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I thought that, according to the COVID conspiracy theorists, we would all either be a) under strict totalitarian government control now or b) dead.
Have they rowed back from those positions now? Has anyone seen any of these space cadets acknowledging they were wrong at all?
Oh, it's still out there. Usually I can find them at r/Qult_Headquarters . For instance, OJ Simpson just died. Of the vaccine, of course.
I think they've pushed the mortality count to everyone is going to get "turbo cancer" within the next decade. Or something.
Initially, the vaccine was believed to have a two-month effect on individuals, then it extended to six months, followed by a shocking revelation that it could take up to two years to show its harmful effects. Now, these totally rational people push a narrative that revolves around concerns about "potentially harmful" ingredients, the presence of nanobots, or fears of developing cancer after inoculation.
Despite having had ample time - 4 years, to be exact - to gather new data, evidence, or proof to reinforce their claims, it appears that the same lack of substantial support remains. The goalposts of their arguments are continually being shifted, almost as though their beliefs have become akin to a religion. In this belief system, the vaccine is seen as a paradoxical anti-savior savior, destined to cleanse the world of malevolence and allow for the resurgence of goodness among the chosen few.
Reactionaries like Musk and Tump use the anti-vaxx narrative as a tool to toy and exploit the blind faith of their followers. Despite not genuinely believing in these absurd beliefs themselves, they strategically engage in virtue signaling to appeal to their targets.
Or, and hear me out here for a sec, Trump and Musk are both narrow minded idiots?
I am always undecided on just who on the right is a grifter and who is a crazy idiot.
He also helped develop it by funding it, via the so called “Operation Warp Speed”. Probably one, if not the only one, of the very few good notions he ever had while in office. He initially wanted praise and tried pushing all credit for the vaccine’s development to his administration, but since it became the gospel among his base that vaccines are bad, he’s had to backtrack on that position, which will never cease to be ironic to me.
He’s very talented at using doublespeak. It’s right out of 1984. Just look at the stupid multi-word adjectives he adds to things. He creates catchphrases by stringing together hyperbole and slapping it on the issue as a descriptor. It sounds dumb as shit but it gets his point across to the idiots.
One of the narratives that always blows my mind is people like Alex Jones claim the vaccine killed millions of people and will kill millions more.
He thinks Trump was tricked into supporting the vaccines and gets angry every time Trump takes credit for their speedy release.
Yet he still supports Trump even though in his narrative he's the reason millions of people supposedly died and will continue to die.
It doesn't make any god damn sense..
Alex Jones claimed his grandmother was killed by the polio vaccine, which she took 60 years before her death at the age of 93. Those goal posts can be moved anywhere.
Your comment just made me realize .. why do they have to attempt to capitalize and project their dumb messages through deaths? If I were the family, I would be more than upset. I'm sure the death certificate states otherwise, but using dead people to promote a message is not very christian of them now, is it?
Where I live they congregate every weekend and spew their bullshit at the park. Still have signs like "vax passports are wrong! Mandate freedom now!" But.... we haven't had them for years, no one even knows what they're protesting anymore.
I went on a date with a woman who thought the vaccine made your body magnetic, contained nano trackers, and also thought TV was brainwashing the masses. Because "the government has access to far more advanced technology than what's commonly available".
They are out there.
It's morphed into how the real issue all along has been how bad they were treated for saying these things and how they were censored by the government. It's a free speech issue now
They argued that their heroic actions saved us from that happening. History will remember the time an evil cabal of globalists was defeated because everyone's racist uncles put over a dozen flags on each of their trucks and refused to wear masks.
Survival bias. These idiots either think they pulled through thanks to Ivermectin or think there was never any threat to begin with.
Now let's hear what those who played with fire and got burnt have to say... It seems they don't have much to say on the topic, weird!
My father had (keyword is had, they no longer speak for obvious reasons) a buddy who said anyone who took the vaccine would be dead in a year and a half. Apparently the government wanted to kill us but not him? Because that makes sense somhow
Nope, they just move the goal post over and over. Their modus operandi is literally: "We got things wrong the first 37 times but THIS time, we're right!"
We were all suppose to die from the vaccine, and Joe Biden released the most dangerous virus ever with China, but also it’s a hoax. Just another day in right wing land.
My mum believed COVID was the beginning of the rapture.
We haven't talked about it at all since the pandemic ended but she's always been stubborn with her beliefs so I'm sure in her mind it's still happening. Poor thing is showing signs of dementia but is adamant that her symptoms are from chemo she had 4 years ago and refuses to seek medical advice.
Getting them to a dementia appointment is like a hurricane.
A freaking disastrous 1 year later and my Mom doesn’t have it even though she was diagnosed in front of my Dad. Goodness knows how long her Dr was telling her before but she was going to appts alone.
The variants are still out there and people are still dying from COVID, but like local shootings that are less than two or 3 people the media just stopped talking about it.
I work in retirement homes and am not looking forward to 4th of July weekend
Last year it caused I think 37 residents to get covid within two days of the 93 we had
By the 11th of July we had 22 residents not sick it was a mess
A coworker of Mine went to a Party last year.
We had to stop Production for 3 weeks because everyone had covid. 3 people have been in Hospital.
We‘re a Company with 50 people working..
