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redgubbinz
May 1, 2007

smoobles posted:

my theory is Ron Desantis is a doomscroller (like all of us) but with the unique power to create his own content, since he is a governor

I don't have evidence for this but it's a unique villain origin story

Ron C-SPAMtis

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WhiteHowler
Apr 3, 2001

I'M HUGE!

Zil posted:

Mine had stickers

My CVS had stickers, but they misprinted the sheet for my second shot, cutting it off on the left margin, so it says "FIZER" and the lot number. The pharmacist wrote "P" next to it in ballpoint pen.

Just counting the days until someone accuses me of forging it. Not that I'm going anywhere else this year anyway. :sigh:

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

I received an email from our superintendent this afternoon that the Indiana Board of Health changed quarantine policy for schools today. Now, if a student is wearing a mask, they can't be a close contact! For class periods at a time, a student can now sit shoulder to shoulder with Johnny Freedumb who got covid after his obese aunt coughed all over the potato salad fountain at the family reunion and they can't be quarantined.

I'm going to start teaching from a plastic bubble like I'm David Vetter.

A Strange Aeon
Mar 26, 2010

You are now a slimy little toad
The Great Twist

Kirk Vikernes posted:

I received an email from our superintendent this afternoon that the Indiana Board of Health changed quarantine policy for schools today. Now, if a student is wearing a mask, they can't be a close contact! For class periods at a time, a student can now sit shoulder to shoulder with Johnny Freedumb who got covid after his obese aunt coughed all over the potato salad fountain at the family reunion and they can't be quarantined.

I'm going to start teaching from a plastic bubble like I'm David Vetter.

Yeesh, PA is making masks in schools mandatory next week but I hope it's not so they can change the definitions like that.

Saros
Dec 29, 2009

Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

At least the NHS does an electronic record thing, but I'm willing to bet there's a pharmacist somewhere taking backhanders to squirt the dose into the bin or something - not really a huge amount you can do about that though.

If you were smart you'd advertise this on the sly then actually inject them with the vaccine claiming it was saline or something. Win-win!

AHH F/UGH
May 25, 2002

I was randomly recommended this Family YouTuber channel, which is pathetic, but then I skipped around wondering what the hell it is and then I saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osRlSargQKo&t=423s

Now I know why covid will never go away lmao

Nobody cares

It's just going to circle around and around and mutate until we're all living in The Road

Involuntary Sparkle
Aug 12, 2004

Chemo-kitties can have “accidents” too!

smoobles posted:

my theory is Ron Desantis is a doomscroller (like all of us) but with the unique power to create his own content, since he is a governor

I don't have evidence for this but it's a unique villain origin story

It continues to be loving weird that this lovely rear end in a top hat kid I went to Catholic school with is trying to play evil personified or something.

Involuntary Sparkle fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Sep 3, 2021

ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004


Mercí

Squashy
Dec 24, 2005

150cc of psilocybinic power
My mom said the doctor for the county jail was prescribing Ivermectin to patients -.-

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Squashy posted:

My mom said the doctor for the county jail was prescribing Ivermectin to patients -.-

Uhh isn't that kinda like directly harming and maybe even killing of the inmates?

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Zil posted:

Uhh isn't that kinda like directly harming and maybe even killing of the inmates?
Buddy, I have some bad news for you about how America views and treats prisoners.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Zugzwang posted:

Buddy, I have some bad news for you about how America views and treats prisoners.

Oh I know that, this just seems more overt than normal.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Zugzwang posted:

Buddy, I have some bad news for you about how America views and treats prisoners.

our prison system has fantastic healthcare. People come out of it in way better health than they go in - just look at Mr. Cosby.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

WILDTURKEY101 posted:

what is Ron DeSantis' problem? Like, I don't even get it. People are just dying all over and... I don't even get it. Like, OK I know why Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot and Mao and Suharto killed millions of people. It was bad, but I know why they did it and what they were trying to do. I don't even understand this whole angle of, like, letting everyone get sick and die to prove that there is no problem? What are you trying to do?

edit: I don't even see our current state as being in line with all the other history I know. Like, this all doesn't even seem to mirror anything I know about. It's just super fuckin weird.

DeSantis is basically my dad, so I feel like I can describe what his problem is. People like this are huge narcist assholes who will never, ever admit to being wrong. They feel like they are special boy leader types so everything they think is automatically correct. Always double down, no matter the facts in your face. If the facts seem insurmountable, call them liberal bias and you can magically handwave them away.

Squashy
Dec 24, 2005

150cc of psilocybinic power

Zil posted:

Uhh isn't that kinda like directly harming and maybe even killing of the inmates?

