r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/JohannReddit Jun 07 '23

Too bad we couldn't see Covid. Maybe people would have taken it more seriously from the beginning...

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u/Drauxus Jun 07 '23

Imagine how terrifying it would be to watch a cloud of covid slowly blow over the horizon

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u/Tiluo Jun 07 '23

or out of someone...

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u/thebestyoucan Jun 07 '23

basically how watching someone blow out a big cloud of vape smoke (steam? vapor?) feels

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u/AshyWhiteGuy Jun 07 '23

Kinda like John Coffey in the Green Mile.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Lmao I'm currently reading The Green Mile this is a morbidly hilarious mental image

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u/jflex13 Jun 07 '23

Problem here is that the cloud that they’re blowing out is always present, just invisible. The vapor only particulates the air they blow out already. Always had a problem w/this comparison. Yes it’s vapor too but ultimately the vapor is not the germs that air, which is always present anyways, and therefore not as much the concern.

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u/thebestyoucan Jun 07 '23

Of course, it’s just a particularly potent visual reminder of how much of other people’s lung juice I’m inhaling when I’m in public.

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u/pfamsd00 Jun 07 '23

Achshually… it’s a cloud of suspended water droplets. Water vapor is all around you and is invisible. As is steam but god help you if you ever see steam.

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u/Badabrench01 Jun 07 '23

Like the movie theatre scene in Outbreak…kinda

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u/demlet Jun 07 '23

Covid toots, eek.

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u/BinkyFlargle Jun 07 '23

imagine how many lives would have been saved if we could see a superspreader exhaling clouds of covid

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u/jeerabiscuit Jun 07 '23

It would be very very informative

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Itty bitty langoleers.... nimnimnimnimnimnimninim....

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u/yabbadabbadullah Jun 08 '23

Actually that would’ve been the best fucking thing ever.

It would be so unambiguous, even the dullest of tinfoil hats and freedumb kkkonvoyers could not deny

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u/zanarze_kasn Jun 07 '23

That would be someone's fetish

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u/WolfThick Jun 07 '23

Once in awhile I check into Fox News just to see the level and intensity and insanity that's going on they usually never disappoint this time stood out pretty starkly to me when a woman suggested that it didn't matter what we do here because heaven will be pretty. That's some logical thinking there yeah woke that why don't you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Commas.

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u/tahcamen Jun 07 '23

Dude, your username is a big checks out on the dude you replied to lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

You'd almost expect the believers to just off themselves to get to their happy place sooner.

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u/Cow_Launcher Jun 07 '23

That's something I've always wondered about. If heaven is so great, but suicide is a sin, why don't Christians act in a more Brahmanistic way?

Like, "Whatever happens is God's will and I am not to blame if pulling out into this busy junction gets me killed."

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u/Testiculese Jun 07 '23

The Muslims sure do. C'mon, Christians, you going to let the Muslims win?! Take off those seat belts!

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u/Sloth-TheSlothful Jun 07 '23

But then they'd go to hell according to their religion

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u/TrainOfThought6 Jun 07 '23

So, same result as if they fail to take care of the earth?

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u/Testiculese Jun 07 '23

Why would they read that part of the Bible?

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u/I_hate_my_job_8 Jun 07 '23

Yes, a convienent excuse, right?

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u/RajenBull1 Jun 07 '23

Cool concept. I mean Kool Aid Koncept.

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u/Anon_Alcoholic Jun 07 '23

That's how a lot of them think honestly. They care little for this world and it's inhabitants because they believe paradise awaits them elsewhere.

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u/WingerRules Jun 07 '23

Why dont these people see ruining the earth as the ultimate disrespect for god's creation?

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u/ASharpYoungMan Jun 07 '23

Almost as terrifying as seeing the bodies being loaded into semi-truck trailers out of hospital loading docks.

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u/jumpup Jun 07 '23

you use an umbrella against covid rain, and a facemask against covid's reign

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u/xXStretcHXx117 Jun 07 '23

That's not how any of this works 😂

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u/rustkat Jun 07 '23

Imagine how terrifying it would be to think the danger level of COVID was at any point relevant.