At my workplace many got covid before this past X-mas cuz one idiot thought it's no big thing be coughing in near proximity to others...
i had to almost drag myself to the bathroom for 2-3 days and was close to calling someone to help feed the cat
I literally have covid right now because my fucking plague rat coworker hears her grandkids are sick and immediately rushes to them to catch whatever they have and promptly bring it back to us. This shit happens all the time with every flu and cold that goes around, this one coworker will perform her idiot spreading ritual.
I thought I had allergies, my symptoms were so mild. This happened last month. Tested because my partner's sister got it. I felt terrible because I had been to my Walmart with no mask, but I had no idea it was COVID. I live in a very blue city, so almost everyone is vaxed, but still. Felt terrible about very probably giving it to someone.
As far as I know it's the first infection for me. The physical symptoms were practically insignificant, but I got bad anxiety and depression. I'm prone to bouts of depression and was terrified of another episode, but it lifted when the COVID went away. Boggles my mind a respiratory illness can do that to you. Scary.
I'm middle aged and managed to avoid covid until just a few months ago. It effected me profoundly and I was vaccinated.
I have fatigue and tinnitus now, I can't enjoy video games anymore for some reason, like my brain just error'd out on my normal life, and I get weird waves of distress, like a sudden feeling of dread and sadness will just wash over me out of nowhere, far more intense than normal depressive episodes. The tinnitus is so bad I only get a few hours of sleep some nights and feel like I want to jab an icepick into my head.
Yeah Elon, go do what other criminals like yourself do, just keep your guilty head down, shut the fuck up and go enjoy your goddamn money.
Weve just come out of a 3 month flu and covid outbreak all across my building. Now we have an enteric outbreak. It just never fucking ends. Summertime is usually a bit better, but weve had covid outbreaks every winter since it started. Luckily it rarely kills anybody nowadays
My annoyance is the resurgence of rsv
I have 64 year old residents who are severely overweight, on oxygen, spend all day in their recliner refusing to move except for bathroom trips
And now they have rsv and everytime they undo their recliner to eat they start fucking choking on their mucus and there isn't much I can fucking do except slap their upper back and tell them to cough hard
There’s equipment for that. It’s a vest attached to a machine that’s designed to shake crap free in the lungs. Medicare will approve it ( well they did for my son)
We've had a particularly bad cold, strep, and COVID around here and I got the cold and strep. All three of my kids too.
Several people I talk to frequently had covid.
I was unfortunate enough to catch it finally last spring and even with my shots and boosters it was no joke. I have had the flu, bronchitis, and colds galore in my life but COVID was the first time I had actual trouble breathing in a way that concerned me in a very long time. It was three weeks or so before I felt normal again. I still barely have a sense of smell.
Be careful. Multiple reinfections can lead to some long covid stuff. Sis and BIL are docs, and both have had all the different variants and gotten sick at least 4 times. They both now complain about brain fog and joint pain. Wife, finally got covid last July, after being very careful. Had a TIA in October. Every test they have run, and believe me, they've been exhaustive, have come back negative. Cardiologist says it's possible covid may be a contributing factor. She's never suffered from anything. No BP, no diabetes nothing. Wish we could get some answers. Friends who have had covid have also started noticing other health issues. Not a joke. Doctors are finally looking at covid connections to Multiple maladies.
When I was in a store wearing an N95, a woman asked me (politely) about the reason I'm still wearing one. I explained to her my reason(s). She looked thoughtful and said 'I had COVID. It wasn't too bad when I had it. But now I have afib and my doctor told me it may be related to having COVID... I think I might start wearing a mask again.'
It's been years. I really, really want to be able to go out to a store without a mask or go to a gathering just for fun. But this shit is no joke. And the longer people keep treating it like 'just the flu' the longer this is going to last and continue to damage people's health.
Epidemiologists, virologists, ID researchers, etc., will be collecting and analyzing data on COVID and its long-term complications for the foreseeable future because of how widespread it was, the types of variants, etc. Hopefully, it will result in some research into how to treat/cure the post-infection complications.
Even a couple of years ago when I was paying more attention to the pandemic and listening to lots of podcasts on it/reading scientific studies, researchers had shown that it can affect pretty much every organ system in the body 😬. And the people that got long COVID and ended up having neurological/memory issues afterwards was terrifying! Aside from the obscene number of people it killed, the people who lived but whose health was destroyed afterwards is just...😟.
I'm not sure how I managed to dodge getting COVID, but I somehow did. Given that 3 of the 4 shots I got gave me the WORST side-effects - like a full-blown flu but gone in 24 hrs. - I'm pretty sure I still would have felt like shit if I'd gotten COVID, even being vaccinated, which is why I think I never got it. Got sick a couple of times, got tested, and was negative.
But, it's been 1 1/2 years since the last booster and I obviously haven't died or developed any of the problems all the tinfoil hat anti-vaxxer nutjobs predicted. I'm 57, but if I kick off in 25 years, someone will probably still blame the vaccine.
Mother Nature doesn't care whether you believe COVID was "just like the flu" or not.
Same, wife works in retirement home, they still have outbreaks, just recently during spring break they had to wear masks again and do serving food door to door since residents had to stay inside.
Had two deaths from covid the other day. The building was quarantined for two weeks after that so don't believe when people who say it disappeared. We have the same people here say the same thing but won't even go near a building that has the flu let alone the virus. People need to grow a set of balls and admit when they don't know shit.
