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Paradoxish posted:In like four years I've never made any genuinely dire predictions because our society is poo poo and can absorb stupid amounts of death and suffering, but I don't think you actually need anywhere near 50% mortality to cause everything to fall apart. I think 5-15% is probably the magic range where society implodes just because COVID has so profoundly destroyed the concept of public health. That's the point where every family has a death and every workplace stops being able to function as most people choose to face tank the 1 in 10 death chance rather than taking the appropriate response of running in terror. I mean if it’s a seriously disfiguring disease or makes your dick fall off or rots your flesh from your bones ala leprosy that might give some people pause. They don’t fear death but they drat sure fear being ugly.
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 20:01 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 07:00 |
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Oracle posted:I mean if it’s a seriously disfiguring disease or makes your dick fall off or rots your flesh from your bones ala leprosy that might give some people pause. They don’t fear death but they drat sure fear being ugly. yeah you gotta appeal to vanity because it's the individualism driving peoples' brains
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 20:35 |
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Hmmm bird cow flu Heh let me know when it hits primates you ninnys
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 20:50 |
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Running up to a field of cattle *cough cough* hey I've got bird flu! Haha loving coWards
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Oracle posted:I mean if it’s a seriously disfiguring disease or makes your dick fall off or rots your flesh from your bones ala leprosy that might give some people pause. They don’t fear death but they drat sure fear being ugly. Covid already eats dick and sucks pussy and nobody cares!
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 20:55 |
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actually my dick never worked
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 22:10 |
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Couldn’t find moth juice so went with my first love, moderna. Gatekeeping on a walk-in extended to asking when my last shot was, and then asking if I was immunocompromised. Nothing beyond that but I barely felt the needle and my arm has yet to start hurting so maybe the pharmacist gave me a, “Sure thin, fake” shot
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 22:24 |
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this mf Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Event | New York, NY | The White House www.whitehouse.gov - Fri, 29 Mar 2024 posted:…
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 22:40 |
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mawarannahr posted:
And that idea is Open Biden.
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 22:45 |
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Kragger99 posted:Bovid will be fine. There's herd immunity! I'm sure the people in charge will take stock of the situation. Have they ever steered us wrong? At least the steaks aren't that high and that's no bull.
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 23:19 |
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mawarannahr posted:It’s a — but we’re the only country based on an idea. It’s not — it’s not a joke. An idea I would like to see a country based on a joke.
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 23:21 |
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Animal-Mother posted:I would like to see a country based on a joke. every country is based on a joke
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 23:22 |
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I've got an idea, it's a joke.
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 23:58 |
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Paradoxish posted:In like four years I've never made any genuinely dire predictions because our society is poo poo and can absorb stupid amounts of death and suffering, but I don't think you actually need anywhere near 50% mortality to cause everything to fall apart. I think 5-15% is probably the magic range where society implodes just because COVID has so profoundly destroyed the concept of public health. That's the point where every family has a death and every workplace stops being able to function as most people choose to face tank the 1 in 10 death chance rather than taking the appropriate response of running in terror. temper your expectations, everybody. the big thing we all missed in 2020 was how SLOW pandemics are. we assumed all those deaths would happen simultaneously. in reality it took over two years for the virus to come close to full population coverage. and that was the most contagious virus in history by a wide margin. this... will not be, so expect slower. unrelated, but the other thing we and everyone else got wrong was treating "death rate" as a coherent idea. it's not, because deaths are not independent events -- you can only die once. a population can be full of people on the brink of death (babies, elderly, sick, etc) one minute and then not the next, due to a big pandemic, and then suddenly it looks like the death rate drops way off. it didn't, nothing changed about the virus at all. just those people can't die a second time. with a 1-2% "death rate" this is a huge deal and confused everybody. if anything ends up with a 50% "death rate" it won't matter so much because one pass will be plenty.
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 00:24 |
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mawarannahr posted:this mf quote:finished it. When. When did was it "finished"
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 00:26 |
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:When. When did was it "finished" Nov 4th, 2020
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 00:36 |
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the $60 box of 440 blue rubber band auras arrived haven't opened them yet but I have had good luck with vendors on Amazon selling them really cheap. i think there isn't much demand anymore. they seem just like the ones i ordered from industrial and other established places. most importantly, they smell exactly right -- it is a very distinct smell. have been protected 6+ months by them.
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:02 |
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mawarannahr posted:the $60 box of 440 blue rubber band auras arrived lol you overpaid Could have had the red strap 1870+ healthcare model for less.
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:16 |
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Platystemon posted:lol you overpaid where at?
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:23 |
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:25 |
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:26 |
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mawarannahr posted:where at? Same deal, Amazon vendors with overstock of mysterious provenance. https://www.amazon.com/Aura-Particulate-Respirator-1870Plus-NIOSH/dp/B0937JGMY7 I’d probably go with shipped by “Keebomed Keebovet” over whatever “Todd’s Throve” is. Tragic case of long bovid. e: Oh now that I am caught up, I see that that was the joke. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 23:15 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Platystemon posted:Same deal, Amazon vendors with overstock of mysterious provenance. reviews seem bad idk
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:31 |
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which one is the biggest
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:35 |
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Steve Yun posted:which one is the biggest 1870+ is a smol bean. 9205+ is a chonker. 9210+ is in the middle; IDK how to put that into contemporary slang. 9211+ is the second smallest.
