Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[LaxerBRO]

I was having lunch and saw a random lady nag a person going into the restaurant that they needed a mask.

The maskless lady said, "No Thank You" and the Karen called the lady a bitch. I wasn't planning on a show with my lunch.

Probably late but you all saw this right?

Buncha maskless folk went in a Trader Joe's and people lost their goddamn minds.

What is all this faggotry?

This is a few puzzle pieces less retarded then the Troon that went to a gun store, took the free Bibles, and started throwing them on the roof.

The store owner is fully with in their rights to trespass them, then drive stun the peoples balls if they refuse to leave.

 

[Vince McMahon]

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This sticker was put on the car by a homosexual man and he would do well to repent of his sin.

 

[Garm]

U.S. nears 500,000 COVID-19 deaths as Biden plans commemoration

The United States faces a dark milestone this week despite a recent decline in COVID-19 cases as it prepares to mark a staggering half-million deaths, with President Joe Biden planning to memorialize the lives lost.

www.reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022 even as the country relaxes other restrictions to combat COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on Sunday.

Blah blah blah. They are ALREADY setting up 2022. We aren't even in the spring yet, the infection rates are dropping dramatically, but sure.

If we are going to go til 2022 I should make a more ambitious mask. Like a 1910's gas mask (Death Korp of Krieg) or Adeptus Mechanicus Tech priest. Something with vents and mechanical sounds. Make people even more unsettled and disturbed with it.

 

[The Skeptical Tomato X5]

At the end of the Australian Open final the head of Tennis Australia came out to give a speech and the crowd started booing when she mentioned the vaccine rollout

 

[Disheveled Human]

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At the end of the Australian Open final the head of Tennis Australia came out to give a speech and the crowd started booing when she mentioned the vaccine rollout

I don't blame them people don't go to a sporting event to hear that shit people go to them to escape from reality. Plus its not like governments worldwide have not been hammering this shit into our skulls everyday since march 11th 2020.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Been having secretive conversations with co-workers. I'd say a third to a half are not going to get vaccinated.

With my paying hobby allowed again, the few people I've encountered that brought up the vaccine seem evenly split on getting it. Those who are vulnerable or work in a high risk job are looking forward to the vaccine while those who have no pressing need for it are willing to wait. Surprisingly (in a good way), the one person that asked why I don't want to get vaccinated seemed satisfied with me saying I'm young enough to be concerned about the long-term side effects that we don't yet know about and that I'd only get vaccinated now if it became compulsory for either the hobby or my day job.

Not if the patient gives access to their records to the vaccine passport. Which is the plan with all of the planned passports in the U.S. thus far. It will be similar to how people idiots can give Apple Health access to their health records, but on a mass scale.

I wonder if it will be anything like what some school buildings do where people wanting to be admitted inside must first scan a QR code to take a short COVID health survey and then show the green approval screen to be admitted beyond the entrance. That's not too big of a hassle. Medical records raise all sorts of privacy issues, even if patients give their consent, because hackers have been working to steal that information now that it's required to be computerized and stored with what might be subpar security protocols -- especially if people have lax security on their smartphones and mobile networks/wifi. That may be the one of the biggest issues with all of this and the push to put as much information as possible "on the cloud."

No way $15 an hour minimum wage survives when the bill passes.

$15/hour -- even if it's phased in over the next four years -- will hurt those small businesses who are already struggling even after they receive any sort of Federal or State relief money. A federal minimum wage of $15/hour would an approximate increase of 50% over my state's current minimum wage. That would be a huge hit for any small business to absorb when it's profitable. For those barely breaking even or running up large losses while they operate below capacity, that's an additional cost they simply can't afford to take on or pass along to customers on their bills.

Sure, Democrats in drafting this legislation think mainly of the megacorps and the belief the latter pays their workers peanuts. Unfortunately, they don' stop to think about all the smaller business that are trying to stay afloat and compete with the franchises and corporations -- the latter of whom are the same corporations these legislators claim to abhor.

So as I mentioned before, I wrote a letter to my pastor describing my frustrations with our continued reluctance to reopen for in-person worship again. Ended up being four pages long, though I tried to include a couple jokes so as not to seem like I was getting down on him specifically (we frequently rib each other, it's in our nature). Went in for communion yesterday and had a bit of a discussion with him afterwards, and he said he read my letter a few times, mostly to be sure that I wasn't just blaming him for all this; he was worried initially that my quote of C.S. Lewis on tyranny was directed at him, but he realized that wasn't the case (and I made sure to clarify as well). It felt good to know that we were on the same page, and he was also questioning the efficacy of the various limitations.

Update 2 from my church: the council voted to resume in-house worship the first week in March. Wish it could have been sooner, but I can wait a little longer I suppose. Presumably this is to work out any kinks; there's apparently going to be limited attendance (even though I'm pretty sure churches are exempt from said limits) and distanced seating, and I'm also guessing that there won't be things like regular communion and fellowship right away.

