The third wave is happening as I type.
It's driven by voting turnout. It's driven by apathy from people who previously had good intentions, but are now too fatigued to care.
Anti-gov, anti-mask, anti-biden sentiment is at an all time high. Conspiracies are booming.
Mandates are not enough, if anyone is even listening to the clueless lawmakers at this point.
Coming up: thanksgiving, black friday, christmas season, christmas, new year.
I predict 700,000 cases per day on the first week of January.
How is this country so horrible.
"Don't travel for the holidays." Cue enormous tightly packed mosh pits at every single major city airport. I've said before on here: most selfish society in the history of the world.
To be fair, when every aspect of the society is selfish, you got to be. You know there's gonna be zero government help on this shit. Your horrible jobs still requiring you to come in to a rona factory for shitty pay. Your family is entirely in the same boat. Why not see each other?
Yeah I can't disagree there just fuck. The holidays are going to crush healthcare workers. These people are devastated already.
I havnt seen my dad in a couple years and was really looking forward to it, but am not this year as he is super high risk.
This isn't even that selfish though. It's not in your self-interest to be in a huge crowd during a pandemic.
Americans are just so fragile to perceived threats to their own liberty that they will risk death to exercise them
All leftists should remember this pandemic when we say that capitalism is a death cult. This is a crystal clear, real world example of what we mean.
Yes, and equally important is reminding others CONSTANTLY.
I never miss an opportunity to trace the roots of any shitty predicament back to capitalism. Or the inverse, like how the internet and other tech was government sponsored.
it must be more socially acceptable these days because of the more dire economic circumstances
once my then-"friends" secured their bag, they no longer wanted to hear critiques of the system
it kinda works id you just drop a reminder casually and move on lol
Biden isn’t going to do anything substantive either
I have wanted to strangle every single lib who says "but he's got a plan for contract tracing" as if being one step behind the virus is a much better position than where we are now.
My grandpa is probably going to die from it today. Half of my family are still saying the death counts are overblown.
sorry to hear about the half of your family that prefers to discount your grandpa's illness rather than confront the fact there's a pandemic
I hope your grandpa somehow pulls through
How is this country so horrible.
Because we're dumb as shit and are incredibly horny for what we perceive as "rights." Which for some reason includes shoving copious amounts of corn based food like products in our mouth, but not the health care we need because of it.
(Bourgeoisie propaganda is why. Also, I recognize the hypocrisy of typing this with a cigarette in my mouth. Welcome to America!)
We like to have fun with our numbers :) 700,000? That’s like 300 football fields packed with people!!
Talking with some peeps on another thread and my prediction is this thing is gonna mutate and keep spreading. Those that survived the first time might get overconfident when this wave comes and not take precautions thinking they can't get it again. The rich have the idea that it would be better to just let everyone die and get it over with and while this sounds like a cruel but pragmatic idea if this keeps mutating it will just be cruel and useless.
i am no good at science, so would it mutating make “herd immunity” not possible then?
SSJBlueStalin explained it to me like this.
So yeah, there are two routes to that. Most other type corona viruses we have experience with have strong immunity on the order of nine months. So all the progress towards natural herd immunity will go away within an 18 month period as best we can tell.
Or, like you postulated. One good mutation, which is inevitable at some point, amd we get to do the dance again
So best case senario, when we get a vaccine set up and running, and widely distributed, it is an unknown and finite ammount of time before a new strain pops up. Just like how we get flu shots only without decades of instutional knowledge on how ro handle it.
His looks more hopeful but my hopes aren't that high.
ah jeez... and yet telling that to people who think the vaccine will solve everything will have them looking at you like youre crazy
them looking at you like youre crazy
Yeah but this might be part and parcel of being a loony leftist no? I desperately want to be wrong though and I am in a lot of ways but I don't trust the for profit healthcare system.
Can you imagine asking americans to sit out the holiday season so we can get the pandemic under control? Easier to imagine the end of the world.
And when the vaccine doesn't work because the virus has mutated a thousand times by then, the media won't talk about it.
"The vaccine's out, so we can all stop talking about Covid now! GET BACK TO CONSUMING!!"
Coming up: thanksgiving, black friday, christmas season, christmas, new year.
cursed Auld Lang Syne kissing ritual
THE VOLCEL POLICE HAVE BEEN ABOLISHED, COMRADE
CUMMING IS A PROLETARIAN ACTIVITY
It's also just flu season. If you were really safe about it there's a small chance you got it. Or just shit luck.
My holidays will max out at four people per holiday and this will be the first year I won’t see my mother. I’m terribly sad over it, but I understand that missing the holidays with her this years means I will hopefully get many many more years with her.
Why don’t more people understand this?
