With all our experience from the last plague this one should be a breeze where everyone quarantines, vaccinates, and masks as needed. Yeah we'll be fine
this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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This just in! Australia is reporting their second case.
Hot news from down under! A third and fourth case, all three latest cases were all cops who had identified the first case. They found out at a cop convention right after comiccon!
Authorities assure us that the virus is not specifically spreading via airborne particles. We repeat not airborne!
Also India is reporting a full pandemic and closing their borders. But flights are AOK, specially to the Giants game in the USA.
N95 masks are now 29.99 each at Costco. But fear not, N120 masks from China are still 3 dollars per 12 on eBay.
BRing it. I wanna work from home again. Fuck this Return to work and hybrid bullshit.
I'm not sure that you'll be doing much working from home while you're coughing up blood.
Don't want that. Just the work from home bit
Then don’t hope for a pandemic.
We're all gonna die one day. At least I'll be comfortable at home instead of an open office desk.
That's the thing, you won't be comfortable.
You'll get sick at your office desk then suffer miserably in your own bed or, god forbid, in a hospital bed. And you'll have all the karma coming to you for wishing that fate on potentially millions of other people, if you believe in that sort of thing.
Well, I hope when I die, it will be at home and not at my desk job.
You'll likely be home either way, one will just have you working at home when you die
Perfect. Bring it.
Karma is really only concerned with actions and reactions. If just wishing was enough, the world would be a much better place.
Individual karma can be brought on by thoughts, although that's as far as I'm willing to take this conversation because I don't believe in it.
You flex on people with beliefs you don't yourself hold? Alright man catch you later
Flex? You think this is flexing??
Here, how about this - you're a douchebag for wishing for a pandemic that will undoubtedly kill hundreds of thousands if not millions.
Well, I would be.
Don't say you don't believe in karma after using it to chide others. I actually do believe in it.
I was being nice, I'm no longer being nice.
Wishing for a pandemic makes you a bad person. Attach whatever worthless superstitions you want to it, I don't care.
I speak for no one but myself, but as an atheist, I'd like to live a very long life since I don't think there's anything for me after it ends.
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Awesome. Another pandemic is exactly what we need right now.
Gov'ts did so well all the previous times, why not again? /s
I seem to remember a certain presidents infectious disease team (my memory fails me) doing a pretty damn good job handling Ebola.
I wonder what happened? Oh, right - Trump.
Health authorities in Australia's southeastern state of Victoria said contact tracing had not identified any further cases and there was a very low chance of others becoming infected as the flu does not easily spread between people.
The meme wouldn't load so here's a screenshot.
Odd, it continues to load for me but anyway, thanks!:-)