Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[NoYinT76]

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Case in point.

Tbf it’s not like they were socially well-adjusted anyway. COVID has just given people an excuse to act like an autist in public for asspats.

 

[Ruin]

This has been going on for so long now I lost track of time. Remember back in March when they said that lockdown and stay at home orders would be lifted most likely by July, and everyone said that was way too long of a time?

Holy fuck if our past selves only knew how bad things were going to get. What the fuck.

What gets me is that most remain submissive and compliant even as things get worse and worse.

 

[Salubrious]

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Case in point.

It's really sad that people have still convinced themselves that America "would be covid-free if everyone took it seriously."

Their ideology has blinded them to the fact that EVERY country except for isolated islands has COVID. Australia had to literally cut itself off from the outside world to do it, and it will come roaring back the moment they lift travel restrictions.

 

[Ghost In The Rain]

You really gotta try three-ply Soft & Thick Toilet Paper wrapped around and around your face like some sort of paranoid psycho, Hypoallergenic and Septic Safe, use like 20 Triple Roll or 60 Single Roll lengths.

Got to be sure, if air gets in then so do the germs. If can still hear or see then the danger is still present. I shave a little off each end and nail gun them to the floor of my apartment door, the super got mad, but he'll die of this soon and I can't hear him half the time anyhoo.

Oh no don't bring toilet paper math into the situation. We'll have masks sellers advertising that the box has "10 mega ultra masks = 36 regular masks"

Last week I was moving some storage boxes around and came across my old fencing gear from college. So now I've decided to make a mockery of society by wearing a fencing mask in stores. I figure its a pretty foil-proof plan. While I've heard occasional people talking to each other about it, no one has confronted me on the issue yet; I think it does a good job of communicating that I won't be intimidated by a bout of sabre rattling. Maybe I'm just doing this so I can post this story to inflate my epee, but we all know that if it is good then most of the credit will go to people who riposte it anyways.

Puns are the lowest form of humour, but with the need to laugh being so strong of late they've been seeping back into my mind. Half my daily commute is spent musing over looking for humour in things while, of course, the other half is trying to not get killed by the people weaving through traffic doing 20 mph over the speed limit. The maniacs on the road actually give me hope. The midwestern spirit and culture is one where people are generally nice, yielding, and don't want to be a bother. Pretty much everyone I've interacted with thinks the whole concept of a mask mandate is bullshit, and they certainly don't care if other people don't follow them, but nonetheless the midwestern culture is compliant regardless when strangers are involved. A coworker who has been mostly WFH for the past year had to come in for something the other day and is easily the most vulnerable person at the company (late 50s, asthma, had really bad pneumonia as a kid) and quickly asked if we were okay with taking off the "damned mask", which of course we were: the people who have been working in the office all unanimously agreed to not give a shit about them back in april, not that upper management knows that: or rather I think they know but as long as no one complains they have no reason to "know" know.

 

[King Dead]

It's really sad that people have still convinced themselves that America "would be covid-free if everyone took it seriously."

Their ideology has blinded them to the fact that EVERY country except for isolated islands has COVID. Australia had to literally cut itself off from the outside world to do it, and it will come roaring back the moment they lift travel restrictions.

If anything, the constant restrictions are making it take longer to finally burn itself out, like literally every pandemic in history does. Once an infection becomes endemic in the population, there's really nothing that you can do but just wait for it to run its course. As has been pointed out since the beginning of the coof hysteria, the virus that caused the Spanish Flu pandemic is still with us today, but the reason it's not causing pandemics anymore is because it mutated to become less deadly (a virus that kills its host isn't good for continued existence).

The same thing should happen with the Wu Flu, until it blends into the background of all other coronaviruses and becomes indistinguishable from all other common cold viruses. But the only way to reach that point is to just let everyone get sick and build up immunity to its original form, putting evolutionary pressure on it to become less deadly than its already laughably low mortality rate. Instead, we're forcing people to remain isolated from each other, turning them into hypochondriacs who obsessively sanitize everything and make a point of steering clear of others. Supposedly we're doing this to prevent our healthcare systems from being overwhelmed, but considering how many healthcare workers have had to be laid off or furloughed over the past year, I don't think we're anywhere near that point, and never have been. We're peeling the band-aid off slowly instead of just yanking it off and being done with it.

And even countries that have been able to isolate more easily due to having zero land borders with other nations still have the coof. New Zealand is always trumpeted as a success story of coof management (never mind that it's a small island country with more sheep than people), but they're still having outbreaks over and over. Australia has turned into a police state (so I guess just going back to its roots), and despite this, they're still getting more cases. It's like these countries still believe China's literally impossible numbers (less than 100k cases in the origin country of over a billion people, fuck off) are accurate and are using that to justify their own horrendous actions. Either that, or they've gotten so high off their continued power trip that they just don't want it to end.

It's going to come crashing down one way or another, and the longer these nations continue to destroy their citizens' lives and livelihoods, the worse it's going to be. The scarier thought, of course, is that this is entirely the point. Remember, the ultra-rich have gotten even richer this whole time, they're not suffering like the rest of us. Increasingly, it's feeling less like a conspiracy theory and more like conspiracy fact.

