peepeepants posted:

This is true. And they give you a reason to get out of bed because they won't stop annoying you till they get fed.

Zurtilik posted:

Any chance of 'coexisting' with COVID would require like 80+% vaxx rates and use of properly fitting masks for indoor gatherings. Maybe a willingness to 'lock down' for a couple weeks if cases get beyond a certain threshold. But no one in this country is going to go for that. So we say "OPEN BIDEN"

Filthy Hans posted:

I like sitting down at 10:30 or so for some eggs benedict with a bloody mary, or lox on an everything bagel with a fresh-squeezed orange juice mimosa

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The May 13th CDC guidance was really the end of any sort of mitigation efforts in this country ever again lol.

If you're an offline normie you don't even hear about this poo poo outside of a seven minute blurb on the nightly news that no one watches anymore.

Sheetz made masking mandatory again here and put masks at the entrance to every store, free for the taking, and over half the customers at the stores I've been to are just ignoring them.

We are never getting any sort of national pandemic control measures in place ever again.

Thoguh posted:

huh, looks like Iowa updated their dashboard this week to for an age breakdown and vaccinated/unvaccinated breakdown

LionArcher posted:

the only reason I would still date below 30 is a lot of woman over 30 are in the (i must have a kid in two years) vibe. but this is also the area I live which is lovely for dating anyways. I’m not even fully opposed to having children, I would just like at least four years with a partner before I do.

but in terms of who I find the most attractive? usually it’s over 30.

mod sassinator posted:

I was hospitalized with COVID last year and I nearly died. I have lived in fear and not going out and being afraid of meeting with people for more than a year. I don't know if that is something I can do for 13 more years.

mod sassinator posted:

Maybe this belongs in a different thread but how long and to what extent are people in this thread going to obsess over COVID for the foreseeable future?

I mean part of growing up for me was accepting we have zero control over the world around us. And no matter how much people on these forums rage about anything from universal healthcare, to high rent prices, to student loans, none of us have a single ounce of capacity to change any of those things and all that raging and discussion has made zero impact on changing anything at all for anyone anywhere at anytime.

COVID seems here to stay. If it is what are you going to do? My sister did not leave her house to even to go to a park for the first 12 months of the pandemic. She did not clean her house or maintain her yard. She lives in a rural area in the middle of nowhere. She became extremely paranoid about something that she had little chance of contracting in most cases if she had taken basic precautions. She became extremely depressed. She nearly killed herself worrying about something that while serious for many people did not inherently present any kind of massive danger for her.

There are people in the CSPAM thread and this thread who will continue to never leave their house. They will do it because some people will not vaccinate. They will do it because some people will not wear masks. Those people will never change. You have no power to change them. The only way to change those people would literally be to kill them, and even if society made the decision to do that it would not be because of anything you posted here.

Yet for some people on this forum you are going to let the decisions of those antivaxxers and antimaskers dictate every single piece of your very short lives. You will not go outside even to a park. You will not do anything you did previous to the pandemic. You will live in a state of paranoia over something that while being a very real threat to some of the population, is not going to go away anytime soon.

You can go on and on about how evil capitalism is, and sure it's evil. But you can only shut down everything for so long, even in a socialist society. Commerce and activity are not inherently capitalism. They had stores in Soviet Russia and Hotels too. They had vacations and music concerts and movies. Not everything you do in your day to day life is attributed to capitalism.

I'm not saying COVID can't be controlled. It can be controlled. I'm not saying that our political model does not allow it to be controlled. There are dictatorships that have controlled COVID. There are Democracies that have controlled COVID. There are Communist and Socialist nations that have controlled COVID. There are Capitalist nations that have controlled COVID.

But what allows a nation to control COVID comes down to culture and the US does not have a culture that will let us control COVID. Culture can not be changed overnight. I would argue it in fact would take many generations to bring the US to a place where we had a culture that allowed us to control COVID.

I am not saying we can't decrease personal risk, or collective risk, or make smart or bad decisions. But how long will you let the constant fear of something like COVID dictate everything in your life. How long would you be willing to never ever travel anywhere again? How long would be willing to not leave your house? Or never ever say go to a concert (if that is something you enjoy) Or go to a bar, or a restaurant?

And I agree with many views in this thread COVID may mutate at any point in time to a much deadlier form that can overcome the vaccine. I have no doubt about that. Wouldn't the smart thing be to try and live some of your life before that does happen? Life is very short. We can all die for any moment at any time. It could be COVID, it could be a million other things.

