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Coronavirus Thread IV: Legends, Laments and Lockdowns

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Have you or anyone in your vincinity been affected by COVID-19?

I don't know anyone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19
300
44%
I know someone was diagnosed with COVID-19
159
23%
Someone very close to me was diagnosed with COVID-19
42
6%
I know someone who was hospitalized with COVID-19
62
9%
Someone very close to me was hospitalized with COVID-19
30
4%
I was diagnosed with COVID-19
23
3%
I was hospitalized with COVID-19
9
1%
I don't know/unsure/other
57
8%
 
Total votes : 682

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Postby Rojava Free State » Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:02 pm

Greed and Death wrote:So my son has it as does his mother and grandmother.

Luckily it appears mild.


You have a son?
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Postby Organized States » Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:09 pm

Greed and Death wrote:So my son has it as does his mother and grandmother.

Luckily it appears mild.

As someone who has had it (never diagnosed, but I've met all the symptoms and I'll be getting an antibody test later to confirm), lots of fluids definitely helped me to minimize the worst of it. Highly recommend a pedialyte or gatorade solution.
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Postby San Lumen » Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:12 pm

Rusozak wrote:
San Lumen wrote:I don't think you and others realize the dangerous door your opening here.


What exactly is the danger if it's limited to deadly contagions?

Your therefore perfectly fine with the government and any business having full access to your medical records?

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Postby Greed and Death » Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:14 pm

Rojava Free State wrote:
Greed and Death wrote:So my son has it as does his mother and grandmother.

Luckily it appears mild.


You have a son?

Yes and he is biracial at that.
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Postby Rusozak » Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:16 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Rusozak wrote:
What exactly is the danger if it's limited to deadly contagions?

Your therefore perfectly fine with the government and any business having full access to your medical records?


You don't think they already do?
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San Lumen
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Postby San Lumen » Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:24 pm

Rusozak wrote:
San Lumen wrote:Your therefore perfectly fine with the government and any business having full access to your medical records?


You don't think they already do?

They don’t nor should they
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Postby Australian rePublic » Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:23 pm

Greed and Death wrote:So my son has it as does his mother and grandmother.

Luckily it appears mild.

I wish them a speedy recovery
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Postby Australian rePublic » Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:30 pm

Scott Morrison was at the football last night. Whilst it is perfectly legal to go to the football in NSW, it's really not a good look, considering that all of Melbourne is under lockdown. The bloke needs a new PR manager. But at least he didn't go to Hawaii this time
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Postby Kowani » Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:41 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Rusozak wrote:
You don't think they already do?

They don’t nor should they

…Why not?
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Postby Thepeopl » Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:53 am

Kowani wrote:
San Lumen wrote:They don’t nor should they

…Why not?

If you have a benign government, it would not be as bad. Sadly I know not one benign government with only integer employees.
You do not want them have access to your medical records. You'll be excluded from a government function if you ever suffered from a mental condition.
If you have beef with a non integer government employee, your history of abortion/ soa/ your children's broken bones etc might appear on the internet.
And trust me, I have 4 children and I have seen the er with 3 of them multiple times. With sprains, greenstick fracture, broken bones. I myself was starting to wonder whether we parents were being abusive...(and the answer is:no, they were just being boisterous children)
You will not be accepted by any business/ government to work if you have a "condition" with which you might have to be absent from work.
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Postby Australian rePublic » Sun Jul 12, 2020 1:02 am

Thepeopl wrote:
Kowani wrote:…Why not?

If you have a benign government, it would not be as bad. Sadly I know not one benign government with only integer employees.
You do not want them have access to your medical records. You'll be excluded from a government function if you ever suffered from a mental condition.
If you have beef with a non integer government employee, your history of abortion/ soa/ your children's broken bones etc might appear on the internet.
And trust me, I have 4 children and I have seen the er with 3 of them multiple times. With sprains, greenstick fracture, broken bones. I myself was starting to wonder whether we parents were being abusive...(and the answer is:no, they were just being boisterous children)
You will not be accepted by any business/ government to work if you have a "condition" with which you might have to be absent from work.
If there isn't a good, secure social security, you don't want to "not work" especially if you are renting from terrible landlords who'll evict you for any excuse so they don't have to renovate their property.

Also, people are dumb. Businesses will deny you enterance to people who have had and possibly recovered from illnesses, because people are dumb. Imagine if you had Covid 3 months ago, and businesses use that to interpret that you have Covid now
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Postby Kanadorika » Sun Jul 12, 2020 1:07 am

If anything has convinced me that the time to jump ship on the US and moved to a developed country, it's Covid.

Absolutely embarrassing honestly. The US really seems to have little saving grace and butchers everything it does. And the citizens don't care. Everything is about OWNING THE LIBS. .

It's all so tiring
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Postby Organized States » Sun Jul 12, 2020 2:18 am

Kanadorika wrote:If anything has convinced me that the time to jump ship on the US and moved to a developed country, it's Covid.

Absolutely embarrassing honestly. The US really seems to have little saving grace and butchers everything it does. And the citizens don't care. Everything is about OWNING THE LIBS. .

It's all so tiring

Just remember that we won’t get any better if people don’t stay and fight for the future of the United States. As a servant of the Constitution, the ideas are worth it. The execution is less than perfect.

The majority of people aren’t the culture warrior blowhards who’ve turned a disease into a political issue.
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Postby Nobel Hobos 2 » Sun Jul 12, 2020 3:48 am

Organized States wrote:The majority of people aren’t the culture warrior blowhards who’ve turned a disease into a political issue.


