r/funny • u/sarusadanus • 1d ago
Those covid lockdowns..
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u/CaptnShaunBalls 1d ago
You need to be REAL confident of your pace to try run down someone who regularly runs on sand😆
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u/HiZenBergh 1d ago
That and rocking some shoes with solid ankle support. I run the beach once in a while to purposely get my goofy stability up
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u/HiZenBergh 23h ago
Yeah man stability is all I was talking about.
I'm just goofy and gangly. Once in a while I'd just roll and ankle out of nowhere. Barefoot beach runs definitely helped that a bit
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u/CpnStumpy 23h ago
Or really anyone who regularly runs. Average people who don't run thinking they're going to catch up with a runner, good luck
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u/HalfSoul30 23h ago
That cop was trying to break social distance rules. Red shirt was right to step on the gas.
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u/gingerbhoy 23h ago
I was over in Turkey were tourists could walk about but locals had to lock down. I felt like Cilian Murphy in 28 days later
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u/trollgore92 23h ago
He's ALONE on a beach. If anything those fuckwads chasing him increases the risk of something spreading
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u/Lazysenpai 1d ago
Wife gave birth during the height of Covid scare. Suddenly, I got the 'permission' to use the roads.
Its was very eerie, 0 cars during peak hours, any hours. Police and military check points. Its a ghost city, you can see shadows of people lurking behind curtains.
At the same time, I felt like a boss! My road!
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u/exxcathedra 23h ago
My husband had to skip the Covid rules and risk a penalty to be with me while I gave birth to his son. If he had followed the UK NHS app advice I would've had to drive myself to the hospital and deliver that baby alone.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister was partying hard and getting drunk along with his staff like nothing was happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partygate The rest of us were expected to follow every rule of course.
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u/Drumedor 23h ago
Maybe your husband should have driven across the country with his family, to look at a castle to check if he needed glasses or not?
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u/thenumberfourtytwo 23h ago
I was with my wife in the room during her C section, holding her hand. the OB gyn, bless her heart, insisted and had a small argument with the staff, that I should be there. I unfortunately barely talked Spanish at the time, but it was clear from my attitude that I was agains not being there too.
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u/Arsewhistle 23h ago
I'm fairly sure your husband was allowed to drive you there, the rules just wouldn't allow him into the hospital. Whatever the NHS advice was, it wasn't the law
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u/exxcathedra 23h ago
There was a time when there was this app that warned you if you had been x amount of metres away from an infected person. Regardless of your own tests, the app would flag you as a risk and you had to stay at home for I can't remember how long. It was hard to enforce but in the middle of it all it was hard to know.
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u/Plead_thy_fifth 23h ago
My wife also gave birth during COVID. She had an emergency C section that wasn't great.
She had personal doctors appointments after, and "limited personel, no kids" because of COVID. But I was deployed and we didn't have family around. So they were literally turning her away at the doors for her surgery issues because she had a newborn and no one to watch her.
I feel bad for her to this day. Emergency C section birth, health issues from it, husband deployed soon after to Afg, post partum depression, ZERO human interaction, then having medical issues and the hospital telling you "get the fuck away if you have that baby with you".
Strongest woman I know. Wild (and despicable) times.
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u/Lazysenpai 23h ago
Yeah, it was a crazy time. Hopefully its a once in a lifetime event. Your wife is a trooper!
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u/RapidRewards 23h ago
What country? I never saw anything like that in the US and drove around all the time. It absolutely was barren but never saw a military check point or got permission to drive.
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u/Lazysenpai 23h ago
Asia, its taken very seriously here. If there's an outbreak in an apartment complex, that whole place gets lock down. Full barricade.
Government will provide all the foods and make sure they have access to shops.
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u/FloopsFooglies 23h ago
Yeah I never even stopped working, at an office job at the time. Took a week off when I got COVID, then went back in and kept working.
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u/Onkelffs 1d ago
As a Swede I can’t relate at all.
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u/Todd_Renard_Fox 23h ago
I'm still bewildered how you guys didn't have complete shut down during that time
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u/Drumedor 23h ago
Well, our natural instinct is to keep strangers at least four meters away, that we had to stand as close as two meters from them during Covid felt terrible.
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u/Pegasis69 1d ago
We're not allowed to talk about Sweden during lockdown here in the UK. If we start doing that, we might have to admit that we overreacted.
