outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Trayce, you are the only other ilxor that will get this tweet

BREAKING NEWS: Anti-Vax protesters remain trapped in Northcote Plaza unable to successfully navigate an exit as they are baffled by the presence of a second Coles.

— Charlie Pickering (@charliepick) September 24, 2021

Ahahahaha yeah I just saw that one myself, was greatly amused.

WTF these idiots doing in high street? "haha lets give hipsters covid!"

while there are some Australian-adjacent ppl on the thread (instead of posting on the right-wing cartoons thread):

https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/crocodile_done_dee-1024x748.jpg

for overseas viewers, this is the handsome blond fella that Garrison is depicting at right

heck dang

Was gonna say, Dan ought to be pretty pleased with that depiction.

A brutal read:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/vigilante-treatments-anti-vaccine-groups-push-people-leave-icus-rcna2233

uhhhh Kamala Harris was about to come out on The View and two of the hosts just tested positive for COVID in the middle of the show and had to leave the stage...

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) September 24, 2021

lmao

It always seems to come back to the politics of spite for the GOP:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/breitbart-conservatives-john-nolte-vaccine/620189/

Colorado residents can get free rapid tests by mail https://covid19.colorado.gov/covid-19-testing-at-home

Quite a lot here

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/28/covid-telehealth-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-hacked/

Xxxxpost hey Karl sorry I didn't respond been off this thread but thanks and absolutely no hard feelings, remain a Jazz fan for life

OMG at that Garrison.

It always seems to come back to the politics of spite for the GOP:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/breitbart-conservatives-john-nolte-vaccine/620189/

can't decide if this is completely insane or if he's intentionally conjuring an esoteric double psychology reading, in a legit if gnostic attempt to try to encourage vaccination

A good thing!

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/mercks-covid-19-pill-cuts-risk-death-hospitalization-by-50-study-2021-10-01/

If it's not good enough for a horse, it's not good enough for me, sorry.

It was tested on horses, of course of course.

Sorry. Not going to believe that obvious false propaganda. Gonna wait for my second cousin Chad to let me know if it worked for his roommate's sister's boyfriend's manager at the Five Guys before I'll believe it.

I mean, yeah, joeks, but I don't see this making a huge dent in deaths among the Q contingent. What, they're gonna take something recommended by a so-called 'doctor' over gobbling down Miracle-Gro plant food spikes as recommended by a random Facebooker?

But we can't use the baseline of "what will the Q folks believe" to determine progress.

If the drug companies had any real interest in curtailing this pandemic they would invent a medicine that cuts death and hospitalization by 100%, not 50%. Clearly they're just trying to drag this out.

xpost No, but the longer there are intransigent holdouts getting needlessly sick and getting other people needlessly sick, the longer this is gonna stretch on.

Still very good news for the sane people in the world!

xpost No, but the longer there are intransigent holdouts getting needlessly sick and getting other people needlessly sick, the longer this is gonna stretch on.

Oh I absolutely agree, but what can we do? It's been made crystal clear that these intransigent holdouts aren't going to be swayed by anything. I'm just tired of seeing the media cater to them. Fuck them at this point. They should not even be a consideration in making progress, mandates or anything.

this is a great thing regardless of what skeptics don't wanna listen. this is the first oral anti-viral available - every other therapeutic that has existed up until this point has been a antibody cocktail (ie monoclonal antibody treatment) that must be administered at a specific facility, or has been administered after the recipient is already in the hospital.

this is like....a pill. down the hatch, boom. if we can start decoupling hospitalizations/deaths from cases a lot better than we've done in the US (which we've done a terrible job of) - that's a big deal. esp since it could work for the stubborn fucks that won't get vaxxed but might be ok taking a pill.

this is like....a pill. down the hatch, boom.

If only it were that simple! First it's through the teeth, then past the gums. Then down the hatch. It's actually a fairly complicated process.

If Americans have demonstrated anything it's a longstanding affinity for pills.

Who in this bitch still has teeth come on

*raises hand*

Although they often hurt more than they used to tbh

*raises teeth*

can fomebody pleaff point me to a dentift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJa9N8mTYU

Very refreshing:

https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/article/Gavin-Newsom-mandate-COVID-vaccines-school-kids-16502547.php

yeah but freedom

But you are free, to go away.

whoa - requiring vaccinations to attend public school! What next??

Coerced gin cocktails!

Honestly you're describing my dream.

Quinine is the new invermetin

the old invermectin ya mean

Now that you mention it, I haven't had worms for a long time

Coerced gin cocktails!

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, October 1, 2021 2:55 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i finally made negronis and at first i was a little on the fence but they really grew on me

my man

L to right: Lord Soto, ums

https://c.tenor.com/0XREr7Y8iJMAAAAM/sheep-push.gif

The Trident is a good parallel-universe negroni.. but it ain't cheap to stock the fixins':

1 oz. dry sherry
1 oz. Cynar
1 oz. aquavit
1 dash peach bitters
1 dash orange bitters

Tools:mixing glass, barspoon, strainer

Garnish:lemon twist

Weirdly, I have open bottles of Cynar *and* aquavit, maybe I'll give that a shot. (Cynar supposedly goes bad or off eventually, but like vermouth I've yet to notice a real change.)

Be careful with Cynar! I pair it with rye and a couple drops of sweet vermouth, similar to a Black Manhattan.

warning: I think the Trident was invented at the urging of the peach bitters producer, who were desperately looking for a cocktail that called for it

Cynar also makes a 70 proof version, which is a nice little sipper on its own

Don't think I've ever noticed Cynar go bad, I don't even keep it in the fridge.

I refrigerate sweet vermouth (Antica Formula is by a wide margin the greatest) and dry vermouth, which are more like fortified wines, but don't bother with liqueurs

A Connecticut doctor who gave patients blank, signed COVID-19 exemption forms has surrendered her medical license

A Connecticut doctor voluntarily surrendered her medical license on Friday, after officials learned she was giving patients blank, signed COVID-19 exemption waivers.

An anonymous tip to the Connecticut Medical Examining Board prompted an investigation into retired physician Sue McIntosh.

She had been "providing fraudulent vaccine exemption forms through the mail related to COVID-19 vaccines, general vaccines, COVID testing, and medical opposition to wearing facial masks," the investigation said. Patients, when they received these forms, only had to fill out their name and date and then select a reason for a mask exemption, records show.

She sent out these forms without ever having physically examined the patients, the board said. Patients who wanted an exemption waiver had to mail her a self-addressed and stamped envelope to receive one.

Supplemental documents provided by the state's health department said McIntosh also instructed patients to "copy and distribute as many forms as they wish."

Her license was suspended on September 24. About a week later, McIntosh surrendered her license, according to a release from the state's health department.

"Let freedom ring!" McIntosh wrote on an instruction form accompanying the waiver.

remember all the stuff about how black and south asian people might be genetically predisposed to getting severe COVID? are the people who suggested that going to apologise now for overlooking the role of racial inequality??