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figmentPez
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I'm so sick of Tucker Carlson promoting lies:
He thinks that having a child wear a mask is child abuse.
He thinks that having a child wear a mask is child abuse.
Having a kid listen to Tucker Carlson is abuse.
Fuuuuuuuuuu~!
96 new cases today, but directly in response to all the testing we are doing. We are killing it on testing right now. Punching way outside our weight class.
As such our Premier has formally requested that the Canadian Armed Forces be mobilized to assist with testing. PM Trudeau has agreed and at least 60 personelle are being dispatched.
And I know it's wrong but I am really enjoying the RCMP charging restriction violators.
Seriously folks just stop gathering and help stop the spread.
As such our Premier has formally requested that the Canadian Armed Forces be mobilized to assist with testing. PM Trudeau has agreed and at least 60 personelle are being dispatched.
And I know it's wrong but I am really enjoying the RCMP charging restriction violators.
Seriously folks just stop gathering and help stop the spread.
I'm okay with violators eating fined. They KNOW they're going against the regulations to protect everyone.
I'm hoping for an update with the Dalhousie students who celebrated getting fines by taking selfies with them. I'd be happy if they were expelled, denied a return of their tuitions, and the money donated to the IWK or something. Getting fined is one thing. Flagrantly laughing about it is another. Fuck 'em.
I'm hoping for an update with the Dalhousie students who celebrated getting fines by taking selfies with them. I'd be happy if they were expelled, denied a return of their tuitions, and the money donated to the IWK or something. Getting fined is one thing. Flagrantly laughing about it is another. Fuck 'em.
I am so on board with that.
I admit that more and more, I'm coming round to the oh-so-socialist idea of making fines dependant on wages.
Right now, here, Covid fines are €250 to €750 depending on what you're doing (CAD370-1100 or $300-900, or thereabout). That's pretty hefty! Especially since these are the personal fines - the ones for bars or employers breaking rules are more than tenfold.
and still there are people making a mockery of it and laughing about it. Fuck it, fine 'm 10% of their yearly wages. Include bonusses, tax exemptions, intrests, and any and all other income. It still won't touch the überrich but at least the only somewhat rich and well-off won't be such trolls anymore - and it might help the poor too.
Right now, here, Covid fines are €250 to €750 depending on what you're doing (CAD370-1100 or $300-900, or thereabout). That's pretty hefty! Especially since these are the personal fines - the ones for bars or employers breaking rules are more than tenfold.
and still there are people making a mockery of it and laughing about it. Fuck it, fine 'm 10% of their yearly wages. Include bonusses, tax exemptions, intrests, and any and all other income. It still won't touch the überrich but at least the only somewhat rich and well-off won't be such trolls anymore - and it might help the poor too.
Got first Moderna shot 4/16 with second one scheduled for 5/14. I was fine for the first few days after but the last few days I’ve been sleeping a *lot* and waking up soaked in sweat. I am also experiencing “COVID arm”
www.nbcchicago.com
Edit: i meant to post this in the other covid thread, if a mod wants to move it please.
‘COVID Arm': What to Know After Getting the Moderna, Pfizer Vaccines
For many who get an mRNA COVID vaccine like Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech, arm soreness is a common experience post-vaccination. But in some cases, there’s also what’s being called “COVID arm.”
www.nbcchicago.com
Edit: i meant to post this in the other covid thread, if a mod wants to move it please.
I didn't get COVID arm with either shot. But I switch arms anyway, because it was so sore for the next few days after, I wanted the 2nd shot in the non-dominant arm.
Where you sore both times?
Of course i went with the non-dom arm from the start, but the 2nd time the soreness lasted way less (of course i also moved it slowly way more often the 2nd time, maybe that also helped).
2nd time, the soreness was way less for me too.
In depth coverage of todays lockdown.
I think I git it figured out. Nova Scotians are pogey masters, we can do nothing for months on end, two weeks is a caje walk.
I think I git it figured out. Nova Scotians are pogey masters, we can do nothing for months on end, two weeks is a caje walk.
About a week ago, I ran into the mother of one of Li'l Z's friends from pre-school. They had decided to send their son to a local hoity-toity, well-known private school in the area. She said that during Covid, because the classes were so small, they only shut down for maybe a week?, and then resumed classes, but with the stipulation that all parents MUST submit to the school ALL of their social media accounts to be monitored by the school. Any student/family found breaking Covid rules outside of school would be kicked out, no tuition refunded. And apparently there were a few families who got the boot because they didn't think "no travel or getting together for parties" rule didn't apply to them.
Perfection. That's a perfect example of "fuck around and find out."
Snarf! That also happened to the cumbucket children of your previous president.
