Lifting Masks = Back to Getting Down With The Sickness

[Gergar12]

As I have repeated I don't want to be a good person I want to be a pragmatic person who takes the fight to conservatives. Those assholes have horrible political issue stances and do climate change distorting things like buying pickup trucks with 9 MPG. It's high time the left stops being moral, and altruistic, and frankly naive and starts being more forceful, machiavellian on a national level. Having the vaccine gives you an 88% chance of survival, and you won't die of covid, so it frankly does give me a high degree of protection.

 

[Buyetyen]

As I have repeated I don't want to be a good person I want to be a pragmatic person who takes the fight to conservatives.

Then you don't get to ***** when you get lumped in with the other assholes.

 

[Gergar12]

Then you don't get to ***** when you get lumped in with the other assholes.

Being an asshole is relative, and subjective. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Buyetyen]

Being an asshole is relative, and subjective. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

And I am currently beholding asshole behavior. Your point?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Don't you just hate to see it.

Maybe if the diarrhea continues for long enough, all the shit will drain out of their skulls and they'll stop being so stupid.

 

[Dalisclock]

Don't you just hate to see it.

This is how I learned about Rope Worms.....

 

[McElroy]

As I have repeated I don't want to be a good person I want to be a pragmatic person who takes the fight to conservatives. Those assholes have horrible political issue stances and do climate change distorting things like buying pickup trucks with 9 MPG. It's high time the left stops being moral, and altruistic, and frankly naive and starts being more forceful, machiavellian on a national level. Having the vaccine gives you an 88% chance of survival, and you won't die of covid, so it frankly does give me a high degree of protection.

While your take is a bit shitty (well, another continent with their own problems and so on), I'm not gonna lie: masks go to the bin once the recommended 2nd shot + two weeks has passed. The other option is eternal caution, because the cases will never go down to zero. Sure, our institutions might ease off the guidelines, but why would it matter if the only acceptable risk is zero?

 

[Silvanus]

I don't agree the majority of people who are getting this disease(delta) are unvaccinated right wing twats. Why should I inconvenience myself for them when they won't do so for me on a number of political, and personal issues.

You have no actual idea if you'll infect someone who's immunocompromised or couldn't get the vaccine for a medical reason.

You also have no actual idea if the "right-wing twats" who you infect may then go and infect someone who's immunocompromised. You increase the likelihood of that happening.

You're unwilling to "inconvenience" yourself to protect perfectly innocent people, who are undeniably also at risk from the continued spread of the virus.

 

[Bartholomew]

Having the vaccine gives you an 88% chance of survival

A nitpick, but I thought the chance of survival for having covid was much higher than 88% to begin with, unless you're elderly or have other health conditions.

The number I've seen is that you have a 99.975% chance of survival as long as you're young and healthy.

 

[BrawlMan]

As I have repeated I don't want to be a good person I want to be a pragmatic person who takes the fight to conservatives. Those assholes have horrible political issue stances and do climate change distorting things like buying pickup trucks with 9 MPG. It's high time the left stops being moral, and altruistic, and frankly naive and starts being more forceful, machiavellian on a national level. Having the vaccine gives you an 88% chance of survival, and you won't die of covid, so it frankly does give me a high degree of protection.

You're not being pragmatic. You're trying to justify a foolish decision. By doing that, you're no different from the anti-vaxxers or the nonsensical alt-right. Making pathetic justification and cowardly excuses of why you shouldn't be protecting yourself and those around you. You have a responsibility to uphold. You're lacking in your duties about being a person with some common sense. This isn't about being "good". It's about doing what is actually right.

 

[Gergar12]

I don't agree with most of the takes here. If I am at my college, I am wearing a mask(Because it's required, some immunocompromised people are there, and because most people there believe in climate change). At Walmart, and The Home Depot where there are conservatives who don't believe in climate change, who buy F-150s, who voted for climate deniers like George W Bush, Trump, and Rep. Troy Balderson or Gym Jordan, no I will not wear a mask for those people.

