Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[88m3]

"Unvaccinated" Sarah Palin Tested Positive For COVID-19 Right Before Her Defamation Trial Against The New York Times, A Judge Said

 

[Wild self]

I was telling one of my colleagues that by April/May, all COVID restrictions are gonna be minimized or eliminated. All these governments are going to declare the pandemic over. It's obvious.

And when a new variant arises... with no leg work towards it... we're screwed

B b bu but the economy!!!

 

[Dillah810]

Play stupid games...

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Stupid bytch

 

[mastermind]

This silly anthropomorphizing of Covid manifests in other ways, similarly marked by the American obsession with personal liberty, spite, and martial posturing. “We can’t live in fear of the virus” has been a popular refrain from mugging politicians and pundits, particularly among Republicans in the summer of 2020. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis repeatedly says “hysteria and fear won't drive Florida,” and countless op-eds repeat a similar theme: “We must not be scared.” But what does this even mean? Would a politician ever say, as storm alarms were blaring, “We can’t live in fear of tornadoes,” or as the earth shook, “We can’t live in fear of earthquakes”? Covid doesn’t care if we live in fear, nor does this concept have any meaning when it comes to what is, in effect, a natural phenomenon.

Increasingly, high status Savvy and Serious liberals have resigned to letting Covid rip because it’s a “crisis of the unvaccinated,” pointing to much higher rates of death among the unvaccinated. But this pat response ignores those who can’t get vaccinated for health reasons, increased hospitalizations of children, the obscene income disparity of who has and hasn’t been boosted, a lack of support and sick leave for poor communities combined with de facto racist implementation of vaccine roll out (black people are still more likely to be unvaccinated), and the fact that, as much as we may want to spite them, the dying unvaccinated are still human beings the government has a responsibility to protect, even if many are too selfish or misinformed to protect themselves. Off-setting government responsibility to a simple moral binary about those who choose to die and those that don’t is neoliberal ideology at its crudest and cruelest, glossing over, entirely, the messy and complex reasons people remain unvaccinated. It also talks over those with disabilities, and does nothing to mitigate the spread of the disease on the population at large, which because we all share the same ICUs, harms the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.

Rest of the article
Covid isn't a human being, it doesn't care what you think about it.

 

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ncreasingly, high status Savvy and Serious liberals have resigned to letting Covid rip because it’s a “crisis of the unvaccinated,” pointing to much higher rates of death among the unvaccinated. But this pat response ignores those who can’t get vaccinated for health reasons, increased hospitalizations of children, the obscene income disparity of who has and hasn’t been boosted, a lack of support and sick leave for poor communities combined with de facto racist implementation of vaccine roll out (black people are still more likely to be unvaccinated), and the fact that, as much as we may want to spite them, the dying unvaccinated are still human beings the government has a responsibility to protect, even if many are too selfish or misinformed to protect themselves. Off-setting government responsibility to a simple moral binary about those who choose to die and those that don’t is neoliberal ideology at its crudest and cruelest, glossing over, entirely, the messy and complex reasons people remain unvaccinated. It also talks over those with disabilities, and does nothing to mitigate the spread of the disease on the population at large, which because we all share the same ICUs, harms the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.

Been hearing a lot of this for awhile now.

 

[88m3]

New York Supreme Court strikes down governor's mask mandate for schools and public areas

 

[88m3]

Scott Quiner, a Minnesota man whose wife sued over a hospital’s plan to take him off a ventilator months after being diagnosed with covid-19, died Saturday at 55.


WASHINGTONPOST.COM
Covid patient dies at a hospital weeks after his wife sued another to keep him on a ventilator

 

[mastermind]

 

[88m3]

crazy to think about it in that terms... is that accurate?

 

[mastermind]

crazy to think about it in that terms... is that accurate?

This is the FBI reporting from 1950-2010
https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

murder went down during the Obama administration and then went back up to 24,000 last year.

Google has the seven day death average at 2,145 passing a day due to covid, which is over 25,000 when multiplied by 12.

 

[the next guy]

B b bu but the economy!!!

It's embarrasing. People care about money and not health. About bars and not family. Sad country.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

God bless them dudes like @Wild self and @Dafunkdoc_Unlimited who argue with those anti-vaxxers in TLR. I don't know how they have the patience for that, especially when the arguments are always the same:

"Blah blah they're cooking the numbers"
"Blah blah people are dying with Covid, not from Covid"
"Blah blah experimental vaccine"
"Blah blah how many boosters are you gonna take?"
"Blah blah if you're vaccinated why are you concerned about people who aren't?"

Covid or not, I'm gonna die some day. I ain't got time for all that shyt.

 

[newarkhiphop]

State of Affairs: Jan 24

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Rest of the article
Covid isn't a human being, it doesn't care what you think about it.

ncreasingly, high status Savvy and Serious liberals have resigned to letting Covid rip because it’s a “crisis of the unvaccinated,” pointing to much higher rates of death among the unvaccinated. But this pat response ignores those who can’t get vaccinated for health reasons, increased hospitalizations of children, the obscene income disparity of who has and hasn’t been boosted, a lack of support and sick leave for poor communities combined with de facto racist implementation of vaccine roll out (black people are still more likely to be unvaccinated), and the fact that, as much as we may want to spite them, the dying unvaccinated are still human beings the government has a responsibility to protect, even if many are too selfish or misinformed to protect themselves. Off-setting government responsibility to a simple moral binary about those who choose to die and those that don’t is neoliberal ideology at its crudest and cruelest, glossing over, entirely, the messy and complex reasons people remain unvaccinated. It also talks over those with disabilities, and does nothing to mitigate the spread of the disease on the population at large, which because we all share the same ICUs, harms the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.

Been hearing a lot of this for awhile now.

I call it an epidemic of the unvaccinated, not because I want to "let Covid rip", but as a way to frame how I personally perceive/manage the risk posed by covid to me and my family. It's a mindset that informs my own individual behavior. A year ago we cancelled plans to visit the inlaws during the holidays. This year everyone is vaccinated/boosted so I didn't feel it was necessary to keep the children away from their grandparents etc

With respect to vaccine hesitancy, I agree 100% that governments, both local/state/federal, have little to be proud of the way it was initially rolled out. But it has been widely/universally available for quite some time now. This guy is just trafficking in the time honored practice of well intentioned white liberals assuming Black/poor people have no control/agency over their own lives and that it's in fact people like himself who know what they want. This is his schtick and trust me there is a huge audience for it.