BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

Article about the Buffalo massacre had this interesting part about COVID in it.

According to a preliminary analysis, life expectancy in the United States continued to decline in 2021, while bouncing back in other wealthy countries. This continued U.S. decline was almost entirely driven by deaths among white Americans, according to estimates—not because people of color are replacing them but, in part, because white people accounted for a larger share of people opposing COVID vaccines and the policies that reduce the spread of the disease, according to researchers. Some of the very people pushing the Great Replacement theory were convincing their white viewers, readers, and constituents to resist shutdowns, to not wear masks, to not get vaccinated. Why? As my Atlantic colleague Adam Serwer observed back in May 2020: “To restrict the freedom of white Americans, just because nonwhite Americans are dying, is an egregious violation of the racial contract.”

March to May 2020 was the big NYC outbreak. I remember watching the news with dismay at the way the reporters pointed out that most of the victims were from the poor housing projects. I knew as I watched it that people would look at the blacks dying of COVID and think "no big deal." I think Trump picked up on this too and is why the GOP went full denial mode. As the article pointed out, that sealed the fate of many white Republicans which is kind of funny. Not hahahaha funny but I am way past the point of feeling bad for antivaxers choosing ideology over life.

Now excuse me while I go cough up a lung.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-vide … vid-update

very sensible short podcast update on covid-19 from one of the UK's leading virologists.

uziq wrote:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/a-covid-update

very sensible short podcast update on covid-19 from one of the UK's leading virologists.

Get ready for 'learning to live with monkey pox'.

Dilbert_X wrote:

uziq wrote:

you live at home with your parents and no woman wants you. it doesn't sound as though you even have friends. i'm happy with my lifestyle.

Obese, you forgot obese.

eh? me or you? i lead an active lifestyle m80.

"Prolonged face-to-face contact." That's not exactly covid levels of insidious transmission, is it? Still, not exactly in a hurry to get into a mosh pit.

Give it time, 12 months we'll have monkey pox delta which can spread through air-conditioning.

Also I'm not shaking hand any more.

Checked my vaccinations and I had one for smallpox.

I will outlive you all.

Still waiting for the rage virus injected into monkeys by mad scientists and released by eco-warriors who are first to be slaughtered.

Preliminary thoughts:

Having money makes this seem manageable. I could just go and get her hundreds of dollars in healthy food, and medicine like it is no big deal.

wasn't that the plot to the southpark AIDS episode?

i think the media figured that aspect out back in the early phases when rich folks were moving out of plague cities to the hamptons, and/or arranging highly experimental and exceedingly expensive anti-viral treatment for themselves, ahead of the queues of the dying poor.

everyone in america makes too much money. and poor blacks and chinese in the third world are picking up the tab. you should be ashamed of your lifestyle of rampant over-consumption. you don’t even make good tv shows anymore. it’s all just take take take