'Fuck the nurses' is clearly the solution.I don’t even know where to start with that. So I won’t. I’m sorry you are suffering.
If you think ‘fuck the nurses’ is the solution, we are done though. The rest of what you said has essentially fuck all to do with anything I said.
Well bollocks to the lot of you pansies. I for one am glad I no longer have to spend any more time in quarantine.
Seriously. you try spending over 100 days in isolation when not working on what is essentially a giant floating bomb that's getting more and more dangerous by the day because the manpower required for the essential care and maintenance over the last year and a half has not been there due to closed borders.
Yeah, nurses and ICU staff are going to have a tough time of it but fuck it. We've had an absolute cunt of a time for the last 18 months and at least in a hospital when you finish shift you can go home, see your family and not worry about the fact that where you sleep is also where you work and where you know there's at least one or two areas of rusting steel precariously holding back tonnes of high-pressure hydrocarbons that have probably gone unchecked due to a lack of resources.
If there are any in need I am happy to help out on a case by case basis.'Fuck the nurses' is clearly the solution.
That's because - believe it or not - this entire site does not revolve around you.
This reminds me of a conversation one of my friends posted to her socials she had with her husband. She's a geneticist working on this hand waving covid stuff.Well, first of all, why are the fucking basket cases of Brexit Britain and Red-State USA used as our automatic examples of how things will go when we relax the borders? Why does noone ever use Canada or the Scandinavian countries
I think the potential for this disease to get out of hand in Australia is real. And most people I've spoken to don't even appreciate what that means in day to day basis for them. They're just interested in going to the pub or shopping. Most of them are actually shocked when the Doherty or Burnet moddeling is explained to them in terms relevant to them. "wow" and "I had no idea" are the top two responses I get.Here is brief recap of a discussion we had with Leo last night. Maybe some of you would be interested in hearing it.
L: Why is it we're in and out of lockdown, while other countries are out and are doing fine (judging by their fb photos of no masks, outside, travelling, chilling with friends). We should be like them.
K: Which countries do you mean?
L: Let's say France.
K: France, total 6.23M, dead, 112K, 28,000 new cases yesterday. Australia, total 35,384, dead 927. You sure you want to be like France?
L: Ok, maybe not France. How about a country similar to Australia - Canada?
K: Total cases 1.44M, deaths 26,637. And Canada has a fairly similar Stringency Index to Australia (i.e. similar strictness of lockdowns).
L: What about Norway?
K: 139K cases 804 deaths, for a country of ~5M, comparing to Australia's ~25M. Around 450 new cases per day now, in summer, with the lowest number of new cases since October last year hovering around 100.
L: And their healthcare system is much better than ours - hence probably less deaths...
K: So which of these countries would you like to be more like?
L: Yeah, I'm not sure anymore.
Totally.Feels a bit like we wasted our time with the lockdown. Going from 0-100
People in this bucket dont generally suddenly devlop mental health issues. I'm sure lockdowns exacerbate them, but mental health support is and has been available throughout the pandemic. Those seeking help have gotten it and some objective data to it working is that suicides have dropped in a statistically significant way. Calls toservices like beyoned blu enad lifeline are through teh roof. Those arent always the help epople need, but support is there. There has been more fund pumped into triaging those in need.The non-compliance this time around is symptomatic of a potentially just as dangerous issue imo. I've witnessed, been subject to and anecdotally heard about dozens of cases of just inexplicable behaviour among many people that seemingly points to some pretty severe mental health issues caused by the lockdowns.
Still averaging 1700 deaths a day though, and they seem disturbingly comfortable with that...... Imagine if there was a terrorist attack each day with a similar death count. From what I read, the majority of those deaths are still attributed to the health system overload. Then there's the non covid deaths from people who can't get treated due to covid overload. I doubt we'll ever see anything like that, but it's not an impossible scenario.On a more positive note, cases in the USA were around 160,000+ a month or so ago, with not much of a vaccination drive they're down to around 80,000 a day now - as it's getting colder and more people are inside. Maybe this thing does have a critical mass...
Covid deaths and terror deaths are a poor comparison to make though.Still averaging 1700 deaths a day though, and they seem disturbingly comfortable with that...... Imagine if there was a terrorist attack each day with a similar death count. From what I read, the majority of those deaths are still attributed to the health system overload. Then there's the non covid deaths from people who can't get treated due to covid overload. I doubt we'll ever see anything like that, but it's not an impossible scenario.
That will be the hard bit for SA, WA, NT and Tas.the biggest inconvenience has been the gyms and pubs being shut and I can't go riding where I want. For those who can't work, are watching their savings drain away and their plans and dreams with it, are stuck home schooling disgruntled children
Once covid is endemic in Vic and NSW I think you'll have a hard time keeping it out. It will start with a little outbreak and before you know it, they'll throw their hands in the air and say 'oh well we need to learn to live with it now'.That will be the hard bit for SA, WA, NT and Tas.
We have no internal restrictions, we go to the pub, restaurants, hairdresser... gyms are open, casino open, sheesha lounges open, kids are at school and apart from Interstate travel, life is basically normal with check ins and masks.
I can't even think how Marshmallow is going to introduce corona to a clean state.
Marshmallows has already said he will obey party orders and open up when directed to.Once covid is endemic in Vic and NSW I think you'll have a hard time keeping it out. It will start with a little outbreak and before you know it, they'll throw their hands in the air and say 'oh well we need to learn to live with it now'.
Yes, very disturbing. They really need to 'pump up those numbers'. (insert meme here)Still averaging 1700 deaths a day though, and they seem disturbingly comfortable with that...... Imagine if there was a terrorist attack each day with a similar death count. From what I read, the majority of those deaths are still attributed to the health system overload. Then there's the non covid deaths from people who can't get treated due to covid overload. I doubt we'll ever see anything like that, but it's not an impossible scenario.
But was this covered in The Croods?“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Winston Churchill
Not trying to make a false equivalency, I’m just uncomfortable with how comfortable many Americans are. A lot of cancer deaths could be avoided with major societal and lifestyle changes that most wouldn’t want to do. Their ‘fuck you, libtard’ approach to managing COVID is a pretty simple fix…but impossible for different reasons.Covid deaths and terror deaths are a poor comparison to make though.
There were over 600k cancer deaths in the US in 2020. people didn't jump up and down about those either. Im unsure of the overall proportion of covid deaths in comparison to all other deaths in the US combined is, but i suspect that mortality increase overall would be in the low single digits - statistically significant, but not socially significant. There are people in every highly infected country who've still not been exposed, or even know someone who has been impacted by covid and as such 1700 deaths a day is a "whatever" scenario.
Terror and the post 9/11 US rhetoric around terror has touched EVERY American despite most not having any connection to the events. And even if the rhetoric has been waved away by those a little more sensible, they still have been impacted by the mass surveillance that followed (ala NSA). So I think there would be absolute outrage on many levels if 1700 people were dying from terror attacks a day if not for the simple fact that being spied on was supposed to protect them against it.