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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

nurse says farewell to anti-vax martyr nurse
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The TikTok call out culture is


Here enjoy this fight between two women instead. 6400 upvotes.
"Good girl fight"
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The federal government will restore '100%' of pay to any school officials who are punished for defying state mask-mandate bans, Biden says

Pretty uncucked. The kind of no holds barred politics that the last admin was into.

I am extremely doubtful the Department of Education has the legal authority to do such a thing. I think state governors have more legal authority to ban mask than the DoE can compensate people for defying their legal state authorities.

People dying because of COVID is more important than the governor's control of schools.

Okay but did we learn nothing from 9/11? We maybe shouldn't be so quick to break the law in defense of the "right thing" at this very short moment of time.

I don't think this is the right direction for society to take. IMO, a more measured response would be to scold the hecklers and then ban them from participation in these meetings for a time, and not uproot their lives and give anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers yet more martyrs.

I would be canceled on some platforms for saying that. Thank goodness there's this fossil from the mid-aughts to fall back on to get that opinion out. People these days think nothing of toxic conformity online or ruining someone's life over a stupid or mean comment, or even one that goes against the flow. Wandering from the meeting hecklers for a moment: high school would have been living hell if I'd been born ten or so years later and someone had uploaded a video of the civics teacher making me the class antagonist, a personal project of sorts, because I disagreed with some of his liberal opinions. That kind of stuff doesn't make people change their minds. It makes them withdraw and fortify, or seek shelter and solace in groups of like-minded individuals.

Someone gas lighted Tom Cotton into thinking he could he president. He looks and acts like a Lizard man. I would be unsurprised if he licked his eye like an iguana on t.v. someday.

Also would work for a Hideo Kojima villain.

Cotton has a point that the administration will have a hard time persuading people to get vaccinated. Although maybe he leaves out the part about how in current context that a lot of that is Republicans' fault for towing the anti-vax line. Now some Republicans are backpedaling and telling people to please get vaccinated. A little too late for some.

The Biden mandate is a political football, and Republican politicians feel obligated to bluster against it. Anything Biden does is a political football for Republicans. Object, or be outed as a RINO.

The president might as well, as mac puts it, be uncucked.

I am not totally convinced a lot of the COVID restrictions that governments put into place were even constitutional. There isn't a constitutional right to own a bar where rat people can spread diseases but if the government wanted to destroy the local service economy overnight, they should have passed a law doing it instead of ruling through executive order. I am sure there are many laws that empower state and federal executive departments to shutdown businesses in the interest of public health but shutting down one or a chain of bars is different than broadly shutting down everything.

Of course this is Monday morning quarterbacking. If we asked Congress to to draft a lockdown bill instead of moving quickly by executive order in early 2020, many people would be upset we didn't use executive orders to get the ball rolling early or they would be angry about the specifics of the bill. And the pig people who refuse to believe COVID is real until it offs them will still refuse to believe COVID is real until it offs them. But at least we would have some sort of framework for navigating how we react to this pandemic instead of riding the executive order whims of whoever is in office. And there is not a single person in office who knows anymore about what the future holds than anyone else.

There is practically no use in wringing your hands over what Biden could have done to appease the Trump camp. Joe could snap his fingers and make COVID and unemployment go away, to no avail. There is literally nothing he could do besides fabricate/produce a story and documents "proving" that he did in fact steal the election, turn himself in, and somehow the government magically reinstalls Trump.

I feel like a parent trying to get a child to put on their seatbelt when I'm driving someone to pick up a vehicle sometimes. Put your mask on, no I don't care if nobody else at the mechanic's is wearing one. Maybe it's also like trying to get a kid to wear a helmet at the skate park when none of the bigger kids are.

Outside of those situations, the most I've seen personally is someone remembering theirs halfway from their car to the store and having to turn around to retrieve it. I do live on the blue side of a blue state, though.

Nope and nope. Not a 100+ company. Although the heads were forward thinking early on, jumping the gun on masks, they've since swiveled into the quasi-webmd "oh, I think I've already had it," COVID-vaccine fear, irritation about being nagged by big brother about masks and social distancing, and (sometimes understandable, given inconsistency) resentment at imposed state measures that negatively impacted the company. If I pushed too hard, it would probably make things worse.

That said, if we found out one of our guys drama-coughed at someone at the local supermarket, there would be a lot of internal pressure to let them go.

Like most rules, I expect face mask will be used to trip up certain people while being ignored for other because reasons. The War on Drugs analogy really does well here.

Again in practice a lot of this stuff is a little ridiculous. I have come to understand that now that the government is forcing me to go back outside. There are very few people who follow guidelines 100% anyway. (Left me take my mask off to drink some water. casual acquaintance has marijuana? Let me hit that. Want to hook up with a girl you just met? YOLO.)

In other news, an aide I talked to on Friday checked into a hospital today. He left a message on Facebook that was basically "pray for me"

Meanwhile I don't feel great and should probably get a test. .tomorrow since everything is booked up. Lovely.

Caught the covid in mid August. Probably the sickest I've ever been and also ended up with pneumonia and had to spend the night in the hospital. Still don't feel 100% normal even tho I've been testing negative for over 2 weeks. Crazy cause u hear about this shit happening to other ppl but never think it's gonna happen to you. Should've got the stupid vaccine but I also tested positive for antibodies last year so I thought I was safe. Either it was a false positive or antibodies don't mean shit. Either way 0/10 would not repeat. Also convinced my brother who was skeptical of the shot to get his first dose last week

lil_droo wrote:

Caught the covid in mid August. Probably the sickest I've ever been and also ended up with pneumonia and had to spend the night in the hospital. Still don't feel 100% normal even tho I've been testing negative for over 2 weeks. Crazy cause u hear about this shit happening to other ppl but never think it's gonna happen to you. Should've got the stupid vaccine but I also tested positive for antibodies last year so I thought I was safe. Either it was a false positive or antibodies don't mean shit. Either way 0/10 would not repeat. Also convinced my brother who was skeptical of the shot to get his first dose last week

antibodies don't last forever. glad you're recovering now.