Mega-Thread: Coronavirus Pandemic

[Traveler Voltin]

No, most of us are just sick of folks playing cutsey games and thinking spreading misinformation during a pandemic is fun, and we're beyond exhausted at this point. So whether intended or not, there's little tolerance for this kind of bullshit after a few years. You may have intended nothing ill, but I can see how it may have been misinterpeted.

It's not paranoia, it's frustrated exhaustion with anti-mask, anti-vaxx idiots ruining things for the rest of us for going on two full years now.

i simply believe all sides lie and it find it annoying.

[unfilteredJW]

i simply believe all sides lie and it find it annoying.

Explain how both sides lie.

[Edge-]

i simply believe all sides lie and it find it annoying.

Then the angry post directed your way was 100% valid. This isn't an "all sides" issue, this is a "the antivax/mask folks are literally ruining this and dragging it out for everyone, and they're causing tons of other problems while throwing temper tantrums over it."

Like, you see the shit going on in Ottawa with the trucker protest? That's gonna impact supply chains i.e. impact the broader market in NA. You read about the 911 system in Ottawa being absolutely overwhelmed by people, mainly from the US, calling in to attempt to divert law enforcement and overwhelm them in support of the protesters?

Like the guy in Ohio who called in a bomb threat...to a police department in Ottawa Ohio, 50 miles away from him?

Yeah, one side is doing this shit, and if you're carrying water for "both sides" then you're on the side doing this shit.

[Traveler Voltin]

Then the angry post directed your way was 100% valid. This isn't an "all sides" issue, this is a "the antivax/mask folks are literally ruining this and dragging it out for everyone, and they're causing tons of other problems while throwing temper tantrums over it."

Like, you see the shit going on in Ottawa with the trucker protest? That's gonna impact supply chains i.e. impact the broader market in NA. You read about the 911 system in Ottawa being absolutely overwhelmed by people, mainly from the US, calling in to attempt to divert law enforcement and overwhelm them in support of the protesters?

Like the guy in Ohio who called in a bomb threat...to a police department in Ottawa Ohio, 50 miles away from him?

Yeah, one side is doing this shit, and if you're carrying water for "both sides" then you're on the side doing this shit.

i have a serious question that i know you will take the wrong way because i feel like you are massively bias.
do you honestly believe the numbers are 100% correct?

[Edge-]

do you honestly believe the numbers are 100% correct?

Of course not, nothing is perfect. But I believe they're fairly accurate overall for the most part - pending places engaged in known fuckery like FL, at least in the US.

There's plenty of evidence that the numbers are actually higher than what is even reported, to boot.

[PhaelixWW]

i have a serious question that i know you will take the wrong way because i feel like you are massively bias.
do you honestly believe the numbers are 100% correct?

What numbers? What do you believe to be incorrect?

[Traveler Voltin]

Of course not, nothing is perfect. But I believe they're fairly accurate overall for the most part - pending places engaged in known fuckery like FL, at least in the US.

There's plenty of evidence that the numbers are actually higher than what is even reported, to boot.

well that is all i wanted to know.

[Edge-]

well that is all i wanted to know.

Will you have anything to add, ever?

[Traveler Voltin]

Perhaps address what you're replying to before positing another question? As if it wasn't already obvious which side of things you fall on...

you have no idea what my side is so dont even try that crap with me.

[Edge-]

you have no idea what my side is so dont even try that crap with me.

"both sides"

We literally know exactly where you stand.

[Traveler Voltin]

Will you have anything to add, ever?

you dont want me to answer that question truthfully.

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"both sides"

We literally know exactly where you stand.

no. you really dont.

[Edge-]

no. you really dont.

Then enlighten us and share some information. Unless you're just here to think you're cute and play games, in which case just let us know. That's fine too and we won't engage with you with any seriousness.

[PhaelixWW]

you dont want me to answer that question truthfully.

no. you really dont.

So you come here, post vague stuff, call everyone liars, then when pressed for what your deal is, you say that you're not going to share it because we don't really want to know.

There's a word for what you're doing here.

[Traveler Voltin]

Seems pretty obvious.

You could actually offer something of substance to enlighten me, though.

you people wouldnt believe me even if i tried to. the people here have already decided their stance on the matter.

[PhaelixWW]

you people wouldnt believe me even if i tried to. the people here have already decided their stance on the matter.

Are you, like, ashamed of your stance on the matter? You don't seem to have a problem posting vaguely condescending statements; what's the harm in making it actually worthwhile?

[Traveler Voltin]

"You people"? I don't know these guys, I'm not even from the same country. Not sure why you're lumping us all together.

Seriously, drop a knowledge bomb on me.

i can only give local experience for things around me. not nation or world wide.
which is why i know no one here will believe me.

[PhaelixWW]

i can only give local experience for things around me. not nation or world wide.
which is why i know no one here will believe me.

Then why did you make snide comments in the first place if you had no intention of posting constructively?

The least you can do is tell us what you don't think we'll believe.

[Edge-]

i can only give local experience for things around me. not nation or world wide.
which is why i know no one here will believe me.

Put up or shut up. This is getting dreadfully boring.

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Back on topic, how are things in Utah?

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/02/...still-filling/

Now health care providers in southwest Utah are calling for help. Eleven National Guard members are being sent to St. George Regional Hospital to work in non-clinical roles, like food service, moving patients around the hospital and janitorial work. It’s the first deployment of guard personnel in a hospital setting in Utah.

Sgt. McKinlay Bracken of Salt Lake City said he was told to brace for “long hours” of changing bedpans and remaking soiled beds — “just being able to help where we’re needed,” he explained in a news conference this week in St. George.

St. George Regional has been “operating at capacity for a long time,” said Mark Evans, operations officer for the hospital.

“Our ICU has been over 100% capacity for months, since the summer time,” Evans said. “... We’ve had people working many long, overtime hours. You can only do that so long. It’s not sustainable.”

Not well, national guard being trained quickly for non-clinical roles to help hospitals that continue to be overwhelmed with covid patients. Also because staff are overworked, underpaid, and have to deal with absolute shitdicks day in and day out and are continuing to leave their jobs.

[wunksta]

i can only give local experience for things around me. not nation or world wide.
which is why i know no one here will believe me.

So to clarify, your experience is that covid numbers are not 100% accurate for your local area? Have you been collecting or auditing these numbers yourself, or is it just based on casual observation?

[draynay]

You guys even feed the most low effort spammers.