Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[viper37]

Looks like the Covid-19 was from a lab theory is no longer confined to the crackpot fringe

the lab theory was always a possibility.  It's the "designed by humans" that was a crackpot theory.

it may not have been this virus as we discovered it that was leak, just another of these bat virus studied that got to a human, to an animal and back to a human.
It may even have been circulating in another form for a while longer.  It's not like the Chinese govt is heavy on transparency.

[mongers]

What sort of assumptions? I mean this is our first pandemic since the 1960s I think. It makes sense we would fuck it all up just from a lack of first hand experience, so it was always going to be based on possible false assumptions, whether racist or not.

I hope people pay close attention to the results of what our policies were because it seems likely we might get another at some point in the near future.

Yeah. My paternal great grandfather was a funeral director/coffin maker here in Reykjavík in 1918 when the Spanish Flu came. His pandemic really only lasted 6 weeks but every day was pure, concentrated hell while it lasted. On the other hand, business was really good.

Reading the digital versions of the local national papers from back then is kinda cool. They had the exact same debates as we about masks, social distancing and control measures. The expert in charge declared it preposterous to even try to keep influenza out, no country could do so in the long run, the landowning gentry running the local sýslur/counties outside of Reykjavík promptly declared him a criminally negligent, overeducated moron and imposed control measures banning travel between counties for example. Which worked splendidly, the Spanish Flu was contained within South Iceland.

Thanks for that Leggy, interesting history details. 

[Tamas]

If you don't want to get vaccinated but do yearn for foreign travel, I recommend you buy a ticket to a Euro 2020 match held in Budapest. By government decree, foreign citizens holding such tickets will get the same right to enter to the country as those with proofs of vaccination.

[Syt]

[Admiral Yi]

Can you make one that covers your nose and mouth?

[mongers]

Reports from Vietnam say they've detected a new easily transmissible variant there, that combines aspects of the 'Indian' and 'UK' variants.

Looks like the coronavirus is hoping to take it to a penalty shoot-out.

[Razgovory]

That's nauseating.

[Tamas]

Yes, on the other hand if somebody is THAT stupid and THAT much a moron, it is actually very nice of them to highlight it as such, so I know never to interact with them.

[Syt]

Goes well with this t-shirt, I guess.

[Maladict]

Vaccination pace has accelerated at an impressive rate, looks like I'll get my invitation this week 

[Razgovory]

Yes, on the other hand if somebody is THAT stupid and THAT much a moron, it is actually very nice of them to highlight it as such, so I know never to interact with them.

I am beginning to wonder if these are just bad people.  Ignorance is no dishonor, we are all ignorant.  Stupidity is not dishonorable either.  I get by okay, and many people who are stupid live rewarding lives.  When you put other people's lives at risk because you don't want to wear a mask or get a shot then there is something wrong with you.

[The Brain]

Yes, on the other hand if somebody is THAT stupid and THAT much a moron, it is actually very nice of them to highlight it as such, so I know never to interact with them.

I am beginning to wonder if these are just bad people.  Ignorance is no dishonor, we are all ignorant.  Stupidity is not dishonorable either.  I get by okay, and many people who are stupid live rewarding lives.  When you put other people's lives at risk because you don't want to wear a mask or get a shot then there is something wrong with you.

They certainly have different values from people like you or me, and that is the main problem.

[11B4V]

Yes, on the other hand if somebody is THAT stupid and THAT much a moron, it is actually very nice of them to highlight it as such, so I know never to interact with them.

I am beginning to wonder if these are just bad people.  Ignorance is no dishonor, we are all ignorant.  Stupidity is not dishonorable either.  I get by okay, and many people who are stupid live rewarding lives.  When you put other people's lives at risk because you don't want to wear a mask or get a shot then there is something wrong with you.

They are bad folks at their core.

[Eddie Teach]

Goes well with this t-shirt, I guess.

Does identify automatically mean the opposite now? This could easily be a pro-vax statement as well.

[Syt]

I see it as a dig against "I identify as [insert gender]."

My sisters have shared plenty of cringeworthy "I identify as (x) therefore I am (x)" (rich, skinny, a dog etc.) "memes".

That, and he calls it "lib repellent".