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.
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.
Masks remind people that there is still a massive pandemic going on despite the alternative reality they're trying to invent.
sure lucky we didn't do a real lockdown for 8 weeks to get this over with, we would have missed all this fun
What's that bit from Plague Inc, "the last few humans know they are witnessing the end of history" :doomer:
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.
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.
When will Chapocels stop getting their news from the New York Post of all places?
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
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.
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
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.
If they aren't making shit up, well the only way that you could know that is if you corroborated it with another source. And if you've done that, then just post the other source.
If nothing else, we should not be contributing to their traffic stats and ad revenue. Just on fucking principle.
Please tell me the actually useful information you can get out of the Daily Mail, New York Post, InfoWars, or the latest Q drops.
Then why not post the epidemiologist's Tweets rather than MAGA sites like the New York Post?
i built a machine that yells MOTHER OF GOD each time someone says covid in the news
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.
Damn I thought microplastics were gonna be the new lead poisoning, are we gonna two
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.
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.
“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..."
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.
The Lambda mutation, or C.37, appears to have emerged in Peru last August
Not new apparently :shrug-outta-hecks:
Well...
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On the black side - millions more could die.
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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.
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