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d0grent
Dec 5, 2004

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phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY

lol

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It turns out that the 'massacre' this time around was about 5% of their employees, who were immediately replaced with vaxxed staff. :v:

https://www.wnky.com/protest-held-to-support-choice-of-vaccination-after-former-employees-escorted-from-med-center-health-premises/

Honestly it's a wonderful opportunity for hospitals to ditch staff with no medical knowledge

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Yes, use peroxide

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Gynovore posted:

You'd think that the people at a STEM school would be a bit smarter than the average... nope!

Gotta prepare kids for STEM careers by giving them realistic expectations of how administrators and managers will treat them.

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Yes, use peroxide



Yeah let's just add peroxide to our drinking water, who needs enamel on their teeth or gut flora anyway

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Yes, use peroxide



IM peroxide? Holy gently caress are they in for a surprise when that goes in.

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

Zil posted:

IM peroxide? Holy gently caress are they in for a surprise when that goes in.

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


Zil posted:

IM peroxide? Holy gently caress are they in for a surprise when that goes in.

Also, IV Hydrogen Peroxide has been a quack treatment for a while and can be, as you might guess, hilariously lethal.

Dren
Jan 5, 2001

Pillbug
it’s been a while since chemistry class but wouldn’t nebulized hydrogen peroxide just be water?


Crackbone posted:

Depends on what you consider significant, but the sentiment is everywhere. Social media is the biggest driver of COVID brainworms at this point.

brainworms? maybe it’s good they are taking ivermectin

Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds


je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Hellblazer187 posted:

Do a lot of countries have a significant anti-vax movement? Or is that a US thing primarily?

China does, but it's a bit more reasonable to be anti-vax in a country with poor quality control and several actual fake vaccine scandals

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Someone tell the chuds that the T in T-Stoff stands for testosterone

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Apparently the latest trend in getting around vaxx mandates is to refuse the vaxx and just pretend you still work there???? "I haven't been fired, how dare you ask me to leave!"

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7003489711818067206

They should just let this person work for a few months with no pay (while making sure to never ever tell them what to do or make any implication that they work there) before they catch on, and when the person files with the state industrial committee for unpaid wages they will go to prison for falsifying unpaid wages claims

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Imagine being so brainwashed by the corporate machine that you are willing to continue working for your employer as a volunteer after they fire you

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
Here's an account from a respiratory therapist about the seven stages of severe covid. It's cool that you're already too weak to sit up in bed or go to the bathroom by yourself anymore by stage 2, and there are 5 stages after that. Being intubated is only stage 4.

Meanwhile, my family were texting about a college football game in the group chat today. So it's also cool that we're hosting massive superspreader events basically everywhere in the country, every day. :coronatoot:

Libera te tutemet ex covid-19 :smith:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

deep dish peat moss posted:

Imagine being so brainwashed by the corporate machine that you are willing to continue working for your employer as a volunteer after they fire you

Naw it seems like they thought they genuinely believed they hadn't been fired and if they called the hospital's bluff and kept turning up the hospital would fold and let them keep their jobs. I've heard stories about meetings at other hospitals where they get told they'll be let go if they don't get vaxxed by a certain date and they were asking questions like "Will we still keep receiving our benefits?"

They genuinely believe that they can escape any and all consequences if they just stand their ground and yell about their FREEDOMS loud enough. :v:

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Sep 5, 2021

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008


Maybe instead of self-prescribing horse drugs and having to calculate dosages (or just saying "gently caress it, more must be better" and eating an entire tube like this patient did) they should talk to a doctor, maybe ask if there's some preventative measure that the doctor recommends

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Zugzwang posted:

Meanwhile, my family were texting about a college football game in the group chat today. So it's also cool that we're hosting massive superspreader events basically everywhere in the country, every day. :coronatoot:

Libera te tutemet ex covid-19 :smith:

See how many facemasks you can spot in these crowds LOL

https://twitter.com/accnetwork/status/1433916233599143944
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1434227610393972737?r

redgubbinz
May 1, 2007


"sure this dosage is for treating parasitic worms, but there's no reason to believe it's unsuitable for a novel virus" - Dr. Smoothbrains, M.D.

