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Glumwheels posted:Are swollen gums a symptom of COVID too? I’ve never had this before but I woke up with my gums inflamed. u gotta steal some more pax bud e: this snype sucks sry e2: bray was 36 years old? holy poo poo yikes
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Aug 26, 2023 05:09
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Pillowpants, thank you
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Aug 26, 2023 05:10
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The amount of poo poo you have to put up with in any context in most of the world is inversely related to how big, white, and masculine-presenting you are. As a small androgynous person, I would get harassed somewhat frequently in my customer service jobs, sometimes physically; probably a big part of why I had a breakdown and moved to self-employment even though I wasn't really well-prepared for it at the time. And that's while being white and kinda ostensibly a dude. I don't know how people put up with that poo poo day in and day out everywhere all the time, Jesus gently caress people can be terrible. I've gotten a small amount of haranguing about masking since Covid (like, single-digit number of instances so far), but I got a small amount of haranguing about masking BEFORE covid when I did it for allergies too, so no real change there. I don't have a car, and the friend who usually drives when I do groceries or whatever is a huge white dude, so even the small amount of people leering or fake-coughing or forced-laughing at me has been entirely in moments when said friend's not standing around near me. It's predictable, and kind of pathetic. But hey, no one's laid hands on me about it, which is better than I can say about when I worked grocery.
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Aug 26, 2023 05:16
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Gunshow Poophole posted:lmao I'm going to use the line "hi, im what's left of gunshow Poophole"
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Aug 26, 2023 05:30
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Aug 26, 2023 06:01
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People who are waiting for the government to ‘wake up’ need to wake up themselves. The government would happily kill you if you went on strike for too long. There’s no imperative to prevent preventable death, and any that happens is incidental to the primary task of serving the needs of capital.
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Aug 26, 2023 06:22
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Rated PG-34 posted:People who are waiting for the government to ‘wake up’ need to wake up themselves. The government would happily kill you if you went on strike for too long. There’s no imperative to prevent preventable death, and any that happens is incidental to the primary task of serving the needs of capital. Capital is endemic. Live your life.
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Aug 26, 2023 06:24
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https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2023/08/bread-loaf-writers-conference-continues-despite-covid-outbreak/# posted:Bread Loaf Writers Conference Continues We are no longer in a pandemic, I say, as ten percent of my conference attendees fall ill and are disappeared. Luv 2 send infectious people back home on various transportations!
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Aug 26, 2023 07:23
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lmao, that was a fun read.
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Aug 26, 2023 07:59
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We are no longer in a pandemic. No, the cases aren't any lower than they were a year ago during the pandemic, even though most places stopped counting them. But we have decided it's over now.
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Aug 26, 2023 08:11
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https://twitter.com/MeetJess/status/1694883606122950843 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 26, 2023 08:41
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Tay, how could you do this
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Aug 26, 2023 09:29
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DominoKitten posted:We are no longer in a pandemic, I say, as ten percent of my conference attendees fall ill and are disappeared. lol it’s like when you see a band a few times over some years and you get to watch a song evolve. I see they dropped the flabby “okay that’s a lot of cases but” part so they can just go straight into the part about how the thing that doesn’t happen yet hasn’t happened yet. I miss when it was a little more improvisational, but you have to admit they’ve got their sound figured out and they’ve found their audience
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Aug 26, 2023 10:18
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nexous posted:go AZ were bad at everything but Covid apparently The genius plan of all crests and no troughs means these maps are always light pink or light green.
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Aug 26, 2023 10:30
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https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cdc-reports-new-rise-covid-er-visits-adolescents-as-schools-resume/quote:Reports of COVID-19 in emergency room visits from adolescents have nearly doubled over the past week, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows, reaching levels not seen in a year.
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Aug 26, 2023 13:10
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I mean, we *immediately* got owned this school year after 3.5 years of mask discipline.
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Aug 26, 2023 13:16
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Rated PG-34 posted:People who are waiting for the government to ‘wake up’ need to wake up themselves. The government would happily kill you if you went on strike for too long. There’s no imperative to prevent preventable death, and any that happens is incidental to the primary task of serving the needs of capital. no way. are yo sure?? im hearing this for the first time
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Aug 26, 2023 14:04
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Gunshow Poophole posted:no way. are yo sure?? im hearing this for the first time Would you like to know more?
