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scottydoesntknow [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 5:50:11 PM  
53 votes:
I never knew how literal this would end up being:

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edmo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 6:43:15 PM  
39 votes:
You know what else conservatives? The best way to avoid COVID is to cook your stuff inside. Don't cook your turkey in a deep fryer on your wood deck because it will become steeped in COVID. Just  cook inside like they say on CNN.

/snert
 
Amish Tech Support
2020-11-21 7:44:16 PM  
37 votes:
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Chinesenookiefactory [BareFark]
2020-11-21 8:43:49 PM  
28 votes:
You all biatch about Trump, but his approach to the covid vaccine (Private industry competition) is why we are on the cusp of two vaccines being released.

Also, for all you progressives dancing in the streets right now, get back to me when gas is $5.00 and the economy is wrecked.

Oh....that will be Trump's fault too.

Morons.
 
theflatline [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 8:28:04 PM  
22 votes:

Deathbymombasa: If you are living your life being afraid you might die, then you are already dead.


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Medic Zero
2020-11-21 7:42:23 PM  
20 votes:

KB202: Herb Utsmelz: They deserve no help. Let them die.

We would, but medical and public safety personnel don't have that option. If we could barricade them and deny services, yeah, let 'em all die.


I was promised Death Panels.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 8:14:44 PM  
19 votes:

Aussie_As: I'm an Australian living in a city


Yeah....But you still have a lot to apologize for for giving the world Rupert Murdoch. That's probably done more damage to human safety, and human rights than thing any other country has done. Even Mel Gibson movies.
 
Parthenogenetic
2020-11-21 8:26:49 PM  
17 votes:

Ragin' Asian: Ragin' Asian: Just sanitize you're dildo before you let your parents use it.

Your


It's not your/you're dildo, it's *A* dildo
 
Deathbymombasa
2020-11-21 8:25:04 PM  
17 votes:
If you are living your life being afraid you might die, then you are already dead.
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-11-21 8:17:56 PM  
15 votes:
Just sanitize you're dildo before you let your parents use it.
 
7th Son of a 7th Son
2020-11-21 8:00:44 PM  
14 votes:
See Dick refuse to wear a mask.
See Dick contract COVID-19.
See Dick die.
Don't be a Dick.
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-11-21 8:18:21 PM  
13 votes:

Ragin' Asian: Just sanitize you're dildo before you let your parents use it.


Your
 
duppy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 7:09:04 PM  
11 votes:
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Boo_Guy
2020-11-21 8:20:58 PM  
10 votes:
Don't worry they're tracking anyone who buys enough turkey to feed more than the max allowable gathering limits.

There will be consequences...


It's all under control folks.
 
bobbyjoebobby
2020-11-21 9:02:37 PM  
7 votes:
Maybe newsome shouldn't eat out at a fancy restaurant. Maybe Pelosi shouldn't go to a salon.

Rules for thee, not for me.

Hypocrisy is the true problem.
 
Sean VasDeferens
2020-11-21 8:37:33 PM  
7 votes:

stuffy: Goose stepping with dear leader.


Sorry, you have to wait till January before you can start doing that.
 
Aussie_As
2020-11-21 7:54:27 PM  
7 votes:

Aussie_As: contract tracing crew


Contact tracing crew. Not contracted guys.
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 5:30:09 PM  
7 votes:
It's all about political control, of course; Fox News (Murdoch) does not care about lives, but fluffing and agitating their armies of morons into permanent vexation. By the time Biden is sworn in the whole country will be ablaze.
 
Herb Utsmelz [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 11:03:06 PM  
6 votes:
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Mister Buttons [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 8:10:09 PM  
6 votes:

edmo: You know what else conservatives? The best way to avoid COVID is to cook your stuff inside. Don't cook your turkey in a deep fryer on your wood deck because it will become steeped in COVID. Just  cook inside like they say on CNN.

/snert


If you do decide to deep fry your turkey, indoors or outdoors, remember to pull it out of the freezer and into the fridge Wednesday night.

/s
 
farkingismybusiness [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 6:01:17 PM  
6 votes:
Get stuffed.
 
geekbikerskum
2020-11-21 9:03:19 PM  
5 votes:
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The Four Ringer [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 8:22:48 PM  
5 votes:

FormlessOne: I don't care about your politics. I don't want you to contract COVID-19. I don't want you to become ill. I don't want you to suffer long-term debilitation. I don't want you to die.

