Coronavirus is one mutation away from infecting millions

**Nathan89** · 10-05-2021

damn. random tiktok girl has a bad take

the left will never recover

An average take from a leftist tbh

**RandomGuy** · 10-05-2021

Battling Delta, New Zealand Abandons Its Zero-Covid Ambitions
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/w...ovid-zero.html

For a year and a half, New Zealand has pursued a strategy of “Covid zero,” closing its borders and quickly enforcing lockdowns to keep the coronavirus in check, a policy it maintained even as other Asia-Pacific countries transitioned to coexisting with the viral threat.

On Monday, New Zealand gave in.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged an end to the elimination strategy seven weeks into a lockdown that has failed

After vaccines were available, lockdowns like that were not really necessary.

As long as everybody gets vaccinated that is.

**RandomGuy** · 10-05-2021

Originally Posted by Nathan89

An average take from a leftist tbh

"average"

As if you interact with enough people on the left to be an authority... on anything other than your own convenient strawmen.

**boutons_deux** · 10-05-2021

Rural communities are becoming 'kill boxes' where 1 out of every 434 people have died from COVID-19

the COVID-19 pandemic has hit rural American communities particularly hard, as an estimated one out of every 434 residents in rural areas has died from COVID-19.

They have lower vaccination rates than other areas,

they don't have the quality of health care typically found in urban and suburban areas, and

many people living in rural America suffered from poor health before the pandemic hit last year.

the situation in rural hospitals was dire.

"We've turned many rural communities into kill boxes," he said.

"And there's no movement towards addressing what we're seeing in many of these communities, either among the public, or among governing officials."

Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals, ... being forced to make dire decisions about who gets care.

'We've called 60 or 70 hospitals and can't get this heart attack or stroke patient or surgical patient out and they're going to get septic and die if it goes on much longer,"

https://www.rawstory.com/rural-america

Repugs screw their voters in rural counties, but the stupid rurals keep voting to be screwed

**boutons_deux** · 10-05-2021

**boutons_deux** · 10-05-2021

Few Masks.

Sick Kids.

Packed ERs.

How One District’s First Four Weeks of School Went Bad.

In their own words, parents, faculty and a student chronicle the beginning of the school year in Georgia’s Cobb County,

where leadership loosened COVID-19 protocols and a wave of children were infected.

https://www.propublica.org/article/f...chool-went-bad

**Thread** · 10-05-2021

Originally Posted by boutons_deux

Few Masks.

Sick Kids.

Packed ERs.

How One District’s First Four Weeks of School Went Bad.

In their own words, parents, faculty and a student chronicle the beginning of the school year in Georgia’s Cobb County,

where leadership loosened COVID-19 protocols and a wave of children were infected.

https://www.propublica.org/article/f...chool-went-bad

Anybody (man, woman, child) who would step foot into a school this year is out of their ing mind. And they knew it, but brazened it out anyway.

Assholes.

**hater** · 10-05-2021

Originally Posted by Thread

Anybody (man, woman, child) who would step foot into a school this year is out of their ing mind. And they knew it, but brazened it out anyway.

Assholes.

Kids are fine.