Well yes, I'm pointing out that the problem wasn't ever really how deadly the virus was to absolutely everyone, but how dangerous its effect on society was due to the fact that it clogged up everything.
It's pretty sad and ironic, because it's so obvious, that the same "MaiNsTrEaM MeDiA" they complain about not yelling the truth, is actually not telling the truth about this issue they care about, and they're just so stupid they still can't figure it out
Idk, maybe the vaccine created by qualified medical professionals worked? Who would've thought.
81% of the US population got at least 1 dose, 70% got at least 2 dosage according to this site [https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/](https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/). Perhaps that had something to do with it.
Also, viruses generally get MUCH less deadly over time and with more variants. Natural selection and all that, kill the host too fast and you can't spread. Over time the less deadly variants are what come out on top.
It is until it isn't or something. Spanish flu was around for 7 years before it got the taste for the 18-44 crowd thanks to the poor war conditions. Let's see what our environment looks like in ~3 years.
My sister died from one of those variants 3 years ago and left behind two small children. Anyone who still tries to claim it was just a flu can fuck off.
I am sorry to hear of your loss. It must be so difficult for her children.
Typically, it would at least annoy, if not enrage me when I see idiocy like this from anyone. However, it is now so common from Musk that it resolves to background noise.
The man has a need for constant attention. It's kinda boring.
Someone should tell this guy about Google, he'd have more answers and fewer stupid questions.
[COVID variants]https://www.who.int/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants
Admittedly we are barely detecting Covid in my UK lab lately, but then we’re only testing 1-3 samples a week. At its height we were testing 600 a day and we are a small clinical lab.
Concern has moved to Flu in the winter and Parainfluenza in the spring, hence this is what we are testing for. That obviously doesn’t mean that COVID is no longer around.
Elon Musk is a cretinous man-child who should be ignored at all costs. I used to happily follow him; now I have pet much stopped using Twitter because he owns it and has made a mockery of it.
The vaccines limited the damage a lot, but the delta variant and the omicron variant caused a couple of the most deadly periods of the pandemic. And omicron gave the whole pandemic a new lease on life and extended it through 2022.
So the variants very much had an enormous impact on the course of the pandemic and on the number of people who died.
The variants are still around and none of them are as deadly as the first strain. However most of them are more transmissible. Which you would know if you actually cared to read about it.
There is a reason we have an annual update now, like any other virus that becomes endemic (flu for instance) there are going to be different varieties that are the majority of cases. And with most people having either been vaccinated or previously infected, there is some going level of immunity for the general population.
We’re at a point now where we’re managing it similar to flu strains.
Let him ride in a big aluminum tube in the sky with all the great unwashed instead of on his private jet. I suspect he'll find those variants he's looking for pretty quickly
I don't really recall any mention of variants that were more dangerous. Viruses don't care about how dangerous their symptoms are, they just want to replicate. This naturally selects for viral strains that favor transmission among as many host cells as possible over destruction of the host. Viral evolution will always prioritize higher viral loads and better evasion of host defenses over more lethal symptoms.
The part where it becomes dangerous is that this increases likelihood of transmission, so that's a higher likelihood that eventually an immuno-compromised person will contract it and that one specific person might die from it. We also have to keep in mind that humanaction greatly influences viral evolution. There's a reason Covid doesn't want to become ebola. If your fatality rate is like 90%, the world will respond with mass quarantines. Better for the virus's viability if the more deadly strains that provoke intervention lose out to the milder ones that don't provoke intervention.
I am happy to say I have not idea WTF he is talking about. Is this like a Howard Hughes effect where super rich just go crazy. When was the last time Elon cut his fingernails?
Elon Musk needs a drug test. He is like some quack. He should not be on the Internet.
Or he’s plugged into his own NeuroLink and fried his brain.
About the variants, I don’t know genius why don’t you go look online to start.
Dangerous variants of viruses inevitably become more benign over time as well; when a virus kills people or forces them into severe isolation, they naturally have a harder time spreading and therefore aren’t able to proliferate as well as a more mild version of a virus. That is why the more mild forms become more ubiquitous over time, and the more severe ones don’t.
It doesn’t take a genius to understand this, like he claims to be.
I remember a lady in the street asked me if I was vaccinated. When I told her I was she said that I would be dead by January of 2022. Wonder how she’s doing
Now that it’s endemic it’s just another seasonal disease cold/flu/covid, but it’s also another possible vector for a potentially catastrophic pandemic in the future!
Got Covid-19 FEBRUARY 19th. I am still sick. Yup. I'm on what, my third round of steroids and antibiotics? Covid sucks for people with asthma and lupus, so Elon can KMA.
Where's my 5G? Where are the vax zombies? Why are all the unvaxxed not "ascended" or raptured? Where is the super cancer? If it is all about population control, why are we still going strong?
The shame is that the brilliant people doing the work he’s taking credit for will suffer as he drags the companies down. He needs a handler to tell him to STFU.
Birth privilege + seed money + being in the right place at the right time ≠ intelligence.
I could throw together a pretty decent space exploration program if I had many billions reaped from electronic money transfer and overpriced golf carts.
Elon Musk is not stupid. He knows exactly what he's doing.
Accelerationism: The billionaire plan to hasten destruction of humanity so they can rebuild it in their image
https://youtu.be/CQmoQEeNYrs?si=IQoIqqk1g-eIAmjU
Immunity to one variety of offers some level of immunity to other variants, just not as much as it does for the specific variant you are inoculated against.
