• newmou [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Some surprisingly class conscious comments in there

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      With a relatively high percentage of elderly having already been vaxxed and a big chunk of the population either having had the shot or the disease, I'm willing to bet this will get milder over time rather than more sever. The Delta Variant was supposed to be more contagious than the original, but we've hit our peak sooner and come through lower than the peaks back in April 2020 and January 2021.

      It's just going to keep ping-ponging around the country like a nastier form of the flu and picking off the weak and elderly year after year, while American normalize it like we normalized regular influenza.

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :doomjak:

    Someone called me a pussy on Youtube and said it had a 99% survival rate

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Love that argument, you can hide a lot of shit with percentages. Let's see here according to wikipedia USA has 331,449,281 people in it.

      1% out of that is 3,314,492 people. Which is slightly more than the entire population of Puerto Rico and slightly less than the entire population of Mongolia.

      Like sure this isnt exactly the next Black Death (just waiting on that variant), but a lot of fucking people will die because of this dumb fucking shit.

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

        1pct bcuz of the disease itself. how many gonna die cuz they cant get surgery bcuz of the accompanying collapse of the healthcare system, which was already super fucking rickety

        • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Was trying to point out that even if it's only 1% it's still fucking horrifying amount of death. Obviously it's going affect things and thus the actual number is a whole lot worse.

      • HntrKllr [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        1% Ah yes nice to see the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska and both Dakotas wiped

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Like sure this isnt exactly the next Black Death (just waiting on that variant)

        H5N1 bird flu, baby! It's coming.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      99.99% survival rate, actually. 99.99999% even.

      You just need to discount all the people who died and add in all the people who haven't been born yet, and this shit literally has had no impact on anything ever.

      But also China is a bloodbath and the Wuhan Flu is wildly under reported and don't trust anyone more olive-skinned than an Italian.

  • XKEYSCORE [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I worked parks and rec for my hometown this summer, and we did the mowing and whipping for the city cemetery. seemed like every week there was 2 or 3 new reserved grave spots. what was pretty empty just a year ago must have doubled in size, it felt very somber whenever we had to work there

  • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I'm sorta spooked, I don't think I've ever been on that sub but all the links are purple.

    I feel like i'm in that movie with the guy writing on his arms, but instead a shitty link aggregator.

    edit: i think i just accidentally spammed all the links with imagus and didn't notice....