Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[he who has thus come/gone]

Amen. If you're looking for encouragement, read Psalms and Proverbs (just not from the Passion translation, that's garbage). Even if you're not a believer there are truths and comfort to be gleaned.

The NRSV is great despite the avoidance it gets from denominations, which I'll never understand. Comparing it to the Hebrew and the Greek, it does a very good job (where it can) of just giving the direct translation. You can't get the same sense of poetry as in the Hebrew of Psalms and Proverbs, of course, but that's just a matter of translation. I have a couple of issues, like the translation of John 17:12, but most of the time the problem is that the Hebrew is purposefully wacky and it's tough to even figure out exactly what's being said.

I'd add Ecclesiastes to it, for obvious reasons, and Job. At the very least, it's quite interesting to see people 2000+ years ago wrestle with the exact same problems we do now. It makes you realize that the answers secular liberals try and provide to life's questions are basically untethered from the human experience. What's it mean to live a wise and good life? Nobody has ever had a good answer, so you shouldn't just buy into what the left (or elements of the right) tries to argue.

And the cycle from Judges to 2 Kings is also great, but it's not wisdom literature so it's more of a case of reading an interesting historical narrative and deriving lessons from the figures, how they fuck up, why they fuck up, etc.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Literally everyone in the world will have caught COVID at least once in the next five years. It is a virus. That's how viruses work. I don't think a lot of these people realize that.

I hate to be uber-technical, but highly contagious airborne virus.

Obviously, this doesn't apply to sexually-transmitted, contact-transmitted, mosquito/tick/flee-borne, food-borne or even less contagious airborne viri. Its why most everyone will be exposed to multiple species of rhinoviruses, but most of us will not contract HIV.
Otherwise, you aren't wrong.

 

[Disheveled Human]

I hate to be uber-technical, but highly contagious airborne virus.

Obviously, this doesn't apply to sexually-transmitted, contact-transmitted, mosquito/tick/flee-borne, food-borne or even less contagious airborne viri.

Yeah lets add a second flu like disease yearly to the mix lets shave off a few years of life expectancy globally.

 

[PaleTay]

I have noticed that the mask zealots are starting to double down even harder as it begins to look like we might get relief soon. I saw a couple articles claiming that one mask isn't good enough, we really should be wearing two (because of muh new strain.) And several businesses I have visited have had signs that lay out specifically that not only must you wear a mask, it has to be a mask-mask and not one of those bandanas, and you have to have it all the way up to the top of your nose. The governor also released a PSA about how it's not good enough to just cover your mouth and the end of your nose where the air comes and goes, you have to cover alllllll the way up to your eyes like the way the liberal ladies like to wear their cloth masks. I got screamed at by some harpy when I was buying a loaf of bread at the bakery the other day, because I had a bandana around my face instead of a goddamn muzzle. "MASK! MASK!" I think these ugly mofos are going to push to make these things permanent because they derive some sick satisfaction from being able to hide their faces and forcing us to hide ours.

I like the bandanas because when I flex my neck it pulls it down.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Coofism is a fake and gay religion at this point.
If the case numbers go up it's always the fault of the unworthy sinners who didn't wear enough masks and didn't isolate themselves enough because THE SCIENCE says that with enough lockdowns and mask wearing we'd totally eradicate the virus like China has.

And btw, the stuff I'm hearing from colleagues with children is just bad.
One guy had his 10 year old daughter start wetting her bed again, another has her son go into full bore depression.
Another has her grandkid develop OCD, he now washes his hand after touching everything.

Among families I know there are:
-preschoolers who have developed insomnia and what looks to me like miniature depression/anxiety since their preschool shut down. They only started getting to see ANY kids their age again when their parents started having literal illegal speakeasy playgroup once per week.

-a kid who started skin picking

-a kid who developed a weird fixation on death

-pretty much all the teenagers act like they are depressed, none of them seem normal anymore

-angry, angry kids. Aggressive, pushy, impatient, rude, when they never had behavior issues before. Looks to me like the irritability that comes with depression and anxiety.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Yeah lets add a second flu like disease yearly to the mix lets shave off a few years of life expectancy globally.

