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Nah I'm good, thanks. Last time you tried to "help" you killed like 10,000 people. Good luck with that.
 
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Save the Loli said:
Doing phone scams by claiming to be a contact tracer sounds easy as hell now, especially since people know health departments can threaten them with all manner of fines and house arrest. Forget saving grandma, save grandma's bank account.
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Mark my word: by this time next week, you'll see news articles about supposed Contact Tracers tricking senior citizens into giving them Amazon gift cards.
 
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I'm quite depressed to find that so many of my friends and family seem fully on board with "the new normal" and are not the least bit concerned about this going on forever.

I went mushroom hunting with my best friend who I hadn't seen in months and she kept her mask on the whole time and it just really bummed me out that we couldn't even fuck off to the woods in the middle of nowhere without this COVID shit following us around.

Some days I feel like I'm losing my mind, I feel so alienated from people right now. I'm so happy I'm moving back to rural southern appalachia soon (only good thing about this pandemic is that there's never been a better time to sell your house if you live in suburb of NYC, the rats are fleeing the ship!)

Do you guys think we'll ever get any real information about how effective the cloth masks actually are? It's crazy how taboo it is to be even remotely skeptical about whether or not they actually do fuck all. Like, for someone who is genuinely concerned about getting sick, wouldn't you want to know if it actually helps? That's why it seems like such a security blanket/totem to me. It makes people feel more secure, and whether they objectively do anything or not is irrelevant.

Sorry to blogpost, all this shit is really getting under my skin now and I feel really hopeless some days. The fact that it's verboten to even slightly question anything about this really creeps me out.
 
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If the virus was as deadly to one and all as they were claiming, then the protests would have killed thousands by now. Notice anyone missing? That's what I thought.
Personally I'll wear a mask in stores just because meh, whatever. But I will not put up with anyone saying this is normal, because it is not. I don't go start arguments but I stand firm on my opinion that it isn't that bad, but they can go do what they want.
I think what irritates me most about it is that it doesn't matter that I do not fear the germs, it's that if a business I want to visit is run by someone too afraid to open, then it isn't open. So frustrating.
 
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afternoon_tea said:
I'm quite depressed to find that so many of my friends and family seem fully on board with "the new normal" and are not the least bit concerned about this going on forever.

Some days I feel like I'm losing my mind, I feel so alienated from people right now. I'm so happy I'm moving back to rural southern appalachia soon (only good thing about this pandemic is that there's never been a better time to sell your house if you live in suburb of NYC, the rats are fleeing the ship!)

Do you guys think we'll ever get any real information about how effective the cloth masks actually are? It's crazy how taboo it is to be even remotely skeptical about whether or not they actually do fuck all. Like, for someone who is genuinely concerned about getting sick, wouldn't you want to know if it actually helps? That's why it seems like such a security blanket/totem to me. It makes people feel more secure, and whether they objectively do anything or not is irrelevant.

Sorry to blogpost, all this shit is really getting under my skin now and I feel really hopeless some days. The fact that it's verboten to even slightly question anything about this really creeps me out.
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Nah, man, glad you let it out. I think A LOT of us are there right now. The thing was, the state of the world was not that great before covid, society has managed to sink itself to levels that would make any normal person existential, depressed, and suicidal.

I've noticed whenever I bring up concerns of this lasting forever, everyone just shakes it off, "It's not possible, nothing lasts forever." Then I ask, well how long do you think this will last? "Until a vaccine shows efficacy." I ask, will that take what, two to five years? Possibly ten? By then the next plague will have come out. They get quiet. They can't fathom forever. Which makes perfect sense, only someone completely removed from the future could ever support lockdown measures.

I'm trying to focus on cultivating the perfect home while looking for another one in an even more conservative state. As much as I love my home, my things, the beings inside, it's become a bunker. It can't be anything else right now.
 
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afternoon_tea said:
I'm quite depressed to find that so many of my friends and family seem fully on board with "the new normal" and are not the least bit concerned about this going on forever.

I went mushroom hunting with my best friend who I hadn't seen in months and she kept her mask on the whole time and it just really bummed me out that we couldn't even fuck off to the woods in the middle of nowhere without this COVID shit following us around.

Some days I feel like I'm losing my mind, I feel so alienated from people right now. I'm so happy I'm moving back to rural southern appalachia soon (only good thing about this pandemic is that there's never been a better time to sell your house if you live in suburb of NYC, the rats are fleeing the ship!)

Do you guys think we'll ever get any real information about how effective the cloth masks actually are? It's crazy how taboo it is to be even remotely skeptical about whether or not they actually do fuck all. Like, for someone who is genuinely concerned about getting sick, wouldn't you want to know if it actually helps? That's why it seems like such a security blanket/totem to me. It makes people feel more secure, and whether they objectively do anything or not is irrelevant.

Sorry to blogpost, all this shit is really getting under my skin now and I feel really hopeless some days. The fact that it's verboten to even slightly question anything about this really creeps me out.
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Even the mask nazis admit they have zero effectiveness on stopping the wearer contracting this or any other virus. All they do is reduce some of the aerosol spray of virus in infected people when they cough or sneeze. That's it. That is the sum total of their usefulness.

I've noticed less and less mask compliance in shops where I live in the UK and have been testing the waters myself this past 2 weeks. Only one local shop had lads stationed at the door who asked me politely in a very roundabout way to wear one. I complied because there is no point in making min wage staff's day worse. Other shops I strolled in and around and to the counter without challenge. Those shops I will return to in preference. The attitudes of shop really seems to vary though. There is one charity shop where I live that you would swear thinks we're all about to die imminently. They refuse to let more than 3 customers in at a tine, practically assault you with hand santizer upon entering , require masks and are also refusing to take any donations. So they have fuck all customers and dwindling stock. They may as well just close for all the money they're not going to take doing this.

There are other shops where they're chill as fuck and just happy to be back in business and they're being used, unshockingly, in preference to the ones operating under an atmosphere of fear.

The funniest thing I've witnessed is a discussion in a local booze shop between two grest big fat middle aged fucks about how they'll refuse service to non mask wearers. Saw one of said fat fucks later standing in the doorway unmasked, sucking down a cigarette and blowing cig smoke onto anyone entering. Yep, they're all about HEALTH. That's right. Not just fat control freak smokers happy to accuse someone else of being unhealthy for once.

Oh and as of last weekend there wss ONE COVID-19 patient left in our large local hospital's Covid ward. One. That is down from four a month ago. There is no real spike or sudden surge of hospitalization occurring. The media would like us to believe otherwise but I trust the info from relatives actually working in the hospital over the agenda of the media.
 
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I watched a film the other night and was disturbed to find myself surprised that the characters were moving freely around without wearing masks.

Crazy how what was so normal can seem so bizarre in the space of 6 months. I always assumed it would take longer to indoctrinate people, like the boiling frog analogy, but it turns out you can do it in a very short period of time.

Humans are adaptable. This is both a blessing and a curse. Anything can become normal if we are exposed to it for long enough.
 
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What's most infuriating is that, unlike the rest of 2020's shenanigans, you simply can't escape the "new normal" bullshit even for a single minute. Regular politics, BLM, the riots, international (aka China) fuckery, all of that's relatively easy to tune out (at least in my case). But not this new quarantine lockdown world order crap. Doesn't matter where you are, what you do, where you look, they have made absol-fucking-lutely sure that this propaganda has, pun intended, infected every single goddamn facet of life.

I genuinely have not felt this consistently angry and irritated in my life based on the simple fact that you can't escape from the insanity. And I'm sure that's exactly what they want, to drive us all to fucking madness.
 
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UntimelyDhelmise said:
What's most infuriating is that, unlike the rest of 2020's shenanigans, you simply can't escape the "new normal" bullshit even for a single minute. Regular politics, BLM, the riots, international (aka China) fuckery, all of that's relatively easy to tune out (at least in my case). But not this new quarantine lockdown world order crap. Doesn't matter where you are, what you do, where you look, they have made absol-fucking-lutely sure that this propaganda has, pun intended, infected every single goddamn facet of life.

I genuinely have not felt this consistently angry and irritated in my life based on the simple fact that you can't escape from the insanity. And I'm sure that's exactly what they want, to drive us all to fucking madness.
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It really does feel like living in the prelude to 1984, which may sound dramatic, but that book really predicted a whole helluva lot of fuckery that we are living through.
 