Also if you are immunocompromised, or a child under you either are wearing a mask, or have dumb reactionary parents. Plus if you are a kid you have high rates of survival. The most at-risk is that Gen X, Baby Boomer who believes in nonsense conservative ideas, and most importantly voted for scumbags. Stop saying immunocompromised, it's almost all right-wing reactionaries that are dying. that's a fact.

COVID-19 is crushing red states. Why isn’t Trump turning his rallies into mass vaccination sites?

Why pushing for vaccination is smart politics.

www.brookings.edu

States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates, study finds

The study found that states with Democratic governors had higher death rates early on in the pandemic, but that trend was reversed by the Fourth of July.

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Covid: US congressman Ron Wright dies with coronavirus, aged 67

Republican Ron Wright, 67, becomes the first sitting member of Congress to die with the disease.

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Edit: it's time the left became more silently ruthless, No I am not coughing into people's faces, but I am not going to cater to the reactionaries who wouldn't be vaccinated, or wear a mask for my family. Fuck them.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Viruses don't care whether you're a Republican or whatever, they'll propagate and mutate all the same.

 

[Gergar12]

Viruses don't care whether you're a Republican or whatever, they'll propagate and mutate all the same.

Well, they just happen to do so most often to republicans right now.

Also, remember when Covid hit democratic areas hard, but republicans kept being against state "bailouts". I remember. These people are very partisan, so I have to be even more partisan or have the same amount of partisanship.

Also booster shots.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Also booster shots.

Can't wait for the new variants that will make boosters irrelevant. Neither can you, so it would seem!

 

[Gergar12]

Can't wait for the new variants that will make boosters irrelevant. Neither can you, so it would seem!

Unlikely.

 

[Gergar12]

A nitpick, but I thought the chance of survival for having covid was much higher than 88% to begin with, unless you're elderly or have other health conditions.

The number I've seen is that you have a 99.975% chance of survival as long as you're young and healthy.

No, your right it's 88% to not get sick, 99% to not get into the ICU.

 

[bluegate]

Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

His pregnant wife said this week that the hospital was "out of options" for her husband.

www.yahoo.com

Womp Womp.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

This is how I learned about Rope Worms.....

Educational uber-poops!

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Can't edit original post, but it had been deleted and reposted cause the horse paste patrol had a troll among them (technically a parasite I guess, eh?)

It's amazing how much of this shit consistently links back to mainstream grifters

 

[happyninja42]

Educational uber-poops!

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Can't edit original post, but it had been deleted and reposted cause the horse paste patrol had a troll among them (technically a parasite I guess, eh?)

It's amazing how much of this shit consistently links back to mainstream grifters

yeah the majority of these conservative talking points, that cite claims...are often citing their own speculative posts and articles from other sites, as their "evidence" and then further pushing the bullshit forward.

Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

His pregnant wife said this week that the hospital was "out of options" for her husband.

www.yahoo.com

Womp Womp.

Good.

Though I'm waiting for the conservative nutjobs, to start spinning all these covid deaths as targeted assassinations by the evil liberals to "silence the truth" because it just so happens to be impacting the people who are taking the virus as a joke...and yet they will of course blame us for their own stupidity.

 

[Agema]

Though I'm waiting for the conservative nutjobs, to start spinning all these covid deaths as targeted assassinations by the evil liberals to "silence the truth" because it just so happens to be impacting the people who are taking the virus as a joke...and yet they will of course blame us for their own stupidity.

Sadly, this is undoubtedly going to be a response from at least some. Where will be people who will see this sort thing and perhaps question their prior beliefs. However, there are some that will not.

I recall at least one apolcalypse cult I read about predicted the world would end, prepared for it, and when it duly did not happen, the cult leader blithely set a new date. Although some twigged that perhaps they had been misled and departed, others stayed and dedicated themselves to the new date the leader came up with.