outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

and how fucking true is it that Lisa "left her house only for work" and Ron "always" wore a mask

you'll never know, because they've been lying for years about absolutely everything

I basically never have an upset stomach. (chugs gallon bottle of raw sewage)

I've never been on fire in my life. (douses self with kerosene and dances around wildly-flaming barrel)

"I'm a good Christian!!"

*hates poor people, everyone who isn't white*

whatever. what's the point? what is the point? there is no point. i have no point. sorry

yeah I realize how close this must hit for you, I'm sorry man

“I did what I thought was best for me,” Lisa told The Post. “Even if you don’t agree with me that I didn’t get the shot earlier, you don’t say, ‘I bet you wish you would have gotten the vaccine so your husband wouldn’t be dead.’ ”

on the contrary...

xp

oh, it's ok. i mean, i don't have to read this thread. but...it's everywhere. it's really hard to have a normal day and just not think about it. and it feels worse than just having something happen that is also happening elsewhere. like, if my dad died in an auto accident, and having to be in cars and drive in cars after that. that would be bad. but it's worse, because it's preventable and it can be stopped and there is very much a correct answer and a wrong answer (for the vast majority of people - I'm not talking about people who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons or aren't cognitively equipped to understand covid). it's really hard to just be surrounded by news all the time about people that are doing the exact same thing my parents did, and that my mom is still doing today. it's just fucking obnoxious. i really want to scream

imagine hating tucker carlson even MORE than you already do. maybe that's the best way to describe it

“I did what I thought was best for me,” Lisa told The Post. “Even if you don’t agree with me that I didn’t get the shot earlier, you don’t say, ‘I bet you wish you would have gotten the vaccine so your husband wouldn’t be dead.’

irl, the idiots just don't say anything at all to the survivor. they have nothing, and then they just go back to what they were doing like nothing happened, learning nothing at all

sorry, too real. this is what i'm like during my 1 hour of sobriety in the morning when i wake up. it's hard! not trying to harsh the mellow or anything -- i often bump this thread with total covid idiots. you have to, sometimes. or i have to, at least. to pretend it's not there is even more maddening

and the refrain to focus attention on the people that can actually change their minds, not to "waste time" on the lost covid idiots -- it makes a lot of sense on some levels. on a policy level, on a national level, for public officials, for famous people who have influence. but it's frustrating for normal people to hear that. because what can i do? what can i fucking do? does anyone ever listen to me? i can't even get my fucking mom to get vaccinated, even when i just straight up disown myself over it.

as i type that, my mom responds to my text from the other day. i hadn't spoken to her since just after, early april. i sent her stuff the other day that was basically just like "why are you doing this to me? who are you? why are you doing this to me? what the fuck is wrong with you. please. please. please." i had better arguments last year, trust me. at this point i'm just reduced to real caveman-style, grunting and rolling on the floor kind of stuff. her response:

"I am keeping a close eye on health...know to test for covid at any awareness of even a cold, know where to get early treatment meds right away, and had a positive t-cell response from lab done 2 wks ago."

keep in mind, by "keeping a close eye on health", she also means "i have a secret doctor i know through my wealthy sister that is willing to prescribe me Ivermectin"

i'm not even fucking joking

ivermectin?
youvermectin!
let's all just have a mectin!

I cut my finger one time and someone offered me a band-aid and I said no thanks and choked down a bottle of deworming pills instead

I'm so sorry, KM. That you're able to participate in the gallows humor is a healthy sign although I'm sure it doesn't make it any less terrible.

How could they have done so much testing on it?

They test it by giving it to tens of thousands of people and carefully watching what happens. They've now given it to hundreds of millions of people and watched what happened. Turns out it's very safe.

A friend told me that hours after having the AZ jab, he was sitting at the dining table, when he suddenly projectile vomited pints of black blood. Over the next 4 days, he suffered bleeding from his rectum, had blood in his semen and came up in bruises all over his body.

— Jacqui Deevoy (@JacquiDeevoy1) August 27, 2021

Bleeding from the ass, vomiting enough blood to kill you but still finding a way to bust a nut.

Life… finds a way.

perfect:

Freelance journalist (since 1985) on a mission to get the truth into the mainstream. If you have a story, please send me a private message.

I thought the same but I’m just reporting what he said.

— Jacqui Deevoy (@JacquiDeevoy1) August 27, 2021

my friend took tylenol and said he saw a vision of C Thomas Howell on horseback naked screaming "The Beatles are coming"

Why was your friend on horseback, you're not supposed to take tylenol in that situation, it says so on the bottle.

Ah grift. It's a thing, you know.

https://time.com/6092368/americas-frontline-doctors-covid-19-misinformation/

Separately, this is...quite a thread.

Friends. I have joined ivermectin groups on Facebook. They are literally shitting their pants in grocery stores. pic.twitter.com/vwvHPtjq9e

— Ryan Graney👩🏻‍🦰 (@RyanEGraney) August 26, 2021

i hope this teacher gets fired

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e2.htm?s_cid=mm7035e2_w

U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson, of Texas, died of a treatable illness because the Covid crisis left him without an available ICU bed even though he lives 3 houses down from an emergency room and 60 miles away from some of the greatest healthcare facilities in the world. pic.twitter.com/TK6sOO77ul

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) August 27, 2021

xpost It's always fuckin' Marin County.

tbf marin has highest vaccination rate in the state.

Yeah I was going to say, that was a very pleasant surprise when I realized that a couple of months back.

