Coronavirus - Overall
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
yeah you gotta wonder about some countries reporting, I mean India for example, thier numbers of late are excellent, both infections and deaths down, are they even vaccinating yet?
there are probably two whole castes of people they don't even bother to count
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@taniwharugby lol fucking hell
Africa is so fucked up
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@Crucial said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Rapido I wonder what Poland has been doing. Pretty evenly spread “low” rates
Dunno. about the even part. but the low part is probably because they avoided first wave.
At one point, maybe in Autumn, they were reporting as one of the 'worst' countries on the tracking sites (not per population). So, I'd credit them with counting.
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
yeah you gotta wonder about some countries reporting, I mean India for example, thier numbers of late are excellent, both infections and deaths down, are they even vaccinating yet?
there are probably two whole castes of people they don't even bother to count
Ha - 'people'.
That raises something I hadn't thought of before - India's official population is how-many fuck-tonnes? Imagine if they classed the "untouchables" as people, and included them as well? -
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Well Geneve is a fucking idiot, taking things out of context, AND misinterpreting them.
That's actually quite a well-written advisory, or piss-take; AND correct.
Correct, in that Yes - "wearing a mask during sex will further reduce the risk" - particularly when taken in the context of what immediately comes afterwards... a list of activities in order of risk.
It's simply saying that if you wanted, you could wear a mask with any of the following, to further reduce the risk. Not saying you have to, just, that as common-sense should have told you already - it would be an option if you were that way inclined.But the earlier bullet points - made me wonder if it was a piss-take... until you see that as a whole - it's all factually correct, and just a good advisory, written in a way to appeal to the free-wheeling free-spirited free-love West-Coast crowd.
Certainly not technocracy trying to replace "spiritualism". If you currently believe in "spiritualism", we already know you're not going to take sensible advice.
And certainly not some attempt at "a transhumanist religion".The best thing about this COVID thing... is the resulting "triggering" of so many different types of stupid people, and them throwing up the flares shrieking "look... THIS is my brand of idiocy, and I demand you recognise me".
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@kruse said in Coronavirus - Overall:
it's all factually correct, and just a good advisory, written in a way to appeal to the free-wheeling free-spirited free-love West-Coast crowd.
Of course it is. Its not really one indication of the world (or West) going quite mad
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kruse can you imagine the increase in global productivity if people stopped finding ways to be outraged and offended at irrelevant or imaginary things?
So commenting (or joking) on silliness (as the West descends into madness) is now being outraged or offended?
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@winger she seemed offended to me, why you even take the time to respond to something so inoffensive, making silly claims
And yes I'm aware that now I'm also in the camp of people wasting time talking about this shit!
Edit, saw your edit, I was talking about her, not you
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@winger she seemed offended to me, why you even take the time to respond to something so inoffensive, making silly claims
And yes I'm aware that now I'm also in the camp of people wasting time talking about this shit!
Edit, saw your edit, I was talking about her, not you
I know. But I took it (perhaps wrongly) as a very light hearted comment
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kruse can you imagine the increase in global productivity if people stopped finding ways to be outraged and offended at irrelevant or imaginary things?
I know TSF would need approximately 50% of current patreon-age - in the savings from disk-space and bandwidth requirements.
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Well Rugby is about to start up so I’m showing my face. In New Zealand I imagine that you don’t come across room many people who have had Covid. I got the first vaccine over two weeks ago and will have the second vaccine in March. The primary reason why I personally got it because I thought it might be good to have on the resume if I planned on leaving the country on a dive trip or something but alas it’s not a get out of jail free card. There’s always something new and scary out there on the horizon. So last Saturday I came down with a pretty good fever which lasted for about a day and a half. Since I was seeing patients the next day I decided to get tested and I was positive. So I’m out for 10 days. My ex-wife and her husband probably had it a couple weeks earlier although they did not get tested. So I most likely got it from the kids. How do you keep away from your kids? So after the fever broke my symptoms were pretty similar to the flu. Actually if Covid did not exist I would put this down to my usual sinus infection that I get around this time of the year. Pretty much the same symptoms. Now whether the vaccination mitigated the symptoms is unknown. There’s always a possibility that having the vaccine might have resulted in a positive test too. So a couple of things 1). I never feared this virus because I don’t fit into the categories of those at risk. I am not saying that to brag but just that I know the stats and I would not call myself someone with weak constitution. 2). If you have health issues this virus can do a number on you especially diabetics and every other co-morbidity related to obesity. I see this in the post covid patients I am working with. 3). I still believe that lockdowns and a myopic focus on Covid is destructive. My kids are still not in school and miss the social contact, people are losing their jobs, suicides up, people not seeking help when they have had a CVA or MI due to fear of covid at the ER, and the list goes on. 4). The fear is palpable in people and unfortunately these people, including public health officials, are reinforcing the environment that we have to live in. 5). Have to let the virus take its course and people held responsible for their own health. Can’t see how we got to a point where asymptomatic healthy people have to walk around as if they are contagious. We have never done this in our lives before. The vaccine was supposed to be the solution but the bar keeps being moved.