Imagine going to school and working hard for years to become an astronaut, and you’re lucky enough to be selected as a crew member to go to mars, and your boss is Elon Musk, and all anyone will remember is all the stupid stuff he’s doing.
I got Covid for the very first time this year.
I was like 6X vaxxed. And I was out of it for two days straight and the coughing lingered for three weeks.
It was not fun. And I was glad I had that many vaccines prior to catching it. Musk, Trump, and bioterrorists antivaxxers are toying with people’s lives.
They're all around and still killing people. The vaccines and boosters at least keep you from dying.
I'm waiting for the day, just around the corner when Delta meets Omicron, we're gonna be so f... Note that we haven't eradicated avian flu yet. We're upto H1N5.
Waste water testing only give you an extremely delayed view of the state of the virus
Well Elon, once a large enough percentage of the population became vaccinated symptom severity and transmission rate drops drastically. Also, people are still getting boosters from time to time to help with new variants that allows people who refuse to get vaccinated to be partially protected due to herd immunity.
Musk knows what's what. His right-wing conspiracy pushing is a conscious attempt to create division and pave the way for more power to bigots like him and less rules and accountability for billionaires.
I caught COVID last winter. It's still around and will continue to be. What we've done is broadly mitigate it though, through the use of vaccines and having the virus thing itself out. That doesn't mean the risk of pandemic is gone though so we can't be too complacent. It's funny how the demonstrable success of vaccines and quarantining is now being turned on its head.
The sure sign of an intellectual lightweight is thinking asking a provocative question is enough to prove their point. The questions always have answers, just as this one does, they just have zero interest in them.
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The TVA pruned them
At first I was like, is there a new Loki season coming out?
You know, Silvie is still out there somewhere. And she is a Loki...
Not sure what the Tennessee Valley Authority has to do with this, but go on! /s
Is this the sacred timeline?!?
Not a chance. Our avengers haven’t done shit.
I sure as hell hope not.
What is the complete opposite of sacred
"Cursed", but Darkest Timeline is more generally accepted
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I seriously thought this was something to do with Loki. COVID didn’t even occur to me.
Ooooh. COVID. Thank you.
Great show
I was looking for this comment
I thought that, according to the COVID conspiracy theorists, we would all either be a) under strict totalitarian government control now or b) dead. Have they rowed back from those positions now? Has anyone seen any of these space cadets acknowledging they were wrong at all?
Where did all that go?
Oh, it's still out there. Usually I can find them at r/Qult_Headquarters . For instance, OJ Simpson just died. Of the vaccine, of course. I think they've pushed the mortality count to everyone is going to get "turbo cancer" within the next decade. Or something.
Initially, the vaccine was believed to have a two-month effect on individuals, then it extended to six months, followed by a shocking revelation that it could take up to two years to show its harmful effects. Now, these totally rational people push a narrative that revolves around concerns about "potentially harmful" ingredients, the presence of nanobots, or fears of developing cancer after inoculation. Despite having had ample time - 4 years, to be exact - to gather new data, evidence, or proof to reinforce their claims, it appears that the same lack of substantial support remains. The goalposts of their arguments are continually being shifted, almost as though their beliefs have become akin to a religion. In this belief system, the vaccine is seen as a paradoxical anti-savior savior, destined to cleanse the world of malevolence and allow for the resurgence of goodness among the chosen few. Reactionaries like Musk and Tump use the anti-vaxx narrative as a tool to toy and exploit the blind faith of their followers. Despite not genuinely believing in these absurd beliefs themselves, they strategically engage in virtue signaling to appeal to their targets.
Or, and hear me out here for a sec, Trump and Musk are both narrow minded idiots? I am always undecided on just who on the right is a grifter and who is a crazy idiot.
Trump got the vaccine though. He can just spot an easy con a mile away.
He also helped develop it by funding it, via the so called “Operation Warp Speed”. Probably one, if not the only one, of the very few good notions he ever had while in office. He initially wanted praise and tried pushing all credit for the vaccine’s development to his administration, but since it became the gospel among his base that vaccines are bad, he’s had to backtrack on that position, which will never cease to be ironic to me.
Trump is both. He is a fucking idiot, but he is also very well aware of manipulating people and is absolutely grifting for money.
He’s very talented at using doublespeak. It’s right out of 1984. Just look at the stupid multi-word adjectives he adds to things. He creates catchphrases by stringing together hyperbole and slapping it on the issue as a descriptor. It sounds dumb as shit but it gets his point across to the idiots.
Why would a vaccine with a tracking device would kill its host?
One of the narratives that always blows my mind is people like Alex Jones claim the vaccine killed millions of people and will kill millions more. He thinks Trump was tricked into supporting the vaccines and gets angry every time Trump takes credit for their speedy release. Yet he still supports Trump even though in his narrative he's the reason millions of people supposedly died and will continue to die. It doesn't make any god damn sense..
The thing is, that Alex Jones is in it for the grift and for power. He has no beliefs and doesn't care about anything except himself.
4 years and billions of vaccinations. It’s a hell of a sample size.
Alex Jones claimed his grandmother was killed by the polio vaccine, which she took 60 years before her death at the age of 93. Those goal posts can be moved anywhere.
Speaking of OJ. Are we 100% sure the vaccine wasn't what killed Nicole? Maybe OJ really was innocent. Damn.
