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Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1435203796980965377?s=20

Will Americans accept the deaths of tens of thousands of people, as they do with the flu, if it means life returning to normal? Can the public tolerate an even higher death toll — akin to the drug overdose crisis, which killed an estimated 94,000 people in 2020 — if that’s what it takes to truly end social distancing and other precautions?

media's passive language, using the royal we, the royal american

gets pretty loving tedious

i dont need to decide poo poo other than keeping safe and others safe, there is no timeline or pressure gently caress off

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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.
i'm not super concerned about covid in myself these days based on a variety of the available information, but i'm really concerned about giving a highly virulent variant to my infant son so you know swings and roundabouts.

stone soup
Jul 8, 2004

thanks for this bc i hadnt seen it before and now im making a small binder for kids/teachers to flip through

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1435073597672988676

Pingui
Jun 4, 2006

WTF?

Caseman posted:

Got my "first" dose of Moderna at Wal-Mart. Poor pharmacy tech had to go find the documentation on how to process someone actually coming in to get vaccinated, it happens so rarely now.

I wonder if people lying to get boosters will be statistically significant in skewing our terrible vaccination numbers.

Anyway Max Titers club. Hope I don't feel too awful tonight.

They already did and the CDC acknowledged as much weeks ago, with 1.1 million doses being boosters to mRNA recipients and an untold amount being J&J boosters. Essentially covering most of the "increase" in vaccinations.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Dyson's a pretty good company, no?
Like I said, it's not for me, it's for a friend. I bought this a year or two back when my neighbors had taken to smoking lots of weed outside and the stench was kind of bothering me, but I ain't a narc or anything, so just got a air purifier for my bedroom. Plus figured it would help with my allergies. Neighbors have stopped blazin' it regularly or are doing so elsewhere, so I've not really needed it much. Figure I'll give it to that friend of mine who was worried about catching the plague from housemates but don't have the DIY skills to really bother with a corsi cube.

Always seemed kind of meme to me.

stone soup posted:

don't forget to figure in the amount of air each option can filter per minute or w/e because then you can look at room size and figure out the exchange rate / total time it takes for all the room to be cycled through the filters and treated. i have a feeling that the corsi boxes will be much more effecient because theyre p much all surface area and no bs, tho if the dyson is hepa then yes it will work too

On the other hand actual air purifiers are rated for room size and the like. I'm also not sure how often you have to replace filters. The machines I have want to replace filters three or four times a year.

Shifty Pony
Dec 28, 2004

Up ta somethin'


Louisgod posted:

my kids are going back to school this Friday, what are the best and not insanely expensive at-home COVID tests I can buy so when I get the inevitable "a child in your classroom has been exposed to COVID" email I can act right away

I used the Quickview antigen test recently. it was pretty simple, and would be easy to do on a kid since the only part they have to participate in is a quick swab right inside the nose (which doesn't feel great but isn't awful), the rest is just waiting a little as you leave the swab in a vial then stick the test strip in the vial. it was $20 for a pair of tests. the tests showed negative which was confirmed with a PCR test.

that said antigen tests are basically worthless unless you have symptoms. it would let you discern whether your kid's stuffy nose is Covid or not which isn't nothing though.

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass
so are we really in a position right now where evictions are happening at full clip, all pandemic assistance has ended, and the biden admins have said "we promise we have a plan to fix the pandemic but we need a week to get back to you on it"

is congress or anyone doing loving anything this week on the pandemic?

anything?

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


AceOfFlames posted:

Books about places I will never get to see, relationships and friendships I will never have, experiences that because I stupidly was a shut in now I will never experience?

