• beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    2025 obligatory alternatives to social distancing:

    -Isolate in the office, just never go home (and keep working of course)

    -Instead of not going to work, you can get a free brain worm at one of the new brain worm dispensaries

    -ingest a lethal dose of Ivermectin

    -Storm and plunder one of the official buildings on the list published on the Department of Patriotism’s website (must bring own gallows parts)

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    I could only BE so lucky. Lockdowns were a boon on both my partner’s and my life. I feel horrid for folks who were affected negatively but it was the best two years of our life, doing nothing but experiencing each other alone at home.

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      I thought it was great. The streets were clean, the skies were clear, the lines at the supermarket were short, traffic was minor… and despite what people claimed, you could go out for a walk whenever you wanted, at least around here.

      I talked to my neighbors much more during lockdown than I do these days.

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      I loved lockdown. I had so much stuff in my chest freezer I got to use, we both lost a bunch of necessary weight due to actually following serving sizes. I beat like, three games in my backlog. Didn’t have to visit anybody, didn’t have to leave the house. I worked from home, and worked enough to pay off my student loans and buy two luxury watches. Plus donate to my alma mater’s fund for students stuck on campus. That was after my month long furlough, that is. Where I spent my time baking and cleaning and painting and every week I trimmed my facial hair into worse and worse creations to annoy my wife. We got an inflatable hot tub. I set up a project in the basement. We got a dog. It was one of the best years of my adult life.

      Only downside is my grandma died.

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      Way back in '25, yeah, it wasn’t as big as the ones we had recently but they say the latest pandemic should start to clear up by next year. Hopefully it won’t be like the predictions they made in 2034.

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        back in '25

        Me and some guys from school
        We bought a van and we packed it hard:
        Toilet rolls, masks, gasoline.
        We thought we could resell it all to tards.

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    Americans aren’t getting any lockdowns in the next 4 years regardless of any pandemic.

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    Unfortunately I actually fear this may happen with the rise of MPOX in the states. If the people in charge of HHS and the Pandemic Response team get gutted or mislead then I fear we will be back to COVID lockdown but for MPOX.

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      I’m not really worried about a Mpox pandemic as it only spreads by touch as far as we know. My concern is bird flu. We’re starting to see more cases of it infecting humans and if it turns into a pandemic is will likely be extremely deadly.

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      Don’t worry, they would probably make any effective controls illegal at the federal level so no lockdowns, masks or vaccines for the next pandemic in the US.

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        Ohh I know it’s still around but it’s it’s just endemic now and not pandemic. And we have a vaccine even if people don’t take it.

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          It’s not endemic yet because it continues to mutate, and while vaccinations reduce how many people die, they do not equate to immunity, meaning infection rates continue to be unstable. It won’t hit endemic until the numbers are predictable, and that hasn’t happened yet.

          Vaccinations also do not provide much in terms of protection from long covid. I would argue while the acute phase of covid may be working towards becoming endemic, the post-Covid condition is not. 11% of covid infections become long covid (that’s vaccinated and not combined) and 25% of those never go away. On top of this, risk of long covid increases every time someone contracts covid,as does the risk of it being permanent. So with no mitigations in place, we are pushing towards a mass disabling event that none of the health centres, governments, etc. are talking about.

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    Nobody (at least of the responsible people in Germany) was considering the psychological ramifications of lockdown.

    So lockdown is not the best solution like the official places are claiming.

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      11 hours ago

      Counterpoint: lockdowns were the best times of the last 5 years for people like myself. Everybody handles them differently.