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[Starver]

I imagine that many such armed robbers out in the badlands of the world aren't robbing to get the vaccine, but to deny it others. For one reason or another (depending on what they believe in, e.g. that it's a Western Plot To Sterilise Our People or just that they don't want anyone actually benefitting from anything they don't control).

They could, indeed, think it's worth using and use it on themselves. But they're probably going to mess it up anyway. (Even if they bring it up out of subsubzero temperatures and suitably dilute the packaged quantity into the required number of multiple doses, apparently you should not agitate the liquid before donating, as that destroys the way Tozinameran's vital suspended lipids nanoparticles work.)

[scriver]

I think they just want to sell it, guys

[Starver]

If so, it'll be to people who know even less about how to handle it.  The robbers themselves may or may not know/care about this, so it's basically destroyed but additionally with currency entering the regional black economy. 

[ChairmanPoo]

Ok fulll disclosure. I dont actually know about any robberies, wouldnt surprise me, although vaccine convoys are heavily escorted. Its just that I found myself saying that there was not enough vaccine to go around, and I couldnt help myself but post the full deus ex quote

[Starver]

In a crossover from "what would a movie supervillain wear?" there's this concept face mask...

(Though if I was a highly unstable and manic individual forced to wear this mask, for Covid reasons or just yer standard Bane/Immorten Joe ones, I'd probably make the low-light mode thing into a projective "AR"/facetime-filter thing tuned to reflect my intended mood... Dripping fangs, ghostly green, kissy lips, etc.)

[LordBaal]

Sooo... is not single use rigth? How do you even wash that thing without frying it?

[Frumple]

Depends on the movie, tho'. Those full head bubble looking high end ones would fit stupidly well on a b-movie sci-fi villain, ferex.

[martinuzz]

The belgian government prolonged their lockdown from january 15th to the 1st of march.

Most Belgians are unaware though, because the government only communicated it through 'Staatsblad' (State magazine), which almost no-one reads.

[scriver]

You know what really grinds my gears? Foreign journalists who call in to our biweekly corona info giving + press meet and still persist with the moronic delusion that we had no measures at all taken before now.

[martinuzz]

Similar silly thing to Belgium, we have here too.  Not related to corona, but whenever new laws and regulations on city level are instated, our city council publishes that in the 'Groot Eindhoven', a free, door-to-door distributed local newspaper, dubbed the official medium for communicating policy and regulation changes.

But, over half of our population doesn't get that newspaper, because they care about the environment.
They have a 'NO-NO' sticker on their mailbox, meaning NO advertisements, NO unadressed door-to-door media, to save paper, to save the rainforest.

Note that those stickers are advertised for and freely distributed by the same city council that uses the door-to-door media to communicate.

[Starver]

Sooo... is not single use rigth? How do you even wash that thing without frying it?

Well, if you do and it does then it was...

(I presume it's hermeticly sealed between 'face gap' and electronics to at least 'splash-proof' level, letting you spray-and-wipe of straight up disenfectant-soaked-cloth it down, perhaps even you extract the electronics like I think this from July and definitely this as reported in June had the user do.)

I once again, though, draw the comparison between masks that we are all encouraged to wear in normal life that are there to help us protect others from our own (unknown) viral load and N95s that are purely a self-preserving measure (highly useful if you're going to work in a hospital 'red zone', but a "superspreader's charter" if you are already unwittingly infected during a prior lapse and now 'protecting' yourself against a naïve population of heretofor unscathed maskless contacts.

[Rolan7]

In a crossover from "what would a movie supervillain wear?" there's this concept face mask...

(Though if I was a highly unstable and manic individual forced to wear this mask, for Covid reasons or just yer standard Bane/Immorten Joe ones, I'd probably make the low-light mode thing into a projective "AR"/facetime-filter thing tuned to reflect my intended mood... Dripping fangs, ghostly green, kissy lips, etc.)

Fricken gamers!  Just speak up!  Cloth masks barely muffle anything, it's fine aaaagggh!
The lights are cool, I guess, particularly that they automatically turn down in darkness.  Dunno if that's worth a mask I have to put on the charger.

Get back to me when you have voice modulation options, thanks.

Also, I've said this before, but I love wearing a mask and plan to do so for the next four years if not longer.  It helps me feel myself, and a good mask isn't uncomfortable in the slightest.

[nenjin]

I was completely unsurprised to see that being made by Razer.

[LordBaal]

How many fps you get on battlefield with that mask?

[ChairmanPoo]

You know what really grinds my gears? Foreign journalists who call in to our biweekly corona info giving + press meet and still persist with the moronic delusion that we had no measures at all taken before now.

Well to be fair the measures until very recently were crap. Not that the rest of Europe has done much better mind you, but I think what itīs glaring is the opportunity cost. Sweden had the opportunity to being in the not-quite-as-awful tier of covid mismanagement in Europe, alongside Norway and Finland, rather than the Ultrashit tier with UK, Spain, and the Netherlands.

If I had to guess Iīd say Tegnell is about as awful as Fernando Simon, the main difference being that Tegnell has shitty ideas where Fernando Simon is criminally negligent.



I donīt think anyone outside Asia and Oceania has managed this pandemic well, though. This is the Chernobyl moment for Western Europe and the US. We really should have done better, but we didnt because of a dramatic lack of political leadership.