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Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs

vandalism posted:

Godot will be here any time. We have to be patient.

ESTRAGON:
People are bloody ignorant apes.

He rises painfully, goes limping to extreme left, halts, gazes into distance off with his hand
screening his eyes, turns, goes to extreme right, gazes into distance. Vladimir watches him,
then goes and picks up the boot, peers into it, drops it hastily.


VLADIMIR:
Pah!

He spits. Estragon moves to center, halts with his back to auditorium.

ESTRAGON:
Charming spot. (He turns, advances to front, halts facing auditorium.) Inspiring prospects.
(He turns to Vladimir.) Let's go.

VLADIMIR:
We can't.

ESTRAGON:
Why not?

VLADIMIR:
We're waiting for herd immunity.

ESTRAGON:
(despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here?

:synpa:

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Saalkin
Jun 29, 2008

Son of Rodney posted:

Ive coped last year with letting my repressed alcoholism rampage for a bit, stopped drinking almost completely this year and I feel healthier than ever but mentally like I'm reaching a breaking point. What good is having a healthy body and sharp mind if all I can do is sit on my rear end and watch Netflix or play computer games. I'm exercising thrice a week but thats like 2 hours max. poo poo sucks.

Increase that workout.

Smoke weed.

Watch more porn.

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Saalkin posted:

Increase that workout.

Smoke weed.

Watch more porn.

The weed I have makes me hungry and anxious and I live with my gf who same as me never leaves the house anymore, so I have to gently caress daily, sometimes twice :(

More workout would be good though.

Saalkin
Jun 29, 2008

Son of Rodney posted:

The weed I have makes me hungry and anxious and I live with my gf who same as me never leaves the house anymore, so I have to gently caress daily, sometimes twice :(

More workout would be good though.

Change weed my dude. Find yourself some Moby dick. I love that strain it's good poo poo.

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

Lol the op is an anti masking dipshit. Peep this meltdown

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3953832&userid=204963

Full Metal Jackass
Jan 22, 2001

Rabid bats are welcome in my home

:eyepop:

Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

Saalkin posted:

Change weed my dude. Find yourself some Moby dick. I love that strain it's good poo poo.

I live in a pathetic country where weed is still illegal, so all I get is street weed. I've thought about growing some but the police is so bored here they're appearantly super nazis about it. It suck I wish I could smoke some Moby dick.

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

yeah i think opening up schools is irresponsible and the government insisting that its 100% safe while shutting down everything else is bullshit.

I straight up think the government is lying that schools are not transmission vectors because the alternative is parents not having daycare or being able to go to work.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-covid-19-vaccine-second-dose-delayed-1.5865482
I also think that politicians politically pressuring health authorities to release the vaccine at untested, unauthorized cadences that are out of spec for what the manufacture produced it at is a bad idea and definitely not in the public's best interest.

hth

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth
Being a cheapskate and pretending it's a virtue is the far bigger sin IMO

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

ThreesomesOnly84
Jan 19, 2021

by Athanatos
Silver lining: never having to commute to an office again, at least not for the foreseeable future.

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!

Who What Now posted:

Being a cheapskate and pretending it's a virtue is the far bigger sin IMO

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Son of Rodney posted:

Ive coped last year with letting my repressed alcoholism rampage for a bit, stopped drinking almost completely this year and I feel healthier than ever but mentally like I'm reaching a breaking point. What good is having a healthy body and sharp mind if all I can do is sit on my rear end and watch Netflix or play computer games. I'm exercising thrice a week but thats like 2 hours max. poo poo sucks.

We had a similarly rather extreme lockdown where I am, for a few months. Some things I learnt from it:
  • Go shopping every day to get out of the house, even if it's just for a couple of items.
  • No one is timing you going out and exercising (unless it's in a gym). And running or cycling while maintaining a 1,5 metre/yard distance from others would have an extremely low transmission risk. So a person going a bit nuts from boring long term isolation just might choose to 'stretch' the rule. I won't tell. ;)
  • Why not get out for a walk or ride every day? It really makes a difference.
  • Alcoholics Anonymous have a lot of Zoom (video conferencing) meetings. Their website for your country will list them, possibly in the 'Members' section, which the public can view. You just might find a meeting socially satisfying and helpful in continuing to control your drinking. If it comes out that your current goal isn't total abstinence and anyone objects, just say you're intersted in hearing the experience strength and hope of members who have achieved it. You don't need to take any pledges. And if you find a meeting too boring you can always leave eave before it ends, and try another later if you choose. Meetings vary.

Good luck. You will get through it!

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
ive been telling this to people for months now

this is a 2-3 year event

masks and other social distance poo poo isnt going away until mid 2022.

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

Chinatown posted:

ive been telling this to people for months now

this is a 2-3 year event

masks and other social distance poo poo isnt going away until mid 2022.
Yeah lmao Im going to love reading the daily news stories about how vaccine distribution isn't going as well as projected and all the logistical and supply issues for 2 years.

