COVID-19: OhMyCronus!

Alas, impossible to pull off because people are selfish pricks.

 

I see you and I have a similar worldview. Cheers!

 

Two Idaho legislators propose making it a misdemeanor to administer vaccines from mRNA

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/l...ture/277-2436a514-e7da-4b31-9762-f9be10300075

1. You just KNOW there’s about 20 wingnut legislators in every state thinking, shit, why didn’t I think of that?
2. Legal beagles out there…would such a law pass constitutional muster?
3. I want to move to Idaho and become a nurse so I can file my freedom of religion lawsuit against this stupid bullshit. My sincere religious belief is that unnecessary deaths are bad.

 

Does it spread easily?

One of the 'good' things about Ebola is that it is hard to spread.

 

Seems to be the case, but it's so leathal it stops itself in it's tracks. Dunno if that still applies in densely populated environments.

 

That was my first thought when I read this. I almost posted the same thing.

Good job.

 

This article from The News quoting the National Bureau of Economic Research. Certainly supports that first part of your post.

 

National Bureau of Economic Research? Sounds like some liberal big gov't claptrap. That ain't in the Constitution! Fake Newz!

 

Here’s a gift

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...i24oq2r9hw5qQrewkx_U06e4Derscz&smid=url-share

it’s an article about an oral history project in NYC about COVID. If you read nothing else, please read the 3 paragraphs after the photo of someone laying on what looks like a shag rug. It’s about 2/3 of the way down. Great insight.

 

These paragraphs (for those paywalled)?

There’s an idea in sociology that, as social creatures, we are only ourselves because we perform being those selves every day; our individual identities depend on the frameworks in which we’re embedded. But during this first act of the pandemic, the entire theater in which many people gave those performances crumbled. “Like, if I’m working in a hospital,” Milstein explained, “I think of myself as a doctor. I’m someone who can save my patients. But now I’m in a situation where I can’t save my patients. So am I still that? Or am I still a teacher if I’m not going to school?” This kind of subtle identity crisis was replicated millions of times, all across New York City and the world. Hagen and Milstein were also picking up on a separate kind of “socio-material crisis”: a breakdown in the predictability of the material world around you. That elevator button you push every day might suddenly be a vector of disease. Grocery shelves might be empty. Even the city itself seemed to be, in an experiential sense, dissolving; “New York City is right now a very abstract concept,” one woman in the Bronx explained: a disjointed set of neighborhoods that most people had ceased traveling among.

The sociologists told me about a third, more abstract crisis as well: In their view, time basically stopped working. They showed me a diagram they had worked up to illustrate this three-pronged predicament. It bore the title “Phenomenological Model of Crisis With No Resolution,” and, though it was just two blue shapes with some hot pink arrows running between them, it expressed ideas that would take several paragraphs to break down. But the upshot was: People were stuck. With everything suddenly up for grabs — with people’s identities undermined and their surroundings untrustworthy — the narrators struggled to negotiate, and find meaning in, the details of their daily lives. And without any sense of when the pandemic would end, it became impossible to break out of that malaise, to project oneself into a future that kept evaporating ahead of you.

To describe that limbo, Milstein and Hagen used the term “ontological insecurity” — a play, they explained, on “ontological security,” a well-known concept within the field. In sociology, the term is most associated with the English sociologist Anthony Giddens who defined ontological security as a “person’s fundamental sense of safety in the world” — a belief in the reliability of our surroundings and the continuity of our own life stories within them. It’s ontological security that allows us to “keep a particular narrative going,” Giddens wrote.
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Ontological insecurity does explain a few things. Oh, and mods: there are about 100 other paragraphs not quoted.

Yet.

 

In not so surprising news, Woody's anti-vax

1629822377013002240 is not a valid tweet id

 

or, he’s an actor reading his lines. One or the other.

In other news, I can’t believe booking.com has a murderous Baltimore drug lord as its spokesperson.

Not only that, but Allstate has had an unrepentant criminal as its spokesperson for over a decade now.

 

To repeat. They. Got. EVERYTHING. Wrong.
Transmission of the disease—wrong
• Asymptomatic spread—wrong
• PCR testing—wrong
• Fatality rate—wrong
• Lockdowns—wrong
• Community triggers—wrong
• Business closures—wrong
• School closures—wrong
• Quarantining healthy…

— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) February 23, 2023

I cannot vouch for all of these… but there are some on that list that are entirely true

 

Another thing that came to mind was the MAGA cult. The whole arch-conservative movement at this point is a desperate defense against a world that's changing more quickly than they can comprehend or are comfortable with, and their impulse is to lash out against those they believe are the agents of that change.

 

Well explain which are & which aren't. Show your work with science & not conjecture.

 

yes, I’ll get right on that

single or double spaced?
and should I use simple words so you can understand?

 

You should blow some steam off first or you might have a mental meltdown

 

right, simple words it is
I’ll try not to go over two syllables per word

 

Stop while you're behind. Remember this discussion a page or so back?

Apparently you didn't learn your lesson, so I'll put it plainly - DON'T TRUST THE RIGHT-WING SOURCES YOU GET YOUR INFO FROM - they're not reliable.

 

The only thing Western policymakers got wrong was school closures. Everything else they got pretty much spot-on.

@marek , over here where I live we had knowledge of asymptomatic spread in March 2020.

One of my friends shared an academic article suggesting 80% of covid cases were asymptomatic -- now he was only a medical professional and not an expert in medicine, so don't you go trusting him.

Just because you don't read or watch a story does not mean the story does not exist. My son's puzzle piece continues to exist under the couch, he's two, and he gets it. Why don't you?

 

I'd be interested to see that article. Or at least a citation.

Neither my sister nor I have had a symptomatic case, but we've both been exposed numerous times. We both absolutely should have contracted it. My thinking at this point is maybe we did, but for whatever reason, perhaps genetics, we weren't symptomatic.