The Count To Infinity - v11

[Eleanor]

239741

Studied immunology last year for uni yay! But even then... let's just say that this virus has no interest in damaging us. If a virus doesn't make us ill, then we will still go to work as normal, we'll meet other people as normal, and we'll pass it on - but if the virus forces us to stay in bed (or worse) then that won't happen... so it should be the norm for any new virus (especially this one, who "jumped" to humans from a different animal) to adapt to the new environment and become relatively harmless. I guess this is what we're seeing with Omicron, which - apparently - was caused by Covid "borrowing" some information from a different, human Coronavirus that already causes a mild cold.

We can hope this happens as quickly as possible, but at the same time... doing that would mean continuing to spread the virus among us to begin with! Not an easy decision. But I'm already starting to feel as if... some people aren't really worried anymore? Maybe we reached the point where we have resigned and have decided to let the virus do its thing until it does become harmless? Or at least, where we stop talking about it so much? Not sure honestly :o

 

[Megan]

239742

I mean the people who think we should allow it to run rampant have always existed. The reason why we put all this effort into containing the virus in the first place was that we didn't have enough information back then and even with it there are still people who do get affected severely when coming in contact with the virus (mostly people with severe autoimmune diseases).

Like, sure we could just take it and continue doing things as per usual. But can we really call ourselves moral human beings if we doom a small group of people in the process because we didn't even try to support them and their needs?

 

[Starlight]

239743.

If everyone had shut down for a couple of weeks immediately then it would have had nowhere to go. Millions have died since then, it completely breaks my heart ;(

 

[Megan]

239744

I don't think that strategy would have worked. Those viruses are very resillient and a couple of weeks of total standstill wouldn't have stopped them, just delayed things a little.
But I do agree that we were way too slow and especially politicians didn't take it serious enough which then lead to way more casualties than should have ever happened. All the while the industry kept making profit and benefitted a lot from bailouts and whatnot.
And I'm so very tired of this stupid "oh now the economy didn't grow as fast as the years before". Stupid obsession with productivity...

 

[ReKoil]

239745

I feel like the Economy is taking more damage from Covid being dragged out this long than if they would've just not half assed the measures in the first place lol
Well hindsight is 20/20 I guess, but they should've just been more firm about covid measures from the start.

 

[StCooler]

239 746

You made my day XD

If everyone had shut down for a couple of weeks immediately then it would have had nowhere to go. Millions have died since then, it completely breaks my heart ;(

Exactly what I was thinking when we started talking about the virus and governments were still undecided on what to do ^^

 

[Duck]

239 747

I mean, while I absolutely do agree that the government took too long to take an effective stance and that lockdowns would definitely have helped, we as a society don't really have the structure to do a full lockdown right now, much less when this all began.

Infectiology is hard, predicting social ripples is even harder and getting a politician do to the right thing when it'd be unpopular is harder still.

 

[Megan]

239748

The longer things take the more the vocal minority will complain and the more the silent majority will lose their patience. At least there's some light at the end of the tunnel right now...

 

[Eleanor]

239749

Well, we sure did make some progress in science, and it allowed us to get vaccines quickly, study the virus more...
But the way this pandemic is going is still not too different from the ones of the past, uh? Spanish flu, the plague, the other plague... yeah, it's not that different

I'd also think that being able to halt a virus like this completely would be very hard regardless. It can easily be mistaken for something else that's not threatening, it can even be passed on by people with no symptoms, and... people are people. There's no 100% sure way that we can stop a virus imo, especially if we weren't ready for it - remember when masks were sold for €5/10 each?

I guess with covid... we also got unlucky. That's a pretty complicated virus to handle and track down, perhaps even worse than Ebola...

 

[StCooler]

239 750

Please let's talk about something else than this damn virus ^^"

Are you hyped by Pokémon Legends Arceus?
I don't have a Switch so I'm not going to buy it, but I'm curious about the new Pokémons and new forms :D

Spoiler:

And I'm looking forward to hearing everyone say how disappointing the game is, and yet I'm expecting it to be a best-seller.

 

[Zeostar]

239751.

It looks fun. I always welcome something different with this franchise.

 

[Megan]

239752

I have to see. Thing is: when I got New Pokemon Snap I really wanted to play it. But I never actually really got into it and I just stopped after playing the first course once. I've developed a strange relationship with gaming over the last year. :(

 

[Sheep]

239753

Awww, it's fun! But it is also slow and not everyone's cup of tea because of that. Hopefully you can try more of it later down the line, even if you don't enjoy it a ton at least you would have (kinda) got your money's worth from playing? <3

 

[Duck]

239754

Games can be a bit hit or miss and some games that would like you'd love them can be a bit ... weird.

 

[Starlight]

239752

I have to see. Thing is: when I got New Pokemon Snap I really wanted to play it. But I never actually really got into it and I just stopped after playing the first course once. I've developed a strange relationship with gaming over the last year. :(

I haven't played the new update yet but it is definitely fun to play after the first section, so it might be worth another shot at some point :)

At least there's some light at the end of the tunnel right now...

STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHT MEGAN. DO NOT LOOK AT IT, & ABSOLUTLEY DO NOT WALK TOWARDS IT... 😅


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[ReKoil]

239756

Oh right there was an update for New Snap.
I've yet to get around to it lol
The update that is.

 

[StCooler]

239 757

I haven't played a Pokémon game since Pokémon Blakc and White, and I haven't played any Nintendo game since then either ^^"
And yet I love Pokémons (the creatures) so I regularly come back and play a new fangame ^^

 

[Megan]

239758

I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of people who like the franchise for the fan stuff is on a steady rise. It's those places that actually add something where Nintendo and GF are rather hesitant.

 

[Starlight]

239 757

I haven't played a Pokémon game since Pokémon Blakc and White, and I haven't played any Nintendo game since then either ^^"
And yet I love Pokémons (the creatures) so I regularly come back and play a new fangame ^^

Does BDSP not tempt you? It's Gen 4 so you will be familiar with it :)

239759.

 

[StCooler]

239 760

Does BDSP not tempt you? It's Gen 4 so you will be familiar with it :)

This is basically the problem ^^
They give me the feeling that I grew up, but Pokémon didn't :(

Spoiler:

I don't play Pokémon games because I grew tired of playing the same games + I became more interested in strategic Pokémon battles and the main games are clearly made to annoy the strategic player (EV, IV, egg moves, tutor moves, one-use TMs, version-exclusive Pokémons) + I also grew tired of the fact that any new content they add in a game, disappears in the next game (beauty contests, rematches, following Pokémon, triple battles...).