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u/sliever48 1d ago
I was told to come in to the office throughout Covid, I had special dispensation. Not like my job was important or anything. I was actually annoyed that I had to risk going in as I had 2 very young children. But the roads in Ireland were empty, and Dublin was like a ghost town. The only people wandering the streets were junkies so it was like a post apocalyptic scene
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u/garavizeko 1d ago
I had permission to use roads all the time. I live in Germany and I remember I had to go from Frankfurt to München during lockdown. Usually takes 4 hours and I was there in 3 hours.
Autobahn without any traffic is wonderful.
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u/sjw_7 1d ago
A friend of mine was in a job where he had to drive a lot during lockdown. Police blocks at motorway junctions where he had to show proof he was supposed to be out there. Said it was strange having no traffic at all at 9am and wouldn't see a car for miles.
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u/Shmeepsheep 23h ago
Weird. My job got busier during lockdown doing government contract work. I saw exactly zero road blocks, check points, or the like and I was between Philly and NYC with work
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u/JETDRIVR 23h ago
I repositioned a plane from farmingdale to teterboro and they let me go direct . That’s usually a 30 min round about flight to go 15 miles.
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u/Erazzphoto 1d ago
It was the greatest thing ever. Obviously not the way you want come about it, but no traffic on the roads, sparse crowds if you were able to go somewhere,the less people anywhere is a glorious thing
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u/Lenora_O 23h ago
My jovial response to lockdowns forced me to accept that I wasn't normal and to take the suggestion of autism from my therapist more seriously.
I LOVED lockdowns, not for the lack of freedom or the horrible reasons why they happened, but because it was like the world was going my way for once. The fact the world had to be in catastrophe mode to take a step towards accommodating me (hello grocery delivery)was a real eye-opener.
I also remember the absolute rage spasms that normal people would have, ranting on Facebook about not leaving the house for 3 days. And here I was like GOOD. AND STAY THERE.
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u/KillahHills10304 23h ago
Now imagine youre essential personnel, and every day for roughly 3 weeks you commuted on a 10 lane federal highway with ZERO people on it. That shit was eerie, and a camera cant really capture how bizarre it is.
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u/M1R4G3M 23h ago
My kid is 6 years old now and he also gave me the "Permission" to drive during that time, and you described everything.
After that I also got permission from my work because I worked in telecom and we couldn't be down even in that time, so they made a letter that allowed us to drive. We showed that to the cops and they left us alone.
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u/thenumberfourtytwo 23h ago
same here. Spain. although she had to sit in the back. I remember going to the hospital and it felt almost post-apocalyptic, seeing no one on the roads or in the hospital.
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u/CallMe_Dig_Baddy 1d ago
I miss the pandemic traffic so much. Driving from where I live towards Toronto is just a nightmare. People are just fucked on the highways now.
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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 23h ago
Remember just the pandemic was winding down, but most jobs were still fully remote?
Glorious times especially after such stressful ones.
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u/CallMe_Dig_Baddy 23h ago
Sadly I was deemed essential service (fire protection) so I didn’t get to enjoy much of the wfh stuff. Just the perks of no traffic and not having to get up earlier to drive places.
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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 1d ago
You weren't even allowed to leave your house?
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u/whoami38902 1d ago
This is in Italy, it was the epicentre of Covid in Europe and the first European country to go into full lockdown
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u/loxagos_snake 1d ago
At least in my country, you had to send an SMS message to a special gov number to state that you were going to be outside for a limited amount of time, and only for necessary movements. If a cop stopped you, you'd have to show them the message as proof.
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u/Onkelffs 1d ago
I’m happy that I lived in one of the countries that remained sane. Sweden. :)
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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 1d ago
I live in Norway and i assume you're making a little joke here. With COVID as with immigration you are used as a bad example here
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u/Onkelffs 23h ago
Norway had more Covid-related deaths overall. You were in worse shape in 2022 than Sweden during 2020.
I know you hate brown people but that isn’t important to me, so okay I guess? You have better immigration policies? Yay!
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u/pm_me_your_smth 1d ago
Easy to remain sane if your country has 10x fewer cases, or 2x if you adjust for population
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u/fxsoap 1d ago
You could spread the germ in the air and kill somebody on the street a mile away.
That's why people were driving around in a car by themselves wearing a mask. That's how dangerous it was
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u/Nocturnes_echo 23h ago
This is straight up lies now, not even misinformation. There was not one single fucking case of somebody going outside with NOBODY around them for over 5,000 ft in every direction and just randomly fucking catching covid-19! unless they were eating somebody else's infected fucking tissues or licking people's door knobs too that ain't happening. If a person were masked properly and used proper hand practices it never would have been a fucking issue.
