What the media and politicians are doing with their response to WuFlu is evil. In a just world death-penalty levels of punishment would be levied against journalists and politicians who stoked this fear, and permanent exile would be in the cards for CEOs who mandated vaccines as a condition for reopening their offices.
The time where this was a conservative but reasonable response to a virus passed at the beginning of May when we had solid figures on case fatality rates by age, knew the infection fatality rate models were wrong, and started to get antibody data that told us there was a huge base of unreported asymptomatic cases that was building herd immunity.
huge base of unreported asymptomatic cases that was building herd immunity.
Herd immunity, and immunity in general, for a coronavirus is a nigh-hopeless cause. You expect people to form a socialized immunity to a virus that mutates in every population, with multiple know strains, and a viral structure that is already generally resistant to human and animal immune systems?
The virus isn't as deadly to most healthy persons as was originally believed, but that doesn't mean it isn't still harmful nor that it cannot suddenly become deadly through mutation.
You expect people to form a socialized immunity to a virus that mutates in every population, with multiple know strains, and a viral structure that is already generally resistant to human and animal immune systems?
I expect people to get immunity from this one variant of the coronavirus and some mutations with enough similarity to it. I don't expect them to suddenly be immune from all coronaviruses.
but that doesn't mean it isn't still harmful nor that it cannot suddenly become deadly through mutation.
The harm the virus does pales in comparison to the harm we are doing in reacting to it.. And the idea that a virus can mutate to a form more deadly is true of any virus; I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
I know I did, but more as a long term thing. I.E. if Biden wins in November. I'm already waking up daily pissed off at this bullshit infringement of my rights. Fucking nothing's open, I have to wear a fucking mask to go to the grocery store, forced to be single for another year, can't even attempt to date. I can't even get /fit/ because all the gyms are closed. For a disease twice as deadly as... The common cold. God, I'm so glad we ruined small businesses and young adult's lives so we can keep some morbidly obese octogenarians kicking for another year
I'm not sure I buy that personally, I'm in that age bracket and the vast majority of people I know have not had their lives affected all that much by the virus. Not saying there isn't an increase, but I don't see it being that big of one.
12.2% of women increased or started substance abuse, 14.4% for males.
Why would you expect a bigger difference here? Just asking.
8.9% of women seriously considered suicide vs 12.6% of males.
We know the stats of actual suicide and I'm willing to bet that a lot of the attempted female suicide in these stats would consider their attempt serious. So I'd take even these numbers with a grain of salt.
Hence a 14.4 increase in boys. It's par for the course, I suppose.
But as with everything else feminism, punching down on men doesn't mean that women feel better. We all know that women have never been less happy despite all the coddling and the reaffirmation and the privileges and whatever (obviously the solution to this unhappiness somehow is even more feminism, because fuck logic) The lockdown robbed a whole lot of them of their most important source of happiness, which is, of course, attention. This is why I am not surprised by the increase in female substance abuse.
Because of the lockdown, men and boys were forced to consume feminist propaganda "entertainment" as there was nothing else to do.
If they are into vidya there's still enough material that's not that infected. Also, the young don't consume the media we do. TikTok alone provided enough material to keep them from going full depression.
Personally, I don't buy that narrative. I believe they are happy but if they admitted it, they'd lose their ability to attack us. If they're already happy they don't need more.
I buy it. Going through live without ever having real agency is bound to make people unhappy. Of course this could just be male projection on my part.
What the media and politicians are doing with their response to WuFlu is evil. In a just world death-penalty levels of punishment would be levied against journalists and politicians who stoked this fear, and permanent exile would be in the cards for CEOs who mandated vaccines as a condition for reopening their offices.
The time where this was a conservative but reasonable response to a virus passed at the beginning of May when we had solid figures on case fatality rates by age, knew the infection fatality rate models were wrong, and started to get antibody data that told us there was a huge base of unreported asymptomatic cases that was building herd immunity.
Herd immunity, and immunity in general, for a coronavirus is a nigh-hopeless cause. You expect people to form a socialized immunity to a virus that mutates in every population, with multiple know strains, and a viral structure that is already generally resistant to human and animal immune systems?
The virus isn't as deadly to most healthy persons as was originally believed, but that doesn't mean it isn't still harmful nor that it cannot suddenly become deadly through mutation.
I expect people to get immunity from this one variant of the coronavirus and some mutations with enough similarity to it. I don't expect them to suddenly be immune from all coronaviruses.
The harm the virus does pales in comparison to the harm we are doing in reacting to it.. And the idea that a virus can mutate to a form more deadly is true of any virus; I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
They probably watched CNN.
The destruction of healthy social interaction is going to be more devastating long term than if we'd done absolutely nothing to respond to the virus.
I know I did, but more as a long term thing. I.E. if Biden wins in November. I'm already waking up daily pissed off at this bullshit infringement of my rights. Fucking nothing's open, I have to wear a fucking mask to go to the grocery store, forced to be single for another year, can't even attempt to date. I can't even get /fit/ because all the gyms are closed. For a disease twice as deadly as... The common cold. God, I'm so glad we ruined small businesses and young adult's lives so we can keep some morbidly obese octogenarians kicking for another year
And this is all just phase 1 of leftist rule.
I'm not sure I buy that personally, I'm in that age bracket and the vast majority of people I know have not had their lives affected all that much by the virus. Not saying there isn't an increase, but I don't see it being that big of one.
Time to start promoting strength again rather than fear and weakness.
Why would you expect a bigger difference here? Just asking.
We know the stats of actual suicide and I'm willing to bet that a lot of the attempted female suicide in these stats would consider their attempt serious. So I'd take even these numbers with a grain of salt.
Hence a 14.4 increase in boys. It's par for the course, I suppose.
But as with everything else feminism, punching down on men doesn't mean that women feel better. We all know that women have never been less happy despite all the coddling and the reaffirmation and the privileges and whatever (obviously the solution to this unhappiness somehow is even more feminism, because fuck logic) The lockdown robbed a whole lot of them of their most important source of happiness, which is, of course, attention. This is why I am not surprised by the increase in female substance abuse.
If they are into vidya there's still enough material that's not that infected. Also, the young don't consume the media we do. TikTok alone provided enough material to keep them from going full depression.
I buy it. Going through live without ever having real agency is bound to make people unhappy. Of course this could just be male projection on my part.