Covid-19 The New Covid Megathread v.Oh-my-cron!

[Mr. Krinkle]

Yeah, I went to work sick today. Symptoms didn't fit COVID and I wasn't working with anyone vulnerable. As the shift went on, my symptoms became worse. On the way home, I stopped into a bunch of pharmacies to try and find a rapid antigen test but they're all fucking sold out. Typical. How much can Australia fuck up? (Let me count the ways.)

So, the antigen tests are sold out. Fine. I drive myself to a fucking testing site so I can sit there - again - for a couple of hours with my thumb up my ass. This is my life now... except, hold on, the fucking testing sites are all closed down due to "overwhelming demand".

So, I'm not allowed to go to work unless I get tested... but there are no tests available?

This is getting fucking stupid.

No, it was fucking stupid last year.

This is downright retarded.

I found someone I know with a box of RATs, luckily.

does it even matter at this point?

you got a cold

and covid19 is a cold now

 

[birdup]

It's not a cold.

Call it a flu, if you like, but it's no cold.

I agree with you, though. I'm fucking over this virus.

It's been over two years now!

Fuck this.

Literally nobody would have agreed to this at the beginning, if they had a crystal ball. They have slowly shifted public perception, inch by inch, and now everyone is a fucking zombie. The pro vax arguments make more sense than the anti vax arguments but the opposite is also true because this is crazy. We can't shut down the whole fucking world for years.

On the radio in Australia they're constantly playing shit now encouraging kids to get vaccinated. Why? Because we vaccinated all the adults and that didn't work so clearly the solution is to jab everyone in the whole world!

They should start jabbing fetuses.

 

[Las Veghost grower]

It's not a cold.

Call it a flu, if you like, but it's no cold.

I agree with you, though. I'm fucking over this virus.

It's been over two years now!

Fuck this.

Literally nobody would have agreed to this at the beginning, if they had a crystal ball. They have slowly shifted public perception, inch by inch, and now everyone is a fucking zombie. The pro vax arguments make more sense than the anti vax arguments but the opposite is also true because this is crazy. We can't shut down the whole fucking world for years.

On the radio in Australia they're constantly playing shit now encouraging kids to get vaccinated. Why? Because we vaccinated all the adults and that didn't work so clearly the solution is to jab everyone in the whole world!

They should start jabbing fetuses.

Give em time…theyd jab your fuckin dog if they could…$$&$&$$&&

 

[Las Veghost grower]

What really pissed me off is how some of these hospital workers were hero’s up until they got fired for not wanting to take the vaccine…just a prime example of how shit can go south real fast if you don’t do what your told

 

[Deleted member 521610]

give it a couple months once people have 4 shots and still getting covid maybe then they will realize big pharma duped them into a product that does not work.

 

[alasdairm]

them?

you took the shot.

you mean us

alasdair

 

[Jabberwocky]

does it even matter at this point?

you got a cold

and covid19 is a cold now

it will be a cold eventually, but it is not yet. when it stops having a noticeable toll on the health system i think its justifiable to call it a cold but over here we have more hospitalisations over here now than we ever had with delta.

So, I'm not allowed to go to work unless I get tested... but there are no tests available?

that is fucking ludicrous.

isnt it crazy how you dont even notice the inconveniences at the start?

i have noticed inconveniences ever since i developed a conscience, way before covid. sadly well into my 30s cos i only got one when i stopped using hard drugs.

but i can see how if you don't have a conscience and thus wait until the government enforces the bare minimum of common decency for public safety reasons that you would conceptualise such things merely as inconveniences. they are inconvenient, for sure, but its not the first word that springs to mind in describing them.

 

[maassive]

give it a couple months once people have 4 shots and still getting covid maybe then they will realize big pharma duped them into a product that does not work.

maybe you think that repeating something enough times is gonna make it real, but you can refer to the previous posts showing it worked for the strains that it was designed for and still works to a lesser degree with the new strains.

big parma never promised you a rose garden

 

[-=SS=-]

it will be a cold eventually, but it is not yet. when it stops having a noticeable toll on the health system i think its justifiable to call it a cold but over here we have more hospitalisations over here now than we ever had with delta.

So now your designation depends on the state of hospital infrastructure and its ability to manage. You've gone from science to politics. Once again proving my point that political bias affects the minds of scientists.

 

[-=SS=-]

"Omicron". They were obviously expecting a winter spike of deaths and to take credit for it. Nature hasn't played ball. Now they've been exposed, and the only explanation they have available is that Omicron is actually just the common cold. They've blown it because according to their own virology dogma this IS the end of the pandemic, a mild variant that replaces the dominant ones. They can not continue the charade and now have to climb down.

We find out today that 100 downing street staff, potentially including the PM himself, were having a garden party on May 20th 2020, during the supposed "first wave". Yeah, so fucking dangerous that all these people would willing congregate together. Lord give me strength. It's so blindingly obvious that those at the top have known all along this "pandemic" is a complete con-job. We saw it at the G7 meetings where masks were only for the cameras, ministers and rule makers breaking their own rules, etc, etc, etc
DailyMail - Email proves they and 100 Downing Street staff were invited

 

[Jabberwocky]

So now your designation depends on the state of hospital infrastructure and its ability to manage. You've gone from science to politics. Once again proving my point that political bias affects the minds of scientists.

not really. completely disingenuous reading of what i wrote.

it is fair to assume the hospital infrastructure has not changed dramatically since delta. so hospitalisation numbers are a quick and dirty way of measuring the severity of a variant now compared to one that was around 6 months ago.

it is fair to assume that a significant number of hospitalisations due to omicron means that omicron is not just a common cold.

which of these assumptions is political? which do you disagree with?

only someone desperate for me to be politically biased would read my statement as politically biased.

i'm not claiming to be completely unbiased, that would be ludicrous. but this is a reach.

