https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1504254775575076868
In case it's not obvious: SK has a population of 52M. If that proportion of infections/cases carries over to the US, then it would be higher than any of our peaks so far. Having that many people sick (1.2% of 350M) at once would be a disaster. Even the line cult should be afraid. Imagine if 3M people didn't show up for work one day. Or they had to take 5 days off. Other countries are going to do the right thing and close down again. There goes the supply chain stuff again. No one in the US is going to want to stop it because even the Dems want covid to be over. That means it's going to run through us without any problems. Even if 1% of the infections result in hospitalization, all ICUs will be taken up.
Enjoy whatever we have now while you can. Go out, have your bit of post-covid fun. But get your boosters if you haven't and start preparing for a repeat of 2020.
There will be no new shutdown or restrictions. This is the "new normal". Death is normalized and acceptable loss. The treats must flow
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distribute p100s to all leftists
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wait for everyone else to die
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???
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revolution
considering how leftists are like less than 1% of the population, that would be absolutely horrifying even if all the leftists come out unscathed
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They'll die of Excess Mortality. There's a lot of that going around nowadays but it's NOT COVID because COVID is over! The pandemic is done!
The only way that will happen is if it speeds through the suburbs in a way that shatters the people who think it’s a hoax in a tangible way. And even then they will probably just say fuck it acceptable losses as their children die.
Democrats are scared that they will have to keep giving poor people free healthcare.
If they get their way there’ll be no more healthcare to provide. Can’t run a hospital with no workers
This is America, it's never not been that way. COVID-19 just makes it look dumber and way more obvious.
Covid is the biggest example of all anti-China propaganda just being flat-out wrong, because if people actually wanted to "beat China" they would have done the same thing and locked everything down
Covid convinced me that China is the only country on Earth that withstand the climate collapse.
Yeah I've already half way made up my mind about moving there at some point in the mid-term future.
How welcoming are they to random European techbros? I'd be of course willing to learn the language and everything else that's needed.
Wish China would set up a program to accept Western refugees. Please Xi save us
Our testing capacity was dog shit even at the height of omicron. After 2 years we still had an abysmally low daily testing capacity. This fake country didn't even try.
The dem is fucking crazy since this shite affect workers the most, and workers are working on the supply chain. A bunch of them die off is going to stop the treat.
Biden to send the national guard to Applebees locations across the country to cook Americans the jalapeño poppers that they so desperately need, all after the COVID culling of Applebees workers
I mean that's really the only way things can stay sane in the west isn't it, not direct provisioning of healthy groceries like they did in Vietnam, but direct Defence Production Act planning of mid level chain restaurants and soda.
It is astonishing to me so many of my friends complained during lockdowns that they didn't know how to cook and that ordering takeout/delivery was too expensive.
Cooking saves bucks and it is just a good lifeskill to have.
A significant part of the population literally not knowing how to cook has to be one of the clearest indicators of a complete lack of culture. In decent society you grow up making tasty treats with your grandparents. :tofu-cool:
Too many boomers and even Gen-Xers moved away from their families to take high-paying jobs and now have no family nearby.
Back even in the mid Gen-X days (1992-1998) companies were paying mid-tier workers packing/moving costs to move cross-country.
Deindustrialization of vast areas of the US depopulated farm/factory towns as automation sometimes eliminated 80% or more of workforces. Internal migration in the US peaked in 2000. Which is the last period of economic growth in the US that grew the middle class until covid hit and workers had more bargaining power.
There is nothing like the net migration out of the Rust Belt in the late 1990's happening today in the US. Some towns went from four high schools to one in less than 10 years.
All of that as well, however, the relocation bonozana during the 1980's and 1990's happened just before digital technology and remote work/collaboration took hold. It isn't something that will happen again but it had a profound effect on some towns.
Positions like phone tech support were paying moving costs for 100's of employees at a time. Gigs now that are contract with little to no benefits.
Boomers and gen x hated their parents and learned nothing from them
My wife barely knew how to cook because her boomer mom didn’t want the kids to make the kitchen dirty.
I can’t wait for National guardsman to serve veterans on Veterans Day and the ensuing recursion of TYFYS destroys reality.
how many years until we make that metaphor literal? I wouldn't put it past the USA to somehow run out of corn.
growers "ate" (sold) the seed corn a while ago. it's all patented and licensed F1 hybrids with seed coming from tightly controlled corporate biotech propagation farms. a light, fun read: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2659.htm
It's like we're in a DnD session where China is the first to spot a trap and navigates it successfully against all odds. It then turns to all the other party members and gives them extremely precise instructions and tosses them a rope, only for the rest of the party to go "lol no" and leap into the pit trap.
This is just the DM giving up and cleaning the board.
:i-told-you-dog: Death to every country that doesn't adopt Zero Covid policies (IE: almost all of them).
China is popping off too :sadness-abysmal: Looks like no one can escape "stealth" omicron
Cut off the circulation of the virus while it still low. Pretty much should be in every country playbook at this point, well except for libs country of course
I keep seeing how mad more right wing media is at China's policy of covid zero. You keep seeing that it's the wrong thing to do, apparently, to value human life over economic production. Stay mad, western media commetariat I guess, there are still places where the long tendrils of capitalism haven't totally mind wiped the leadership.
It’s kind of fuck at the economic angle too if you lets Covid run wild. Like if you lets a tons of peoples sick and dead, there’s no one left to keep the economy from running, unless those mid level management go down there and do the hard work, which I highly doubt it.
Yea, one of the fucking mayor fucking thing up, so they have to go to lock down. Their number now at least reduce, would successfully pass this wave in 3 weeks I predict.
From August 2021 to December 2021, Forida had a death rate 3 times higher than NY, and with recent policies the Democrats basically turned the whole country into Florida. Good luck everyone.
US is too spread out and too death culted to do anything. Half the country feels vindicated for calling it a hoax over the thing about homemade masks being worthless as well as them moving the goalposts to deaths instead of infections since they are convinced COVID is a cold. On top of that the elites got everyone to believe inflation was being caused by the fucking 2K of checks being sent out so that lockdown will never happen again.
We are never going back into lockdown, I feel so sorry for anyone who’s immunocompromised.
Look forward to more laws forcing healthcare workers to stay at their jobs
This time around, you're going to have to prove that you spent at least $200/month at local restaurants or face a fine.
It's sad because the checks/pua were likely the drivers of the real economy. Gonna be interesting to see how bad it all gets next time we peak
They literally confirmed this with the spike in sales shortly after they went out and the drip during Christmas.
I am terrified next time we peak. It might be the final death blow for a lot of school districts that are already dying.
In comparison, their 7 day rolling average relative to population is almost triple what the US's was at the peak of omicron, and that's before todays numbers go in
the data for the march 16th should go in 2 or 3 hours after I post this comment
