Coronavirus Thread V: A Shot in the Arm (READ OP)

[Greed and Death]

It sure seems that way. My governor has starting getting mad at reporters who question him.

Is your governor Andrew Cuomo, by any chance? Because he had a testy exchange with reporters recently. Wait, aren't you Canadian? You have premiers, not governors, right? (Except the Governor-General, obviously.)

Meanwhile, the Governor of Jakarta has tested positive for coronavirus

He went full Sicilian

[The Huskar Social Union]

People like this spastic are why we are still dealing with this shit

[Adamede]

People like this spastic are why we are still dealing with this shit

Maybe the gene pool needs to be cleansed. I partway to saying we should just refuse medical services to anyone who doesn’t follow basic guidelines such as a wearing a mask or social distancing.

Be a dumbass, fine, but reap what you sow.

[Rusozak]

People like this spastic are why we are still dealing with this shit

Maybe the gene pool needs to be cleansed. I partway to saying we should just refuse medical services to anyone who doesn’t follow basic guidelines such as a wearing a mask or social distancing.

Be a dumbass, fine, but reap what you sow.

Or just remove them from society. Dump them on an island somewhere they can't hurt anyone or escape back to civilization. Let them live out their dangerous lives away from people they can hurt. Problem solved.

[San Lumen]

Maybe the gene pool needs to be cleansed. I partway to saying we should just refuse medical services to anyone who doesn’t follow basic guidelines such as a wearing a mask or social distancing.

Be a dumbass, fine, but reap what you sow.

Or just remove them from society. Dump them on an island somewhere they can't hurt anyone or escape back to civilization. Let them live out their dangerous lives away from people they can hurt. Problem solved.

How about no?

[Minarchatopia]

Thanks to the recent shutdown, my family bikeshop has seen a significant drop in customers. I think it's annoying and it's leaving me kinda cash strapped. Did you know I could only go out for dinner one night this week as opposed to two? I think we should all be able to agree that the solution is to reopen. I'm sure people are smart enough to follow basic safety protocol and exercise caution if we were to do this and nothing bad would happen.

[Xmara]

Idk if anyone has shared this yet. CDC to decide today who gets the first vaccine doses

Finally. I personally say that healthcare workers on the front lines should be the first to get it. They’re getting exposed every single day. Following them, I think nursing homes and other long term care facilities should be next, since they’ve been major hotspots for spread.

[The New California Republic]

Crosspost from UKPol as it is highly relevant here too:

Covid vaccinations are starting next week.

The elderly and priority NHS staff will be vaccinated first, so don't go clogging up NHS 111 or your GP's phone line with requests for it. The NHS themselves will be contacting people to arrange vaccinations, so nobody has to do anything right now.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Idk if anyone has shared this yet. CDC to decide today who gets the first vaccine doses

Finally. I personally say that healthcare workers on the front lines should be the first to get it. They’re getting exposed every single day. Following them, I think nursing homes and other long term care facilities should be next, since they’ve been major hotspots for spread.

I say Donald Trump should get it first.

Not just because I want to see him cry like a baby. Though I do. But it would set a great example to his followers that getting vaccinated is what good freedom-loving Trump-fearing folks all do. It was halve the vaccine-refusing population right away.

But Trump has had the virus, you say? I'm not so sure he has, but anyway. The go-to reason of vaccine refusers will be "I already had the virus". And then they'd stand on their medical privacy to refuse the vaccine forever. Trump getting the shot, on camera, would stop that dead.

[The Archregimancy]

Here's the UK government's vaccination priority list:



I'm in group 4 (and not on the basis of age). Wooo me.

[The New California Republic]

Here's the UK government's vaccination priority list:

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I'm in group 4 (and not on the basis of age). Wooo me.

*Scans down the list*

Oh well, guess I'll be getting it at some point in summer or autumn 2021.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Crosspost from UKPol as it is highly relevant here too:

Covid vaccinations are starting next week.

The elderly and priority NHS staff will be vaccinated first, so don't go clogging up NHS 111 or your GP's phone line with requests for it. The NHS themselves will be contacting people to arrange vaccinations, so nobody has to do anything right now.

I have no problem with that. There should however be a website where you can type in personal details (or fully identify yourself if you choose) and it tells you where you are on the waiting list. It would help people plan their own futures, which I know sounds a bit silly and idealistic ... but we all do plan our own futures at least in a vague way.

[The Huskar Social Union]

A gym owner in newry tried to keep his gym open by quoting the magna carta and not consenting to fines or consent to the police and got arrested by the police after they repeatedly warned him


And of course all the folks on fakebake are like "Oh you are such a hero! Too right! You got to live your life hun"

its amazing how this guy found a loophole to try and keep his gym open, but big companies like pure gym couldnt, almost like getting your law knowledge off of facebook is a bad idea

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Here's the UK government's vaccination priority list:

(Image)

I'm in group 4 (and not on the basis of age). Wooo me.