When there is a vaccine:
Businesses should be allowed to refuse service to people who haven't had the vaccine.

Yes or No?

Or would you rather "that sounds political I'm going to take a pass" ..?
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Postby Knask » Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:44 am

Kanadorika wrote:If anything has convinced me that the time to jump ship on the US and moved to a developed country, it's Covid.

Absolutely embarrassing honestly. The US really seems to have little saving grace and butchers everything it does. And the citizens don't care. Everything is about OWNING THE LIBS. .

It's all so tiring

Let me illustrate your point and make you even more depressed:

Question: Should schools reopen?
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX): The good news is if you look again at the numbers, no one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus. We still don't know whether children can get it and transmit it to others.

Media: According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, more than 1,700 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in people ages 0-19 statewide.

Sen. Cornyn: I was referring to young children in his comment, not teenagers and young adults who are included in the state’s data on cases in the under 20 age range.

Media: More than 500 of those patients are under the age of 10.

Sen Cornyn: I have not seen that data. But I meant there has been no deaths in the under 20 age range specific to Texas.

Media: In late April, a 17-year-old Lancaster girl died of COVID-19.

Sen Cornyn: Well this was all an honest misunderstanding.

Media: But does it change your position? Hello? Hello? Is anyone there?

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Postby Knask » Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:49 am

If you have a Twitter account and want to save lives in the US, tweet at the President that he looks more manly than Obama when he's wearing a facemask.

I am not kidding. This is a serious post. You need to flatter him and stroke his ego as if lives depend on it, because they do. The only way he will pay attention is if you make it about him, and make him look good.

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Postby Post War America » Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:16 am

Kanadorika wrote:If anything has convinced me that the time to jump ship on the US and moved to a developed country, it's Covid.

Absolutely embarrassing honestly. The US really seems to have little saving grace and butchers everything it does. And the citizens don't care. Everything is about OWNING THE LIBS. .

It's all so tiring


Good luck, if you think US immigration laws are odious and hard to follow, prety much any other country's is going to be worse.

Sauce: I'm somebody who regularly had to deal with immigration laws, and I had a hard time, even with a desirable skill.
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Postby Rojava Free State » Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:35 am

Greed and Death wrote:
Rojava Free State wrote:
You have a son?

Yes and he is biracial at that.


White and East Asian I assume, since you were in South Korea for a while.
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.

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Postby Rojava Free State » Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:36 am

Post War America wrote:
Kanadorika wrote:If anything has convinced me that the time to jump ship on the US and moved to a developed country, it's Covid.

Absolutely embarrassing honestly. The US really seems to have little saving grace and butchers everything it does. And the citizens don't care. Everything is about OWNING THE LIBS. .

It's all so tiring


Good luck, if you think US immigration laws are odious and hard to follow, prety much any other country's is going to be worse.

Sauce: I'm somebody who regularly had to deal with immigration laws, and I had a hard time, even with a desirable skill.


My dad was like "fuck America, I wanna leave," but then he looked up Switzerland's immigration laws and he said "oh. Oh no."
Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.

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Postby The Alma Mater » Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:51 am

Knask wrote:If you have a Twitter account and want to save lives in the US, tweet at the President that he looks more manly than Obama when he's wearing a facemask.

I am not kidding. This is a serious post. You need to flatter him and stroke his ego as if lives depend on it, because they do. The only way he will pay attention is if you make it about him, and make him look good.

Considering his facemask is truly awesome that is not even that big a lie...
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Postby Gormwood » Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:52 am

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Postby Rojava Free State » Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:20 am



Considering the state of not only healthcare but physical health in general down south, this virus is hell for them and not something they should be taking so lightly.

Covid parties are one of the worst things to come out of America since mumble rap.
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Rojava Free State wrote:Listen yall. I'm only gonna say it once but I want you to remember it. This ain't a world fit for good men. It seems like you gotta be monstrous just to make it. Gotta have a little bit of darkness within you just to survive. You gotta stoop low everyday it seems like. Stoop all the way down to the devil in these times. And then one day you look in the mirror and you realize that you ain't you anymore. You're just another monster, and thanks to your actions, someone else will eventually become as warped and twisted as you. Never forget that the best of us are just the best of a bad lot. Being at the top of a pile of feces doesn't make you anything but shit like the rest. Never forget that.

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Postby Kannap » Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:28 am

San Lumen wrote:
Rusozak wrote:
What exactly is the danger if it's limited to deadly contagions?

Your therefore perfectly fine with the government and any business having full access to your medical records?


They probably already do, I'm hard pressed to imagine a single corporation or our government that doesn't know literally nearly everything about me.
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Postby Juristonia » Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:32 am

Post War America wrote:
Kanadorika wrote:If anything has convinced me that the time to jump ship on the US and moved to a developed country, it's Covid.

Absolutely embarrassing honestly. The US really seems to have little saving grace and butchers everything it does. And the citizens don't care. Everything is about OWNING THE LIBS. .

It's all so tiring


Good luck, if you think US immigration laws are odious and hard to follow, prety much any other country's is going to be worse.

Sauce: I'm somebody who regularly had to deal with immigration laws, and I had a hard time, even with a desirable skill.

As someone who actually moved to the states before, I'm gonna have to disagree.
America has some of the strictest, most complicated immigration laws on the planet.
Especially in the "west" I'm pretty sure only Australia is worse.
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Postby Unstoppable Empire of Doom » Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:01 am

https://www.live5news.com/2020/07/12/i- ... vid-party/

Yep.... covid parties are a thing. Seriously though how dumb do you have to be?
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