Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Super-Chevy454]

More journalists are slowly starting to question the government.

Ireland seems to have no exit strategy for our vaccine pass system

It makes no sense for vaccine passes to become semi-permanent

www.irishtimes.com

Ireland seems to have no exit strategy for our vaccine pass system

archived 10 Dec 2021 15:51:02 UTC

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I'm glad to hear this, the sooner the better.

 

[Slimy Time]

I would like to say from my brief time outside that the number of people wearing the mandatory face diaper outside is about 60%. Even less if you count the number of people that are not half assing it by having it not over their nose, or halfway down their face. A noticeable number of people where I am who have just gone "don't care about the new law or the potential fine, not wearing it". I guess it's a positive sign to see that it's not 80-90% that just follow what the government says. They will all wear it indoors, in shops, but outside in the open area...about 50/50 split.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Meanwhile in Motor City, some are delighted then an anti-vaxx guy passed away.

Wayne County canvasser William Hartmann dies after contracting coronavirus

The Michigan GOP received word of William Hartmann's death on Tuesday, said Gustavo Portela, communications director for the party.

www.detroitnews.com

William Hartmann, a Republican member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, has died after being hospitalized with COVID-19.

The Michigan GOP received word of Hartmann's death Tuesday, said Gustavo Portela, communications director for the party. Prominent Michigan Republicans posted memories of Hartmann and had been asking for prayers for him in recent days.

"Please pray for Wayne County Canvasser Bill Hartman(n)," former state Sen. Patrick Colbeck, a Republican from Canton, posted on Facebook on Nov. 13. "He is in ICU with COVID."

His sister, Elizabeth Hartmann, said on Facebook as of Nov. 17, William Hartmann had been on a ventilator for six days.

"Friends and family please pray for our brother William Hartmann," she posted earlier in the month. "He is in ICU with COVID pneumonia and currently on a ventilator. All the positive thoughts and prayers are very much appreciated."

Hartmann, 63, had been critical of the COVID-19 vaccine in multiple posts on Facebook. In August, he accused Democrats of needing mask and vaccine "panic" to "screw up" elections.

He and fellow Republican Wayne County canvasser Monica Palmer gained national attention in November 2020 after they initially refused to certify the results of the presidential election but then changed course and approved the tallies.

 

[draggs]

The CDC says 75% of the people in the US who got the Omicron were vaxxed, 1 person hospitalized, the most common symptoms a mild cough and runny nose

GET THE JABS SWEATIES

 

[Slimy Time]

The CDC says 75% of the people in the US who got the Omicron were vaxxed, 1 person hospitalized, the most common symptoms a mild cough and runny nose

GET THE JABS SWEATIES

It's just another excuse to push the vax and extend whatever powers/restrictions these governments have been successful in imposing over the past 2 years. Sudden Omicron variant that renders the vaccines useless, time to lock down all the unvaccinated and force them to have it. You have places like Greece impose a fine on anyone not registered as vaxxed over a certain age, you have Germany and Italy basically making it impossible for citizens to do anything unless they have their vax green pass. It's all just one massive push to use their powers to overreach and make people compliant, to whatever the fuck Australia and NZ are doing with their "concentration camps in all but name".

They have to know that the grift and the excuses for continuing to use their powers to do things they wouldn't normally be able to do is wearing thin, but they continue to march on and try it. Until people say "no more", it's not going to end. They trashed the economy and put everyone on handouts while they insisted on vaccines so they can get whatever corrupt kickbacks, and that decision is slowly coming back to slowly screw them.

 

[Vic Viper T301]

It will never make the front page with the necessary words highlighted, but in this BBC piece they clearly state facts about different face masks and coverings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59599872

Oh, it's even got helpful graphics!

Oh wait, I'm sorry... What did that say again?

 

[Car Won't Crank]

I wish people could see what it's like where I live. No masks. No lockdowns. No mandates. Little to no "cases", and no covid deaths for over a year now. Oh, and the majority of people in the community are un-vaxxed. I've never worn a mask, and have never taken one jab, let alone 2 and a so-called booster. I'm doing just fine. Life is normal.

How did my community do it? Well, we're a bunch of highly independent like minded gun toting rednecks who simply said fuck you to masks and jabs and lockdowns early on, and we said it consistently. I suspect widespread natural immunity also plays a big role in the extremely low number of "cases" and no deaths.

It's heartbreaking to see so much of the rest of the world tearing itself apart over all this knowing from firsthand experience that it doesn't have to be this way.

The Amish community near me is in a similar state. They don't give a rat's ass about all these jabs and mandates. They've been holding their big farm auctions every year as usual and the monthly smaller auctions go on as planned. On their website, only notice they have about the coronapanic is paraphrased as, "if you're a pussy and are too scared of the risks, don't attend."

 

[teriyakiburns]

It will never make the front page with the necessary words highlighted, but in this BBC piece they clearly state facts about different face masks and coverings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59599872

One wonders how many fat lunches some BBC exec had with a 3M rep before they ran this article touting 3M products as the superior choice.

