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Der Meister
May 12, 2001

is there anyone who isn’t breaking down

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skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

Der Meister posted:

is there anyone who isn’t breaking down

Keeps paw firmly planted on the ground

zone
Dec 6, 2016

text editor posted:

I'm ok with starting a conspiracy among unvaxxed that they are safer at home than soaking up hospital space

:sickos:

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Gresh posted:

lol i'd like to know the origins of how ivermectin became the miracle covid killer for chuds, it feels like a very Qanon thing

we've been over it a bunch of times but basically there were pre-peer reviewed invitro studies that seemed to imply it would have some effect (at doses that would be fatal to humans). the authors have since pulled the studies since one of the sources had some issue with bad lab practises or faked results or something like that.

ivermectin has been used in some poor countries in africa and south america for various things so they started using it for covid as well.

a bunch of grifters took it up and various governors/high up people (that have stocks in the company that produce it) promoted it too.

Sunny Side Up
Jun 22, 2004

Mayoist Third Condimentist

brugroffil posted:

No it won't

I’m like 100 pages behind but have to say, just generally, this thread has underpredicted how bad things got. Sure, inaccurate on a number of things, but in general and going back to early 2020, not doomer enough.

Ruggan
Feb 20, 2007
WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!


SirPablo posted:

Katrina made landfall as a Cat 3. It had been a Cat 5 over open waters a few days prior to landfall. The category is ONLY determined by peak wind speeds, it says nothing itself of storm surge, size, or forward speed - all which can vary considerably and have huge impacts on flooding potential. That doesn't even touch on the aspects of where a storm makes landfall - shape of the coast, for example. Katrina had a 30' storm surge with it which flowed into Ponchatrain, backflowed further causing the levees to fail. Ignore the category. Just look at actual info from NHC.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?start#contents

so you’re saying it’s nbd this time around

whiskey patrol
Feb 26, 2003

Boat Stuck posted:

is the divorce final yet?

Don't be an rear end in a top hat

Sunny Side Up
Jun 22, 2004

Mayoist Third Condimentist
I’m over two days post booster and the only side effect was arm felt like hit by a baseball bat.

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Der Meister posted:

is there anyone who isn’t breaking down

I was already pretty broken down before so things are pretty stable

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

Gresh posted:

lol i'd like to know the origins of how ivermectin became the miracle covid killer for chuds, it feels like a very Qanon thing

I can’t remember where but it first happened that people in other countries with little vaccine access started touting ivermectin as a snake oil cure

studies in western countries were launched to investigate its efficacy. they said hey it works!

using these studies, docs started prescribing ivermectin, most notably telemedicine docs associated with America’s Frontline Doctors

upon peer review, all the studies saying ivermectin worked were thoroughly trashed. any time ivermectin wad shown to work, it just so happened the patient was also given corticosteroids.

(edit: also it worked at stopping covid from spreading in a Petri dish if you put 500x the human-safe amount on it)

the general public does not hear about these studies being garbage

the telemedicine docs can’t keep up with the demand for ivermectin

desperate to get ivermectin despite the official channels unable to meet demand, the chuds find out hey, horse dewormer has ivermectin in it, that’s the same, right?

edit: these are people who already picked sides against vaccination as if they are rooting for their sports team, so getting vaxxed is out of the question. therefore, they are desperately scrambling for any Great White Dope to pin their hopes on

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Aug 29, 2021

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Solarin posted:

I was already pretty broken down before so things are pretty stable

one weird trick the man doesn't want you to know

AppleNippleBOB
May 13, 2007



VomitOnLino posted:

By the way would any other helpful goon be up for shipping me some respirator to glorious idiotic nippon?

Also,
I think AppleNippleBOB fell on hard times due to their getting fired and they're no longer responding.
Anyone know they're doing okay?

not fired. I'm good and fine. (I'm fully crack pinged - tbh)
My work has been hell, for all sorta reasons.

