Covid-19 miscellany

[Trausti]

How does someone this fucking stupid become a US Representative?

Let’s agree that this is a really stupid take.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

How does someone this fucking stupid become a US Representative?

Gerrymandering or not enough people breathing oxygen.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Don't accept comedy from strangers... or the Babylon Bee. The Onion is satire, the Babylon Bee just perpetuates the myth bubble that the right-wing live in. The idea that liberals don't want things back to normal is the most fucking stupid thing said during this entire pandemic... and that included President Trump suggesting people talk to their doctor about injecting bleach to deal with Covid-19.

 

[bilby]

This morning I saw someone out jogging wearing a mask. None of my business of course, each to their own but how mental is that?

You don't have any idea why this person was masked.

He's wearing it because he wants to signal his piousness or he has been scared shitless into wearing it. If I see him tomorrow I'll maybe ask him. It's as mental as driving in your car wearing a mask or worse yet, on a motorbike.

Plenty of people wore masks on motorbikes long before Covid. It's apparently preferable to some to not inhale or eat large numbers of insects - crazy, I know.

 

[Trausti]

The idea that liberals don't want things back to normal

Right. They didn’t try to pass massive federal legislation to reorder society with Covid as the pretext. Nope.

 

[Trausti]

Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away (dream away)
In the wind of change

 

[bilby]

This morning I saw someone out jogging wearing a mask. None of my business of course, each to their own but how mental is that?

You don't have any idea why this person was masked.

He's wearing it because he wants to signal his piousness or he has been scared shitless into wearing it. If I see him tomorrow I'll maybe ask him. It's as mental as driving in your car wearing a mask or worse yet, on a motorbike.

Fact remains.
You don't know what you're talking about, but continue talking anyway.
Tom

It's worse than that. Most of his posts are just regurgitating the copy from the Daily Mail; He's their unpaid advertising arm (which they clearly need, because the owner of the DM still hasn't drowned out every single competing opinion from public discourse, and is therefore obviously not yet loud or obnoxious enough).

It would be interesting to know what TSwizzzle's own opinions are, if he has any; But I suspect that he no longer has opinions until Lord Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere and self appointed 'voice of the common man', tells him what they are.

You would think that people would dislike being manipulated by an aristocrat who gains material wealth from disorder and unpleasantness, but history suggests that there's always an army of bootlickers desperate to do the bidding of such parasites, for little or no benefit to themselves.

Humans are weird.

 

[TomC]

The idea that liberals don't want things back to normal

Right. They didn’t try to pass massive federal legislation to reorder society with Covid as the pretext. Nope.

Nope. They didn't.
Desperate ploys to fix the problems left behind by the Republicans? Yep.
Just like Obama had to do starting in 2009.
And just like then Republicans like to pretend that the problems are due to Democrats, while obstructing every way the democrats try to repair the U.S.

Again.
Tom

 

[laughing dog]

The idea that liberals don't want things back to normal

Right. They didn’t try to pass massive federal legislation to reorder society with Covid as the pretext. Nope.

JH:
While it is obvious that you meant

The idea that liberal don't want everyday life to go back go normal is false

you forgot to spell out for your intended audience.

 

[Trausti]

The idea that liberals don't want things back to normal

Right. They didn’t try to pass massive federal legislation to reorder society with Covid as the pretext. Nope.

Go Darwin.

No. Go Manchin!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The idea that liberals don't want things back to normal

Right. They didn’t try to pass massive federal legislation to reorder society with Covid as the pretext. Nope.

Expanding access of affordable broadband wouldn't be atop of the list of "reordering society".

 

[bilby]

The idea that liberals don't want things back to normal

Right. They didn’t try to pass massive federal legislation to reorder society with Covid as the pretext. Nope.

Expanding access of affordable broadband wouldn't be atop of the list of "reordering society".

Clearly you need to do your research about the links between 5G, vaccination, autism, and the New World Order. /tinfoilhat

 

[Worldtraveller]

How does someone this fucking stupid become a US Representative?

Gerrymandering or not enough people breathing oxygen.

Have you met the average US voter?

 

[Metaphor]

B-b-but ... Meta insists that it's a "blessing"!
I wonder who else harbors such opinions.

A number of experts who have talked about Omicron and its properties have said the same thing or implied it.

Meta is (claimed to be) vaccinated... maybe not so eager to partake in the blessing himself?

What on earth are you talking about?

First, I realise it is near impossible for you and people like you to imagine that somebody can be pro-vaccine and anti-mandate. It's perhaps because you only believe of people what you already believe of them. I have no reason to lie to you or anybody about my vaccine status. And the fact that I was double-vaxxed months before Omicron emerged does not indicate I did it to avoid 'Omicron'. I did get my booster in January, but that too was planned well before Omicron emerged.

If, by the blessing comment, you think that implies I would like to get Omicron and risk disease, death, and possibly long COVID, your thinking is diseased. But if I got it (or indeed, if I've had it and don't know), I'd say 'there's a silver lining - natural immunity and extra delta protection'. Would you go apeshit too if I said there was a silver lining?

You are so offended by somebody having the opinion that, on the balance of probabilities, Omicron will lead to lower deaths overall on our way out of COVID than many other scenarios, and for that reason calling it a blessing in disguise, you seem almost crazed by it. It's like someone saying 'you are lucky it didn't kill you' when they've been in a car accident and had they been an inch to the left they'd have died. It isn't lucky to be in a car accident, but it's a goddamn turn of phrase. Do you go apeshit when people say 'you are lucky it wasn't worse'?

 

[Jarhyn]

That GFM by returning the money would be transferring funds towards terrorist activities. Do we get to say "I told you so" and you say "yeah you sure did..." without sarcasm when the people who got their money back send it back towards the bioterrorists?

Huh? I did not deny that some people who got a refund would donate to the convoy via other means. I imagine some or many of them would. Some people might even increase what they originally pledged. Others will get the money back and keep it. It's their money to do with as they want.

I don't accept your pronouncement of the convoy as a terrorist organisation, but that probably goes without saying.

Nothing really goes without saying except when it is the quiet part, and you can be damn sure I'm going to say that out loud for you.

I find that it is best to be both direct and complete as concerns most issues.

These people are bioterrorists. They are shutting down infrastructure for to leverage all of society to let them carry infections diseases across a border.

Of course we see you defend all sorts of evil people and things through indirect support tactics, so I don't see why COVID would end any different as a hill for you to post on

 

[Metaphor]

These people are bioterrorists. They are shutting down infrastructure for to leverage all of society to let them carry infections diseases across a border.

They are not fighting for that right. They are fighting for the right not to be forced to have a medical procedure carried out on them without their consent, solely for the benefit of others.

Of course we see you defend all sorts of evil people and things through indirect support tactics, so I don't see why COVID would end any different as a hill for you to post on

It staggers me still that you think I look to you for moral approval, or that I value your moral sensibilities.

 

[Jarhyn]

These people are bioterrorists. They are shutting down infrastructure for to leverage all of society to let them carry infections diseases across a border.

They are not fighting for that right. They are fighting for the right not to be forced to have a medical procedure carried out on them without their consent, solely for the benefit of others.

Of course we see you defend all sorts of evil people and things through indirect support tactics, so I don't see why COVID would end any different as a hill for you to post on

It staggers me still that you think I look to you for moral approval, or that I value your moral sensibilities.

The fact that you don't seem to value or even believe in the existence of "ethics" is why we go around and around at times, yes.

They are absolutely fighting for the right to carry infectious diseases across the border.

 

[Metaphor]

They are absolutely fighting for the right to carry infectious diseases across the border.

The idea that being anti-mandate makes you a bioterrorist is the kind of absurdity I can't ever predict coming from you, but it always seems obvious afterwards that that's exactly what you'd think.

 

[Hermit]

 

[lpetrich]

It’s coming soon. Poll numbers are far more effective than masks and mandates at ending Covid.

Trausti, you could get a Nobel Prize for your superior insight into virology. (sarcasm)

But seriously, this relaxing of mask mandates seems to me like complacency. Being vaxxed and masked is good protection, and it allows us to live normal lifestyles.