COVID will continue spreading whether you decide to try to go back and do some of the things you did before COVID or not. There is nothing anyone in this thread or on this forums or in the entire world can do to stop this fact. The antivaxx and antimask sentiment are too strong. Like I said, barr killing those people there is nothing that we can do to stop people from not vaccinating and continuing to spread COVID and further mutating the virus to new forms that are much more dangerous.

Even if you had the power and capability to kill all the antivaxxers that would likely generate a situation that would increase the spread of COVID further (a civil war or world war).

You have many options in life. But if this is year 2 of a 15 year pandemic, and you are in your 30s, you are more likely to die than live in a pandemic free world afterwards. So why would you be limiting yourself now when the people you hate and despise and are causing the pandemic won't? Your single action is not going to stop the pandemic nor be enough to significantly impact spread whether you like it or not. You are not a God. You are not that important. We will all die. Some sooner than others. After 30 your life is all downhill and you are hurtling towards death the only question is when. So why live the rest of your very short and unimportant existence in constant anguish and fear of something you truly have zero control over? You have been vaccinated. You wear a mask. Try to buy life insurance. Try to stay safe. But don't the actions of others dictate your own decisions with the little life you have left. We don't have 15 years left of comfortable existence left on this earth in the first place given global warming.

I was hospitalized with COVID last year and I nearly died. I have lived in fear and not going out and being afraid of meeting with people for more than a year. I don't know if that is something I can do for 13 more years.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3915397&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1649#post517569756 lmao

mistermojo posted:

the people falling apart in their 30s are the ones who spent their 20s drinking. I, an enlightened individual, instead spent it vaping weed and feel better than ever

peepeepants posted:

This is true. And they give you a reason to get out of bed because they won't stop annoying you till they get fed.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Speaking as somebody in her sixties, hell no. My years between 30-50 were wonderful, and absolutely better than my 20s. In my 50s I became disabled, which is an outlier adn should not be counted. Yes, I'm a boomer, and yes, that matters in the equation. However, when I think about what was good about those two decades, it's about major increases in self-confidence, knowing my worth, and my abilities. It's also about having and raising my children, which isn't everybody's goal.

In a hosed economy and a hosed world, you will still learn more about who you are and what you can do -- and I don't mean work per se -- in life after 30 than you did at 30.

PostNouveau posted:

How contagious is it?

Zurtilik posted:

Both my therapist and my wife's therapists are very Open Biden!

Zurtilik posted:

Is it disproportionately affecting olds on the chart because they got vaxxed sooner or is just that they're more likely to have an extreme breakthrough?

I guess it's hard to answer as an internet rando...

mod sassinator posted:

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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3915397&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1649#post517569756 lmao

Dolphin posted:

most people get extremely fat in their 30s and that's not attractive. otherwise 30s and 40s are fine. even 50s.

mastershakeman posted:

Dear everyone on this forum older than me

God drat you're old why are you posting online

LionArcher posted:

I’m in my 30’s and finally feel like I have the guidebook on how to “live”. but I also didn’t marry two different people I would have ended up divorcing, didn’t have kids, and sacrificed a lot to build my own business instead of taking a safe career path. jury is still out of that works, but anyone telling me their getting “old” (at 36) is just telling me they already lost the game.

Good soup! posted:

[COVID-19] In fact, I am gay,

Dolphin posted:

most people get extremely fat in their 30s and that's not attractive. otherwise 30s and 40s are fine. even 50s. after that i hope you found someone that likes your personality

Grey Fox posted:

Dolphin posted:

most people get extremely fat in their 30s and that's not attractive. otherwise 30s and 40s are fine. even 50s. after that i hope you found someone that likes your personality

Bar Ran Dun posted:

lol that’s this guy:

“some weird fat goon who against all forums advice keep insisting that lying on his bed with his legs in the air pretending to run was just as good as actually going for a run?”

Pillowpants posted:

Slow motion apocalypse

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nipah-virus-outbreak-india-kerala/

quote:

Government authorities have stepped up contact tracing efforts, identifying, quarantining and testing people who may have come into contact with the young victim. According to the state's health minister, Veena George, 188 people who came into contact with the boy had been identified by Monday. Of them, 20 were considered high-risk primary contacts — primarily his family members, all of whom were being held under strict quarantine or hospitalized.

Bar Ran Dun posted:

permabanned re-reg electronicmaji.