Please, for fark's sake, stop listening to people who do - people who believe that furthering this harm somehow betters or enriches their own situations, and so want you to ignore the CDC, the WHO, the scientists and the experts.

Stay home, if at all possible. If you can't stay home, wear a mask, practice social distancing, and carry hand sanitizer with you. If you have to bring stuff back home, practice sterile procedure. If you have to let people who don't live in your home into your home, ensure that they wear a mask, practice social distancing, and use hand sanitizer.

Don't be "paranoid," but do be aware of the risks involved, especially if you or anyone with whom you're in regular contact is in one of the high-risk groups. Don't be fearful; be responsible. You are now responsible not just for your own health, but for the health of those for whom you love & care. Don't be an idiot.


Meh. I say let 'em all drop dead. They're subhuman garbage. Every last one.

All I care about is the innocent people they infect and absolutely nothing else. I spend every waking moment getting anyone within my sphere of influence to take a militant stance on anything to do with these 'people'. It's a war and should be treated as such.
 
Circusdog320 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 7:57:55 PM  
5 votes:
3 weeks after thanksgiving

Why didn't you tell us?!!? Grandma and little Billy are dead now!
 
sex_and_drugs_for_ian [BareFark]
2020-11-21 11:02:20 PM  
4 votes:

Jeebus Saves: Too bad there are so many like you around here.


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sex_and_drugs_for_ian [BareFark]
2020-11-21 9:50:22 PM  
4 votes:

RonRon893: sex_and_drugs_for_ian: BrianGriffin: It's one Thanksgiving in a lifetime...fark it. Get Covid...spread it to your Trump supporting family members, and farkin' die.

According to News accounts, Covid disproportionately impacts POC. So not really something for Trump's base to worry about.

Um... you DO understand that POC aren't somehow more infectious or catch Covid easier than white people right? They are disproportionately impacted because they have fewer viable treatment options if they catch it and are less likely to work in jobs that can be done remotely so are more likely to encounter someone who is infected.


It's about obesity and diabetes, mainly.  A lot of POC have terrible eating habits, and are in no condition to fight off a serious disease.

Especially one as aggressive as the one Slow Joe's commie buddies have unleashed on us.
 
doomjesse
2020-11-21 8:35:33 PM  
4 votes:

aungen: Rage, hate, and murder-encouraging tirades are a side effect of COVID.

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Damnit I had COVID in the 1990s then
 
recombobulator
2020-11-22 12:27:17 AM  
3 votes:
Did they also mock the recommendation not to drink a fifth of cheap scotch and go for a drive after Thanksgiving dinner?  Those lane lines are more of a guideline than a rule, and only beta cucks wear seat belts.  Wooo!
 
libranoelrose [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-22 12:22:26 AM  
3 votes:

Herb Utsmelz: Chinesenookiefactory: You all biatch about Trump, but his approach to the covid vaccine (Private industry competition) is why we are on the cusp of two vaccines being released.

Also, for all you progressives dancing in the streets right now, get back to me when gas is $5.00 and the economy is wrecked.

Oh....that will be Trump's fault too.

Morons.

One day if you mature emotionally, you will realize that the orange man really was bad. Until then, no one can help you.


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sex_and_drugs_for_ian [BareFark]
2020-11-21 10:33:44 PM  
3 votes:

pedrop357: I'm as concerned about Thanksgiving dinner as Gavin Newsom and the people at the French Laundry


We cancelled our big Thanksgiving gathering because our 20 and 30-something kids, nieces, nephews and grandkids are all completely freaked out over Covid.

None of them have ever known adversity of any sort up until now, so I kind of get it.

We could have had a T-Giving dinner and distanced far better than Newsom and his crowd did, but the younger people in our family would have been placed unnecessarily on edge, or would have felt guilty about not showing up in the first place, so we let them off the hook about a week ago.

As an alternative, us Olds are getting together for a secret small gathering, and the kids aren't invited.
 
Skeleton Man
2020-11-21 9:53:33 PM  
3 votes:

FormlessOne: I don't care about your politics. I don't want you to contract COVID-19. I don't want you to become ill. I don't want you to suffer long-term debilitation. I don't want you to die.

