Coronavirus Safety Protocol - please read and discuss

[dpatnod]

Oh it sucked for a bit. But definitely quickly recovering. Feel a ton better already. If no symptoms I can go back to work Friday - with a mask for 5 more days. We'll see if it is that quick or not.

[CGVT]

Damn. Hoping for a quick recovery

[dpatnod]

Well, it finally got me. Symptoms started Saturday, and were pretty bad for two days. Mostly chills and bad body aches.

I was a bit worried thinking the first day that 'Oh shit - this could get bad'. Usually illnesses get worse over the first couple days. Not this. It starts at 110%, coming in like a freight train.

I am thankful that being vaxxed and boosted my system was well armed to deal with it fairly quickly. Basic cold symptoms now. I wouldn't want to have had this without my system being prepared.

For people scared of the shot - shit, I can tell you side effects of the shot are nothing compared to the illness. You can talk about your 'natural immunity' from getting it all you want.... If you are going to get it without any preparation, I wish you luck. It could be pretty aweful, and it's effects long lasting.

[Marko69]

Yep……. Desensitising is exactly the word for here with re to the USA.
When Sandy Hook happened…… people were like, “another one?” ….. with no jaw dropping shock attached.

The cinema shooting in Denver DID have an effect though. People here in the UK were shittin themselves to go see a movie after thst for a few months.

Putting that, “kill people in a cinema” idea into the nutters heads.

[Futureshock]

Yep, agreed. Its like society, no doubt with the help of the internet and the “google ANYTHING” world, has become immune to being shocked.
When kids (the future adults) can google beheadings, the mass shootings aren’t going to shock them.
i remember my own stepson showing me footage of the guy going into a New Zealand mosque, call of duty style, and wiping people out.
His words: “That is absolutely crazy eh? Unbelievable. Anyway, Spaghetti for dinner tonight is it?”
I was shocked at the footage he showed me and couldn’t answer his question.

Wow man. That's sad and crazy.

I remember as a kid the news services stopped showing footage from Vietnam (bloody stuff) to maintain not desensitizing society. What a different world we live in.

[Marko69]

Domestic terrorism and fatal police shootings of innocents (slam dunk shootings of nefarious people do not make it at all) no longer move the needle enough to be on the news more then one day.

Yep, agreed. Its like society, no doubt with the help of the internet and the “google ANYTHING” world, has become immune to being shocked.
When kids (the future adults) can google beheadings, the mass shootings aren’t going to shock them.
i remember my own stepson showing me footage of the guy going into a New Zealand mosque, call of duty style, and wiping people out.
His words: “That is absolutely crazy eh? Unbelievable. Anyway, Spaghetti for dinner tonight is it?”
I was shocked at the footage he showed me and couldn’t answer his question.

[chemiclord]

Well, there are still thousands of people dying every week to the virus in the United States alone, so I'd argue it's not a story simply because society has decided that is an acceptable cost to not change their lives in any way than any meaningful blunting of the pandemic.

[froot loops]

There is a good documentary on the Spanish Flu of 1918 on American Experience. One of the themes of it was even though it was devastating and killed so many people, there is a collective urge to forget it ever happened. People want to get back to normal life. That's kind of the story of pandemics.

There was not really a spike with this latest variant, enough people have either gotten it and have some sort of immunity or they got vaccinated and have some sort immunity. There is not much of a story anymore and that's good.

[TheLondonLion]

Russia and Ukraine will keep grinding for years, as will the economic war of attrition where Russians and Europeans will get considerably poorer to indulge the Tsarist imperial fantasies of little Vlad, who can’t die or be killed soon enough.

[Futureshock]

Well, I suppose in the spirit of fairness, the war in Ukraine has kinda reached a grinding phase. You really can't devote an hour long program to how one side or the other moved the battle line three feet yesterday. I suspect it'll jump back to the top of the news cycle the instant something significant happens. The media loves reporting on a war.

As far as Coronavirus goes, it's reached a similar sort of metastability, and as such it's dropped off the news cycle. Unless a variant suddenly emerges to be a higher percentage killer, the world's media is largely going to accept it as the new normal.

It is a symptom of society.

Humans, these days, tend to over-react to whatever is "New" and hit the snooze button on anything that has been going for a few weeks. It says something that COVID stayed at the top for almost 2 years. Trump had to be Trump on a daily basis to stay there. Still does.

Domestic terrorism and fatal police shootings of innocents (slam dunk shootings of nefarious people do not make it at all) no longer move the needle enough to be on the news more then one day.

[chemiclord]

Well, I suppose in the spirit of fairness, the war in Ukraine has kinda reached a grinding phase. You really can't devote an hour long program to how one side or the other moved the battle line three feet yesterday. I suspect it'll jump back to the top of the news cycle the instant something significant happens. The media loves reporting on a war.

As far as Coronavirus goes, it's reached a similar sort of metastability, and as such it's dropped off the news cycle. Unless a variant suddenly emerges to be a higher percentage killer, the world's media is largely going to accept it as the new normal.

[Marko69]

The post I made last week has been liked by Foxhopper, , nice one……. Cheers Fox…… but i was genuinely making the point that (IN THE NEWS) ….. it has disappeared as quick as it arrived. Not saying it didn’t exist or anything like that…… saying that no one gives a fuck anymore in the UK about it and there are still a large percentage of unvacced people. Its just weird.

All news these days seems a bit of a head scratcher. All news seems to be head turning huge…… Brexit, Covid, Trump, Biden, Putin, Ukraine, Boris having a party, Tory Leadership, ……, all stuff that turns heads away from other stuff.

Its the most tinfoil hat-ish thing i’ll ever say but its just fkn weird. Even Ukraine……. Back in Feb, everyone was like, “oh shit, war with Russia?”…… now its not even a story on the BBC News. A topic on the JV show was about lighthouse keepers FFS! 🤷♂️

[Futureshock]

It's the weirdest disease I have ever seen. Sometimes there's no rhyme or reason why it is mild with some and terrible, or fatal, to others.

I believe that being fully vaccinated is everyone's best chance to get through it. I am on the wrong side of a lot of factors and it just had me where my usual 6 hours of sleep was just not enough. 1 day I think I had a little bit of the sniffles but that was the worst of it.

Please get vaccinated if you are not. Don't play Russian Roulette with your life because of politics or fear of the government.

[froot loops]

My son got it last month and he was in rough shape for about a week.

[Forsh]

I am triple vaccinated and don't worry for one split second about getting Covid ... I thought that was the whole point of being vaccinated. Feel bad for those who are long suffering from it, of course