Well there goes your Indiana Jones persona.
I now imagine you as the archaeologist with a spray bottle of alcohol, sterilizing everything before you will touch it.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

A gym owner in newry tried to keep his gym open by quoting the magna carta and not consenting to fines or consent to the police and got arrested by the police after they repeatedly warned him


And of course all the folks on fakebake are like "Oh you are such a hero! Too right! You got to live your life hun"

its amazing how this guy found a loophole to try and keep his gym open, but big companies like pure gym couldnt, almost like getting your law knowledge off of facebook is a bad idea

In the US it goes the other way. Prosecutors wouldn't touch it, because beating up a small business doesn't look good.

[The Archregimancy]

Here's the UK government's vaccination priority list:

(Image)

I'm in group 4 (and not on the basis of age). Wooo me.

Well there goes your Indiana Jones persona.
I now imagine you as the archaeologist with a spray bottle of alcohol, sterilizing everything before you will touch it.

Rest assured that I take no offence - you had absolutely no way of knowing - but this is, alas, precisely why I recently lost my job in Egypt.

Because of my vulnerability, I had to shield in my apartment in Cairo. But shielding at home is professionally complicated if your job requires direct access to artefacts.

While my project director gave me permission to work from home following formal advice from my UK medical specialists, our client was less sympathetic. In Europe, North America, or Australasia, I would have been protected by disability legislation. In a project in Egypt run by the Egyptian military, no such protection applies. So my contract was terminated with one month's notice because I had to work from home due to my vulnerability to COVID.

It's not the end of the world. I was paid generously enough that we have a cushion, and I'm currently negotiating with three separate potential partners over projects in KSA, Paraguay, and Glasgow for 2021; the KSA project looks particularly promising, though nothing's definite yet. But it does mean that the economic impact of the pandemic did come into rather sharp focus.

[New Visayan Islands]

Data for PH as of December 2nd, 1600 PHT/0300 EST.

Detailed update. Also:

• Hear that? That's the sound of anti-vaxxers crying bloody murder over proof of vaccination for COVID-19.
• Japan gets Free Coof Shots.
• Good for getting the cost of testing down.
• Lame pun is lame, but I get why Senator Gordon is screaming for more Coof Shots.

[Greed and Death]

Here's the UK government's vaccination priority list:

(Image)

I'm in group 4 (and not on the basis of age). Wooo me.

Based on exposure to cursed mummies I assume.

[Nobel Hobos 2]

Well there goes your Indiana Jones persona.
I now imagine you as the archaeologist with a spray bottle of alcohol, sterilizing everything before you will touch it.

Rest assured that I take no offence - you had absolutely no way of knowing - but this is, alas, precisely why I recently lost my job in Egypt.

Because of my vulnerability, I had to shield in my apartment in Cairo. But shielding at home is professionally complicated if your job requires direct access to artefacts.

While my project director gave me permission to work from home following formal advice from my UK medical specialists, our client was less sympathetic. In Europe, North America, or Australasia, I would have been protected by disability legislation. In a project in Egypt run by the Egyptian military, no such protection applies. So my contract was terminated with one month's notice because I had to work from home due to my vulnerability to COVID.

It's not the end of the world. I was paid generously enough that we have a cushion, and I'm currently negotiating with three separate potential partners over projects in KSA, Paraguay, and Glasgow for 2021; the KSA project looks particularly promising, though nothing's definite yet. But it does mean that the economic impact of the pandemic did come into rather sharp focus.

I wish I could write like you do. Tho' it's a shame you lost the job, taking money off the Egyptian military is an achievement. Less guns and ammo, more science, I like that!

[The Greater Ohio Valley]

So.... is it safe to say that with all this vaccine news that we’re about to see the light at the end of this long tunnel?

[Greed and Death]

So.... is it safe to say that with all this vaccine news that we’re about to see the light at the end of this long tunnel?

If by light at the end of the tunnel you mean September 2021. yeah.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

So.... is it safe to say that with all this vaccine news that we’re about to see the light at the end of this long tunnel?

If by light at the end of the tunnel you mean September 2021. yeah.

Fauci said it'll probably be more like May or June.

[The New California Republic]

So.... is it safe to say that with all this vaccine news that we’re about to see the light at the end of this long tunnel?

It's going to take several months at least before even just the most vulnerable are vaccinated, so in terms of sufficient numbers of other people being vaccinated before we see some return to normality will probably take a year at least.

[Greed and Death]

If by light at the end of the tunnel you mean September 2021. yeah.

Fauci said it'll probably be more like May or June.

I think he is being overly optimistic given the numbers setting up to resist vaccination.

[Xmara]

So.... is it safe to say that with all this vaccine news that we’re about to see the light at the end of this long tunnel?

It's going to take several months at least before even just the most vulnerable are vaccinated, so in terms of sufficient numbers of other people being vaccinated before we see some return to normality will probably take a year at least.

That’s still good news in my eyes. For a while I thought the pandemic was gonna last forever. I can’t wait until I don’t have to wear a mask anymore because I’m sick of my glasses fogging up all the time.