No adverts, they said. Thanks to the unique way the BBC is funded, they said.

Also ARCHIVE EVERYTHING.

Omicron: Call for 'urgent review' of PPE in Wales - BBC News

archived 11 Dec 2021 16:25:30 UTC

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[Tanuki Mixed Nuts]

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Obviously, credit to her for posting a video about her changing her mind with her name and face attached. Though, at the same time, I really question how anyone even remotely rational would unquestionably believe, "of course the government has our best interests at heart." You could be forgiven for thinking it was about our health a couple months into this, maybe. But nearly 2 years out? You have to be delusional or dumb as a sack of bricks.

I don't trust the government to fill a pothole to avoid puncturing my tires, let alone stop a global pandemic.

The Amish community near me is in a similar state. They don't give a rat's ass about all these jabs and mandates. They've been holding their big farm auctions every year as usual and the monthly smaller auctions go on as planned. On their website, only notice they have about the coronapanic is paraphrased as, "if you're a pussy and are too scared of the risks, don't attend."

Amish Website. I'm pretty sure thats a Bo Burnham joke from like 2014.

 

[Slimy Time]

Oh, it's even got helpful graphics!
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Oh wait, I'm sorry... What did that say again?

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Translation, don't make your own washable re-usable mask. Keep buying ours for an over inflated price.

 

[Mr Snek]

2 days after the first shot I'm still getting random spawns down my left arm, focused on my shoulder. I'm starting to suspect the pharmacist who injected me hit a nerve or something. Also, my job is now warning us in advance that 2 jabs won't be enough for long.

 

[Wahgonga]

The Amish community near me is in a similar state. They don't give a rat's ass about all these jabs and mandates. They've been holding their big farm auctions every year as usual and the monthly smaller auctions go on as planned. On their website, only notice they have about the coronapanic is paraphrased as, "if you're a pussy and are too scared of the risks, don't attend."

There's a small but thriving Amish community about an hour from where I live and yeah, it's the same thing. Business as usual, life has to go on. Really some nice people. Bought a living room coffee table from the furniture shop. The quality of their workmanship and attention to detail is something to see. Beautiful work.

And covid is a non-issue for them.

 

[Billy Beer]

Not to be outdone by the americans "32,000 deaths by Xmas", the BBC is running a story of 75,000 deaths by April from omicron, despite the fact it hasn't killed anyone in the world yet. Let's hope those boosters hold up!

Covid: Omicron study suggests major wave in January

More stringent restrictions may be needed to prevent coronavirus from overwhelming hospitals, scientists say.

www.bbc.co.uk

What are the scenarios?​

In the most optimistic scenario, which assumes Omicron has low immune escape and booster jabs are highly effective, the model projects between 1 December and 30 April in England there will be:

• 20.9 million infections
• 175,000 hospital admissions
• 24,700 deaths

In the most pessimistic scenario, which assumes Omicron has high immune escape and booster jabs are less effective, the model projects between 1 December and 30 April in England there will be:

• 34.2 million infections
• 492,000 hospital admissions
• 74,900 deaths

 

[The Nothingness]

Oh look, a literal definition of white privilege is angry the unwashed masses are not listening to elites like him.

CNN’s Cooper: Arrogance of Unvaccinated Is ‘Infuriating’ — Shirking ‘Responsibilities’ to Society​

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said Thursday on his show “Anderson Cooper 360” that those who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are arrogantly shirking their responsibilities to society, which he finds “infuriating.”

During a report from a Michigan hospital, a 62-year-old COVID patient named Deborah LaRoche said she will not get vaccinated after her recovery adding, “I should be okay now.”

Cooper said, “I don’t know as a doctor or a nurse, how one deals with when you have a patient who has refused to get vaccinated, gets COVID and sits there while she is still in the hospital and says she will not get a vaccine in the future. It’s infuriating.”

He continued, “These nurses who are are having panic attacks and having to hide crying because they don’t want to upset their children and how it impacts their families; again, I don’t know why the person who said she will not get vaccinated bothers me so much. But what right do she have to make these nurses have panic attacks and affect the nurse’s children? Anyway, sorry.”

He added, “It’s why I couldn’t be a nurse or a doctor because I would just be livid. It just seems the height of arrogance. Why is her life so — why does she get to choose and then continue to be patient and have negative impacts on the nurses and ruin their family lives. It seems ridiculous.”

Cooper concluded, “We’re not all islands. We’re are connected whether you want to be or not. You live in a community, you live in a society, you get benefits because of that and there are responsibilities. Anyway I’ll get off my little soapbox.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/202...riating-shirking-responsibilities-to-society/

 

[fhqwhgads]

Not to be outdone by the americans "32,000 deaths by Xmas", the BBC is running a story of 75,000 deaths by April from omicron, despite the fact it hasn't killed anyone in the world yet. Let's hope those boosters hold up!