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Aug 26, 2023 14:35
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Buffer posted:I mean, we *immediately* got owned this school year after 3.5 years of mask discipline. Yeah not looking forward to the next 4 months of daycare 
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Aug 26, 2023 14:51
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Covid here (Taylor's Version) 'Cause the fans are gonna breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe And the maskers gonna seethe, seethe, seethe, seethe, seethe Baby, I'm just gonna leave, leave, leave, leave, leave Covid here, Covid here The heartbeats gonna seize, seize, seize, seize, seize And the noses gonna sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze Baby, I'm just gonna leave, leave, leave, leave, leave Covid here, Covid here
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Aug 26, 2023 14:54
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Still want one where he wears a mask, but too lazy for photoshop
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Aug 26, 2023 14:58
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taylors kd gotta be insane at this point
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Aug 26, 2023 15:02
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Gunshow Poophole posted:no way. are yo sure?? im hearing this for the first time how about also people were always right to question the vaccine and efficacy of lockdowns as the pandemic never suspended the question of capital. it’s still echoed in this very thread that if people had just lockdowned harder, the virus would have been defeated. that was just a delusion as lockdowns were always for the ‘non-essential’ workers. the disdain for ‘anti-vaxxers’ was always dumb because the vaccine doesn’t stop spread and the risk calculation is nebulous especially for younger people as the vaccine is not without side-effects (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 26, 2023 16:27
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Rated PG-34 posted:the disdain for ‘anti-vaxxers’ was always dumb because the vaccine doesn’t stop spread and the risk calculation is nebulous especially for younger people as the vaccine is not without side-effects 
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Aug 26, 2023 16:43
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Rated PG-34 posted:how about also people were always right to question the vaccine and efficacy of lockdowns as the pandemic never suspended the question of capital. 
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Aug 26, 2023 16:49
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Rated PG-34 posted:the disdain for ‘anti-vaxxers’ was always dumb because the vaccine doesn’t stop spread and the risk calculation is nebulous especially for younger people as the vaccine is not without side-effects Why are you putting anti-vaxxers in scare quotes like they don't exist and haven't since succeeded in stoking unfounded fears of actually sterilizing childhood vaccines that nearly eradicated the diseases they targeted? The risk calculation for young people being nebulous may have been debatable while approval for under 18s was still underway but luckily there's plenty of evidence now that the risk for myocarditis is lower for the second dose (I assume that means of the original primary vaccine schedule) than for an actual COVID infection. "Bbbut it's not sterilizing" well good thing there's another study posted here practically every week that mrna vaccines reduce the risk of many of the other bonus COVID features that can hospitalize or kill you beyond myocarditis. Precambrian Video Games has issued a correction as of 17:10 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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Aug 26, 2023 16:53
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Buffer posted:I mean, we *immediately* got owned this school year after 3.5 years of mask discipline. We start pre-k in 3 days after 4 years of him being watched at home. I’m not looking forward to it…. especially not for my 3 mon old!!! 
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Aug 26, 2023 17:00
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eXXon posted:Why are you putting anti-vaxxers in scare quotes like they don't exist and haven't since succeeded in stoking unfounded fears of actually sterilizing childhood vaccines that nearly eradicated the diseases they targeted? Anybody that says that the COVID vaccine is more dangerous than COVID, regardless of age, is either lying or incompetent, full stop.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:10
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'quarantines could never have worked right if capitalism didn't allow them to be used correctly!' yes, good, I'm glad we're all on the same page here, that is one of the things we've complained about a lot, see also, airlines dictating health policy just gonna go bowling with these tepid mostly-correct hot-takes, better spice'em up good and frame them in a weirdly combative manner that equates appropriate skepticism of capitalists with regressive fringe movements Scare-quoting anti-vaxxers is funny, because it's a movement that was already causing problems for public health before covid and got turbo-charged by the horrible mismanagement of messaging during covid. It's also funny to imply the threads were horribly naive about quarantining, because like, quarantining HAS been effectively used to combat public health problems in the past, sometimes even by lovely neoliberals in the US, even relatively recently. I mean, China and Australia managed to prevent a ton of infections and deaths for years even by doing so badly in a half-assed fashion. You're correct that the large systemic problems of capitalism/globalism/neo-liberalism/etc also kneecapped public health, I don't think anyone's really contesting that part lol
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Aug 26, 2023 17:12
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Whooping and coughing as I successfully lobby for the return of measles, mumps and rubella
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Aug 26, 2023 17:16
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Rated PG-34 posted:it’s still echoed in this very thread that if people had just lockdowned harder, the virus would have been defeated. that was just a delusion as lockdowns were always for the ‘non-essential’ workers. Part of any good "lockdowned harder" plan was to lower the number of 'essential' workers and ensure good PPE for the truly essential workers while paying everyone else to stay home.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:17
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Shady Amish Terror posted:'quarantines could never have worked right if capitalism didn't allow them to be used correctly!' yes, good, I'm glad we're all on the same page here, that is one of the things we've complained about a lot, see also, airlines dictating health policy It's a weird is-ought issue wherein capital seeming to be an insurmountable hurdle means that is how things ought to be, and we shouldn't consider challenging that notion.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:20
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eXXon posted:Whooping and coughing as I successfully lobby for the return of measles, mumps and rubella ...and mad cow disease, and tuberculosis (though that's really just bringing the neglect of the imperial periphery back to the imperial core), and polio, and...
