Coronavirus: Better Call Sol - CORONAMANIA (10 Viewers)

[dudley]

I think people also just don't *care* anymore. We went camping last week, and I booked us an outdoor table for dinner. Arrived and the restaurant tried to put us inside, "Sure it's a grand big table". We refused, but 3 of the other families we were with went on in.

I keep saying that we've largely been a victim of our own success. We did so well at locking down and crushing cases that a huge number of people have avoided being personally and traumatically effected by it, and it's become a less tangible and frightening thing, nonchalance creeps in.

It baffles me though that the UK just don't seem to care, when so many people there did have close tragedy and illness in their families from it.

 

[rettucs]

I think people also just don't *care* anymore. We went camping last week, and I booked us an outdoor table for dinner. Arrived and the restaurant tried to put us inside, "Sure it's a grand big table". We refused, but 3 of the other families we were with went on in.

I keep saying that we've largely been a victim of our own success. We did so well at locking down and crushing cases that a huge number of people have avoided being personally and traumatically effected by it, and it's become a less tangible and frightening thing, nonchalance creeps in.

It baffles me though that the UK just don't seem to care, when so many people there did have close tragedy and illness in their families from it.

the people who are unvaccinated largely never cared, and shur why would they start now when they were the ones repeatedly being told they're not the ones in any danger from it.

In a way I don't blame them. The messaging has always been fucked.

 

[Cormcolash]

Dunno, but read that they're currently maxing out on their 20,000 per day now and will expand it to 30,000.

So, a little bit less than Denmark's 500000 per day then

 

[ann post]

I was only a few weeks ago nphet said we cant open fuck all because variants and the govt ploughed on telling them they were mad.
On messaging - I think micheal martin is nearly impossible to listen to, but leo fucking around undermining him the whole time is no help. I'd agree the communication has fallen to shit. Also those anti vaxx guys are piling on posts in a 77th style way on twitter throwing all kinds of bullshit around the place. Useless fucks.

We are at the same number of cases and averages now as we were on dec 24th before it went off the scale- obvs I hope this is where we see vaccination kick in -

we hit this number twice before

april 2020 - we went into megalockdown around then and the death rates peaked.
december 14th 2020 - the death and case rates went to their highest level ever.

Hopefully with vaccines catching up with the cases space we are in now we wont see that pattern repeat.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The point of lockdowns is so the health system can cope, right? Maybe they were once to try and crush the disease but we never actually got round to squaring the circle of having to deal with different laws in place on the same island.

Simply put: half a million people with long-COVID but no need for hospitalisation is perfectly acceptable under those terms.

 

[Cormcolash]

Article on the BBC today says that around 40% of 'younger' people (19-49 basically) that get hospitalised from Covid suffer a long term complication of it.

Covid: Younger adults still at risk of serious organ damage - study

Adults below the age of 50 are almost as likely to suffer from medical complications as the over-50s.

www.bbc.com

 

[snakybus]

Fuck. I'm 48. Bring on my birthday!

All of my friends* have it at this stage.

*Non-internet/real life variety. Of which I have none.

 

[Unicron]

It baffles me though that the UK just don't seem to care, when so many people there did have close tragedy and illness in their families from it.

The country that elected the "be selfish pricks and fuck everyone else" party for the majority of our lifetimes having an attitude of be selfish pricks and fuck everyone else?

 

[ann post]

The country that elected the "be selfish pricks and fuck everyone else" party for the majority of our lifetimes having an attitude of be selfish pricks and fuck everyone else?

The life long ww2 propaganda machine also lines up brits to only be true brits if they die or suffer a fair bit.

 

[Unicron]

Just got the text for my second dose. Monday afternoon

 

[pete]

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[snakybus]

Fuck. I'm 48. Bring on my birthday!

All of my friends* have it at this stage.

*Non-internet/real life variety. Of which I have none.

This was a joke, by the way. But thanks for all the hearts, fwends.

 

[pete]

Worth remembering as the (western) world “gets back to normal”

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[Lili Marlene]

He's totally correct but it's also worth bearing in mind that 10% of the WHO's funding comes directly from the Gates foundation and they are not interested in creating a fair and equitable world, Bill Gates personally preventing the Oxford vaccine from being made available for free

The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism

As many countries wait for Covid vaccines, the world needs a patent-free “People’s Vaccine”—not more of Gates’ intellectual property stubbornness.

www.wired.com

It's a pickle of a situation.

 

[taubstumm]

He's totally correct but it's also worth bearing in mind that 10% of the WHO's funding comes directly from the Gates foundation and they are not interested in creating a fair and equitable world, Bill Gates personally preventing the Oxford vaccine from being made available for free

The World Loses Under Bill Gates’ Vaccine Colonialism

As many countries wait for Covid vaccines, the world needs a patent-free “People’s Vaccine”—not more of Gates’ intellectual property stubbornness.

www.wired.com

It's a pickle of a situation.

the conspiratorial hot-take:

there are sudden protests in cuba, out of nowhere. protests don’t just dramatically happen there out of nowhere. the yanks are stirring the shit.

but why now? might it be that they are happening now in order to cause friction for the cuban vaccine roll-out? (scheduled to start next month within cuba, with their own home-produced shot, then planning to start sending shots abroad before the end of the year). is the real intention here is to cause trouble for the cuban vaccine because it represents a real threat to the pharma behemoths? it sounds absurd to say it, but then when you look at the completely bonkers stuff that the CIA have tried to do in cuba, it also seems weirdly plausible. the cuban vaccine is an amazing achievement, and explicitly a socialist one. you can be sure that the americans are desperately trying to figure out ways to ruin the party.

ok, taking tin-foil hat back off now

 

[David Kronenbourg]

celebrating freedom day by protesting the thing that's been granted to you

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[Unicron]

celebrating freedom day by protesting the thing that's been granted to you

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Are these people anti-lockdowners or people who are protesting because this is a really bad idea?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Are these people anti-lockdowners or people who are protesting because this is a really bad idea?

I'm guessing anti-lockdowners from the placards and number of bald white men but I don't think they know either.

 

[seanc]

celebrating freedom day by protesting the thing that's been granted to you

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The right to protest is what makes Britain English!

But Britain isn't English and what are you protesting exactly?

Immigrants and that. And Corbyn. And the football.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The right to protest is what makes Britain English!

But Britain isn't English and what are you protesting exactly?

Immigrants and that. And Corbyn. And the football.

general sort of my life is miserable but I'm too thick to work out that it's the corrupt political system and capitalism making it miserable protest