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:45 |
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:51 |
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What was the website? Seems like https://youhavetoliveyour.life/ is down now
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:51 |
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mycomancy posted:If this happens you got like a week tops before everything collapses, no way you can have 50% lethality and not have your civilization start crumbling too. You just wind up not having enough people to run the place, not to mention all the knockoff deaths, the increased childhood mortality, the pure logistics of dealing with 500 million kilograms of rotting human flesh, the opportunistic wars. Real Biblical, cats and dogs living together poo poo. if we actually get to that point, lol @ everyone who still thinks paper and cloth masks will actually protect them
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:51 |
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Forseti posted:What was the website? Seems like https://youhavetoliveyour.life/ is down now
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 01:55 |
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tired: long covid wired: you have to live your life ired: you have to live laugh love your life
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 02:01 |
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Potato Salad posted:if we actually get to that point, lol @ everyone who still thinks paper and cloth masks will actually protect them I witnessed a rare sighting of a person with a mask on in traffic a couple weeks ago. It was an EMT working a patient in the back of an ambulance, wearing a baggy blue surgical mask. The pharmacy that I got Novavax at had eight people on duty. One of them was masked. It was a surgical mask, though in stylish black. My experience with Novavax, by the way, is that unlike the last several mRNA shots, it gave me systemic side effects. However, it compares favorably to the side effects I had from shots two and three in 2020. Those gave me fever, chills, muscle aches, and lethargy for a day and a half. Novavax’s shot just gave me a touch of feverishness for about the same period of a day and a half. *Including the original formulation as a booster, the BA.5/OG bivalent, and the XBB.1.5 shot
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 02:04 |
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bil got hlh (autoimmune thing) a few months after covid infection (# unknown). almost died. by some grace it went into remission. then he got some blood clots and had to go to the er. then he got diagnosed with early onset stills (another but similar autoimmune thing) then his hlh came out of remission and he had another stint in the hospital. he’s 38. world is a gently caress, trust your respirator
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 02:08 |
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roffels posted:I know it's a popular joke around here, but did you folks not have things shut down near you? Like in Minneapolis, "non-essential" businesses had temporary closures, which included tele-learning, capacity limits imposed, or rules banning dining in. I'm assuming that's what people are referring to? Old post, but allow me to quote Minnesota’s premiere epidemiologist on this exact topic, because we will all be hearing about it for the rest of our natural lives. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/episode-145-hospital-capacity-crisis posted:In the United States. 40 different states enacted some type of stay at home orders in March of 2020. If you look at those 40, within eight weeks, all of them were basically lifted. More importantly, many of them were basically screen doors on a submarine in terms of what they accomplished. In Minnesota, for example, the governor had in place a stay at home order except for essential workers, but 82% of our workforce was defined as essential workers. We never really had a lockdown here. There may be individual companies or organizations that decided not to have activities or be open, but it wasn't forced on it. And remember, the pandemic lasted more than three years. In that sense, this was 6 to 8 weeks at the beginning of the pandemic, when at that point, fewer than 5% of all the cases had occurred. So we get into these debates about lockdowns and what happened. This is just an emotional issue. There was never really any activity that was a lockdown as far as I'm concerned, in this country. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 02:58 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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no lube so what posted:bil got hlh (autoimmune thing) a few months after covid infection (# unknown). almost died. by some grace it went into remission. then he got some blood clots and had to go to the er. then he got diagnosed with early onset stills (another but similar autoimmune thing) then his hlh came out of remission and he had another stint in the hospital. he’s 38. ... good luck to him and your family. 😬
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 02:56 |
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Platystemon posted:Old post, but allow me to quote Minnesota’s premiere epidemiologist on this exact topic, because we will all be hearing about it for the rest of our natural lives. I assume he/she/they were sacked for speaking plain truth?
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DickParasite posted:I assume he/she/they were sacked for speaking plain truth? Nah Mike Osterholm has seniority, and moreover he’s a helpless addict of neoliberalism. He’s been a hardworking apologist recently for the end of isolation as a “harm reduction” approach. He’s still better than the vast majority of the people in his field because he does have areas where he’s stubborn, like “America did not have real lockdowns”, “COVID‑19 is not a seasonal disease”, “Paxlovid is extremely poorly prescribed”, “wear an N95”, and “the tripledemic isn’t real; RSV and influenza are not remotely on the level of COVID‑19”. The closest he comes to directly challenging the status quo is probably his theses that hospitals are killing people as they’re bought up by financiers who shutter less profitable units, and also in giving everyone who walks into their building a serious vascular disease. You’re allowed to say that if you’re an old guy who simps for Biden’s dark id.
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 06:59 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'll suggest BORVID which is a combination of bovine + corvid + covid it's spreading from chickens and waterfowl though which are all galliformes
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 07:00 |
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mawarannahr posted:the $60 box of 440 blue rubber band auras arrived
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# ? May 25, 2024 07:00 |
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More young people are getting colorectal cancer(s), which is an ok article, but I had thoughts on Why Are Older Americans Drinking So Much?:quote:The proportions of people over 65 who report using alcohol in the past year (about 56 percent) and the past month (about 43 percent) are lower than for all other groups of adults. But older drinkers are markedly more likely to do it frequently, on 20 or more days a month, than younger ones. The article goes on but as far as I can tell does not actually answer the question in the end, perhaps because there's still no new CDC mortality data? But then why even write this, other than to meet a deadline and open with the slightly troubling anecdote about the 77-year-old with signs of dementia drinking a pint of scotch per day?
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