"Nothing can be done", says country that didn't do anything.
I was in a government building in Idaho a few months ago to pay a parking fine when an email went out to the staff that the mask mandate was lifted for government employees. In the most surreal moment of my life, people around me began tearing off their masks in celebration and spreading the news across the building that the pandemic was over.
The following week Idaho was reported to have the highest COVID transmission rate in the entire world.
Do you work as a Chud-chronicler or something? Like why would you go to either of those places?
I grew up in Texas and have extended family I'm living with now.
My father lives in Idaho and is disabled, and needs help getting around.
I was homeless in Idaho for a few months last year, so I drove back to Texas. I can't afford my own place somewhere else.
Sounds rough Comrade, hope things are going well for you now :meow-hug:
Really beautiful nature scene, thanks in no small party due to the chronic inability of state residents to encourage people to move there.
This would be a fairly funny bit if not for the fact that it really happened. Continuing to avoid Idaho, got it. :cringe:
:seen-this-one: hey it's summer of 2021 when the CDC said if you're vaccinated you can stop masking which lead to the delta variant surge!
This is the 100% normalization moment, IMO. If there is a much worse new Covid variant in the future, both the GOP and the DNC will just ignore it. It took ~2 years.
agreed. also, it will be interesting if we face something totally different. like another ebola outbreak. will all pandemics now simply be treated with indifference?
There will probably be an initial wave of panic/caution from the ruling class, until they see what it means for them personally. But after two years of Covid, all of them probably know that they can go fully remote and just hire a couple of people to do their work for them.
Back to untouchable emperors in their fortress palace with servants that cannot approach them.
As soon as there was a pill for treatment it was over.
Anyone who is rich or powerful right now has access to pills for COVID treatment that is 95%+ effective.
They could give af about the rest about us.
Normalization until inflation going up because of shortage since a bunch of front line worker is in hospital right now instead of on the line working.
I don't think that is why inflation happened. IMO most of inflation is just large corporations getting even larger during the pandemic and being able to raise prices. Most corporations have been reporting record profits, way above expectations.
But there's also a worker shortage leading to cheap product not being deliver, China have been complaining about the US not able to export their product for them to buy to comply with the trade agreement since, you know, covid
https://twitter.com/as_a_worker/status/1448500582168338432
Inflation is absolutely being driven by real cost increases in shipping, directly as a consequence of international firms stiffing their workers and cutting their service to the bone, removing any slack in the system.
We are living through a heightening of the contradictions as the profit motive directly buts up against the physical capacity of the human body.
We're going to be hearing the phrase "We have to learn to live with COVID" a whole lot more now.
Living with covid means masking in public indoor areas, but that's too much of a sacrifice. What they mean is "cull the herd".
I remember hearing how in the medieval ages, Arabs rightfully considered European a bunch of unhygienic barbarians. Well I'm glad to see I get to re-live a bit of that history.
Europeans re-using knives with dirty shit-encrusted hands for battlefield surgeries
Proud to be an American, where at least I know that people would rather a million people die (including maybe themselves) than give up their treats at all. This shit terrifies me. For the rest of my life, whenever I interact with anyone the question of 'are you one of the psychotic braying hogs that fought to risk as many people's lives as possible?' will be going through my brain. Maybe I would have had this reaction after Iraq,but I was too young to be really paying attention when it kicked off.
Not even giving up treats! They just don't want to wear masks or get a free vaccine!!
I feel like I'm in a cult because my mind always defaults to "fascist/homophonic/etc." when I see anyone new due to shit that I've seen so many people say and support
Profiling for sunburned Anglo guys in drab colored clothes with tiny beards, strong arms and fat guts.
Anglos in general do not have the benefit of the doubt at all, even myself 👁
It's similar to last year when all the businesses were ramping up to open before the variants starting to come in the Fall. It's going to be a carefree summer of further death-plague crafting and everyone will be :shocked-pikachu: once they have to close everything up again come September.
Swear to Cthulhu, America can be defined by several Channel 5 videos.
Local 58 - Contingency
This message will repeat until there are none to read it.
https://youtu.be/3c66w6fVqOI
don't forget to tip the nurse who gives you the booster shot! their wages are gonna be capped soon :amerikkka-clap:
Reminds me of Feb and March 2020, when go between masking and unmasking every day cuz I can’t decide which risk is higher, getting Covid or getting ostracized/beat up as a Chinese person wearing a mask.
I hate them so fucking much. She should have gone down with Cuomo, there's no fucking way she didn't know what he was doing.
Fuck it. Mask off.
But for real I'm fucking pissed. I gotta be around these dipshit antimaskers now and they're just going to be loudly proclaiming how happy they are to be "free" now or whatever and I won't be able to tell them to go fuck themselves anymore.
You claim to oppose the government, yet believe when they tell you pandemic is over. Curious.
So democrats tell you pandemic is over and you believe them, huh?
Its partly because the Canadaina "trucker convoy" is winding down in Ottawa, there is already groups sending flyers and invites to be held in the US.
"We can't tow the trucks!"
Allow me to introduce my good friend, the skycrane.
If chuds can run over protestors with their trucks, can I run over the protest trucks with a tank?
Libs: "You have to lesser evil vote to keep the literal fascists out of office" :maybe-later-kiddo:
Also Libs: crumble like wet paper to small groups of psychotic anti-mask/vax/lockdown CHUDs
We don't have the people or even close to the kind of money they do. You can get some oil company in Texas to fund whatever deranged chud shit you can come up with but good things have to come from the people
We'll have ours when the conditions bring it up. In my city the BLM march in 2020 was many, many times the size of the local convoid rally this year, and far better organized.
Yeah they'd definitely send in the tanks while the hogs cheer on.
Truckers tend to be as far from leftist as possible.
Do you think Biden will send in the tanks if it’s from the left?
If you don't have like 80% of the populace's support, yes
Are you kidding? We do shit like that all the time it's just nobody talks about it because the cops come in, slaughter/arrest everyone and then nobody reports it.
It’s going to be amazing when libs start denying the next Covid wave is happening. Hospitals will be failing but barely reported on, and the statistics will be cooked so they’ll have an “objective” fact to point at. Believe. The. Science. Covid is over. You will be viewed as a conspiracy theorist if you suggest that the next wave is killing and disabling people.
Meanwhile Trump will run on both Biden “forcing everyone to wear a mask and lock down”, and Biden “killing many, many more people, despite having the vaccines I made”.
We will look back on this time as yet another, simpler, happier time on the path to a much darker future. :joker-gaming:
When the military can't keep up, there will be a draft for healthcare workers.
In communist countries, failures of the state are censored to give the appearance of competency
Fauci: US exiting 'full-blown' pandemic phase of coronavirus crisis
BTW I never got my Biden tests
More people died in January than in the Vietnam war and daily deaths are higher in February :yea:
