• TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemmy.zip
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    Travelers spending way more time in the airport, increasing the likelihood of catching and transporting the virus, isn’t the most optimal combination with this news.

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    So, everywhere, then. Virus don’t care 'bout no state boundaries.

    BA.3.2 has been found in California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming, Louisiana, Michigan and Ohio.

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    WEARING A MASK IS LIKE WEARING A CONDOM.

    Would you risk a permanent disease for the sake of “ehh I dont like how it feels”?

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      “ehh I dont like how it feels”

      Considering how well preventable STI’s still get around, I’d say that sentiment is a little too common. That or a lot of people are hot garbage at risk assessment.

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        People are, in fact, hot garbage at risk assessment. See, for example, how many people refused to mask/vax during the height of the pandemic, and the concurrent death rates…

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        I think it’s people believing it won’t happen to them. There is risk, but I will be an exception.

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        I happen to know when my (now ex-) wife cheated on me, she raw dogged him… Never would have expected that from her, she’s such a germophobe otherwise…

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      “I can only breathe with a mask on my face when im hiding my identity to beat up on people of color!!! Any other time though, fuck off!!!”

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      It’s actually only a good analogy if you have an STI you’re preventing giving to others.

      Masks keep YOU from spreading what you have unless it’s KN-95 or better iirc.

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      I mean I would say its a heck of a lot easier. Having a condom all day would be kinda hard to deal with but wearing a mask is essentially the same as wearing a hat.

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        A mask is like socks and underwear for me: I feel weird if I don’t have it on, especially when wandering about.

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          Yeah it does not have that much of a natural feel to me but its never been much of an imposition. The most difficult thing is I have glasses and live in a place that has winters so like my glasses can get fogged although my scarf does that to. I actually have an idea for next year on that. You know though it is kinda wierd though because now I kinda relate unmasked as kinda private and intimate. Like it feels a bit lewd to be walking around without one. Maybe like walking around without a shirt as a guy. So maybe more impolite than lewd.

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            For my part, I no longer have to figure out what face I should wear when around people. As someone with autism, adjusting to humanity can be troubling.

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              its kinda nice to because you see someone else with one and you give a little nod or such. I sorta miss hanging in a subculture and in a way this provides that nice little thing.

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    If this one doesn’t take out Trump, I’m eating a Chinese bat myself.

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    I don’t know if I should upvote, like or downvote this news :D

    It’s good to spread important news, but it is a bad news, and a reminder of a failed containment, so how the some system is supposed to work!? Non-serious answers only

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      Downvote. Reasons:

      1. This is clearly fake news by the LAME STREAM fake news media to damage glorious leader the President’s fantastic work to MAGA.

      2. By allowing other users to see this news they start holding the concept of a new variant that is spreading fast in their head and therefore they manifest it. If enough people manifest it, it becomes true (even though it is clearly not, see above).

      3. Even though it is not real, COVID is also just a Chinese hoax that is just a flu so any reporting on it is spreading Chinese propaganda and therefore TREASON (and we downvote treason).

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        . By allowing other users to see this news they start holding the concept of a new variant that is spreading fast in their head and therefore they manifest it. If enough people manifest it, it becomes true (even though it is clearly not, see above).

        Are americans orks from 40k?

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          Naw Americans are the Imperium of Man. ie: hates anyone that is different, destroys everything it can’t control, highly xenophobic (racist), and filled with more propaganda than Nazi Germany. and as of the past decade… most worship their emperor (Trump) as God.

          Now Indians (India not Native Americans) and any country third world country… they are Space Orks. they can cobble together random trash and seemingly broken bits of technology to make cheap but useful stuff for their communities. while Americans (IoM) toss out old and broken tech… they take that broken/old tech and make computers and solar powered devices that look like they shouldn’t work but somehow magically do.

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              I’m American, and I found myself agreeing with this snark. Most of us are morons. I’m finally allowing myself to recognize this unfortunate reality.

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                  oh yea they are part of the Scientology crew, him and mila kunis both fled to EUROPE after defending masterson’s SA, they dint get the response they wanted faced increasing criticism, so they fled. likewise ELLEN degeneres fled shortly after when diddy got sentenced/convicted, speculating she was likely involved as well, it was on a reddit post a while back, im suprised it wasnt reported more.

                  asthon was responsible for harming SEX WORKERS, women more than he claimed help catch “child predators”, it allowed police to SA and harass these women.

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    So, this will be extra, extra bad if we have another covid-like event in the USA. People are already divided, things are rough otherwise, and lockdowns will not work under this administration. It would be total fucking chaos

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      Just wear a mask. I bought 400 of them a while ago on Amazon for $40. One way masking sucks, but is highly effective.

      If Trump’s dumb ass hadn’t understocked the PPE last time, we could’ve just all worn masks and then generally went about our business otherwise.

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      Wait, I thought they wanted to declare marshal law to avoid the election… I bet we start hearing kore about how we can’t have an election because of covid…

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      with rfk jr, trashing all vaccine initiatives, it will be a combo of OLD favorites, measles, tdap, mmr, CHICKENPOX. we might see TB again since people are likely to not comply with antibiotic regime, TB being a very persistent bacteria, its naturally resistance to most antibiotics due to its waxy coating the bacteria has, and it develops immmunity to drugs in general.

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      And again, the population will be affected disproportionately based on population density, which happens to correlate strongly with political leanings.

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    Alright if we get remote jobs again this time agree to absolutely not let this one go.

    They listed jobs as remote before forcing us to come anyway last time and they will try again.

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      They’ve told us we can’t work from home. So that’s what I’m going to say. If they try to fire me I’ll use their own words against them.

      We have stronger employment law where I live.

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    I recently got hit with COVID and so did my wife and kids. We all tested positive and have had recent boosters for COVID and flu. Since I’m in a city where one of these states is listed, I kind of wonder if I got this variant.

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      i had it last september, the razor blade throat pain was very intense, also because it prevented me from swallowing too and anything entering the eosphagus would cause me to immediately cough up thick phelgm. i couldnt eat or drink for a few days.