Just wait until they OK the vax for under 12 and that vaccination rate drops.

This response to the earlier tweet made me lol

A friend told me that hours after having the AZ jab, one of his nipples started dispensing pina colada and he couldn't stop singing the score to HMS Pinafore. Over the next 4 days he gained the ability to judge the exact weight of any vegetable just by looking at it.

— Tony (@Prague_Tony) August 27, 2021

haha

pic.twitter.com/nfAV1wCUKa

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 27, 2021

that "haha" is in response to table, not the tweet i posted. every death of an anti-vaxxer police officer is a tragedy or whatever.

But yeah, this shit is incredibly heavy and I'm more and more infuriated with anti-vaxxers every day.

We've talked about this elsewhere on ILX and previously on these threads, but the obstinate, murderous idiocy of people who believe that their opinion outweighs objective medical facts is just completely confounding to me.

It's not even THEIR opinion. Karl put it best when he talked about his father taking the opinion of "someone (not even a defined source or person) on Facebook" over the pleas of their doctors and family members.

I’ve heard that one too, from an aunt - “I never really get sick”. Stupendous logic, good luck with that.

I've never died, so obviously I am never going to.

My wife was just talking with a friend that works as a nurse in a west side ER. She said that yesterday she saw six people die of gun shot wounds, but no one dying of covid, so ... phew, right? (sighs) She said that of course there *are* people catching covid and coming in, too, but their lives are so chaotic that covid is the least of their concerns. Anyway, her takeaway was that covid is ironically the factor unifying racist idiots and the people the racist idiots hate the most, unvaxxed in the ERs, together at last.

"I have an immune system" is even stupider than the freedom stuff

https://www.businessinsider.com/colorado-anti-vaxxer-sheriffs-deputy-dies-of-covid-19-complications-2021-5

'Three weeks before his death, Trujillo had updated his Facebook profile picture to include a border that read, "I have an immune system," the MailOnline said.'

https://smile.amazon.com/Anti-Vaccine-Shirt-immune-system/dp/B07FHD59XJ

pic.twitter.com/NxmdfsGruv

— ashley (@ashrpash) August 27, 2021

xpost Does his tombstone read 'he had an immune system'

i have a belly button

lol

He had an immune system yes, but sadly our yellow sun failed to transfer all his other super powers.

Whoops just fell and broke my leg in seven places, good thing I have an immune system.

I had a friend who used to drive right over potholes, saying "that's what the suspension is for."

Got the news this morning that an IT guy where I used to work died yesterday from the delta variant. 50ish, abhorrent political views, don't want to speculate on his vax status - he went into the hospital on the 13th.

(i tried scrolling to see if this was shared already but it looks like it hasn't. sorry if it has)

oh boy. anti-vaxxers are going to have a field day with this one:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/having-sars-cov-2-once-confers-much-greater-immunity-vaccine-no-infection-parties

The new analysis relies on the database of Maccabi Healthcare Services, which enrolls about 2.5 million Israelis. The study, led by Tal Patalon and Sivan Gazit at KSM, the system’s research and innovation arm, found in two analyses that people who were vaccinated in January and February were, in June, July, and the first half of August, six to 13 times more likely to get infected than unvaccinated people who were previously infected with the coronavirus. In one analysis, comparing more than 32,000 people in the health system, the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher.

“The differences are huge,” says Thålin, although she cautions that the numbers for infections and other events analyzed for the comparisons were “small.” For instance, the higher hospitalization rate in the 32,000-person analysis was based on just eight hospitalizations in a vaccinated group and one in a previously infected group. And the 13-fold increased risk of infection in the same analysis was based on just 238 infections in the vaccinated population, less than 1.5% of the more than 16,000 people, versus 19 reinfections among a similar number of people who once had SARS-CoV-2.

No one in the study who got a new SARS-CoV-2 infection died—which prevented a comparison of death rates but is a clear sign that vaccines still offer a formidable shield against serious disease, even if not as good as natural immunity. Moreover, natural immunity is far from perfect. Although reinfections with SARS-CoV-2 are rare, and often asymptomatic or mild, they can be severe.

i included that last paragraph as, let's say, to provide more context. but as a non-expert, it seems pretty clear to me that this is starting to be endemic.

from what i can gather:

we all have or will get some amount of covid virus load in our lifetime. each person may require different amounts of virus load to feel/get sick, which means we may all have some level of "immunity" or "protection" due to our body fighting off different amounts of virus loads. i feel like this may be related to asymptomatic cases, which would make sense to me (not that this should mean much to anyone)

i say anti-vaxxers are going to have a field day because the whole "textbook" immunity is what they were saying. i'm not for politicizing getting vaccinated, but this may fuel more of the politicizing, as right wing/conservatives/republicans have been saying this since the beginning of the pandemic

personally, if all this is true and i wasn't vaccinated, i would still prefer the first time i'm exposed to covid to be through a vaccine, even though it may not offer more immunity from re-infection than getting covid. but i feel like there will still be a lot of people who will not see it that way

but this may fuel more of the politicizing

oh dear. i hope this doesn't get politicized

would still prefer the first time i'm exposed to covid to be through a vaccine

nb: the mRNA vaccines do not expose you to covid

just to save the response and then my dumbass snarky response: yes, we all realize it's already politicized, but no, we do not yet all realize that it's been politicized to the 100% level. it physically cannot be more politicized. the atoms of political belief cannot be any more solid than they already are. it is dense and total