1000s of people, hundreds of screaming children all touching each other, and disdain for ppl who do wear it. Starting to become jokerfied asf tbh

  • late90smullbowl [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    hmm it definitely seems normal to say “things are going in a positive direction BUT we are ACTUALLY doomed”

    Said nothing like that. Fuck dooming. We are (or should be) in a place of pragmatism. Faux positivity & hoping things would just work out failed. There are clear and obvious successful national models. They should be followed at all costs, as they have in Vietnam, S Korea, China, NZ, Aus.

      • late90smullbowl [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        It's absolutely still possible to implement the zero covid, track and trace strategies, at any time. It just takes political will and a month of hard lockdown, like those countries. Stop dooming :hahaha:

        There are many examples globally of draconian national anti-pathogen measures, often for agricultural pathogens, that were introduced temporarily in the past, with police and military enforcement and zero protest from populations. It just takes political for enforcement which evaporated when the rich realized that they probably wouldn't die from this, it would be mostly the poor.

        The point of this thread was that the practical result appears to be 50% of the population staying at home, talking about the next vaccine for the next variant, and 50% out living their lives, not giving a fuck, breeding the next variant. I'm starting to wonder why I'm in the former.

          • late90smullbowl [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            No comrade, I was being polite and careful with my language, you came in hot with your post. If you can't take the heat...

            We can still be constructive about this. The issue, following from the OP, is that at the very least the optics of half the population living as usual and breeding more virulent variants through their behaviours is unsustainable. The situation is getting worse and vaccines are not a panacea at all, realism is needed.

            Here's the latest:

            https://hexbear.net/post/84121/comment/912113

              • late90smullbowl [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                Lmao fuck off and do some shit irl

                This is the point of the thread. We are locked down and can do nothing IRL. Bye.

                • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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                  4 years ago

                  You can do anything IRL that doesn't involve being inside* around several** other people for more than 15 minutes*** at a time.

                  * Assuming unventilated. ** Depending on distance and whether they're masked. *** Depending on whether they're masked and whether they're talking.