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Ham Cheeks
Nov 18, 2012

Feeling hammy
stupid crowvid

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zone
Dec 6, 2016

Egg Moron posted:

how is a loving virus going to stop society? virus is tiny

probably would have been hilarious if they were big enough to shoot down

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

silicone thrills posted:

All of the Spartacus cast were from nz or aus I think

:rip: andy whitfield gone too soon

WampaLord posted:

Hugh Jackman and uh....

that lady who played Miranda in Mass Effect 2/3?

yvonne strahovski~

Ham Cheeks
Nov 18, 2012

Feeling hammy
not rah tho

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

zone posted:

probably would have been hilarious if they were big enough to shoot down

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7qEgs1BHa0

Thesaurus
Oct 3, 2004


If I got my third moderna in late August, is it too soon to get a (real) booster? I was going to hold out for five months, so like end of January, but dat Omi....

I know the official thread stance is GIGAVAX, but like, what's actually safe/effective?

Stoop Kid
Jan 17, 2007

Afraid to leave his stoop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa9KgMyCBy4

Stoop Kid fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Dec 11, 2021

whiskey patrol
Feb 26, 2003




It's going to be super bad. If we're hosed this is delta & omicron going off, but we're more likely turbo-hosed and it's just the delta winter wave with a little bit of omicron. Once omicron starts getting that 2-3 day doubling time going, it's going to be ugly. Vaxxed America is done with NPIs and omicron seemingly loves a crowd.

I think the 'mild' consent manufacturing will be going full tilt until we get through new years. And then once it becomes obvious how bad it is (maybe? hopefully?), everything will seamless pivot to blaming people for not having their holiday parties 'safely'.

Death By The Blues
Oct 30, 2011
Yea if the gap week between Christmas and New Years is wall to wall coverage of poo poo going south gonna be an interesting conversation as NYE parties go cancelled. However, yea if they continue without any change, things will be hosed.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
I think the numbers will be too hard to hide soon and there will be attempts at a lockdown but instead the chuds will do an uprising on Xmas day for "freedom"

They will then all die by Jan 20th

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

Petey posted:

this is going to be so bad and basically only you, a couple dozen of my closest posting pals, know it

Ccs posted:

So that 1500 dead per day estimate number was for South Africa right? So if Omicron hits the US as hard we’ll be seeing like 9000 dead per day in a month or so? That... will probably turn some heads even in our dysfunctional government.

Paradoxish posted:

1500-2000 people are dying in the US every day from COVID. No one cares. COVID is over. COVID is getting worse. COVID will never end.
yeah and 2k died today
anyways there is travel to do
shopping to do
the french bakery is loving packed with people my god
masks? lol
all the indoor mask less company holiday parties
lmao

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Death By The Blues posted:

Yea if the gap week between Christmas and New Years is wall to wall coverage of poo poo going south gonna be an interesting conversation as NYE parties go cancelled. However, yea if they continue without any change, things will be hosed.

The ball will drop, one way or another.

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

Thesaurus posted:

If I got my third moderna in late August, is it too soon to get a (real) booster? I was going to hold out for five months, so like end of January, but dat Omi....

I know the official thread stance is GIGAVAX, but like, what's actually safe/effective?
4 months is what i'm sticking to

FUCK COREY PERRY
Apr 19, 2008



Koirhor posted:

australians have celebrities?!

the chats, duh

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

Quebec: No boosters if you're under 60
Ontario: Vaccine passport is 3 shots

Lmao if you live on the Quebec side and the nearest town is on the Ontario side.

KaptainKrunk
Feb 6, 2006


Ccs posted:

So that 1500 dead per day estimate number was for South Africa right? So if Omicron hits the US as hard we’ll be seeing like 9000 dead per day in a month or so? That... will probably turn some heads even in our dysfunctional government.

all the red states will just lie and blue states will blame unvaxxed people

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

Petey posted:

this is going to be so bad and basically only you, a couple dozen of my closest posting pals, know it

[COVID] Cassandra Chat

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things
So like a month ago I had to go to TN to deal with my dads cabin after he died and his house and poo poo and I was telling yall about all the stories people were telling me about the dead from covid and folks dying from lack of beds at the hospital and poo poo -


They're getting hit by a fuckin tornado rn.


Imagine the loving strain the hospitals are under with all the damage from these storms + covid cases.

Hadlock
Nov 9, 2004

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

In hindsight we did everything in the worst way. Covid zero policy destroyed the economy and mental health and now we're going full Florida style anyway due to the trauma caused by it. De Santis did less damage.

