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AbyssStarer said:
Trump set the US travel ban of schengen and others to go down on the 26th, but the heartless assholes in the Biden camp flip flopped from wanting the border open to saying they'll block the opening instead. Hope you have no loved ones or family with pending visas like I do.
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Obligatory "Wasn't closing the borders racist at the start of all this?"
 
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HarblMcDavid said:
This is a huge part of why legal mandates rather than advisories are a terrible idea. Especially when they claim them as magic bullets.

Nobody actually has a good sense of how much they fuck up the "prevent the spread" measures. Early on when I thought this might actually be a deadly disease I was going out more, and in doing so I tried to just keep track of my hands and my face. I applied every autistic iota of myself to being conscious what I was touching and so forth, and found that not only did I need like 5 pairs of gloves for an average errand run, but actually doing things with your hands in the right order is not easy to remember to do.

Start inside the car, put on the gloves and mask, exit car, do shopping, but when I get back to the car I face a conundrum: I've been using these gloves to touch everything...and now I need to unlock the car. I found that I had to at minimum remove one of these gloves for this, as no matter what you do, you're dealing with the shopping haul which is contaminated. The question then becomes what else do you plan to treat as contaminated? Contaminate the keys, then you need to keep one glove on just to manipulate the keys in the ignition before taking the glove off. Contaminate the door outside and you need to keep that in mind as you load your shopping and for subsequent stops. How are you taking the gloves off, are you pinching the outside of the glove and pulling, or grabbing the base of the glove (thus potentially contacting skin underneath)? Is the hand that is doing this gloved and contaminated, or not? That will change how you need to remove the glove.

This is to name just a few of things I thought about in the early days only with regards to the actual errand running, and then all this gets fucked to pieces if there's more than one person in the household because nobody does things the same way. :story:

And this is just some idiot with barely any knowledge and no training on safety procedures for dealing with highly infectious diseases, thinking about a couple parts of my body, and even trying my hardest I'd usually fuck up the order on at least one stop because humans are creatures of habit. I guarantee you that 90% of the people you see out shopping spent more time thinking about things other than their hands and their mask because of course they do, they should.

It's just fucking insane and yet we continue.
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Sanitize the gloves duh.
And not touching your ears, eyes, nose & mouth was a generic advice even before the coof because THAT'S HOW INFECTIONS SPREAD, major or minor.
 
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Ayy lmao, so now that Germany is trying to push a general rule for mandatory FFP2 masks, people are realizing that having to wear all the other masks for the past fucking year was nothing but annoyance. I mean, everybody knew that right from the start. "The masks don't protect you, they protect the others", as if the piece of cloth or paper is some sort of magic semi-permeable membrane.
When will they realize that FFP2 masks also don't really do anything but make people drowsy?
In other news: Member of the Green Party and pharmacist refuses to sell FFP2 masks to members and supporters of the far-right AfD party, and pushes for making Coof-related hospital costs for AfD members and supporters non-covered by healthcare.
Also, boss of the train service union demands people to be restricted to 1 km movement around their homes. But trains and public transport should still be available, of course.
I think I should invest in rope manufacturing. That's an industry with a bright future.
 
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I got my second dosage of the Pfizer covid vaccine yesterday. It honestly hurt a lot less than the first dosage. I only have mild arm pain only when I move my arm. I am tired because nightshift and shift rotation fucks with your biological clock. Take my tiredness with a grain of salt.

One of my coworkers called in sick today because of the side effects of the second dosage.

When it comes to people after healthcare workers and long term care facility residents, my state and my facility have not even made a plan yet in place to vaccinate everybody else. We simply don't know in the meantime. Be very afraid.
 
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Discourteous Discourse said:
My mesh masks arrived today. I ordered the super obnoxiously shiny ones for myself and a regular solid black one for my SO.
I got the rhinestone masks in the hopes that the shininess would be a distraction from the fact that it's mesh. They're so shiny it's ridiculous; I put one on and laughed when I saw myself in the mirror. The material is surprisingly strong. Despite reviewer photos, I was expecting a crappy thin piece of fabric with dollar store rhinestones glued on, but it is actually mesh, and the rhinestones are punched in with little caps on the back. There's a little bit of stretch to the material as well. The only con is that they're a bit heavy and I could feel the weight on my nose. But know what? I could breathe. It didn't sit too heavily on my ears, and didn't disturb my glasses anymore than other masks do. They have little plastic adjustment caps and can be untied. It's a million times better than having multiple layers of thick cotton pressed right up against my skin as my rosacea flares up and my glasses get completely fogged over.

Ladies, do not wear bright colored lipsticks with these masks, otherwise the shiny will not mask your fake mask.

As for the regular black mesh mask, it is a bit big as some of the reviews pointed out. It's better for men, and can comfortably fit over a small beard without messing it up. As suggested we cut out the inner lining to make it more breathable. It gets the job done. It'll be nice to go grocery shopping without feeling like we're going to pass out from breathing in our own exhaust.

Now that I think about it, these will be excellent for summer if the muzzles are still being heavily enforced. Masks make summers with unforgivable humidity an absolute nightmare. Although I don't feel bad for the retards who go running and hiking alone while wearing one.

In other news one of my relatives got the coof vaccine. I guess she was prioritized because she has non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, even though she ate herself to that point. She didn't experience any immediate side effects, and continues to run her mouth about how the flu has been eliminated because of masks. FFS I can't believe this woman used to be a registered nurse. Meanwhile the other healthcare workers in my family are praying that the vaccine isn't enforced. No one who has kept a scrap of sanity throughout this mess wants it.
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You gotta love Amazon descriptions on Chinese products. On your mask page:

"Note: It can be washed with water and won't drop the drill."

