OT: Coronavirus 4 - or is that thread 2.75?

[Navin R Slavin]

...when I manage to make my way through the full Taco Bell menu a few times a year.

Like, the full menu? Like, everything?

Jiminy Christmas, that's insane.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Like, the full menu? Like, everything?

Jiminy Christmas, that's insane.

Hyperbole, I actually hate their “beans” so that crosses off a ton, I mainly stick to 5 or 6 items.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Like, the full menu? Like, everything?

Jiminy Christmas, that's insane.

Jesus Christ, it’s Jason Bourne Tripp Tracy.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Here is a study on mask efficacy at preventing aerosol pass-through.

Thanks. I love reading stuff like this.

 

[VibesAlive]

I live in a small town. I go to the country store up the street from my house with a a mask on.....I'm shunned. I go to the Shitty Kitty for groceries without a mask.......I'm shunned. It's really strange.

Personally, I'll use my mask when around a bunch of people, otherwise I've relaxed wearing it everywhere.

 

[dogbazinho]

Shunning is just a bonus.

 

[hockeynjune]

I live in a small town. I go to the country store up the street from my house with a a mask on.....I'm shunned. I go to the Shitty Kitty for groceries without a mask.......I'm shunned. It's really strange.

Personally, I'll use my mask when around a bunch of people, otherwise I've relaxed wearing it everywhere.

NC land of diversity...
I don't wear mine unless it's required

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

I watched the South Park Post COVID special.

It's ... poignant. I didn't laugh, but let's be real I didn't laugh during the first special either.

I watch for the social critique at this point.

 

[surfzone365]

NC land of diversity...
I don't wear mine unless it's required

I mainly got my booster so I could wear my mask - whenever I do - below my nose like half the people I see at stores do. I figure that many people can’t be wrong…

 

[dogbazinho]

Northern VA here. In grocery stores I wear a mask mostly because no one has any understanding of personal space. That's about the only place I wear it

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Chief Minister of Northern Territory of Australia, Mr Gunner about anti-vaxxer conspiracists.

"If anybody thinks that we are going to be distracted or intimidated by tinfoil hat wearing tossers, sitting in their parents’ basements in Florida, then you do not know us Territorians.”

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Britain says new COVID-19 variant is the most significant yet found

Sounds like there's a new variant out there now, that has 30 spike protein mutations, which could make our current vaccine lose effectiveness, especially if it keeps mutating the way it has been.

So, go ahead and get ready for a new wave.

 

[MinJaBen]

Britain says new COVID-19 variant is the most significant yet found

Sounds like there's a new variant out there now, that has 30 spike protein mutations, which could make our current vaccine lose effectiveness, especially if it keeps mutating the way it has been.

So, go ahead and get ready for a new wave.

Omicron.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

And because investors haven't learned again and again and again, the Stockmarket takes a dive at the first news of a new variant. Amazing how fickle and reactionary the market has become, while being at/near record highs.

 

[Lempo]

And because investors haven't learned again and again and again, the Stockmarket takes a dive at the first news of a new variant. Amazing how fickle and reactionary the market has become, while being at/near record highs.

Someone is making a lot of money whenever the others are made to kneejerk.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Omicron.

Why doesn't Omicron, the largest of the variants, simply not eat the other strains?

 

[Blueline Bomber]

61 travellers from South Africa in Netherlands positive for COVID-19 -authorities

Well ****.

 

[AD Skinner]

Why doesn't Omicron, the largest of the variants, simply not eat the other strains?

It's true what they say- men are from Omicron Persei 9, women are from Omicron Persei 7

 

[Lempo]

At least we're learning the Greek alphabet.

 

[MinJaBen]

At least we're learning the Greek alphabet.

I’m not looking forward to the omega variant. That would be a bit ominous.

 

[MinJaBen]

I apologize for the Twitter account link for those who are not a fan of this guys politics, but the linked article which is often behind a paywall is very interesting.

 

[tarheelhockey]

At least we're learning the Greek alphabet.

And we’ve all become citizen virologists/epidemiologists/lawyers. Thanks, COVID!

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

And we’ve all become citizen virologists/epidemiologists/lawyers. Thanks, COVID!

Only if you do "research".

 

[LakeLivin]

Got my booster on Friday afternoon. A bit tired and maybe 3 deg temp increase on Saturday, that was it. Not nearly as bad as my 2nd covid and 2nd shingles jabs (104 deg fever and completely wiped out for a day with both).

 

[Borsig]

Northern VA here. In grocery stores I wear a mask mostly because no one has any understanding of personal space. That's about the only place I wear it

You live literally in hell.
Literally.