Are you for real?

you definitely will never experience those things if you die of covid

and you wont experience them with your friends if you survive but pass covid to them and they get it and die or get brain damage or lose their limbs or something

poo poo sucks, we know

we're stuck in a terrible situation, thanks to the sociopathic rich fucks who control our world. You can try to ride it out as a crazy-feeling semi-hermit, or risk being crippled or dead/making other people crippled or dead...it's that simple

Pingui
Jun 4, 2006

WTF?

mod sassinator posted:

so are we really in a position right now where evictions are happening at full clip, all pandemic assistance has ended, and the biden admins have said "we promise we have a plan to fix the pandemic but we need a week to get back to you on it"

is congress or anyone doing loving anything this week on the pandemic?

anything?

Does declaring defeat count?

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




BEAR GRYLLZ posted:

btw that stuff about vaccines being 90% effective against hospitalization? it was based off of assumed high rates of sterilizing immunity that are obviously not long-lasting

according to at least one study if you get infected you're only marginally less likely to be hospitalized

and i'm too lazy to find it but in that big british study they found that death rate among the vaccinated who were hospitalized was no different than the death rate pre-vaccine lol

Doesn't seem fair to do a straight comparison of the hospitalization:case numbers though because it's in the context of significantly decreased cases from the vaccinated group (0.17 vs 2.03 from the unvaccinated group).

BRAKE FOR MOOSE
Jun 6, 2001

thank you, endless pandemic and governments openly accepting the deaths of millions worldwide, for curing me entirely of notions of hope and optimism, and converting my ideology from active community-focused socialism to emotionless nihilism. lmao!

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

mod sassinator posted:

so are we really in a position right now where evictions are happening at full clip, all pandemic assistance has ended, and the biden admins have said "we promise we have a plan to fix the pandemic but we need a week to get back to you on it"

is congress or anyone doing loving anything this week on the pandemic?

anything?

open biden, there are jobs with poo poo pay available

poll plane variant
Jan 12, 2021

by sebmojo

AceOfFlames posted:

Books about places I will never get to see, relationships and friendships I will never have, experiences that because I stupidly was a shut in now I will never experience?

Are you for real?

Do whatever you want, you're probably not gonna die

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I'm tired of people and I'm tired of staying alive being controversial somehow. I'm going to spend the rest of my life assuming that everyone is a giant dangerous toddler until they prove otherwise.

poll plane variant
Jan 12, 2021

by sebmojo

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Doesn't seem fair to do a straight comparison of the hospitalization:case numbers though because it's in the context of significantly decreased cases from the vaccinated group (0.17 vs 2.03 from the unvaccinated group).

Also is anyone studying this in a place with surveillance testing

Gio
Jun 20, 2005



i like the idpol tag.

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003


Well most Americans would just prefer that the "sacrifice" be other peoples' lives

Bruce Hussein Daddy
Dec 26, 2005

I testify that there is none worthy of worship except God and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of God

mod sassinator posted:

so are we really in a position right now where evictions are happening at full clip, all pandemic assistance has ended, and the biden admins have said "we promise we have a plan to fix the pandemic but we need a week to get back to you on it"

is congress or anyone doing loving anything this week on the pandemic?

anything?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I think it’s Idaho politics ? lol

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

McNugget Buddy posted:

Liberals' entire sense of humor is pointing out hypocrisy and doing nothing about it, Conservatives' entire sense of humor is fart jokes and "no u"

Can't compete with fart jokes

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


blatman posted:

escapism will take the edge off of your misery

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


jack in 2 the matrix

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Penisaurus Sex posted:

A large proportion of Americans, maybe even a majority, are so immersed in manufactured realities and propaganda that the real world has no meaning to them anymore.

There is no objective reality to more than half this country. If we all believe it, we make it real; 160 million people pooling their gestalt psychic powers into The Secret.

There's a wonderfully interesting sociology paper to be written here, if only someone had the time and detachment.

