The Virus Outbreak Thread

“Biden says social media is “killing people with COVID misinformation

@Background Pony #8F92
 
He’s not wrong.

@Background Pony #8F92  
Even he’s fed up with misinformation. Hell, my friend won’t even take the shot because of it. It’s fucking suicidal.

@Flutter_Lover  
@Zincy  
True.

It’s like we’re taking steps backwards.

@NitroFury  
We’ve been going backwards ever since Republicans considered Fox News to be reliable.

i think we may need to scrap the term “Avoid it like the plague” since people seem to actively WANT to get it :/

@ichiban iceychan 1517  
How about “Avoid it like a pedophile”?
 
EDIT: With how many cases came out of one person at the MCG, Delta’s current R0 here is 20.

Hi! A family member got the first dose of the Chinese vaccine two days ago, anybody knows for sure their effectiveness and any common side effects they may generate? Because in here they are utterly paranoid of Cuban, Russian and Chinese vaccines and are actively hampering others to get them (No kidding).

“Are social media companies also guilty of ‘killing people’ if they allow content encouraging people to be obese, to consume fatty junk food, content which glorifies cigarette smoking and large amounts of alcohol consumption and a sedentary lifestyle?”
 
Glenn Greenwald has a big point here.

@MagpulPony  
I can agree too.

12 hours later…a little soreness at the injection site.

@MLPFIMfan 97FD  
Even if there was no vaccine of any kind, the virus is not even close to deadly enough to wipe out a significant portion of the world’s population.

@MagpulPony  
You sure? Citation?

@MagpulPony  
Mutations and human stupidity says otherwise.

@MLPFIMfan 97FD  
Ok, dude what is it with you and genocide?

@MLPFIMfan 97FD
 
It was expected to kill up to 2 million in America alone in the absolute worst case scenario. Even with mutations beginning to pop up it’s unlikely the American death toll will break 700k.
 
Pretty sure a lot more are gonna die, but the majority of people most likely won’t get sick and even fewer die.

@MLPFIMfan 97FD  
Questions like this aren’t constructive in the slightest.

@MagpulPony  
Oh hey. This is happening again.
 
I’m just gonna grab my flame shield.

@MLPFIMfan 97FD  
At least ask that particular question in the fucking politics thread!

In the town of Sibu in Malaysia, all business operators must be vaccinated in order to continue their work. The town government did this to hasten vaccination and economic recovery.

Unless there’s a reason that you can’t get vaccinated (i.e.: biologically incompatible with vaccines due to something like allergies), there’s no excuse to not get vaxxed. And I say this as a right-leaning libertarian.