Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@JechtUltima because school suspensions are proven to be one of the most worthless forms of discipline EVER. ESP for the kid who hates school and wants to be sent home, you just gave them their pass.

@Snottie_Drippen not real effective for the one suspended, I agree. But often better for everyone else.

@themcnoisy I also like the idea of school uniforms but it always turns into a money making scheme between the school and some company that have way too cozy a relationship.

@JohnnyShoulder @nessisonett @Voltan It's not super common to see schools with a uniform policy. But it's far more common than it used to be. My kids have been at a few places that required them but it was really more of some kind of khaki pants and a solid color polo. Which honestly still turns into a rich/poor divide situation.

My wife works for a weird private/public type school at the moment where uniforms are required and for awhile the sole supplier of the uniforms was owned by a relative of one of the superintendents of the school. Lol. We'll turn any good intention into a money making endeavor. And we wonder why we couldn't help in Afghanistan.

Anyway I just heard on the "news" this morning that no masks help prevent spread so that settles that. Though I do wonder why surgeons and other medical professionals have been wasting all this effort on these things all this time if the new line of thought is they do absolutely nothing.

Maybe it's to reduce the spread via miasma or to keep blood off their face during blood-lettings. 🤷‍♂️

I was gutted I couldn't become a surgeon for the risk of almost certain death from having to wear a mask during surgery

@Thrillho "oh... horrible post-op infection." Lol.

Also jfc... Have I checked my vo2 max lately? Is he serious with that?! Try never in my life. Wtf is this Gattaca?

The difference between a molecule and an organism. Amazing how high school level science has eluded much of society.

@zupertramp I think I left my tricorder at home, otherwise I’d be all over that.

@nessisonett 😂 That did literally make LOL! Defo comment of the week! 🤣

Odd and disturbing, my daughter's school wants her to sign this form that absolves them of any responsibility should she get COVID. No masks, no social distancing, no vaccine push but if she gets covid it's not their fault.

Lol. It's not like I was gonna sue when we all catch COVID (as if I could afford litigation) but there's no way I'm signing that.

Hooray, I’m now double jabbed. The wee nurse guy who did it had to sit with me though cause my arm wouldn’t stop bleeding 😂

@nessisonett hmm... sometimes I've wondered if there's a middle ground between full blown hemophiliac and just y'know, above-average bleeder because the same happens to me sometimes. Nose bleeds, nicks from shaving, etc. But never had that happen from a shot. Hope it wasn't too bad.

Also echo above sentiment, that I hope you don't feel too poorly in the coming days. I reckon you're a spot younger than me so you'll probably weather it better.

@JechtUltima @zupertramp Thanks, I honestly don’t feel too awful considering the first one floored me. That could change but hopefully it’s not too bad!

Ok I spoke way too soon. Spent a solid couple of hours this morning shivering uncontrollably. If the vaccine feels this bad then I sure as hell know it’s working! If things weren’t bad enough, the man across the road is building an extension so there’s drilling noise and my smoke alarm has started loudly beeping to say it needs the battery changed. What a morning 😂

@nessisonett It's happening for you today! 🤣

The day after I had my 2nd jab I was all day on my feet looking at properties then going around town with some of my fam. Not sure whether it was the jab or that I've been sat on my backside for the best part of 18 months, but I was wiped out that night!

@nessisonett yeah hope you feel better soon. I was the only one with uncontrollable shivers in my family. good times.

Just curious — In Europe, the UK, and elsewhere outside of the U.S., is there a lot of anti-vax, anti-mask, use of unapproved treatments, conspiracy theory, plandemic, and general mistrust of the scientific community and public health officials?
As society here teeters again on the brink with the current wave, I just wonder how things are going elsewhere. Are the hospitals all filling up where you are? What are the general attitudes of the people towards vaccination and treatment?

@Th3solution Probably not as much as in the US, but yeah, still o ton of that. A lot of people still somehow convinced covid is largely harmless or not real at all.
Here in Poland the situation has been surprisingly good for a few months now (100-300 daily cases looks good compared to the peak of 35,000 in March) but I fully expect it to get worse again before the end of the year.

@Th3solution I saw on the news over the weekend that 78% of the adult population has been double jabbed.

Going round shops and stuff, masks seem to be less popular.

As for the other stuff, I don't pay much attention to it so couldn't say how much of it is out there.

@Th3solution @JohnnyShoulder In the UK, the deniers are pretty much universally thought of as crackpots. They 100% aren’t given the crazy national platform that they are in the States. There’ll always be wackos but they’re few and far between and seem to primarily be old men who used to have respectable music careers.

@Voltan @JohnnyShoulder @nessisonett Ok, I figured. The group of conspiracy theorists seems to grow daily, but I do think it’s more that they are becoming more vocal rather than more numerous. The fact that this is all an elaborate plan to enslave the people, all engineered by… I’m not sure who or why, but whatever. People are so distrusting of the public health authorities that they’ve chosen to follow a train of thought that leads them to a tangled web of hearsay and speculation that I can’t even understand where people are coming from.