• JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Avian flu is gonna be wild. It’s gonna be like The Stand where there’s just gonna be bodies in the streets because they couldn’t get time off work because the CDC doesn’t wanna be too “authoritarian.”

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    Scratch a liberal and all that. This is clearly a direct response to leftist orgs making sure people are masking at protests.

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    What’s more crazy about this is mask wearing on the subway is actually pretty common. A solid 10% of people still wear masks on the trains every day. It’s not weird, and literally nobody in New York thinks “omg this person next to me is a criminal with a mask.” Dems just gotta Dem I guess.

  • Waldoz53 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    masking: banned

    lockdowns: non existent and would get very vocal pushback now

    number of anti vaxxers: at an all time high

    hell ya the next pandemic is going to fucking kill us

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    Nothing has made me more certain that we aren’t going to pull out of this nosedive then seeing what liberal opposition really means by living in upstate new york.

    I’m legitimately starting to hope a republican wins just to show liberals their is a limit to just how fucking useless they can be while still expecting support.

    I’m from upstate so a republican would probablly try to divert money from the city to here to own thenlibs, I vote dem in local elections so our local public school doesn’t get shut down bit it is legitimately becoming difficult to come up with a single reason to try to carry water for these worse than useless sacks of shit.

    Also that’s the same group that was refusing to wear a mask, refusing to top gathering in large groups, and refusing to stay at home and not vacation to my town during the pandemic.

    Nothing like not seeing your friends or family for 4 months because you havent left the house because the closest hospital is 50 miles away and then on your biweekly trip to the store to stock up on groceries theirs a van full of hasids picking shit up, coughing on it and then putting it back on the shelf without a mask on.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      I’m legitimately starting to hope a republican wins just to show liberals their is a limit to just how fucking useless they can be while still expecting support.

      Then you still haven’t learned yet. Liberals do not react to stimuli. The Republicans will win and Liberals will just start rehabilitating them

    • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      a van full of hasids picking shit up, coughing on it and then putting it back on the shelf without a mask on

      Holy shit. Why are people like this? WTF!?

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      “I have signed into law an ordinance that will ban high-capacity elastic bands on face masks in the state of NY, as well as those little metal clips that wrap around your nose. This is to protect the children.”

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    If I didn’t have standards I would consider voting Trump (or not writing in PSL because not voting is two votes for Trump) just to get democrats to pretend to care about bird flu for a few months. Could bring the country’s pandemic response up from a terrible F----- all the way to a respectable F----