I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened
@LordsofHardwired Magical thinking just isn't what it used to be. *sighs in nostalgic ignorance*
@LordsofHardwired And pretending we don’t need to mask.
@SonofaGeorge @LordsofHardwired and pretending masks are dangerous.
@LordsofHardwired ... It is the pretend it did not exist persons ...that has caused this one,this time and the many careless, ignorant,self serving, in wait its been WAITING for ...so how many new variants will we have this time ??? and how much stronger will they be ????🤔🤔🤔🤨
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Perhaps we pretend it isn't spiking, and dying under swift circumstances is something that just happens to other people...
@LordsofHardwired alas, nobody thought to tell covid it was over
@LordsofHardwired Obviously it's too much testing! If we stop testing the spike isn't going to go as high!!!
@LordsofHardwired My family just caught it a few weeks ago for the first time. Damn awful. We live in South Wales, UK.
@LordsofHardwired We're not finished pretending it's fake yet... that's why.
@LordsofHardwired So much of the herd has just refused to get the disease. I mean, how is herd immunity going to work if we don't all just get sick and die?!?!?
@LordsofHardwired I'm living in a red state pretending it could never be a problem for me personally. Koff. Ahem.
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If only we had some unicorn dust.
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where are the spikes right now btw? I know cases in RoK have been rising since 12 Jun but I don't know anywhere else.

@floppyplopper @LordsofHardwired Northeast USA for sure. It wouldn’t give me a nationwide chart but that may be my phone and not the site.

https://data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker

@LordsofHardwired Hey, don't underestimate pretending it's pretty harmless.

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Kidding aside, I'm glad that at least we're seeing some awareness that it's happening.

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I don't understand how we'd know it was spiking. They don't even report covid cases in Red states anymore, and the Blue states are mostly vaccinated. Maybe the Deplorables are fleeing the heat down south and bringing cases to the emergency rooms up north.
@LordsofHardwired COVID? Never heard of her.
@LordsofHardwired Explain me the covid spikes that happened when we *were* trying everything. Not trying hard enough?
@LordsofHardwired We named the latest variant Eris in honour of the Greek goddess of strife and discord. She took it as a supplication. Simple.
@LordsofHardwired Have we tried claiming without evidence that it is actually something totally different?
@LordsofHardwired we've tried nothing, and it hasn't helped!
@LordsofHardwired If we pretend it's not recurring, we can pretend that those "interventions" worked! Woo hoo! We pretend won!

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Pretend COVID-19 is not spiking....

@LordsofHardwired Aren't we at the point where it's unfortunately endemic? Flu/COVID/climate change. They're all here to stay and they will kill people. Now let's see if we can work on fixing any one of these. Also world peace and ending hunger and poverty?

@LordsofHardwired that’s the problem with pretending, isn’t it?

The fact is, now that it’s here, we may never be completely rid of it.

@LordsofHardwired @pjohanneson I’m sure we’ll see a spike in deaths from completely unrelated flu-like symptoms, particularly in the deep southern U.S.
@LordsofHardwired We didn't think and pray hard enough between the pretending!

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So unimaginative, you'd think they had never heard of https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com

sorryantivaxxer.com | stories of anti-vaxxers who died from COVID.

They thought COVID was a scam, until they lay dying from it. sorryantivaxxer.com tells their story using their own facebook and twitter posts.

sorryantivaxxer.com
@LordsofHardwired ... One might also conclude that our predicament stems mostly from pretending that privatized for-profit healthcare and Big Pharma corporate carpet-baggers would solve anything !
@LordsofHardwired Trying differs hardly from doing. 🤷‍♂️
@LordsofHardwired I'm one of the few people I see/know still wearing a mask in stores, inside at work and continuing to limit in-persom meetings as much as possible. Actually I prefer zoom calls - more efficient use of time, don't have to travel to/from meeting locations. Virtual conferences are less expensive- no travel costs, hotels, etc. ** I haven't gotten COVID ** (or flu or any other viruses for the past 3 yrs thanks to masking) Looking to get the new updated booster as soon as available.
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My phone started offering "a cold" to replace the word "covid" again this month. I swear it stopped doing that for a couple of years...
@LordsofHardwired The same approach that works so well for climate change
@LordsofHardwired We probably didn’t pretend hard enough.
We need to pretend better. 😐