Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

Derka Derka · Dec 7, 2021

Super-Chevy454 said:
Jacinda's new excuse for the vaccine passport looks like a Freudian slip.

https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1467897285774393344

No freudian, she's been explicit about the whole 2 tier society, based on safety optics.

"protecting the unvaccinated" is just an justification of that narrative.

Gorilla Tessellator · Dec 7, 2021

No freudian, she's been explicit about the whole 2 tier society, based on safety optics.

Derka Derka said:
"protecting the unvaccinated" is just an justification of that narrative.

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I can't look at this horse-teethed monstrosity, and I don't even live in NZ. Who elected her? Why isn't she hiding under some rock? This woman is heinous and also very dumb. Why on earth "people who are vaccinated would want to know they are around other vaccinated people"? For all my life I never gave a shit who had what vaccines around me. Why would I care?

One thing I cannot forgive TPTB is that I used laugh at antivaxxers. I thought they were insane, but now I see they were onto something. True, it's possible that it wasn't purely rational for them, but they smelled rat before everyone did.

admiral · Dec 7, 2021

Lichen Bark said:
If you ever get a white cell count test I think a lot of us would be really interested in knowing how your CD8 and CD4 levels are. Even if you redacted the shit out of it. I hope you get better though.

I'm going to have a bunch of tests done once i'm out of isolation, so if anything juicy pops up i'll report back here.

Also this is gross, but I can tell when I stopped having a chest infection and got covid because the shit that I was coughing up changed colour. It was green when I had the infection, white with covid. The human body is an amazing thing.

Car Won't Crank · Dec 7, 2021

Derka Derka said:
No freudian, she's been explicit about the whole 2 tier society, based on safety optics.

"protecting the unvaccinated" is just an justification of that narrative.

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Finally north and south islands can be made to use in NZ's tiered society.

Feline Supremacist · Dec 7, 2021

Open Window Maniac said:
After all this Wuflu hysteria ends, we need to make a concerted effort to eliminate the feline menace.

You will lose against our army of cat ladies.

Gorilla Tessellator said:
It's not a fucking black death

It's not even the Spanish Flu. I can hear my grandad calling everyone pussies from beyond. And how did the Spanish Flu end? The infected either died or developed immunity but the flu never really went away, hence all those annual flu shots. Which are real vaccines in the true sense of the word but flu mutates rapidly, in part thanks to disgusting China.

Only one good thing has come out of this and it's that people are much better at cleaning their hands and clothes. Work-from-home, masks and the liberal use of hand sanitizers at stores keep the sick from spreading real nasty stuff like flu, measles, whooping cough or TB. Covid is here to stay but it will mutate into a seasonal cold, mark my words.

MadStan · Dec 7, 2021

Apparently Omicron itself now has a mutation identified so there are now 2 Omicron strains.

It is so contagious, apparently you can catch it from just thinking about it.

Nuthatch · Dec 7, 2021

Diana Moon Glampers said:
Weird digression from the thread, but I'll tackle this.

There's a problem with non-carnivores being a sentient dominant species.

Plants don't have complete proteins.

You might not think this is that big a deal. There are cooperative, mostly herbivorous, relatively intelligent species that can't breed too fast already on the planet. Think elephants or orangutans.

But what makes them unsuited to dominance? An inability to adapt to varying conditions.

If you're an elephant or an orangutan, your food sources have been basically set due to your environment for thousands of years, and you need a lot of plant material. But if you try to go out beyond your local food sources because you've developed tool use and sentience and are ready for expansion...you go out into the great beyond and eat some plants. And...they suck, and don't keep you alive. They don't make a full protein or they don't have the calories of the previous stuff you ate.

This happened with humans, too, but we have a fallback: as long as you can find some meat and some fat, your protein needs are taken care of. We even have a ketogenic mode where you can live with zero carbs for an essentially indefinite time, long enough to reproduce yourself and get through to the next generation (who may find some better ways to keep your lifestyle omnivorous instead of carnivorous).

Humans' omnivorous nature meant we could always use meat-eating and hunting-dominant calorie gathering strategies when exploring new territories. Barring species with venom glands or extreme outliers like polar bear liver, all meat and all eggs are edible to the carnivore and provide complete protein regardless of source. For some meat (rabbit is the canonical example) you'll need extra fat, but that's it. Meat also contains pretty much all the micronutrients you need, as long as you don't cook it too much, which is why carnivorous people in extreme circumstances (like the Inuit) often ate animal protein raw.

This meant that even if a lot of your human band traveling away from Location X to Location Y starved out, a small band of the best hunters would probably still find ways to prosper, especially since tool-using hunters presented a new fitness field for available organisms in a "greenfield" ecology where tool-users were previously unknown. If orangutans had developed human-level intelligence, they still would have been SOL trying to get through the Bering land bridge to North America, and the thousands of miles of frozen wastes they'd have had to traverse with no fruits would have killed every last one of them. It's not just that there are locations without good non-meat options for a large land dweller...some of those locations are places you pretty much have to go through in order to access other, more resource-rich areas.

Anyway, in more related topics, parents are going absolutely insane with coof related drama. Mom groups are unbearable. I've recently watched group after group duke it out over whether very young children with a positive coof test should be basically locked in their room with zero physical affection and often zero ability to actually see the "sick" child. It's the kind of thing that would have represented unfathomable child cruelty in times past and probably would have triggered a call to CPS for a lot of people. But now it's just "a disagreement" and it's a perfectly normal position to take that it's fine to treat your 4 year old child like a prisoner even if they're crying and screaming for hugs and to be let out to watch TV or eat dinner with the family.

There is no way these kids will have zero ongoing psychological damage from this kind of deliberate isolation and exclusion paired with parental neglect. What will they think someday when they have kids of their own and remember what was visited on them?

Parents today think "well, my kid will understand, it was different times back then and we were all so worried." But kids of the 80s and 90s whose parents physically abused them hear the same thing from their parents, and no, it's not seen as understandable. Even if you did worry your kid would become one of those bad superpredators they talked about on the news, no one today thinks it'd be ok to beat your kid bloody to forestall it. Tomorrow's adults aren't going to say "it was chill when my parents treated me like a plague carrier for 2 weeks over a virus the entire rest of my family was vaccinated for, they didn't know a better way."

Just keep in mind the type of moms to voraciously post in Mom Groups online are the type to be insufferable people to begin with. In my local groups everyone who committed wrong think or questioned anything got kicked out and banned so it's basically a huge circle jerk of insufferable women blatantly abusing their kids and patting themselves on the back for it. Oh and of course to post local businesses that doesn't scream at everyone to wear masks at all time and to make sure that masks become permanent in the local schools.

I had an abusive childhood and

I scream internally every time I hear the "children are so resilient" NPC line. Children do not externalize abuse like an adult does and are unable to communicate or understand what is happening until they are much older. Their whole world and trust lies in their parental figure. When they grow up-- then comes the suicidal ideation, anger and hatred towards their parents, etc. The majority of these kids will fit into categories of suicide victims, sociopaths potentially murdering their parents, or the lucky ones who go No Contact and never see or talk to their parents again while trying to rebuild themselves as a person.

benutz · Dec 7, 2021

I can't even imagine vaccinating my kid. This is the line I am not going to cross. One of the reason I got vaccinated myself is to keep my job in case I will have to fight in court if they will try to mandate kids vaccines.

Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

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Doing battle in the shadow realm

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The Far-Out Son of Lung

Pandemic did it better.

You have a peer group, people cheering on you and

405 scares me. I left my ducky in there.