xp I agree with the hospital's CEO
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
Dr. Abbo said the Delta variant is making unvaccinated people sicker, faster. She said some people will have a dinner party on a Thursday and show up very sick at the hospital by Sunday.— Patricia Mazzei (@PatriciaMazzei) July 20, 2021
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
yeah that seems to be consensus now. that the incubation period is much shorter and symptoms come on a lot faster.
that's good and bad (mostly bad obviously), in that you can get infected and quickly turn around and spread the fucker, esp if you're unvaccinated. otoh, if you're symptomatic, you'll know sooner and hopefully quarantine?
guess it's more bad than good.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
sounds like one for the packaging:
COVID-19"Guess it's more bad than good!"
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
with a singing bear flipping you off on the cover
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 21:46 (two years ago) link
I've gone to dinner parties after which I've been very sick, sometimes hours afterwards. I can relate.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
told ya to avoid the shellfish mang.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
otoh, only about 3% of the shots in this country were J&J
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
https://cdn.britannica.com/82/191982-131-D3194343.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
We already know all this in the UK btw.
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
sorry, the American way is that nothing counts until we personally experience it ourselves
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
No comment.
― Soundtracked by an eco jazz mixtape. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
not only that, but I grew up in Missouri - "the show me state". we were taught this dogmatic shit in elementary school
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
We're that Zillow commercial.
MEMEMEMEMEMEMEME
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 23:24 (two years ago) link
Is the Aussie zero covid policy collapsing
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/21/australias-pm-defends-covid-vaccine-rollout-as-half-of-population-awakes-in-lockdown
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 09:26 (two years ago) link
"I guess it's possible that COVID deaths are being massively underreported everywhere in Africa except Namibia."
Yeah the biggest problem with these graphs are the variance on data collection.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 09:28 (two years ago) link
Worth a read.
https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/im-sorry-but-its-too-late-alabama-doctor-on-treating-unvaccinated-dying-covid-patients.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”
Film this scene for a PSA. Don't hold any punches.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’. But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they can’t. So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives.”
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
Shown before every movies, inserted into every streaming ad. Remember at the start of the pandemic when all the streaming sites were getting safety tips and CDC screens? That, but with this.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
Make sure this PSA has a voice track comprised of the gasps and wheezes of COVID patients asphyxiating.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
Maybe a Herman Cain hologram should deliver the message.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
do they actually think the vaccine will go and start attacking the virus that's already in their body?
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
Yes?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
Yes, because this is what happens when critical thinking skills have been utterly sledgehammered.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
I mean these people being described have basically just completely given up on thinking for themselves on any meaningful level. They read a thing on Facebook and it becomes insta-tattooed on their brains as knowledge.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
I just sent this article to an unvaccinated friend in Florida. This was her response. She's going to be another person killed by Trump and GOP lies. pic.twitter.com/Z3rQiJWGjv— Trump & GOP murdered 623,000 + 🇺🇸 🌊 (@KatCapps) July 21, 2021
― rob, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
Hope you're ready for your soul to move to a new temple pretty soon.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
I mean obviously I know they think that, the question was more one of feigned incredulity at how dumb people are to think "well if COVID isn't a hoax, I guess I can just get the vaccine last minute and be ok". it's the whole Protestant "I can beg forgiveness on my deathbed" belief.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
the hilarious thing is how it doesn't make sense for Trumpers to actually actively bash the vaccine as Trump went out of his way to try and take full credit for Operation Warp Speed, which we talked about the other day when Fox talking heads started asking people to take it seriously.
like the vaccine is harmful, but your President claims he helped develop it and singlehandedly brought it to market himself, so...you're saying he's poisoning you? or that liberals messed with the vaccine he created and are now killing us? or there's no virus, or that the virus is
malfunction malfunction
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 S O S
*shutdown*
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
it's the whole Protestant "I can beg forgiveness on my deathbed" belief.
even then, though, it can be complicated. even when patients get put on ventilators and ECMO, there's this denial that runs through everything. "oh, it's just for an afternoon because he had a bad reaction to some of those tranquilizers from earlier." then a week passes and the patient is still unconscious
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
xp Shock horror scenes in PSAs are ki d of notoriously bad at changing behavior--they tend to create denial, instead.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
i think a common but rarely voiced belief among white evangelicals is that they believe the virus is god's punishment in some way, and that they will be spared because they're true believers. like the final plague in Exodus, the one the true believers were spared from because they smeared lamb blood (or whatever) above their doors. or the great flood, when noah was spared and the non-believers were not. or sodom and gomorrah.
i think my dad and many other racist evangelicals probably also had similar thoughts during the AIDS epidemic, and there's certainly a long line of southern preachers who have filled up many a sunday morning with warnings about how god is punishing various enormous groups of people for their wickedness. it's in the blood. white christians grow up with this shit, and by the time they're 70 years old, they're the ones passing it on to new generations
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
would accept that blood if it came with prime rib
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
oh man, if i ran a novelty crucifixion restaurant, the special would definitely be christ's punctured prime rib, served rare
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
Salmon served over rice pilate
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
There’s pretty strong evidence that the vaccines help with long covid, so it’s not actually that crazy to think it might help someone with the disease. (Seems like they don’t, but it’s not nuts to wonder.)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
"this is his body. and this is his blood. hot sauce is by the napkins, and i'll be back in a bit to see you how that bloody mary is treating you!"
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
Doubt it could make the denialism about COVID and vaccines any worse than it already is so...
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
Tbh I've been warning people to stay out of FL for years
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/delta-variant-doctor-cautions-americans-about-traveling-to-florida-145905680.html
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
If only Gillum had won
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
I posted that tweet because it seems obvious to me that gory PSAs would simply be perceived as propaganda...which would be literally true!
Might be worth it anyway to catch the fence-sitters though idk, these people are inscrutable to me
― rob, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
Sorta lucky that Miami-Dade's at 72% jabs.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
fauci told rand paul he had no idea what he was talking about, the other day, in a senate hearing. he's said that several times before, but indirectly. this time he just told him he had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.
U.S. Senator Rand Paul will make a criminal referral to the U.S. Department of Justice against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the infectious diseases department at NIH. Paul’s threat was first announced on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Tuesday night and came after Fauci pushed back against the senator’s aggressive questioning during a senate committee hearing in Washington D.C.“I will be sending a letter to the Department of Justice asking for a criminal referral because he has lied to Congress,” Senator Paul told Sean Hannity.
“I will be sending a letter to the Department of Justice asking for a criminal referral because he has lied to Congress,” Senator Paul told Sean Hannity.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
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It's like they sit around all day every day with a cocked and loaded gun in their mouths just waiting for some external force to pull the trigger for them.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
i want to swing rand paul around by his ankles like a stomach-turning carnival ride that won't stop
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
XxXpost We're at like 53% I think.
Kind of expected to be higher
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
xp
they do! the best thing that can happen to them is to die via non-suicide. suicide = hell, so you have to die in a way that's not intentional. but you can also be a martyr and die. there's a loophole. a covid martyr, against the sign of the beast. or whatever. backdoor into heaven before the concert starts!
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
when Rand Paul gets sick and goes to the hospital, he should only have one choice of doctor, the doctor who was approved by his own independent licensing and oversight board, not the one all other doctors use.
ladies and gentleman, Dr Old Lunch
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
I think I just got a dopamine rush from that hypothetical scenario.
AND HOW ARE WE TODAY, RAAAAAAAND?https://t4.ftcdn.net/jpg/02/81/18/39/360_F_281183906_vpaIAacYDmBumBfjtxdMiuZ2owz67Xbs.jpg
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link