• NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net
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    WEARING A MASK IS LIKE WEARING A CONDOM.

    Would you risk a permanent disease for the sake of “ehh I dont like how it feels”?

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      “I can only breathe with a mask on my face when im hiding my identity to beat up on people of color!!! Any other time though, fuck off!!!”

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      “ehh I dont like how it feels”

      Considering how well preventable STI’s still get around, I’d say that sentiment is a little too common. That or a lot of people are hot garbage at risk assessment.

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        I think it’s people believing it won’t happen to them. There is risk, but I will be an exception.

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        People are, in fact, hot garbage at risk assessment. See, for example, how many people refused to mask/vax during the height of the pandemic, and the concurrent death rates…

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        I happen to know when my (now ex-) wife cheated on me, she raw dogged him… Never would have expected that from her, she’s such a germophobe otherwise…

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      I mean I would say its a heck of a lot easier. Having a condom all day would be kinda hard to deal with but wearing a mask is essentially the same as wearing a hat.

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    If this one doesn’t take out Trump, I’m eating a Chinese bat myself.

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    Can we stop talking about this? Covid has evolved to the point of the common cold. The fact that it is spreading so quickly means it is minor.

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      Very few people die from colds.

      A pandemic and works shut down and some people still don’t know the difference between a cold, the flu and covid and the risks for each. Especially for the very young, elderly or immune compromised.

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    I don’t know if I should upvote, like or downvote this news :D

    It’s good to spread important news, but it is a bad news, and a reminder of a failed containment, so how the some system is supposed to work!? Non-serious answers only

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      Downvote. Reasons:

      1. This is clearly fake news by the LAME STREAM fake news media to damage glorious leader the President’s fantastic work to MAGA.

      2. By allowing other users to see this news they start holding the concept of a new variant that is spreading fast in their head and therefore they manifest it. If enough people manifest it, it becomes true (even though it is clearly not, see above).

      3. Even though it is not real, COVID is also just a Chinese hoax that is just a flu so any reporting on it is spreading Chinese propaganda and therefore TREASON (and we downvote treason).

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        . By allowing other users to see this news they start holding the concept of a new variant that is spreading fast in their head and therefore they manifest it. If enough people manifest it, it becomes true (even though it is clearly not, see above).

        Are americans orks from 40k?

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          Naw Americans are the Imperium of Man. ie: hates anyone that is different, destroys everything it can’t control, highly xenophobic (racist), and filled with more propaganda than Nazi Germany. and as of the past decade… most worship their emperor (Trump) as God.

          Now Indians (India not Native Americans) and any country third world country… they are Space Orks. they can cobble together random trash and seemingly broken bits of technology to make cheap but useful stuff for their communities. while Americans (IoM) toss out old and broken tech… they take that broken/old tech and make computers and solar powered devices that look like they shouldn’t work but somehow magically do.

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    Alright if we get remote jobs again this time agree to absolutely not let this one go.

    They listed jobs as remote before forcing us to come anyway last time and they will try again.

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      They’ve told us we can’t work from home. So that’s what I’m going to say. If they try to fire me I’ll use their own words against them.

      We have stronger employment law where I live.

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    So, this will be extra, extra bad if we have another covid-like event in the USA. People are already divided, things are rough otherwise, and lockdowns will not work under this administration. It would be total fucking chaos

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    I wish there was a map by county or something. Some states are just too large that it would be great to be able to see hotspots in particular.

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    I recently got hit with COVID and so did my wife and kids. We all tested positive and have had recent boosters for COVID and flu. Since I’m in a city where one of these states is listed, I kind of wonder if I got this variant.