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Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


So now my mother and brother have tested positive, dad is on the mend and is being forced back to work.

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SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Just got back from my booster, I have one AZ and two Pfizer now.

Everyone I've asked has been saying the booster didn't hit them hard, but they all had mRNA for their first two. Both my AZ and my first Pfizer hit me like a loving truck, but I've always gotten strong responses to vaccines because my immune system is a dramatic little bitch.

I do feel a bit woozy, but I also get like this from sun exposure these days, and my appointment was about a 40 minute walk away. So we'll see. I might have a really crummy day tomorrow.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
3x moderna here the booster just made me fatigued for about a day

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



3x Moderna here, too, and each shot made me feel terrible in slightly different ways. I'm still ready to get the next booster as soon as it's available - better feeling like crap for a few days and knowing why than to roll the dice with an infection.

Woodsy Owl
Oct 27, 2004
Nocebo is real. Expect to feel like crap and your mind will help you feel more crappy.

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




https://twitter.com/BradfordPearson/status/1481293800437960710?s=20

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe

thathonkey posted:

3x moderna here the booster just made me fatigued for about a day

Pfizer #3 made me feel super tired. Took a walk around the block the day after and was ready for a nap. Just played videogames all day and ordered a delicious pizza pie for myself. =]

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

chainchompz posted:

So I shouldn't pay my student loans and just wait for the collapse?

I've already seen a fair few parents trying to figure out how to keep their kids home for the first few weeks of school before they inevitably get closed down because too many staff & students get sick

There's lots of school districts announcing sudden closures all over the country already
https://twitter.com/RenoKimBurrows/status/1481426830204682240

Just holding out long enough for the system to inevitably break

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Jan 14, 2022

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

Pff not even the bone reaper strain works like that.

don't get me wrong, becoming a bone thrall sucks and you should take reasonable measures to avoid it, but at some point we have to get back to normality and ban masks from the Golden Corral

A Strange Aeon
Mar 26, 2010

You are now a slimy little toad
The Great Twist
Unless I'm missing something, if you get Covid, you'll most likely be out of work for a week or two, especially if you're boosted. Won't most school staff be back on the job in the not very distant future?

Like of course this was completely predictable and could have been avoided, but what are the actual consequences here?

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

it's just a cold, after all

mom and dad fight a lot
Sep 21, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 26 days!

My favourite part was how he was out of breath and sweating

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

cubicle gangster posted:

Maybe i'm reading this a little overly pessimistic, but can you really call it societal collapse when this is how most of the rest of the world is at all times?
it's the first time americans get to experience it maybe, but a lot of our generation in eastern europe felt it. lots of the middle east. my parents generation in the uk felt it through thatcher, their parents felt it through the war. etc etc. i imagine you can find examples of 'collapse' through every single generation going back through history.

i guess in reading that my takeaway is not that the world is collapsing, but that america, for a short period of history, was in a protected little bubble that didnt have to experience this.

Tiny Timbs posted:

I agree with you. If you roll with that person's take then the US is experiencing a blip off the peak of recovery after centuries of collapse.

Nah, large sections of the US were living in a protected bubble but other parts definitely weren't and have been getting ground up by racism, lack of education, lack of healthcare and lack of sustainable jobs for pretty much the entirety of the US's history, but the majority of the US decided this was a fair price to pay for the quality of life they got to enjoy and turned a blind eye to it. (It's exactly the same here in Australia.) There's been regular societal flare-ups when people decided things were getting way too lovely (the George Floyd riots are a big obvious recent example but there's always lots more) but most of the rest of the US pretty much reacted by going "Wow, that's inconvenient for me, send in the cops so we can get back to the status quo." Don't forget that "things were bleak up north" during Thatcher but many people in the rest of the country were making loads of money and living better than ever.

The difference is that the covid pandemic is acting like a continual giant ratchet and spreading out that perpetual collapse to a much wider section of the population. The government and the ruling bodies are obviously trying to wait it out as much as possible in the assumption that things will somehow turn out fine and life will return to normal the same as it always does but that darn virus just keeps churning out new variants which create new outbreaks


A Strange Aeon posted:

Unless I'm missing something, if you get Covid, you'll most likely be out of work for a week or two, especially if you're boosted. Won't most school staff be back on the job in the not very distant future?

Like of course this was completely predictable and could have been avoided, but what are the actual consequences here?

Yeah but then a different lot of staff will be out again, and exposed staff really should be isolating after an exposure so they'd be out even if they weren't falling down sick. There's school districts which have recently changed the rules so janitors and lunchroom staff can 'overlook' classes, some schools are combining classes in the gym so they require less staff per 'class', some schools are asking for community volunteers, etc etc ....
Lots of schools WANT to close down but aren't allowed to because their governor made it illegal.

Edit: remember it's not just teachers, they're also desperately short of bus drivers. Can't teach the kids in school if you can't get them to the school
https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1437965176335122443

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jan 14, 2022

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



A Strange Aeon posted:

Unless I'm missing something, if you get Covid, you'll most likely be out of work for a week or two, especially if you're boosted. Won't most school staff be back on the job in the not very distant future?

Like of course this was completely predictable and could have been avoided, but what are the actual consequences here?
five and a half million people will be back at work any day now.

How are u
May 19, 2005

by Azathoth

Ghostlight posted:

five and a half million people will be back at work any day now.

Yeah? The vast majority of them will.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Inept posted:

running my garden hose more to confuse the scientists

The scale is normalized by t he quantity of pepper mild mottle virus in the wastewater.