For a while, in-house worship here is taking place with either 25% or 50% capacity right now -- I forget which. However, our bishop has announced that people who are able to attend worship should start doing so come mid-March -- especially if they're comfortable going out to do non-essential activities. Seniors and those deemed vulnerable to COVID who still feel unsafe attending in-person services are permitted to watch livestreams, televised services, etc. without worry similar to those who are homebound and unable to participate for whatever reason.
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Locally, an area school district opened back up for in-person instruction only to give students three of the first five days off: two days for the originally-scheduled winter break and then a third day for COVID-related deep cleaning.
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$15/hour will hurt those small businesses who are already struggling even if the get any sort of Federal or State relief money. In my state, $15/hour would an approximate increase of 50% over the state minimum wage. That would be a huge hit for any small business to absorb when it's profitable. For those barely breaking even or running up large losses while they operate below capacity, thats an additional cost they simply can't afford to take on or pass along to customers on their bills.

I never understood why minimum wage should be a national thing when clearly it makes more sense on a state level based on cost of living. There's plenty of places (like NYC or San Francisco) where $15/hr is garbage and was garbage even a decade ago when they started proposing it. There's also plenty of places (like rural areas in the South/Midwest) where it's an extremely good wage that will buy you a comfortable middle class life if you're even remotely intelligent. In these places, $15/hr is an entry-level salary for a lot of jobs that lead to good careers (and usually requires a college degree) and it's the salary you get as a supervisor or manajerk at some places.

It doesn't sit right with me to make it nationally (outside of some places, which probably need an even higher minimum wage) the salary for any unskilled job people with no experience, qualifications, or even skill whatsoever do. And I'm not bashing unskilled jobs like fry cook or checkout lane clerk, there's plenty of people who take those jobs who can't get anything else for reasons other than being lazy or stupid. Ideally we'd be fixing structural issues like the cost of living or taxes being spent on pointless things to ensure people have money instead of raising the minimum wage.

But it sits right with Amazon. The guy in the wage cage makes 14/hr because Amazon can pay for it. What's an extra dollar an hour for the wage cage guy to a trillion-dollar corporation? It puts more people out of business and makes it easier to get workers for these major corporations who can afford it and keep the gig economy functioning. Add in a healthy supply of immigrants (legal, illegal, doesn't matter) and you have a recipe to massively increase wealth and institute corporate feudalism (except feudalism is a pretty shit term since you'd rather be a serf than be a pleb in tomorrow's world).

 

[Mrs. Addams]

The bugpeople are slowly coming out of their shells here in LA. My parent's landlady visited them, and didn't freak out or ask them to put on masks even indoors, because she has now had two doses of the vaccine and is therefore safe. She stayed significantly longer than planned, and my folks said she was so happy to socialize that she wouldn't stop talking. This was apparently her first outing in a year. She's been ordering all her groceries...

And my coworker took her family to an (outdoor) restaurant for the first time since March.

I can't believe people lived like that for almost a year.

 

[weeeeb]

Everyday I'm glad that my friends and I decided that after two weeks we'd still hangout damn the orders. I can't imagine having stuck myself inside for the better part of a year, a year without cons was bad enough.

 

[Screamer]

When you get the flu vaccine, do you still get the flu and can spread it? Just don't get sick?

I ask, because we're told even after the vaccine. You can still catch and spread COVID. You just won't get sick. The virus is highly transmissible in the air. Doesn't this mean that when life goes back to normal, the virus will be freely spreading around a vaccinated population? Free to keep mutating? Isn't that a recipe for disaster? Almost ensuring a version will mutate which we're not vaccinated against? Its selective pressure will be to duplicate in the host body, getting around the antibodies.

 

[Foltest]

Here where I am, they extended the lockdown again to end of April.
I fucking hate this gay ass gov.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Sorry if I posted on the wrong thread but we could wonder how many free pass Michael Che will get after he did a joke about corona-chan vaccines and Israel?

'Saturday Night Live' Blasted for Antisemitic Joke About Israel and Coronavirus Vaccines

Saturday Night Live is being criticized for a joke by Michael Che suggesting Israel is only offering the coronavirus vaccine to Jews.

www.breitbart.com

https://archive.vn/O5FAO

Saturday Night Live is being criticized for a joke by Michael Che during the show’s most recent broadcast that suggested the State of Israel is only offering the coronavirus vaccine to Jews.

The joke came in the “Weekend Update” segment, when Che announced: “Israel is reporting that they’ve vaccinated half their population. And I’m gonna guess: it’s the Jewish half.”

https://twitter.com/Israellycool/status/1363371889616441344

“Fake news” reports that Israel is not providing vaccines to Palestinians or Arabs have become the newest staple of anti-Israel propaganda.