Numbers will be bad today. Huge even. Because we tested 20,000 people yesterday. That's 5% of the city or 2% of the province. Hopefully our positivity rate stays low.
Scary part is the variants are attacking the young right now. Of the 96 reported yesterday, 30 were < 20 and 65 < 40.
But on the bright side, I'm baking sourdough pretzels tonight.
So we got that going for us.
I’m going in to the mouse/insect/poop office for almost the last time today.
So there is something as well. So close!
And this is the covid thread. Sorry - I am clearly stunned.
So there is something as well. So close!
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And this is the covid thread. Sorry - I am clearly stunned.
Ma'am, this is Arby's.
Luckily, it is absolutely acceptable to shake your booty at home, and conga.
I would argue that home is the only acceptable place to do so.
It's almost as if people saying "young people don't die from this, so let them play and do whatever without distancing or masking" provided an evolutionary incentive that the virus could take advantage of....
Practically every successful variant - Indian, Brazilian, British, South African - is more infectious towards the young, and has a longer incubation period. Really, I can't think of why.
figmentPez
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This pandemic isn't going to end, is it? Between anti-vaxxers and greedy pharmaceutical patents, the US is going to drag the entire world to a halt until the virus mutates enough that the current vaccine doesn't work, and everyone will have to go into lockdown again... Which will lead to the anti-vaxxers screaming that they were "right" and bring a new wave of profits for medical companies, which will lead to propaganda against the new vaccines and even greedier protections of patents, which will prevent protection from the new variant, which will lead to another mutated form, another lockdown, anti-vaxx, big pharma, mutation, lockdown, anti-vaxx, big pharma, mutation, lockdown....
Fuck I'm depressed today.
Fuck I'm depressed today.
Ehh, I'm pretty sure you can't blame it all on the USA. There's plenty of moronic "freedom" advocates who just want the world to burn reopen and let the dead lie where they may.
And don't underestimate just how big and how badly reported the India outbreak is right now. Depending on how you want to read the numbers, there are anywhere between 2 million and 500 million infected in India at the moment. That's more infected in India at one point than there are Americans at all. I have friends with family over there, some who have died from Covid or related, and the situation there is way beyond "Italy last year". Doctors are sending people home by bullhorn in the parking lot, because no matter what you have or how bad it is, there's simply no-one to take care of you, no place to put you, and nothing to give you. Oxygen is unavailable even for the rich (nothing's unavailable for the super-rich, but I'm talking about well above well-off), people are being temporarily buried (which is horrible to Hindus) because there's such a severe hortage of wood - can you imagine a wood shortage in the jungle? - that they can't burn everyone. It'll obviously not be that bad everywhere, but in some states, it really is that bad. Don't go to the hospital if you're sick, just sell off your belongings and chop down your house for wood for a pyre.
There will no doubt be a hundred Indian variants - but they've got nowhere to go because, well, everybody's already sick. No clue hwo that'll turn out.
And don't underestimate just how big and how badly reported the India outbreak is right now. Depending on how you want to read the numbers, there are anywhere between 2 million and 500 million infected in India at the moment. That's more infected in India at one point than there are Americans at all. I have friends with family over there, some who have died from Covid or related, and the situation there is way beyond "Italy last year". Doctors are sending people home by bullhorn in the parking lot, because no matter what you have or how bad it is, there's simply no-one to take care of you, no place to put you, and nothing to give you. Oxygen is unavailable even for the rich (nothing's unavailable for the super-rich, but I'm talking about well above well-off), people are being temporarily buried (which is horrible to Hindus) because there's such a severe hortage of wood - can you imagine a wood shortage in the jungle? - that they can't burn everyone. It'll obviously not be that bad everywhere, but in some states, it really is that bad. Don't go to the hospital if you're sick, just sell off your belongings and chop down your house for wood for a pyre.
There will no doubt be a hundred Indian variants - but they've got nowhere to go because, well, everybody's already sick. No clue hwo that'll turn out.
figmentPez
Staff member
I know that, it was hyperbole. I realize that the USA does not have a monopoly on anti-vaxxers or greedy pharmaceutical companies. I was using "US" as a poster child that exemplifies all the worst of humanity that are causing this problem, and if you can't see how the US hoarding vaccines and using patent law to prevent more widespread manufacture for lower-income countries is a major cause of why things are so bad in India, then there's no fucking point to continuing this conversation.
GasBandit
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Even in an absolute worst case scenario, the pandemic WILL end. It's just a question of how many people die before those who are left over have sufficient immunity.
After all, even the 14th century bubonic plague pandemic, for which there was no vaccine developed, only killed half the civilized world before it petered out.
And hey, silver lining - once half of everyone is gone, it'll probably be a lot easier to get a PS5!
