#global pandemic

[jabronibaloney]

I gotta say, the Titan submersible DID have several trips to the Titanic without imploding.

Now, using American pandemic logic, that means that the majority of trips were FINE and you have NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

So go ahead. Take a dive. Statistically you'll be safe. 🤷‍♀️ It's science.

[playingplayer2]

You know that audio that's all like "and remember kids, the next time somebody tells you, 'the government wouldn't do that.' oh yes they would."

Apply that to the idea of covid being "over."

Because it isn't. It never ended and it isn't mild. It's not a cold, it's not the flu. It fucks your immune system over permanently and that's just the tip of the fucking iceberg. Get your fucking heads out of the gods damned sand if you haven't already. Wear a fucking mask, don't go out if you're sick, and don't "work through it" that'll just fuck you up more.

[69constellationsinatrenchcoat]

"sick days taken have risen drastically in the last three years"

...okay... It's not like we had a global pandemic or anything where going out with even a sniffle is considered a crime

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

At-Large Marge. http://Newsday.com/matt :: Matt Davies

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The lesson of Covid

June 4, 2024

ROBERT B. HUBBELL

The United States suffered more deaths from Covid than any other nation in the world (1.13 million) and the highest death rate (341 per 100,000) of any large, high-income country. Those shocking facts suggest that a congressional inquiry is urgently needed to understand why the US fared so poorly compared to other industrialized nations.

On Monday, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing ostensibly designed to understand why the US response to Covid paled in comparison to the responses and outcomes by countries like the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Australia, Canada, and Netherlands.

You will not be surprised to learn that the hearing did not devote time to understanding what the US could do better in response to the next pandemic. Instead, Republicans converted the hearing into an evidence-free attack on Dr. Fauci’s selfless, expert guidance through a pandemic that killed approximately 1 out of every 300 Americans. See, e.g., Newsweek, Dr. Fauci Testifies: Unvaccinated Americans Caused Additional "200-300k Deaths".

Led by Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan, Republicans peddled baseless conspiracy theories that will kill tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans in the next pandemic—just as vaccine hesitancy and disinformation killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in the last epidemic.

Convicted Felon Donald Trump broke the Republican Party when he elevated loyalty to him above belief in the truth. The disgraceful conduct by Republicans in today’s Select Committee hearing is the direct product of Trump's assault on the truth.

A nation cannot govern itself if it creates policy and passes legislation based on fever dreams and mass delusion. Truth matters. Lies matter. That may be the most important lesson of the coronavirus pandemic. It came at a dear cost: The deaths of 1.1 million Americans. We should never forget that lesson or the losses suffered by tens of millions of family members—or we may be condemned to repeat the tragedy in the next pandemic.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[theaskew]

Los Angeles during the early days of the COVID lockdown.

Jonathan Ducrest (Swiss, b. 1976), Lockdown LA, 2020.

[mosscaller]

Existing feels like a chore. I feel this.

[flango87]

Please pay attention to h5n1 now. This is serious. CDC has proven they are not trustworthy. Prepare NOW to take care of yourself and your community.

[soft-bb-boy]

CDC kills

wear a mask, test often

we protect us

[orangechickenpillow]

Sitting in the dentist office and hearing people talk about this new fungus thing the same way they talked about Covid

[crazydiscostu]

What Was 'The Great Josh Fight'?

What started out as a potentially memey troll turned into an event that will live on in positive infamy for years to come....

Every so often the internet spits out an occurrence of unimaginable wholesomeness that reaffirms online humanity. What started out as a potentially memey troll turned into an event that will live on in positive infamy for years to come…. The Great Josh Fight of 2021 was an internet phenomenon that captivated the world in the midst of a global pandemic. What started as a simple online joke among…

[jabronibaloney]

And I have to add something that will piss a lot of people of, but many queer folks died after contracting HIV / AIDS. That much is commonly known.

I guess people just don't know what those are anymore. It is also called: human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Meaning that it wrecks their immune system. Leaving them immunocompromised.

And I see so many of the younger queer generations no longer masking, helping spread Covid everywhere, which will be another virus that most of the population doesn't care about, (just like they did with AIDS), but that survivors of AIDS will have to cautiously maneuver. This country can not take public health seriously. But you'd think the queers would. And you'd be wrong.

That is ANOTHER reason why you'll see less older queer people.

[playingplayer2]

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[jabronibaloney]

They kept doing it, but after 9/11 they can brag about it now openly thanks to the P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act that George W. Bush signed, and Obama, Trump, & Biden have kept in place.

Also, in the 60's there wasn't social media. That's a WHOLE OTHER can of worms that they can play with now.

Also, if you want any kind of cohesive unity at all, wear a fucking goddamn mask. Immunocompromised folks are people too. And should be part of our movements. Fuck the Survival of the Fittest mindset. And if your mask "smells like diapers", then Google mouthwash. It's a great invention.

They’ve Always Been Watching Us: From COINTELPRO and Martin Luther King, Jr to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

by Andy Warner and Jess Parker

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[tenth-sentence]

At that point, nobody in Bali was talking about a global pandemic.

"In/Out: A Scandalous Story of Falling Into Love and Out of the Church" - Steph Lentz

[learningfromlosing]

Remember being young and people talking about the future with things like utopias and flying cars and such advanced medical practices that we'd all start curing cancers and living way past our life expectancies and now we're headed straight for another dark age