outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

We could save everyone time over the next year if we just assume caek’s going to bring some well-researched doomposting, man alive’s going to tell everyone they’re scaredy cats, and Josh has antibodies that are in various states of arousal

Have I missed anyone

Good morning!

Ah of course :)

My antibodies are hot, ready and legal.

Tracer I think the “us all” part of OL’s line is the nugget of sincere sentiment in a grimly ironic post

also there have been over five million deaths so far, and that’s without trustworthy figures from eg China, India and Brazil

man alive more like child dead, boom roasted

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another extremely good piece on family dynamics with covid deniers. i know it's paywalled, sorry.

Laurel’s most sustained interaction with the couple over the summer had not been face-to-face. When she moved out, she had surreptitiously ripped the Infowars sticker off her daughter’s car. Sam and D slapped on new Infowars stickers in its place, including one that read “THE MEDIA IS THE VIRUS.” But Laurel again secretly tampered with the bumper, adding stickers saying “Hillary is my homegirl” and “Biden Harris 2020.” Sam and D removed them, and the proxy war ended. The family had never spoken about it.

The vaccine tore her family apart. Could a death bring them back together?

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Someone has put infowars stickers all over the stop signs in my neighborhood. What would be the best stickers to cover them up with?

“We’re talking more since your dad died,” she said. Now they talked about Laurel’s favorite recipe for catfish bait, and their mixed feelings about Joel’s funeral — how they were ready for it to be over, but also weren’t, because then he would really be gone. And eventually they started talking about the reason they had stopped talking: the vaccine.

“It was just too quick for them to come up with it,” Sam said.

“But it wasn’t quick,” Laurel said.

“My biggest thing is my skin …”

“That makes you more medically in need of it.”

“I’m gonna wait and see how it goes with the people who got the shot, and when I’m comfortable with it, I’ll talk to my dermatologist,” Sam told her mother.

“I’m just gonna pray you don’t get covid and die in the meantime,” Laurel said.

Raindrops were clattering over the pontoon’s tin roof. Sam excused herself to go pick up some dinner with D, who had just finished work at the Rural King farm supply store.

Part of Laurel wanted to drop all the restraint that she tried to bring to these conversations and scream at her daughter that she was being stupid, that after losing Joel she couldn’t bear to lose her, too. But as Sam walked up the road Laurel sat there saying nothing, smoking her dead husband’s cigarettes and watching the rain.

take heart, Laurel - it doesn't matter what you say or do

xpost i'd say “Hillary is my homegirl” and something about RBG the legend

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Someone has put infowars stickers all over the stop signs in my neighborhood. What would be the best stickers to cover them up with?

― peace, man, Monday, November 15, 2021 12:31 PM bookmarkflaglink

goatse

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Someone has put infowars stickers all over the stop signs in my neighborhood. What would be the best stickers to cover them up with?

― peace, man, Monday, November 15, 2021 9:31 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I covered up a bunch in my neighborhood with some stickers my friend, graffiti artist POORBOY, gave me. They say "POORBOY" and feature an Apache holding a scalp aloft with a dead (white) body beside him.

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Someone has put infowars stickers all over the stop signs in my neighborhood. What would be the best stickers to cover them up with?

― peace, man, Monday, November 15, 2021 5:31 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Are you sure they don't mean "stop infowars?"

haha

"they're saying boo-urns"

When I find conspiracy nutjob / white nationalist stickers around I leave them where they were but deface them, hoping that the person who put them there sees that they were not accidentally covered or removed but destroyed.

Probably naive but makes me feel better for some reason.

Are you sure they don't mean "stop infowars?"

― DJI, Monday, November 15, 2021 1:15 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

No, they're on the reverse side. lol

the latest narrative that I see emerging amongst actually grown-ass adults is "why is the south doing so well against COVID now when they were the least restrictive states in terms of COVID mitigation?"

