fuck bluesky
fuck linking to bluesky
Why?
It’s open source.
So? It’s fucking Jack Dorsey. He’s a huge piece of shit.
No lords. No masters. No billionaires.
So do you cherry pick which masters are acceptable and which ones arent? Because you’re paying a few billionaires to even be here to have this conversation right now.
Homie, you’re on whitepeopletwitter right now
Bear in mind those are death counts. The variants have become less deadly but that doesn’t mean they’re harmless
I mean, no disease will never not be lethal, but that is considerable better than it was.
Depends on what you consider better. I’d rather be dead than permanently disabled from long covid.
Well that’s certainly a take.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to not want to be alive if you have no quality of life.
Long covid doesn’t usually make you a vegetable or something. So it sounded quite extreme
Being a vegetable isn’t the only negative QoL out there. If I have to take several breaks just walking to the mailbox, that doesn’t sound like any sort of quality of life to me.
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This seems to be the same Twitter account that said the Palestine marches in DC and London had a million people combined when every article seemed to describe the attendance as “thousands”.
I’m sceptical of all their claims now.
Yeah these numbers (and post, by proxy) are meaningless without context, context I don’t have. I really don’t give a shit that there’s 1,000 crusty old geezers dying every day. If they don’t take care of their health and wellness I don’t need to give a shit about their easily preventable death.
https://www.usbirthcertificates.com/articles/people-born-daily In the United States,
- 445 people are born every hour
- 10,687 people are born every day
- 8 people are born every second
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7117e1.htm
COVID-19, listed as the underlying cause in 415,399 deaths during 2021, ranked as the third leading underlying cause of death after heart disease (693,021 deaths) and cancer (604,553 deaths) (Figure 2). COVID-19 was the underlying cause for 13.3% of all deaths in 2021, increasing from 10.4% (350,831 deaths) in 2020. Unintentional injuries, the fourth leading cause of death in 2020 and 2021, increased from 200,955 in 2020 to 219,487 in 2021. start highlightOther leading causes of death maintained the same ranking from 2020 to 2021, except for chronic liver disease and cirrhosis and influenza and pneumonia. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, which was not among the 10 leading causes of death in 2020, was the ninth leading cause in 2021 with 56,408 deaths (51,642 deaths in 2020).end highlight Influenza and pneumonia, which was the ninth leading cause of death in 2020 (53,544 deaths), dropped out of the 10 leading causes in 2021 (41,835 deaths).
You don’t need context. People are dying of a preventable illness. Period.
You think I was in a coma for covid?
Why should I care? People die all the fucking time.
Mostly preventable. Even vaccinated people get it. But of course the vast majority of those cases are less severe as a result, making it totally worth it still.
My guy, people die from all sorts of shit all the time. It doesn’t mean there’s a pandemic for every little thing.
Covid is never going to go away and you need to get over it.
Exactly, the pandemic is over… because it’s endemic now.
It’s okay buddy, you can just say, “But I am le tired” or the classic “I’m good and I only care about me.”
Just shoot straight
You can tell people that they have to shut off their lives completely just to convenience you and be just as honest.
Or you can keep getting angry at me because you don’t want to hear the truth. Your choice. 🤷
‘other people dying is a sacrifice I’m willing to make’
Said every single hopeless imbecile who supported the lockdowns
and yet this has played out exactly as expected, stupid fuckers
I wonder, how many of these people were homeless and could easily been prevented just with some human decency, housing them and given them basic medical care.
I only got it when I was put in jail for shit I didn’t do. They made me catch COVID when I otherwise wouldn’t have because I already self isolate to the extreme.
for the US*
Don’t get complacent. COVID has been hitting Europe pretty hard too
Edit: I put bad links, sorry!
The WHO never announced that the pandemic is over. People just got bored of it so they decided it was.
The pandemic is over because it’s now endemic.
Yes, and I’m sorry, but I really was very bored of it.