Covid: Omicron study suggests major wave in January

More stringent restrictions may be needed to prevent coronavirus from overwhelming hospitals, scientists say.

www.bbc.co.uk

I saw that earlier. Note that it says:

He said any model is "only as good as its assumptions", and that this model assumes that Omicron causes the same severity as Delta.

"If Omicron is indeed associated with less severe disease as is, in my view, likely to be the case then these models would overestimate hospital admissions and deaths, possibly substantially," he said.

If you think it's likely to be substantially overestimated, why tf would you publish those optimistic & pessimistic scenarios as though they're right?

Edit: here's the archive https://archive.md/XZ6p1

VVVVVVV also that was rhetorical lol but yeah, the propaganda is strong in this article

 

[Slimy Time]

I saw that earlier. Note that it says:



If you think it's likely to be substantially overestimated, why tf would you publish those optimistic & pessimistic scenarios as though they're right?

To scare everyone into complying with any further draconian measures that will be coming soon.

 

[Protistology]

Oh look, a literal definition of white privilege is angry the unwashed masses are not listening to elites like him.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/202...riating-shirking-responsibilities-to-society/

Cooper was born in Manhattan, New York City, the younger son [...] heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. His maternal grandparents were millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family and socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and Reginald's patrilineal great-grandfather was business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who founded the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune.

Cooper attended the Dalton School, a private co-educational university preparatory day school in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.

During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency while studying political science.

A 1%er and a glowie.

 

[JosephStalin]

To scare everyone into complying with any further draconian measures that will be coming soon.

This will have just the opposite effect. It will harden and increase opposition.

Here's one about a US Navy officer who's ended his career. In the US Navy, as a rule, when you are the executive officer of a warship your next assignment is normally commanding a warship, either that ship or one similar.

Navy Commander Fired Over Vaccine Refusal

A Navy commander has been fired from his job as the executive officer of a warship because he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine as required and refused to be tested for the virus, Navy officials said Friday.Cmdr. Lucian Kins was relieved of his duties Friday as second in...

www.newsmax.com

Navy Commander Fired Over Vaccine Refusal | Newsmax.com

archived 11 Dec 2021 17:11:15 UTC

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The guy's bio. This will be scrubbed soon, but should have the archive. He had a very good career up until now. The Navy loses someone they are going to need. Takes many years to grow a commander of a warship.

Cmdr., United States Navy

A 2004 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Commander Kins earned a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College with a Master’s Degree in

www.surflant.usff.navy.mil

Executive Officer, USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) > Commander, Nav…

archived 11 Dec 2021 17:44:00 UTC

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Added: Since time at the Academy counts toward retirement, this officer should be able to retire with 21 years' or so service. Whether he retires as a commander (O-5) is open to question. Officers retire at the last rank successfully held. Since this man refused a lawful order and was relieved of his position, there's a case for his not serving successfully in the rank of commander. If the Navy has a big enough hard-on for him, they will retire him one rank lower, as a lieutenant commander. Less retirement pay, still keeps access to commissary/exchange/Tricare. Likely a contractor will pick him up; more money, better quality of life overall.

On a Navy ship, the executive officer is the "bad guy/gal". He/she enforces the captain's orders, if need be, and is responsible for ensuring the ship and crew get the mission done. The captain is the "good guy/gal". And normally the progression is from ship's executive officer to ship's captain. This guy was indeed on track to become a captain of a ship and likely make captain (O-6, Army/Marine/Air Force full colonel) in due time. Being a War College graduate tells me he was on the fast track to higher ranks.

There's an outside chance, likely a very outside chance, that an old boss, friend of an old boss, or a friend is able to stash him away at a headquarters until this shit blows over. Get him more time until retirement, maybe get back on a ship, anything's possible. Just depends if this guy has made himself too "radioactive" to have anywhere. If so, he'd better turn in the retirement papers.

 

[talk sh1t]

I saw that earlier. Note that it says:



If you think it's likely to be substantially overestimated, why tf would you publish those optimistic & pessimistic scenarios as though they're right?

Edit: here's the archive https://archive.md/XZ6p1

VVVVVVV also that was rhetorical lol but yeah, the propaganda is strong in this article

Two articles in two days from the beeb where they hide what should be the headline inside the article, as a side-note.
But you dare even suggest there's some kind of intention behind this and you're immediately accused of having Alex Jones' ballsack sweat on your breath.

 

[Slimy Time]

The guy's bio. This will be scrubbed soon, but should have the archive. He had a very good career up until now. The Navy loses someone they are going to need. Takes many years to grow a commander of a warship.

Cmdr., United States Navy

A 2004 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Commander Kins earned a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College with a Master’s Degree in

www.surflant.usff.navy.mil

Executive Officer, USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) > Commander, Nav…

archived 11 Dec 2021 17:44:00 UTC

archive.ph

What are you talking about, just put a transgender in, they will do it just as well, even better. It's not like the US is ever going to go to war...riiiiight?