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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:01 pm

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Borderlands of Rojava wrote:You know when you've been exposed to someone with covid and gotta isolate and you're just so shaky and shuddery wondering if you have it? And your hypochondria kicks in and you mistake everything for covid symptoms?


Yep, been there. Just watch your body temperature. Your mind might lie to you but a fever won't.


Like they say covid symptoms start a few days after exposure but what does that mean? If some symptoms are as mundane as "A cough," how do you even know you have it?
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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:08 pm

Well one of the benefits of living in a notoriously corrupt city is you can find bars who paid off the right authorities and allow for flagrant violation of restrictions. I'llking bars at 100% capacity with no one wearing masks inside nor social distance. All of this is happening very blatantly in a busy part of town where police and city officials pass by on a regular basis.

At the end of the day, it's all about greasing the wheels.
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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:31 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:Well one of the benefits of living in a notoriously corrupt city is you can find bars who paid off the right authorities and allow for flagrant violation of restrictions. I'llking bars at 100% capacity with no one wearing masks inside nor social distance. All of this is happening very blatantly in a busy part of town where police and city officials pass by on a regular basis.

At the end of the day, it's all about greasing the wheels.


Wait but don't you live in Ameri-

Oh wait yeah it is like that here.
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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Mar 02, 2021 9:43 pm

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:Well one of the benefits of living in a notoriously corrupt city is you can find bars who paid off the right authorities and allow for flagrant violation of restrictions. I'llking bars at 100% capacity with no one wearing masks inside nor social distance. All of this is happening very blatantly in a busy part of town where police and city officials pass by on a regular basis.

At the end of the day, it's all about greasing the wheels.


Wait but don't you live in Ameri-

Oh wait yeah it is like that here.


What's funny is that all of our city authorities are major pro-lockdown people but you just know they've got their fingers in all of this.
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Postby USS Monitor » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:11 pm

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:You know when you've been exposed to someone with covid and gotta isolate and you're just so shaky and shuddery wondering if you have it? And your hypochondria kicks in and you mistake everything for covid symptoms?


In a way, I might be lucky that I got sick a year ago, before all the lockdowns and masking and whatnot. Means I don't need to spend all this time worrying about, "What if I get infected?"
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Postby Shu Chengdu » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:12 pm

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Gotta show loyalty to Trump...


If nothing else the fact that the Republican-right politicized a fucking pandemic and listed precautionary procedure as “leftist authoritarianism” should show their degree of depravity.
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COVAX, a program designed to help the world's poorest countries get access to vaccines, has finally delivered its first doses, starting in Ghana
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Postby USS Monitor » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:19 pm

Shu Chengdu wrote:
The Alma Mater wrote:
Gotta show loyalty to Trump...


If nothing else the fact that the Republican-right politicized a fucking pandemic and listed precautionary procedure as “leftist authoritarianism” should show their degree of depravity.


I think a lot of them actually believe that shit.
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Postby Shu Chengdu » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:22 pm

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Shu Chengdu wrote:
If nothing else the fact that the Republican-right politicized a fucking pandemic and listed precautionary procedure as “leftist authoritarianism” should show their degree of depravity.


I think a lot of them actually believe that shit.


“Doctors, pro-leftists, and Democrats said to lock down and take precaution.

“Do exact opposite because they want to control us!”
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Postby USS Monitor » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:26 pm

Shu Chengdu wrote:
USS Monitor wrote:
I think a lot of them actually believe that shit.


“Doctors, pro-leftists, and Democrats said to lock down and take precaution.

“Do exact opposite because they want to control us!”


A couple of people in my extended family are healthcare professionals. One of them said she had a patient die of COVID, and his last words were, "But it's a hoax!"
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Postby Shu Chengdu » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:29 pm

USS Monitor wrote:
Shu Chengdu wrote:
“Doctors, pro-leftists, and Democrats said to lock down and take precaution.

“Do exact opposite because they want to control us!”


A couple of people in my extended family are healthcare professionals. One of them said she had a patient die of COVID, and his last words were, "But it's a hoax!"


What the actual h-e-l-l ?

My dad told me about a local right wing talk show host back home that I despised hearing when I was growing up (I talked about this guy earlier) who’s inciting harassment and public bullying of people in the area who wear masks and gloves in public. I grew up in Rutland so if you know anything about Rutland, MA, it’s that that place is an alt-right cesspool.
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Postby USS Monitor » Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:53 pm

Shu Chengdu wrote:
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A couple of people in my extended family are healthcare professionals. One of them said she had a patient die of COVID, and his last words were, "But it's a hoax!"