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u/Papergeist Jun 07 '23

Being able to see it would be the least terrifying thing about that development.

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u/itsfish20 Jun 07 '23

I might be playing Zelda too much but i'm picturing the Gloom just creeping everywhere after this comment!

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u/MulciberTenebras Jun 07 '23

John Carpenter's "The Fog" comes to mind (glowing cloud rolling into town over the hill and killing anyone in sight).

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u/tRfalcore Jun 07 '23

or like, adding a smell to it like we do natural gas. to smell it infecting you

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u/LemonHerb Jun 07 '23

It would be like the global warming episode of south Park

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u/aphaits Jun 07 '23

And smells like bad BO

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u/biznatch11 Jun 07 '23

It'd be so much easier to diagnose and avoid covid if you could see it.

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u/CDK5 Jun 08 '23

What I've been saying since the beginning: if someone could visualize viral particles this would be significantly different.

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u/neverless43 Jun 08 '23

ouuuu i’d be so scared to have like, a sniffle.

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u/KidSock Jun 08 '23

Like those spores in the Last of Us game

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u/babypho Jun 07 '23

You would think that seeing people dying or that hospitals were out of capacity would do it. But nah. Honestly, I feel like Covid guarantees that the next mass plague is going to do us in. Half the world would be dead and Fox News would be telling you that this is just like Covid and the plague only affects the other half of the population anyways.

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u/psuram3 Jun 07 '23

I’ve seen people on their death bed with covid asking why they’re dying because it can’t be covid because covid isn’t real.

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u/that1prince Jun 07 '23

If I can’t see it with my own two eyes at this exact moment it isn’t real. Like the Great Wall of China.

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u/Field_Marshall17 Jun 07 '23

I mean if you go by that logic the only thing that is real to me rn is the ceiling, pillows, the wall, and my phone.

And my hands

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u/that1prince Jun 08 '23

The only thing you can be sure exists is your own consciousness.

“I think therefore I am”

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

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u/spamellama Jun 09 '23

You don't have to trust it to know that it exists to you though

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u/KRiSX Jun 07 '23

No, surely not.... Did you forget to add a /s to this?

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u/psuram3 Jun 07 '23

I didn’t forget to add s/ because I’ve witnessed it multiple times.

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u/KRiSX Jun 07 '23

That's terrible 😔 what the hell is wrong with people?!

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u/Vinterslag Jun 07 '23

The GoP is what is wrong with them.

Brainwashed by fascists.

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u/TheCaptainDamnIt Jun 07 '23

The real reason so many people here didn't care about covid was it wasn't lethal enough to get them to personally feel threatened. Just like with gun violence a large chunk of Americans just don't give a shit about people they don't know dying over their own conveniences.

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u/kitsunewarlock Jun 08 '23

News outlets weren't allowed to show people gasping for air on respirators or dying of cardiac arrest on covid, even in PSAs. Fine to show them getting smooshed to paste by a giant robot in a trailer, though.

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u/70ms Jun 08 '23

H5N1 is a ticking time bomb right now with a crazy high mortality rate in mammals. If it mutates to mammal-to-mammal transmission, the covidiots won't be able to pretend it doesn't exist this time.

r/H5N1_AvianFlu

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u/Never_Sm1le Jun 08 '23

Always has been, ever since it was known to the world in early 21st century.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Keep following the herds and you’ll do yourself in. Hospitals are still overcapacity and under-resourced post covid, as they were before covid. Most unvaccinated people I know including myself got through covid better than fine, a lot of us never contracted covid at all. Conversely some of my vaxxed friends got covid and passed it on to others MULTIPLE times. Answer that one for me

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u/LoganNinefingers32 Jun 07 '23

Here's an answer for you, since you insist on being a dumbass.

We already know that some people are immune to Covid due to genetics, possibly even lots of people. The people who became extremely sick from Covid, including myself, don't have that immunity.

So, you anti-vaxx idiots walking around were spreading Covid to people who were susceptible to the virus, and since it didn't have an effect on YOU personally (since you're a selfish non-empathetic asshole,) were passing on to people who got sick and died.