To confuse it, eat larger or smaller amounts of chili peppers.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

Chinatown posted:

Pfizer #3 made me feel super tired. Took a walk around the block the day after and was ready for a nap. Just played videogames all day and ordered a delicious pizza pie for myself. =]

pretty much same but then i got actual covid a few days later and that poo poo succkkkeeedddd asssssssss. i dont recommend it.

vandalism
Aug 4, 2003
booster 3 and then immediately covid? bruh...

Yolo Swaggins Esq
Jan 29, 2015

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thathonkey posted:

pretty much same but then i got actual covid a few days later and that poo poo succkkkeeedddd asssssssss. i dont recommend it.

Haha that happened to me too. It sucked rear end and i got wayyy sicker than my partner who wasn't "lucky" enough to get their booster as early as I did.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

I am massively exhausted lol, I've already had a nap and now I'm too tired to move. Holding my phone is tough work. But this is just what happens every time, even with the flu shot. I expect to back to normal in about 24 hours or so. And then I'll get the next one.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

vandalism posted:

booster 3 and then immediately covid? bruh...

yes was something unclear

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
https://twitter.com/SuzPerezICT/status/1481304870405779459

I guess all those people complaining about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools finally have their chance to put their money where their mouth is and teach kids their way! :v:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Australia's posting such high case numbers at the moment that the "big" outbreak we had back in July - September 2020 which caused 5.5 million people in Melbourne to go into a hard lockdown for months and months isn't even visible on Worldometers any more LOL


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Yep, even in Florida where we essentially started Delta off in the US in a loud and proud way… this is obliterating it numbers wise. My circles are split into those who’ve just had it, those who currently have it, and those about to get it. Ain’t nothing else and kinda makes the previous numbers look like a joke.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

https://twitter.com/SuzPerezICT/status/1481304870405779459

I guess all those people complaining about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools finally have their chance to put their money where their mouth is and teach kids their way! :v:

18+ and a high school diploma? That's it?

Jesus H. Christ.

edit: to be fair it's Kansas so that might be a step up

Kumo
Jul 31, 2004

Pennywise the Frown posted:

18+ and a high school diploma? That's it?

Jesus H. Christ.

edit: to be fair it's Kansas so that might be a step up

They probably take him too if he could watch a group of 12 year olds in Topeka.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Kumo posted:

They probably take him too if he could watch a group of 12 year olds in Topeka.

Nah, he'd teach those kids about the horrors of socialism.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
Jesus was constantly getting into trouble with the cops, he wouldn't pass the background check

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
on the other hand he'd probably talk about healing people without vaccines

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




Somewhere there's a Peggy Hill cosplay forum buzzing with excitement.

Inept
Jul 8, 2003

thathonkey posted:

yes was something unclear

peep his rap sheet for some lols

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
oh yeah lol very cool

helsabot
Apr 25, 2005
This is the worst vacation ever.
what happens if you don’t send your kids to school right now
like actually what happens but also if they have like 1 teacher for every 700 students and they’re all just sitting in the gym for six hours listening to phones who would even notice

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
If you are privileged, nothing will happen to you.

If you are not privileged, Kamala Harris will throw you in jail.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

helsabot posted:

what happens if you don’t send your kids to school right now

Jail. Here's one article I randomly googled: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/30/michigan-mom-jailed-after-child-misses-26-days-school/2160470002/

That's if there's any jails open, they're having to close some of them because of all the covids: https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/01/11/bedford-county-jail-temporarily-closing-due-to-covid-19-outbreak/

Pyrtanis
Jun 30, 2007

The ghosts of our glories are gray-bearded guides
Fun Shoe
AZ first, Moderna second, Moderna booster. Booster gave me body aches for a couple days, exhausted, my period looked like The Shining when it's virtually non-existent otherwise. Would jab again, my immune system is poo poo and it needs all the help it can get

Charliegrs
Aug 10, 2009
Imagine joining the national guard and now you have to drive a bunch of annoying kids to school lol

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

A Strange Aeon posted:

Unless I'm missing something, if you get Covid, you'll most likely be out of work for a week or two, especially if you're boosted. Won't most school staff be back on the job in the not very distant future?

Like of course this was completely predictable and could have been avoided, but what are the actual consequences here?

time off of school equates to time off of work for a lot of other people, which is itself a huge consequence. A lot of people actually just can't miss work. So it's a huge consequence for schools to shut down, and it's a huge consequence for adults to miss work for a week or two because they got sick; people are getting hosed comin' and goin' and in a lot of cases just going to work sick (which is literally illegal if you have young kids at home alone lol, "get hosed poors" - conservativism)

We haven't sent our 2 young kids back to preschool since winter break because we figured there'd be a ton more cases from Christmas/NYE to get through and well... *gestures at everything*. But it's not like that's a consequence-free choice, even in our incredibly fortunate circumstance.

First of May
May 1, 2017
🎵 Bring your favorite lady, or at least your favorite lay! 🎵


Breaking poos report:

Bay Area shitwater also seeing reduced levels of COVID 19.

https://abc7news.com/bay-area-covid-wastewater-santa-clara-county-omicron-variant/11464997/

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peanut
Sep 9, 2007


Kids here walk or bike to school, even in snowy places, it's awesome, gently caress a bus :japan:

Well in big cities they take trains or city buses and that's cool too

PS Japan is about to blow up but deaths were always low and masking was always high. I feel confident.

peanut fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Jan 14, 2022

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