It's virus time, guyz. Welcome to Pandemic.

[Jwar]

They are definitely uncomfortable without a doubt and that was the main thing people I know were complaining about. So, I pointed out to them that people are making choices based on that and not on human life. After I told them that, no one said shit and I killed the thread. #threadkiller How can you argue that point either? Ok. You cannot prove it doesn't work, but you can prove it does. So, it's a comfort thing right? Is that more important than others being able to live? Isn't that why everyone is so angry right now? People don't fucking care about each other and it's appalling.

I'm so disappointed in this country. More now than ever before. We are a joke.

[Achtane]

I know. It's really baffling and depressing how little people care about anything. It's selfishness. They do whatever their whimsy brings them to, and God help who or whatever inconveniences them.

[cosmicevan]

As someone who lives in the high risk category, I'm deeply disturbed that we've taken the strategy of culling the herd and good luck, hope you don't die...but this is what this country has decided to do...for now. I keep having discussions with my wife about what's okay and what's not and no one knows. Everyone's lines are different and they seem to be receding at a rapid pace. Sadly I don't expect things to get pulled back, but I do expect the hospitals to get overrun again and probably pretty soon. We made the decision to keep our kids home from camp this summer. My job is starting to ship equipment from the office so people can stay home for the long haul. I got rid of my car in May (we still have one for the family). I aint going nowhere. We are going to TRY to try to stay on the sidelines as much as possible, but we are starting to socialize with friends (keeping distance) and we went to the beach today (kept distance, but we were in the minority doing that and having masks). It is what it is, this too shall pass. I'm not looking to get into fist fights over other people's behavior, but I really wish this was all going to play out differently. I'm concerned about the health of several loved ones who are rushing to restaurants and hair cuts and whatnot. The odds are in our favor, but there are still some people who are going to come out on the wrong side of the odds. As they say...you do you. That's really all you can do.

[friendship]

I can’t take it anymore. NYC has been hell and there’s nowhere to run to. There is no escape.

[Chankgeez]

[goroth]

I can’t take it anymore. NYC has been hell and there’s nowhere to run to. There is no escape.

I got ya fam. I found this instructional documentary on the interwebs:

[Achtane]

My wife's aunt just texted her:
"Italy did autopsies. Coronavirus isn't a virus, it's a bacteria. 5G amplifies it and it causes blood clots in your lungs."

Like...wut? How do people believe this dumb shit? It's like a parody, or a shit post.

[Pepe]

Cool, these are bacteria? Then the whole world can be cured with antibiotics!

[coldbrightsunlight]

My wife's aunt just texted her:
"Italy did autopsies. Coronavirus isn't a virus, it's a bacteria. 5G amplifies it and it causes blood clots in your lungs."

Like...wut? How do people believe this dumb shit? It's like a parody, or a shit post.

[cosmicevan]

My wife's aunt just texted her:
"Italy did autopsies. Coronavirus isn't a virus, it's a bacteria. 5G amplifies it and it causes blood clots in your lungs."

Like...wut? How do people believe this dumb shit? It's like a parody, or a shit post.

One of my closest friend's wives thinks Bill Gates wants to microchip us. She recently let go of the 5G part of the whole plot, but...he was sober for 1.5 years before COVID hit, he's now planning all day beer tastings again at his home. They think that they are quarantined, but he has a teenage babysitter who comes into their home 3 times a week and when she isn't there, she's busy posting facebook photos hugging everyone around town.

Recently with school ending, the seniors in our town did a car parade to celebrate all through town, it was legit, shut down roads, whole bit. But at the end/start, everyone was taking pictures embracing, not a mask to be seen...even the head of the school board got in on the action hugging the seniors w no mask - created quite some controversy in town (thankfully).

