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  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    British government is literally like, "We can't keep holding your hand forever."

    Motherfuckers you didn't do anything to begin with, it's only due to the shattered remnants of the NHS that society didn't collapse.

      • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, I genuinely shudder to think what state the UK is gonna be in by Winter, and most disturbingly I feel like the media is rapidly going to start manufacturing consent to make anyone still concerned about Covid seem like an anti social dissenter who just hates people and doesn't want anything to 'get back to normal'. Also the Government is really pushing for people to stop wearing masks for some fucking reason.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    sure lucky we didn't do a real lockdown for 8 weeks to get this over with, we would have missed all this fun

  • Homestar440 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    What's that bit from Plague Inc, "the last few humans know they are witnessing the end of history" :doomer:

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Francis Fukuyama, who was frequently ridiculed for his "absurd" predictions of the show's impending cancellation, has been vindicated, although in a slightly different manner than originally conceived.

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          3 years ago

          It's been funny watching them try to recycle old plots but in more farcical, ham-fisted ways. I keep tuning in for the sheer absurdity of it. The pacing of the climate disaster arc is killing me though, I don't know why the writers won't have anyone address it yet despite the way things have ramped up in recent seasons.

      • Oso_Rojo [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I’m not trying to pick on you, it’s just that I see a lot of links to right wing rags on Hexbear and I think we can do better than posting their headlines uncritically here

        • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Daily Mail, NY Post, and other MAGA/ European right-wing news sources really just need to be banned at this point. This isn't a liberal free speech warrior site. We wouldn't allow InfoWars to get posted here and expect a serious discussion in the comments.

          • Oso_Rojo [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            They publish a lot of stuff that “owns” the libs and I think some of that gets reposted uncritically here. The Hunter Biden stuff has been especially bad in that regard

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              The larger issue is falling into the same contrarian "whatever owns the libs" mentality that chuds have. The idea is to have leftist positions, not anti-lib, anti-reactionary positions.

            • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Please tell me the actually useful information you can get out of the Daily Mail, New York Post, InfoWars, or the latest Q drops.

      • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Then why not post the epidemiologist's Tweets rather than MAGA sites like the New York Post?

      • mittens [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        i built a machine that yells MOTHER OF GOD each time someone says covid in the news

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Shout out to the CDC for sticking to its guns and continuing to act like there's no need for a mask mandate. Time to hop aboard the accelerationist express because these lead-footed motherfuckers are gonna drive us all of a cliff.

  • mittens [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    There's also epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota and kappa in addition to alpha and delta, obviously. I wouldn't worry too much about every variant the WHO reports as VoC. AFAIK delta is still the most worrisome variant and vaccines still have a high rate of effectiveness against it.

      • mittens [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I do agree that western governments are ready to fumble the covid response again, having migrated from the very mistaken idea of building herd immunity, now they are under the impression that immunological hybridization is the fastest exit from the pandemic. Which is lol, they haven't learned shit have they.

  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    “Hahaha fuck your vaccine, you’re fucked” variant

    CNN newsroom around the middle of next year...

    "There is breaking news out of the CDC. The H.F.Y.V.Y.F could become a danger to the United States..."

  • vccx [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    So we really are going to get a vaccine escape variant soon huh

    • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This isn’t actually a new variant (it was identified in December 2020 and likely emerged months prior) and it’s very, very unlikely to be a vaccine escape.

      Whether we get a vaccine escape variant (and whether it will be hard to modify existing vaccines to stop it) is anyone’s guess, but there’s nothing in this post that should change your opinion on it.

  • Uncle [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It was only a matter of time. We're so fucking stupid.

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The Lambda mutation, or C.37, appears to have emerged in Peru last August

    Not new apparently :shrug-outta-hecks:

  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Well...

    • On the black side - millions more could die.

    • On the bright side - I could get to wear my almost new Japanese-style masks that I bought online.

    I bought five different styles. Literally the day after they were delivered - the CDC said we didn't need masks anymore. I decided not to return them because I figured surprises might be in store. Hey, I can look snazzy during the upcoming COVID hellscape.