That was my response. She works for the county government as a clerk so she sees all the checks and invoices. She's probably the only person who didn't vote for Trump in her whole building. My home county is right across the state border from MTG's district

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Zil posted:

Oh I know that, this just seems more overt than normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateville_Penitentiary_Malaria_Study

Fuschia tude
Dec 26, 2004

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

smoobles posted:

my theory is Ron Desantis is a doomscroller (like all of us) but with the unique power to create his own content, since he is a governor

I don't have evidence for this but it's a unique villain origin story

This is the worst Shyamalan script synopsis I've ever read

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb
cave syndrome

FogHelmut
Dec 18, 2003

Involuntary Sparkle posted:

It continues to be loving weird that this lovely rear end in a top hat kid I went to Catholic school with is trying to play evil personified or something.



I would like to know more.

Duck and Cover
Apr 6, 2007

Mne nravitsya posted:

Holy hell! This stuff sounds amazing if I ever lose a few limbs and end up on the spectrum.

Curious how you learned about it. Are you a secret member of the poop cult?

Sawbones podcast on Jilly Juice.

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/sawbones-jilly-juice/

Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Sep 3, 2021

DeeplyConcerned
Apr 29, 2008

I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

JonathonSpectre posted:

You know that post where "n-word-stomper58" talks about his mental illness and how they would just randomly think these catchphrases and they started bleeding over into their real life?

Thread, it has happened to me. 3-4 times a day since I saw that one tweet I have thought or said out loud to myself, "People are drinking SHEEP DRENCH," and then loled for like 30 seconds straight.

Just imagine measuring out a loving dose of loving SHEEP DRENCH. Pouring it out of a container with a picture of a sheep and the words "SHEEP DRENCH. For animal use only. Keep out of reach of children." Then just quaffing it down. That'll show COVID! It can't stand up to SHEEP DRENCH.

same. I started laughing about the ligma thing ago. so I was petting this little dog and it was scared of my hand because I guess the hand was too big. but I thought she wanted to lick. so I stick out my pinky finger and I say ligma and sure enough she goes ahead and licks. so I'm licking her with my pretend tongue using my pinky finger.

it's great but now that dogs name in my brain is basically tiny ligma. it's taking over my brain like a religion or culture or something. today a bunch of poo poo pissed me off so I told them all ligma and snoked a bowl

DeeplyConcerned
Apr 29, 2008

I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It's like a Mr Bean sketch where he does something dumb because he's a thoughtless moron and then gets super embarrassed over the idea that other people will notice so he gets into weirder and weirder situations trying to cover it up and pretend that everything is normal and fine

Except with thousands and thousands of people dying or being permanently maimed and countless lives being ruined and statisticians being raided by SWAT teams

liking this metaphor and I'm stealing it without attribution. cats off to ya!

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
Nice to see were shipping off unused vaccines to some of the poorer countries that haven't managed to handle covid so well.

Dick Jones
Jun 20, 2002

Number 2 Guy at OCP


I have a feeling MSNBC is about to get their doors kicked in by Jacksonville SWAT

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)



smoobles posted:

my theory is Ron Desantis is a doomscroller (like all of us) but with the unique power to create his own content, since he is a governor

I don't have evidence for this but it's a unique villain origin story

You don't need theories, Ron DeSantis is a True Believer in whatever fox says today

redgubbinz
May 1, 2007

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Nice to see were shipping off unused vaccines to some of the poorer countries that haven't managed to handle covid so well.



Why, did the vaccines steal a loaf of bread to feed a hungry child?

IBroughttheFunk
Sep 28, 2012

Rexxed posted:

He's gonna run for president at some point.

Going back a bit, but I agree that this plays a major role, if not the biggest role in DeSantis's policy decisions. He has his eyes on the White House, and I think for a while the narrative had been that Florida had been able to do relatively well throughout the pandemic despite not having many of the restrictive anti-"muh freedom" policies of those dirty blue states. However, it's pretty hard to keep that narrative going when disease is clearly just ravaging the absolute hell out of the state.

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
Guess what this is? :love:
A Post, Just for you! :love:
Wedge Regret
My vaccine card is hand written in chicken scratch. But im on the mark of the beast list so hell yeah.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
I'm gonna speed run the local drug stores and get a bunch of covid vaccines so I can fight the virus like a Mortal Kombat character.

