Iverron posted:

my wife’s office apparently kept a positive case hush hush after reopening and then allowed the same person to come back in after only a couple days of quarantine so now 2 more people have tested positive and the original person is out again with symptoms

what a monumentally stupid country

SKULL.GIF posted:

I use cream cheese instead of milk. try it

SKULL.GIF posted:

doesn't have the same tanginess

Samurai Sanders posted:

A month and a half ago I found out that I would definitely be teaching the rest of the school year online, and that seemed like it might be overly cautious at time, but I sure as poo poo don't think that now. Fellow educators who need to go back into a classroom in a few months...I dunno. I hope you can think of something. Or maybe you're all in states where you're used to the government being an indomitable adversary all the time anyway.

Xaris posted:

also asymptomatic also doesn't necessarily mean "no symptoms whatsoever", but can also include pretty mild and ignorable elements and never gets like serious coughing+fever fits

In Training posted:

Jesus Christ I get so mad

dew worm posted:

I have friends that are convinced the death rate is inflated because “hospitals get money for corona deaths”

gregday posted:

https://twitter.com/elizabeth_joh/status/1282683253866946561

Mr Hootington posted:

Oh cool, got confirmation that iowa is covering up the death toll.

A local nursing home is completely infected with covid to the point they have separate floors for the infected and not infected residents. They make infected nurses work with the infected residents. We know one of the infected nurses and she says they have had 7 people die the last 2 weeks of covid and it is not being reported lmao

Taintrunner posted:

oh cool, failed state lmao

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

charity isn't meaningless just because it doesn't release endorphins into your blackpilled brain

Mr Hootington posted:

Imagine not knowing 90% of charities are just a way for the rich to steal money from everyone else.

Stereotype posted:

I started playing eve online because the safest place to be right now is 40AU away from everyone mining rocks for fake money

dead gay comedy forums posted:

considering that plague bacteria has been detected in Colorado and New Mexico back in 2015, antibiotic resistance is not going to be an issue if, given enough time, it appears and nobody can get antibiotics or the health infrastructure has been strained to breaking point

so if you see rats charging towards you anywhere, gtfo

dead gay comedy forums posted:

ain't that loving amazing really

empty whippet box posted:

Though I think my button business might be enough for most places to rent to us it would still make it a lot easier on every possible level if we had something else too

Fireside Nut posted:

As someone who calculates a large chunk of our hospitals' Covid related data for regulatory reporting, I can say this is true for my state. We also report to the county. I'd imagine most states operate this way too.

Btw, the HHS email that went out to hospitals announcing the change was kind of funny (bad). They basically said 'the other data reporting mechanisms weren't working. so, if you want your weekly allotment of Remdesivir, you better give us your data'. lol

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/kmbc/status/1283784479316770816?s=20

Raccooon posted:

This is what I picture in my head when I think of someone from Missouri.

Stuntman posted:

It gazed up at the enormous masked face. Six months it had taken it to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the useless fabric. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two sanitizer-scented tears trickled down the sides of its nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. It had won the victory over itself. It loved COVID-19.

Funion posted:

Ebola Roulette posted:

Because people don't die at home, only at hospitals.

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

I haven't done acid in a long time, but the stages I remember are:

1. Nothing is happening
2. Holy poo poo that's funny.
3. WTF are the lights doing
4. I think I need a snack.
5. (I probably shouldn't look at my face in a mirror) *looks at face in mirror*
6. Fuckin hell it feels like there is a weight on my chest.

is that right? I think I want to do acid again.

empty whippet box posted:

We are 8 days from 28 million evictions starting aren't we? Can't help but think that that will also wind up with like a thousand judges dying of covid as they pack their courthouses with poor desperate sick people to throw them out on the street

fosborb posted:

hahaha holy poo poo this is blatant. GA just changing the ranges so nowhere pops red

https://twitter.com/andishehnouraee/status/1284237474831761408?s=19

god drat I could train my department for loving years on just the hilariously bad data visualizations

Mourne posted:

nothing bad happens to the people who don’t wear masks. they never suffer.

I wonder why that is.

no mask. gently caress you. nothing bad will ever happen to me.

why are they immune?

D1E posted:

But I'm a late 40s American male and ain't nobody wants to see that

DesertIslandHermit posted:

Just imagine waking up and your lungs, heart or brain get hosed up and you haven’t been coughing. Christ.

