Thoguh posted:

Thoguh posted:

Thoguh posted:

Thoguh posted:

Insanite posted:

places the positive wife and presumed positive i have been in the past week:

1. dentist (no masks, but masks for staff w/portable hepa filters running on full)
2. grocery store (just her, but in an aura in a still mask-dominant area of the country)
3. a home nannyshare, where everyone tests routinely and is pretty careful. all have tested negative recently.

welp. two years of locking down in every way we could without quitting our jobs down the drain. right after the moderna news, too. awesome.

Thoguh posted:

Animal-Mother posted:

I reminded several people about this and they had no recollection of it. Google returns almost nothing but local news stations. YouTube isn't in a hurry to find it.

Fly Molo posted:

google’s brain fog has been getting pretty bad these last few years

Nocturtle posted:

I'm sorry to hear this! Hope you can take it very easy for a while.

Also if you haven't already maybe consider isolating/masking at home. There's so much uncertainty and nothing definitive but there has been consistent speculation that reducing early viral load might help minimize the chance of longer term impacts.

edit: it's really important to emphasize parents haven been put into an impossible position recently and someone doing their best to avoid infection in that context isn't to blame.

mawarannahr posted:

it’s pretty alarming but idk what can be done. oh well

U-DO Burger posted:

this last month has been such a shitshow. just off the top of my head

1. Impact Research releases a memo saying the dems can win the midterms by declaring victory over covid (https://punchbowl.news/wp-content/uploads/IMPACT-COVID-positioning-strategy-memo.pdf)

2. CDC gets the memo and rewrites the community transmission guidelines so that high transmission is actually low transmission now. Masks are now only recommended when cases have already reached critical mass. All states drop mask mandates almost immediately.

3. Ezekial Emmanuel, a man who once wrote on op-ed about why it's good for society when old people die earlier, releases a roadmap for living with covid. (https://www.covidroadmap.org/) The roadmap claims that we are approaching endemicity, and we will have achieved it when we reach fewer than 60,000 deaths per year from covid, RSV, and flu combined. (we are already over 20,000 dead from COVID this month) The roadmap calls for a ton of vaccine research and for free covid treatment.

4. biden announces a test to treat program where people can get free covid testing, and free covid treatment if they test positive

5. congress drops all federal funding for covid, completely killing the goals outlined in the roadmap, and the test to treat program, while making our already useless CDC community transmission map even worse

Animal-Mother posted:

I reminded several people about this and they had no recollection of it. Google returns almost nothing but local news stations. YouTube isn't in a hurry to find it.

fosborb posted:

lmao

Tzen posted:

reading through one of the older threads,
these were some simpler times

Animal-Mother posted:

I reminded several people about this and they had no recollection of it. Google returns almost nothing but local news stations. YouTube isn't in a hurry to find it.

Insanite posted:

yeah, we're in auras right now. air filters are running. isolating from the toddler is hard to impossible. rules.

most recent nasal vs. throat + nasal swab comparison:



throat's nice and dark.

TehSaurus posted:

Yeah it isn't like anyone knows how these things work or can be held accountable...

Wait what's that you say? There's a whole field of research on explainability in ai systems??? Ah, well, nevertheless

Insanite posted:

places the positive wife and presumed positive i have been in the past week:

1. dentist (no masks, but masks for staff w/portable hepa filters running on full)
2. grocery store (just her, but in an aura in a still mask-dominant area of the country)
3. a home nannyshare, where everyone tests routinely and is pretty careful. all have tested negative recently.

welp. two years of locking down in every way we could without quitting our jobs down the drain. right after the moderna news, too. awesome.

Insanite posted:

yeah, we're in auras right now. air filters are running. isolating from the toddler is hard to impossible. rules.

most recent nasal vs. throat + nasal swab comparison:



throat's nice and dark.

