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That's ok, they're just clumps of cells.

Imagine locking yourself up in your house for months at a time. Your entire life in stasis, nothing changing. The Eternal Present.

With plenty of time to consoom, endless consooming to cope with the misery of your existence, free from any distraction.
 
The faggy HR department at my work have implemented a mandatory n95 policy...starting Monday of course. Can't avert the danger too quickly. They've also slipped a snitch line for violations under the radar. Everyone I've told about the snitch line has been surprised to learn that it exists.

Looking forward to getting fired for not wearing a mask at work starting on Monday, and also for the past 6 months
 
The faggy HR department at my work have implemented a mandatory n95 policy...starting Monday of course. Can't avert the danger too quickly. They've also slipped a snitch line for violations under the radar. Everyone I've told about the snitch line has been surprised to learn that it exists.

Looking forward to getting fired for not wearing a mask at work starting on Monday, and also for the past 6 months

Could you buy an elastomeric P100 respirator and use that instead? It might at least do something.
 
Could you buy an elastomeric P100 respirator and use that instead? It might at least do something.

I have an NBC mask left over from the military that I could wear, but I don't because A. I'm not afraid of the fucking flu, B. I already had it. I would hazard to guess almost everyone at the company had it when we worked on a plane in January that had been flying back and forth from Wuhan. Yes, that one.

I refuse to comply with this humiliation ritual, and I'm looking forward to losing everything in my life and jumping off a fucking waterfall because of it
 
I have an NBC mask left over from the military that I could wear, but I don't because A. I'm not afraid of the fucking flu, B. I already had it. I would hazard to guess almost everyone at the company had it when we worked on a plane in January that had been flying back and forth from Wuhan. Yes, that one.

I refuse to comply with this humiliation ritual, and I'm looking forward to losing everything in my life and jumping off a fucking waterfall because of it

I commend you for your dedication good sir, I also refuse to play along with this nonsense no matter what.
 
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14 million cases, is that just in the US, which has a population of over 328 million? Does it somehow count all the people that got covid and recovered without ever going to the doctor or getting tested? So many layers of things to think about.
They are cases in the US. The source is Johns Hopkins University
 
The faggy HR department at my work have implemented a mandatory n95 policy...starting Monday of course. Can't avert the danger too quickly. They've also slipped a snitch line for violations under the radar. Everyone I've told about the snitch line has been surprised to learn that it exists.

Looking forward to getting fired for not wearing a mask at work starting on Monday, and also for the past 6 months
It can't be any worse than wearing the blue paper ones for 10 to 8 hours a day. We can't bring or wear any other ones. The blue grandpa mask ones are shit and making your face gross.
 
I've so far resisted the urge to wear my big ass last-gen PAPR system in public. I've been thinking about it for months. TBH I need a cameraman so it can be a real piss take, it's no fun unless I go full sketch comedy with it.

I just want to walk around the grocery store handling things and wiping stuff off with glass cleaner, then raise the visor to reveal another P100 HEPA half-face underneath, and yell "I'm SCARED".

I think anyone who is being pressured into compliance by forces they have little recourse against should go all the way and insist they buy you a PAPR or install fresh air lines, you can actually make a serious argument using both the supposed "danger" of the virus and the fact that some people have trouble breathing with any kind of negative pressure setup, justifying a full-bore positive pressure powered-air unit.

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The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning.

School districts from coast to coast have reported the number of students failing classes has risen by as many as two or three times — with English language learners and disabled and disadvantaged students suffering the most.
“It was completely off the rails from what is normal for us, and that was obviously very alarming,” said Erik Jespersen, principal of Oregon's McNary High School, where 38% of grades in late October were failing, compared with 8% in normal times.

 
Fucking imagine that. The people who would benefit the most from sitting in a physical classroom are not doing well in distant learning. Color me shocked (I'm not at all surprised).

I have a friend with a son who is severely dyslexic. He was getting side help before this year to handle it but that side help was axed right before the schools closed down this spring. Teachers also refuse to respond to phone calls and emails and no one will meet with my friend to compromise with the situation so now the kid who actually used to like school and dreamed of being an engineer hates school with a vehement passion which is upsetting for everyone involved.
 
The faggy HR department at my work have implemented a mandatory n95 policy...starting Monday of course. Can't avert the danger too quickly. They've also slipped a snitch line for violations under the radar. Everyone I've told about the snitch line has been surprised to learn that it exists.

Looking forward to getting fired for not wearing a mask at work starting on Monday, and also for the past 6 months
What drugs is your HR office on? An N95 mask protects the wearer, if used properly and replaced frequently, but no one else. If you're in the US, the CDC recommends the general public does not wear an N95, and anecdotally they aren't even allowed on aircraft, at least the ones I have been on recently. Anyone who is infected will exhale droplets right through the valve, and depending on how enclosed your workspace is, air circulation, etc., they could linger for hours. Anyone who gets sick could sue your employer for making their employees wear an N95 against CDC guidelines.
 
