Unfortunately true
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How? The same way they always do: situational ethics, intellectual dishonesty, and projection. 
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This is hopeful. Long ass way to go, but itâs starting.
It does remind me a bit of the still unexplained âencephalitis lethargicaâ that followed the 1918 influenza pandemic. Never got called âlong flu,â but does seem to follow similar rules.
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I saw a lot of honor the vets posts yesterday who sacrificed their life so we could all be free. I suggested maybe we return the sacrifice and honor them by protecting the veterans still with us by getting a vaccine or at the very least wearing a mask to protect them.
I mean wearing a mask compared what these soldiers go through on the battlefield would be a walk in the park and go a long way to honor and protect the very people they were honoring yesterday.
Mostly ignored.
And I am so tired of hearing freinds or co workers claiming they are not anti vaccine they are pro choice but they wonât answer when I ask why they choose to not get vaccinated.
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/makes note not to get in poorly ventilated space with wildlife.
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Hey, Bentonite clay works wonders.
When youâre building a diaphragm wall.
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Bambiâs revenge.
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Iiked the writerâs bio:
Writer, BoredPanda staff
Jurgita is a content creator at Bored Panda. She studied Lithuanian Philology and Italian Language, but it was not enough to feed her hunger for knowledge so she also got a Masterâs degree in Translation.
She is a positive and hard-working panda. In her spare time this panda likes to read, learn new languages and go for long walks. Her favorite writer is Umberto Eco and she will trade bamboo for strawberries
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As long as the woo-sellers donât up the ante any farther and start suggesting people add really caustic stuff to their bath water⌠then the problem will just start manifesting in a different direction.
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Eh, if assholes want to saponify themselves to death in the privacy of their own bathtubs, let them. It is less harmful to society than spreading covid or clogging up ICU beds for everyone else.
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Dang. According to worldometer, over the last week all those countries other than Italy are significantly outpacing the US in new infections. Cold weather is apparently bad news for the spread of this thing.
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fuck
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Yup. Weâve been flirting hard with that for the last couple of months and Iâve been saying âwere on track to overtake the UK in weeksâ and eventually we have.
And not just because the UK is now going down as that graph shows. In our own right the government wants to fuck this up. I suspect that the details are very different everywhere. Here the most salient thing I can see is that if you fill in contact tracing online and tick that you are in a school, IT DISAPPEARS! You can no longer have close contacts. Because schools staying open is the hill the Department of Education will kill on.
I linked earlier to stories of my nephewâs school being closed down, one eighth of the kids had Covid, many of their adults (including my sister, proper sick) and this was the time that the department decided they ran schools after decades of pretending the boards of management were independent.
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Some of the UK dip can apparently be put down to half term reducing the infection rate, but the schools are back now, presumably reflected by that slight increase.
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That seems reasonable but, thankfully, you are on a downward curve anyway. It appeared to be heading that way already.
Itâs a bit incomprehensible oftentimes to me to be honest.
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Sounds like weâve got a new variant of concern:
Edit: maybe not a big deal, apparently itâs been months since this was detected in the wild.
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