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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Guys RTFA

It's just a mild variant.

Read before you type, K?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Europe will be fine. Asia will be fine. Africa will be fine. Australia will probably be fine.

But America?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"America will be more than...."fine."

"We will be Great. Yes we will be more than fine because we...are the greatest country the world has ever known, and our god-fearing liberty loving citizens won't be stopped by a communist virus to stop our way of life. The wheels of America will march on and we will not cower to the godless other side of the world who hides with "lockdowns" and "vaccines." Oh yes we are too great of a people to be hindered by such a preposterous, radicals and anti-american ideal....so much that it will never happen he--

CDC: uh sir you may want to check out what we hav--

-- NEVER HAPPEN HERE."

by the way, can you tell I just played Helldivers 2?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Good thing that the POTUS isn't an incompetent sack of shit then, right? He'll get things under control and keep them from getting out of hand, leading to tens-of-thousands of deaths, and overwhelming the U.S. healthcare system, right? Right? /s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago

If not POTUS, then at least person in charge of healthcare is a real professional and reliable.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 20 hours ago

Clearly this why Trump did the tarrifs. To stop the flow of COVID infected goods from China into the US. A true 4D chess master at work. /s

[–] [email protected] 41 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t forget it’s never too late to start masking.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago

ICE agents have shown they are okay masking so surely MAGA will be ok to follow their lead and mask now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Well is there any information about how aggressive the new variant is?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Better stock up on toilet paper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

I stocked up when bird flu was the new scary virus

[–] [email protected] 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I have one and I still use toilet paper too.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

I didn’t doubt you’d have one for one second SatansMaggotyCumFart

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand what could be wrong with this. How can a virus be eradicated? It just mutates and continues to kill, just like the flu virus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Technically only smallpox has been completely eradicated in humans. Polio is just almost eradicated.

Which, given how awful polio is as a disease, is still a huge goddamn win.

So much disinformation centers around "how can we ever completely stop it!?!?"

But we don't talk about fire this way. Fire is inevitable - literally, fundamentally, inevitable. As long as humans live on Earth, or as long as humans require oxygen to live and energy to thrive, we will have fires, whether we intentionally make them or not.

That doesn't mean we stop trying to fight fires.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Polio types 2 and 3 have been eradicated but fair enough.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I bet more people die from the flu than from the coronavirus, and especially from polio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

According to the World Health Organization, 290,000 to 650,000 people die of flu-related causes every year worldwide. COVID-19 has killed over 5 million people worldwide in just 2 years. So you bet wrong.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What if we look at it from a slightly different perspective? 16,000 people died from the flu in the United States in 2024, and about 29 million more were infected. For the first time in five years, the mortality rate from seasonal flu surpassed the number of coronavirus victims.

Be that as it may, I regard COVID like the flu; it takes down the weak, and this is normal from an evolutionary standpoint.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm really not interested in entertaining any social darwinist trash like this. The nazis tried it, it was dumb then, and it's dumb now. Keep this kind of nonsense to yourself.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You'll be telling your mom what she should keep with her )

[–] rc__buggy 12 points 19 hours ago

Time to start smuggling vaccine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I literally cannot go through another pandemic in my lifetime. Just let nature run its course at that point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I miss the quiet. And people not being allowed to shake hands and breath in my neck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

And people not being allowed to shake hands and breath in my neck.

Not sure I've ever breathed on someone's neck when shaking their hand. I can't believe I've been failing proper etiquette this whole time, how embarrassing... I'll have to start doing this at work from now on before meetings.