Months and Months now I have spent countless hours reading all I could about this virus. At first out of curiosity at the muffled reports coming from China, then as it spread, to see how more advanced Capitalist countries would handle it in South Korea, Japan, Singapore. Then Italy was decimated. And a seriousness entered my research - would we be affected here, surely yes, so what IS this coronavirus. How deadly is it, how is it spread, how can we avoid it or mitigate it?

Months later and we still do not know simple things like if it is airborne or not?

What I know for a fact:
Since day 1 this virus has been politicized.
Polticization of the media has hurt dissemination of true facts about a global deadly pandemic
There are no more authorities that are trusted on this planet

I don't trust the motivations of any authorities making decisions about this virus. I don't know if my governor is lifting restrictions for political reasons or because scientists believe the risk is now low in our region.
I don't trust that the mayor is locking things down for political reasons, or that he has advanced knowledge of a wave starting in a neighborhood of the city.
I don't trust flat dismissals of treatment X
I don't trust hyped praise for treatment Z

All I can do is keep my head down and pray that this shit goes away by hook or by crook and we can get back to normal.

https://twitter.com/terrorhousemag/status/1313214711056535552?s=19

Blumpf is overweight but he's not morbidly obese

He's pear-shaped, like the grimace

I know the source vid is cringe but the stats are there.
https://youtu.be/rnYMzbsN3i8

https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1313278235153707015?s=20

https://web.archive.org/web/20201006011719/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/10/05/2020100501646.html

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1313148995993206784?s=20

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1313145123388219395?s=20

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1313113887840108544?s=20

These are records? wasn't Iran getting their shit kicked in in February?

or were they just "off the record" then

hard to say, but likely off the record

I remember that british nurse guy that does the yt vid saying back then that his contacts in Iran told him their cases were already in the millions, and that was only a few weeks, maybe a month, into their outbreak

that cant be true either. that was probably a projextion based on how crazy out of control it was

yeah, the truth is probably somewhere in between

Fellas I might have been visited by coronachan

Who gon wipe the hard drives when I die

ganbatte

Daily reminder to not be afraid

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do not be afraid, instead become that which other fear

Australian government recently trialed a Digital Identity Scheme...

And according to the 2020 Federal Budget a big chunk of change will be invested in rolling it out further.

And it’s coming with biometric verification. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/10/budget-2020-mygov-is-getting-biometric-verification/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

australia fucking sucks now

a lot of the world does

chinese influence man

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-mulls-nationwide-address-insists-americans-must-learn-live-covid

https://twitter.com/o_rips/status/1313496529999519744

https://twitter.com/Crisis_Intel/status/1313508256749367296?s=19

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All identity is going digital

And then crypto can finally do its thing

Imagine automated communism cuz that’s what you gonna get

the UK needs to shut up

https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1313541190680301568 <@&758768006184304657>

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https://tenor.com/view/open-mask-face-mask-eating-sneaky-gif-17879177

I am not looking forward to being told to mask between sets at gym