Please, for fark's sake, stop listening to people who do - people who believe that furthering this harm somehow betters or enriches their own situations, and so want you to ignore the CDC, the WHO, the scientists and the experts.

Stay home, if at all possible. If you can't stay home, wear a mask, practice social distancing, and carry hand sanitizer with you. If you have to bring stuff back home, practice sterile procedure. If you have to let people who don't live in your home into your home, ensure that they wear a mask, practice social distancing, and use hand sanitizer.

Don't be "paranoid," but do be aware of the risks involved, especially if you or anyone with whom you're in regular contact is in one of the high-risk groups. Don't be fearful; be responsible. You are now responsible not just for your own health, but for the health of those for whom you love & care. Don't be an idiot.


I appreciate your efforts, but please stop telling people not to be paranoid. If you touch your nose/mouth/eye one time when you shouldn't, you're infected and possibly dead. Let someone without a mask on (maybe even with?) talk one inch too close to you even if you're wearing a mask and a droplet hits your eyeball, you're infected and possibly dead. And several more possibilities where if you make one wrong move, you're infected and possibly dead.

If you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention. Be paranoid. Be paranoid as fark. It'll keep you uninfected and not dead.

And for deity-of-your-choice's sake, DO NOT let anyone that doesn't live in your home come into your home NO MATTER WHAT.
 
Moosedick Gladys Greengroin [TotalFark]
2020-11-22 1:22:28 AM  
2 votes:

zerkalo: gas will be under a buck.


Beer Nuts are $1.50
Deer nuts are under a buck.
 
SouthParkCon
2020-11-21 11:51:50 PM  
2 votes:
I'm starting to think every time there is a Pandemic Porn headline greened the mods simultaneously:

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/Canceled our big thanksgiving
//Everyone understood and were ok with it
//Conservative AND voted for Trump (OMG11!!!11!!DIAF)
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 11:20:12 PM  
2 votes:
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Ambitwistor
2020-11-21 11:11:54 PM  
2 votes:

FlyingBacon: Fark_Guy_Rob: I think everyone should be mocking the CDC's guidelines. Has anyone actually looked at them?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-n​cov/daily-life-coping/holidays/thanksg​iving.html

It's basically a joke. 'Hey it's safer not to get together, but if you will just, ya know, wash your hands and don't spit in the food...'

"Don't drink and drive, but if you choose too here are some tips... Remember to wear your seatbelt and turn on your headlights. Try to pull over while vomiting."

CDC and WHO been all over the map since day one.


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wage0048
2020-11-21 11:04:27 PM  
2 votes:
Subby's right: fark 'em. Let them watch their loved-ones die of an entirely preventable ilness. Let them spend their final hours or days gasping for breath as their lungs slowly fill with fluid.
 
pedrop357
2020-11-21 10:08:34 PM  
2 votes:
Like subby ever cared.  I'm as concerned about Thanksgiving dinner as Gavin Newsom and the people at the French Laundry, or Chuck Schumer and the people he danced around with, etc.

It's similar to how my concern level over climate change matches that of the Obama family when they bought a multi million dollar home on Martha's Vineyard.
 
poodebunker [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 9:51:56 PM  
2 votes:
I ONLY listen to Dr. Fauci.
 
toraque [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 9:43:33 PM  
2 votes:

FlyingBacon: Fark_Guy_Rob: I think everyone should be mocking the CDC's guidelines. Has anyone actually looked at them?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-n​cov/daily-life-coping/holidays/thanksg​iving.html

It's basically a joke. 'Hey it's safer not to get together, but if you will just, ya know, wash your hands and don't spit in the food...'

"Don't drink and drive, but if you choose too here are some tips... Remember to wear your seatbelt and turn on your headlights. Try to pull over while vomiting."

CDC and WHO been all over the map since day one.


Please give examples.
 
FlyingBacon [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 9:41:27 PM  
2 votes:

Fark_Guy_Rob: I think everyone should be mocking the CDC's guidelines. Has anyone actually looked at them?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-n​cov/daily-life-coping/holidays/thanksg​iving.html

It's basically a joke. 'Hey it's safer not to get together, but if you will just, ya know, wash your hands and don't spit in the food...'