If you told people covid had a 100% fatality rate for unvaccinated adults they wouldn't care and would keep going out to restaurants and bars. 40m dead? Not my problem

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

They'd care when all the people who were supposed to serve them brunch died.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010


lmao they have to do the pledge like we did in elementary school

lol

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

Peter Daou Zen posted:

if you get Covid you’ll get to do a lot of drugs in the hospital :)

kiryu beatin up kuze, only its covid beating up a pair of lungs

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.

mod sassinator posted:

so are we really in a position right now where evictions are happening at full clip, all pandemic assistance has ended, and the biden admins have said "we promise we have a plan to fix the pandemic but we need a week to get back to you on it"

is congress or anyone doing loving anything this week on the pandemic?

anything?

*taps "open biden" sign*

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.
i pledge allegiance to queen frag, and her mighty state of hysteria

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

mod sassinator posted:

so are we really in a position right now where evictions are happening at full clip, all pandemic assistance has ended, and the biden admins have said "we promise we have a plan to fix the pandemic but we need a week to get back to you on it"

is congress or anyone doing loving anything this week on the pandemic?

anything?

A bunch of blue states have their own eviction moratoriums in place. Mass lockouts won't really happen until 2022

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

Salt Fish posted:

Lining up at the risk buffet and carefully counting calories to balance my someone else's risk of death against the economy.

Fixed.

It obviously can't happen to me...

empty whippet box
Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

mastershakeman posted:

A bunch of blue states have their own eviction moratoriums in place. Mass lockouts won't really happen until 2022

haha just in time for midterms nice

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




Schnorkles posted:

i'm not super concerned about covid in myself these days based on a variety of the available information, but i'm really concerned about giving a highly virulent variant to my infant son so you know swings and roundabouts.

I'm not worried about dying, but it would be a huge pain in the rear end if I caught COVID right now because I'd have to get tested, reschedule everything at work, take time off, report the illness, try not to expose my wife (and her getting sick would just be doubling these complications), notify people I may have exposed, monitor myself for long-term complications, etc.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

mastershakeman posted:

If you told people covid had a 100% fatality rate for unvaccinated adults they wouldn't care and would keep going out to restaurants and bars. 40m dead? Not my problem

TBH if Delta had a 100% fatality rate for unvaccinated adults and no impact at all for anyone else I don't think I'd care much either at this point. It's the fact that kids, immunocompromised, etc are still at high risk and breakthrough infections mean that even vaccinated people are at some risk that is the source of concern. Plus hospitals being clogged up.

Obviously that's a purely US centric answer because it doesn't address the general lack of vaccines worldwide.

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

Schnorkles posted:

i'm not super concerned about covid in myself these days based on a variety of the available information, but i'm really concerned about giving a highly virulent variant to my infant son so you know swings and roundabouts.

for real if i got covid i'd probably (probably, lol) be ok, but I wouldn't even know what to do with a 7-month-old baby in the house, I'm guessing I just gently caress off to a motel and quarantine

maybe i just lock myself in the basement and close up my office like a posting hermit

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
My concern at this point is very low for getting a severe case and low to moderate for getting long COVID, but high for giving it to my wife or infant because one is vaxxed but high risk because her parents smoked in the house when she was growing up so respiratory stuff always knocks her on her rear end, and my infant because she's unvaxxed.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

super sweet best pal posted:

They'd care when all the people who were supposed to serve them brunch died.

That's ok, because they'll just make children do it because those lazy adults don't want to go back to work

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.
Every person i know of that gets mad about the "These unvaccinated people are ruining my suck and gently caress summer!!!" either block you or ignore you if you ask "so, uh, what about infant children who can't get vaccinated"

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

well see, there ya go, they had a prayer, that should be plenty

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Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb

Good soup! posted:

for real if i got covid i'd probably (probably, lol) be ok, but I wouldn't even know what to do with a 7-month-old baby in the house, I'm guessing I just gently caress off to a motel and quarantine

maybe i just lock myself in the basement and close up my office like a posting hermit

This has to be more complicated? I mean either room service is going to ignore your "do not disturb" sign after the first day or you're going to have to tell the front desk you're quarantining?

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