Are you seriously as retarded IRL as you present yourself on here?

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Yeah lets add a second flu like disease yearly to the mix lets shave off a few years of life expectancy globally.

Hamburgers and alcohol also shave off global life expectancy yet nobody wants to have the government force salad down peoples throats and provide part of their electricity through stationary bike. Do a flip libtard

 

[Vault Boy]

Yeah lets add a second flu like disease yearly to the mix lets shave off a few years of life expectancy globally.

You act like that hasn't already happened, our most practical hope is for it to grow weaker until it's like a cold.

Pushing for unending lockdowns for a "chance" to eradicate Corona will just bring even more ruin to us all.

 

[Ruin]

Lol I predicted this 2 mask shit months ago.

One Mask Is Good. Would Two Be Better?

Health experts double down on their advice for slowing the spread of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

Covid protection gear circa 2023.

 

[Disheveled Human]

You act like that hasn't already happened, our most practical hope is for it to grow weaker until it's like a cold.

Pushing for unending lockdowns for a "chance" to eradicate Corona will just bring even more ruin to us all.

How do you know. Practical if wrong could be really bad if there is a dangerous mutation that happens. Why fuck with that when we got a solution. Just chill and get microchiped pussy.

 

[The handsome tard]

Why is it that people who claim to "love" their animals always abuse them, like redditors living in tiny, stale smelling apartments with no sunlight having a cat live with them in their pigsty? All dogs deserve to live on a big property/farm with a huge backyard to around in and all housecats deserve a yuge house to roam around in and do cat things.

Im a dog lover and I choose to not have any dogs for the simple reason Im a very busy person and I sadly would have not much free time for them. I know dogs require a lot of love, care and space...and when you dont grant them that, they predictably become depressed. Obviously "ANIMAL DEFENDERS" dont give a shit about their well being, only their brownie points on social media they can get THROUGH animals. They love animals until they gotta go to the bathroom and want their attention when they are live streaming to their soyboys, then its abuse time (hey, if you are popular enough Twich aint gonna do shit about ya, especially if you are a female or transgender)

 

[Elysian]

It’s been an eventful day.

Turns out all the people in my Nan’s house do have the coof after all. Hope they’re doing okay.

While we were eating lunch my sister mentioned how her best mate went out to do something fun again and left her location on over on Snapchat. She was very annoyed that her friend went outside because as I mentioned before, her dad works in a care home. She’s being selfish, apparently, because if she goes out and passes the coof onto her dad then her dad will kill all the grannies in the retirement home and it’ll all be her fault. My sister then floated the idea of snitching on her to the police if she continues this behaviour, and instead of being like holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you, BOTH MY PARENTS AGREED. I honestly despair.

Then we were playing board games and while we were doing so, my sister’s boyfriend came over to give her some birthday presents. He didn’t actually come in the house, just stood in the doorway in the cold while The Exchange took place. I tried to persuade my mom to let him in to play board games with us but she refused. “He’s not allowed in!” she said, and then I was like “He’s not allowed out either, and yet here we are!”. He still didn’t come in though. Mom said he couldn’t since his mom has lupus, or she put it “she’s on the endangered species list”.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

How do you know. Practical if wrong could be really bad if there is a dangerous mutation that happens. Why fuck with that when we got a solution. Just chill and get microchiped pussy.

Your PhD from Plague Inc. is worthless here

 

[Blake Chortles]

How do you know. Practical if wrong could be really bad if there is a dangerous mutation that happens. Why fuck with that when we got a solution. Just chill and get microchiped pussy.

Thats more of a movie thing than a real life thing.

 

[The handsome tard]

My sister then floated the idea of snitching on her to the police if she continues this behaviour, and instead of being like holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you, BOTH MY PARENTS AGREED. I honestly despair.

I dont want to sound like a woman hater or any liberal bullcrap terms but women always selling out those next to them, even their entire civilization, is oddly recurrent, I even dare call it "biblical", isnt ?

Its literally the first thing to comes to her mind, selling out those next to her to authority. And whats more disgusting? Her parents agreed. If my daughter suggested ratting out her own like this, I would have at least smacked her cross the lips for suggesting that over shit that minor.

