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- neverscared1
This State Will Literally Give You Free Weed to Get Vaxxed
Washington State's ‘Joints for Jabs’ program will give you a free joint if you get a COVID-19 vaccine at a cannabis dispensary.
- Krassy5
China Returns to Its Strict Covid Restrictions to Fight a New Outbreak
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/w…
- but herd immerniddy, and im not scerred of da veerus! masks er fer morans im so smart watch YouTube chcikdren!monospaced
- Wuhan Flu v2utopian
- Ya, awesome. Lock the borders this timeGnash
- here we go againKrassy
- greeeeatGuyFawkes
- 18.7 million tests in 3 days. That’s incredible.mort_
- ^ they were already pre-installed in everyones anusGnash
- LOLGuyFawkes
- but the vaccine?ApeRobot
- bogue4
Absolutely fascinating look into the Hungarian woman who has spent the last 40 years of her life pioneering the Messenger RNA technology used in these Covid vaccines. Hard not to see this as turning point in modern medicine and possibly human history.
- colin_s-4
fucking sucks listening to the radio where governors of US states talking about how many extra vaccines they have and nobody knows what to do with them. "the biden administration hasn't worked out how to send them to needy countries overseas"
of course not
it's so disheartening to see how the united states is just shitting the bed in terms of what actual global leadership would look like.
- sure the Canadians just extended the expiry dates by a month ffskingsteven
- what does it look like Colin?monospaced
- Slip it in the vape pens!********
- Ironic how the US or even Europe have vaccines surplus now while Chyna needs to quarantine cities for a few cases, without vaccines!grafician
- @mono creation of distribution programs to overseas gov'ts, in any/all ways now that the US is under control (in that people can get one if they want)colin_s
- or simply even maintaining a discourse here - so much of what i hear now is about the economy, like the pandemic is over. tunnel vision on the media narrative.colin_s
- @colin_s you can't just send millions of vaccines to poor countries, all those would end up on the black market and none will reach the actual populationgrafician
- Actually in the time since you posted this, Biden announced the US will donate 500 million doses to poor countries.yuekit
- To be fair the Biden administration is still trying to get a handle on the unmanaged vaccine program they inherited (and immigrant kids, etc.).evilpeacock
- Biden did say he’s sending millions of doses overseas though. Maybe you weren’t aware.monospaced
- He just announced it today lol
https://www.cnn.com/…yuekit - Clearly Biden reads QBN and is taking the criticism into account.yuekit
- lol ok fair enough that hadn't been said yet.colin_s
- clearly, and to think you assumed nothing would happen or couldn’tmonospaced
- shitting the bed, lol, as if the US is supposed to fix everything for the worldmonospaced
- utopian4
I just had a lunch with two friends. I just found out that both of their father's died from Covid-19 on New's Year Day and the other last month. One father was 70 years old in good health and other was 67 years old.
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- They both felt shame about telling anyone and or afraid of be ridiculed by the Trumptard Covid deniers. This country is beyond fucked up.utopian
- So fucked. My parents are super conservative, live in the south. I was on the horn with them nonstop when this first kicked up to tell them to not fuck about.garbage
- They are surrounded by COVID deniers, and it took some of them getting really sick to take it seriously.garbage
- grafician1
"Heart inflammation in young men higher than expected after Pfizer, Moderna vaccines -U.S. CDC"
"A higher-than-expected number of young men have experienced heart inflammation after their second dose of the mRNA COVID-19 shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, according to data from two vaccine safety monitoring systems, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday."
- Superb! Tomorrow I'm getting my firts dose of Pfizer... Glad to meet you all ;)OBBTKN
- A few hundred out of millions is not very significant.ETM
- Also responds to treatment and 4 out of 5 recover without issue. I'm not a vaccine apologist, but news outlet fear mongering is not helping us.ETM
- I definitely felt like my heart was inflammed after the 2nd Pfizer shot, and I don't think I had read anything about it yet.********
- But I didn't report it because it's the USA and who would I even report it to?!********
- btw I'm fully willing to admit that "felt like my heart was inflamed" is a pretty ridiculous statement for me to make!********
- Those sound like anti vax words vaxer!GuyFawkes
- You report it to your physician ffs.monospaced
- Everyone doesn’t have a physician. Have you even been to America********
- What does an inflamed heart feel like? More pressure? Pain? Higher heart rate?_niko
- @_niko you experience a sharp drop in performance.api
- grafician1
"Chinese researchers said Thursday they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats including one that may be the second-closest yet, genetically, to the Covid-19 virus.
