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dying civilization o'clock who up

love how people got so mad about being asked to wear a mask that public health just stopped existing

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 80 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

They're gonna make sure we never have an appropriate response ever again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fauci-schools-shut-down-covid/

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everyone is just going to be sick, all the time, forever, and people are going to forget that there was once a time when being sick was unusual.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago

doomjak but with more tears.

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, we could have re-opened them safely with air filtration and n95 use. But it's cheaper just to say "fuck it" and get everyone sick.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You greatly overestimate the hygiene and discipline of children

[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

It helps greatly if the community is also taking measures.

Right now, even with just with air filtration, studies estimate it cuts down the spread of disease by 20%.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's why you put good filtration systems in the buildings full of infection generators

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah that's why you never get sick from planes

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

how did you tell it was the plane and not the airport?

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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

I still remember when that fuck gave the all-clear to re-open everything and ban masks but if you wanted to interview him you needed to test negative three days in a row and wear an N95 outdoors.

Curious.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're gonna make sure we never have an appropriate response ever again.

There wasn't even an appropriate response the first time

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago

Can't wait for mpox+bird flu to ravage the country while we're still forced to continue our lives like nothing is wrong.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If your responses is comprehensive then schools and everything should have been shut down for 6-12 weeks while people are tested and quarantined.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

I live in Florida. Disney was back open summer 2020.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can we talk about just how expensive lice are? A bottle of lice shampoo will easily set you back USD 40 and that is gone quickly if a kid catches lice and the entire family needs to be deloused.

That is a lot of money for a lot of families. And if just one kid doesn't get their lice treated it will keep reappearing again and again, causing discomfort, inconvenience and expenses for everyone.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

$40? That's craaaazy. It's like £5 over here

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago

sorry parliamentarian says macroscopic ectoparasites on your children

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

I breezed by this post the first time because I just assumed it was a humorous followup post to the covid guidelines

[–] Ideology@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Next they will suggest the children simply pick the bugs off of eachother and eat them. monke-return

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

No, that would be communism. The kid should pick their own bugs off themself the-republican

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Average kindergartener, 2035:

(CW: goopy toxic waste dude from Robocop)

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Check out my kid's kindergarten class photo

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

❤️ arts and crafts time

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Lunchtime 2033

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[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sprinkle some lice on whoever is in charge of the CDC, see if they change their mind

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Well they would just stay home. Going on about your day is for the poors.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

No taking off work. only-throw

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are these decisions made for the purpose of intentionally making kids sicker at this point? Or is Nurgle worship becoming fashionable?

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

schools are daycares. parents with sick kids call off of work or otherwise stay home to take care of their children instead of going out/consuming/producing. this is unacceptable. therefore, the kids have to be in school, healthy or not.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Public education should be more than that, but porky-happy prefers daycares that moonlight as obedience schools. Part of why I retired early.

[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

honestly if Nurgle were real i'd give Nurgleism a serious consideration. Yeah you're eaten to death by millions of the most pestilent plagues imaginable, literally rotten in every aspect of body and being, BUT

It doesn't kill you and it doesn't hurt and Nurgle seems like a p. good guy when you don't factor in the ever spreading hellplague

Like Grandfather Nurgle seems like a kinder god than the Abrahamic one, imo

(P.s. I really like characters like Nurgle, like he's evil but he's not at the same time, idk, it's a bit more complex than if he just wanted to kill everyone with disease and that makes it interesting.

Same reason I like Stagnate, the God of Undeath in the anime The Faraway Paladin, like, she's "evil" because everything she does perverts the very fabric of reality by upending the natural cycle of life and death, but she's doing what she does because she genuinely cares for people, especially heroes, and wants to both give the opportunity to defy an unjust death as well as preserve the thing she finds most beautiful- a truly heroic soul. LOVE IT.)

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

Fauci confirmed as archpriest of Nurgle

[–] thebartermyth@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago
[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Someone has stock in NIX

[–] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

I was going to write "how long until an active school shooting is not an excuse to leave school early" but then I remembered the cat litter thing.

[–] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] nothx@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

The burden of missing school days due to nits far outweighs the minimal risk of transmission, especially when the lice have been treated.

The real burden is a society that values productivity over people’s health.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what the problem is? It's never been policy in the UK to keep kids home from school over head lice, the shits are impossible to stop with the way kids are so it's simpler to just treat repeatedly and not disrupt? Are there any particular long term health risks?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

They can cause bacterial infections, which is bad with an immunocompromised population that's on their 5th+ round of airborne aids.

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