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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

LeafOfFaith said:
I will say, for a guy who wanted to get married and have kids a long time ago, the only silver lining of not being there yet is that I think this is an absolute horrible time in the world's history to be a kid (the social, educational, and mental impacts of this shit on a child is code red disaster level stuff for the future), and also a terrible time to be a parent (other than of infants who aren't out there yet, and who get much more parent time than otherwise thanks to lockdowns and move to WFH).
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It's been easy and the best possible timing for a pandemic for me..but yeah now he's getting to that age where it's getting a bit tougher. And once he starts school it's gonna get tough. I feel for the parents with kids in school!

At the end of the day once he's able to get vaccinated he'll be unleashed. This isn't ending anytime soon (maybe ever) so it is what it is.
 
On cold: of course there is cold but the people I am complaining about have been in gatherings where multiple people have tested positive since. Yet they insist it's just a cold.

On having kids during these times: yes it's tough and health scare everyday they go to school is scary...but with WFH, we've had the chance to watch him grow like we were never going to be able to. Commuting to work in the morning and back at night I would have missed almost every cute thing my son did and said. For this I'm grateful.
 
Preston said:
It's been easy and the best possible timing for a pandemic for me..but yeah now he's getting to that age where it's getting a bit tougher. And once he starts school it's gonna get tough. I feel for the parents with kids in school!

At the end of the day once he's able to get vaccinated he'll be unleashed. This isn't ending anytime soon (maybe ever) so it is what it is.
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Hopefully all that implies is some vaxxing but otherwise a return to a new-ish normal.

If this mask shit and nonstop political and social crap coming out of this pandemic is actually going to go on forever, I'm not sure this world is really worth living in for adults who experienced it before all this started.
 
CTheBigPicture said:
On cold: of course there is cold but the people I am complaining about have been in gatherings where multiple people have tested positive since. Yet they insist it's just a cold.

On having kids during these times: yes it's tough and health scare everyday they go to school is scary...but with WFH, we've had the chance to watch him grow like we were never going to be able to. Commuting to work in the morning and back at night I would have missed almost every cute thing my son did and said. For this I'm grateful.
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Yup, that's the good part, as I mentioned in my original post. But hopefully these young kids living through this find a way to not become messed up sociopaths because of it.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Hopefully all that implies is some vaxxing but otherwise a return to a new-ish normal.

If this mask shit and nonstop political and social crap coming out of this pandemic is actually going to go on forever, I'm not sure this world is really worth living in for adults who experienced it before all this started.
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Mostly just when we reach an acceptable level of suffering and death as a society. Between treatments and population immunity the disease will get milder. Maybe never mild, but milder than it currently is, barring nasty mutations which would just be bad presto luck.
 
Preston said:
Mostly just when we reach an acceptable level of suffering and death as a society. Between treatments and population immunity the disease will get milder. Maybe never mild, but milder than it currently is, barring nasty mutations which would just be bad presto luck.
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Between treatments, immunity, and likely just as key, deaths, mostly of the preventable kind.
 
axlsalinger said:
This whole Bizarro World narrative is both amazing and terrifying.

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As much as I mock Rogan I'm pretty stunned at what he has turned into. I legitimately can't believe he has people like this on just two years after he had actual experts like Michael Osterholm on. Giving a platform to these people is downright dangerous and completely irresponsible.

Finding the extreme "outliers" in scientific opinion is the opposite of what science is at its core.
 
Hasn't Rogan been besties with Alex Jones for years, and had him on his show countless times?

It feels like him giving a platform to dangerous misinformation isn't something that's new, or a result of him changing recently.
 
Yeah but he used to speak to smart science people too! His thing was to appear impartial buy looking at #BothSides. Now it's contrarians only!
 
Preston said:
As much as I mock Rogan I'm pretty stunned at what he has turned into. I legitimately can't believe he has people like this on just two years after he had actual experts like Michael Osterholm on. Giving a platform to these people is downright dangerous and completely irresponsible.

Finding the extreme "outliers" in scientific opinion is the opposite of what science is at its core.
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I'm generally okay with giving people with varying opinions a platform to discuss ideas. That used to be a strength, not a weakness of the Joe Rogan show. But it's obviously irresponsible to do this during a pandemic, when people are dying.

In fairness, he still has all kinds of people on including Sanjay Gupta, Steven Pinker, & Peter Attia in the last couple of months.
 
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