Yeah catching up.
Herd immunity has nothing to do with eugenics; we are not "thinning the herd" with the virus, with the intent that once the weakest are dead what's left of the "herd" is immune. Herd immunity seek to promote the defense of the population as a whole; once the younger, healthier, more immunological adaptable people have their defense up, the chain of viral transmission will be weakened so the more-vulnerable portion of the population, like Bobby with his "immune compromised" condition, will be protected as well. This is admittedly a questionable tactic when we are dealing with a new virus with a largely unknown epidemiology, but to dismiss it as "eugenics" is either profoundly ignorant or disingenuous.
There's probably not going to be anything funnier to me for awhile than watching people who mock anti-vaxers now complaining constantly about herd immunity.
Like... how do you think vaccines work? (and/or, what's so bad about anti-vaxers?) It's just hilarious and really does prove the NPC meme.
So the Battle Royal came about; every year a random high school class is pitted to fight to the death while the results broadcasted on TV. Participation is mandatory and in the manga, a teacher is raped and murdered when she was caught trying to get several of her favorite students to avoid going on the school trip where the class was grabbed. The winner, while heavily traumatized, gets into the college of their choice free of charge and a guaranteed salary-man job. It also gives the public a good dose of fear that their kids can be grabbed and killed to keep them in line, while also providing a gruesome shit show that keeps the NEETS happy and sated.
These dystopia stories always bug me - especially when they have "just to be cruel" plot points instead of anything that would make a modicrum of sense for a functional society.
In this instance: Making Battle Royale a sentence for crimes. Then you still have your tyrannical government making dumb things crimes. You have your main character litter on page 1 and *bam* Now they have to go Battle Royale. Not this set up that would be enraging parents all across the nation and just further destabilizing the power structure.
Bob's aunt, I think, who lives in Tennessee, I think, with her acorn avi who's name I also can't remember (Bob usually responds to her and not vice versa.
She lives in Kentucky. Her symbol and name are a reference to "Louisville" - the largest city in the state.
Whoever ditched Bob in that documentary, he dodged a fat, stupid and very lethal bullet.
I would bet a good deal of money that the documentary might have been...
Because as you can see from the trailer, they were very interested in internet culture for it too and several youtubers show up. Including GoodBadFlicks which was with the escapist for a time, making him tagently a "colleague" of Bob's.
But yeah, Bob maybe you would be having more success in life if you weren't such a constant asshole and alienating potential customers.
Chris might be an engineer, but he’s competing with Bob to be crowned the biggest retard with the least dignity in the Chipman family. He’s begging every few hours for people to support his family, with nothing but crickets to show for it. How does he not see that his shtick just isn’t working, that he is offering nothing of value, and that he’s embarrassing himself, his wife and children with the constant pleas for donations? This is what cishet white male privilege looks like: not realizing just how little you’re actually worth.
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Part of me does wonder if Chip set up automated posts? I've known a few people that do that kind of thing for promotional stuff.
Maybe, but it's just as likely she had a really minor or even asymptomatic case. There are lots and lots of those. Naturally, the Brothers Chipman will play it up as much as they can, because they're part of that cohort that thinks coofphobia is politically useful or they're in genuine terror of it.
Exactly, it is really bugging me how many people out there are acting like COVID is a cancer or AIDS diagnostic. It's survival rate is over 90%! I'm not saying you can run around and lick things at random but stop making it worse than it is, people. The robots are going to kill you far sooner than COVID will.
The only weakness I see in the "Society Holding a Periodic Child Sacrifice Game Show" premise is that the threat of having your child randomly kidnapped and killed is sure to be a big motivator for folks to rebel against the government. A way to work around this would be to create a religious reason for the sacrifice: "Those chosen to be sacrificed will have a really good afterlife" or "Children must be sacrificed in a ritual game to give life to the god that sustains the world" or something like that. Or you could avoid all of this by making the Sacrifice Games purely voluntary and open to orphans only. Gotta be plenty of those around in a dystopia.
What they needed to do was heighten the divisions between districts - one DISTRICT can win the games should have been a rule from the start to encourage the people to stay divided.
But the Hunger Games is supremely stupid since the whole thing apparently depends on the Capital being able to bomb people into farming. The war should have been over in months when the peasants cut off the food, fuel and power supplies. Maybe it goes more into the books but just what I've read of the author, I doubt she has much awareness of logistics and how it works. (My problem with "Divergent" and that series too. - Movies anyway.)