 

[General Disarray]

The cool turtle face muzzle Enhancer
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I brought this doodad up months ago when the product first started ads on TV. I knew then, that there was no way we'd be unmasking soon. Too much money to be made.

Consider California ordering a billion dollars' worth of face masks from China now that "double-masking" is the new recommendation. Triple-masking, even!

https://archive.vn/1Cz1C

 

[NyQuilninja]

I brought this doodad up months ago when the product first started ads on TV. I knew then, that there was no way we'd be unmasking soon. Too much money to be made.

Consider California ordering a billion dollars' worth of face masks from China now that "double-masking" is the new recommendation. Triple-masking, even!

https://archive.vn/1Cz1C

Gasp your not Implying a California politician is in league with the Chinese
https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The guys of the Daily Stormer got a "blind squirrel finding a nuts" moment by talking of this upset father calling the school board.

And that upset father have some good points.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I like COVID. People are scared panicked and turning on each other even more than usual, essentially showing their true colors to everyone around them. Meanwhile the death toll keep rising and honestly I think that’s a good thing. The population needs to be trimmed now and again after all, especially in these days when we’ve become saturated with stupid, obese, and deceased individuals whom we as a society have chosen to waste resources on and protect. I say let the weak die. We’ll be better for it.

 

[Dave.]

It's really sad that people have still convinced themselves that America "would be covid-free if everyone took it seriously."

Their ideology has blinded them to the fact that EVERY country except for isolated islands has COVID. Australia had to literally cut itself off from the outside world to do it, and it will come roaring back the moment they lift travel restrictions.

As someone who has bad lungs (asthma and a history of pneumonia) I take this disease relatively seriously but no much that I’m a total nuisance like that woman is. My attitude is just *shrug* there are worse things out there that can kill me. Hell I don’t even wear a mask everywhere I go (just in tightly packed environments).

 

[Ruin]

I like COVID. People are scared panicked and turning on each other even more than usual, essentially showing their true colors to everyone around them. Meanwhile the death toll keep rising and honestly I think that’s a good thing. The population needs to be trimmed now and again after all, especially in these days when we’ve become saturated with stupid, obese, and deceased individuals whom we as a society have chosen to waste resources on and protect. I say let the weak die. We’ll be better for it.

That's some impressive edge there boyo. Are you Donte from the Devil May cry series?

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

As someone who has bad lungs (asthma and a history of pneumonia) I take this disease relatively seriously but no much that I’m a total nuisance like that woman is. My attitude is just *shrug* there are worse things out there that can kill me. Hell I don’t even wear a mask everywhere I go (just in tightly packed environments).

The American liberal has more empathy for some rando getting the coof and having flu-like symptoms for a week than for a brown Syrian child getting blown up by an American mortar strike.

 

[Shqueefa]

I say let the weak die. We’ll be better for it.

So true. I'm looking forward to your obituary when you die from COVID because you're a fatty.

The American liberal has more empathy for some rando getting the coof and having flu-like symptoms for a week than for a brown Syrian child getting blown up by an American mortar strike.

What if a drone strike has LGBT flag on it? I'd say it sounds like unity is def coming along faster then we thought.

 

[King Dead]

As someone who has bad lungs (asthma and a history of pneumonia) I take this disease relatively seriously but no much that I’m a total nuisance like that woman is. My attitude is just *shrug* there are worse things out there that can kill me. Hell I don’t even wear a mask everywhere I go (just in tightly packed environments).

It's becoming increasingly easier to be skeptical of how serious the coof is even for those that are supposedly at high risk. Several people from my church have gotten it already (if the tests are to be believed, but that's a whole other story), and there have been zero deaths. A couple of those have multiple risk factors, elderly and diabetic mostly, but they've gotten over it just fine. Hell, one of them has had health problems for years, to the point he needed (and finally got) a liver transplant, and I found out today he's already recovered.

Now, part of this could come down to the fact that we're getting better at treating it now that we know what to do (like not putting people on ventilators), but let's face it, if this were anywhere near as serious as the media keeps insisting it is, then the death toll would be significantly higher than it is. And of course, that's assuming that the death toll is in any way accurate, but as we've been told since the beginning, anyone dying with the coof is counted as dying of the coof. And the accuracy of the case numbers is also dubious at best; it might be low due to asymptomatic cases and/or people refusing to get tested, or it might be high due to running PCR tests for too many cycles. My money's on the asymptomatic cases outweighing the false positives.

In the end, I doubt we'll ever know the true extent of how deadly the coof turned out to be, mostly because the powers that be don't want to admit how seriously they screwed the pooch.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

What gets me is that most remain submissive and compliant even as things get worse and worse.

Those people are whores. I mean that in the most literal sense. They are happy to prostitute their freedoms for furlough pay or stimulus checks. If those were not available then they would be losing their shit.

Likewise, if Netflix went down or amazon stopped delivering the piles of plastic shit for them to consoom, they quickly find themselves getting mad in the absence of a tit to suckle on and self soothe with.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

Lmao all the people in my circle who are most suspicious of, or outright refuse to get vaccinated are Latinos and black men.

