“We still have about 60 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who have not been, and that results in the dynamic of virus in the community that not only is dangerous and makes people who are unvaccinated vulnerable, but it also spills over into the vaccinated people,” Fauci said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.
:surprised-pika:
This brings back memories from February:
"As my mother would say, with the grace of God and the goodwill of the neighbors, that by next Christmas I think we'll be in a very different circumstance, God willing, than we are today," Biden said. "A year from now, I think that there'll be significantly fewer people having to be socially distanced, having to wear a mask."
:biden-troll:
No shit Joe, you told everyone to give up on non-pharmaceutical interventions in July so you could have your big wet summer of fun, no one is social distancing or masking up anymore you utterly useless sack of cum
Disney, one of Florida’s biggest employers, announced on Saturday it would no longer insist cast members be vaccinated, after the governor, Ron DeSantis, signed sweeping legislation on Thursday countermanding Biden’s order. In a move that many saw as infantile, DeSantis chose the unincorporated Florida community of Brandon for the signing – “Let’s Go Brandon” has become an offensive anti-Biden rallying call of the right in recent weeks.
Fucking Disney.
DeSantis chose the unincorporated Florida community of Brandon for the signing – “Let’s Go Brandon” has become an offensive anti-Biden rallying call of the right in recent weeks.
Is this the infamous 2nd joke conservatives now have?
Also in Walt Disney's cryogenically preserved heart.
an offensive anti-Biden rallying call
Is it offensive? Or are conservatives just trying really hard to perform offensiveness? If you wanna be counted as offensive, you’ve gotta be more edgy than a 12yo trying to sneak their first cuss word
it would honestly be way more cooler if desantis just outright said fuck Joe Biden rather than this weird ass shit
Rename the township "fuck Joe Biden" or "Biden can suck a lemon" if there are enough religious people in Florida concerned about swears (highly doubt it but can't discount weird evangelicals)
Then hold the conference there.
That'd be a power move. Instead of pretending people are offended by something that doesn't make sense and is an injoke we all understand but only conservatives find funny.
:this:
It's like they're in some kind of pissing match with libs over who can be more cringe.
It's literally avoiding being as offensive as just saying the thing it's referencing.
What’s more than this provincial life? Provincial death by plague
already too late. More people will die annually under Biden than under Trump but it will all be blamed on antivaxx
:liberalism: personal responsibility strikes again
The state can mandate things if they choose and they chose not to. They could do a 0-case strategy but they choose not to, they could force people to get their shots and they chose not to, they could have done a complete lockdown at any point and chose not to. It goes beyond complicit, the state is at fault in America.
culturally, covid is over, because of government incompetency - thousands will die preventable deaths because of the cancerous mass that is small government and "liberty"
The entire concept of "big government " being a thing let alone a bad thing is so fucking stupid.
Nature abhors a vacuum and if the government is small than something will fill that power vacuum and it'll probably be worse.
I for one welcome our natural viral overlords that we make sacrifices to in the name of good harvest (the economy)
US sitting at 1 in every 420 people having passed away from COVID.
Good chance of hitting 1 in every 400 (0.25% of the population) by Christmas.
A full year of statistics, calculus, and real analysis should be mandatory at the high school level.
Innumeracy is going to be the end of the species.
My conspiracy brained take that I stole from someone else is that if they actually taught you mathematics properly you would pretty quickly realize capitalism is dogshit
Or you think economics is a valid science (but somehow resent all other social sciences) because it pretends its findings are natural laws perfectly describable by mathematics/logic like physics or chemistry or biology.
Nate Silver is good at stats and baseball stats. Also decent amateur poker player. But also not someone you should listen to on politics.
I don't think people knowing math will save us, if you're still indoctrinated by other parts of the school system.
