COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[Ben]

The Aussies don't seem to be interested in "temporary quarantine" to get back to business. They are building centralized quarantine facilities that won't even be ready until 2022. Doesn't sound very "zero cases of covid and then back to business" to me.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/08/26/australian-politician-quite-excited-to-announce-groundbreaking-for-new-covid-quarantine-facility/

[RoadKingLarry]

Got to have someplace to put all the people that protest the unwarranted killing of dogs.

[cordex]

To be fair, that appears to be a quarantine facility for inbound travelers and their hotel quarantines have had issues.

It does seem that they're expecting that COVID is going to be sticking around despite the vaccines and that they're expecting to have to maintain the same kind of posture for the foreseeable future.

[RoadKingLarry]

they're expecting to have to maintain the same kind of posture for the foreseeable future.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

― George Orwell, 1984

[Boomhauer]

Oh look special prison like privileges for the citizens! A whole hour for exercise and the reward of another for recreation plus the very special reward of being able to see five of your fellow inmates at a time.

But hey, it’s not tyranny in any way whatsoever. Treating people like prison inmates is totally a free society, and despite this coming from a news agency I’m sure it’s false and I’m wrong.

Wonder what the penalty for violation of your allotted time and privileges are? Surely it’a something wonderful like a hug.

[K Frame]

OMG! SUCH freedom!

[WLJ]

Obey or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ffr1U7KMY

[Boomhauer]

OMG! SUCH freedom!

The insistence that all this isn’t tyranny does make me wonder where De Selby draws the “oh it’s tyranny now” line. My guess is he never does.

[MillCreek]

I wonder which country will be the first to entertain the concept of quarantining the unvaccinated so they don't contract or spread the virus.  Except of course as we have seen, even the vaccinated can contract or spread the virus, albeit at lower rates or lesser severity.

[Ben]

I wonder which country will be the first to entertain the concept of quarantining the unvaccinated so they don't contract or spread the virus.  Except of course as we have seen, even the vaccinated can contract or spread the virus, albeit at lower rates or lesser severity.

As a dude with natural immunity, I'm waiting till they quarantine all the rest of you. 

[MillCreek]

As a dude with natural immunity, I'm waiting till they quarantine all the rest of you. 

I hope that you will use your powers of immunity for good!

[RoadKingLarry]

As a dude with natural immunity, I'm waiting till they quarantine all the rest of you. 

What in your recent experience tells you that our jackbooted overlords will allow natural immunity to exempt you from the compulsory vaccine?

[cordex]

What in your recent experience tells you that our jackbooted overlords will allow natural immunity to exempt you from the compulsory vaccine?

In the US the refrain is "VACCINE GOOD" not "IMMUNITY GOOD".

[Ben]

What in your recent experience tells you that our jackbooted overlords will allow natural immunity to exempt you from the compulsory vaccine?

Nothing. This has been one of my constantly posted gripes around here. The vast majority of first world nations that are doing the whole "passport" thing are including proof of natural immunity along with proof of vaccine. It is perplexing to me that we (and maybe that weirdo Australia place) are one of the only advanced nations completely ignoring it and lumping naturally immune unvaccinated people in with unvaccinated that have not acquired immunity. It's bordering on information suppression.

To me it is strong evidence that the vaccination and vaccine passport push are not just about preventing covid.

[WLJ]

Battle of the viruses

These viruses are all competing with each other for advantage to be the one that survives,” Durbin told Newsweek. “We know that the lambda variant has some of the same mutations as the delta variant that we think (will) allow it to be more transmissible, so it would be difficult to outcompete the delta variant.”

The dangerous lambda variant has started spreading in California
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-dangerous-lambda-variant-has-started-spreading-in-california/ar-AANKtlq?ocid=msedgntp

[Jim147]

Maybe we will get to the zombie variant and I can finally use this chainsaw bayonet.

[zxcvbob]

Maybe we will get to the zombie variant and I can finally use this chainsaw bayonet.

That would be awesome!   

[Ben]

I keep telling you guys that it's the Omega variant that we want!

[De Selby]

The Aussies don't seem to be interested in "temporary quarantine" to get back to business. They are building centralized quarantine facilities that won't even be ready until 2022. Doesn't sound very "zero cases of covid and then back to business" to me.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/08/26/australian-politician-quite-excited-to-announce-groundbreaking-for-new-covid-quarantine-facility/

That’s for international arrivals, not domestic. International quarantine is going to be necessary as long as the rest of the world doesn’t control disease.

[WLJ]

I keep telling you guys that it's the Omega variant that we want!

They move too fast, as I get older I need enemies I can out walk.

[MillCreek]

They move too fast, as I get older I need enemies I can out walk hobble.

FTFY.

[WLJ]

FTFY.

I'm not that bad despite having a shorter and crooked right leg from being hit by a car.

[Bogie]

But the Really Smart people say that there is no such thing as natural immunity.
 
And that the shots don't provide immunity either.
 
And they want you to wear a mask that -might- be 10-20% effective.
 
Against the most deadliester plague to evar plague us...
 
Because only perfect safety matters, and you have a co-morbidity.

[kgbsquirrel]

The fear propaganda being pumped into my cellphone was proclaiming America might hit 100,000 covid deaths total! 

If only I didn't know that nearly 2 years of "100,000 covid deaths" is still less than one year's total influenza and pneumonia deaths (120,000+).

Way to inadvertently say that super special covid is less than half the problem of regular yearly flu and pneumonia.

[MechAg94]