Anyone else notice the rhetoric from covid deniers is evolving? Nowadays I'm hearing less "it's not that dangerous" or "the death toll is overstated, more people die of [different thing]" and more "it mostly only kills people with obesity/diabetes so it's actually their fault for not taking care of themselves".
My Trump supporting grandpa shared an article from some Koch brother funded think tank that said "most of the victims would have died by the end of the year anyway". I've been hearing that line a bunch lately.
Which is wild because most of the deniers are overweight.
I wish they'd just be up front and say they'd rather kill everyone they know and die themselves than miss a week of Fudruckers.
I still have no idea why India isn't nuking britain for all the atrocities they did.
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I would probably give up 90% of my drinking if I had easy access to edibles, but my state will never give up the war on drugs. Oh well, guess I I'll keep abusing my liver since I prefer to spend my evenings with a chemical buffer.
Have you tried holding your breath until you get dizzy? It's a natural high
drinking heavily will fuck you up though in ways edibles or even smoking doesn't. I'm not judging, as I'm struggling myself, but if you're ever considering quitting please do. It puts life in hard mode and makes you die early. who knows how useful you'll be when the revolution comes :P. or whatever.
yeah I think being able to access stickies by just clicking on the bear instead of having to go to communities>main would make a big difference
I once went on a date with a voluntarist and I thought I understood what it was so I told him I was one too and then I read up on what it was and I never called him because that's pretty much what you said
Lol that's just the cherry on top of how many ways blockchain doesn't solve anything.
I bough a .308 kit few months back. Saw those fellas in plate carriers walking around congressional halls, didn't wanna fuck around with smaller calibers.
I feel like all the different eviction laws across the country will stagger the evictions in a way that will never force a mass confrontation of soon-to-be-homeless tenants vs the system.
Returning home to parents, living with friends, living in vehicles, and setting up in tent cities seems so normalized since 2008 that I'm afraid Americans will roll over and take this, too.
nah, too many crises all at once and the state can't meaningfully respond to any of them. things are going to break down this fall.
I have no idea what's up. I'd have thought some of them would be underway by now. But then again 2009 meant tons of mass evictions and foreclosures and it was almost invisible.
It's bonkers, in the US it's so fragmented here that an entire populace can feel something and no one else will even know it happened or see it.
I was too young to be face to face with the situation, but the only thing I noticed was that development of my 80 percent complete well-off neighborhood stalled, and most of the immigrant community moved away.
I just saw a profile with a Lenin pic on tiktok say vote Blue. So please Excuse me while I pass away.
I just want this 2020 election to be over, because every time Bernie opens his mouth to defend Biden or the DNC or whatever, he's just pissing me off more. I don't want to be mad at him. I want to look back and think of Bernie as the guy who had a hand in pushing me left and putting leftist ideas in the public consciousness. Someone who didn't shy away from being called a socialist or proposing socdem policies. I want to remember the good, not the bad. And that won't happen till after November at the earliest.
God I know it's been like 'last post' for an hour 🙈
But thank you for the callout. The bathroom is free. I shall make my break and log off haha :heart-sickle:
Night .
There are drug treatments: Remdesivir (already approved in the US) and Favipiravir (used in China against covid seemed like it was pretty good, made and used in Japan for the flu) are two antivirals - meaning they help stop viruses from reproducing and spreading. Dexamethasone is an anti-inflammatory drug that can really help covid patients that are bad enough to get oxygen or full-intubation, apparently it can reduce deaths in those cases by 20-30%.
A vaccine is being developed in multiple countries with multiple teams and many different techniques, we'll probably see a vaccine by early next year at the latest - hopefully sooner. 2 are already approved for early use.
If you pick up some light exercise, eat healthy, keep distance, wear a mask (either a new disposable one every time or a freshly-washed reusable one), wash your hands frequently, stop smoking/smoke less (including weed and vaping), stop drinking/drink less, you will be at less risk for catching covid and/or for developing bad symptoms even if you do catch it.
Yeah, obviously if you're paying out of pocket all those drugs may be too expensive. Something like 3K per dose for private insurance, not sure how it would come out on the hospital bill if you were uninsured. Favipiravir, if approved, will probably also be pretty expensive.