According to the researchers, their discoveries in a single, small region of Yunnan province, southwestern China show just how many coronaviruses there are in bats and how many have the potential to spread to people."
""In total, we assembled 24 novel coronavirus genomes from different bat species, including four SARS-CoV-2 like coronaviruses," the researchers wrote in a report published in the journal Cell.
One was very similar, genetically to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that's causing the current pandemic, they said -- a viral sample called RpYN06 taken from a horseshoe bat species called Rhinolophus pusillus.It would be the closest strain to SARS-CoV-2 except for genetic differences on the spike protein, the knob-like structure that the virus uses when attaching to cells, they said."
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/…
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So this part: "It would be the closest strain to SARS-CoV-2 except for genetic differences on the spike protein" adds a bit of more truth to the idea that this current Coronavirus we're dealing with was indeed engineered, as many have concluded that spike protein part was not looking natural...
- What about this? "Furin cleavage sites occurred independently multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family"yuekit
- https://www.scienced…yuekit
- As I understand it, these viruses are constantly recombining and swapping pieces of their code in nature. Some have the spike protein, others don't.yuekit
- ^yes indeed, but the idea was the differences discovered could not have been occurring naturally, as they say anywaygrafician
- if that was the case, these ppl that keep discovering these viruses would've gotten sick every time they discovered a new one!grafician
- meaning these kind of viruses are not that deadly in their "natural" form, and need to be "modified"...thus gain of function researchgrafician
- Well remember this is SARS 2...the first SARS virus was actually more deadly but less infectious.yuekit
- And I haven't heard anyone claim original SARS was engineered. So these new viruses do appear from time to time in the natural world.yuekit
- @yuekit yeah they are naturally occurring ofc, but not in the super-spreading and killer form that created this pandemic?
Just a thought...grafician - There have definitely been viruses that came out of nowhere and killed millions of people. We've just only lived through one of them.yuekit
- yuekit2
Another article I saw recently along the same lines...
"In 2010, a virus similar to SARS-CoV-2 was already present in Cambodia"
https://theconversation.com/in-2…
It talks about how sarbecoronaviruses (the group including SARS 2) have been found in bats in both southern China but also Southeast Asia. Which makes sense when you consider that this is a common region that just happens to be divided into different countries. They have an interesting map that shows the territory of bats that carry these viruses.
You can't rule out that this particular virus was discovered in nature and then leaked from the lab...or made in lab entirely. But reading an article like this I don't think the "natural" origin (which in reality is also the result of human meddling) is as implausible as some people are making it out to be.
Because there is already proof of pangolins, civets and other small mammals becoming infected with this type of coronavirus. And these animals are being transported into China all the time as part of the illegal wildlife trade.
Apparently a lot of it is smuggled through the China-controlled Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos. The stuff that is being openly sold at a place like Huanan Market is probably only tip of the iceberg.