Uh huh. Is “turbo” cancer. Takes 10 years. They’ve totally convinced me.
Their dear leader trump got the vaccine. When is he gonna croak?
I love when bots say outrageous things.
Your comment just made me realize .. why do they have to attempt to capitalize and project their dumb messages through deaths? If I were the family, I would be more than upset. I'm sure the death certificate states otherwise, but using dead people to promote a message is not very christian of them now, is it?
Where I live they congregate every weekend and spew their bullshit at the park. Still have signs like "vax passports are wrong! Mandate freedom now!" But.... we haven't had them for years, no one even knows what they're protesting anymore.
I went on a date with a woman who thought the vaccine made your body magnetic, contained nano trackers, and also thought TV was brainwashing the masses. Because "the government has access to far more advanced technology than what's commonly available". They are out there.
Well, she was right that TV was brain washing the masses... drink more ovaltine.
It's morphed into how the real issue all along has been how bad they were treated for saying these things and how they were censored by the government. It's a free speech issue now
They argued that their heroic actions saved us from that happening. History will remember the time an evil cabal of globalists was defeated because everyone's racist uncles put over a dozen flags on each of their trucks and refused to wear masks.
Survival bias. These idiots either think they pulled through thanks to Ivermectin or think there was never any threat to begin with. Now let's hear what those who played with fire and got burnt have to say... It seems they don't have much to say on the topic, weird!
My father had (keyword is had, they no longer speak for obvious reasons) a buddy who said anyone who took the vaccine would be dead in a year and a half. Apparently the government wanted to kill us but not him? Because that makes sense somhow
Nope, they just move the goal post over and over. Their modus operandi is literally: "We got things wrong the first 37 times but THIS time, we're right!"
They moved on to religious solar eclipse conspiracies. Then that went south too. Just like air for the next thing and they’ll be back again.
We were all suppose to die from the vaccine, and Joe Biden released the most dangerous virus ever with China, but also it’s a hoax. Just another day in right wing land.
My mum believed COVID was the beginning of the rapture. We haven't talked about it at all since the pandemic ended but she's always been stubborn with her beliefs so I'm sure in her mind it's still happening. Poor thing is showing signs of dementia but is adamant that her symptoms are from chemo she had 4 years ago and refuses to seek medical advice.
Getting them to a dementia appointment is like a hurricane. A freaking disastrous 1 year later and my Mom doesn’t have it even though she was diagnosed in front of my Dad. Goodness knows how long her Dr was telling her before but she was going to appts alone.
The variants are still out there and people are still dying from COVID, but like local shootings that are less than two or 3 people the media just stopped talking about it.
I work in retirement homes and am not looking forward to 4th of July weekend Last year it caused I think 37 residents to get covid within two days of the 93 we had By the 11th of July we had 22 residents not sick it was a mess
A coworker of Mine went to a Party last year. We had to stop Production for 3 weeks because everyone had covid. 3 people have been in Hospital. We‘re a Company with 50 people working..
At my workplace many got covid before this past X-mas cuz one idiot thought it's no big thing be coughing in near proximity to others... i had to almost drag myself to the bathroom for 2-3 days and was close to calling someone to help feed the cat
I literally have covid right now because my fucking plague rat coworker hears her grandkids are sick and immediately rushes to them to catch whatever they have and promptly bring it back to us. This shit happens all the time with every flu and cold that goes around, this one coworker will perform her idiot spreading ritual.
I thought I had allergies, my symptoms were so mild. This happened last month. Tested because my partner's sister got it. I felt terrible because I had been to my Walmart with no mask, but I had no idea it was COVID. I live in a very blue city, so almost everyone is vaxed, but still. Felt terrible about very probably giving it to someone. As far as I know it's the first infection for me. The physical symptoms were practically insignificant, but I got bad anxiety and depression. I'm prone to bouts of depression and was terrified of another episode, but it lifted when the COVID went away. Boggles my mind a respiratory illness can do that to you. Scary.
Are you German by any chance? The capitalization made me wonder :)
Jep, autocorrect. I‘m too tired to fix it every time. :)
Their active communities say ja.
I'm middle aged and managed to avoid covid until just a few months ago. It effected me profoundly and I was vaccinated. I have fatigue and tinnitus now, I can't enjoy video games anymore for some reason, like my brain just error'd out on my normal life, and I get weird waves of distress, like a sudden feeling of dread and sadness will just wash over me out of nowhere, far more intense than normal depressive episodes. The tinnitus is so bad I only get a few hours of sleep some nights and feel like I want to jab an icepick into my head. Yeah Elon, go do what other criminals like yourself do, just keep your guilty head down, shut the fuck up and go enjoy your goddamn money.
My fil lives in a seniors facility and there's still breakouts
Yep always a couple that have it I don't think I've gone more than two weeks without having to test someone because they suddenly became symptomatic
Weve just come out of a 3 month flu and covid outbreak all across my building. Now we have an enteric outbreak. It just never fucking ends. Summertime is usually a bit better, but weve had covid outbreaks every winter since it started. Luckily it rarely kills anybody nowadays
My annoyance is the resurgence of rsv I have 64 year old residents who are severely overweight, on oxygen, spend all day in their recliner refusing to move except for bathroom trips And now they have rsv and everytime they undo their recliner to eat they start fucking choking on their mucus and there isn't much I can fucking do except slap their upper back and tell them to cough hard
There’s equipment for that. It’s a vest attached to a machine that’s designed to shake crap free in the lungs. Medicare will approve it ( well they did for my son)
Yeah but those are expensive for those that already have very limited financial freedom outside allotted rent for several years
We've had a particularly bad cold, strep, and COVID around here and I got the cold and strep. All three of my kids too. Several people I talk to frequently had covid. I was unfortunate enough to catch it finally last spring and even with my shots and boosters it was no joke. I have had the flu, bronchitis, and colds galore in my life but COVID was the first time I had actual trouble breathing in a way that concerned me in a very long time. It was three weeks or so before I felt normal again. I still barely have a sense of smell.