Yes

zone
Dec 6, 2016

KaptainKrunk posted:

all the red states will just lie and blue states will blame unvaxxed people

Nobody died here of covid, just ignore the empty small towns with like two families left
lol, lmao

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

Testvan posted:

this week's update was just released:


lol

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
mildly open biden

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

Chrismas and new years are locked in

No one is cancelling poo poo

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Nocturtle posted:

Usually don't care about the COVID bad takes from random twitter people that wash through this thread, but this one is especially obnoxious. Wrapping distaste for masking behind superficial concern for the working class makes it so clear they're only using that type of rhetoric as a political club. Is there a term for this kind of fake solidarity? "Concern trolling" doesn't fit

https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1469331300859490310?s=20

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Helith posted:

https://twitter.com/theTiser/status/1469511402956017669

Sydney Opera House back of house staff member pops positive after working at the AACTA Awards

nearly all "celebrities" are starting to look like aliens to me, wtf

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

lmao

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

OR

Maybe people don’t want to work in a hostile environment for peanuts.

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


starkebn posted:

nearly all "celebrities" are starting to look like aliens to me, wtf

they always did, you're just old enough now that you've met enough normal people that you know what normal people look like

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.

Helith posted:

https://twitter.com/theTiser/status/1469511402956017669

Sydney Opera House back of house staff member pops positive after working at the AACTA Awards

I don’t think you should go to work when you’re sick unless you might get to infect some celebs.

Hadlock
Nov 9, 2004

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

The market turned bearish on the beta specific vaccine, the projected profit margins didn't eventuate. It wasn't a goer.


https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global

Omicron will similarly to kill the market for the delta specific vaccine, the same way that delta killed the need for a beta specific vaccine.

The real kicker: an alpha specific vaccine might have actually been pretty effective against omicron OH WELL TOO LATE, MISSED OPPORTUNITIES AND ALL THAT

Double kicker: we have an alpha/beta combo pfizer vaccine ready to go, already through human trials, gonna stick with the two year old one instead

Zisky
May 6, 2003

PM me and I will show you my tits

Egg Moron posted:

Chrismas and new years are locked in

No one is cancelling poo poo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sixCVdhy0lQ

chairface
Oct 28, 2007

No matter what you believe, I don't believe in you.

Thesaurus posted:

If I got my third moderna in late August, is it too soon to get a (real) booster? I was going to hold out for five months, so like end of January, but dat Omi....

I know the official thread stance is GIGAVAX, but like, what's actually safe/effective?

literally no one knows and all the institutions that should be telling us that kinda info are loving liars. Guess! Hope you don't die!

Tzen
Sep 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1469493164272717825
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1469494209946267654
:scotland:

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


What owns is that after Biden re-nominated Powell for the Federal Reserve, they're now planning on canceling the extensive QE the Fed has been handing the stock market -- just in time for the 2022 midterms.

Because of the above, we may see some actual acknowledgement of economic collapse if the winter wave is bad enough, between the end of trillions of dollars in financial assistance to Wall Street parasites and the utter cessation of any paltry breadcrumbs to support the working class.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Egg Moron posted:

this COVID poo poo over or what?

It's mildly over

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Clocks posted:

we still have a ban to SA and poo poo?

why bother? we have our own community spread and we're not stopping people from flying from literally everywhere else which also already has omicron

There's already way more than twice as many confirmed omicron cases in Denmark and the UK compared to SA, SA wouldn't even be the premier exporter of omicron even if the airports were open LOL
https://bnonews.com/index.php/2021/11/omicron-tracker/


Helith posted:

been a while since I posted one of these

https://twitter.com/NSWHealth/status/1469426721753493507

cases are popping off all over, a trivia night at a pub now has 46 positives from it and a cruise with 140 people around Sydney harbour has 5 omicron cases so far

Here's a daily graph, looks fuckin grim


https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/stay-safe/data-and-statistics

Victoria never quite recovered from the delta surge and are slowly building up numbers again, they've gone from a daily average of ~1000 a month ago to ~1200 already

https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/victorian-coronavirus-covid-19-data


Elea posted:

What's the political mood there in regard to the past actions on covid? Was it good to keep it out at long as we did but now we gotta move on, lockdowns were a mistake and lives saved not worth it, or what?
Opinions on past lockdowns are split along party lines but pretty much all major political parties and media outlets are now going "Australia is super vaxxed so we'll never need lockdowns any more!"

HazCat posted:

Australia chat thread in GBS is full of people saying they aren't worried about mask mandates ending next week because so many people here are double vaxxed.

First shots for Australians between 16 and 40 opened August 30th. Most got their second shot 6 weeks later, in October. Booster shots will not be available until 6 months out, in April.

We need a :smith: version of :stonklol:

I've only had my initial 2 shots, I'm still 6 weeks out from my booster. :v:

kater
Nov 16, 2010

Twigand Berries posted:

I bet there's a ferret dude like within 100 feet of any but the most rural of us right now.

whts a feeeet tide ?

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
big mistake by South Africa in looking for variants. if you don't test, you don't have covid. it's that simple.

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Spoondick
Jun 9, 2000

things are going mildly satisfactory

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