- lol at how the 9-dash li.. er.. the blue dashed line so specifically skirts around Wuhan :)Nairn
- @Nairn that's actually correct, no bats in Wuhan, but several virology labs tho' hehegrafician
- Well apparently there are some bats in Wuhan but not that carry these viruses. But does it really matter? It's not like you can't hop on a plane and fly fromyuekit
- @yuekit current mood is: discovered in nature > brought to lab > gain of function research to make it "more cool" > lab escape > pandemicgrafician
- one end of this region to another in a matter of hours.yuekit
- < also based on this, I would argue that most ppl in those areas are pretty immune to this family of viruses, but the rest of the world are not obvgrafician
- Just look at low cases in Vietnam, Thailand, etc. so few cases and deaths, compared to Europe, US, India, South America etc.grafician
- so if these viruses are so prevalent in those areas, why not ravaging those regions by now naturally? Why the pandemic started exactly in Wuhan? lolgrafician
- @grafician Yeah they mention that in the article too. I spent the entire pandemic in this part of the world and it's noticeable how low the death rate isyuekit
- The picture is getting clearer in favour of a lab escape in Wuhan...grafician
- At least until recently when the new variants arrived, there was almost no outbreak here at all.yuekit
- ah btw I haven't read the article yet, just talking based on your words yuekitgrafician
- but yeah, the fact that the pandemic hasn't started in Vietnam or Thailand or Laos with all that illegal trade, but exactly in Wuhan next to a virology lab...grafician
- So yeah, lol, they blamed illegal trade but this theory doesn't make any sense, while the lab escape idea is getting clearergrafician
- @yuekit maybe because the locals in SE Asia have only immunity to the original strains and not these new mutated ones?grafician
- Right but where was it first discovered in Wuhan? At a market that was known for selling exotic wildlife, and slaughtering the animals on site.yuekit
- BTW I think it's definitely possible it came from lab accident also. But with all the speculation around the lab people tend to ignore that obvious fact.yuekit
- Yeah they blamed the exotic wildlife market in Wuhan, but if that was the actual source, how come it didn't started in other SE Asia countries?! Makes no sensegrafician
- I mean THAT exactly specific market, and not other thousands of exotic wildlife markers all over SE Asia or even other parts of China...grafician
- Anyway, after a year, all local proof would be gone, knowing Chyna, they bleached the entire city so yeah...no definite proof, but the idea of lab leak still ongrafician
- compared to other mammals bats have insane immune systems so their viruses are thought to mutate faster... that's why they were being collected from remotekingsteven
- caves and brought to the city in the first place. and the labs gain of function capabilities were internationally approved, the idea they would be intentionallykingsteven
- weaponising deadly viruses in a university laboratory i don't buy for a second.kingsteven
- it's also more than convenient to blame the markets (given the divide between science and traditional food and medicine in china) the idea that there are twokingsteven
- plausible sources in one city is kinda terrifying.kingsteven
- Well keep in mind the Chinese government promotes the traditional medicine industry. There are factory farms in China breeding everything from civets to lionsyuekit
- and tigers for "medicine", crazy as that sounds. And then there is a huge black market industry where rare animals are smuggled and sold at marketsyuekit
- Check out this menu of animals from one of the vendors at the Huanan market for instance.
https://twitter.com/…yuekit - But you're totally right, it's terrifying that both are plausible. Humans in general, not just Chinese, need to get our shit together fast...yuekit
- It does look like the dotted line storms of SARS missed on all sides, lol.utopian
- Agree with everyone here, as Graf said, that part of the world has been spared by this pandemic most likely because they’ve had it or something close before_niko
- And have built up a natural immunity._niko
- Read somewhere recently that the immunisation after getting it can last for years and even potentially for a lifetime, so yeah that makes sense SE Asia is safegrafician
- utopian2
During the 1st North American cruise since 2020...2 passengers test positive for COVID-19.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/2-pass…
Covidiots Everywhere
- utopian-1
U.S. COVID-19 cases and deaths jump to two weeks highs!
There were at least 26,076 new cases of the coronavirus-borne illness in the U.S. on Friday, up from 13,981 on Thursday, according to a New York Times tracker. The seven-day average rose to 14,772 from 12,888, but was down 33% from two weeks ago.
The death toll spiked up to 730 on Friday, the NY Times data show, from 412 the day before. The seven-day average edged up to 413 deaths from 389, but was 19% below where it was two weeks ago. Track the data in the daily Coronavirus Update column.
- fadein110
"Behold The Anti-Vax Mistress Of Magnetism"
- butbut i swear it always works perfectly after a hot day with a lot of alcoholsted
- The reaction of the woman in the blue shirt********
- never loses her keysAQUTE
- She's become Magneto. Why complain?Beeswax
- bwahaha, classic. zoom in on the blue lady's face, add the curb your enthusiasm theme, call it a day._niko
- sorry TL, didn't see it in US is fucked thread...fadein11
- grafician2
JUST IN: G7 calls for probe into origins of coronavirus pandemic
- renderedred3
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- drgs6
Are you guys worried that in the future designer viruses will be a thing?
