Good Citizen posted:

Xcom monthly project report:

Iowa has signed a secret pact with unknown viral forces and has withdrawn from the project

kazmeyer posted:

EDIT: However I do admit the carts look way more Fallout than having two change purses attached to your face.

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Indoor dining and activities like it are integral and are a huge part of the economy, not to mention its social and cultural impacts. I know that you didn't say shut down the economy but shutting down indoor dining effectively shuts (slows) down the economy. That's the thing, you might not say it outright but policies like banning indoor dining have consequences, consequences that even you claim not to have said.

Furthermore, you do know that N95s are expensive right? A single N95 mask is one meal for many Filipino families. Do you want to mandate everyone to spend their money on such? Also, you greatly estimate the socio-political will of such policies. Heck, the measly P1,000 stimulus bill hasn't even passed, even if studies after studies have shown that it helps the economy.

The world isn't ideal. Yes, even after vaccinations, the hospitalization rate and death rate of covid might be higher than the flu. And the best outcome we can expect is it's twice or thrice deadlier than the flu after vaccination. But you also need to consider people dying from hunger. People who are killing themselves because of isolation, depression, and economic anxiety. People who are stuck at home gaining weight because of not having physical activity thus leading to heart attacks, diabetes, strokes, high blood pressure levels, and other immediate and long-lasting diseases. Kids who are not getting the education that they need in order to compete in a globalized world, the chance chance they have to break the cycle of poverty. We all don't have macbooks, good internet connection, and a viable learning environment at home. Professionals who are not getting the promotion and pay raise that they need to feed their families. What of them? Are you to shut down in door dining that feeds the homeless, the indoor dining where people catch-up with friends and family, the indoor dining that employs people who support their kids to college? All because of an irrational fear of getting infected?

American CDC: COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick. Based on what we know about COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been fully vaccinated can do things that they had stopped doing because of the pandemic.

Note the phrase "things that they had stopped doing because of the pandemic" which includes indoor dining.

Kunabomber posted:

lol i took my pulse oximeter and did a test where i held my breath until i couldn't handle it anymore

oxygen saturation reading was 90

how the gently caress do people hold out until they're like 80 before going to the hospital holy poo poo

Man Musk posted:

Question for bidet-havers itt:

Do you own a combination toilet/bidet, or a bidet as a separate fixture?

Thank you in advance.

El Mero Mero posted:

combos. Separate fixture bidets are some weird old style thing? Seems both inconvenient and expensive

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/CTULocal1/status/1433939525756198912?s=20
https://twitter.com/CTULocal1/status/1433942971729256453?s=20

cool

Salt Fish posted:

Google Butt posted:

lol is this from the Cranmer's yt channel

Salt Fish posted:

Yeah I don't think they are vaccinated, the videos about it didn't mention vaccines at all.

McNugget Buddy posted:

https://twitter.com/OscarDeLaHoya/status/1433857153433944069

Man Musk posted:

Question for bidet-havers itt:

Do you own a combination toilet/bidet, or a bidet as a separate fixture?

Thank you in advance.

Iverron posted:

https://twitter.com/martinwongphoto/status/1433899302431059974?s=21

lol pax

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

its a $35 thing you get on amazon that installs under the toilet seat and just hooks up to the cold water line. thats it

FrancisFukyomama posted:

mocking people eating horse paste and going blind and making GBS threads themselves is pmc elitism and why the left has lost

FrancisFukyomama posted:

mocking people eating horse paste and going blind and making GBS threads themselves is pmc elitism and why the left has lost

Man Musk posted:

Question for bidet-havers itt:

Do you own a combination toilet/bidet, or a bidet as a separate fixture?

Thank you in advance.

Man Musk posted:

Question for bidet-havers itt:

Do you own a combination toilet/bidet, or a bidet as a separate fixture?

Thank you in advance.

McNugget Buddy posted:

https://twitter.com/OscarDeLaHoya/status/1433857153433944069

McNugget Buddy posted:

https://twitter.com/OscarDeLaHoya/status/1433857153433944069

jetz0r posted:

using more space costs more. and that many vendors in that room is already making roughly $12 in profit for the con. tradeshows that small are usually half filled with the same MLM or timeshare style booths that show up to every loving little tradeshow to fill out the space.