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Not trying to be argumentative or contrarian but WHO not declaring that a pandemic is over is not really what signals the end of a pandemic (any pandemic, not just COVID). Most literature suggests that pandemics tend to end organically, once the culture(s) impacted return more or less to normal. The pandemic has been over by conventional definitions for a couple years now. That doesn’t mean that COVID is less of a threat or shouldn’t be taken seriously by any means. It just means that society is no longer adjusting daily life because of the threat.
I am regularly boosted and test when I am sick as does my family. It ain’t over but I’m living my life. We have the means for most people to walk around without any concern, but some people refuse to take 30 minutes out of their day to get a (generally free) sho every 12mo or so because it’s inconvenient or their politics.
The pandemic is over for me and my family. All the “vaccine skeptics“ out there can get on board or deal with it at this point. It’s been almost 4 years folks, get with the program. Any of you reading this who are able but have not gotten boosted or (god forbid) aren’t vaccinated yet, get off your ass and do it. It’s not that difficult.
I am saddened for those that die despite doing everything that they can to prevent it. The vaccine doesn’t always work. Some people can’t get it for legitimate health reasons (as opposed to the illegitimate excuses some people use). Etc.
Call me cold hearted, but with the exception of the minority of people meeting the above criteria, I can’t help but imagine that most of the people dying of COVID at this point are willfully ignorant Trumpets taking one for their team. Good riddance to them. That’s one less ballot we need to worry about in November.
I’d like to see the data broken out by comorbidities, vaccination status, etc. so we can understand the risks - is it mostly elderly? Immunocompromised? Unvaccinated? Diabetics? It would be useful to have a real assessment of my personal risk of dying at this point, and whether or not I should be alarmed. For instance, if it’s mostly unvaccinated people, that’s sad, but I’m basically a pincushion at this point so no worries.
Agreed, that would be useful knowledge. I’m sure there’s a publicly available data set that has that information somewhere. But it’s probably a case of knowing who to ask for the raw data and being willing to crunch your own numbers.
Yup, the only good thing Trump has ever done was killing off a ton of his cult members.
The vaccine does work. Vaccines aren’t a silver bullet “you’ll never catch this disease now” solution. They simply mitigate the harmful effects of the virus and reduce your chances of contracting it.
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A lot of vaccines prevent you from becoming sick. With that in mind they work in a way but aren’t very good. Better than nothing for sure.
Now check to see if the folks in the Hospital and dying were vaccinated.
The vast majority of people hospitalized and intubated and deceased from COVID were not vaccinated.
As expected. Not a thing in the world you can do to stop idiots from getting themselves killed.
Yeah but people are over it. No more shutdowns. Covid isn’t going away ever.
Get vaccinated, test, mask and social distance.
I was really active about all that befor. But I’ve since stopped testing. I just don’t feel like it matters if I have the flu or covid, it’s not like I’m goint anywhere sick anyway.
Its people dying with covid not because of covid. Covid is here to stay and people will keep dying with it, or because of it, just like some die of pneumonia or other simple bacteria infections, because they already suffer other health complications
Excess mortally it’s still higher than baseline pre pandenic (though much better than a year ago, but it gets hard to measure over time).
The new variants are less severe but this isn’t just some accounting shell game.
It’s like if a person gets shot and goes to the hospital, their lung collapses and they bleed out. You might say they died with bullet holes but not from bullet holes, but that’s asinine.
Covid exacerbates medical issues, it causes others. It’s impossible to separate the illness from the symptoms.
Anpther example, a diabetic might get Covid then go to the hospital because it made their symptoms worse, or they might be at the hospital and Covid stresses their system pushing them over the edge. You’d can’t prove they wouldn’t have died without it, nor was it the only cause of death. You just know they had Covid and died. Maybe that’s exactly what you’re dismissing, but you can’t dismiss it without looking at all cause mortality too.
Edit: Just take precautions commensurate with your risk. Its better but not gone.
Unfortunately there are way too many people who not only refuse to accept that but who will also actively resist any attempts to control this or any future pandemic
Unfortunately there are way too many people.
Cold/Flu season is in full effect so I’m betting getting Covid with the Flu is rough.
