What boggles my mind is it doesn't really matter to the right-wing what happens.
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If there's a miracle and only dozens of people go into the hospital - "See? The pointy-headed scientists are super-fucking idiots."
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If rally puts 100s of people into the hospital - the right-wing will say "See? The pointy-headed scientists are fucking idiots. No biggie." They might even quote morality rates.
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If it becomes a super-spreader event just like last time - they'll say say "Freedom is more important."
Comments are disabled at the NYT - what a shitty site.
Hundreds of Thousands of Bikers Expected in Sturgis Despite Delta Variant - The New York Times
The annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally began on Friday, just as the infectious Delta variant is producing a surge in cases nationwide.
Although most large events shut down last summer because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally forged ahead, panicking health experts as nearly a half-million motorcycle enthusiasts descended on the Black Hills of South Dakota.
This year's rally, which began on Friday, is expected to draw an even larger crowd, just as the infectious Delta variant is producing more new virus cases nationwide than this time last year.
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Whatever minimal precautions people took last year have drifted away like so much motorcycle exhaust, she said. "This year it's hog-wild," she said. "Nobody cares."
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Meade County, which includes Sturgis, has a 37 percent vaccination rate — significantly lower than the half of Americans who are fully vaccinated — and the six counties that border it have even lower vaccination rates.
Well - at least they could allow comments. That article would be a very amusing shitshow. But that's exactly why they didn't allow them.
They have always been selective of which articles have comments enabled and which don't. At least since 2016 when I was a pathetic liberal shoveling them 3 avocado toasts per month.
That's true.
Imagine if the vaccine hadn't saved our bacon and the vaccines became available in the future - about a year from now in late 2022? How many covid-dead Americans would there be right now? Surely more than 1,000,000. More than 1,500,000?
will never forgive Biden and the CDC for saying we don’t need to wear masks and all their confusing means testing masks shit now.
Me too. At least once somebody in the White House must have told Biden that many 10,000,000s of Americans might totally refuse to get the vaccine. And then what?
All the lib pundits love to say how Biden under-promises and over-delivers. Well - why didn't he set the covid mission accomplished date for late January, 2022 - the first anniversary of his presidency? There's being hopeful and there's being delusional and also being as naïve as fuck. Biden is one of those tedious idiots who needs wins (the bigger - the better) for his legacy.
It's the same reason he'd do anything to get a bipartisan infrastructure deal. I'm really surprised McConnell allowed there to be ~$600B in new spending. I'm dead certain if the GOP offered half that - Biden would have forced the dems to take it. He needs to "prove" bipartisanship can work via his win.
There’s also a lot of bad shit in that bill like privatizing a lot of infrastructure
I've intentionally read hardly anything about the bill. This infographic alone was bad enough. The dems, themselves, are going pass shit. What they and the GOP agree on will be shit-cubed.
a pilot program for mayor Pete’s mileage tax
Oh, that dirty rat.
the dems are paid to lose or the worst people at their jobs ever.
They're controlled opposition
your infographic illustrates but seeing it laid out like that is so hilarious.
I put that and the tweet I found it in on my HD to share at r/politics. So far I've shared it once. The redditor said something like - it's just the first bill and dems will make up stuff in the second bill. I wanted to SATIRE (PARODY) him.
The dems fucked public transportation in the first bill. They're not going to do a single fucking thing for it the second bill.
Infographics can be so useful. And sometimes so brutally effective. It's illustrative and sort of amazing how/when media outlets use infographics. MSNBC for example shows stuff that...
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Makes the dems look good.
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Makes Biden look good.
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Made Trump look bad.
A lot (if not a gigantic amount) of context is missing. And they never give you a way to find it on the website - you must do a screengrab if you want it. The data is just visual props that you shouldn't consider without the all important MSNBC voices for context.
This is my MSNBC favorite. It was shown on screen on Thursday. The segment was 11 minutes long and it was called "Good News! Poverty Drops To Historic Low After Biden Relief". Of course - I had to do a fucking screengrab to get it. On Friday Biden said "Oopsie - the eviction ban is up! Sorry!" And on Saturday the house took its August break.
Biden's good works look shittier if you understand the context. But MSNBC viewers will end up blaming the GOP.
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Back when it was around 550k or 600k deaths officially, I think it was U. of Washington that did a study that showed 900k exess deaths over what would be expected, so I think your 1-1.5 million is pretty close.
Hell even I'll admit, after having this drag on for so long even I'm starting to slack on taking shit seriously. I try to but it's difficult to keep trying to keep my job safe from disease when only like 20% of people are wearing masks and nobody seems to even pretend to know what "social distancing" is
Lmao the first time I ever heard of Sturgis was last year when it was a super spreader event early on in the pandemic, in the context of "wow people died to see Smash Mouth in the year 2020 despite knowing death was a possible outcome"
, in the context of “wow people died to see Smash Mouth in the year 2020 despite knowing death was a possible outcome”
Limp Bizkit headlined Lollapalooza this year. The youth of today are dying for the same mistakes we made, back when there was no consequence to listening to Smash Mouth. It's tragic.
I was going to make parody lyrics for All Star but I had pretty much forgotten the very first verse. I can just quote it...
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her foreheadIf you had a movie scene where that band sang those worlds to that crowd in those circumstances , it would be panned for being too hamfisted
I was almost disappointed when I was looking at the lyrics. I wanted to write a parody but there's no way I'm beating that. It's really beyond belief in this context.
Decades from now how will kids and teenagers look on this insane American era. But how will a teenager in - say - 2060s believe any of this? I'm living through this shit and it's hard for me to believe it. If our "reality" ends up being a buggy Matrix - that would make perfect sense.
haha we went through this last year and iirc there was a traceable spike and stories about it
haha time is a flat circle :rust-darkness:
haha time is a flat circle
Similar stuff will happen globally over and over and over and over again when it comes to climate change.
In the local language: "Okay, so we just had the biggest recorded wildfire in our area - shit happens."
Five years later - there's an even bigger one.
"We had two really big ones in the same decade. It's a fluke."
And then seven years after that...
Every single year we have a new record-setting fire. But don't worry, it's always just a fluke :)
My favorite thing is when a right-winger goes down the up escalator. Next year a crazy entirely Koch-funded reporter takes an insanely cherry-picked data set and he writes in a NYT guest op-ed "In the last four months temps have been down in most of the US. The climate change alarmists are incorrect in assuming doom..."
And the NYT editorial board says "Hey, we didn't think the absolutely nuts, sort-of-sciencey right-wing right-wing libertarian absolutist who is entirely Koch-funded would write such a guest opinion. Please keep in mind that the correct nomenclature is "guest opinion" and not the depreciated "op-ed". We take people at their word and that's also why we didn't read it before we published it."
:passion: You hear the sounds of people coughing up a lung and call it a "spreader-event," but I hear the same sounds and I call it "FREEDOM."
Not surprising at all tbh, it was wild they even did it last year too during the height
Those are generous expectations. If they do go superspreader, I see them blaming the pointy-headed scientists.
They’ll be shocked and confused as they lay dying in the ICUs.
Good riddance annoying boomer motorcycle douchebags.
