Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Gorilla Tessellator]

I know you're biting your nails waiting for my health update...
I have no fever, no chills, and no pain even without Tylenol. Slight cough, but not from bronchi or lungs, feels like from larynx. Very occasional.
No sniffles. I feel sort of meh (as you would expect from a cold), but I think I will work today, I am still debating should I work or not? I guess the fact I take it into account means I am not feeling that bad. This is day #3, and yesterday I started protocol dose of IVM and corticosteroids.

Bottom line: should we completely change our lives because of this illness? Hell, no! I think that if someone dies of it, he was really on his way out anyway. And don't tell me shit about Omicron. Maybe I have Delta?

To make this post less about me, here is a video I found:

 

[teriyakiburns]

Maybe I have Delta?

You have Pi.

Share it. Everyone should have Pi. Pi is delicious.

 

[X Prime]

You have Pi.

Share it. Everyone should have Pi. Pi is delicious.

Bad for diabetics though.

 

[talk sh1t]

"Cloth Masks Aren't Good Against Omicron, You Now Need N95."

This whole cloth masks thing has confused me from the start.
Already back in 2020 at the beginning of the mandatory mask thing, I saw cloth masks being sold, but it was my understanding that they were always meant to be worn together with a disposable filter inserted somewhere between the layers. But not all cloth masks were like that, though, at least I think, and there was no way to inspect for this filter anyways, without forcing the person to take off the mask.
And now at the end of 2021 the news is coming out that they're no good against Covid anyways.

 

[teriyakiburns]

This whole cloth masks thing has confused me from the start.
Already back in 2020 at the beginning of the mandatory mask thing, I saw cloth masks being sold, but it was my understanding that they were always meant to be worn together with a disposable filter inserted somewhere between the layers. But not all cloth masks were like that, though, at least I think, and there was no way to inspect for this filter anyways, without forcing the person to take off the mask.
And now at the end of 2021 the news is coming out that they're no good against Covid anyways.

Not just that, they're finally, very quietly, admitting that wearing cloth masks for long periods will cause lung issues. They get damp and mildewy, something anyone who has worked in trades would have been able to tell you years ago. Proper respirator filters and medical grade masks - even the paper masks that are discarded after 15 minutes, if they're properly manufactured - are treated with fungicides to prevent exactly that problem.

I tried explaining this to my brother, whose wife has been plagued by chronic pneumonia for the last year because she wears the same few masks constantly, but it just didn't sink in. All the messaging up to now has been MASKS GOOD MASKS PURE WEAR MASKS TO SAVE GRANDMA, and for all his claims of being an independent thinker, he never deviates even slightly from whatever the BBC tells him to believe.

It's funny. Every time I explain what's required for a mask to meet the n95 standard, the reaction is the same: "I wouldn't want to try breathing through that." Then they go back to the spit-soaked, re-used, mould-infested rag that they've been wearing for the last three days and don't stop to think that maybe they'd be able to breath more easily if their lungs weren't a solid lump of phlegm and fungus.

 

[Escaped Abortion]

This whole cloth masks thing has confused me from the start.
Already back in 2020 at the beginning of the mandatory mask thing, I saw cloth masks being sold, but it was my understanding that they were always meant to be worn together with a disposable filter inserted somewhere between the layers. But not all cloth masks were like that, though, at least I think, and there was no way to inspect for this filter anyways, without forcing the person to take off the mask.
And now at the end of 2021 the news is coming out that they're no good against Covid anyways.

Cloth masks were originally just allowed to get people to stop buying masks that doctors or nurses wanted. Fauci lied to people in general and said that no masks could make any level of difference at all until the government realized the busywork of making masks was good to keep the dumb masses occupied during lockdown. It was like our victory garden. Each mask was letting every Karen and Haley feel like they were brave soldiers on the covid battlefield saving the world.

Cloth masks were always useless to prevent disease, like a tailsman of nice smelling herbs used to ward off the black death, but it gave people the illusion of agency, and people like that.

N95s are where you actually get a little use, if fitting and used correctly. Once manufacturing caught up and people could buy those, encouraging consumerism was a reason to push them onto everyone... that and they have no exit strategy. Now morons want to wear masks forever because they want to live a life free of colds without any thought of the consequences of the loss of human expressiveness.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

This whole cloth masks thing has confused me from the start.
Already back in 2020 at the beginning of the mandatory mask thing, I saw cloth masks being sold, but it was my understanding that they were always meant to be worn together with a disposable filter inserted somewhere between the layers. But not all cloth masks were like that, though, at least I think, and there was no way to inspect for this filter anyways, without forcing the person to take off the mask.
And now at the end of 2021 the news is coming out that they're no good against Covid anyways.

