Covid-19 Politics

[filghy2]

I'm done talking about this virus. I feel like ass, no energy, headache, sore arm, the vaccine really did a number on me, and now I'm all slept out and I'm just going to have to stay awake and suffer. My body is asking me why I would do something like this to it. "Have I not kept you safe and healthy all these years? Why, Nick? It feels like a betrayal. I want a divorce!"

So much for your superhuman immunity to everything. I suppose I should not indulge in schadenfreude, but it is kind of hilarious that you whine so much about your own discomforts when you have been so dismissive of other peoples' suffering.

[broncofan]

So much for your superhuman immunity to everything. I suppose I should not indulge in schadenfreude, but it is kind of hilarious that you whine so much about your own discomforts when you have been so dismissive of other peoples' suffering.

The pandemic has sort of fixed for me the notion that seeing really despicable people suffer could do anything for me. I don't say this as a sanctimonious sort of the thing because I expected the afterglow of crackpot antivaxx radio hosts dying to last longer. It barely even registers and the fact is I know they went through some kind of personal hell. Four weeks in the hospital with a respiratory virus must be brutal. You could describe for them in advance how much that must suck and how you have no control over whether it happens once you're infected......they don't fucking get it.

[filghy2]

To be frank, I can't feel too much sympathy for people who have been indifferent to the health of others and have chosen to ignore scientific evidence. There is poetic justice to it: hubris leads to nemesis.

I guess ideally I would kind of like them to get just sick enough to learn a lesson. For some folks, unfortunately, the only way they can learn is through hard experience. I'm not sure whether Trump learnt a lesson, but he has at least been sensible on vaccines.

[Nick Danger]

I recall being quite indifferent to the suffering of others at the cost of economic stability. But I don’t recall taking any pleasure in it. Oh well, one more difference in the liberal mind and the conservative mind I guess.

[filghy2]

[Stavros]

Wilkommen in Deutschland -Geimpft oder Genesen? Mit weder, bye-bye!

[broncofan]

I recall being quite indifferent to the suffering of others at the cost of economic stability. But I don’t recall taking any pleasure in it. Oh well, one more difference in the liberal mind and the conservative mind I guess.

I've found I don't take pleasure in it and I don't feel sorrowful.

My reaction is similar to when I watched one of the guys from the Jackass movies ask Butterbean to punch him in the head. Then it happens. The utter lack of suspense, the inevitability of cause and effect being linked up, and the stupidity of the person ignoring both cause bewilderment and irritation.

[Nick Danger]

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to talk about Covid anymore. But then I found out about COVID DICK!!!!!

https://nypost.com/2022/01/13/man-cl...racting-covid/

[Stavros]

Nah, he is dyslexic, as in Honey I shrunk the Kids

[filghy2]

Interesting stat - 85% of all Covid cases recorded in Australia so far have occurred in the past 4 weeks.
https://www.worldometers.info/corona...try/australia/
The real figure is certainly even higher because testing capacity has been overwhelmed and people are now being told to get a PCR test only if they have symptoms or a positive rapid antigen test. The problem is that RATs are in very short supply (and increasingly expensive). Apparently it never occurred to anyone that removing most restrictions at the same time omicron emerged would lead to a huge upsurge in cases.