Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[General Disarray]

I don't need to wait for children to ask that question. I have already seen adverts for Holidays in Turkey - thanks YouTube - where the child in i it is marvelling at all the health robots/checks that parents assure them is to keep them healthy. They mention it is like something out of science fiction. Masks were worn.

We are absolutely being set up to never go back.

Mask wearing is here to stay.

I commented on the new ads being pushed in my area in the Biden megathread. Basically he says the virus is #1 concern and that he would institute a Federal mask mandate IMMEDIATELY. Inauguration is in January. This tells me that TPTB know full well they will keep pushing this and has already signaled that masking up is to be "our new normal." Goddamn I cannot wait until the elections because this shit is completely off the rails out of control. Both myself and my roommate feel stupid and disgusted that we were sanitizing everything, not going out anywhere, etc. when this pandemic first dropped. I know other people have to be feeling the same.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Are face coverings pro-Nazi yet? https://secure.winred.com/tmagac/trump-face-coverings

 

[Carnavoyeur]

San Diego is now off the state's "watchlist" since cases are finally going down (wonder if it's because they shut down a bunch of the testing sites and have gone back to only testing symptomatic and high risk people?) but the only thing they're allowing to reopen are schools. All the businesses that remained closed or had to close as a result of the city being on the watchlist have to wait for "guidance" from the state.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Seems these lockdown-happy authorities pretty much want everyone under endless house arrest - with solitary confinement. Tech companies salivate at the idea because it means people would depend on their highly censored services for keeping in touch.

 

[Chiang Kai-shek]

It just keeps pissing me off more and more how completely brainwashed everyone is about this shit. Like it's genuinely been affecting my day to day mood as of late having to see the absolute ignorance of why all of this is fucking stupid. Smug asshole after smug asshole after smug fucking asshole shoving mask propaganda in my face every single fucking corner I turn, I can't stand this shit anymore. And of course all the memes about how America is doing so bad with "cases" because we "can't behave ourselves" compared to the rest of the world.

FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.

I don't even think Mao or Stalin had this bad of a cult of personality. I'm half expecting struggle sessions for mask reactionaries at this point.

 

[The Nothingness]

One thing that has crossed my mind throughout this pandemic is why allow yourself to grow into the senior citizen age range? I keep hearing how those who don't follow the safety guidelines are selfish but it seems to me that those who want to shut the whole country down because they are more susceptible to the disease are the selfish ones.

I guess it is because deep down we all want to leave this mortal coil on our own terms.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Funny that you mentioned boomers, most of the boomers that I have encountered seemed to care a lot less about this shit than the younger ones, my guess is that modern technology hasn't infected their brains that much.

 

[Vault Boy]

San Diego is now off the state's "watchlist" since cases are finally going down (wonder if it's because they shut down a bunch of the testing sites and have gone back to only testing symptomatic and high risk people?) but the only thing they're allowing to reopen are schools. All the businesses that remained closed or had to close as a result of the city being on the watchlist have to wait for "guidance" from the state.

Sure, "guidance". I simply can't wait for some more flip-flopping from the dumbasses in charge.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Yeah but San Diego is a military town, gotta get prepared for the war on Iran.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

Yes, and their refusal to shut their economy down might help them weather a potential depression better than others.

And all of you should wait until tax season before writing the "old normal" off entirely, the lack of people working is going to make it a worse year in terms of state revenue. Once governors, state employees, and "experts" see their income take a hit and the possibility of their positions being cut for budget concerns, it might be enough for them to snap out of their authoritarian mindsets and end the "new normal" ASAP, if only to save their own skins.

Agreed. I'm just remaining optimistic hoping this will end because if just not sustainable. I don't like ghe defeatist attitude people have about this

 

[LetThemEatCake]

According to relatives who work there, there are low single-digit COVID patients in our large local hospital in the UK now. 4000 staff have been tested and he infection numbers or rates are 'negligable' so they're dialling back the testing program.

I fear the future will continue to be even this level of cases being treated as a continuing pandemic and a reason to foist new restrictions on us or refuse to lift those existing ones.

It's frustrating, depressing and I've noticed more and more people getting angry, pissy and suffering various declines in menal health the longer this goes on, with the prospect of it never.stopping being the main factor.

I'm also noticing a small increase in mask non-compliance in shops and so on. Nobody much challenging it, thankfully. Don't think anyone can deal with tthe aggro. I forgot my mask the other day, thtought fuck it, and entered a local convenience shop that was empty anyway, to buy the one item I needed then fuck off home. Shop owner gave me no hassle from behind his plastic screen.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

Meanwhile, in Connecticut/reality...


There have been five deaths total within the typical undergrad and graduate student age ranges, and any professors who are so worried about corona can probably take a semester or year off or teach remotely or retire already. Nothing indicates that deaths are imminent for otherwise cautious, healthy, "privileged" people; I guarantee that most of the deaths in CT in people under 70--hell, over 70 as well--have been chronically ill, obese, poor, and/or black or Latino populations.

Fuck your fear-mongering, Yale.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Funny that you mentioned boomers, most of the boomers that I have encountered seemed to care a lot less about this shit than the younger ones, my guess is that modern technology hasn't infected their brains that much.

That, and they grew up in an age of childhood diseases that would terrify the mask crowd. Pertussis, diphtheria, measles, mumps, polio. If you made it through that gauntlet, and you didn't lose your hearing, or eyesight, or the use of legs, you'd probably live a long, full life. Which in those days was 65, 70? We've made huge advances in prolonging life, but this generation was habituated to expect a riskier, shorter life. They are not going to gauge risk the same way as millennials and zoomers.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Are face coverings pro-Nazi yet? https://secure.winred.com/tmagac/trump-face-coverings

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"Wear your mask citizen!"
"No, not that mask!"

 

[deeplyhigh]

This behavioral study conducted by Franklin Templeton and Gallup has been out for nearly a month, but is not being covered. Why is that? It is a scathing indictment of media and politicians pushing fear over facts.







Conclusion:

 

[Tumbo]

People just need to fucking wash their hands and cough into their elbows simple shit no need to sanitize everything and hide in your apartments.

 

[0x0]

People just need to fucking wash their hands and cough into their elbows simple shit no need to sanitize everything and hide in your apartments.

Viruses are not as simple as merely washing hands and wearing masks, although I doubt the long term viability of lockdowns.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Viruses are not as simple as merely washing hands and wearing masks....

This one is. Some are even simpler. You don't even have to wash your hands or wear a mask to avoid HIV, for example. Unless you do some interesting things with your hands and your face. Like doing surgery on HIV+ people.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

https://nypost.com/2020/08/18/youtuber-creates-mask-shooting-gun-invention-to-target-anti-maskers/amp/

 

[Particle Bored]