How COVID-19 is affecting society

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I don’t know about you, but I’m enjoying the 5g direct to brain.

But I'm still not a Commie Atheist Catgirl! Sad CC face, nya?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

And, of course, there's a Trump flag waving around in the midst of that crowd.

 

[Free]

"SCIENCE IS NOT SCIENCE WITHOUT DISCUSSION"

Science is also not science when it's hashed out on the steps of a statehouse.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link

 

[Essence Lumin]

The correct way to wear a mask:

 

[WolfEyes]

How the hell have we managed to survive as a species thus far with such glaringly blatant stupidity among us?

You may not have been on SLU when my sig used to read "The stupidity of the human race never ceases to amaze me." It's still true. We are that close to wiping ourselves out. Watching the weather satellite images for several decades now and seeing all the green turning gray and brown because people. Zooming in and out on Google map... Something broke. I want off.

 

[Beebo Brink]

How the hell have we managed to survive as a species thus far with such glaringly blatant stupidity among us?

Intelligence as a survival trait is overrated. We were smart enough to make stone tools, and that was basically all we needed for about 200,000 years. In the last 20,000 years we have stressed our original design to the breaking point with too many clever toys.

 

[Govi]

I am not sanguine about our fate as a species, nor any of the other large animal & plant species on this planet. But, in recent times, our apparent manner of destroying ourselves was through nuclear war. It was even theorized -- in the sci-fi community -- that the reason we had not made contact of any sort with any other technological species in our stellar neighborhood is that all such species destroy themselves in nuclear war. Clearly, we have found a new way of destroying ourselves. It may also be that so have any possible neighbors.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Intelligence as a survival trait is overrated. We were smart enough to make stone tools, and that was basically all we needed for about 200,000 years. In the last 20,000 years we have stressed our original design to the breaking point with too many clever toys.

The last 100 in particular. Environmental problems before that were localized.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link

 

[Noodles]

The "almost zero" thing reminds me a bit of the "99% survival rate" that COVID has, that people like to push as an excuse why vaccines and masks are dumb.

Nevermind that back before everyone was masking and locked down etc it was like a 95% at best, or 5%+ dyin, until we got things under control with these measures. And nevermind that if 1% of the population dies off that's almost 80 million people.

 

[Beebo Brink]

And nevermind that if 1% of the population dies off that's almost 80 million people.

The media focus on fatality rate is really misplaced for Covid. A far greater number of people are badly damaged by it, even though they survive. It's not a binary recovery of "live or die", it's a sliding scale of "recover fine, live with varying degrees of impairment, die".

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Long covid, drain on society, life unworthy of life, history rhymes, etc.

Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains

The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.

www.politico.com

 

[Rose Karuna]

And another one is about to bite the dust ...

Anti-vax, anti-mask, COVID mocking Maine legislator has COVID-19, and he doesn’t sound too good

Rep. Johansen, who led anti-mask protests, now faces COVID-19 illness. Discover the latest updates on this developing story.

www.dailykos.com

 

[WolfEyes]

The "almost zero" thing reminds me a bit of the "99% survival rate" that COVID has, that people like to push as an excuse why vaccines and masks are dumb.

Nevermind that back before everyone was masking and locked down etc it was like a 95% at best, or 5%+ dyin, until we got things under control with these measures. And nevermind that if 1% of the population dies off that's almost 80 million people.

80 million... that would cover all the Rethugs wouldn't it?

Bad Wolf, bad.

 

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Michigan Republicans Used COVID Relief Money to Give Themselves Bonuses; Now They're Giving it Back After Backlash

It's almost like the pandemic presented Republicans with unlimited opportunities to make themselves look bad. Not that that's much of a feat.

www.theroot.com

COVID-19 relief money was meant to aid workers, small business owners and people who had lost their jobs or lost wages during the pandemic. It was meant for people who are financially struggling due to something they had no control over. Of course, if you happen to be a Republican government official in Shiawassee County, Mich., you might have briefly been under the impression that financial relief efforts served a different purpose—to make it rain on your bank account balance.

The Associated Press reports that elected officials in the conservative Michigan county gifted themselves and other county officials $65,000 worth of COVID relief money for bonuses and are now giving it all back after public outcry—and after legal officials informed them that what they were doing was illegal AF.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Barry County Health Department temporarily closes as COVID-19 cases rise

The Barry County Health Departments recent Facebook post says it all, the health department is closed until further notice due to a surge in COVID cases.

www.ky3.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Barry County Health Department temporarily closes as COVID-19 cases rise

The Barry County Health Departments recent Facebook post says it all, the health department is closed until further notice due to a surge in COVID cases.

www.ky3.com

Since the reason for the closing was never revealed, it's hard to say whether this is anything more than a local issue. Very curious.

 

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