Those would just be tools to better understand how we’re getting fucked. In order for tools of analysis to be useful, you need to first have the power to act on that analysis. Most people wouldn’t know freedom or self-governance if it hit them in the face
"lmao based 420 blaze it, unless you're back or poor" - politicians probably
This asshole 3 days from now: 'Masks are not needed and we can relax now'.
Facui is one of the biggest fucking morons in government I have ever seen. Like, grade A shithead.
Yeah he should have resigned after telling people not to wear masks, that moment was really when the trust broke for the whole thing I think
He did it for a good reason. There might have been a run on masks and healthcare workers needed them most. So he told the public what they needed to hear to ensure a positive outcome.
Truth is a dangerous thing. You can't just give it out willy-nilly.
The post office was prepared to mail everyone masks at the beginning of the pandemic, distribution like that would've largely stopped a run on them
Like half of unvaxxed people in the US have attempted to have at least one shot but have run into scheduling conflicts or couldn’t find childcare/get time off work. It’s not all antivax.
That said, misinformation should have been cracked down on sooner. The recent declaration that nurses can lose their certs for promoting antivax disinfo was badass. Doctors’ associations should do it too. And fuck it, mods should remove it more aggressively on this site too.
The mods certainly try to take down any anti-vax content as soon as it pops up.
That said, misinformation should have been cracked down on sooner.
There's a huge political incentive to spread misinformation. Weird, how we have created a culture in which individuals reap outsized rewards for advancing a nationally self-destructive public policy.
Lol fuck sorry, I didn’t pay attention to the date :cringe:
I’m trying to delete it now
Edit: wait no it is from this year, I’ve been thoroughly owned, I’m now trying to undelete it
I'm just making a joke about how people were saying the same thing last year, and nothing was done to stop it, and it's gonna happen again :agony:
:100-com: time has lost all meaning and it shows
The bit that the octogenarian bureaucrat is saying about vaccinated spillover is rather worrying, given his tendency to say the loud part quietly
Collapse of equatorial countries due to heatwaves and famine is “deeply concerning”, says old neoliberal politician.
:covid-cool: :maduro-katana-1::coming-to-xi-you:
No one will notice. For months, +7k people have been dying of Covid every week in the US, but we've all agreed that its back to normal. So what if it doubles to +15k a week?
We've normalized it. During the pandemic, just in the US, the sacrifices on the altar of Capital dwarf those to Quetzalcoatl or Moloch.
Agreed. It won't be anyone you know, it'll just happen to the invisible masses and we'll all agree they must have deserved it for something.
It's like a fire that you put out 80% of, then you let it spread again until it's back to its original and you have to keep coming back to it and all the damage it makes.
Meanwhile China is trying to put out every ember when it pops up and installing smoke alarms.
Actively spreading doubt that masks worked in March 2020
Covid is just going to be a perpetual thing now since most countries don't want to do anything about it
Imperial Core nations are doing booster shots while the fringe still hasn't received their first round yet. This is going to ping-pong around the globe for the same reason influenza does. The folks in authority want to treat vaccination as a series of individual moral failings rather than a global epidemic.
I still see liberals bemoaning how evil/stupid minorities are for not getting vaxxed, never acknowledging the deplorable state of health care in these communities.
They could have paid people to get vaccinated and they didn't. Have another stimulus check tied to vaccination status or whatever. But I guess they just wanted people to be financially forced back to work. 👍 They just keep planning for the best possible outcome and running head first in the the wall of reality every time, it's fucking insane.
We will never get another stimulus check. The manufactured concern over inflation being tied to it will make sure of that.
There are a couple places that paid people $100-500 or had a vaccine lottery. Idk how effective it was.
Reasonably effective, tbh.
That said, the biggest factor in vaccination rate is ~~ class ~~ er, uh... education.
Researchers with the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences found that more than 3 out of 4 (76%) U.S. adults with at least a bachelor’s degree have already been vaccinated or plan to be, compared to just over half (53%) of those without a college degree. That’s a change from earlier in the pandemic, when level of education played less of a role in people’s willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
