COVID-19 in your part of the world

[GaijinPunch]

Was sitting with my mom and brothers this morning contemplating a coffee table book filled with covid/anti vaxxers who died of covid.

I will not be short on material.

Preorder link, please.

Out of curiousity, are the Darwin Awards people considering these people as candidates?

[Randorama]

As far as I know, Darwin Awards can only be bestowed to people who did not...reproduce, since their deaths signal the end of their own lineage, so to speak. Formalities are formalities, and so on.

[Sengoku Strider]

You guys just don't understand what viruses are, they're just nature's little helpers. Food is the true enemy. Food and hospitals.

[SuperPang]

"That's why people who are dying from so called covid are mostly morbid".

Won't somebody please think of the goths!

[Mischief Maker]

You know, if you're really healthy, and do lots of crossfit, you can literally eat shit and survive.

That doesn't mean it's to be done.

[Udderdude]

Amerifats BTFO.

[Sengoku Strider]

"That's why people who are dying from so called covid are mostly morbid".

Won't somebody please think of the goths!

This got a genuine laugh out loud out of me. It's almost a shame it's going after the elderly & immuno-compromised instead. Not that I have anything against the children of the night, but a goth-targeting black plague could have given us the best Bauhaus & Sisters of Mercy albums ever. Ian Curtis would come back from the dead for such an event.

The Cure would be out though. No way Robert Smith wouldn't have been patient zero.

[Mischief Maker]

Joe Rogan's got the Rona.

[Sengoku Strider]

"...and I just couldn't imagine having some image on my body that I'd have to look at every day for the rest of my life, you know? The whole scene just wasn't for me. But then I saw it...and in an instant, that all changed."

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[Sengoku Strider]

The thing that gets me is that we're still just in the Model-T era of internet-disinformation mind control.

[orange808]

This one is making the rounds this morning.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/f ... le/2784013

Worth reading. Although, it will require some time and you'll have to remember numbers/pay attention. Ask your doctor if you need a booster. Otherwise, that jab should be going to a poor nation and an unvaccinated person. That is, if you really do care about lives. Not talking about grans, I mean strangers--maybe even dark skinned strangers.

[Steamflogger Boss]

Joe Rogan's got the Rona.

Apparently he dunked on it or something.

This one is making the rounds this morning.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/f ... le/2784013

Worth reading. Although, it will require some time and you'll have to remember numbers/pay attention. Ask your doctor if you need a booster. Otherwise, that jab should be going to a poor nation and an unvaccinated person. That is, if you really do care about lives. Not talking about grans, I mean strangers--maybe even dark skinned strangers.

thumbsup

[xxx1993]

https://deadline.com/2021/09/top-gun-ma ... 234825624/

It got my movie again…

[KennyMan666]

Sweden's lifting most of the restrictions on September 29th. As of today, 70% of the population has gotten both shots, and another 11,6% have gotten the first but not yet the second.

I still think it would probably have been a good idea to keep the restrictions until the end of the year, and I do expect a small spike to come because of people throwing caution to the wind. At least large events must have vaccination requirements, if I read it right.

As for myself, tomorrow's my two weeks since I got the second shot. Currently the opinion of our national health department regarding a third shot is kinda non-definite, and they're leaning towards that only people in risk groups are going to need it, but we'll see. I did get 2xPfizer, which has been found to provide worse long-term protection against the Delta variant, so I wouldn't be entirely surprised if I'm gonna need a booster shot of Moderna in the future.

People who refuse to get the shot for anything other than a medical reason annoys me, I know I have a solid immune system since I get sick extremely rarely, plus I've got a bit of a phobia for syringes, but I got my two shots anyway. And while I wouldn't say it's cured my phobia, now I know that if I get to prepare in a way that works for me, I can handle getting intramuscular injections.

[Sengoku Strider]

I've got a bit of a phobia for syringes, but I got my two shots anyway. And while I wouldn't say it's cured my phobia, now I know that if I get to prepare in a way that works for me, I can handle getting intramuscular injections.

Getting allergy shots was what made it easy for me. After getting a needle once a week for a year straight it just became really routine. Your reactive brain learns that nothing bad is going to happen, aside from maybe a 2 second twinge of pain if you get a clumsy or inexperienced nurse.

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People who refuse to get the shot for anything other than a medical reason annoys me,

Consider the larger part of the group these "people" consist of, and be aware that comments like that border on xenophobia.

[BulletMagnet]

I'm not really sure which "larger part of the group" you're referring to here, but in any event I'm also not sure that saying that something about a particular group annoys you quite borders on xenophobia.

[KennyMan666]

Yeah, I... don't know what that's supposed to mean. It's antivax sentiment from people who are perfectly able to get the shot that annoys me.

[Mischief Maker]

Fuck me, I just called in for a refill of my dog's Heartgard chewables and the veterinarian said for the first time in forever that they wanted to hold off on the prescription. The hell?

