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[Egan_BW]

I think you're supposed to eat the plump swines, not the spindly ones.

[Frumple]

Hey, look on the bright side vec; if you're explaining it to the grandkids, both you and whatever generated them survived long enough to establish generational descent.

Look forward to explaining things to grandkids, that means at least two people are alive you probably want to be

[Starver]

I think you're supposed to eat the plump swines, not the spindly ones.

I always strive to be, when it comes down to it, a Humanitarian.

[None]

You could also just accept the inevitable that the human race is too stupid to survive.

Problem is, I'm the human race too, as are everyone I know and love, so I kind of sort of rather don't like this outcome.

[Egan_BW]

Will humanity inevitably die out, due to not making the mark, or due to the universe being unfair and there being no mark to make? Are current difficulties just sadly unnecessary growing pains which will deliver us unto greater heights? Or is our foolishness and greed and irrationality just part of what we are, and part of the plague we will bring upon the entire reachable universe? Are none of these questions even valid in the face of what we don't yet know? Is the outcome even in doubt, or a foregone conclusion which I'm too dumb to see?

Regardless, I have no reason to be sure we're doomed in that particular way, or that we're doomed at all. Thus, I may as well not lose myself to despair, if only because I don't have enough of a mind to conclude I should.

[hector13]

By no means do I suggest no effort is made to fix issues, we just have to deal with some people banging their head on the wall complaining their head hurts while other people tell them if they vote for them they’ll stick it to the guys who are making their head hurt, because the other guys are trying to take their headache medicine and give it to other people.

Summat like that anyway.

[MrRoboto75]

By no means do I suggest no effort is made to fix issues, we just have to deal with some people banging their head on the wall complaining their head hurts while other people tell them if they vote for them they’ll stick it to the guys who are making their head hurt, because the other guys are trying to take their headache medicine and give it to other people.

Summat like that anyway.

Yet both candidates are funded by Big Wall.

[LordBaal]

And the wall is filled with magical canibal gigants too?

[martinuzz]

Dutch government has deployed a police and military police peremiter around the quarantaine hotel for infected travellers from South Africa, because a part of them refuse to be quarantained voluntarily.
13 out of the 61 travellers that tested positive have the new omicron variant  (which turned our country into the country with the most confirmed omicron infections except for South Africa itself, overnight.)

EDIT: One married couple managed to escape from the hotel. They have been arrested inside a plane that was about to take off from Schiphol airport, and have been back to the quarantaine hotel.

I wonder if all the passengers in the plane they fled to have also been taken into custody to be tested...

[delphonso]

China (at least Guangdong) pulled out the stops on this round of variants. Landed and then was immediately registered and tested (results presumably only told if positive). About an additional 30 minutes in line. We were flying from a very low risk area too, which suggests they're doing this with every flight. Good contact tracing, if not very inconvenient.

[Starver]

We had two Omicron cases reported in the UK (returning travellers; they and their families now isolating).

Number three, reportedly, is someone "not in the UK now, but had visited Westminster". Which certainly puts a few interesting angles on the situation.

(England's finally... Well from Tuesday... going back to compulsory masks in all kinds of places they had re. Whoop-de-doo. For those of us who never stopped wearing them, I'm sure that's the very least that could be done. The safest people in England are probably those still stuck at the Tan Hill Inn for a third night... Politically,  the SNP is tabling a motion in Westminster to censure Boris Johnson. Not directly related to the fall-out specific to Omicron, and probably will fail, but indicative of either general backround feeling or of opportunism, depending on your POV.)





On the general Omicron front, some of those studying current data think it might be particularly good at evading various prior acquired immunities but may also be much milder. It could be the route to a (comparatively) benign endemic. Not something I'm going to bet upon, though, so for now I'm not going to be tempting fate on such a promise. I'll stick with Boosters, thanks.

[delphonso]

On the general Omicron front, some of those studying current data think it might be particularly good at evading various prior acquired immunities but may also be much milder. It could be the route to a (comparatively) benign endemic. Not something I'm going to bet upon, though, so for now I'm not going to be tempting fate on such a promise. I'll stick with Boosters, thanks.

Same - while searching for any optimism on the topic I had the fantasy of a more infectious but much less deadly variant out-competing the rest. We'll see, I guess. Been eagerly looking toward Nature and the WHO for updates.

[Vector]

Fauci foreshadowing more lockdowns. Shit. Fuck. Goddamit. Fuck. Fuck.

[Loud Whispers]

Six more Omicron cases in the UK from Scotland. Looks like it's time to finally get that booster, though it seems I've been way overdue for one anyways

[Starver]

152 days after your 2nd dose. (And you won't be able to start to book the dose until that time has passed, and then you'll probably have to book a few more days hence.)

Everyone over 18 is being encouraged to Boost, in England at least, but unless you were already a priority (by higher age or specific health vulnerabilities) you still won't actually be able to. Typical sideways promises-that-aren't.