The Virus Outbreak Thread

I’ve been in public a lot the past few days, in a state with few masks in sight.
 
 
Really putting this vaccine to the test.

In Paris, the cops are beating up a woman just because she didn’t have a vaccine passport.
 
As much as I hate anti-vaxxers, I think that this one is too excessive.
 
Also, in Malaysia, after daily cases dropped to 18000s for several days, it went back up to 20396.

My parents has been out of the hospital for about a week now. They’re pretty much back to full health, the only issue is that almost 2 weeks of being bedridden has left their muscles a bit atrophied so they’re kinda on the weak end. We’ve been trying to get them to work those leg muscles a bit, but they’re still having troubles holding oxygen in their lungs so it’s a slow going effort.
 
Still a blessing all things considered.

A child almost died when his appendix ruptured while waiting 6 hours to get a hospital bed due to unvaccinated assholes.
 
Your “personal choice” is costing lives. Get vaccinated you selfish fucks.

Covid cases remained within 18000s today.
 
Besides, cinemas, art galleries, indoor buskers, and theatrical performances will be allowed on Thursday, but with up to limits. Cinemas can only be half-full, while the others can only take in up to 30% of customers.

So this new variant is called the Mu Variant.

in b4 doomsaying bc it’s a new variant that will extend the quarantine, pandemic and lockdown

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
If it bypasses the vaccine it will.

@Hollowfox Jaeger
 
@Wiimeiser  
Just pray it doesn’t.

@NitroFury
 
Something about how that’s pronounced or the fact that it’s the name of an Atlantis-esque lost island-nation amused me.
 
What’s less amusing is that we’re running through the Greek alphabet quick with these variants.

In Malaysia, the King is considering suspending any Muslim religious teachers who refuse to get vaccinated.

@Zincy  
>if you don’t inject unknown and unsafe chemicals into your body you are being selfish!  
You are very silly

@Dustcan  
If we run out of Greek letters, can we switch to Cyrillic?

@Background Pony #C0AD
 
Are you against vaccinations in general?

@Background Pony #C0AD  

 
Yet also drinks Mt. Dew.

@Registered Anon  
After that we’ll use Armenian, then Hebrew, then N’Ko, Thai, Georgian, Cherokee, Canadian Aboriginal, Ogham, Runic/Futhark, Tagalog, Hanunoo, Buhid, Tagbanwa, Mongolian, the International Phonetic Alphabet, currency symbols… Anyone up for variant Hoe, Velar Nasal or Rupees?

@Wiimeiser  
Can’t forget Arabic.

@Wiimeiser  
Or even Korean, Japanese~~, or EVEN CHINESE~~!!

@Wiimeiser  
Also Maldivian, Sinhala (where there is ඞ… sus), Hieroglyphs, and then symbols (excluding controversial symbols).

@Background Pony #C0AD
 
The chemical makeup of all current in use vaccines in the US are known and can be looked up. Each of the chemicals and compounds used in all the vaccines are approved for internal medical use and have been used in other vaccines for decades. Both mRNA vaccines have been rigorously tested by both public and private institutions, and are both made by licensed and inspected companies.
 
None of the compounds in any of the four most common vaccines are known to have any adverse effects in proper dosage, and just because it has a big scary scientific name that your tiny mind cannot pronounce does not make it dangerous. Look up the chemical breakdown of an apple and you’ll see an arsenic based compound, table salt contains an exploding metal and an incredibly toxic gas, the list goes on.
 
 
But feel free to eat unapproved horse paste. I’m sure that will protect you.

Let’s have an example.
 
((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate). That sounds like a big, scary thing right? Lots of fancy words.
 
It’s fat. Or, more specifically, lipid nanoparticles. No more terrifying than the gristle on the side of a good New York Strip. It’s the delivery mechanism that gets the vaccine inside cells. One of them at least.
 
Dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate, also known as Disodium Phosphate. Scary, phosphate based. Must be dangerous right?
 
Ever drank water in a city or a house with a water softener? Congrats, you’ve ingested disodium phosphate, a key ingredient in water deminerlization. It’s also the white powder they put in pudding and cream of wheat to thicken it. Same thing for vaccines, it thickens the solution.
 
Acetic acid.
 
Literally just vinegar.

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
Good.

So it looks like there is likely a last-resort plan to rationing Hospital beds.

Kuala Lumpur and Selangor will move to Phase 2, so:
 
interdistrict travel is allowed for fully-vaccinated people  
shops and restaurants can stay until 10pm