Idk, maybe the hundreds of thousands of people that died and more that went into the hospital could answer that for you? it's like saying a fireman put out a fire by just watching it burn until there was no house left.

even saw a columnist from NYT ask this but that's par for the course w/ a lot of them.

there probably just aren't enough people who haven't already had it or been vaccinated left for the virus to spread to in some of these places

that's exactly it and it should be obvious to these fuckin' liars

the latest narrative that I see emerging amongst actually grown-ass adults is "why is the south doing so well against COVID now when they were the least restrictive states in terms of COVID mitigation?"

what the actual fuck, can they not look at the charts and see "the south was less restrictive and had a bigger wave earlier instead of a smaller wave later like the interior west"

one would think and yet

The top 10 states in deaths per capita include two states where the disease spread rapidly in March 2020 before we had any idea how to suppress it or treat it (New York and New Jersey), the South, Arizona, and Oklahoma.

I mean if the governors of those states wanted to say "the deaths here were actually not THAT far above the national average and our kids went to school in person for a whole semester yours didn't, plus bars were never closed," let them say that! There are costs and benefits, say what they are and let people do their own accounting!

The wholesale collapse of Covid cases in Tokyo is crazy. 7 cases yesterday. pic.twitter.com/QZTp7sHhdu

— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) November 16, 2021

When I find conspiracy nutjob / white nationalist stickers around I leave them where they were but deface them, hoping that the person who put them there sees that they were not accidentally covered or removed but destroyed.

I would do this but knowing my luck the local vicar would catch me in the act and think that I was putting up the original nutjob stickers, making my next visit to church service super awkward.

that classic feel

Just imagine him in a tutu and deface those fashy stickers, Ste

Cuba's vaccination campaign is insane. Look at the massive jumps after they get needles donated from Mexico/Nicaragua that the blockade was preventing access to. pic.twitter.com/b7a7tnWjkZ

— Fidel Cashflow/ read Wretched of the Earth🇯🇲 (@donfromyaad) November 15, 2021

Not to be That Guy but I maintain a healthy skepticism about government statistics from both Cuba and the UAE

Portugal's on the level, though, you go, Lusitanians

The UAE rate is plausible. They have extensive vaccine mandates and loss of employment generally means loss of visa status - a lot fewer children too.

xp you should think about not being That Guy

I'm as skeptical about Cuba's claims as I am about Florida's #bothsides

tbh i'm more skeptical about florida's numbers.

portugal is wild. did not see that coming a couple of months ago.

We beat em but are sadly unreported

Why do this?

https://detroit.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/17/22788007/detroit-public-schools-remote-learning-friday-december-covid-spread

Spread is not going to be materially affected by 3 off-days, "deep cleaning" is not going to do anything about COVID -- why give up three days of in-person instruction? I don't get it.

My gut says it's a way for them to spin staff shortages into something else. Chicago Public Schools suddenly announced a "vaccine awareness" day, during which they did absolutely nothing to help get more kids vaccinated (less than 2% of the students in the district did get vaccinated that day). It later came out that they didn't have enough teachers and subs to open that day.

Apparently Seattle did the same thing with a Friday off, but they were at least upfront about staff issues being the reason.

Well, that makes sense, there's a very notable sub shortage in my (well-resourced relative to Detroit) school district too.

That's a thing that i think goes under-reported - it's largely subs and aides that are desperately needed and of course, underpaid. In my district they don't even get health insurance.

It goes under-reported because fixing it would cost money and it's much easier to say "critical race theory is what's holding our schools back and we can solve it by flushing the wrong kind of books out of the library"

God, don't remind me. We were just talking about shoring up a policy in preparation for the kinds of book burning attacks that have been happening the past two years.

Well, there's also the whole, "we fund our public schools in way that is completely insane and unjustifiable" issue, which isn't talked about *at all*.

There we go. FDA clears Moderna and Pfizer's Covid vaccine booster shots for ALL U.S. adults. Just like that. https://t.co/i3o2juKoPs

— Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉🔜 MFF (@sailorrooscout) November 19, 2021

we've got another 'covid winter' comin' up. i'm glad I sneaked in getting some minor medical needs attended to between July and October.

Let's hope it's a spike (which I expect) and not a surge. Looks like Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Michigan are doing worst.

Illinois isn't quite as bad as those states yet, but not quite as high yet. It's not surprising, given other countries, but still frustrating. Just glad my son's sequence has started and my wife and I will both be boosted by Monday. All we can do at this point.

What do you guys reference for nationwide metrics? I’ve been

*only checking nyc figures on gothamist for awhile