"Don't drink and drive, but if you choose too here are some tips... Remember to wear your seatbelt and turn on your headlights. Try to pull over while vomiting."


CDC and WHO been all over the map since day one.
 
Herb Utsmelz [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 9:12:05 PM  
2 votes:

Chinesenookiefactory: You all biatch about Trump, but his approach to the covid vaccine (Private industry competition) is why we are on the cusp of two vaccines being released.

Also, for all you progressives dancing in the streets right now, get back to me when gas is $5.00 and the economy is wrecked.

Oh....that will be Trump's fault too.

Morons.


One day if you mature emotionally, you will realize that the orange man really was bad. Until then, no one can help you.
 
bobbyjoebobby
2020-11-21 9:11:36 PM  
2 votes:

It'sMorphin'Time: I don't know if I have Covid, but I could wish the combination of whatever the f*ck kept me unable to even knit and bipolar mania on every single dipshiat doing this. You don't care enough about other people to keep yourself to yourself for a year? Especially when it could've been a few months if not for you? Go f*ck yourself.


Yeah. CSB. Some of have to work outside the house without a computer for a living.
 
geekbikerskum
2020-11-21 8:53:46 PM  
2 votes:

Aussie_As: They are lead by a disgusting lazy scumbag whose science ignorance has gotten the US to this point.


Trump is a symptom, not a cause.  He's what you get when you teach creationism and climate change denialism as "science", abstinence-only as "sex education", and the Lost Cause myth of the US Civil War as "history".  And there's about 70 million Americans who think he's doing a bang-up job and voted for him to be re-elected.  Even after Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20th of next year, we're still stuck with those people.
 
Aussie_As
2020-11-21 7:52:54 PM  
2 votes:
Farkin' jeebus.

I'm an Australian living in a city where we had a 6 day lockdown announced this week because of suspected community COVID. A city of over a million folks shut down as hard as it could (could buy groceries but not takeaway food, couldn't walk the dog or leave the house for excercise etc). It turned out to be based on shiatty information (a guy lied to the contract tracing crew and it took a day to work out), now they've called off the shutdown after 3 days.

It won't have been great for our economy to shut down for three days (by the time restriction were lifted) but as a community I think we did really well. We adhered to the restrictions, a few hundred notices were issued by the cops but that's not many really, we wore masks and we didn't lose our shiat and panic-buy or get aggressive.

If you want to manage a viral epidemic, follow the public health advice. It's really that simple. Australia is doing great. Japan (far denser and larger population) is doing great. Because we don't regard wearing masks and social distancing as a bad thing when there's a really good reason for it.

We haven't lost our freedoms. We're self-curtailing them briefly to protect the freedoms of our aged, invalid and otherwise at risk folks. And we're not hating it.

The selfish arseholes demanding their Freedumbs in America while killing literally a quarter of a million of their countrymen in the process are appalling. They are lead by a disgusting lazy scumbag whose science ignorance has gotten the US to this point.
 
FormlessOne [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-11-21 7:38:03 PM  
2 votes:
I don't care about your politics. I don't want you to contract COVID-19. I don't want you to become ill. I don't want you to suffer long-term debilitation. I don't want you to die.

Please, for fark's sake, stop listening to people who do - people who believe that furthering this harm somehow betters or enriches their own situations, and so want you to ignore the CDC, the WHO, the scientists and the experts.

Stay home, if at all possible. If you can't stay home, wear a mask, practice social distancing, and carry hand sanitizer with you. If you have to bring stuff back home, practice sterile procedure. If you have to let people who don't live in your home into your home, ensure that they wear a mask, practice social distancing, and use hand sanitizer.

Don't be "paranoid," but do be aware of the risks involved, especially if you or anyone with whom you're in regular contact is in one of the high-risk groups. Don't be fearful; be responsible. You are now responsible not just for your own health, but for the health of those for whom you love & care. Don't be an idiot.
 
AllCatsAreBeautiful
2020-11-21 7:35:47 PM  
2 votes:
I hope many anti-masker Americans make this thanksgiving one to remember for the rest of their lives, make it a memorable one.
/s
 
Herb Utsmelz [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 5:53:28 PM  
2 votes:
They deserve no help. Let them die.
 
pedrop357
2020-11-22 4:08:11 PM  
1 vote:
You would think the left would be more on board with this given how hard they've pushed the overpopulation angle.  Every covid death is one less person on this very overpopulated planet, right?
 
pedrop357
2020-11-22 2:07:58 PM  
1 vote:

edwin5275: Throw the word "families" into it to make it seem like a horrible thing. I'll never understand adults that are SO into their non-immediate family. You can miss one Thanksgiving.


