• Xenomork [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    For fucks sake. Every day is something new with covid. :sadness: how do you tell a generation that they were sacrificed for :stonks-up:

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Every day is something new with covid.

      I learned about the inner ear stuff just a dozen or so minutes before I posted about it. It's a never-ending horrorshow and the pandemic isn't even over yet. What new horrors will the following days, weeks, and months present? And god help us if there's a new variant that's immune to vaccines. Even if we were ready and there were billions in spending - we'd be fucked. Being that we aren't ready and funding has dried up - we would insanely beyond fucked up.

      how do you tell a generation that they were sacrificed for

      I'm sure some dem consultants will come up with a catchy messaging/propaganda messages. Probably stuff like "Long covid and other covid issues are a challenge but the democratic party has your back!" And - of course - to get that non-existent help from those empty promises - ya gotta vote blue no matter who!

      All of this makes me - cough, cough - sick.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          i think theyre just going to pretend its not happening

          My god - I think you're right and I was being faaaaaaaaaaar too optimistic.

          At a future press conference a few years from now a bold-faced name dem ghoul speaks on covid...

          "The data is inconclusive to this point. What is known for certain about long covid and other covid-related issues is in question. In the last few years there are apparently minor upticks in early-onset dementia. But the cause is unknown. We must avoid covid sensationalism. As I've said before - Twitter is not a scientist nor is it a doctor. The data is inconclusive. That's a fact. Now I'm going to talk about our brand new proposal that will help hard working Americans gain access to affordable healthcare..."

          Every single time a dem pol will say something like "in question" or "uptick" or "inconclusive" - I am going to want to scream.

    • buh [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQO3LlHKgUI

  • bort_simp_son [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    We let covid sweep through every kid in the country cus "they can handle it" and now half of them are going deaf.

    :doomjak:

    And the fed is slashing all anti-covid funding, and the press is demanding that money be used to nuke Russia. Cool. So cool. Sooooo cool.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I check covid twitter every day. And nearly every day I feel like a totally crazy person.

      I wonder what percentage of Americans know that covid infects the inner ear or the brain or can give you diabetes or the fact long covid is a total unknown. Is it 1 in 500? 1 in 1,000? Or is it even fewer? Far fewer?

      But there have been 1,000,000 articles about how closing schools hurts kids. And most people are over covid because America is monkey fucking see, monkey fucking do.