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Save the Loli said:
Big Pharma created the opioid epidemic to make more money. They barely got a slap on the wrist for it despite harming millions of people and causing billions on economic damage. And that's the most evil and damaging shit they've done. Pushing troon culture to teens to sell banned hormone medications, making sure ADHD and autism is overdiagnosed and putting kids on all sorts of drugs, there is literally nothing too far for these people and at worst they get a slap on the wrist for their crimes.
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I remember an interview with a Pharma exec - I think she was at Pfizer but could be wrong. She was downright exultant at the prospect of getting Prozac into prisons. Basically said mandated drug treatment in prisons (through pressure or force) was this huge market that was going to be this massive cash cow. Big pharmaceutical companies wont rest until every single person on the planet has been diagnosed with something that requires their drugs. They're like Nurgleites in WH40K. They want the whole planet sick.

Buffy the SJW slayer said:
It really does feel like living in the prelude to 1984, which may sound dramatic, but that book really predicted a whole helluva lot of fuckery that we are living through.
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If you want to picture the future, imagine a mask wrapped around a human face, forever.
 
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Overly Serious said:
I remember an interview with a Pharma exec - I think she was at Pfizer but could be wrong. She was downright exultant at the prospect of getting Prozac into prisons. Basically said mandated drug treatment in prisons (through pressure or force) was this huge market that was going to be this massive cash cow. Big pharmaceutical companies wont rest until every single person on the planet has been diagnosed with something that requires their drugs. They're like Nurgleites in WH40K. They want the whole planet sick.



If you want to picture the future, imagine a mask wrapped around a human face, forever.
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I mean...the human condition is made up of so many complex pieces. Life is hard and involves plenty of suffering. Even when happy we are always slaves to our biological impulses and urges which can be uncomfortable at times. It's like with depression. It's not wrong or bad or weird to feel sad and although there are legitimate cases of debilitating hereditary depression, often it's simply a reaction to the world we live in or a series of personal traumas or rotten luck or faulty thinking processes. Same with anxiety. There are always a minority of people who need greater help, but for most sufferers, it's simply a part of the human condition superimposed over with happy pills.
 
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UntimelyDhelmise said:
What's most infuriating is that, unlike the rest of 2020's shenanigans, you simply can't escape the "new normal" bullshit even for a single minute. Regular politics, BLM, the riots, international (aka China) fuckery, all of that's relatively easy to tune out (at least in my case). But not this new quarantine lockdown world order crap. Doesn't matter where you are, what you do, where you look, they have made absol-fucking-lutely sure that this propaganda has, pun intended, infected every single goddamn facet of life.

I genuinely have not felt this consistently angry and irritated in my life based on the simple fact that you can't escape from the insanity. And I'm sure that's exactly what they want, to drive us all to fucking madness.
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Reminds me that at work, they actually put masks on the statues inside the lobby areas. God forbid anybody sees even a stone statue without a mask on. Then there's the billboards that say shit like "Having a good time? Well, don't forget Covid wants to party, too. SOCIAL DISTANCE!"

Like, I won't lie. Before all of this I already tried to find as few excuses as possible to go out. But then when it comes time to think about taking a small vacation up north with the wife, I find myself thinking what's the point? Just going to be reminded of this shit no matter where you go.

To anyone who lives in MI outside of the SE hellhole, how is it out there?
 
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Save the Loli said:
Doing phone scams by claiming to be a contact tracer sounds easy as hell now
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Imagine the practical jokes like Twitch support.

"Psss this is the CDC, it appears that you may have been in contact with an infected, stay where you are until we pick you up so we can test you, if you need to use the bathroom, just pee in a plastic cup and drink it, we can't risk any further contamination."
 
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Buffy the SJW slayer said:
Certainly one of the most disturbing parts of all this is people's ease with policing one another. Reminds me of the whole, 'first they came for the communists' thing.
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Yup, too easy for too many. Such people are just sheep. I mind my own business and expect others to keep their fucking mouths shut about anything I do or don't do.

Here's a story of a snowflake's unemployment saga. Good luck finding a job these days, twat. Don't believe I'd hire her to shine my shoes.




Here's a story about another whiny bitch kvetching about people enjoying themselves. If I was mayor of SF I'd clean up my city before I said anything to anyone about anything else. Guess this "mayor" loves presiding over the national shithouse.




And one about a sheep sucker-punching an American for not wearing a mask. GTR of the sheep.


 
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