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006


My family has been great about all COVID protections until late June/early July, right around when Delta was starting to spread in the US, when they suddenly decided "okay it's over our vaccines make us immune". First they took the filters out of their masks and then later they stopped wearing masks altogether. My brother started going out to bars and restaurants 2-3 times a week. We all met up for dinner at my parents house and as we sat there maskless he was telling us about his week, about how he went to 2 different restaurants and a couple bars and how he feels fine not wearing a mask now because no one else is either. My parents are both in their 70s and in multiple risk categories each (heart surgery and stroke being the big ones) and I thought they would be upset by this but they didn't care.

So this week my brother took my dad to a college football game (unmasked, with the crowd blurred out in every photo I could find online), then went to a large concert packed into a small indoor venue the next night, and then today he took my parents to an indoor art show in an unventilated basement and they are are all very upset that I didn't want to go with them "now that it's completely safe"

It's really incredible to see how even people I would expect better out of are just choosing to ignore the science that they know is right and were acknowledging this summer because they're booooored :qq:

deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Sep 5, 2021

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

deep dish peat moss posted:

My family has been great about all COVID protections until late June/early July, right around when Delta was starting to spread in the US, when they suddenly decided "okay it's over our vaccines make us immune". First they took the filters out of their masks and then later they stopped wearing masks altogether. My brother started going out to bars and restaurants 2-3 times a week. We all met up for dinner at my parents house and as we sat there maskless he was telling us about his week, about how he went to 2 different restaurants and a couple bars and how he feels fine not wearing a mask now because no one else is either. My parents are both in their 70s and in multiple risk categories each (heart surgery and stroke being the big ones) and I thought they would be upset by this but they didn't care.

So this week my brother took my dad to a college football game (unmasked, with the crowd blurred out in every photo I could find online), then went to a large concert packed into a small indoor venue the next night, and then today he took my parents to an indoor art show in an unventilated basement and they are are all very upset that I didn't want to go with them "now that it's completely safe"

It's really incredible to see how even people I would expect better out of are just choosing to ignore the science that they know is right and were acknowledging this summer because they're booooored :qq:

And think of how many millions of other vaccinated people feel this exact way lol

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
I feel like a terrible person for it, but i got really angry at a gofundme for Covid19 medical expenses - a family of four all got it, presumably unvaccinated, and now the dad is ventilated and probably going to die and leave behind two kids - one of whom just got out of the hospital.

Like, it's just absurdly irresponsible. One vaccine and that family could be whole. But no, gotta make my wife a widow to own the libs.

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
dystopia.mp4

QuarkJets posted:

And think of how many millions of other vaccinated people feel this exact way lol
Roughly half the country are ignoring covid because they think it’s a hoax.

The other half are ignoring it because Open Biden.

:coronatoot:

Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Sep 5, 2021

Barudak
May 7, 2007

I think in part Delta hit the US extra hard because all the absolute presidents who refuse the vaccine assumed everyone else getting the vaccine would insulate them. This entire phase of the pandemic is a whole shitload of people who have never, ever, once faced a consequence of their obstinance dealing with something that isn't a human being trying to treat them with compassion.

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

In the case of people like my family or vaccinated people who are "sick of it" I would be okay with it if they were treating it as a calculated risk, like "I know it's not perfectly safe but I weighed my options and I'm willing to take that risk in order to not stifle myself" and then were appropriately isolating and making sure anyone they were going to be around (e.g. visiting family) were informed and consented to the same risks.

But it's not that, they have convinced themselves that it's safe and now they want to convince everyone else too. And I am sure my family is not the only one to spring something like "Oh yeah I've been out at a bunch of public events where people yell a lot and don't wear masks but don't worry it's safe now" on their otherwise covid-avoiding family in the middle of a dinner where they're sitting 3 feet apart

deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Sep 5, 2021

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005




This whole coronavirus years has made me realize one truth. That the tragedy of stupidity is that more often than not other people pay the price for your ignorance for you. And the ignorant keep their heads in the sand all the while continuing to rage their incompetency at the world.

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

deep dish peat moss posted:

In the case of people like my family or vaccinated people who are "sick of it" I would be okay with it if they were treating it as a calculated risk, like "I know it's not perfectly safe but I weighed my options and I'm willing to take that risk in order to not stifle myself" and then were appropriately isolating and making sure anyone they were going to be around (e.g. visiting family) were informed and consented to the same risks.

