SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

At least they isolate those people. My mother and father were forced to book a cruise or lose their credits for their cancelled cruise when COVID began. Evidently because the US allows for cruises to happen you cannot always get your money back and credits expire because cruises are happening. So instead of taking the loss they went on a cruise expecting to get the COVID.

Of course, COVID was rampant on the cruise despite everyone needing a negative test a day before the cruise to get on board. Yes, one day before the cruise on the 26th right after christmas. Of course, the duh just lets them offload and go about their business after being confined to a boat like lab rats exposed to it. I have not seen them in person since because they have the rona. My sister has it too because she has to deal with school kids because she cannot shut down her place because god forbid a fucking parent takes care of their kids during the day time. Before anyone bitches, children are an accessory down here. People care more about little yippy dogs than their kids around the Boca.

I understand the sunk cost fallacy is strong but you couldn't pay me to get on a cruise ship right now, so effectively going on one for free (as their money was already gone) is baffling.

I agree. They wanted to get away also, so now they suffer the obvious consequences. They are going to miss a couple of weeks of community activities because all their friends know they are sick and expect a negative test before they will be allowed back. knock on wood, but I hope that a painful flu is all they will suffer from.

My first sexual experience was my wedding night, boyo.

But not hers.

I was born in the mid 80s, so the worst of the AIDS epidemic had passed (for cishets, anyway) by the time I was old enough to know what it was, but apparently, this was the reason doctors wear gloves for exams and giving shots. Wasn't a thing that was done before then

I am in a bit of an odd area with all this COVID stuff right now. I have not seen my family since christmas due to the infections. I am supposed to leave on Wednesday for NC to see a friend. I am traveling by car, I am triple vaxxed, and I am pretty much isolating because I do not do much anyway. However, my friend just told me his mother has been diagnosed with cancer, and tomorrow they go to the doctors to get the schedule for chemo and radiation treatment. He is her only family that can be trusted to be safe since her siblings are right wing idiots.

We were supposed to go to a stupid little con next weekend, but I am shutting that down. He is talking to me about his worries, and that is not terribly normal with him. That means things are getting to him and he is worrying. Yes, I know of course he is. I figure I will be as safe as possible until the trip is over.

I guess I am worried because he still has to work, and she has to live with him right now because there is no other place to go. This is obviously going to wipe her immune system out. It is not just the difficulty of chemo and radiation treatment for cancer patients, it is also the fear of a viral infection that will kill you if your immune system does not fight it off. Then there is the world of jerkoffs who have no consideration for anyone else as long as they get their freedumb.

Hopefully the punch does not land and later we will sit around and enjoy some cheesecake and anime at a convention and laugh about how his mom is always in his shit, even in his early forties.

Definite sign of moral superiority.

Not necessarily. She might have asked him to wait and he chose not to. No moral superiority there. Without her posting, we have no idea.

False.

No, merely moral normalcy.

If those morals were normal, there'd be no need for the Bible.

Way to argue against yourself, Poodle.

I assure you she was not an anal virgin when you got married.

Much like the Virgin Mary, you can suck all the dick you want and still be a virgin.

Piss, Ivermectin, and Trump's balls.

Then they'll gargle the stuff before bed every night.

Eh, you're arguing that morality is the same as righteousness. It isn't. Common grace allows humans to behave decently, though not righteously.

Hmm. I don't know if ncov2019.live's included the 1.5m new cases for the US or not, but hitting F5 just a moment shows this:
US 62,661,272 confirmed cases (187,630.37 per million) 861,336 dead (2,579.15 per million) 246,812,939 vaccinated (~73%); population 333,961,250
India 35,875,790 confirmed cases (25,613.12 per million) 484,213 dead (345.7 per million) 888,204,939 vaccinated (~63%); population 1,4000,680,035

We can certainly expect India's numbers to be underreported; HOWEVER, the only metric they're not doing as well as us is vaccination percentage. And that can be attributed to a later rollout of vaccines plus the sheer scope of logistics of their population base. As numbers currently stand, the US has almost twice the number of confirmed cases and just under double the number dead as India, a country with four times our population and a much higher density to go with it.
And yes, the numbers need to be taken with a grain a salt.

So, @Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee, fuck you for your part in making the US look bad to a country whose health care system is objectively worse than ours, with the possible exception of monetary costs for patients.

So you admit you're not morally superior?

This may be good news. Herd immunity may finally be about to kick in, but only at a horrific cost.
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically.

The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected in South Africa.

The University of Washington's own highly influential model projects that the number of daily reported cases in the U.S. will crest at 1.2 million by Jan. 19 and will then fall sharply “simply because everybody who could be infected will be infected,” according to Mokdad."

The article also hedges with the disclaimer that no one knows for sure, which I'm sure does not surprise anyone here.

Hate to say it, but I've just about given up on us achieving herd immunity through any sensible means. Our population is too stupid.

So in that case, I guess we might as well hope it burns through the unvaccinated as quickly as possible, and that the deaths due to immunocompromised people, breakthrough cases, and people who can't get treated after a car accident because the hospitals are full of Trumper morons coughing their lungs out can be kept to a minimum.

Not sure that's accurate, either. My aunt makes a tincture for me for sleeping. I still got covid this past week. Thought it was just my annual sinus infection, but the symptoms are the same as the Omicron variant. I can't get a test until Monday, though.

So, if I did get Omicron, then the tincture isn't the miracle preventative either.

I woke up with the sniffles and sneezing on Monday. I was able to get a test and came back negative. Usually it takes me a week to recover from a cold. Thi time I was better by Wednesday. I wonder if being vaxxed and boosted helped shorttthe recovery time