I'll PM you

Good Citizen
Aug 12, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

Der Meister posted:

is there anyone who isn’t breaking down

I'm settling into a nice balance of nihilism, panic, and being too drunk to think about it

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

i wonder if in the alternate universes where trump won, Liberals found that paper saying that an SSRI can be a treatment and are now ODing on that rather than take the Trump vax.

Der Meister
May 12, 2001

Good Citizen posted:

I'm settling into a nice balance of nihilism, panic, and being too drunk to think about it

:hai:

Random Asshole
Nov 8, 2010

bedpan posted:

btw, there is no verification or questioning of your immunocompromised status

Yeah, when we took my mom to get her booster we had a doctor's note and everything, and they just said "tick the box that says 'yes, I have one of these conditions' and you're good to go."

edit: this was Costco, in case anyone cares

Random Asshole fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Aug 29, 2021

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

PerniciousKnid posted:

Can anybody recommend a good introduction to Maoism?

just fyi, china doesn't follow strict maoism anymore, it's "socialism with chinese characteristics." around deng's era, they recognized some of the flaws with mao's approach and pivoted to integrating world markets with their command economy with eventual plans to transition to communism (which is what xi is arguably doing now with his reforms in tech and education).

you can also check the eurasia thread or the marxism thread for a more accurate/detailed answer from someone who knows better than me!

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


Reff numbers for Victoria and NSW today

https://twitter.com/profesterman/status/1431751652466249731
https://twitter.com/profesterman/status/1431803386844758018

VomitOnLino
Jun 13, 2005

Sometimes I get lost.

AppleNippleBOB posted:

not fired. I'm good and fine. (I'm fully crack pinged - tbh)
My work has been hell, for all sorta reasons.

I'll PM you

Glad to hear you're ok!
Work sucks golf balls through garden hose levels here too...

Hey dude don't worry about it.
Already somewhat along in the process with helpful goon Sound Mr. Brown.

Thanks anyways!

fosborb
Dec 15, 2006



Chronic Good Poster

Good Citizen posted:

I'm settling into a nice balance of nihilism, panic, and being too drunk to think about it

it sure would be nice for my state to have sane pot laws. local advocates are now hoping for movement there by 2030

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

text editor posted:

I'm ok with starting a conspiracy among unvaxxed that they are safer at home than soaking up hospital space

very very cool with getting the ball rolling on this

pancake rabbit
Feb 21, 2011




https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1431812363448094721

*flips number sign with label "days since delta hunted down a white republican boomer talk radio host" from 1 back to 0*

Kreeblah
May 17, 2004

INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE


Taco Defender

crepeface posted:

we've been over it a bunch of times but basically there were pre-peer reviewed invitro studies that seemed to imply it would have some effect (at doses that would be fatal to humans). the authors have since pulled the studies since one of the sources had some issue with bad lab practises or faked results or something like that.

ivermectin has been used in some poor countries in africa and south america for various things so they started using it for covid as well.

a bunch of grifters took it up and various governors/high up people (that have stocks in the company that produce it) promoted it too.

At this point, we really should put that into the OP in an FAQ section.

Fluffy Bunnies
Jan 10, 2009

Der Meister posted:

is there anyone who isn’t breaking down

I'm driving to kentucky to buy sheep literally in case everything fucks up so I can have not-inbred sheep. And sleeping in my car.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

lol WA is going to secede before we open our borders to those numbers

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Wild how many anti-vax and anti-mask activists are dying of COVID

The liberal nurses must be murdering our brave political heroes who go into those "hospitals"

VomitOnLino
Jun 13, 2005

Sometimes I get lost.
Since we're exchanging CRACK/PINGS and other helpful ideas here anyway:

How do you goons deal with your hair?
Mine is so long now I can tie it up into a pony tail which is annoying as gently caress and probably accelerates my male pattern baldness lol.