I remember at the very start of the chink virus scare in circa February/March 2020 when Metokur hyped it up as being the apocalypse, I visited several hardware stores in my county to seek proper N95 respirators, and all I could find were standard painters masks which had stickers on the boxes which read "DO NOT USE THIS MASK FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES. THIS MASK CANNOT PREVENT THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES SUCH AS SARS", and I was shocked and disappointed. Then just a few weeks later Dr. Felchi got on TV and said you can use anything as a mask, be it a scarf or yo mama's panties.

 

[AssignedEva]

yes i know London apparently has record highs in hospitalisations but make it make sense

The UK stats don't differentiate between people admitted to hospital because they've got a severe case of covid, or people admitted to hospital because they've been in a car crash and then they test positive because they either already had covid, caught covid after being admitted or even don't currently test positive but tested positive within the last 28 days.

Unsurprisingly with over 1 in 10 (likely closer to 1 in 5) Londoners currently positive with the extremely infectious omicron, the amount of hospital admissions that will test positive for covid is continually climbing. That doesn't mean that the overall number of people being admitted to hospital is climbing at anywhere near the same rate. If nobody was getting hospitalised for covid at all but everyone was being tested, the covid hospitalisation figures would still show a stark increase.

There's a breakdown of total numbers of hospital admissions per month (for any reasons) on the NHS England website but no figures yet for how many people in total were admitted this month, so we can't really compare. One stat to look at is the number of patients in mechanically assisted ventilated beds which are declining and are almost 3/4s what they were at the start of November (although certainly not everyone who's inpatient for severe covid would require a ventilator), and that link also indicates around 8,000 covid positive patients are currently in hospital (compared to 40,000 in January). Part of the issue is that anyone who tests positive for covid gets put in a covid ward, separate from covid negative patients, capacity is reduced due to bed spacing for social distancing and also large numbers of NHS staff are self isolating - a big resourcing issue rather than covid issue specifically; they're building Nightingale surge hubs in some hospitals to try and tackle the covid ward issue.

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

This whole cloth masks thing has confused me from the start.
Already back in 2020 at the beginning of the mandatory mask thing, I saw cloth masks being sold, but it was my understanding that they were always meant to be worn together with a disposable filter inserted somewhere between the layers. But not all cloth masks were like that, though, at least I think, and there was no way to inspect for this filter anyways, without forcing the person to take off the mask.
And now at the end of 2021 the news is coming out that they're no good against Covid anyways.

They were never effective and were pure theatre. There were many studies in the past that has found them lacking - either completely ineffective or close to zero.

A part of me thinks it's mandated to cause anxiety otherwise, people will default to their normal lives and forget about this shit. Hell, even with masks and the fear mongering mass media, people are still defaulting to their normal lives because they have shit to do, virus or no virus.

Alternatively, there are true believers out there. I know a nurse who was on duty when SARS-1 was going on and back then, the common masks are considered shit. Now though, she's a true believer. It' really weird. I guess if the TV tells people something, they automatically believe it.

IIRC, wasn't this time last year all about wearing two face condoms instead of one?

 

[Escaped Abortion]

Netherlands announces plan to give people up to six doses of COVID vaccine

The Netherlands may be moving towards administering three more booster COVID-19 vaccines, two of which would be in 2022.

www.newsweek.com

https://archive.is/QVky9

Netherlands is prepping to give their people three more boosters, because apparently, six shots of the same thing will save us. Meanwhile, Israel is dipping into their fourth and in the US it's actually being slightly discussed even in the mainstream if so many shots will actually be harmful. I guess Netherlands will let us know.

Humanity isn't worth saving.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Independence mother has message to others after losing two children to COVID-19​

https://fox4kc.com/news/independenc...others-after-losing-two-children-to-covid-19/ (https://archive.ph/d3Tye)
Excerpt:

“It really hurts my heart and makes me so mad at my daughter right now. I am mad at Yvette. She didn’t have the COVID shot. And I tried and tried to get her to get the shot because she has several medical conditions,” Hyzer said.

There is no mention of the age of these people in the article, other than Troy being the youngest of three siblings. Looking at the his obituary, he was 48yo and had 15 grandchildren, certainly not the image the headline evokes. There is a reason they didn't use "adult children." The obituary also reveals that he had COPD, what a shocker! The mother mentions that her daughter had "several" medical conditions. I am surprised they left that information in the article.

https://www.campbell-lewis.com/obituary/troy-waldron (https://archive.ph/Tw9RO)

 

[Pimp C]

They were never effective and were pure theatre. There were many studies in the past that has found them lacking - either completely ineffective or close to zero.