And kids getting fined 500 dollars for playing street hockey because they're bored and all organized sports have been cancelled for a year.

Hope you're ready for every hiv Sars ebola swine flu bird flu zika dengue fever whatever the gently caress scare every time somebody sneezes sideways in China to cause panic fed by news orgs for guaranted easy clicks leading to travel restrictions and lock downs Just In Case to Avoid The Next Covid

DeadFatDuckFat
Oct 29, 2012

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Have you found a therapist yet

Arven
Sep 23, 2007
IT workers are apparently in phase 1 of the vaccine rollout, so most goons will be out of this mess by the end of the year.

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

Methanar posted:


Hope you're ready for every hiv Sars ebola swine flu bird flu zika dengue fever whatever the gently caress scare every time somebody sneezes sideways in China to cause panic fed by news orgs for guaranted easy clicks leading to travel restrictions and lock downs Just In Case to Avoid The Next Covid

Climate change is going to increase & exacerbate these events, BTW.

It's pandemics all the way down.

ante
Apr 9, 2005

SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS
lotta doomposting in this thread



let's take a minute and appreciate the mRNA vaccine

y'all read this thread:

https://twitter.com/WheatNOil/status/1339624815137722368


The tl;dr is that it is mindblowingly cool and brilliant in how it was designed, and scientists have known for decades that this new avenue for vaccine creation has possibility, they've just never been able to get funding for it.

And they were able to get funding, and get a vaccine out in under a year. Mindblowing. For reference, the mumps vaccine took over 4 years. Despite decades of work, no HIV vaccine has been developed.


What this means for the future is twofold:

- We will be able to develop vaccines for things we've never been able to target before. Think, a general flu vaccine, instead of a yearly vaccine that targets a few strains that experts think are going to be big in that particular year.
- We will be able to get them out fast

About that last point: In Canada, where Methanar is building his prepper bunker, we had a lot of vaccines administered last week, and way fewer this week. That seems bad, and it's because Pfizer slowed down their output a little. That's not bad, though. They did that so that they can focus on ramping up production and going even faster in the coming weeks.


Future pandemics? Ignoring that statistical probability of no more than 1 every 100 years or so (anyone who says otherwise is wrong fyi), this new technique should be quick to knock them down before they even start. Remember last February when we just started hearing rumblings about it? Yeah, that'll be all

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

Laterite posted:

Climate change is going to increase & exacerbate these events, BTW.

It's pandemics all the way down.

oh yeah like the water wars are coming.

best case scenario is like 1m sea level rise in our life times lol. the decade of 2020 is going to be remembered as The Last Good Years. You know how you keep hearing 'hottest year on record!' every year now? lol what they really mean is 'the coldest september of the rest of your life'

Spinz
Jan 7, 2020

I ordered luscious new gemstones from India and made new earrings for my SA mart thread

Remember my earrings and art are much better than my posting

New stuff starts towards end of page 3 of the thread
The terror of covid will end for me a few weeks after my second shot.

Then it's just weird new muted life.

I'm sorry you are so unhappy goon friend. Try an anti depressant or anti anxiety drug please. Until you find one that works. No/s

Hug

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost
I've started taking 2 or so hour naps around 5pm or 6pm to try as a time killer again. It works I guess but it really confuses you what time or day it is.

Super Nintendo 64
Feb 18, 2012

drat I thought the title said 'wanting for nothing'
Where might I find the rich people thread, as I own several automobiles

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000

I LITERALLY SLEEP IN A RACING CAR. DO YOU?
p.s. ask me about my subscription mattress
Ultra Carp

Methanar posted:

Everybody knew I could do the splits when I was a kid in school and often I'd be asked to do it because they 'wanted to see' and then they'd kick me in the crotch. hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahah

this is your supervillain origin story, hth

awesome-express
Dec 30, 2008

Spinz posted:

The terror of covid will end for me a few weeks after my second shot.

Then it's just weird new muted life.

I'm sorry you are so unhappy goon friend. Try an anti depressant or anti anxiety drug please. Until you find one that works. No/s

Hug

Vaccine’s only good for 6-12 months. We’ll have to get them annually lmao

ante
Apr 9, 2005

SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS

awesome-express posted:

Vaccine’s only good for 6-12 months. We’ll have to get them annually lmao

cite yuor sources



initial safety trials were in March, and those people are still protected. Experts are saying probably 3-4 years, but really nobody knows



seriously, check your loving facts before posting panic-inducing poo poo, it takes two seconds, and is the only thing elevating you from boomer-level facebook memes

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Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

No nuts, rated 3.

Son of Rodney posted:

The weed I have makes me hungry and anxious and I live with my gf who same as me never leaves the house anymore, so I have to gently caress daily, [b]sometimes twice[/b[ :(

More workout would be good though.

Owned.

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