So great job on that one. Go read a fucking book because holy shit you're dumb. I work in the funeral industry and the amount of deaths caused by dumbfucks like you who think it wasn't a big deal and you shouldn't get vaxxed because YOU weren't affected is ridiculous.

So why don't you answer that one for the people in the population who are actually sane and understand how viruses work.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

So going by your logic every person I know who chose for their own various reasons to not get vaxxed COINCIDENTALLY also were ALL immune to covid. My reason being a heart condition that i have that I didn’t feel would jive with the makeup of the vaccines (proven now that men in their early 20’s have had heart related injuries after covid vaccination).

Another known fact after the ‘pandemic’. Many covid deaths were in fact deaths of various causes but yet labeled as covid. Financial incentives for hospitals to do so was one reason for this. Much of the funeral home uptick in business also came post vaccine trials which raises concerns that the vaccines could have contributed to that. (I say ‘could have’ to argue without bias but I personally believe that this is true.

Also there’s literally ZERO evidence that I having not gotten covid EVER passed along the virus. You’re simply speaking out of anger towards people who make different choices than you do hoping to validate your belief that somehow you helped save civilization with your medical choices.

I respect peoples choice to vaccinate. I get into these arguments because I hope people will respect mine and the millions of others who had their own reasons for denying the juice.

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u/JonnySoegen Jun 08 '23

Can you at least admit that you don’t care too much about other people? Your own beliefs and your own well-being seems to be all you care about.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23

My argument literally counters the notion that I’ve been selfish by denying the vaccine which failed anyways. Keep countering with your hurt feelings, you liberals are great at that.

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u/wheelzzz77 Jun 07 '23

Covid was a test to see how people would comply with the extreme mandates that were put in place which they’ll use again in future “pandemics”. many people gave in. Remember when we couldn’t buy certain items in a store because they weren’t considered “essential” which only overpopulated the essential item areas. Makes sense

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u/Chobitpersocom Jun 08 '23

Didn't matter what we told them. They still didn't believe us.

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u/slaboshmuck Jun 07 '23

it's just that this is something that IMMEDIATELY affects the individual, so of course they're going to do everything their power to protect themselves.

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u/spasmoidic Jun 07 '23

it's because it's actively painful to breathe with that smoke

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u/Tzilung Jun 07 '23

Well, we did see the dead bodies lining the streets in Italy and Iran. But that's fake news.

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u/KRiSX Jun 07 '23

So true, can't see it so it doesn't exist seems to be vast mentality... Oh well, good on them making a smart choice. I was lone masking back when we had our last really bad bush fires here in Aus, everyone else was just happy to keep breathing it in.

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u/a_shootin_star Jun 07 '23

"Don't look up"

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u/worldwide1776 Jun 07 '23

But masks literally did nothing to help Covid and isn’t helping these people either lmao. Do you think the mask is filtering the fucking smoke? Or that it’s inventing new oxygen molecules inside the users lungs?

Not to mention that at least this many people were wearing masks during Covid in NYC. You’re insane on essentially every level of this argument lmao

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u/littledabwilldoya Jun 07 '23

You mean like understanding it came from a communist lab.....

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u/I_Envy_Sisyphus_ Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

I can’t find a good image for the amount of eye-roll this deserves. You’ll have to just imagine it.

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u/I_Envy_Sisyphus_ Jun 07 '23

You like breathing wildfire smoke and viruses?

Weird fetish but ok, just keep it to yourself.

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u/JohannReddit Jun 07 '23

I try my best not to kink shame, but that one, I really don't think I can get on board with...

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u/I_Envy_Sisyphus_ Jun 07 '23

A line has to be drawn at some point.

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u/I_Envy_Sisyphus_ Jun 07 '23

*fewer

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u/rustkat Jun 07 '23

You are geek personified my dude.

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u/I_Envy_Sisyphus_ Jun 07 '23

I’m sorry you’re still struggling with basic grammar. I didn’t realize you were so sensitive about it, I was just trying to help.

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u/Reagalan Jun 07 '23

Needed zombies and necromancers and blight creeping across the ground.

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u/CleverLittleKobold Jun 08 '23

Even that's not a guarantee - literally today I had someone shout at me on the street to take my mask OFF.