I actually posted that dumb Australian tabloid headline because I thought others among you might be facing the "oh its just the flu" crowd. I just learned in the last hour that local ER doctors are seeking testing, but are still denied. That even their own nursing personnel are have swallowed the Trumpist/right wing media line.
I'm not an advocate of putting people in camps. However, in a pandemic, the rights of many to civil liberties should be balanced by the rights of vulnerable populations to live. If you don't understand this, start reading about the pandemics of history, how they've changed the course of history, and the halting development of the science of epidemiology after John Snow (the real important one, 1854).
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 01:38 (four years ago) link
There’s no reason to argue with me I literally can’t be bothered to read your posts at this point maybe other people will read them
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 01:40 (four years ago) link
I thought others among you might be facing the "oh its just the flu" crowd
this is not a reason to post offensive disinformation. who were you going to convince
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 9 March 2020 01:42 (four years ago) link
It's known as Human Immunodeficiency Disease because it depletes immune response, and specifically CD4+ cells. Covid19 does the same thing in survivors. I suspect its a temporary effect, but we don't know. How the fuck have you people become so politicise that nothing on the planet can be "like HIV" in any way? I'm trying to give people who aren't following this as I do tools in order to encourage their peers to take the sort of protective measures that might save lives.
It's not fucking flu. And I'm not ever going to be ashamed of trying to do a good thing.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
are you ashamed of your godforsaken ignorance
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 01:48 (four years ago) link
I feell like this is getting overlooked:the late greatPosted: March 7, 2020 at 5:02:18 PMjust delurking to say that as a former employee of both the scripps institute of oceanography and the lawrence berkeley cyclotron, and as a current science teacher, i feel so much fucking shame and disappointment when i see ppl pay attention to sanpaku's puffed up credentials and jargon. it just means my profession has broadly failed to innoculate ppl against charlatanry.
― sleeve, Monday, 9 March 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
"puffed up credentials and jargon"
Please reference this.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
I don’t debate fascists I fight them
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 01:55 (four years ago) link
Sorry. I fit 0/14. You, on the other hand.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
Lol eat shit
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:02 (four years ago) link
Remove bookmark
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:06 (four years ago) link
OK, kids, let this be the outbreak/coronavirus thread again. With threadbanning not functional and yellow cards being useless, the sitewide tempban is next.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:09 (four years ago) link
Look, I'm trying to help others and save lives. I don't know the game plan of this remora.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link
lol
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:13 (four years ago) link
I will limit my posts about Sanpaku in this thread to specific complaints about his posts in this thread how about that.
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:16 (four years ago) link
For instance Sanpaku you are deluded if you think posting on this message board is saving lives, not least because you don’t understand what you’re talking about.
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:17 (four years ago) link
since world is a trashfire, only fitting that the coronavirus thread is now a trashfire too
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:19 (four years ago) link
Oh and my game plan is to bully you until you stop posting or I get banned, I thought that was obvious.
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
Went out hiking outside of Seattle today, drove by a house near Bremerton with a flagpole flying a Trump flag right above a Corona flag. Feeling good!
― JoeStork, Monday, 9 March 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
Will trashfires kill the virus?
Just think how much posting there will be when we're all self-quarantined.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 March 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
...ok
― Miami weisse (WmC), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
One of the elementary schools that’s a feeder to mine just had its first confirmed case. I’m not looking forward to the finger-pointing and speculation that’ll ensue tomorrow.
― rb (soda), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:49 (four years ago) link
yup. I've been doing my damndedest to get silby banned for his posting in this thread, bcz disagreement is waaaay different than heaping constant verbal abuse on someone and if that becomes the standard around this place, ilx will die with a whimper in less than a year.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
that's what they said during the rockism troubles
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:12 (four years ago) link
but rockism was vanquished! we had a 3 day potluck celebration!
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:13 (four years ago) link
hope springs eternal
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
Thank you, Aimless. I don't know you, but I think you're good people. I'd buy you a drink, but you'd have to tell where the good places were in my own town.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 03:46 (four years ago) link
I just went to buy toilet paper. Not out of panic but out of normal family shitting cycles. Of course there's no toilet paper left. Thanks for saving my life, sanpaku.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:48 (four years ago) link
i do not support silby getting banned. i think maybe silby should cool it down and wait for sanpaku to get banned of their own accord bc it will happen
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:49 (four years ago) link
until then idk mute them on zing (i’ve heard this is a thing you can do)
Mostly Apolitical Thread for Discussing/Venting our Rational/Irrational COVID-19 Fears and Experiences in 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
I don't think anyone with less than a 2 month supply of toilet paper purchased over the last week should be banned.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
I like silby but these posts seemed p deranged and though i didn’t read the thread too closely Sanpaku posts seemed benign. also, silb’s posts are not funny. getting mad and being mean online *always* needs to be counterbalanced with humour, or else what’s the point
― flopson, Monday, 9 March 2020 03:54 (four years ago) link
share links from Fancy Stormfront and reap what you sow imo
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
Brad, I've been here under this username a decade. Under other usernames since 2005. I'm peripheral, yes. A line in the yearly polls for 5-6 years. But keep bumping those who want to participate in a thoughtful pop culture community but have other concerns, and what's left.
― Sanpaku, Monday, 9 March 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link
man i do not care just don't post bullshit
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 9 March 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
some toilet paper is left
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 March 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
(no really blaming sanpaku for this)
(though, i did whisper "sanpaku" aloud when faced with the horror of the empty shelves)
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 March 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
Well I'm even more confused than before now
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 March 2020 04:09 (four years ago) link
just noticed "mellon collie and the infinite bradness" and it has extinguished all rage, real or otherwise, within me
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 March 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
I still haven't listened to the Smashing Pumpkins since July
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 March 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.womenthatheal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sanpaku-faces-1024x576.png
― buzza, Monday, 9 March 2020 05:01 (four years ago) link
it sanpaku. but presumably also access to toilet paper at home while they were alive
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 March 2020 07:32 (four years ago) link
but rockism was vanquished!
…or was it?
👹
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 9 March 2020 07:59 (four years ago) link
A reminder that every silby post has a flag link next to it for your personal convenience.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 March 2020 08:10 (four years ago) link
I only flag posts that call for other people to flag. And yes I will flag my own post shortly too.
― anvil, Monday, 9 March 2020 08:21 (four years ago) link
I tried to flag one of silby’s posts but got an error message saying “where’s the lie tho”
― Garu you just posted flange (wins), Monday, 9 March 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
confirmed case on Lesbos as well as a member of staff of London Underground
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 March 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
not sure how much longer the “contain” situation in the UK can obtain tbh