As a NY'er, I appreciate having Cuomo at the head, but the past few months have all been for nothing. We will be back to having no hospital beds before July is done. According to history, people were pretty douchey and ignored guidelines in 1918 as well. It's funny because all the losers out there screaming this is darwinism, if you aren't strong enough let nature take you out - they don't get it, the darwin thing is all about being smart enough to not get, not getting it and getting over it. My chemist buddy who now tests for covid/antibodies all day reminded me that when HIV first appeared people didn't think it was a big deal...and then it turned into AIDS...and even HPV, no biggie...ooops, looks like it leads to cancer! This thing has been on the planet for 6, maybe 8-10 months...people who got it in march still have symptoms, no one can tell you that if you had COVID that the flu won't kill you next time you get it. Why are people so stupid and why haven't we found a vaccine for stupid yet?

[Dowi]

My wife's aunt just texted her:
"Italy did autopsies. Coronavirus isn't a virus, it's a bacteria. 5G amplifies it and it causes blood clots in your lungs."

"italy did autopsies" like, no one else did it, yeah sure.

[D.o.S.]

My wife's aunt just texted her:
"Italy did autopsies. Coronavirus isn't a virus, it's a bacteria. 5G amplifies it and it causes blood clots in your lungs."

Like...wut? How do people believe this dumb shit? It's like a parody, or a shit post.

This is probably a misreading of these findings:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... xpert-says

Covid-19 can leave the lungs of people who died from the disease completely unrecognisable, a professor of cardiovascular science has told parliament.

It created such massive damage in those who spent more than a month in hospital that it resulted in “complete disruption of the lung architecture”, said Prof Mauro Giacca of King’s College London.

In findings that he said showed the potential for “real problems” after survival, he told the Lords science and technology committee that he had studied the autopsies of patients who died in Italy after 30 to 40 days in intensive care and discovered large amounts of the virus persisting in lungs as well as highly unusual fused cells.

“What you find in the lungs of people who have stayed with the disease for more than a month before dying is something completely different from normal pneumonia, influenza or the Sars virus,” he said. “You see massive thrombosis. There is a complete disruption of the lung architecture – in some lights you can’t even distinguish that it used to be a lung.

“There are large numbers of very big fused cells which are virus positive with as many as 10, 15 nuclei,” he said. “I am convinced this explains the unique pathology of Covid-19. This is not a disease caused by a virus which kills cells, which had profound implications for therapy.”

[Achtane]

That is absolutely horrifying.

All those big words, I mean. You say "thrombosis" but all I hear is "5GBillGates".

[cosmicevan]

My favorite part about conspiracy theories is when those who believe them REALLY show their crazy. My buddies wife started writing the word Vaccine as "Va((ine" in her posts because she thought they were monitoring her and this way they wouldn't know she was talking about it thanks to her handy se(ret (ode

at this point it has become abundantly clear that it's time to sit on the sidelines as best as possible and watch the horror unfold until it gets horrible enough that we put a universal strategy in place. I've never been more thankful to be a new yorker w cuomo calling the shots. My wife and I think that it's possible w cuomo at the helm that NY will be able to avoid becoming the epicenter of the world's virus again. I'm very sad that many friends and loved ones feel differently and I hope that there behavior doesn't ruin it for everyone, but my wife has finally started making decisions by data again instead of what everyone else around us is doing. I do love that video of the florida mayor all up in arms from May 20th saying that Florida will not be the next new york and will not be the epicenter. It was good for my wife to see that and see that it was just over 1 month after that rant that they are in fact now the epicenter.

[oldangelmidnight]

My chemist buddy who now tests for covid/antibodies all day reminded me that when HIV first appeared people didn't think it was a big deal...and then it turned into AIDS...and even HPV, no biggie...ooops, looks like it leads to cancer! This thing has been on the planet for 6, maybe 8-10 months...people who got it in march still have symptoms, no one can tell you that if you had COVID that the flu won't kill you next time you get it. Why are people so stupid and why haven't we found a vaccine for stupid yet?

I know it's dumb to speculate but I think about the lasting effects of polio, too. People dying of post-polio syndrome so many years later. With the weird toe stuff covid seems to do, it seems like it's more systemic than just the lungs and I wonder what kind of long-term effects we'll see.