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  • buh [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    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".

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

    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.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Have you tried holding your breath until you get dizzy? It's a natural high

    • pyjammas [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      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.

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

      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.

      • the_river_cass [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

        • gayhobbes [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          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.

          • spectre [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            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.

  • irocktoo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I just saw a profile with a Lenin pic on tiktok say vote Blue. So please Excuse me while I pass away.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • TemporalMembrane [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      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.

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