What the actual h-e-l-l ?

My dad told me about a local right wing talk show host back home that I despised hearing when I was growing up (I talked about this guy earlier) who’s inciting harassment and public bullying of people in the area who wear masks and gloves in public. I grew up in Rutland so if you know anything about Rutland, MA, it’s that that place is an alt-right cesspool.


I live in MA, but I think Rutland is a different area of the state.
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Postby Shu Chengdu » Wed Mar 03, 2021 12:39 am

USS Monitor wrote:
Shu Chengdu wrote:
What the actual h-e-l-l ?

My dad told me about a local right wing talk show host back home that I despised hearing when I was growing up (I talked about this guy earlier) who’s inciting harassment and public bullying of people in the area who wear masks and gloves in public. I grew up in Rutland so if you know anything about Rutland, MA, it’s that that place is an alt-right cesspool.


I live in MA, but I think Rutland is a different area of the state.


Oh, nice. I grew up on Rutland's outskirts and moved to California when I was eighteen. College of course was the initiative but after that I just decided to stay. Massachusetts as a whole of course is cool but Rutland is... mm.
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Postby CoraSpia » Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:45 am

Shu Chengdu wrote:
The Alma Mater wrote:
Gotta show loyalty to Trump...


If nothing else the fact that the Republican-right politicized a fucking pandemic and listed precautionary procedure as “leftist authoritarianism” should show their degree of depravity.

Oh no! They want to maintain freedoms and not totally fuck over the economy! Whatever will we do.
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Postby Diahon » Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:37 am

CoraSpia wrote:
Shu Chengdu wrote:
If nothing else the fact that the Republican-right politicized a fucking pandemic and listed precautionary procedure as “leftist authoritarianism” should show their degree of depravity.

Oh no! They want to maintain freedoms and not totally fuck over the economy! Whatever will we do.


If the answer is to kill over half a million more people so people can be free to kill even more, ding-a-ling-a-ling!

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Postby Juristonia » Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:01 am

CoraSpia wrote:Oh no! They want to maintain freedoms and not totally fuck over the economy! Whatever will we do.

Have a lot more funerals, apparently.
But I bet the corpses super appreciate those freedoms.
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Postby Diahon » Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:14 am

Juristonia wrote:
CoraSpia wrote:Oh no! They want to maintain freedoms and not totally fuck over the economy! Whatever will we do.

Have a lot more funerals, apparently.
But I bet the corpses super appreciate those freedoms.


My friends do, they really do like being dead, dead to the world, dead to their loved ones, their promise unfulfilled, their lives cut short, all to prove a fucking point about how fuck you, what about me and me alone?

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Postby A-Series-Of-Tubes » Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:27 am

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Juristonia wrote:Have a lot more funerals, apparently.
But I bet the corpses super appreciate those freedoms.


My friends do, they really do like being dead, dead to the world, dead to their loved ones, their promise unfulfilled, their lives cut short, all to prove a fucking point about how "fuck you, what about me and me alone?"


Punctuation suggested, in light of how strong "fuck you" is.
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Postby A-Series-Of-Tubes » Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:31 am

CoraSpia wrote:
Shu Chengdu wrote:
If nothing else the fact that the Republican-right politicized a fucking pandemic and listed precautionary procedure as “leftist authoritarianism” should show their degree of depravity.

Oh no! They want to maintain freedoms and not totally fuck over the economy! Whatever will we do.


Apparently the economy matters very very much to you.

But that's how it goes at the top end of town. If you put your money in the wrong place, that would be your problem buddy.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:31 am

Borderlands of Rojava wrote:You know when you've been exposed to someone with covid and gotta isolate and you're just so shaky and shuddery wondering if you have it? And your hypochondria kicks in and you mistake everything for covid symptoms?

Any idea when you might get your results back? I know we live in different countries but i got mine back the next day. And i got tested after about two days of being infected by someone and i had a bad throat by that time so you should hopefully start feeling symptoms soon if you do have it, that way you can know for sure but i know it varies from person to person.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:10 am

USS Monitor wrote:
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:You know when you've been exposed to someone with covid and gotta isolate and you're just so shaky and shuddery wondering if you have it? And your hypochondria kicks in and you mistake everything for covid symptoms?


In a way, I might be lucky that I got sick a year ago, before all the lockdowns and masking and whatnot. Means I don't need to spend all this time worrying about, "What if I get infected?"

My boss had covid in the first wave, he just got his second shot and it floored him for a day. I was thinking the same thing, why?
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Mar 03, 2021 5:21 am

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