NOT Coronavirus COVID-19

Over 200 cases traced to Lollapalooza 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/203-cases-covid-19-linked-155236851.html

On vacation this week in obx North Carolina, was called a Yankee for wearing a mask out to the local shops. I loled.

People are 50/50 with masks in the grocery stores but about 10/90 everywhere else.

Arnold Schwarzenegger | screw your freedom and wear mask

Uncle Arnie rules, wear the mask or feel the wrath of the bicep!

Got my second pfizer yesterday, no side effects not even the pleasantly sleepy one from the first jab. Seems like they've drafted every OAP nurse in the country for jab duty, place felt like an episode of Golden Girls!

  On 8/12/2021 at 7:33 PM, dcom said:

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I know what you meant, but this is better.

I love this version too.

 

 

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I prefer the Frank de Wulf mix though. But that might be because of a huge dose of nostalgia on my part. Brings back good memories.

  On 8/12/2021 at 8:15 PM, Satans Little Helper said:

I prefer the Frank de Wulf mix though. But that might be because of a huge dose of nostalgia on my part. Brings back good memories.

Yeah, it's a great track, the Orbital remix is also pretty tolerable.

  On 8/12/2021 at 8:15 PM, Satans Little Helper said:

I prefer the Frank de Wulf mix though. But that might be because of a huge dose of nostalgia on my part. Brings back good memories.

Or maybe cause Frank de Wulf is a brilliant producer...

Anyways, Canada is rolling out vaccine passports for international travel.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vaccine-passport-1.6137763

  On 8/12/2021 at 1:34 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Trump made toxic masculinity and machismo part of the conservative anti-vax ethos, remember what a big deal he made out of reaching  the top of the stairs and taking his mask off? Men don’t want to admit when they’re wrong, especially if they think they’re gonna hear “we told you so”. They’re not all men, but some conservative and anti-vax women can adopt the opinions of their male partners, like any couple.

There's plenty of idiotic free-spirited Patchouli stinking baggy yogapants wearing dumb as fuck single women over here dude. Also that's a pretty sexist thing to say, women really don't need men to be idiots.

  On 8/12/2021 at 10:43 PM, user said:

There's plenty of idiotic free-spirited Patchouli stinking baggy yogapants wearing dumb as fuck single women over here dude. Also that's a pretty sexist thing to say, women really don't need men to be idiots.

Machismo isn’t usually baked into the female DNA, but Hell yeah redneck chicks are dumb as fuck too. Equal opportunity idiots.

  On 8/12/2021 at 11:24 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Machismo isn’t usually baked into the female DNA, but Hell yeah redneck chicks are dumb as fuck too. Equal opportunity idiots.

This is the Arkansas Department of Health's ham fisted attempt to target the...."urban" AR population I guess? "Tone deaf" doesn't even begin to cover it hahaha

This thread defeats the purpose of socializing with others. If I can't talk about Covid with someone every day exclusively, I don't see the point of talking to other people anymore. Goodbye WATMM I am off to become a hermit. At least that way I can pretend to talk Covid with others after I've gone a bit crazy. I just hope the hallucinations it feels like the real thing.. you know?

The Lure of the Caricature - Anger and the Public Sphere (by Zeynep Tufekci)

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Meanwhile, in reality, there are a substantial number of people who remain unvaccinated who could be convinced or pressured (via mandates). Not all of them are dislikeable, misinformation-spouting die-hard anti-vaxxers with strong ideological agendas. Many of their reasons range trivial to historically-rooted to personally idiosyncratic, but more importantly most of those are addressable with some effort.

For some people, it’s as simple as being afraid of needles—something that can be addressed with support.

Others are worried about side-effects making them lose days from work, or about not having childcare during that time.

Black people remain under-vaccinated, and their historic and ongoing mistreatment by the medical system clearly has a big role to play in this ongoing mistrust.

Plus, the actual risk itself can move people. As of today, over 90% of 65+ people in the United States have had at least a single dose, and we know that this group has been particularly prone to misinformation and tends to be overrepresented in the Fox news audience. At some point, though, reality bites and moves people.

Anger is a sponge that soaks up energy. In this case we are spending that energy getting angry at the wrong target to boot—the ordinary people rather than the anti-vax grifters who trade in their attention.

I think mandates plus reality will make a lot more progress on this issue, especially since we seem incapable of even recognizing the hold-outs who aren't in the “inconvincible hateful rabid anti-vaxxer” mold.

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information warfare.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/politics/intel-report-russia-election-interference-2022/index.html

the article is longer, that's the beginning

exploiting and worsening existing fractures in society is a classic information warfare tactic. racism is another example. disinfo has been a focus of russian intelligence services since before ww2.

if they can make american society divided, by jumping on the antivax thing during a pandemic, it gives them that angle to exploit. it also is a way of building followers for accounts and mapping influence networks. it's fucked up.

putin seems to be putting much more resources into creating confusion about a pandemic than he does into creating a sustainable and prosperous russia. dude's fucking dumb.

russian society is already in ruins, which makes the depraved leadership think it makes sense to try to weaken american society

They wilding down in Flo-rida: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/08/13/4-broward-educators-with-covid-die-within-2-days-as-school-year-nears/

Not trying to excuse Moscow's efforts, the US is getting a taste of its own medicine.

Gripping stuff. Lemon D walking into a hospital talking with covid patients.

  On 8/13/2021 at 5:11 PM, cichlisuite said:

Not trying to excuse Moscow's efforts, the US is getting a taste of its own medicine.

[clutches pearls] well, i never! (gasp)

relevant that countries with innocent histories like the UK are also targetted by disinfo from the restless nuclear oil despot  bear https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/russia-report-uk-national-security-brexit-terror-islam-a9630126.html

using the media and posting online to spread disinfo to the public? damn dude, this is unheard of. i really hope American politicians and corporations don’t hear about this. 

thank you guys for making excuses for putin. that's awesome.

yeah fuck me because of the bushes

  On 8/13/2021 at 6:07 PM, ignatius said:

[clutches pearls] well, i never! (gasp)

 

[Turns around] Shhh!