Some people have missed various other events because they could "miss one birthday", "miss one funeral", "miss one wedding", "miss one father's day", "miss one mother's day", "skip one Easter gathering" etc.

Now that we know that the virus is not as deadly as initially claimed, that asymptomatic transmission rates were overstated, and most of the shutdowns were ineffective political theater, people want to see their families again.
 
JerkStore
2020-11-22 12:54:53 AM  
1 vote:
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Flint Largechest
2020-11-21 11:58:19 PM  
1 vote:
In other news: Fox remains evil.
 
Boo_Guy
2020-11-21 11:34:42 PM  
1 vote:
Mmm popcorn.
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/lol
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 11:23:09 PM  
1 vote:

scottydoesntknow: I never knew how literal this would end up being:

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Is that cross on fire?
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 10:58:43 PM  
1 vote:
Ok, folks let's try to be better here.
 
Fark_Guy_Rob
2020-11-21 10:27:36 PM  
1 vote:

FlyingBacon: Fark_Guy_Rob: I think everyone should be mocking the CDC's guidelines. Has anyone actually looked at them?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-n​cov/daily-life-coping/holidays/thanksg​iving.html

It's basically a joke. 'Hey it's safer not to get together, but if you will just, ya know, wash your hands and don't spit in the food...'

"Don't drink and drive, but if you choose too here are some tips... Remember to wear your seatbelt and turn on your headlights. Try to pull over while vomiting."

CDC and WHO been all over the map since day one.


Right, and I mean... I get it... They know people won't listen if they just say, "Don't do it" so they are trying to minimize the risk... But meh

It's frustrating, IMHO
 
sex_and_drugs_for_ian [BareFark]
2020-11-21 10:01:26 PM  
1 vote:

Skeleton Man: stop telling people not to be paranoid. If you touch your nose/mouth/eye one time when you shouldn't, you're infected and possibly dead.


Possibly dead?

This thing clearly has at least an 80% mortality rate based on the reportage.

The only ones surviving it are evil orange emperors and academy award winning actors.
 
trialpha
2020-11-21 9:51:09 PM  
1 vote:

Fark_Guy_Rob: False dilemma

We can follow guidelines *and* call out politicians for being hypocritical pieces of crap. Like my Mayor who took to the streets to celebrate with the crowd of Biden supporters, often seen with a mask around her neck instead of being worn.

While otherwise condemning other politicians for not acting appropriately and taking covid seriously enough, and telling us peasants to stay at home and socially distance.


Sorry, replace "whine about how the politicians are hypocrites" with "use politicians being hypocrites as justification for doing nothing".
 
Fark_Guy_Rob
2020-11-21 9:45:50 PM  
1 vote:

trialpha: bobbyjoebobby: Maybe newsome shouldn't eat out at a fancy restaurant. Maybe Pelosi shouldn't go to a salon.

Rules for thee, not for me.

Hypocrisy is the true problem.

Maybe the public should listen to all the medical professionals/etc and do the right thing while ignoring dumbass politicians. Or, you know, do nothing, whine about how the politicians are hypocrites, get sick, and possibly die.


False dilemma

We can follow guidelines *and* call out politicians for being hypocritical pieces of crap. Like my Mayor who took to the streets to celebrate with the crowd of Biden supporters, often seen with a mask around her neck instead of being worn.

While otherwise condemning other politicians for not acting appropriately and taking covid seriously enough, and telling us peasants to stay at home and socially distance.
 
toraque [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 9:42:49 PM  
1 vote:

bobbyjoebobby: The Four Ringer: Aussie_As: Farkin' jeebus.

I'm an Australian living in a city where we had a 6 day lockdown announced this week because of suspected community COVID. A city of over a million folks shut down as hard as it could (could buy groceries but not takeaway food, couldn't walk the dog or leave the house for excercise etc). It turned out to be based on shiatty information (a guy lied to the contract tracing crew and it took a day to work out), now they've called off the shutdown after 3 days.