I looked up the active ingredient in Heartgard: Ivermectin.

Are these fucking idiots chowing down on dog chews?

[Sengoku Strider]

Are these fucking idiots chowing down on dog chews?

The Deep State must be defeated at all costs.

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[Mischief Maker]

[BryanM]

Ivermectin is an effective treatment for mange, which is the use most households would be familiar with. So if you have mange or pinworms it might work out for you, maybe.

This topic of using magic and witchcraft to replace science reminds me of this story: This guy used to get stomach aches, and he'd go to a witch who'd treat the problem by rubbing his belly with oiled up corn tortillas.

I used to find magical thinking interesting and harmless as a kid. As an adult, it's become tedious and is obviously the reason we're all gonna die. (Soon.)

[BulletMagnet]

The WHO is insisting that rich nations fulfill their promised donations of vaccines to poor ones before administering boosters on the home front, or risk prolonging the pandemic yet again; what are the Vegas odds any of them actually do so?

[Mischief Maker]

Joe Rogan doubling-down.

[Sengoku Strider]

Joe Rogan is a known Deep State stooge.

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[BulletMagnet]

Aaaaaand cue the tantrums.

[orange808]

Aaaaaand cue the tantrums.

Hard to fight without any unions. hehe

Whoops!

[Sengoku Strider]

On the one hand, it's their role as the opposition to stand against government rulings that sweeping and polarizing. On the other, I have a feeling that stance is going to be a political loser for the Republicans. For one, from what I've read 75% of the US has already had at least one shot, and the abstainers are heavily concentrated in deep south states.

I'd imagine they have solid polling data that people aligned with both parties are sick to death of lockdowns & covid and aren't in favour of letting the crazies keep it going indefinitely. I'm sure Democrat strategists are hoping Biden standing up to them will leave an impression that he does in fact have a spine after the Afghanistan pullout. This announcement happening right before the Sept. 11th anniversary might well have been timed to defray some of those bad images.

The other thing is that unless they get really creative, legal challenges are likely to fail:

Legal experts, however, quickly noted that the vaccine mandates were likely to pass constitutional muster.

“Yes, this is constitutional,” famed constitutional law professor and Dean of Berkeley Law School Erwin Chemerinsky, told Law&Crime.

“There is no constitutional problem with requiring people be vaccinated,” the author of the premier constitutional case law textbook used in U.S. law schools added. “The government could require everyone to be vaccinated against COVID.”

“This was resolved by the Supreme Court in 1905,” Chemerinsky said, referring to Jacobson v. Massachusetts.

That said, if life were a Telltale Game (and I have no compelling proof that it's not) this order would definitely be a "Republicans will remember that" moment.

[BulletMagnet]

The other thing is that unless they get really creative, legal challenges are likely to fail:

Considering that the majority of the SCOTUS was happily willing to roll over and die when Texas got minimally creative when it came to criminalizing nearly all abortions (and completely abandon the "irreparable harm" qualifier they repeatedly invoked to issue emergency rulings in numerous religious liberty cases during the pandemic in the process...but y'know, whatever, nothing to see here!), I see little reason to assume that legal viability is even a de facto consideration for conservative justices - or conservatives in general, considering their unbroken lock-step support for every single head-up-ass ruling they issue - anymore.

That said, if life were a Telltale Game (and I have no compelling proof that it's not) this order would definitely be a "Republicans will remember that" moment.

You say that as if Mitch and company could possibly be any more knee-jerk obstructionist than they already are. I'd seriously like to hear an argument as to what's left to lose when it comes to engagement with the reactionaries (or, as I've posited earlier, even the so-called "centrists") at this point.

Frankly, if this were a Telltale game, reviewers would uniformly (well, maybe not IGN ) knock the character writing for being too cartoonish and one-dimensional: Nobody would ever seriously believe a real-life mainstream political party behaves like that.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I see little reason to assume that legal viability is even a de facto consideration for conservative justices - or conservatives in general, considering their unbroken lock-step support for every single head-up-ass ruling they issue - anymore.

Hear, hear.

One of the major reasons they can be said to be contributing to the death of their democracy is that they no longer care to bargain in good faith, or even attempt to give the illusion of it. They're emboldened and recognize just how much their idiot electorate is willing to let them get away with if it's sold as "owning the libs". But, the moment the Democrats ignore them when making policy, they blubber and whine about the lack of "bipartisanship". Not to mention bipartisanship has been widely and rightfully criticized as useless.

The pandemic has been the ultimate refutation of hardcore conservativism and libertarianism. Sane people recognize that there are certain responsibilities in life, and those include making sure to get vaccinated and wear masks so the people around you are being harmed by a preventable disease. Disregarding those in the name of freedumbs isn't personal empowerment; it's behaving like a public health menace.