Jewish leaders have pointed out that the false accusation repeats themes of antisemitic blood libels dating to the medieval era, when Jews were falsely accused of poisoning the surrounding populations.

Israel is, in fact, providing vaccines to its Arab citizens, who form roughly 20% of the total — though some are reluctant to take them.

Israel has also offered vaccines to Palestinians, and has been lauded by the United Nations — hardly a pro-Israel organization — for working with the Palestinian Authority to fight the pandemic.

Israel has prioritized its own citizens in vaccination, noting that the Palestinian Authority has authority for the health care of its own residents, and that the Palestinian government chose to purchase Russian vaccines instead of the American-made Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called false claims about Israel’s coronavirus vaccination program a “blood libel,” according to the Jerusalem Post:

Erdan told the Security Council that “according to the international agreements, the Palestinian Authority is responsible for the healthcare of its own population – just as it is responsible for their education system.”
The PA, he explained, “informed Israel they intend to purchase vaccines from the Russian government and Israel has announced it will facilitate their transfer. These are the facts.”
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“Anyone who joins the Palestinian campaign of lies either doesn’t know the facts or is motivated by politics or antisemitism,” the ambassador said.
David Harris, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, accused Che of spreading an “antisemitic lie”:

 

[John McAfee]

Sorry if I posted on the wrong thread but we could wonder how many free pass Michael Che will get after he did a joke about corona-chan vaccines and Israel?

'Saturday Night Live' Blasted for Antisemitic Joke About Israel and Coronavirus Vaccines

Saturday Night Live is being criticized for a joke by Michael Che suggesting Israel is only offering the coronavirus vaccine to Jews.

www.breitbart.com

https://archive.vn/O5FAO

He's black, had it just been corona stuff, he'd be fine. But seeing as his bosses are statistically going to be jewish. Id wager he will just stop getting as much airtime until he fades away into teaching highschool drama classes.

 

[FatalTater]

When you get the flu vaccine, do you still get the flu and can spread it? Just don't get sick?

I ask, because we're told even after the vaccine. You can still catch and spread COVID. You just won't get sick. The virus is highly transmissible in the air. Doesn't this mean that when life goes back to normal, the virus will be freely spreading around a vaccinated population? Free to keep mutating? Isn't that a recipe for disaster? Almost ensuring a version will mutate which we're not vaccinated against? Its selective pressure will be to duplicate in the host body, getting around the antibodies.

Not sure about spreading it through the air but it makes sense to me that if you touch something with the germs on it, then touch something without germs, both things now have germs. I can't remember how long Covid lasts on surfaces. Wash yer hands once in a while I guess.

If the riots could go on all summer without bodies piling up in the streets, Covid cannot be as bad as they say. (fwiw, I had the Coof in October and it was not fun)

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

Opinion | Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole

Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.

www.nytimes.com

Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.

“We’re taught that, in order to protect ourselves from bad information, we need to deeply engage with the stuff that washes up in front of us,” Mr. Caulfield told me recently. He suggested that the dominant mode of media literacy (if kids get taught any at all) is that “you’ll get imperfect information and then use reasoning to fix that somehow. But in reality, that strategy can completely backfire.”


Geez, I dunno why we wouldn't want to trust people when they are literally and openly saying "don't think about what you are being told"?

No need to think, that's what Wikipedia is for.

 

[FatalTater]

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No need to think, that's what Wikipedia is for.

There's a saying about how if you want to know what the weather is doing, read the paper, listen to the radio, look at the weather maps on the news but then look outside to see if it's raining. This is a very important mindset to have nowadays.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

I don't blame them people don't go to a sporting event to hear that shit people go to them to escape from reality. Plus its not like governments worldwide have not been hammering this shit into our skulls everyday since march 11th 2020.

That, and how fucking insane their government has been handling this "pandemic". I remember seeing a video on ROTC of an Australian cop choking and punching a woman because she wasn't wearing a mask outside... with just herself and her boyfriend. These politicians can all get fucked in the ass by slutty gay bois with AIDs.

 

[Inventor of the Telephone]

They're not, at least they look like they're not. They're the thick paper and the "vaccination" dates are written on.
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[Full Race Replay]

 

[Carnavoyeur]

When you get the flu vaccine, do you still get the flu and can spread it? Just don't get sick?

I ask, because we're told even after the vaccine. You can still catch and spread COVID. You just won't get sick. The virus is highly transmissible in the air. Doesn't this mean that when life goes back to normal, the virus will be freely spreading around a vaccinated population? Free to keep mutating? Isn't that a recipe for disaster? Almost ensuring a version will mutate which we're not vaccinated against? Its selective pressure will be to duplicate in the host body, getting around the antibodies.

Yes, you can. The flu vaccines are only 40-60% effective on average. You can also be an asymptomatic carrier with the flu.

It's almost like we know how viruses and vaccines typically work. And almost as if COVID is caused by a virus...