It won't have been great for our economy to shut down for three days (by the time restriction were lifted) but as a community I think we did really well. We adhered to the restrictions, a few hundred notices were issued by the cops but that's not many really, we wore masks and we didn't lose our shiat and panic-buy or get aggressive.

If you want to manage a viral epidemic, follow the public health advice. It's really that simple. Australia is doing great. Japan (far denser and larger population) is doing great. Because we don't regard wearing masks and social distancing as a bad thing when there's a really good reason for it.

We haven't lost our freedoms. We're self-curtailing them briefly to protect the freedoms of our aged, invalid and otherwise at risk folks. And we're not hating it.

The selfish arseholes demanding their Freedumbs in America while killing literally a quarter of a million of their countrymen in the process are appalling. They are lead by a disgusting lazy scumbag whose science ignorance has gotten the US to this point.

Yeah, we can't do that here because we a have a shiat ton of selfish, brainwashed, cultist assholes. They need to be eliminated by any means possible.

Like COVID?


Are you suggesting that COVID was designed to eliminate brainwashed, cultist assholes, and you feel that you are personally targeted somehow?

I mean, there are dumber conspiracy theories out there, but that's kinda farking hilarious in its own way.
 
vincentfox
2020-11-21 9:36:44 PM  
1 vote:

mainsail: I still have to wonder why conservatives want the population sick/dead. Who benefits from this?


It predominantly impacts brown people
 
Aussie_As
2020-11-21 9:35:24 PM  
1 vote:

BlackChickWhiteAccent: We have a GDP of 22 trillion, but don't you dare ask the government to do everything it can to give the citizens of the richest country in the world. Aid and comfort are for the politicians, and the rich. Our government is floundering like a fish out of water during the most difficult mental, physical, and economic crisis of our lifetimes.

...

Man, I used to think we were great. Evil, but great. Rock groups and actors came here to be famous. We were the shiat! Now, we're just shiat.


Awesome post, thanks.

In some ways Trump is just another step on the path America's Republican Presidents have been on since Nixon. Win power, impose policy despite science or rational thinking because cashed up lobbyists, get campaigns funded by lobbyists, repeat.

I've previously argued on Fark that Trump is much less evil than Cheney. Cheney was intelligent and actively, busily evil. Trump is dumb, in denial and lazy. Evil requires active intent, Trump wants to be loved but can't be arsed doing his job properly. Trump's COVID death toll is arguably higher than the Iraq death toll but unlike Cheney Trump never got paid off for his deaths caused.
 
Fark_Guy_Rob
2020-11-21 9:35:22 PM  
1 vote:
I think everyone should be mocking the CDC's guidelines. Has anyone actually looked at them?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-n​cov/daily-life-coping/holidays/thanksg​iving.html

It's basically a joke. 'Hey it's safer not to get together, but if you will just, ya know, wash your hands and don't spit in the food...'

"Don't drink and drive, but if you choose too here are some tips... Remember to wear your seatbelt and turn on your headlights. Try to pull over while vomiting."
 
Huggermugger [BareFark]
2020-11-21 9:23:48 PM  
1 vote:

bobbyjoebobby: Maybe newsome shouldn't eat out at a fancy restaurant. Maybe Pelosi shouldn't go to a salon.

Rules for thee, not for me.

Hypocrisy is the true problem.


The ranks of GOP politicians are being decimated by COVID.  The infection rates in deep red 'paradises' like North and South Dakota continue to skyrocket.
 
Trik
2020-11-21 9:10:13 PM  
1 vote:
Freedom has become a very selfish thing.
All you hear is *My Freedom*, "I Have the Freedom to...* etc.

Freedom used to be an act of generosity, we granted each other freedom.

Now it's a selfish act of aggression.
 
aungen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 9:00:22 PM  
1 vote:

ZephyrHawk: Your analysis sounds sensible. So, let us all remember - December 9th for the hospitalization spikes, and December 19th for the deaths. Happy Holidays everyone!


I was accidentally serious for a moment.  I'd like to check that data one more time and see if it's really like that.  Will be back in a bit with a thumbs up/down.   It's bad science to base anything on it.  But I've got those dates in my head, as well.

Much like the wave of cold & flu that comes 2 weeks after the first night of frost on the ground.  I don't expect it to be exactly on the day, but those spikes were really specific.  So it might be.  Ok ... lets see if I remembered what I saw, correctly...
 