Then we were playing board games and while we were doing so, my sister’s boyfriend came over to give her some birthday presents. He didn’t actually come in the house, just stood in the doorway in the cold while The Exchange took place. I tried to persuade my mom to let him in to play board games with us but she refused. “He’s not allowed in!” she said, and then I was like “He’s not allowed out either, and yet here we are!”. He still didn’t come in though. Mom said he couldn’t since his mom has lupus, or she put it “she’s on the endangered species list”.

That...that sounds exactly like a Black Mirror or Twilight Zone episode scene. You know, the one that serves to establish how the world we are following is frighteningly dystopic and the people around the protagonists acting like the standard while he is the only one that seems to know something is extremely wrong.

Seriously, I expect Rob Serling to walk in to narrate the opening before the episode begins proper.

Im honestly speechless.

How do you know. Practical if wrong could be really bad if there is a dangerous mutation that happens. Why fuck with that when we got a solution. Just chill and get microchiped pussy.

Unlike everyone trying to be civil, I wont. Allow me to properly call you a retard

*clean throat* You are a fucking

 

[Bakarina]

Seriously, I expect Rob Serling to walk in to narrate the opening before the episode begins proper.

Im honestly speechless.

Rob Sterling wasn't supposed to be a prophet. Animal Farm wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual. And yet, here we are.

And now we have a large caravan heading to the US, in the middle of a "super cereal" pandemic, in order to receive refugee status or some shit. Piss off.

 

[Ari Gold]

The darkest timeline marches on:

Coyne's matter-of-fact onstage explanation of his stunt that fateful Sunday was: “I had a dream that I would arrive at Coachella in a bubble descended from outer space.” But even a visionary like Coyne could not have dreamed that 17 years later, the plastic bubble, which has since become a signature part of any Lips’ concert, would actually become a concert-safety necessity. On Jan. 22 and 23, the Flaming Lips will play two sold-out Space Bubble Concerts at the Criterion club in their hometown of Oklahoma City — with not just Coyne and his bandmates in bubbles, but every single one of the audience members, up to three at a time, in their own individually sealed spheres as well.

A cartoon posted by Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. (Photo: Instagram)

Coyne actually insists, “I would say these types of shows are safer than going to the grocery store — if only because some people at the grocery store don't think that the virus is very hazardous. But if you're in a space bubble at our show, whether or not you believe [the coronavirus] is real, whether you believe it's the worst thing in the world, it doesn't matter — you're in a space bubble, so you can't affect anybody else in the way that you would [elsewhere]. Whereas, at the grocery store, 70 percent of us are six feet apart and masked and acting like this is a serious endeavor, and then there's three or four people that just want to come up and be right in your face and talk. It’s awkward to have to say, ‘Dude, you can't talk to me. This isn't the way we do things now. You can't just come up and be in my face, you know?’ I don't like that. It's just an awkward position. But at these shows that we're doing, we will have ushers and monitors set up, so you can't do that. All these people are in bubbles. You can't just go have a little party because you want to.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wayne-coyne-on-why-the-flaming-lips-bubble-concerts-are-safer-than-going-to-the-grocery-store-204020253.html

 

[The handsome tard]

The darkest timeline marches on:


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A cartoon posted by Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. (Photo: Instagram)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wayne-coyne-on-why-the-flaming-lips-bubble-concerts-are-safer-than-going-to-the-grocery-store-204020253.html

Usually something like this is so utterly moronic and insane that its obviously the whole point, its meant to show and reflect upon us on how WE are the moronic and insane ones.

But we live in the time where the parodies of yesterday being the political arguments of today, so I dont even know anymore...

 

[Blasterisk]

So I recently had a recollection of a conversation that I can date with certainty to 2018 -- and imagined myself in a mask while holding it.

Dare I ask it all just stop?

 

[Vince McMahon]

So I recently had a recollection of a conversation that I can date with certainty to 2018 -- and imagined myself in a mask while holding it.

Dare I ask it all just stop?

Muzzling continues until morale improves.