859N) and deletions (Y144del, L242-A243del) within the spike protein, which have been observed in other VOCs and are associated with increased transmissibility and reduced neutralization sensitivity. Of greater concern is the accumulation of additional mutations (C136F, Y449H and N679K) which are also likely to impact neutralization sensitivity or furin cleavage and therefore replicative fitness. While the phenotypic characteristics and epidemiology of C.1.2 are being defined, it is important to highlight this lineage given its concerning constellations of mutations.
(..)
South African Variant 2. I believe in you little guy :unsmith:

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

The vaccines belong to us full stop.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Epic High Five posted:

like most of the left in the US and every one of them with a platform, Ball is first and foremost a libertarian. Much in the same way they can be relied upon to condemn anybody who successfully fights back against capitalism and refuses to simply die in a noble and photogenic way, any public measure taken that would restrict their "freedoms" in any way at all is absolutely unacceptable. M4A would still allow them to live their lives like normal, but apply that same ideological framework to other nation-level crises such as a pandemic and suddenly you're being an "authoritarian", and no they will never be asked what the libertarian approach to pandemic control would be because the answer would reveal far too much

Coming to the "USA left is mostly libertarian" was my actual "nothing matters" breaking point. It was freeing.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Good Citizen posted:

can you imagine even wanting eternal life

gently caress off with that poo poo

i hereby release you from samsara *open palm punch to sternum*

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Delta-Wye posted:

luckily beta coronavirus pandemis operate via the tinkerbell effect. if we'd all stop believing in it, it would just go away!!

There's a 14 month long effort to force indicators of normality into existence so people can point at them and say "look, everything is back to normal, so nice!" and it's bizarre.

We are over a year into "the economy is reopening" being a major advertising point.

cr0y
Mar 24, 2005



Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Today


Yesterday


Since Jul 26
https://imgur.com/a/j5Ag7mG

covidactnow.org

Pennsylvania: BRACE!!

Complications
Jun 19, 2014

Good Citizen posted:

can you imagine even wanting eternal life

gently caress off with that poo poo

I want to live forever, of course, but I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


all of these chud pieces of poo poo will die miserable deaths. enough

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

mod sassinator posted:

god drat we are four major surges into this thing and still running out of god drat tests right as case growth hits exponential

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-covid-19-tests-again-short-supply-infections-soar-schools-reopen-2021-08-27/

i wouldn't trust any report that's trying to say we've 'peaked' right now.. it's clear we're undertesting a lot

it's not profitable to make a bunch of tests when there isn't a surge

so why would they do it

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

cr0y posted:

Pennsylvania: BRACE!!

lmao at the North South divide in New Jersey

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Governor TateR

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Mr Hootington posted:

Coming to the "USA left is mostly libertarian" was my actual "nothing matters" breaking point. It was freeing.

every night I drink 30 beers, kiss my little red book, and scream at the moon until I'm sobbing. It's called praxis sweetie

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


quote:

High school football is part of the fabric of Western Pennsylvania on late summer and fall Friday nights. Following a 2020 season like no other because of COVID-19, pretty much all of the pageantry and tradition of high school football returned Friday — and it felt good to so many.

If you heard a thump-thump sound around the region Friday night, it was the strong heartbeat of the 108th season of WPIAL football.

“It’s like a re-birth,” said Rick Dworek, whose son, Ryan, is a starting senior running back at Seneca Valley High School.

Stadiums had big crowds again. Fans watched without masks. Full squads of cheerleaders cheered. Full bands played fight songs and performed halftime shows. Student sections reappeared. Visiting locker rooms were used.

Heck, even concession stands were operating. The scent of boiled hot dogs never smelled so good, and hard soft pretzels — those figure-eights of once-soft dough that have sat around for so long that they might break your teeth — never tasted so good.

“I think this is what my son always dreamed about when he started playing at a younger age,” Mr. Dworek said. “It was good last year, but the whole scene of high school football wasn’t there.”

lol that's some serious vicarious living poo poo

Schnorkles
Apr 30, 2015

It's a little bit juvenile, but it's simple and it's timeless.

We let it be known that Schnorkles, for a snack, eats tiny pieces of shit.

You're picturing it and you're talking about it. That's a win in my book.

Epic High Five posted:

every night I drink 30 beers, kiss my little red book, and scream at the moon until I'm sobbing. It's called praxis sweetie

you could drink less than 30 beers

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011


Life is cheap in America.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1431689019889528836

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Schnorkles posted:

you could drink less than 30 beers

I've actually been scaling back in preparation to take September to dry out but I like to think I'm drinking 30 beers in spirit

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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



also big talk from somebody who can't even move a mile without like a dozen gallons of pure ethanol

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