Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic

[evildice]

Meanwhile, people here are proud they won't mask despite the giant cloud of smoke spreading across the northeast.

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Gotta say, the masks I had lying around came in real handy this week.

 

[MadGreenSon]

Meanwhile, people here are proud they won't mask despite the giant cloud of smoke spreading across the northeast.

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The whole mask refusal thing is stupid as shit. Most of the time the excuses make the person expressing them sound like a retard or a pussy. Especially the "can't breathe right in a mask" Like... c'mon. I've been a smoker for 34 years and don't have great lung capacity and masks never bothered me any.

 

[Zyr0TruthExists]

Most people in Asia wear face masks because of the allergies from pollen.

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To an extent; While this is true, it is also true that it is also expected that if you have an illness that you think could be contagious and go out in public, that you wear a mask. At least, that is what my mother taught me as a immigrant from Asia, from my travels there over the years.

 

[Grey Lantern]

To an extent; While this is true, it is also true that it is also expected that if you have an illness that you think could be contagious and go out in public, that you wear a mask. At least, that is what my mother taught me as a immigrant from Asia, from my travels there over the years.

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Honestly i've started doing that as well, i got a bitch of a cold during finals and wore a mask the whole week.

The whole mask refusal thing is stupid as shit. Most of the time the excuses make the person expressing them sound like a retard or a pussy. Especially the "can't breathe right in a mask" Like... c'mon. I've been a smoker for 34 years and don't have great lung capacity and masks never bothered me any.

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Same with my dad he smoked for years and never once complained about having to wear a mask.

 

[Silvercrystal]

I know what I want happen to people who don't wear masks.

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Don't get cheeky. You clearly wanted to say something that would break rule 1 or rule 8 if you knew "mods" wouldn't want you to say it.
Learn to self edit, and don't even allude to it.

 

[evildice]

 

[Aaron Fox]

Guess who recently got a P100 respirator? I did. Also, it showed up on Monday, two days before it should have arrived.

 

[Garahs]

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[Aleh]

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Sure. That's 'cause you don't wear a mask to protect yourself.

 

[MadGreenSon]

Sure. That's 'cause you don't wear a mask to protect yourself.

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"Why would you care about anyone but yourself?"

That is the reasoning, I think

 

[Amazon Climber]

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This is super fucking misleading, not just because masks block droplets you exhale, but because there are masks that do protect against Covid. I've personally upgraded to N95s.

 

[da3monh0st3d]

The whole mask refusal thing is stupid as shit. Most of the time the excuses make the person expressing them sound like a retard or a pussy. Especially the "can't breathe right in a mask" Like... c'mon. I've been a smoker for 34 years and don't have great lung capacity and masks never bothered me any.

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There is some slightly higher breathing resistance in garbage-tier respirators, but then the easy answer to that problem is "don't buy shit-tier stuff".

And if that's still not good-enough? PAPR (powered respirators) are also a thing. Zero effort involved (just money, or some effort & money if you make it yourself).

For those with actual lung/respiratory deficiency/difficulty, governments should provide subsidies to help acquiring PAPR equipment but many don't.

This is super fucking misleading, not just because masks block droplets you exhale, but because there are masks that do protect against Covid. I've personally upgraded to N95s.

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The non-valved ones happen to provide bidirectional protection.

 

[Amazon Climber]

Considering I got very sick from that damned plague, even when I'm 'recovered'--that is, breathing very, very, very, slightly better--I do wear a mask whenever I go out.

I doubt I can survive another infection of the same virulence.

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It's worth noting that subsequent Covid infections are usually worse, and the more times you're infected the worse it gets. According to the source here, you've got three times the chance of getting hospitalized as the baseline, and twice the chance of dying or getting long Covid. Which can include increased risk of stroke, cognitive decline, depression and anxiety, as well as chronic pain and fatigue which can persist for years after you're infected, and may be due to brain damage. Oh, and maybe Alzheimer's. And possibly cancer.

But hey, at least it's over, right?

Key Data Takeaways (as of 7/24/2023)
• COVID-19 indicators, including hospital admissions, emergency department visits, test positivity, and wastewater levels, are increasing nationally.

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Oh.

 

[FTR2017]

It's worth noting that subsequent Covid infections are usually worse, and the more times you're infected the worse it gets. According to the source here, you've got three times the chance of getting hospitalized as the baseline, and twice the chance of dying or getting long Covid. Which can include increased risk of stroke, cognitive decline, depression and anxiety, as well as chronic pain and fatigue which can persist for years after you're infected, and may be due to brain damage. Oh, and maybe Alzheimer's. And possibly cancer.

But hey, at least it's over, right?

Oh.

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Judging by the symptoms list for the nastiest COVID which I'm sure I endured--what with suffering loss of smell, taste, and a massive decrease in attention span during my illness--I am in all likelihood suffering Long COVID even after three years.

My focus? Shot down to hell.

My vitality? Shot down to hell.

My everything else? Shot down to hell, too.

If the rumors that establish that this damned pest was engineered are true? I honestly hope that Hell exists, and that it is run by Cenobites, just so all the fuckers involved in making it suffer for eternity.

Edit: added a clarification--the loss of senses was while sick during 2020. Waaaaay before the pest warnings were issued.

