Don't be ridiculous. They just want to cut into your golf time so they can shut down the golf course and turn it into a communist wind farm.
Our Covid Response
- Thread starter gorfias
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...attempting to covertly overthrow The United States government is one thing but fucking with my golf game?!?!?
New Covid variant with 46 mutations worries experts in France
So far, 12 people infected with the new variant have been identified in study
www.independent.co.uk
If we had given the vaccine IP to everyone we wouldn't be here.
Me: Oh great, they're finally not just blindly attributing it to the first country in the developing world to discover it.New Covid variant with 46 mutations worries experts in France
So far, 12 people infected with the new variant have been identified in study
If we had given the vaccine IP to everyone we wouldn't be here.
Western media: Just to be clear the person it has been traced back to has been in Africa before.
I mean, you gotta cede one thing to delta and omicron. It's really demonstrated the difference between people who actually follow the science, and those who just have it on a bumper sticker.
Every day Covid has proven the old meme correct
The People: HELP US!!!
Republicans: No
Democrats: No
#BLMThat would have helped, but it would likely not have been sufficient.New Covid variant with 46 mutations worries experts in France
So far, 12 people infected with the new variant have been identified in study
If we had given the vaccine IP to everyone we wouldn't be here.
I am not without sympathy for the government.Every day Covid has proven the old meme correct
The People: HELP US!!!
Republicans: No
Democrats: No
Covid is endemic. Without breakthrough technology, we can't eradicate it. We'll have covid next year, in five years, in ten years, and probably to the point every one of us dies of old age (or covid, when we're old and vulnerable). Covid at some point has to transition into being responded to similarly to influenza. Vaccines have already provided huge mitigation to facilitate this, and in molnupiravir we now have a drug which can very significantly reduce risk of serious symptoms, too. More may be on the way.
As part of this we need to adapt healthcare management - for instance accepting that at any one time many more people need hospital facilities, so expanding provision to cope. It means rolling vaccines out more widely across the world. Retaining the principle of mask usage (so effectively becoming more like East Asia already was) as a societal responsibility. But the idea that we spend several weeks/month every year enduring lockdowns, heavy absenteeism due to isolating, etc. is not, I fear, sustainable as a permanent answer.
In a democracy every worker is essential or nobody is, bar under martial law. It's a libertarian wet dream to have those out-of-work waiters take up shortages in healthcare, but that's not our reality, thus a lot of service sector workers sit on their asses for the time being. Sure, Finnish welfare makes sure nobody's going broke, but it's an economic gut punch to those making a living in those jobs. Jobs that could end up disappearing for a while.
They should reduce the hospital burden through hard caps on COVID patients.
They should reduce the hospital burden through hard caps on COVID patients.
If we imagine that sufficient isolation for every human on the planet was actually feasible and we did it, and it was successful, and the virus was eradicated from the entire human population... we'd catch it from animals again because most of the planet (not just humans) has been enveloped by the virus already.
This is just categorically false. Don't really know where you got this from.
This virus was quite likely able to jump from animals to humans because of the uniquely awful and infection-condusive environment that is an unregulated wet market.
There are plenty of other things our government could do that isn't a lockdown or forced vaccination. They could send out tests to everyone (yeah, they're allegedly finally about to do it this month in Year Fucking 3, great job being on the ball guys). They could send masks to everyone (huge too because I keep getting mixed messages about what kind of mask I should be wearing to the point where I've given up on getting a new mask because I have no idea what I should be getting, it's expensive to replace my masks and I can't afford to keep doing it if I am indeed supposed to keep buying disposable N95s). They could guarantee sick time for employees to go get the shots AND guarantee the sick time if said employee has side effects from the shot. It'll never ever happen because God forbid we adopt socialism but M4A in the middle of a pandemic so people who feel sick can actually go to the doctor would be super. And then back to my usual nitpick, amazing how our VP tweets about how everyone should be getting $2,000 a month to ride this shit out when they have no power but as soon as they're in office, radio silence (I haven't forgotten about the $600 you still owe me old man).
This is just shit off the top of my head. I'm sure there are other things I'm not thinking of that they could at least PRETEND to fight for that could help but everything that could help might cause their Corporate Overlords to lose money so obviously all of that is off the table. "Some of you may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make". But throwing their hands up and saying "Well we have a vaccine, nothing more we can do I guess" is bullshit.
Trump almost certainly lost in 2020 because of his absolute piss poor management of Covid (anyone here think Biden would have had a snowballs chance in Hell of winning in 2020 had Covid not shown up?) and Biden will only have himself to blame when Trump comes waltzing back into the White House in 2024.
So yes, tbf, Covid is now an endemic that is tough to deal with and will likely never be fully dealt with. But it should have never gotten to this point and it getting to this point doesn't give Biden and company a blank check to just wash their hands over doing Jack shit about it right now.
No, he's right.
Our pets catch it. Our zoo animals catch it. A lot of wild animals will catch it. We passed it to them, and they are now another reservoir to pass it right back.
Huh... huh. I don't know how I haven't seen anything about this. Stand corrected.
I knew cats could catch it, but thought it was a lot rarer than that.