The Virus Outbreak Thread

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
Good time to be single ;-)

New side effect of the virus appearing: Severe psychosis.

@lonewolf
 
Welcome to a virus that targets AC2.
 
Little bastard slips into every place.

Victoria is on the verge of a third wave, and this amusing tweet sums up why that may be. If it were up to me, seeing family for Christmas etc would be illegal.
 
@Zincy  
The hell is that? Literally every single result for that is about Assassin’s Creed 2, I can’t find a single non-Ubisoft result.

@Wiimeiser
 
Autocorrect took out the e.
 
ACE2, a receptor site found on many cells, mostly in neuro-muscular junctions.

This image has been spreading like crazy:
 

@CaptainXtra  
That have something to do with the guy who got arrested for destroying about 500 doses?

@Vivace  
What? Why?

@CaptainXtra
 
There’s a few things about that idea that wouldn’t work.
 
For starters, it would be impossible to control for selection pressures. Secondly, it would take a lot longer than 4 to 12 weeks for immunity to start to wane. Especially from a vaccine.
 
Even acquired immunity lasts longer than that, anywhere upwards to 6 months.
 
 
Also, he just drops “proof-reading polymerase” in there but clearly has no idea what it means. I don’t believe many viruses, least of all coronaviruses, contain a proof-reading mechanism.

@Zincy  
Okay I like calling bullshit on those technicalities… But as far as just pointing out how fucked we handled this and/or are handling this, this is pretty on-point overall. I mean, okay, I’m glad to hear from someone like you who knows a lot about this say that immunity will last longer than 4 to 12 weeks, and that does make sense, since yeah, immunity is generally much longer than that even when just getting the virus… But still, I don’t like jumping into this uncharted territory unless somebody actually has good science giving us very good reason to believe we can hold off on the second shots for awhile with little consequences. There are articles coming out from major news outlets now telling us simultaneously A. We need to consider holding off on the second shots, and B. If we don’t get the second shots on time we will be severely limiting and damaging the effectiveness of our coronavirus vaccination plan… I’m usually one of those very pro-science people who’s very sympathetic to our ever-changing understanding of things as we progress… But delaying the second shit seems incredibly risky and the public is confused enough as it is. Even I’m like, “There better be a lot of damn good science to back up that delaying plan if they do roll with it, I swear to the God I don’t believe in that I’m gonna go crazy if this turns out to be another disaster.”
 
Edit: Was gonna correct “shit” to shot, but decided to leave it in because it sounds funny.

The absolute why of it
 
Hospital employee wore a costume that includes an air blower to keep it inflated (and constantly circulating air in and around it) to the hospital for Christmas.
 
They had covid.
 
Guess what happened next.

Will the pandemic be over by the start of 2022?

@Background Pony #15CE  
Don’t give them any ideas!
 
If it ends in 2022, the damage to everything else would be done by now. Especially, filmmakers throwing tantrums against streaming, malls, gatherings and other places closed, everything pushed back to next year or cancelled, being on lockdown for eternity, etc.

“You know the guy who let the vaccines spoil in Wisconsin? Well here’s the reason he did it.

@lonewolf  
What a dumbass. We could have all become X-Men.  
Thanks alot. Now we’re all still normal and sick.

I mean, the vaccine is pretty damn untested, not gonna lie. Gonna be waiting a while to see what side effects arise before I take it. Even if it becomes available.

So, the pandemic will continue forever?

@Hollowfox Jaeger  
No, there will be an end point. Look at the 1918-1920 Spanish Flu outbreak as an example.

This vaccine rollout has been the most pathetic debacle I think I’ve ever seen related to health care.

@Zincy  
It might have helped if the people in charge had ever actually worked out a distribution plan more detailed than “and then the states get some”.
 
In fact I’m pretty sure at least one of the individuals involved has devoted more time and energy to hawking branded steaks than he ever has to the effort to save millions of people.

@Background Pony #6CBF
 
I’m so glad I’m not in DC right now.
 
I made the right call to spend the winter further south.

@Background Pony #6CBF  
They are not trying to, perhaps unintentionally, but no matter which party you support you shouldn’t make things up.

@Background Pony #39BC  
Your buddy driving at night during a blizzard after getting hammered at the bar and insisting no one fasten any “pansy ass seatbelts” in their 1987 Caprice they haven’t serviced since Clinton left office may not be trying to get you killed, but they sure are doing their very damn best to get you killed.