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Aug 26, 2023 17:21
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What do antivaxxers think about the smallpox vaccine? Is this something they ever address? Because that poo poo (the virus, not the vaxx) killed between 300-500 million people in the last century of its existence, and blinded or disfigured many more. We are remarkably lucky to not have to deal with that now.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:22
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Zugzwang posted:What do antivaxxers think about the smallpox vaccine? Is this something they ever address? I'd put down good money that there's a small group that considers that the one good vaccine because it's 'natural' (based on a slightly mangled understanding of the cowpox origin story), and that they're largely ignored by the bulk of anti-vaxxers whose response is a nebulous 'nuh uh' I'd have to legit go digging to find out, admittedly. It's hard to tell with only a few seconds of googling, which just brings up that there was a large and vigorous anti-vaxx movement in response to the original smallpox vaccine lol
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Aug 26, 2023 17:28
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Zugzwang posted:What do antivaxxers think about the smallpox vaccine? Is this something they ever address? the antivaxx endgame is a sense of solipsism so strong that believers can no longer attribute cause to effect or understand huge swaths of reality. this gives you a population ready to believe amazingly stupid lies. so, the antivaxx poo poo plays directly into fundamental evangelical death cult Christianity, which plays into flat earth/young earth creationism and the idea that there are no germs, actually, and disease is solely caused by environmental exposure to toxins and inbreeding.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:31
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tuyop posted:the antivaxx endgame is a sense of solipsism so strong that believers can no longer attribute cause to effect or understand huge swaths of reality. this gives you a population ready to believe amazingly stupid lies. Or sin.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:32
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eXXon posted:Whooping and coughing as I successfully lobby for the return of measles, mumps and rubella hooting and hollering and making GBS threads myself from cholera
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Aug 26, 2023 17:44
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bobtheconqueror posted:It's a weird is-ought issue wherein capital seeming to be an insurmountable hurdle means that is how things ought to be, and we shouldn't consider challenging that notion. I do think an interesting wrinkle in this story is that "capitalism" wasn't a truly unified front on this. Different sectors had different opinions on lockdowns, and I remember reading a few articles from 2020 of leftists saying that the lockdowns were less about healthcare and were rather a pro capital conspiracy theory to depress in-person organizing and drive money toward online services. Quite a few capitalist orgs and institutions were quite open about their belief that disabling large numbers of workers was bad for them! A place where this felt particularly obvious was watching NYS government flip flop on a seemingly daily basis over things like WFH, it felt incredibly obvious that we were getting policy set by "was the last person who talked to the governor a finance guy, or a real estate guy." And yes those often overlap, but the specific interest in profiting off of rents vs profiting off of growing industries were in conflict on this one. That rents won was a political fight that I do not think was foregone by the boundary conditions of the universe, but instead the result of pro-rent actors being more organized and better placed in the specific situation the US exists in.
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Aug 26, 2023 17:46
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public health definitionally requires giving half a dusty gently caress about other people and possibly even occasionally inconveniencing yourself to protect other people, who you may not even personally know!, from harm so you know that poo poo has gotta go
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