COVID-19

[King Colby]

lol, people who "think" covid is real.

Oh for **** sake

I understand that you aren't presenting these as equal arguments, but I still find the framing to be baffling. For me, it would be people with a functional understanding of their relationship to the outside world on one side, and people with self-inflicted brain disease on the other.

But also on a practical side, people don't neatly fit into these two categories (or in the covid is real/fake sides as you stated). Reality isn't static, and nor is what we need to ask of our fellow citizens to fully manage this ongoing health issue. And there are a lot of soft-vaxxers out there that got the initial vaccine in spring 2021 that are not getting boosted. Point being, plenty of people aren't dug in here, maybe most are with covid is real/fake. But that is meaningless, whether or not they are going to keep doing things like getting boosted is.

I read the tweet as "ammo" for covid deniers to prove their longstanding point that covid is overblown and/or doesn't exist. Those with a functional understanding of the world are smart enough to know that the clip was presented absent context by a group with an agenda.

Neither "side" is going to change their thinking regarding the realness of covid two fkn years in based on that (or anything else for that matter)

[tifosi77]

Fauci has involuntarily been made into a boogeyman in this escapade in a way that is false, unwarranted, unjustified, and quite epically stupid

[Morkle]

Yeah I'm sure whoever Biden replaces him with would just be beloved by the Republicans

There would be conspiracy theories and false lies about that person before they were even named and just rumored. It's a no-win situation.

[King Colby]

Also vaccines/boosters... it's time to accept that one person's vaccination status has minimal impact to other people. This changed with omicron.

Not no impact, but minimal impact.

3 reasons.
1. Vaxxed/unvaxxed, symptomatic/asymptomatic seemingly spread omicron at such a vast rate, any difference between populations is minimized by large numbers.

2. Mutations will happen, unless 100% of the world is vaccinated basically simultaneously.

3. Hospital capacity concerns are less about current covid caseloads causing severe illness, and more about burnout from 2 hellish years (can't change that), influx of patients who previously delayed treatment due to covid (can't change that), and hospital staff lack of availability due to covid spread that is beyond containment.

So I really don't care what impact out of context or misrepresented information has on other people's vaccination decisions. I'm gonna get mine and that's good enough for me.

[King Colby]

Yeah I'm sure whoever Biden replaces him with would just be beloved by the Republicans

There would be conspiracy theories and false lies about that person before they were even named and just rumored. It's a no-win situation.

Can the answer be nobody? What value is Fauci providing right now?

[King Colby]

Literally all he does is answer stupid hypothetical questions and tell people to physically distance, wash their hands, wear masks, and get vaccinated

[faftorial]

3. Hospital capacity concerns are less about current covid caseloads causing severe illness, and more about burnout from 2 hellish years (can't change that), influx of patients who previously delayed treatment due to covid (can't change that), and hospital staff lack of availability due to covid spread that is beyond containment.

I'm seeing multiple regions in the country putting emergency measures in place as hospitalizations are on par with early 2021 so I'm not sure this is the case yet.

[count2infinity]

Literally all he does is answer stupid hypothetical questions and tell people to physically distance, wash their hands, wear masks, and get vaccinated

AND apparently has single handedly killed hundreds of thousands, closing on a million people... please donate here to stop the madness.

[Troy Loney]

I think the thing with Fauci is that you have to recognize that there are shitlib grifters that do things for attention too.

Fauci was a lib hero for talking back to Trump, and the simple fact that the libs liked him meant that conservatives reflexively hate him.

If he were to exit scene, shitlibs would deify someone else (Walensky or whatever that woman is, who is already getting attacked) for engagement and start the cycle again.

[mikey]

lol, people who "think" covid is real.

Oh for **** sake

grunty'd

[faftorial]

[AuthorTony]

Oh man, I want this to catch on with the local crown.

[tifosi77]

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

this guy stole my idea I gave to Author Tony where you pander to the Trump audience and then pull the rug on them and make them look like idiots (well, make them look MORE like idiots)

[faftorial]

I just noticed what his shirt has on it.

[NTP66]

A Mustang owner, too. Just… *chefs kiss*

[tifosi77]

"Christopher Paul Key" is quite the rabbit hole to Google yourself into

[LITT]

Then test everybody that enters the hospital

Isn't that what they're doing? I don't understand your point about now your wife has to be extra cautious. Don't you prefer that to her being exposed to an asymptomatic patient?

I would think they're only testing patients that are ADMITTED, not every person that walks through the doors.

Ah maybe. I'll call on @LITT for that answer.

Didn’t read back thru the thread but only symptomatic patients being admitted are tested. Little value in clinical decision making gained from testing asymptomatic patients and all staff are required to mask and 85+% vaccinated. as mentioned earlier pcr test will come back positive for several weeks/months. Testing asymptomatic patient will just tell you at some point in time they recently had Covid. Plus the test supplies are EXTREMELY limited nationally

Don’t waste rapid tests on asymptomatic patients either - using for employees to return to work.

[meow]

[dodint]

They told us in the USMC that we could drink our own urine up to three times before it wasn't safe anymore.

[meow]

God rest the soul of the guy that drank it four times…for science

[eddy]

So my kids tested positive who were showing symptoms. My other son has not shown any symptoms and did not get tested. Basically, everyone is positive in the house and the school says my one son can come back with a mask (even though I'm sure he has it too?). Does that sound right?

[King Colby]

3 times what?

Like... 3 times in a day? 3 times in your life? The same pee recycled 3 times then on the 4th time you have to dump it and start a new set of 3?

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

3 times what?

Like... 3 times in a day? 3 times in your life? The same pee recycled 3 times then on the 4th time you have to dump it and start a new set of 3?

It’s the Marines, I don’t think they needed any clarification

[blackjack68]

So my kids tested positive who were showing symptoms. My other son has not shown any symptoms and did not get tested. Basically, everyone is positive in the house and the school says my one son can come back with a mask (even though I'm sure he has it too?). Does that sound right?

Is he vaxxed?