Whew. That's a relief. You know how dropping the drill just invites trouble in the shower.
 
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General Disarray said:
You gotta love Amazon descriptions on Chinese products. On your mask page:

"Note: It can be washed with water and won't drop the drill."

Whew. That's a relief. You know how dropping the drill just invites trouble in the shower.
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Honestly it could, you either get shocked or damage the drill.
 
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The Dutch are doubling down on the lockdown and proposing curfew from 20:30PM to 4:30AM. They're also reducing the number of allowed visitors from the generous two to one per day. I guess the anti-lockdown protest really rustled some jimmies and the plebs must be punished.

Kabinet wil liefst deze week nog avondklok, maar heeft steun Tweede Kamer nodig

Het demissionaire kabinet heeft woensdagmiddag bekendgemaakt een avondklok te willen invoeren. Voor deze maatregel is het kabinet wel afhankelijk van toestemming van de Tweede Kamer. Verder mag een huishouden per direct nog maximaal één persoon per dag ontvangen.
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"It's Killing Younger People" - New COVID Strain Reportedly Emerging Within Brazilian Amazon​


"It's Killing Younger People" - New COVID Strain Reportedly Emerging Within Brazilian Amazon | ZeroHedge

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"There were 710 deaths in the state (since it may still increase), of which 285 were people under 60 years old - or 40.1% of the total. Before that period, this percentage was 36.5%."

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Covid: Surge in calls to Bristol suicide prevention charity

A suicide prevention charity has had a 300% increase in calls since the start of the pandemic.
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A mental health charity has seen a 300% increase in calls to its helpline since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Volunteers from Suicide Prevention Bristol are out in force patrolling the streets of the city to help people contemplating ending their lives.
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One way or another, people are going to break.
 
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HarblMcDavid said:
This is a huge part of why legal mandates rather than advisories are a terrible idea. Especially when they claim them as magic bullets.

Nobody actually has a good sense of how much they fuck up the "prevent the spread" measures. Early on when I thought this might actually be a deadly disease I was going out more, and in doing so I tried to just keep track of my hands and my face. I applied every autistic iota of myself to being conscious what I was touching and so forth, and found that not only did I need like 5 pairs of gloves for an average errand run, but actually doing things with your hands in the right order is not easy to remember to do.

Start inside the car, put on the gloves and mask, exit car, do shopping, but when I get back to the car I face a conundrum: I've been using these gloves to touch everything...and now I need to unlock the car. I found that I had to at minimum remove one of these gloves for this, as no matter what you do, you're dealing with the shopping haul which is contaminated. The question then becomes what else do you plan to treat as contaminated? Contaminate the keys, then you need to keep one glove on just to manipulate the keys in the ignition before taking the glove off. Contaminate the door outside and you need to keep that in mind as you load your shopping and for subsequent stops. How are you taking the gloves off, are you pinching the outside of the glove and pulling, or grabbing the base of the glove (thus potentially contacting skin underneath)? Is the hand that is doing this gloved and contaminated, or not? That will change how you need to remove the glove.

This is to name just a few of things I thought about in the early days only with regards to the actual errand running, and then all this gets fucked to pieces if there's more than one person in the household because nobody does things the same way. :story:

And this is just some idiot with barely any knowledge and no training on safety procedures for dealing with highly infectious diseases, thinking about a couple parts of my body, and even trying my hardest I'd usually fuck up the order on at least one stop because humans are creatures of habit. I guarantee you that 90% of the people you see out shopping spent more time thinking about things other than their hands and their mask because of course they do, they should.

It's just fucking insane and yet we continue.
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Don't forget the part where they could've at least done something as an entire country in unison to show just how fucking important the virus was early on.

Like for example, apparently the virus is so fucking infectious and has such a long lifespan on surfaces that we need masks to prevent the virus from going out. So why don't we have biohazard containers and a temporary agency installed to handle said biohazardous wastes?

There I made it so it also looks appealing by adding another obviously embezzling agency into it for the feds, and yet it never happened anyways because DRUMPF (Seriously if the governors were so insipid as to ignore his advisory in an attempt to save face during lunar new years did they really expect him to "lead them" when they've been proven to be disrespectful toddlers) and PEACEFUL PROTESTS.
 
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General Disarray said:
You gotta love Amazon descriptions on Chinese products. On your mask page:

"Note: It can be washed with water and won't drop the drill."

Whew. That's a relief. You know how dropping the drill just invites trouble in the shower.
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I do love awful chinese to English translations. Not shitting on the sellers as it's not their fault and in all fairness, they get the jist of it across. But it gives me a sorely needed laugh so for that I am thankful.

@teriyakiburns: they already are. I've had three people in my social circle off themselves. No warning really for any of them, they seemed to be coping okay. I went grocery shopping early this morning, asked the checkout lass how she was ans she just burst into floods of tears.

People were at breaking point weeks ago and now its hitting home just how fucked we are.
 
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I don't watch tv often. Like an hour a day when eating dinner with my grandma and chilling after.
but I've noticed a huge amount of commercials for online therapy and antidepressants and shit.
I bet big pharma is lining their pockets good and fat with all this...(:_(

PS anyone tried online therapy. I'm very hesitant to try it but...
 
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