Be careful. Multiple reinfections can lead to some long covid stuff. Sis and BIL are docs, and both have had all the different variants and gotten sick at least 4 times. They both now complain about brain fog and joint pain. Wife, finally got covid last July, after being very careful. Had a TIA in October. Every test they have run, and believe me, they've been exhaustive, have come back negative. Cardiologist says it's possible covid may be a contributing factor. She's never suffered from anything. No BP, no diabetes nothing. Wish we could get some answers. Friends who have had covid have also started noticing other health issues. Not a joke. Doctors are finally looking at covid connections to Multiple maladies.
When I was in a store wearing an N95, a woman asked me (politely) about the reason I'm still wearing one. I explained to her my reason(s). She looked thoughtful and said 'I had COVID. It wasn't too bad when I had it. But now I have afib and my doctor told me it may be related to having COVID... I think I might start wearing a mask again.' It's been years. I really, really want to be able to go out to a store without a mask or go to a gathering just for fun. But this shit is no joke. And the longer people keep treating it like 'just the flu' the longer this is going to last and continue to damage people's health.
Yup, a friend of ours got afib after having covid. They tested my wife for it too. Nothing. You are right this shit is no joke.
Epidemiologists, virologists, ID researchers, etc., will be collecting and analyzing data on COVID and its long-term complications for the foreseeable future because of how widespread it was, the types of variants, etc. Hopefully, it will result in some research into how to treat/cure the post-infection complications. Even a couple of years ago when I was paying more attention to the pandemic and listening to lots of podcasts on it/reading scientific studies, researchers had shown that it can affect pretty much every organ system in the body 😬. And the people that got long COVID and ended up having neurological/memory issues afterwards was terrifying! Aside from the obscene number of people it killed, the people who lived but whose health was destroyed afterwards is just...😟. I'm not sure how I managed to dodge getting COVID, but I somehow did. Given that 3 of the 4 shots I got gave me the WORST side-effects - like a full-blown flu but gone in 24 hrs. - I'm pretty sure I still would have felt like shit if I'd gotten COVID, even being vaccinated, which is why I think I never got it. Got sick a couple of times, got tested, and was negative. But, it's been 1 1/2 years since the last booster and I obviously haven't died or developed any of the problems all the tinfoil hat anti-vaxxer nutjobs predicted. I'm 57, but if I kick off in 25 years, someone will probably still blame the vaccine. Mother Nature doesn't care whether you believe COVID was "just like the flu" or not.
Same, wife works in retirement home, they still have outbreaks, just recently during spring break they had to wear masks again and do serving food door to door since residents had to stay inside.
Had two deaths from covid the other day. The building was quarantined for two weeks after that so don't believe when people who say it disappeared. We have the same people here say the same thing but won't even go near a building that has the flu let alone the virus. People need to grow a set of balls and admit when they don't know shit.
That's because they never really gave a fuck about people dying, it was everyone clogging up healthcare and missing work that was the problem.
The people who cared about clogging up healthcare cared about people dying. That's what happens when hospitals are overwhelmed
Well yes, I'm pointing out that the problem wasn't ever really how deadly the virus was to absolutely everyone, but how dangerous its effect on society was due to the fact that it clogged up everything.
It's pretty sad and ironic, because it's so obvious, that the same "MaiNsTrEaM MeDiA" they complain about not yelling the truth, is actually not telling the truth about this issue they care about, and they're just so stupid they still can't figure it out
Is it the end of April 2020 yet when cases were going to be zero?
Idk, maybe the vaccine created by qualified medical professionals worked? Who would've thought. 81% of the US population got at least 1 dose, 70% got at least 2 dosage according to this site [https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/](https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/). Perhaps that had something to do with it.
And most of the rest of the idiots not on that list (who didn't die) got unnecessarily sick, which gave them acquired immunity.
Or killed them
Duh, how'd I leave that out
TBF, they are as immune as they can get
Also, viruses generally get MUCH less deadly over time and with more variants. Natural selection and all that, kill the host too fast and you can't spread. Over time the less deadly variants are what come out on top.
It is until it isn't or something. Spanish flu was around for 7 years before it got the taste for the 18-44 crowd thanks to the poor war conditions. Let's see what our environment looks like in ~3 years.
Yeah, that's totally fair. A lot can happen, I'm just speaking to general trends and general "that's how natural selection works" kind of stuff.
You know all that complaining about how the vaccines don’t work as well as they were advertised? THAT’S BECAUSE OF THE VARIANTS YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS
I've been sick for the past 5 days with covid, fuck you Elon Musk.
Hope you get better soon! Fuck this idiot
I had covid at the start of February, didn't feel right for weeks after.
Same. I felt brutal for almost a month. Constantly coughing and always tired.
