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First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, according to a statement. Jill Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and will stay at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., her commu…
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Man I thought both women and men were getting this the whole time. I was way off.
HA!
Can someone explain this to me?
If you remove the capital letters, “the first lady” got Covid could imply that only men have gotten it up to this point
Ah, that makes sense now, thanks.
Maybe this is just the first woman who is hoity-toity enough to be called lady
You’re saying so far it’s just been the wenches and hags?
Maybe a few maidens as well. Though not Nichelle Nichols.
Yeah, I know your mom’s had it lots of times. No one calls her “lady” though, for good reason.
Sure they do but it usually includes “of the night”.
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What do you equate Trump’s hands to? I know you gotta have one ready cause you couldn’t have been that stupid to walk into it like this. It’s like you’re eating a bag of crispy turd chips and yelling that someone smells like shit.
Feed the troll and more show up 😂 Fuck off trumper
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. This is a pretty harmless joke. My guess is people didn’t read thoroughly and thought you got political.
Right, I upvoted them because I felt bad. Unless I’m missing something, it seems like they were just adding to the first joke. I think you’re right that people probably mistook it for being political.
Pretty sure it was the overtly transphobic second post that had a lot of people like me backfilling that initial downvote.
I don’t see a transphobic second post…?
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He who thinks the funny only fun and the serious only serious has actually misunderstood both – Piet Hein
Why so serious? – The Joker
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Probably because the fediverse has an unusually high amount of sticks up butts relative to its userbase.
Public figures are so vulnerable to Covid, Bert Kreicher said he had it 5 times already. And especially people in national political life, everybody wants to meet you everywhere you go and you can’t refuse or wear a mask or anything or you get negative news coverage.
Bert doesn’t strike me as the hand-washing type, if I’m being honest.
I’m surprised it’s only been 5 times Bert Kreischer has snorted Covid. That fake laughin comes with a deep inhale
Bart’s liver is hanging on by a thread.
Bert Kreischer? I wouldn’t believe anything he says
Bert fucks dogs and drinks at least a gallon of Kool aid a day, COVID doesn’t even need to try with him
Get well soon, J-girl!
So what. I’ve got covid for the fifth time now.
We all have covid on this blessed day
Can you really compare the two? Sometimes you can fly without a plane, you just die a couple of seconds after free fall . Also, why are vaccines seatbelts, isn’t the whole point to immunize? Or is that just for every other vaccine except this one?
Yeah maybe gene therapy, not a vaccine in my mind. I never got Polio and I was vaxxed so what gives? Is this the only vaccine that works like dogshit?
Wasn’t she vaxxed like 30 times by now? How in the world could she have gotten Covid!?
You’ve had 3 years to understand how the vaccine works. We’re you just not paying attention?
Vaccines have been around a lot longer than 3 years…
And yet you still don’t know that vaccines don’t stop you from getting a virus. They only limit the damage they can do.
Normal vaccines are used to immunize people against a disease.
Immunize means make (a person or animal) resistant to a particular infectious disease or pathogen, typically by vaccination.
The only “vaccine” that”limits the damage” is the covid vax. I got it twice and still ended up with covid. My brother had it to and his was just as mild and he wasnt vaxxed.
The idea that it limits the damage is questionable at best.
I’m all ears though, show me data and i’d consider your viewpoint but I just dont think it exists…
Any response?
The same way you can wear a seat belt but still crash your car.
Never heard this one, but I’m using it from now on…
Seatbelts don’t prevent accidents. Vaccines prevent infection (except for the covid vaccine)
Maybe now Biden will remember COVID exists… as if.
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Just Republicans being themselves on the internet lmfao.
Just Republican Things.
Biden has simultaneously not done enough about Covid and has spent way too much time, effort, and money on what is clearly an overblown case of the sniffles, but is also a Chinese bioweapon.
It makes sense if you change the facts on a dime to suit the underlying narrative.
Doubleplus good
What do you mean about that?
He prematurely declared the pandemic over almost a year ago https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/biden-declares-covid-19-pandemic-over because he’s a corporate tool and believes in fuck all imho
The pandemic IS over. Covid has become an endemic virus just like we always expected it to.
https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230317/time-to-stop-calling-it-a-pandemic
did you even read the article you linked? kind garbage is “well ackshyually, it’s endemic so the pandemic is over!” that doesn’t mean that covid isn’t a real threat. That’s the stupidest fucking argument you could have possibly made. Know what else is endemic? AIDS. Hepatitis. Malaria. Tuberculosis. Fucking Polio. Changing status from pandemic to epidemic doesn’t magically make it affect less people. It’s really heartless tbh
Threat is not what is being discussed. Pandemic status is
the original poster is arguing about the administrations response to the pandemic being at best, poorly managed, choosing the stock market over human lives. The dipshit who said “well technically a pandemix isn’t an epidemic” charged in and tried to chagne the conversation to one of fucking etymology. That’s not the point at all. They’re not pissed because of etymology, they’re pissed because the administration could have done A LOT more but CHOSE not to, because stock market
And we…have treatments and/or vaccines and public health campaigns for all of those endemic infections just like we will continue to do for Covid?
I’m not sure why you think endemic is a judgement of risk. It’s not. It’s an epidemiological definition.