Giga Gaia posted:

lol at all the comments. americans hate education so much

Mr Hootington posted:

I got this ad: https://youtu.be/9xMt8-yGkX8

D1E posted:

Remember in one of the earlier COVID-19 threads when that goon from New Jersey had laid out $15,000 for his kid's second birthday party and was pissed about the advice he was getting to cancel it due to the pandemic?

Mayor Dave posted:

that's baking in a democratic landslide lmfao

Sad Billionaire posted:

oxsnard posted:

“Grandma, did people really not wear masks when you were a kid?”

“No, they didn't. People didn't start wearing masks until I was 33, in 2020. Reuben, your daddy, was 4 when it all started.”

Bobby wrinkles his nose at me and picks up his mask by the door.

“You mean you didn't wear a mask at ALL?!” He says, swinging his around on his finger.

“No, not ever.” I say.

“But how did you stay safe?” Bobby says, setting his mask down.

“Oh, we got sick a lot. Your daddy had the flu when he was 3. It was scary, but he pulled through. He's had his share of colds as a child.”

“That's scary. It's bad to get sick.”

I stop, and think. Is it time? Yes, it must be time. Bobby will be eight soon, and there are things he needs to know. Things it might not be safe for his father or his mother to talk about, things that are safer shared from an older mouth.

I snuggle him up on the couch and try to think of where to begin.

“Now Bobby. I'm going to tell you some things. I want to you to hold these things inside of you and don't talk about them to anyone else, you hear? Some of these ideas can be misunderstood if the wrong person hears them.”

I think he understands. I hope he understands.

“Back in 2020 there was a virus. You probably learned about it in school.”

“Covid 19.” Bobby says. He isn't smiling. “I did.”

“Yes, Covid 19. That was when everything changed.”

“Is that why you had to go to jail, Grandma?”

Now my heart sinks. He's getting ahead of me.

“No, not really.” I say.

“Daddy says you had to go to jail when he was little and he missed you a lot.”

I feel tears prick the edges of my vision, but I blink them away.

“Yes, you see, Grandma didn't like vaccines. I didn't want to vaccinate my children, but a few years after covid-19 we lost the right to choose things like that. But Grandma didn't give up. I fought for the right to keep Reuben and Rebekah free from vaccines, so I went to jail for awhile. It was hard for your daddy, he missed me a lot.”

Bobby holds my hand, and I remember another little boy, so many years ago who also sat on this couch and held my hand. And I remember his tears as the police took me away from him. I don't want to remember this.

“But vaccines are good for you, Grandma. They keep you safe. We learned about them in school.”

I sigh.

“That's what they say.” I say. “Yet, back when I was a kid, sometime people died after they were vaccinated. Sometimes people were damaged by the vaccines. And we still don't know what is in them. No one will tell us.”

I turn to look into Bobby's eyes. “People still are damaged by vaccines now. Just no one talks about it.”

Bobby scrunches his eyes up. He's trying so hard to wrap his mind around my words.

“The world was a very different place when I grew up.” I say. “We had coins, like the ones in my collection. We spent those coins as money, instead of using the chips we have today. No one wore masks and you didn't have to get vaccinated if you didn't want too. Parents could teach their kids at home if they wanted, and school wasn't year round. You could think what you wanted, no one was arrested for speaking their mind. People met in churches to sing to God.”

Bobby still looks confused. I wonder if he can even picture a world like I am describing. I wonder if he can even understand.

“Kids played together in the streets. We had birthday parties where people would come to your house and hang out. I could hug my friends whenever I wanted.” Now I am getting a bit choked up. It must be my age. I'll be 76 this January.

I swallow.

“Now, Bobby dear, don't go repeating anything I've told you. Keep it hidden in your heart, like the verses we learn over breakfast.”
“Like the bible under the planks in the shed?” He asks. I nod, yes, like the bible hidden in the shed.

Bobby slips from my side. I let him go, hearing the legos tinkle from the other room. The legos his dad collected as a kid.

I sit for awhile, thinking back. Times sure have changed. I don't think they have changed for the better, no matter what the government says. I wonder what other things will change, before my bones go into the Earth. Soon the memories of that other world, that world of freedom and breath... will be buried in my tomb with me. And only the young will remember.

If they can.

fosborb posted:

gently caress

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1285748478711345154?s=19

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

lol i think about this quote all the time