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DetroitLolcat [he/him]
It is not lib shit to hope things get better. It is lib shit to refuse to believe things can get better.
Happy new year, comrades. Things WILL get better because we will MAKE them get better.
Sometimes I post something that I feel might start an argument when I really don’t feel like arguing, so I delete it.
My predictions:
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Due to increased supply of therapeutics in the Global North and vaccines in the Global South, COVID kills fewer people in 2022 than in 2021.
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The WHO declares COVID to be an endemic virus by the end of 2022.
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Every country on Earth will experience significant COVID spread in 2022, even those that suppressed it in 2021.
4a. Roe v. Wade is overturned…
4b. …which leads to an ourpouring of support for Democrats in the midterms, giving the incumbent party their best midterm election since 2002…
4c. …and it still isn’t enough to stop the GOP from taking both houses of Congress in November.
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Lula is elected president of Brazil. Macron is re-elected president of France.
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Kissinger lives another year.
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A scaled-back reconciliation bill of approx. $1.5T is passed with Joe Manchin’s support.
And Australia’s Zero Covid policy had basically crushed the virus until the Omicron wave…
Tortillas get mentioned in this thread so much for damn good reason. Can put anything in that shit and it’s good. Magic tasty sleeve.
Guilty charges were sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy.
Not guilty charge was enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.
I think it all comes down to legal mumbo jumbo but the big charges stuck and she gone.
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1476253179503251461?s=20
Another study showing Omicron is less virulent than previous variants and has a smaller chance of causing pneumonia. There are at least 5 high-quality in vivo studies showing this now.
Again - this isn’t a reason to let up precautions. Get boosted, get tested, wear a mask. And that goes double for “get boosted.” Paxlovid’s imminent release is reason enough to delay getting this thing as long as you can.