What drugs is your HR office on? An N95 mask protects the wearer, if used properly and replaced frequently, but no one else. If you're in the US, the CDC recommends the general public does not wear an N95, and anecdotally they aren't even allowed on aircraft, at least the ones I have been on recently. Anyone who is infected will exhale droplets right through the valve, and depending on how enclosed your workspace is, air circulation, etc., they could linger for hours. Anyone who gets sick could sue your employer for making their employees wear an N95 against CDC guidelines.

I don't know what they're doing. I plan on taking a lot of 4-hour shits at work over the next few weeks.
 
Fucking imagine that. The people who would benefit the most from sitting in a physical classroom are not doing well in distant learning. Color me shocked (I'm not at all surprised).

I have a friend with a son who is severely dyslexic. He was getting side help before this year to handle it but that side help was axed right before the schools closed down this spring. Teachers also refuse to respond to phone calls and emails and no one will meet with my friend to compromise with the situation so now the kid who actually used to like school and dreamed of being an engineer hates school with a vehement passion which is upsetting for everyone involved.
The article said the students who were doing well in school before are actually even doing slightly better online. But the lower half of the cohort is falling off a cliff that is only really being solved by getting the kids back in a fucking classroom and intensive support.

But some old person might die, so best we cripple our children.
 
The latest drivel from the county where I live. Typical limp-dicked shit from that overpaid fuck Moreno. Have a medical appointment tomorrow. Plan to ask doctor if due to physical condition can go into stores without a mask. Plan to go by Costco to get some things. If I see I will have to wait in line like a fucking penitent to get in will just go home. Don't need anything from downtown that much these days to put up with the shit.

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE

December 6, 2020, 3:09 p.m.


ICU CAPACITY HOLDING STEADY AFTER MORENO SAYS HE MAY SHUT COUNTY ANYWAY

In the wake of Monterey County Health Officer Dr. Ed Moreno's announcement Friday that he may join five San Francisco Bay area counties in imposing a new set of coronavirus shutdown rules regardless of Monterey County's ICU status, the number of patients in this county needing intensive care for Covid-19 has held steady, while the overall number of hospital patients with Covid-19 has declined, according to the latest data from the county health department and the California Department of Public Health.

On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state's hospitals were reaching their capacity to treat patients with coronavirus, and he announced a new level of shutdowns in places where fewer than 15 percent of ICU beds were open. He designated five regions where the new threshold would apply, and two of those regions — San Joaquin Valley and Southern California — have already fallen below it and are subject to the new shutdown regimen.

The Greater Bay Area region, including Monterey County, was well above the threshold when Newsom made his announcement. Nevertheless, five of the regions' counties (San Francisco, Santa Clara, Marin, Alameda and Contra Costa) announced Friday they would preemptively impose the shutdown rules anyway. A short time later, Moreno said he was considering doing the same thing.

But this weekend, the Greater Bay Area region saw its ICU capacity improve to 24.1 percent, and in Monterey County the number of available ICU beds increased from 15 to 20, while the number of patients hospitalized with coronavirus decreased from 90 to 87, according to state data. How those numbers will affect what Moreno chooses to do will probably become clearer tomorrow. His Friday announcement implied that he could decide to impose Newsom's strict shutdown rules at any time, and that his decision wouldn't necessarily be tethered to anything the governor might do, or to any particular data or criteria.

Meanwhile, we can also tell you that Monterey County's overall coronavirus picture has improved slightly as of today, with 1,260 new cases reported over the last seven days, including 902 in Salinas and the Salinas Valley and 172 in the Monterey Peninsula: 67 in Seaside, 45 in Marina, 32 in Monterey, 15 in Carmel area, 4 in Pebble Beach, 3 each in Big Sur, Pacific Grove and Carmel Valley, and none in Carmel-by-the-Sea, according to county health department records. The county's 7-day average of new cases per day per 100,000 residents also improved a bit, to 39.4.

There were 12 coronavirus-related fatalities in the past seven days, a county report said, bringing the total to 134 (since mid-March! What the fuck! Bet we've had multiples of that die of heart/cancer! - JS) and raising the county's coronavirus-related death rate .0002885, or 288.5 deaths per one million residents.

To see the most up-to-date charts and tables from the county health department, click here. Below, you can also find the updated versions of our charts showing coronavirus infections countywide and in the Monterey Peninsula, along with the data for hospitalizations and our chart breaking down Monterey County's coronavirus cases and infection rates by zip code. Please check these charts and tables for the latest data on coronavirus cases in your community.
 
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