A part of me thinks it's mandated to cause anxiety otherwise, people will default to their normal lives and forget about this shit. Hell, even with masks and the fear mongering mass media, people are still defaulting to their normal lives because they have shit to do, virus or no virus.

Alternatively, there are true believers out there. I know a nurse who was on duty when SARS-1 was going on and back then, the common masks are considered shit. Now though, she's a true believer. It' really weird. I guess if the TV tells people something, they automatically believe it.

IIRC, wasn't this time last year all about wearing two face condoms instead of one?

I think double masking was earlier this year. Two masks was a little too much for people to handle so they memoryholed it.

 

[Gorilla Tessellator]

I decided to take a day off. Not because I feel so freaking bad, but because I want to rest and watch more movies. The good thing is that if you tell people you have corona it is treated seriously, even though I have a fucking cold symptoms. But it's corona, you know! As I tend to be a bit of a workaholic I am going to use my plague rat status to just slack off and do what I never have time to do.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

I think double masking was earlier this year.

The double masking idea appears to have rolled out in January 2021.

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

I think they began suggesting it close to the end of 2020? I dunno anymore. Despite being 2 shitty years, it somehow manages to be both excruciatingly long and unbelievably fast.

I know some people who were double masking as early as August of 2020.

 

[DoubleD]

I can't-- I just can't fucking stand that there are "people" who, even now, think that we haven't locked down, masked up and vaxxed ourselves hard enough to keep people safe – let alone blame the existence of the state (???) for our supposed lack of preparedness.

If I ever go on a mass shooting spree, this'll probably be why.

(And since this thread is evidence, let it be known that I support the creation of a Jewish homeland, the USA is fundamentally racist, and Black Trans Lives Matter - now and always.)

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

So a local bank outlet had signs on the door saying "Mask required no matter your vaccination status", I go in there with no mask because lol fuck that shit and absolutely no one in there, bank teller or customer, is wearing a mask except for one fat old guy who probably thinks it protects him/too used to doing this shit now. No one said a word about mask mandates and except for the old guy and a "water fountain closed due to COVID" message you'd think it's 2019 still.

It's wonderful how free some places in this country are, free of both the stupid laws and the mind virus that is the scamdemic narrative, and very saddening to see the whole world is not like this despite this particularly county having a stupidly low death rate.

I think double masking was earlier this year. Two masks was a little too much for people to handle so they memoryholed it.

It got roundly mocked by anyone with half a brain, especially after they started to say "wait a minute, three masks works even better!" Sadly, I saw people double-masking, but almost never by May or so of this year.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

As COVID outbreak intensifies, Israel said mulling ‘herd immunity’ policy

Almost 3,000 new cases seen for 2nd straight day, but serious cases stay same; milder, fast-spreading Omicron reportedly prompts Health Ministry to weigh aiming for mass infections

www.timesofisrael.com

So much for 4th shot when you are stuck at 45 per cent for the third .

Also Netherlands

Netherlands Announces Plan To Dole Out 6 Vaccine Doses | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Also Britain

Britain Erects Field Hospitals As Daily World COVID Cases Top 1 Million For 3rd Straight Day | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Its the end guys its the sniffles

 

[Wahgonga]

I know a bit about masks. Minor p/l, I have experience with the M25A1 Biological/Chemical Mask. It's an NBC protective mask designed specifically for armored vehicle crewmen. There's a very real, and practical reason the military insists on you being clean shaven. Any amount of stubble, let alone the beginnings of a beard, will interfere with, and compromise the seal of your mask.

The rubber material that goes against your skin has to have a totally smooth surface in order to achieve a 100% seal. Any small compromise in the seal will let in whatever nasty shit you're trying to protect yourself from, and the mask, and you, are defeated. You might as well not even carry the fucking thing. When you don your mask and exhale to clear it, you then put your hand over the intake port and breathe in. If the mask sucks down hard around your face and you cannot draw any air, you have a good seal.

I knew the entire covid mask thing was bullshit early on because nobody even mentioned this issue. You have to have the proper filtration elements, and you have to have a mask (and face) capable of a proper seal. Anything less, and you're just pissing into the wind, and hoping to stay dry.

Also, filtration elements in any mask become saturated, and have to be changed out on a regular schedule. The mask itself also requires regular cleaning and preventive maintenance. Never heard a single fucking word about these subjects either.

 

[AssignedEva]

WHO warns new Covid variants could emerge that are fully resistant to vaccines as pandemic drags on

Reactionary political movements fostered vaccine inequity and "created the ideal conditions for the emergence of new variants," WHO's leader said.

www.cnbc.com

Title should read "WHO engages in scaremongering, hopes people don't realise this applies to seasonal flu"