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Post by Drarok » Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:54 am

I had a big sleep on Sunday and don't feel ill anymore apart from a very slight productive cough. Can't hurt to cover the bases though.
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Post by eny » Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:20 pm

Japan Olympics precautions are going well...


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Post by Wrathbone » Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:27 pm

Bet their product testing team has some awkward glances now.

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Post by eny » Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:57 am

https://god.dailydot.com/h-scott-apley- ... lBWvd0UoZY

These idiots are making news daily now - A history of GQPish anti-science, bait-their-base antics, then succumbing to their own ignorance. He's infected his wife and 5-month old son too. The Texas GOP Twitter doesn't even mention how he died or use the opportunity to urge people to vaccinate and be careful. The utter moral corruption of "owning the libs for votes" is breathtaking. In the space of a week, Desantis has gone from telling Biden "I don't want to hear a blip about covid from you", to begging for 300 ventilators. Meanwhile overwhelmed hospitals, full of the unvaxed, mean vaxed patients with other conditions are now turned away. The utter bankruptcy of humanity is despairing. ](*,)
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Post by Animalmother » Wed Aug 11, 2021 5:32 pm

I have very little sympathy for people like that. Willful ignorance and stupidity don't just deserve any.

I finally looked up what GOP stood for after seeing it for years. I assumed it was something like Government Of the President or similar. Grand Old Party....really!? #-o

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Post by eny » Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:52 pm

It ain't over, all these mass events are setting up a mighty resurgence soon I fear. Also, a worrying new mutation - the furthest yet from the original strain - is showing up, most notably in South Africa.

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Post by Mantis » Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:58 pm

I dread to think what the endgame for this is going to be if we start getting highly infectious new strains that evade the vaccines every six months.

Our entire way of life would need a rethink in that situation, because whilst I didn't do so badly at all over the last year and a half I really can't imagine living in a state of quasi-lockdowns forever.

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Post by eny » Mon Aug 30, 2021 2:59 pm

The biggest takeaway is: action as soon as possible, and not relaxing into "back to normal now" as has been the case.
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Post by Raid » Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:17 pm

Which, for better or worse, won't happen with our current government.

And yeah, this is basically what I've been expecting for over a year now. Every person infected is another tiny chance for a virus to mutate, and Covid 19 has millions of these tiny chances. Eventually someone's going to incubate a variant that the vaccine can't prevent, and we're back to square one.

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Post by eny » Mon Aug 30, 2021 4:17 pm

As usual, the worst, most ignorant "but I'm special and don't care about anyone else" of society will be the route back to square one...which would be ok if it could be seen that Covid mutations would dilute down to flu/cold level symptoms. The work it does on the lungs and other organs though makes it more worrying. :?
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Post by Pew-Pew » Mon Aug 30, 2021 4:22 pm

It's too late for any country to be aiming for zero covid. The vaccines don't fully stop tranmission (only reduce it to some extent), but they do massively reduce hospitalisations and deaths. The virus will have endless opportunities to mutate in the future anyway. I think at this point lockdowns are only necessary in times of extreme strain on the health service.

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Post by Animalmother » Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:23 pm

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58416801
Another Covid misinformation bellend gets got

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Post by Rossell » Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:35 pm

He also took that horse dewormer shit as well. "took" anyway...

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Post by eny » Thu Sep 02, 2021 7:55 pm

People are literally shitting out the lining of their guts eating horse paste...the amount of shit he lists, and has taken, and he's worried about the vaccine? America is a shit show right now.
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Post by eny » Sat Nov 06, 2021 3:20 am

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