A lab needed to produce such viruses costs no more than $1 mill, about the price of a yacht. Some Arab group makes a virus which only affects jews, for example -- I'm pretty sure it will be possible.
Science progresses quickly, people remain savage -- that's how civilizations end
Dicsuss
- I don't think there is a genetic parameter that makes you jew or arab.uan
- jews and arabs are probably genetically identical. But jews and arabs might target people who eat pork maybe? lets come up with better evil plansBeeswax
- lets target ppl by hair or eye color?uan
- Ashkenazi jews are genetically distinct, bottom of the page:
https://www.23andme.…drgs - ^ there is the "cohen gene" yes, but 2/3 of palestinians have it ;)renderedred
- Yep. Been a concern of mine for about two decades, as I had a few friends in genetics.Nairn
- You could target all swmitic people, then only offer the cure to the group you da our, for example. Or just target gingers...Nairn
- Fucks sake typing on a phone. 'Group you favour'Nairn
- This is worth a watch, if you haven't already
https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn - Target everyone with cancer. Fuck medicine trying to save lives. They're breathing air that's not theirs.palimpsest
- Neither Jewish nor Arabic people eat pork you absolute muppets! XDProjectile
- Arabs and Jews do eat pork.
XDpalimpsest - Only if with their $1m they make a vaccine at the same time, for themselves. Else they are welcome to try to eliminate me and thusly themselves.shapesalad
- There's Projectile completely misinterpreting posts again.Nairn
- IQ selective or morality sensitive viruses might not be badBeeswax
- Given what biohackers are doing in their own homes with relatively DIY or OTS hardware, I doubt you'd even need a million bucks.Nairn
- And this is why aliens don’t want anything to do with us besides the odd anal probe now and then._niko
- they also kill our cows and ruin our fieldsmonospaced
- I'm not sure how realistic this is. It's not enough to say you can point to some genetic difference between Jews and Arabs (or whatever)...yuekit
- A virus isn't like a computer that is scanning your genetic makeup and making a decision to infect you or not. It comes down to interactions on the cellularyuekit
- level, and our cells aren't really that different. Look at SARS virus for instance, it can infect humans but also cats, dogs and other mammals.yuekit
- i am half jew and i eat pork :Prenderedred
- "Target everyone with cancer", found the teenage edgelord.garbage
- Yeah, targeting the Jews is much more mature.
Get hooked on phonics, kids.palimpsest - > Target everyone with cancer.
What do you think this last year and a half's been about? We've all been injected with subscription-based cancerNairn - Pay extra $ dollar each month to activate the 5G upgrade. $$ for on-demand magnetism.Nairn
- Oh fuck, I think I got whooshed. Target the whooshed.garbage
- what movie is this?sted
- Gardener-2
- yuekit7
Speaking of viruses and labs, this is a crazy story I never heard of...
"The Complete Story of the Discovery and Reconstruction of the 1918 Pandemic Virus"
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic…
Apparently when the 1918 pandemic happened, science wasn't advanced enough at the time to explain what the virus that killed 50 million (or maybe 100 million) people actually was.
Almost a century later scientists searched the ruins of a small Inuit village in Alaska that had been wiped out by the pandemic. They found a woman frozen under the ice who was killed back in 1918 and were able to extract the genetic material of the virus from her lungs.
They then proceeded to reconstruct a live version of the previously extinct virus at a lab in New York City. They injected it into mice, chicken eggs and artificial human lung cells...and possibly it's still sitting in a freezer somewhere? But this is the only reason we know that it was H1N1 that caused the "Spanish Flu."
- Beeswax2
Got my first Biontech shot yesterday. No side effects except my deltoid hurts and a bit of a restless sleep.
We're now planning to fly to the US.Anybody knows if we can get the second shot there?
Also I tried to stick some metal to my body but I wasn't sweaty enough. Any questions?
- Gnash2
- How long before the - ‘Jon Stewart is only 5’3” - sky messages start appearingGnash
- everyone knows the 12 monkeys did itGuyFawkes
- 12 pangolins, you meanGnash
- What a weird outfit********
- Jon would be a great US president.monospaced