UNC_Samurai
2020-11-21 9:00:15 PM  
1 vote:

Chinesenookiefactory: You all biatch about Trump, but his approach to the covid vaccine (Private industry competition) is why we are on the cusp of two vaccines being released.

Also, for all you progressives dancing in the streets right now, get back to me when gas is $5.00 and the economy is wrecked.

Oh....that will be Trump's fault too.

Morons.


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The Four Ringer [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 8:54:36 PM  
1 vote:

BlackChickWhiteAccent: Aussie_As: Farkin' jeebus.

I'm an Australian living in a city where we had a 6 day lockdown announced this week because of suspected community COVID. A city of over a million folks shut down as hard as it could (could buy groceries but not takeaway food, couldn't walk the dog or leave the house for excercise etc). It turned out to be based on shiatty information (a guy lied to the contract tracing crew and it took a day to work out), now they've called off the shutdown after 3 days.

It won't have been great for our economy to shut down for three days (by the time restriction were lifted) but as a community I think we did really well. We adhered to the restrictions, a few hundred notices were issued by the cops but that's not many really, we wore masks and we didn't lose our shiat and panic-buy or get aggressive.

If you want to manage a viral epidemic, follow the public health advice. It's really that simple. Australia is doing great. Japan (far denser and larger population) is doing great. Because we don't regard wearing masks and social distancing as a bad thing when there's a really good reason for it.

We haven't lost our freedoms. We're self-curtailing them briefly to protect the freedoms of our aged, invalid and otherwise at risk folks. And we're not hating it.

The selfish arseholes demanding their Freedumbs in America while killing literally a quarter of a million of their countrymen in the process are appalling. They are lead by a disgusting lazy scumbag whose science ignorance has gotten the US to this point.

Honey, we've got 50 states with 50 different approaches. We are united in name only. Red states do whatever the fark they want, and blue states half ass do the rest.

We have a GDP of 22 trillion, but don't you dare ask the government to do everything it can to give the citizens of the richest country in the world. Aid and comfort are for the politicians, and the rich. Our government is floundering like a fish out of water during the most difficult ...


But, but the socialisms, donchya know!

Seriously though, I couldn't have articulated what you said any better. That's why now is the time to rise and fight and never stop. They enemy won't, so we can't either.
 
anuran
2020-11-21 8:52:21 PM  
1 vote:

Circusdog320: 3 weeks after thanksgiving

Why didn't you tell us?!!? Grandma and little Billy are dead now!


Nah. They Died for Trump. That means they're in Heaven, and those damn liberals gotta pay. Boogaloo!
 
Invincible [BareFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 8:45:54 PM  
1 vote:

Ragin' Asian: Ragin' Asian: Just sanitize you're dildo before you let your parents use it.

Your


The. Never your dildo.
 
The Four Ringer [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 8:42:10 PM  
1 vote:

Sean VasDeferens: stuffy: Goose stepping with dear leader.

Sorry, you have to wait till January before you can start doing that.


So sad that you don't even try anymore.

I guess times are hard
 
It'sMorphin'Time
2020-11-21 8:26:28 PM  
1 vote:
I don't know if I have Covid, but I could wish the combination of whatever the f*ck kept me unable to even knit and bipolar mania on every single dipshiat doing this. You don't care enough about other people to keep yourself to yourself for a year? Especially when it could've been a few months if not for you? Go f*ck yourself.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 8:25:54 PM  
1 vote:

Aussie_As: optikeye: Aussie_As: I'm an Australian living in a city

Yeah....But you still have a lot to apologize for for giving the world Rupert Murdoch. That's probably done more damage to human safety, and human rights than thing any other country has done. Even Mel Gibson movies.

He's a US citizen mate, has been for years. You own him now.

/interesting Murdoch tale. His father, the late Sir Keith Murdoch, was an Australian WW1 correspondent from the front lines at Gallipoli. He challenged the military and its British leadership over their use of "over the top, boys" trench warfare attacks against Turkish soldiers well-armed and well-dug-in with German machine guns who were just cutting them to ribbons as they left the trench, yet the strategy continued. Murdoch Snr threatened to write articles for public consumption outlining the pointless slaughter of Australians and New Zealanders, a risky maneuver for a colonial nobody, and they stopped the useless and wasteful tactic.

