Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

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[MushroomX]

I agree to some portions of it, I think though where it lacks, is that the foundation of our structures have shifted; Work from Home, Gig Economy vs. Office Economy, the impact Traveling less for Work, Concerts/Bars/Resturants, will Movie Theaters die (they are like Gas Stations, making profit off of concessions) because of Streaming Blockbuster Titles on NETFLIX/Disney+/HBO Max.

This virus has changed things, and shifted the timeline forward in ways that has given a terminal prognosis to current ways that you can see have no future.

 

[mastermind]

I agree to some portions of it, I think though where it lacks, is that the foundation of our structures have shifted; Work from Home, Gig Economy vs. Office Economy, the impact Traveling less for Work, Concerts/Bars/Resturants, will Movie Theaters die (they are like Gas Stations, making profit off of concessions) because of Streaming Blockbuster Titles on NETFLIX/Disney+/HBO Max.

This virus has changed things, and shifted the timeline forward in ways that has given a terminal prognosis to current ways that you can see have no future.

I didn't take that tweet thread to have anything to do with the economy or content production.

There is a lot of psychological trauma we have all suffered from COVID and are still living through.

 

[Majestyx]

I agree to some portions of it, I think though where it lacks, is that the foundation of our structures have shifted; Work from Home, Gig Economy vs. Office Economy, the impact Traveling less for Work, Concerts/Bars/Resturants, will Movie Theaters die (they are like Gas Stations, making profit off of concessions) because of Streaming Blockbuster Titles on NETFLIX/Disney+/HBO Max.

This virus has changed things, and shifted the timeline forward in ways that has given a terminal prognosis to current ways that you can see have no future.

we talking bout people and you talking bout economy....

 

[Dillah810]

I didn't take that tweet thread to have anything to do with the economy or content production.

There is a lot of psychological trauma we have all suffered from COVID and are still living through.

Yeah. I think the point she was trying to make is that socially we are never going back to pre-covid. The pandemic has changed us, and we're never going back to the same social patterns. Those that yearn for the pre-covid society are justifiably hurt, but need to come to grips that Covid has forever reshaped our society (and is still reshaping it).

 

[MushroomX]

we talking bout people and you talking bout economy....

It's a bad take on my part, my bad.

 

[Macallik86]

Speaking of history, I found out this week that those old-school radiators are actually technology built specifically to tackle the 1918 Spanish Flu

Have you ever wondered why your radiators are so big for your small vintage home? Believe it or not, the answer has something to do with the Spanish Flu of 1918-19. This winter marks the 100th anniversary of the pandemic, which infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, killing anywhere from 20 to 50 million. In an effort to prevent another outbreak of the airborne influenza, health officials strongly recommended that windows remain cracked year-round to allow for fresh air.

https://www.chicagobungalow.org/post/2018/12/05/seminar-recap-dont-get-steamed

Hopefully 100 years from now, WFH or more-liveable wages can stand the test of time and be attributed to this pandemic similar to the radiators

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

I didn't take that tweet thread to have anything to do with the economy or content production.

There is a lot of psychological trauma we have all suffered from COVID and are still living through.

I know 1 thing I somehow came out of Covid hating Americans a lot more than I already did and I’m not the only one.

That’s before we even get into all the people who realized how bad they’re being screwed and how awful everything is and how trapped they feel. That type of shyt is going to really fukk up your society. Which ties back to.. why would anyone want to start a family or have kids here especially millennials and Gen z

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[Wild self]

So the actual (unofficial) death toll is like 1.4 million

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

So the actual (unofficial) death toll is like 1.4 million

Just the flu

 

[barese]

Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore

There was a tendency among medics to play down long COVID to begin with. Now, thanks in large part to the voice that ‘long-haulers’ found as they came together in a global online community that includes health-care workers, long COVID is the subject of large grants, research projects and a few specialist clinics, including for children.

Yet it continues to be overlooked by decision makers, who still present the costs and benefits of COVID-19 containment in terms of data on cases, hospitalizations and deaths alone. This means that in many countries, a burden of future disability is being created that could have been prevented, or reduced.

Meanwhile, work proceeds on trying to understand how the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 triggers long-term effects. Just how it damages the central nervous system is a matter of heated debate, for example15–19. One theory is that SARS-CoV-2 prompts a fleeting immune response that primes the brain for a later insult — genetic or environmental. If such a model applies more broadly, it might explain why it has been so hard to demonstrate a direct biological link15 between viral infection and neurological disease, says Smeyne. It could also make it fiendishly difficult to predict who will succumb later. “It’s like, spin the wheel,” he says.

It could even turn the idea of pre-existing conditions on its head. Does transient infection itself create a vulnerability which, sometime later, might or might not translate into an epidemic of disability?

“There is a strange disconnect whereby health ministers are now talking about the gravity of long COVID, but it features nowhere in the considerations on which they base their pandemic policy,” says Nisreen Alwan, a public-health specialist at the University of Southampton, UK, who is herself recovering from long COVID.

If polio survivors could drive social change in the past century, perhaps COVID-19 survivors will in this one — making all disability more visible. “If it weren’t built on suffering and death,” Shew says, “it would be an exciting time to be thinking about disability rights.”

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

Wow...the audacity to compare the trauma of WWII and the horrors soldiers saw in the battlefield there, to the mental and social impact of COVID19. This comparison is as accurate as making an equivalency of a compound leg fracture to being shot in the face.

Sure, some of us are nervous to getting back to normal out of fear or the loss of a loved one, but comparing that to WW2 ptsd is shockingly tone-deaf and hyperbolic, and disrespectful to actual veterans of ANY war.

AWFUL tweet thread

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Wow...the audacity to compare the trauma of WWII and the horrors soldiers saw in the battlefield there, to the mental and social impact of COVID19. This comparison is as accurate as making an equivalency of a compound leg fracture to being shot in the face.

Sure, some of us are nervous to getting back to normal out of fear or the loss of a loved one, but comparing that to WW2 ptsd is shockingly tone-deaf and hyperbolic, and disrespectful to actual veterans of ANY war.

AWFUL tweet thread

There’s no way you actually read that entire thing if this is the conclusion you came to

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

There’s no way you actually read that entire thing if this is the conclusion you came to

They are making the equivilency that grief = grief, trauma = trauma, and death = death, and that is a grossly simplistic view especially with what ww2 vets lived and did.

Comparing the reactions of the girls who want to go to the sockhop to those of us who want to go to coachella is LOOSELY comparable, but comparing covid trauma victims to ww2 veterans is embarrassing to event write in a TWEET.

“We’ve seen death and it changed us” theyre comparing apples to CHERRIES