BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

uziq wrote:

considering that vaccination even in the worst case scenario still ensures someone has better resistance to catching and transmitting the disease

Except it makes no difference at all, according to the available evidence.

plus the vaccine pass is used in tandem with QR codes, social distancing apps, etc. how do you think people are practically presenting this info in a verified way? requiring someone to be vaccinated is essentially a filter for customers who are compliant with the tracing/distancing systems in place.

Welll thats just fascism.

yes, fascism. like not letting people smoke indoors at restaurants. which i’m sure you’re also in revolt over.

Cowards

The South Australian police force will abandon its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for officers from Monday, as the state records 2,047 new cases and two COVID-related deaths.

The vaccine mandate for police officers will end a week before a Supreme Court challenge of the mandates is due to be heard.

About 70 officers who had declined the vaccine have been on enforced leave due to the mandate, which had been imposed by the state's Police Commissioner Grant Stevens using his emergency management powers.

Mandates also exist for employees in other sectors such as health, aged and disability care, schools, childcare, forensic science and taxi and rideshare services.

Several police officers have joined education and healthcare workers, including nurse and former AFLW Adelaide Crows Player Deni Varnhagen, in challenging the mandates in court.

The formal legal direction for police officers to be vaccinated will be replaced with a managerial direction.

It will require officers who have not received two doses of an approved vaccine to undertake a rapid antigen test at the start of their shift, and wear a properly fitted respirator-style mask for the duration of their shift.

i love that dilbert is celebrating the relaxing of vaccine mandates whilst totally, wilfully ignoring that the ‘relaxing’ of measures about them is because of the TOTAL relaxation of ALL covid rules. which he has been raging against for months.

it’s priceless. cheering that vaccines are no longer mandatory but then shocked and confused when families are allowed to be reunited at airports.

just IMAGINE dilbert celebrating or citing encouragingly any news that says ‘SA has 2,000 new cases today’ in ANY other context.

you honestly can’t make this stuff up. a man slowly losing his grip on his sense of society

e: it also says they will shift to making vaccines a ‘managerial’ decision. sounds like fascism by the bac&door to me! did i not say that i’m fine with businesses and institutions deciding their own level of caution when it comes to requiring vaccination?

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Djokovic travelled by airplane.

First day without mask at work. A lot of people still masked up. I didn't wear a mask. So many new smells in the hallway. I feel like a dog with sensory overload.

Getting a lot "you look so different without a mask". No longer an angry pair of eyes. People can see that I am smiling all day.

Mask mandates went away today where I live and it looks like most people couldn't wait to remove them. I still wore one in the store but it got me thinking:
Where are we right now?
Is there a new variant on the horizon? Last May I remember things were quieting down and mandates were removed for about a week before things got way way worse.
Are we just repeating? I tried to find some info online but it was hard to sift through the various articles to see if we are right where we were a year ago.
Then again it looks like people have antibodies from Omicron because pretty much 99% of the world got it?
So from either getting Omicron or getting the vax, we stumbled backward into herd immunity?

Sorry about a year ago I gave up trying to follow the news.

The people who are anti-government and big-gun would have given their left nut for an excuse to wear a mask and hide their identity from the countless cameras around the the world following their every movement, if only they weren't so stupid to be convinced their liberties were being taken away.

They STILL haven't found that capitol hill bomber from the night of Jan 5th 2021 because he was wearing a mask.

Time for a second booster? I got my booster back in October.

Now that the mask mandates are over I am almost becoming an anti-masker. I am not going to yell at someone for still wearing a mask but  I don't wear one at work anymore and won't take one with me when going out.

I thought COVID-19 was supposed to be more like leprosy, or the black plague.

except vaccination does confer immunity and protection from serious illness. it has been established about 4,000 times at this point. being totally resistant to transmission is NOT the same thing as having ‘immunity’. immunity means your body is capable of fighting off disease, not an established sterile force field.

old people in china, like HK, are now finding themselves at risk of mass death because they skipped on proactive vaccination. it’s really that simple. totalitarian social distancing and whack-a-mole city-wide lockdowns and totally closed borders hasn’t protected them from the latest covid wave and the risk of death. isn’t that funny?

‘brain damage’, lol. yes, any pathogen that attaches to receptors or cell types found in the brain, and which causes an inflammatory response, can have effects on, e.g., cognition. scary sounding but the idea that covid will turn someone into a ‘drooling idiot’ is absolute balderdash. you really are a stupid fucking idiot. losing your sense of smell for a few months is not the same as late-stage alzheimer’s, dilbert.

what do you think causes worse ‘brain damage’? a spell of inflammatory illness or consuming neurotoxic alcohol, which kills off brain cells and measurably reduces cognition over time? how many Nature links do you need on that one, smartass?

I can't imagine the chicks are going to want to date a drooling idiot

don’t worry about me, you cuck. we frequently hook up to incur ‘brain damage’ together.
https://i.imgur.com/YHYVQT7.jpg

how many chicks want to date a ranting, paranoiac idiot who thinks knowing about vacuum machines makes him smarter than, passim, virologists and forensic toxicologists?

i suppose it’s senseless to point out to you that … long covid effects and sequelae from the generalised inflammatory response, like losing your sense of smell and taste, are vastly mitigated in the VACCINATED population. whoosh!!!

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