 

[Amazon Climber]

Judging by the symptoms list for the nastiest COVID which I'm sure I endured--what with suffering loss of smell, taste, and a massive decrease in attention span--I am in all likelihood suffering Long COVID even after three years.

My focus? Shot down to hell.

My vitality? Shot down to hell.

My everything else? Shot down to hell, too.

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I'm sorry, and I hope that, eventually, you do heal. And that the Nurglite cultists who are pretending they're so brave by refusing to take basic safety precautions get their heads out of their asses sooner rather than later.

If the rumors that establish that this damned pest was engineered are true? I honestly hope that Hell exists, and that it is run by Cenobites, just so all the fuckers involved in making it suffer for eternity.

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From my understanding, it's plausible that the outbreak came from accidental exposure, but unlikely it was manufactured rather than being studied.

 

[zup]

From my understanding, it's plausible that the outbreak came from accidental exposure, but unlikely it was manufactured rather than being studied.

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Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

 

[evildice]

 

[bryanfran36]

Judging by the symptoms list for the nastiest COVID which I'm sure I endured--what with suffering loss of smell, taste, and a massive decrease in attention span during my illness--I am in all likelihood suffering Long COVID even after three years.

My focus? Shot down to hell.

My vitality? Shot down to hell.

My everything else? Shot down to hell, too.

If the rumors that establish that this damned pest was engineered are true? I honestly hope that Hell exists, and that it is run by Cenobites, just so all the fuckers involved in making it suffer for eternity.

Edit: added a clarification--the loss of senses was while sick during 2020. Waaaaay before the pest warnings were issued.

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Same here. Got infected twice and there's something I could not put a finger about that tells me something's wrong.

 

[evildice]

 

[evildice]

Reminder that it's almost time to figure out your Halloween decorations.

 

[FTR2017]

Reminder that it's almost time to figure out your Halloween decorations.

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To be fair, had I known that a plague was rampaging out during the time I was forced to do errands at the capital, I would have worn a mask and done everything I can to reduce the chance of getting infected on my end.

Fuck the Chinese Commie asshole rulers who hid their shitty results until it was too late.

 

[TotalAbsolutism]

To be fair, had I known that a plague was rampaging out during the time I was forced to do errands at the capital, I would have worn a mask and done everything I can to reduce the chance of getting infected on my end.

Fuck the Chinese Commie asshole rulers who hid their shitty results until it was too late.

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Boy, that sure is a thing you said, huh. You said a lot of things today, and of them that is one. Maybe, in the future, you can consider not politicising the global pandemic quite so hard given that exact attitude is one of the things that made it so bad, hm?

Food for thought.

 

[FTR2017]

Boy, that sure is a thing you said, huh. You said a lot of things today, and of them that is one. Maybe, in the future, you can consider not politicising the global pandemic quite so hard given that exact attitude is one of the things that made it so bad, hm?

Food for thought.

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Apologies for that, as it wasn't my intention to politize anything but state facts.

Still, what news reached my rock where I live under was that. It is also why my rant was focused on the rulers, not the population.

Edit: I will endeavor to avoid touching politics--as hard as it is nowadays due to their prevalence--so I do welcome any corrections should I stumble upon rule 8 on accident.

 

[evildice]

 

[MadGreenSon]

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Anti Vaxxer? They always talk about how they'd rather die than take the shot, but they sure do beg and plead when their chance to die for the cause comes.

 

[Grey Lantern]

Anti Vaxxer? They always talk about how they'd rather die than take the shot, but they sure do beg and plead when their chance to die for the cause comes.

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Kinda messed up but i felt a lot of Schadenfreude during the pandemic when a bunch of people were all like "It's note that bad" or "I refuse the vacinne" and their next post was "Pray for me"

 

[MadGreenSon]

Kinda messed up but i felt a lot of Schadenfreude during the pandemic when a bunch of people were all like "It's note that bad" or "I refuse the vacinne" and their next post was "Pray for me"

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It's not the best thing ever true, but I'm right there with you.

 

[evildice]

I mean yeah it's unkind, but it's returning their own unkindness so I'm not going to feel guilty about it.

Some people refuse to learn from from anything outside their own experience, and if that experience kills them, well, hopefully someone smarter might learn from that.

 

[FTR2017]

I mean yeah it's unkind, but it's returning their own unkindness so I'm not going to feel guilty about it.

Some people refuse to learn from from anything outside their own experience, and if that experience kills them, well, hopefully someone smarter might learn from that.

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So ... Darwin Award aspirants, then? 'Cause the whole 'I don't want to wear masks' thing was seriously terrible.

Masks not only help prevent infection vectors, but also keep said infection vectors contained within those already ill. And that's only with regular cloth masks, what more could have been achieved with higher-grade ones?

 

[Amazon Climber]

Kinda messed up but i felt a lot of Schadenfreude during the pandemic when a bunch of people were all like "It's note that bad" or "I refuse the vacinne" and their next post was "Pray for me"

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I used to feel bad about the schadenfreude I got out of that too. Then I got my diabetes diagnosis. Now it feels like laughing at someone who drove 80 down a side street, almost ran me over, and then got wrapped around a telephone pole. Sure, tragedy, loss of life, whatever. It's still hard to feel sorry for someone who'd idly kill you through sheer dumbassery.