The thing that infuriates me is how so many people who were sanctimonious assholes about their decision to wear a mask turned out to be total hypocrites who will not give a fuck against forced to by law. It's a slap in the face of all of us sanctimonious assholes who actually meant it.
Yeah, its quite annoying.
I legitimately think there was a missed opportunity for cool custom facemasks, during this whole thing.
Though the one pictured looks hot rather than cool.
Hey, I'd wear it. I definitely don't have the patience to make one, but if I could buy one and it uses replaceable filters I totally would.
yeah people are just dicks sometimes, i was doing groceries the other day and this old dude just fucking coughed in the cashier's face, like fuck dude at least put your hand over your mouth or something.Mate, I'm sorry!
I can't believe some people can be really be selfish c#nts!
We once had a patient a few years back where we had to tell them they were AIDS positive; Their response was to rip out out the IV and start trying to get blood everywhere, including getting some on one of the nurse's face. Thankfully he didn't up actually swallowing or letting any of that blood into his body and so he didn't end up getting it, but dear fucking god was that a moment of terror and anger.
I would argue 9 has a general caveat of 'depending on constituency', but that's pretty much what we've learned.
That's more like 5a.
To be honest, there is a very good argument for it being 5a, but when weighing in the fact that conspiracy theories have been a thing for far longer than social media... you could do both...
Conspiracy theory just means the idea that a group collaborated to cause something to occur. The fall of the Knights Templar was a conspiracy and later proven true. If something is a theory, then that just means it hasn't been definitively proven to be true, but that doesn't mean it's false.
The thing is, they're pretty harmful memes in general. A memetic hazard of sorts, causing people to pull shit like ramming trains into hospital ships. Hence why people have been calling them mind plagues.
3 is a yes and no answer. Vaccines have ratings against various versions of a disease. For example, a smallpox vaccine bestows an excellent chance of making one immune to various strains of smallpox... problem is that there are strains (specifically weaponized hemorrhagic variants) that literally go 'lolno' to the vaccines and kill you outright.
No. A more accurate statement would be that vaccines are meant to protect against a disease. Immunity is obviously ideal, but it doesn't always happen, and a reduction in disease severity is a nice consolation prize... especially with absurdly nasty diseases like COVID.
4 is delusionally optimistic. You don't need to push people far at all for them to drop not just the facades of tolerance and civility, but the facade of basic human decency. The vast majority of people, when given the choice between killing the people around them and inconveniencing themselves, will not even consider the latter unless literally forced to.
Old post is old but I figured you might be interested in knowing that powered respirators are also a thing.
Afaik most anthrax vaccines just protect against acute infection. Which granted is still much better than the alternative of not having them at all.