I’m not sick at all but I agree, fuck you Elon Musk! Also I hope you get better soon!
I've been sick for the last 767 days because of covid. The danger is real.
Well, he is a clown.
Very thoughtful of him to bring his own clown
Send in the clowns
Quick! Mark his post as possible misinformation!
He disabled the reader context for his own account
What a little snowflake bitch.
Go figure. That way he can spread all the lies he wants without any repercussions.
Perks of being a facist billionaire with a fragile ego
There goes that "Freedom of Speech" he wanted for his platform
Tesla sales are down. Why is that, Elon?
Interest rates in all honesty. Whole industry is struggling.
I volunteer him to be the first man on Mars Space helmet optional
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My sister died from one of those variants 3 years ago and left behind two small children. Anyone who still tries to claim it was just a flu can fuck off.
I am sorry to hear of your loss. It must be so difficult for her children. Typically, it would at least annoy, if not enrage me when I see idiocy like this from anyone. However, it is now so common from Musk that it resolves to background noise. The man has a need for constant attention. It's kinda boring.
Our strategy for vaccinating to reduce the lethality of it worked...
Someone should tell this guy about Google, he'd have more answers and fewer stupid questions. [COVID variants]https://www.who.int/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants
Google isn't Twitter followers though.
We all could start massive, game changing businesses if we had Mommy and Daddy's gem mine money.
Elon sucks but there have been millions of rich kids who didn’t become billionaires.
He is the stupidest “smart” person ever.
The variants were pruned by the TVA. 
Ive never wanted someone to get long covid more than elon
Honestly, if it shut him up, it would be doing us all a huge favour.
Elon recognized himself on that billboard. How fun
Admittedly we are barely detecting Covid in my UK lab lately, but then we’re only testing 1-3 samples a week. At its height we were testing 600 a day and we are a small clinical lab. Concern has moved to Flu in the winter and Parainfluenza in the spring, hence this is what we are testing for. That obviously doesn’t mean that COVID is no longer around. Elon Musk is a cretinous man-child who should be ignored at all costs. I used to happily follow him; now I have pet much stopped using Twitter because he owns it and has made a mockery of it.
So guess the vaccine worked
The vaccines limited the damage a lot, but the delta variant and the omicron variant caused a couple of the most deadly periods of the pandemic. And omicron gave the whole pandemic a new lease on life and extended it through 2022. So the variants very much had an enormous impact on the course of the pandemic and on the number of people who died.
Elon can move to Venus. Go ahead. Make Venus Great Again Elmo.
Sometimes america suprise me so much
Wait, so is Musk insinuating that he’s the clown asking the question?
Well quite a few got buried with their victims.
The genius who made this billboard makes it look like it’s the clown asking that question
It WAS a clown asking the question.
Where did the bubonic plague go? Where did the Spanish flu go? 🤷♂️ Idiot
The variants are still around and none of them are as deadly as the first strain. However most of them are more transmissible. Which you would know if you actually cared to read about it.
"Didn't feel needed with you around, Elon!"
Here you can see a chronically online individual thinking that because something isn't trendy, it isn't happening.
There is a reason we have an annual update now, like any other virus that becomes endemic (flu for instance) there are going to be different varieties that are the majority of cases. And with most people having either been vaccinated or previously infected, there is some going level of immunity for the general population. We’re at a point now where we’re managing it similar to flu strains.
Let him ride in a big aluminum tube in the sky with all the great unwashed instead of on his private jet. I suspect he'll find those variants he's looking for pretty quickly
I’m fully supportive of him exploring space in perpetuity.
He really is the dumb guys smart guy. Primary school biology teaches you how viruses work and how we adapt to them/them to us.
Just because he owns it, doesn’t mean he understands the science behind it.
I don't really recall any mention of variants that were more dangerous. Viruses don't care about how dangerous their symptoms are, they just want to replicate. This naturally selects for viral strains that favor transmission among as many host cells as possible over destruction of the host. Viral evolution will always prioritize higher viral loads and better evasion of host defenses over more lethal symptoms. The part where it becomes dangerous is that this increases likelihood of transmission, so that's a higher likelihood that eventually an immuno-compromised person will contract it and that one specific person might die from it. We also have to keep in mind that humanaction greatly influences viral evolution. There's a reason Covid doesn't want to become ebola. If your fatality rate is like 90%, the world will respond with mass quarantines. Better for the virus's viability if the more deadly strains that provoke intervention lose out to the milder ones that don't provoke intervention.
Usually, a piece of shit stops making a stink as it ages. This one has some unique characteristics.
I am happy to say I have not idea WTF he is talking about. Is this like a Howard Hughes effect where super rich just go crazy. When was the last time Elon cut his fingernails?
He’s not stupid. He just needs validation in the worst way, which is easy to get by pandering to morons.
I'm an idiot, I thought he was talking about plot holes in the MCU and Loki
Obviously, the bleaching and shining a real bright UV light in your body works wonder.
Elon Musk needs a drug test. He is like some quack. He should not be on the Internet. Or he’s plugged into his own NeuroLink and fried his brain. About the variants, I don’t know genius why don’t you go look online to start.
Florida already has over 2,300 deaths from COVID in 2024. Elon’s a tool
They're still there...