 

[-=SS=-]

it is fair to assume the hospital infrastructure has not changed dramatically since delta. so hospitalisation numbers are a quick and dirty way of measuring the severity of a variant now compared to one that was around 6 months ago.

No, they're not. We know that many people going into hospital are testing positive after they enter the hospital. That fact alone completely renders your point invalid. Even the death numbers are a poor metric, again because of the definition (within 28 days of a positive test).

All this misses the point though. If the hospital infrastructure can't cope because it's fucking shite and been used as a political football for decades, then that's between hospital administrators and the government. That has absolutely no impact on the severity of a pandemic itself and the two should not be conflated.

I do not give a flying fuck if the NHS can't cope. It is not my job to surrender my liberty and life to protect an institution that I am FORCED TO PAY FOR through taxation.

All your "fair assumptions" don't wash. You don't get to make assumptions when the cost is my liberty and well-being. Either you're a scientist or a politician. Make up your mind.

 

[Jabberwocky]

No, they're not. We know that many people going into hospital are testing positive after they enter the hospital. That fact alone completely renders your point invalid. Even the death numbers are a poor metric, again because of the definition (within 28 days of a positive test).

All this misses the point though. If the hospital infrastructure can't cope because it's fucking shite and been used as a political football for decades, then that's between hospital administrators and the government. That has absolutely no impact on the severity of a pandemic itself and the two should not be conflated.

I do not give a flying fuck if the NHS can't cope. It is not my job to surrender my liberty and life to protect an institution that I am FORCED TO PAY FOR through taxation.

All your "fair assumptions" don't wash. You don't get to make assumptions when the cost is my liberty and well-being. Either you're a scientist or a politician. Make up your mind.

Ah, well obviously if you don't think hospital numbers are reflective then its irrelevant.

it doesn't change the fact that nothing i said was political, i didn't make any comments on the wider problems in the NHS as they are not relevant to my argument.

its ironic that you brought politics up to try and demonstrate that my position is political.

my assumptions, which were not political, have no bearing on your liberty, nor does anything else i personally say/think/do. i'm sorry if your political biases (because you certainly aren't a scientist and according to you they are mutually exclusive and you have to be one or another) have made you feel that way about my assumptions.

i was making a comment about omicron vs the common cold, none of anything you've said is remotely relevant. it looks like you're just trying to pick a fight so i'll stop engaging now.

 

[maassive]

It is not my job to surrender my liberty and life to protect an institution that I am FORCED TO PAY FOR through taxation.

Could you elaborate on how you think you're (being forced) to protect the health system?

Seems like you got multiple issues going on at once.

 

[-=SS=-]

Could you elaborate on how you think you're (being forced) to protect the health system?

The restrictions we have right now and any harsher restrictions are predicated on the health system being over run. All the restrictions should be lifted immediately. Our entire country is being held to ransom on this premise because the NHS and government are both garbage and unfit for purpose, and both riddled with parasites who get paid for doing nothing and over charging for everything.

It stopped being about protecting actual people a long time ago. May 20th 2020 by all indications.

 

[Ganjcat]

It’s up to you bro, just make sure to really think about it and make sure your not doing it out of peer pressure or because the talking heads on tv told you too, if you e made it this far without the vaccine you prolly don’t need it tbh…

I have one booked for tomorrow I caught some really nasty flu bug in November that fucked my up proper I'm hoping it was covid because it it was then I will be immune I should be immune for life but I've heard you can still get reinfected wtf is up with that man what disease can reinfect you that's the kind of shit that makes even me go "hang on a sec something isn't right here" I mean even the black death is possible to get immune to it you survive it but some respiratory virus ain't I don't know what it is but I guarantee that their is something the government isn't telling us what they could be is anyone's guess

 

[Ganjcat]

Are there some special symptoms for omicron?

With Covid I had fever only at night and temple/frontal lobe headache that was mild but persistent. No cough, no sneeze, bit of sinus congestion. The fever was the only thing outside of a cold.

The first one is supposed to be a symptom of omicron it's called 'night sweats'

 

[Yourbaker]

The first one is supposed to be a symptom of omicron it's called 'night sweats'

Lol that's hilarious, yeah I probably have it. I have had night sweats for years til I quit drinking 6 years ago and they slowly stopped. But yeah I just woke up dripping like sleeping me had been doing some water sports.

I can see how this is easy to spread. I'll see if I can get a test kit delivered. Right now on a scale of 1-10 this is a 1. I have full symptoms but they are all so mild. Guess I will see how fast natural immunity works. I am producing a bit of excess mucus and sneezing so I'd guess 100% contagious, certainly today. My husband never got Covid from me despite living in the house with me so now we get to see if he gets this. He is Taiwanese, his coment is "what did Fauci expect? If asian people worked on it, of course I'm immune..."

 

[Electrum1]

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[Mr. Krinkle]

I have one booked for tomorrow I caught some really nasty flu bug in November that fucked my up proper I'm hoping it was covid because it it was then I will be immune I should be immune for life but I've heard you can still get reinfected wtf is up with that man what disease can reinfect you that's the kind of shit that makes even me go "hang on a sec something isn't right here" I mean even the black death is possible to get immune to it you survive it but some respiratory virus ain't I don't know what it is but I guarantee that their is something the government isn't telling us what they could be is anyone's guess

it's a cold

so yea you can catch the same cold twice....but nobody cares because it's just a cold

it used to kill you but it doesn't anymore

so no point in getting a vaccine now

do what you want - but im just sayin

it's just a cold