I’m not even remotely arguing about the semantics of epidemiology, I’m arguing that it’s heartless to argue pedantic shit like that when it’s clearly still affecting people and still needs to be taken seriously, which the original poster is pointing out, and correctly so, that it’s not. The administration pushed for business as usual, choosing the stock market over peoples’ health. And you’re over here injecting that "well technically the word pandemic comes from the greek word pan. NO, that’s not what’s being discussed here at all
Except no one pushed for business as usual? Quarantines and higher level pandemic interventions are not appropriate for an endemic infection. We should be vaccinating and masking when there’s an increase in Covid infections. But we should also be doing that for influenza and we don’t.
I’m not arguing semantics. Pandemic vs. endemic is a factual epidemiological definition. The problem is that we routinely choose not to deal with dangerous endemic infections like influenza. We should always have been doing more.
When did Biden say that COVID isn’t a real threat?
Are you replying to the right commend friend? I didn’t say he said that.
That might be the case globally. Regardless, it was never addressed adequately in the US. Practically everyone I know is dealing with some consequence of long COVID and we’re totally behind on vaccination because the issue was so politicized. If you look at this, what’s still going on at the border (a fucking racist wall to keep a certain ethnicity out), human rights being challenged EVERYWHERE and his climate policy it’s clear Biden doesn’t care all that much about things a leftist president should, at the very least.
I see you’re firmly in the “This guy isn’t giving me exactly everything I want so he’s shit!” camp. Cool.
Biden has quietly been the most leftist President in the country’s history, the most effective climate change President in the country’s history, and the most outspoken in support of historically marginalized communities.
He’s not perfect, but guess what no one is. And it turns out that enacting policy in line with the will of 80 million voters isn’t limited in scope to just what you’d like the President to do.
“This guy isn’t giving me exactly everything I want
immediately, can’t forget the immediately part.
These “leftists” in the comments here are just children throwing tantrums, they’re not real leftists, they’re not real anything. They don’t want real solutions, they want mommy and daddy to come in and magically fix all their problems.
“ Biden has quietly been the most leftist President in the country’s history, the most effective climate change President in the country’s history, and the most outspoken in support of historically marginalized communities.”
What? He’s notably right, economically, in my memory, but I’m not his age yet. You…you do know people can be economically right and socially left, don’t you?
Also, even if he were the most leftist president in the US^1 That doesn’t make him all that leftist if you look at the breadth of the political spectrum globally.
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“most leftist president in our country’s history” Previous presidents have set real low standards, my dude. I’m glad he’s rescheduling pot too but he has not done enough to earn that title or people like you wasting your time on his behalf. He and the DNC ignored a HUGE progressive movement in this country to set him up to sleep through more debates next year. As long as the electoral college decides who’s president I don’t want to endorse either mainstream candidate more than direct action against a inhumane, unhinged, and disconnected government. Still crossing my fingers for a good green candidate, and I’ll probably vote that way, but rioting, purposeful vandalism and organization in equal, abundant measure are the only things that could give me real hope at this point. Wish I could have your optimism and confidence in authority, must be nice.
As an actual leftist, I can say with a great deal of authority that Biden is NOT a leftist President. He’s very much capitalist, like Trump
Regardless, it was never addressed adequately in the US.
A problem created by Trump.
(1) we’re totally behind on vaccination because (2) the issue was so politicized
Both problems created by Trump.
what’s still going on at the border
A problem created by Trump and continued by Texas’s state government.
human rights being challenged EVERYWHERE
There are more conservatives EVERYWHERE than there are President Bidens ANYWHERE.
and his climate policy
Won’t disagree here, he could do a lot more here.
A lot of your complaints are problems created by conservatives and criminals, that Biden hasn’t been able to fix. He’s not a progressive superhero and he was never going to be. He’s a janitor, and I don’t see any productivity in getting mad at the guy holding a mop. Yeah, I would have loved Bernie or Warren too, but with the double whammy of first past the post voting and billionaire conservative power-brokers, Biden was always going to be better than the alternative.
He’s not trump, yeah yeah. Still doesn’t change the fact he has done a shit job as “janitor” and wasn’t anybody’s first choice except those that convienently ignore his past comments and actions as a individual (smelling little girls, defending segregation, joking about running over reporters, just vile career politician stuff all the way through) But regardless, that shouldn’t be his whole sell though, and it is. I wish I was wrong, but you really can’t deny it’s a super weak one.
smelling little girls
I never got this criticism. It’s weird, but it doesn’t hurt anyone. It’s not sexually or physically abusive, it’s just an odd thing to do.
That’s probably because he is anything but leftist.
Yeah dude’s a staunch conservative by any reasonable metric, regardless of what the democrats want everyone to think.
Most of his policies were too far right for even Reagan. But we are not supposed to talk about Biden’s history prior to 2019.
He’s leftist, you’re just way out in looney toon land.
Lol sorry no. It’s a result of the Overton window shifting so far right in the US that now some people think anti-labor (e.g., response to train worker strike) is somehow leftist. If you have a more complete understanding of the political spectrum you know better.
Are you aware that a pandemic is a type of disease situation and not a disease itself?
did you know they’re not starting a discussion of etymology, but about the actual administration’s response to the disease? Here’s Biden’s quote from that articles btw "but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so, I think it’s changing.”
Naw fam, they will just get medical treatment for the acute and long term consequences of the infection at a level that you can only dream of, a level that would bankrupt a normal person. But, hey, we’re all in this together. It’s time to move on. Have you considered getting a HELOC and buying something?