Rupert is an appalling arsehole no two ways about it but his father changed WW1 history.


Okay...but you get to keep "Australia First" lady...whatever her name is.
 
mainsail
2020-11-21 8:25:48 PM  
1 vote:

agent00pi: mainsail: Aussie_As: mainsail: I still have to wonder why conservatives want the population sick/dead. Who benefits from this?

The non-renewable energy sector worth trillions in the US and a massive supporter of the Republican Party.

Think it through.

You can't start blindly accepting science like public health virology when you've been engaged in a generation-long trashing of science which is in any way different to the science your granddaddy knew.

The fact your granddaddy might actually have lived in the time of the Spanish Flu when public health policy was found to be far superior in managing the situation than populist bullshiat is irrelevant.

And how does that explain the UK and Johnson? Only now with pressure from the population is the UK really trying anything (thumb-fingers all the way).

Populists need to remain popular?


How popular when your followers are dead?
 
Aussie_As
2020-11-21 8:23:07 PM  
1 vote:

optikeye: Aussie_As: I'm an Australian living in a city

Yeah....But you still have a lot to apologize for for giving the world Rupert Murdoch. That's probably done more damage to human safety, and human rights than thing any other country has done. Even Mel Gibson movies.


He's a US citizen mate, has been for years. You own him now.

/interesting Murdoch tale. His father, the late Sir Keith Murdoch, was an Australian WW1 correspondent from the front lines at Gallipoli. He challenged the military and its British leadership over their use of "over the top, boys" trench warfare attacks against Turkish soldiers well-armed and well-dug-in with German machine guns who were just cutting them to ribbons as they left the trench, yet the strategy continued. Murdoch Snr threatened to write articles for public consumption outlining the pointless slaughter of Australians and New Zealanders, a risky maneuver for a colonial nobody, and they stopped the useless and wasteful tactic.

Rupert is an appalling arsehole no two ways about it but his father changed WW1 history.
 
aungen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-21 8:07:19 PM  
1 vote:

Circusdog320: 3 weeks after thanksgiving

Why didn't you tell us?!!? Grandma and little Billy are dead now!


In July, in Texas, there was a graph showing the spike from the 4th of July on the 17th.  So it took about 13 days to really hit home from that community spread event.  It was a REALLY narrow spike.  People who got sick enough to end up in the hospital, took 13 days to get that bad.  Then on July 27th, we saw a massive spike in the death rate.  So about 10 days after admission to die.  It was a Google News covid tracker for Texas, but by August it was really clear and easy to see the trend.

Based on those numbers, I expect 13 days after Thanksgiving to be a real test of the hospitals, and 10 days after that to be a real test of the morgues.  Though I am skeptical of the narrow'ness of the bands in that data.  that was a super-tight spike on both the 17th and 27th.

Usually a spike that narrow means a certain type of infection, or a certain type of person getting it that is fairly well represented in the population.
 
Autoerotic Defenestration
2020-11-21 7:44:07 PM  
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Oreamnos
2020-11-21 7:41:35 PM  
1 vote:

FormlessOne: I don't care about your politics. I don't want you to contract COVID-19. I don't want you to become ill. I don't want you to suffer long-term debilitation. I don't want you to die.


I do. No you personally, but them. I'm cheering for Covid now in these geographies/social circles where the people have had every opportunity to get on board with safety, etc., but have chosen not to. Let them burn.
 
Medic Zero
2020-11-21 7:41:04 PM  
1 vote:

Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste: It's all about political control, of course; Fox News (Murdoch) does not care about lives, but fluffing and agitating their armies of morons into permanent vexation. By the time Biden is sworn in the whole country will be ablaze.


Remember the Maine!

Everything old is new again.
 
KB202
2020-11-21 7:39:38 PM  
1 vote:

Herb Utsmelz: They deserve no help. Let them die.


We would, but medical and public safety personnel don't have that option. If we could barricade them and deny services, yeah, let 'em all die.
 
SomeAmerican [TotalFark]
2020-11-21 6:52:06 PM  
1 vote:
Republicans are people who think conspiring with the Russians to prevent America from electing commies is a good idea.

Maybe don't listen to them too much.
 
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