Thoguh posted:

That sucks rear end and I fully expect to make the same post within the next month, two if I’m lucky.

not_superiority posted:

got my honeywell full face in last night. felt invincible when i tried it on.

T-Paine posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1507037797831434251
BREAKING

Martin Luther, Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Plague, 1527 posted:

They are much too rash and reckless, tempting God and disregarding everything which might counteract death and the plague. They distain the use of medicines; they do not avoid places and persons infected by the plague, but lightheartedly make sport of it and wish to prove how independent they are. They say that it is God’s punishment; if he wants to protect them he can do so without medicines or our carefulness. This is not trusting God but tempting him. God has created medicines and provided us with intelligence to guard and take good care of the body so that we can live in good health.

If one makes no use of intelligence or medicine when he could do so without detriment to his neighbor, such a person injures his body and must beware lest he become a suicide in God’s eyes. By the same reasoning a person might forego eating and drinking, clothing and shelter, and boldly proclaim his faith that if God wanted to preserve him from starvation and cold, he could do so without food and clothing. Actually that would be suicide.

It is even more shameful for a person to Pay No Heed to his own body and to fail to protect it against the plague the best he is able, and then to infect and poison others who might have remained alive if he had taken care of his body as he should have. He is thus responsible before God for his neighbor’s death and is a murderer many times over.

Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845 posted:

When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.

Something Awful, COVID Thread, 2022 posted:

Something that scares me about covid that we don’t talk about as often: covid as an object lesson about the capability and role of the government. Everybody old enough to pay attention to the news spent the last couple years watching the government say we needed to take action, try to do that for a minute, quickly give up, and switch all the messaging to either “I hate this and you do too so it’s over” or “I hate this and you do too so we’ll make it go away just as soon as we can.” There’s no burly protector with a sure hand on the wheel up there making the tough choices, it’s a bunch of rich idiots who are not only tired of masks themselves, but also financially dependent on placating the dumbest people in the country.

This is terrifying, because this is the army we’re going to war with. Everyone in charge of anything needs to pander to their base, both sides of the base have learned from covid that they can end any governmental attempt to do anything by whining hard enough, and we’re about to march this ridiculous assembly into an existential fight against the weather. What happens then? The governor of Florida sues a hurricane for breach of anti-hurricane statutes? Texas declares a three week blackout over on day two because blackouts are legally defined as being no more than two days long? Californians can’t work from home because the owners of all the burning cafes and parking structures rely on an in-person commute?

I think liberal democracies had a chance to learn how stuff’s going to work going forward, they decided to learn that you can be very popular if you pretend nothing is happening, the voters learned you can make the government say that rain falls from the ground into the sky if you want them to, and now we’re screwed. You could absolutely not introduce legislation mandating seatbelts in cars these days, we’re currently in the middle of agreeing that self driving cars that don’t work should be beta tested on public streets, and the only pressure on the government is from people saying to just let ‘em do it.

The way I see it, the lifting of covid restrictions has been like a gymnasium full of bad, divorced dads competing to see who can offer the latest bedtime, all saying that they’re doing it in defiance of the mean mom who doesn’t want you to stay up late. This one says he’ll ban toothbrushes! This one says he’ll make it illegal for teachers to make you read books! The mean mom doesn’t exist, though. There’s nobody with any power telling us to take care of ourselves and each other, there’s just a bunch of terrible morons telling us we don’t have to do things, and a nation of people cheering for that message. The only thing we’ve gained herd immunity against is the idea of being told to do something useful.

Shear Modulus posted:

if joe biden's state of the union kills clarence thomas then I'll have to begrudgingly say biden did a good thing as president

Wrex Ruckus posted:

https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1507056402044538884

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

It is insanely mentally unwell to be concerned about the disease that is the #1 leading non-natural cause of death in the United States going on three years now, which our government has told us that they no longer will fund any sort of efforts to mitigate.

350-400K deaths every year is the baseline norm going forward and if this worries you, you are mentally unwell.