Coronavirus: Better Call Sol - CORONAMANIA (2 Viewers)

[sleepy]

Who do they contact trace these days?

Anyone considered a close contact. The HSE ask people for a list of close contacts from the previous week if they test positive but close contacts don’t have to get tested if they’ve been vaccinated. They only have to get tested if they’re showing symptoms.

 

[sleepy]

Tickets = contact tracing. It’s easy enough to set up an online ticket sale system for yourself

And it might cut out the massive queues

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Anyone considered a close contact. The HSE ask people for a list of close contacts from the previous week if they test positive but close contacts don’t have to get tested if they’ve been vaccinated. They only have to get tested if they’re showing symptoms.

I was under the impression ( admittedly from not paying a whole lot of attention) that there was no consistency as to what a close contact was. Eg,not if you're in a school setting.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

And it might cut out the massive queues

And as has been the case all along,the advice often ignored the reality. ( See photographs of ridiculous queues floating around these days)

 

[dudley]

There were only about 12 ICU beds available a few days ago iirc

No children's ICU beds at all.
Think it was early last week ED's reported they were already overrun and for the first time had children sleeping on trolleys in corridors. That's shameful.

 

[Cormcolash]

How is everywhere getting tickets printed so quick?

Are the just using a book of raffle tickets or something?

Digital tickets entirely. So if you don't have a smart phone, well hey, go fuck yourself!!

 

[Cormcolash]

I dunno. I must be institutionalized or something, there's been a local down the road from me open for months, and I've never set foot in the place. Even signing something in a bank made me a bit leery. The idea of going into a nightclub feels mad.

Not just you. I'll be back in work tomorrow taking stuff in and out of this club and kind of somehow trying to avoid actually being in there haha. Mask all the way.

 

[Cormcolash]

And it might cut out the massive queues

Haha hardly, when you have to show both ticket and proof of vaccination at the door, that'll be slower than before so bigger queues if anything

 

[Cormcolash]

It'll be interesting/hilarious to see how the 'close contacts' system works when dealing with a case where someone tested positive after being in a sweaty club with 1000 other people a couple of nights beforehand.

 

[pete]

oh look it's covid the movie trailer, from 2011

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[Unicron]

Digital tickets entirely. So if you don't have a smart phone, well hey, go fuck yourself!!

Who is going to A nightclub who doesn't have one?

 

[Cormcolash]

Who is going to A nightclub who doesn't have one?

Nobody, cause they can't get in!!

 

[Unicron]

Nobody, cause they can't get in!!

You know what I mean. Kids today with their smartphones and PlayStations and no gender.

 

[sleepy]

The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies

Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic? By Eva Wiseman

www.theguardian.com

Interesting read

 

[flashback]

The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies

Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic? By Eva Wiseman

www.theguardian.com

Interesting read

religion == ideas without evidence you'd like to believe in because that's what your parents believed in and it gives you comfort and familiarity.
spirituality == ideas without evidence you'd like to believe in if you've found religion too repellent to come to terms with.
conspiracy theories == ideas without evidence you'd like to believe in if you're a tiny bit more edgy than your peers.
organic food == food without the bad chemicals.
Genetic engineering == bad DNA.

 

[nuke terrorist]

religion == ideas without evidence you'd like to believe in because that's what your parents believed in and it gives you comfort and familiarity.
spirituality == ideas without evidence you'd like to believe in if you've found religion too repellent to come to terms with.
conspiracy theories == ideas without evidence you'd like to believe in if you're a tiny bit more edgy than your peers.
organic food == food without the bad chemicals.
Genetic engineering == bad DNA.

I know a few people involved in organic farming who won't get vaccinated.
I keep wanting to crack jokes about them agreeing with Donald Trump

 

[Cormcolash]

Work in a club last night was gross

 

[sleepy]

I know a few people involved in organic farming who won't get vaccinated.
I keep wanting to crack jokes about them agreeing with Donald Trump

Those jokes would be funny cos they’re true

 

[Lili Marlene]

The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies

Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic? By Eva Wiseman

www.theguardian.com

Interesting read

This would probably fall under that Cosmic Right idea I was trying to get at in the other thread. Conspirituality is a good phrase, ha!

 

[magicbastarder]

an interesting read given the 'being vaccinated makes little difference to how much you can spread covid' narrative i've seen repeated on twitter.

How much less likely are you to spread covid-19 if you're vaccinated?

Vaccination still greatly reduces the risk of infecting others despite the arrival of the delta variant, recent studies show

www.newscientist.com