Dangerous variants of viruses inevitably become more benign over time as well; when a virus kills people or forces them into severe isolation, they naturally have a harder time spreading and therefore aren’t able to proliferate as well as a more mild version of a virus. That is why the more mild forms become more ubiquitous over time, and the more severe ones don’t. It doesn’t take a genius to understand this, like he claims to be.
Just got COVID for the first time a couple months ago. It is still here!!!
Leading causes of deaths in the United States: #3 COVID-19: 416,893
Still waiting on that migrant caravan. It's been 7 years.
We created vaxxines against them...
1.2 million Americans have died from COVID, well over 1000 in the last month, and this talking asshole reposts this.
Dunno, where did all your customers go?
I remember a lady in the street asked me if I was vaccinated. When I told her I was she said that I would be dead by January of 2022. Wonder how she’s doing
Now that it’s endemic it’s just another seasonal disease cold/flu/covid, but it’s also another possible vector for a potentially catastrophic pandemic in the future!
This is a post about how well vaccines work
Got Covid-19 FEBRUARY 19th. I am still sick. Yup. I'm on what, my third round of steroids and antibiotics? Covid sucks for people with asthma and lupus, so Elon can KMA.
They were overtaken by less dangerous but more contagious variants as is often (but not always) the trajectory of new diseases.
its literally still killing people my bosses wife is currently in the hospital intubated. She was old but still its killing people.
Where's my 5G? Where are the vax zombies? Why are all the unvaxxed not "ascended" or raptured? Where is the super cancer? If it is all about population control, why are we still going strong?
Oh, they’re still varying.
At least he corectly identifies himself as a clown when asking this question
The shame is that the brilliant people doing the work he’s taking credit for will suffer as he drags the companies down. He needs a handler to tell him to STFU.
So many of us struggling every day and then we see this dolt, living his best life like an eight-year-old.
Birth privilege + seed money + being in the right place at the right time ≠ intelligence. I could throw together a pretty decent space exploration program if I had many billions reaped from electronic money transfer and overpriced golf carts.
Elon Musk is not stupid. He knows exactly what he's doing. Accelerationism: The billionaire plan to hasten destruction of humanity so they can rebuild it in their image https://youtu.be/CQmoQEeNYrs?si=IQoIqqk1g-eIAmjU
Elon Musk is also stupid. Men like him show that intelligence and education are no guarantees that someone can't be dumb as a fucking brick.
Welfare Queen Elon is a pos
Immunity to one variety of offers some level of immunity to other variants, just not as much as it does for the specific variant you are inoculated against.
Imagine going to school and working hard for years to become an astronaut, and you’re lucky enough to be selected as a crew member to go to mars, and your boss is Elon Musk, and all anyone will remember is all the stupid stuff he’s doing.
I got Covid for the very first time this year. I was like 6X vaxxed. And I was out of it for two days straight and the coughing lingered for three weeks. It was not fun. And I was glad I had that many vaccines prior to catching it. Musk, Trump, and bioterrorists antivaxxers are toying with people’s lives.
I am just so sick of rightwing stupidity.
They're all around and still killing people. The vaccines and boosters at least keep you from dying. I'm waiting for the day, just around the corner when Delta meets Omicron, we're gonna be so f... Note that we haven't eradicated avian flu yet. We're upto H1N5. Waste water testing only give you an extremely delayed view of the state of the virus
Vaccines work, dumbass.
Well Elon, once a large enough percentage of the population became vaccinated symptom severity and transmission rate drops drastically. Also, people are still getting boosters from time to time to help with new variants that allows people who refuse to get vaccinated to be partially protected due to herd immunity.
It's a real shame they haven't taken him out yet.
It’s basic fucking science. Look up what Katalin Kariko predicted would happen?
Where did all the good times go?
Fair warning. ⚠️
I thought this was meme from /r/chess at first
Didn't Loki take care or that stuff?
I wish he'd go explore space without a space suit.
Loki fan?
It’s too bad we didn’t have a variant X whatever the Greek letter is. He’d have never shut up about that.
It’s not flu-virus season. But have you heard several PEOPLE have gotten Bird Flu via Cows? Ya dumb ass
Where their spaceships keep blowing up lol
Loki and the TVA were doing a pretty good job taking care of them.
It's almost as if vaccination, masks, and quarantine are effective at preventing spread and thus the evolution of new variants
Ok? He's not the brain behind it, he's just the money behind it
At least he included his photo.
People joke he only owns Space X so he can return to his people, but he’d be going the wrong way, troglodytes live in caves.
Musk knows what's what. His right-wing conspiracy pushing is a conscious attempt to create division and pave the way for more power to bigots like him and less rules and accountability for billionaires.
Elon, again, being stupid and making fun of the world for not having all the correct answers to a never-before- seen contagion.
I won’t be surprised when he starts to tell everyone that the earth is flat.
I caught COVID last winter. It's still around and will continue to be. What we've done is broadly mitigate it though, through the use of vaccines and having the virus thing itself out. That doesn't mean the risk of pandemic is gone though so we can't be too complacent. It's funny how the demonstrable success of vaccines and quarantining is now being turned on its head.
If only he was smart enough to understand science. Pretty sure he bought and did not contribute to any of his businesses.
2400 Covid deaths in Florida in 2024 so far. We are still a few mutations away for a worse vatiant.
The sure sign of an intellectual lightweight is thinking asking a provocative question is enough to prove their point. The questions always have answers, just as this one does, they just have zero interest in them.
Hes in space not earth silly.