Zwabu
Aug 7, 2006

All of the people with presidential ambitions are the same on Covid. This includes Desantis, Abbott, Cruz and Hawley. They are sticking with the most ridiculously hard line crap because they can’t deviate from the Trump line. Notice that only Trump himself could even try to back off the anti vaccine line and he himself had to back off the attempt. Trump’s supporters even deny that he got the vaccine even after he said it directly to them.

naem
May 29, 2011

the typical reaction to a presidential candidate is their opposite party getting voted into control of congress two years later,

team red candidates will run against team blue by whatever means necessary

so by this text me next year we should all be dead

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
I hope when I'm dead, Elon Musk will reanimate my corpse and make my zombie millennial rear end into a human crash test dummy.

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
Every modern US president murdered tons of foreigners for no good reason, so I guess it’s not that weird that candidates for the job now have to murder tons of their own people just to qualify.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
If anyone's bored hearing about all this talk about delta delta delta delta all the time then you're in luck, there's a new variant of interest from Colombia called the Mu variant. It's not making much of a dent in the US so far but it's apparently managing to get around:

quote:

All but three states in the U.S.—Nebraska, Vermont and South Dakota—have had reported cases of the Mu variant, according to Outbreak.info, an open source database from Scripps Research. It has been most prevalent in Alaska, where it accounted for about 4 percent of nearly 4,000 samples.

Fifteen states—Maine, New Hampshire, West Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, North Dakota, Montana and Oklahoma—have had 10 or fewer cases.

Twenty-four states have had between 11 and 50 cases and four—New York, New Jersey, Texas and Washington—have had up to 100 cases. Only one state, Florida, has had between 100 and 200 cases, and California has had the most at 289 cases, according to Outbreak.info.
https://www.newsweek.com/cases-mu-covid-variant-that-may-evade-vaccines-found-these-states-1625144

It's got some concerning mutations

quote:

Mu — also known by scientists as B.1.621 — was added to the WHO’s list of variants “of interest” on Monday, the international health organization said in its weekly Covid epidemiological report published late Tuesday.

“This variant has a constellation of mutations that suggests that it would evade certain antibodies, not only monoclonal antibodies, but vaccine- and convalescent serum-induced antibodies,” Fauci said. “But there isn’t a lot of clinical data to suggest that, it is mostly laboratory in-vitro data.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/fau...obox=1630612073

Fauci is already pouring cold water on the Mu panic but the phrase "isn't an immediate threat" is some pretty wishy washy language
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1433517116062306304

Up until recently the gamma (P1) variant had been the main variant found in sequenced cases in Colombia but Mu recently overtook it, but the delta variant has also only just surfaced in Colombia recently so we'll have to wait and see how they compete against each other. If Delta manages to outcompete it then Mu might end up being a nothingburger. :shrug:

Castaign
Apr 4, 2011

And now I knew that while my body sat safe in the cheerful little church, he had been hunting my soul in the Court of the Dragon.

Zwabu posted:

All of the people with presidential ambitions are the same on Covid. This includes Desantis, Abbott, Cruz and Hawley. They are sticking with the most ridiculously hard line crap because they can’t deviate from the Trump line. Notice that only Trump himself could even try to back off the anti vaccine line and he himself had to back off the attempt. Trump’s supporters even deny that he got the vaccine even after he said it directly to them.

Insert "me reaping/me sowing" quote here.

Here's hoping that one of the upshots to this whole poo poo show is at least some level of meaningful damage to the right wing death cult party.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel
gently caress Ron Desantis. If I were to ever see him I'd deck him and take the jail time.

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:


Fauci is already pouring cold water on the Mu panic but the phrase "isn't an immediate threat" is some pretty wishy washy language
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1433517116062306304


What's he supposed to say? "Mu will kill your family and blind you so it's the last thing you see, Zedekiah style?"

Azathoth Prime
Feb 20, 2004

Free 2nd day shipping on all eldritch horrors.


I got some good news today. The CEO of my big tech company just sent us all an email saying they're making vaccination mandatory. Anyone not fully vaccinated by Nov. 15 gets terminated.

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Azathoth Prime posted:

I got some good news today. The CEO of my big tech company just sent us all an email saying they're making vaccination mandatory. Anyone not fully vaccinated by Nov. 15 gets terminated.

Any chance you can regale us with stories of those who are fighting against it? With names and identifying info redacted, of course :awesome:

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freddiestarfish
Dec 4, 2005
I LIKE RABBITS
Do Americans get anything else other than a little card to say they're vaccinated? Seems easy to lose, we get an electronic certificate in a national register that we can access through a phone/computer. Shocking government control of my data I know, but I guess someone needs a database to show who's vaccinated.

Although it wouldn't surprise me at all that you get nothing either.

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