I'd just use my buzzer to cut it but there's two problems with that:
1) My buzzer is kinda poo poo and gives up half way through - that was fun finding that out in the early days of the pandemic...
2) Even as I eventually managed to complete it manually, I realized that I had a skull shape that makes me look like a cross breed between KZ escapee and potato

Zokari
Jul 23, 2007

pancake rabbit posted:

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1431812363448094721

*flips number sign with label "days since delta hunted down a white republican boomer talk radio host" from 1 back to 0*

if only there was any way to protect yourself from this deadly virus :911:

turd in my singlet
Jul 5, 2008

DO ALL DA WORK

WIT YA NECK

*heavy metal music playing*
Nap Ghost
how many talk radio hosts are there anyways

what portion of them have died from covid

McNugget Buddy
Aug 14, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

VomitOnLino posted:

Since we're exchanging CRACK/PINGS and other helpful ideas here anyway:

How do you goons deal with your hair?
Mine is so long now I can tie it up into a pony tail which is annoying as gently caress and probably accelerates my male pattern baldness lol.

I'd just use my buzzer to cut it but there's two problems with that:
1) My buzzer is kinda poo poo and gives up half way through - that was fun finding that out in the early days of the pandemic...
2) Even as I eventually managed to complete it manually, I realized that I had a skull shape that makes me look like a cross breed between KZ escapee and potato

Wet your hair, use scissors in front of a mirror, be careful so you don't cut yourself

fosborb
Dec 15, 2006



Chronic Good Poster

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

I'm driving to kentucky to buy sheep literally in case everything fucks up so I can have not-inbred sheep. And sleeping in my car.

I had to hotel recently, and I think 2-star is my sweet spot. still indoor access for security, but each room has it's own external HVAC unit

if I do get covid, that's where I'll be isolating away from the rest of my family

Golden Bee
Dec 24, 2009

I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.
have someone in your bubble watch YouTube tutorials until they can give a haircut halfway decent.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

desperate for miracles lol

we live in hell, lady

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

VomitOnLino posted:

Since we're exchanging CRACK/PINGS and other helpful ideas here anyway:

How do you goons deal with your hair?
Mine is so long now I can tie it up into a pony tail which is annoying as gently caress and probably accelerates my male pattern baldness lol.

I'd just use my buzzer to cut it but there's two problems with that:
1) My buzzer is kinda poo poo and gives up half way through - that was fun finding that out in the early days of the pandemic...
2) Even as I eventually managed to complete it manually, I realized that I had a skull shape that makes me look like a cross breed between KZ escapee and potato

buzz the sides and back and get a jar head or a mohawk

it’s easy because it’s binary: either you leave your hair alone or cut it 100% off

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

pancake rabbit posted:

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1431812363448094721

*flips number sign with label "days since delta hunted down a white republican boomer talk radio host" from 1 back to 0*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpx8oDMQBU

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

euphronius posted:

desperate for miracles lol

we live in hell, lady

Miraculous vaccines? No, no! Not miracles like that

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

euphronius posted:

desperate for miracles lol

we live in hell, lady

Helith
Nov 5, 2009

Basket of Adorables


VomitOnLino posted:

Since we're exchanging CRACK/PINGS and other helpful ideas here anyway:

How do you goons deal with your hair?
Mine is so long now I can tie it up into a pony tail which is annoying as gently caress and probably accelerates my male pattern baldness lol.

I'd just use my buzzer to cut it but there's two problems with that:
1) My buzzer is kinda poo poo and gives up half way through - that was fun finding that out in the early days of the pandemic...
2) Even as I eventually managed to complete it manually, I realized that I had a skull shape that makes me look like a cross breed between KZ escapee and potato

I’ve heard that there are hairdressers and barbers doing online services where they will guide someone through cutting either their own hair or someone else’s

ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020

weed

so much weed

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003



I have infinite sympathy for you and nursing staff having to deal with these people. By the time it hits me it's abstracted diagnosis codes + discharge codes that indicate that they died.

I couldn't imagine for a minute having to deal with some freedom gently caress whose family is hollering constantly about horse paste while their dad's sat keeps falling.

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