Latinos in particular are a lot more conservative as a group than people realize. If I had to guess I'd speculate that it's because their home countries (or their parents') gave them plenty of reasons to distrust authority in general.

Since me and folks are black, we're suspicious to. Than again my grandma and great grandma took the vaccine the other day.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

I like COVID. People are scared panicked and turning on each other even more than usual, essentially showing their true colors to everyone around them. Meanwhile the death toll keep rising and honestly I think that’s a good thing. The population needs to be trimmed now and again after all, especially in these days when we’ve become saturated with stupid, obese, and deceased individuals whom we as a society have chosen to waste resources on and protect. I say let the weak die. We’ll be better for it.

You're not wrong, but you're not right either.
Its not that we should just "let the weak die", its that a number of the weak are going to die regardless of what we (we are all going to die at some point), and that the measures to "save" said people from nature are doing more damage to those of us who would have survived anyways. We are mentally scaring kids for life and ruining people's livelihoods all for desperate ploys to buy 85y/o diabetics an extra 2-5 years.
By all means try to save the weak, but don't do so at the cost of permanently fucking over the strong and healthy.

It's becoming increasingly easier to be skeptical of how serious the coof is even for those that are supposedly at high risk. Several people from my church have gotten it already (if the tests are to be believed, but that's a whole other story), and there have been zero deaths. A couple of those have multiple risk factors, elderly and diabetic mostly, but they've gotten over it just fine. Hell, one of them has had health problems for years, to the point he needed (and finally got) a liver transplant, and I found out today he's already recovered.

Now, part of this could come down to the fact that we're getting better at treating it now that we know what to do (like not putting people on ventilators), but let's face it, if this were anywhere near as serious as the media keeps insisting it is, then the death toll would be significantly higher than it is. And of course, that's assuming that the death toll is in any way accurate, but as we've been told since the beginning, anyone dying with the coof is counted as dying of the coof. And the accuracy of the case numbers is also dubious at best; it might be low due to asymptomatic cases and/or people refusing to get tested, or it might be high due to running PCR tests for too many cycles. My money's on the asymptomatic cases outweighing the false positives.

In the end, I doubt we'll ever know the true extent of how deadly the coof turned out to be, mostly because the powers that be don't want to admit how seriously they screwed the pooch.

IIRC even being in the 70+ age group with pre-existing conditions you're only 1 in 5 chance of dying from it, which is still an 80% survival rate. Don't get me wrong, that's still scary and this would be a much more serious disease if normal people had that high a chance of death - but the odds are still in your favor even if you're in the most at-risk demographic.
(assuming the number off the top of my head is up-to-date)

 

[JosephStalin]

The latest bullshit from the county I live in. Guess this will help some people, to a certain extent. I don't eat outside at restaurants so doesn't affect me at all.

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE

January 31, 2021, 7:42 a.m.

PURPLE TIER ALLOWS LIVE MUSIC AT OUTDOOR RESTAURANTS

• Important change was under the radar, but it's true

When Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the stay-home order last week, most of California, including Monterey County, was put back in the Purple Tier of the economic shutdown scheme that's been in effect since August.

But what almost no one realized was that in November the California Department of Public Health had modified the Purple Tier rules for restaurants to allow live music in outdoor dining areas, provided distancing guidelines are followed. Since those rules are now in effect, live music is allowed outdoors at restaurants, at least as far as the state is concerned.

Specifically, the rules for restaurants now in effect (see page 3) provide that, "Outdoor operations are permitted and must continue to follow the modifications in this guidance. Performers must maintain physical distancing from spectators and other performers. Performers who are singing, shouting, playing a wind instrument, or engaging in similar activities without a face covering must maintain at least twelve feet of distance from spectators."

The change will certainly be welcome news for restaurants, their customers and especially the musicians.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

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You're not wrong, but you're not right either.
Its not that we should just "let the weak die", its that a number of the weak are going to die regardless of what we (we are all going to die at some point), and that the measures to "save" said people from nature are doing more damage to those of us who would have survived anyways. We are mentally scaring kids for life and ruining people's livelihoods all for desperate ploys to buy 85y/o diabetics an extra 2-5 years.
By all means try to save the weak, but don't do so at the cost of permanently fucking over the strong and healthy.

IIRC even being in the 70+ age group with pre-existing conditions you're only 1 in 5 chance of dying from it, which is still an 80% survival rate. Don't get me wrong, that's still scary and this would be a much more serious disease if normal people had that high a chance of death - but the odds are still in your favor even if you're in the most at-risk demographic.
(assuming the number off the top of my head is up-to-date)

Yeah, I actually happen to know a 72 year old who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s who had gotten COVID. While they did take him to the hospital initially it seems that he came out of it just fine. Though, to be fair he is extremely fit and healthy in spite of his age so that obviously plays into it.

 

[knobslobbin]

Anyone know what the fallout was from these open up protests at restaurants in Italy and other countries in Europe 2 weeks ago?

Lockdown Rebellion: Over 50,000 Restaurants in Italy Defy Lockdown Orders and Reopen

It's not just happening in Italy either.

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