Chamale posted:

“It has been stated over and over again that the English doctors are unanimous in declaring that where the work is continuous, 8 feet apart is the very least space that should be allowed for each person. […] the very root of the capitalist mode of production, i.e., the self-expansion of all capital, large or small, by means of the “free” purchase and consumption of labour-power, would be attacked. Factory legislation is therefore brought to a deadlock before these 8 feet of breathing space. The sanitary officers, the industrial inquiry commissioners, the factory inspectors, all harp, over and over again, upon the necessity for those 8 feet, and upon the impossibility of wringing them out of capital. They thus, in fact, declare that tuberculosis and other lung diseases among the workpeople are necessary conditions to the existence of capital.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital (Chapter Fifteen: Machinery and Modern Industry, Section 9).

FrancisFukyomama posted:

mocking people eating horse paste and going blind and making GBS threads themselves is pmc elitism and why the left has lost

DarkEuphoria posted:

Joe Rogan does not look well

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

So other than knowing what the basic symptoms are, I've not been following the info on the course of Delta infection too much because my plan is and has been since day one 'do not get infected.'
So I don't know; how much does Delta differ from the wildtype/alpha/whatever it was that was going around last year and which Trump and the other ghouls got? Like when, in terms of probabbility, can we assume to know whether or not Rogan has left the zone of real danger from death and is looking at a full recovery or at worst Long COVID?

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So you literally want to spend the rest of your life adjusted for COVID. In your head, the best solution is to permanently modify the world to be wary of COVID.

That's insane to me. Tell me why we have more deaths per day lately than most European countries, despite having fewer infections per day and despite wearing these stupid face shields?

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The consequence should never be "the Philippines is now the land of strict health regulations for the next 100 years". If that's your vision, then please go write some terrible fan fiction.

Am I saying this stuff needs to end today? Of course not. But vaccinations are the key to getting out of it. Once enough people are vaccinated, we should go back to living normally. People will still get COVID, very few will be hospitalized and experience serious effects, and we can eventually treat this like it's just another flu.

That's what's going on in countries where life is normal again. I'm just going to assume you're someone who's been hiding in a room somewhere for the last 1.5 years which is why you've forgotten what normal life is like.

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And yet the US and the UK aren't in complete shambles. Europe hasn't collapsed. They fill stadiums for sports events and concerts, they dine out, they've given jobs back to people and revived their economies. They've transitioned to a post-lockdown world and yet they aren't dying en masse on the streets the way many of you would have predicted.

And despite all this, we had more deaths yesterday than the UK. Despite our people being forced to give up their jobs and livelihoods -- the service industry, at least -- despite tourism being killed, despite every theatrical performance we do to pretend we're being safe, we had more deaths yesterday than the UK.

Isn't that so weird? Huh.

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To think of this just from the number of lives loss as a direct result of COVID infection is wrong. The economy is just as important for the people and the country, and it should always be considered alongside it. Without the economy, people lose jobs, people fail to pay the bills, people can't buy groceries, and the general mental health of the nation goes down. People also die from a failed economy.

This has always been about a balancing act. And to go back to my first point, which you probably forgot by now -- the goal should be to get people vaccinated ASAP and slowly reopen industries as the vaccine numbers go up.

To think that we're just going to forever live terrified of COVID is wrong and very short-sighted. That's never been the goal. The goal has always been to vaccinate people and accept that COVID is now another virus that you may or may not catch.

Zeroisanumber posted:

It's much more infectious, about on the level of chicken pox. Other than that it seems to be standard Covid.

For reference, when I was 6 one kid in my class got chicken pox and passed it on to about 1/3 of the rest of us.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

So other than knowing what the basic symptoms are, I've not been following the info on the course of Delta infection too much because my plan is and has been since day one 'do not get infected.'
So I don't know; how much does Delta differ from the wildtype/alpha/whatever it was that was going around last year and which Trump and the other ghouls got? Like when, in terms of probabbility, can we assume to know whether or not Rogan has left the zone of real danger from death and is looking at a full recovery or at worst Long COVID?

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I don’t think we’ve tested any Airpop products in my lab. SGS is a legitmate testing lab, but back during the early days of the pandemic we saw a couple of cases that apppeared to be forgeries of such test results.

I looked at the web site. The emphasis on fit is indeed important, and the mention of electrostatic filtration mechanism is consistent with use of a properly-treated meltblown polypropylene filtration layer. All the underperforming KN95s we encountered lacked the electrostatic filtration mechanism. I can’t really vouch for the product beyond these superficial observations, but I didn’t see any red flags. If you like, we could test one for you.