But it's not that, they have convinced themselves that it's safe and now they want to convince everyone else too. And I am sure my family is not the only one to spring something like "Oh yeah I've been out at a bunch of public events where people yell a lot and don't wear masks but don't worry it's safe now" on their otherwise covid-avoiding family in the middle of a dinner where they're sitting 3 feet apart
If you could convince them to at least stick to activities where they can keep masking + wear good masks (eg N95s or KN95s from bonafidemasks.com), and stick to outdoor dining, they’d be much safer than they are now. Indoor crowded activities without masks are the most dangerous things they can do at this point, vaxxed or not.

Gynovore
Jun 17, 2009

Forget your RoboCoX or your StickyCoX or your EvilCoX, MY CoX has Blinking Bewbs!

WHY IS THIS GAME DEAD?!
Jesus H. tapdancing christ on a pogo stick... nebulizing hydrogen peroxide??? That's only slightly less stupid than sticking your balls in a blender.

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Nelson Mandingo posted:

This whole coronavirus years has made me realize one truth. That the tragedy of stupidity is that more often than not other people pay the price for your ignorance for you. And the ignorant keep their heads in the sand all the while continuing to rage their incompetency at the world.

The only way to be that ignorant is to be so ignorant that you literally cannot conceptualize the idea of information existing that you don't already know and therefore cannot conceptualize the idea of being wrong. You have to be ignorant enough to legitimately believe that your level of knowledge is the pinnacle of what humanity has learned about a subject and so therefore anything that doesn't come from your mind is wrong.

Unfortunately we've been very good at giving these people a platform because if you insist that you're right for long enough, you will eventually find someone who is less ignorant than you are and therefore understands that they are not an expert, but still too ignorant to see through your bullshit - and once you have entrenched support, what can anyone do about it? My outlook on humanity is pretty hopeless after the last two years - "that ruined my faith in humanity" used to be a dumb internet catchphrase but now it really is ruined :smith:

Zugzwang posted:

If you could convince them to at least stick to activities where they can keep masking + wear good masks (eg N95s or KN95s from bonafidemasks.com), and stick to outdoor dining, they’d be much safer than they are now. Indoor crowded activities without masks are the most dangerous things they can do at this point, vaxxed or not.

I don't think I can convince them of anything and tbh my relationship with them is not good enough for me to exhaust myself trying. I have good masks for myself and only go out in public when necessary :shrug: I've told them (coming from a place of concern for their health and safety) how I feel and why I don't think they should be going out maskless in public (or even with a mask at their age/condition) but it just upset them because they don't like their children disagreeing with them. They probably will be fine, because of the vaccine and because monoclonal antibodies are overstocked and available for free to anyone their age, but there's no reason to leave the door to that possibility wide open!

deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Sep 5, 2021

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
Hydrogen Peroxide will definitely kill Covid19. Also healthy tissue. Basically anything. It's antithetical to life.

These people remember when it was used for the disinfecting of wounds. It's not used for that anymore.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
cancel culture strikes again

Fuschia tude
Dec 26, 2004

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

dwarf74 posted:

It's not used for that anymore.

Why isn't it?

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

Fuschia tude posted:

Why isn't it?
It disinfects well, but it actually slows the healing process by killing healthy tissue, too. Ointments like neosporin are the way to go.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

dwarf74 posted:

Hydrogen Peroxide will definitely kill Covid19. Also healthy tissue. Basically anything. It's antithetical to life.

These people remember when it was used for the disinfecting of wounds. It's not used for that anymore.

Colloidal Silver also used to be sold as an antibiotic back in ye olden days but fell out of favour when actual antibiotics were developed but then it started making a comeback as an alternative medicine until it was banned by the FDA in 1999. Of course that didn't stop Jim Bakker and Alex Jones trying to sell it as a covid cure and people are now nebulizing colloidal silver


Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme
Does nebulized colloidal silver turn only your lungs blue instead of your whole body?

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Zugzwang posted:

Does nebulized colloidal silver turn only your lungs blue instead of your whole body?

Follow-up, what about other, select, body parts?

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Barudak posted:

Follow-up, what about other, select, body parts?

"Look when you said you were hung like a Smurf, this is not at all what I was expecting. "

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Barudak
May 7, 2007

Ma'am, I won't lie. I genuinely thought I was going to see some birds, but I'm not going to complain about this turn of events.

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