My job was one that was considered "essential" so I was literally not allowed to be ignorant about it! I worked through the entire pandemic mask to mask with assholes just like you who didn't and still don't know what the fuck they're talking about and spread bullshit misinformation around just like covid!
Maintane 6 ft apart wearing masks when out and when walking through aisles, washing hands thoroughly with soap for 15 seconds minimum, sing happy birthday if your fucking have to! Clean all surfaces regularly using alcohol or disinfectant wipes.
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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 1d ago
I took covid seriously but you are basically describing the black plague.
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u/figsslave 23h ago
I had a stroke just before Covid hit so by the time I was up and around the lack of traffic was amazing to see
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u/NiceTrySuckaz 1d ago
Well they had to do that. If they let this guy get away with it, the next day there would be ten people jogging on the beach. And the next day 25. And that would be pandemonium.
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u/abednego-gomes 1d ago
And what would be the problem with that? Almost zero risk with an airborne virus in the outdoors with some wind blowing, especially with fresh air off the ocean.
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u/dariusdetiger 1d ago
You forget how gaslit people were during covid. A surfer DID get arrested for being out there during Covid.
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u/Formal-Wonder-1726 1d ago
We are now blessed with the gift of hindsight and yes, this prohibition of outdoor activities seems absolutely ridiculous now, but in the early months of covid, their was no certainty about whether covid was airborne or not. The IC-units of many countries were absolutely overburdened so these super strict regulations made sense at the time. They might do not now, but they certainly did back in early 2020. This is anecdotal, but many of the anti-covid/anti-vax people that I know were staunch supporters of early covid enforcement rules as well.
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u/RedditPoster05 1d ago
It was ridiculous then too. These restrictions carried on longer than they should have.
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u/Erazzphoto 1d ago
And you think if they would defy that rule, they would obey the others and not gather at some spot where it would cause a problem? That’s the issue at hand.
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u/F_A_F 23h ago
Part of the issue with making individual decisions like that is soon you have 7bn individual decisions and trying to make a unified response to the virus woukd be like trying to herd cats.
One person says beach runs are fine, the next says forest runs are fine, the next says that pavement runs are fine, then running up and down the stairs in the apartment complex are fine, then walking around the mall is fine. Then a thousand people all decide it's fine and join each other.
Of course running alone is not going to spread the virus but if the brief rules governments put in place are broken then the risks increase. Trying to lay out exactly which activities are safe or not as part of a "please lockdown" requurement are too large to outline so therefore the rules needed to stay basic.
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u/random_son 1d ago
but sport is healthy 🤷♂️
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u/ColorMonochrome 1d ago
And people should be free to take that risk.
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u/wPatriot 1d ago
Uhm actually I think youll find it is spelled panemic
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u/AlternativePea6203 1d ago
Panem today, Panem tomorrow, Panem forever!
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u/wPatriot 1d ago
I wanted to make the stupid comment and it took me your reply to realize it was even stupider because I managed to fuck up pandemic, lol
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u/ComplexxToxin 1d ago
I loved the lock downs. Leaving work hitting 100mph on a straight highway with absolutely no cars around. Bliss.
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u/JouMaSeKont1973 1d ago
Never forget what they did to us... 🤡
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u/TwinSong 23h ago
Tried to halt a virus maiming and killing people, and people whined like little children denied sweets.
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u/oobleckhead 23h ago
Plus there was no way to tell how bad it could've gotten without restrictions. Hindsight is 20/20 but people easily forget how uncertain it was back then.
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u/Calichusetts 23h ago
Fun fact about the lockdown: it was the perfect opportunity to replace roads, fix bridges, paint town and government buildings, etc. And we did no of that. Good times.
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u/BarbeRose 23h ago
Those things don't get done on their own.
It may requires a fair number of workers actually
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u/vigilantesd 23h ago
Sure, laborers don’t deserve the same safety as you…
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u/GuinnessSteve 23h ago
Many of those tasks could have been accomplished in a socially distanced manner.
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u/Ijustreddit92 23h ago
Covid just showed me how nobody gives a fuck about anyone else. People were just complaining that they couldn't go to the gym, get fucked up at the pub or watch football. It seemed insane to me when lockdowns eased up a bit a lot of people with covid just did anything they wanted, without a care in the world that they were spreading it to elderly people or vulnerable people. They would happily kill someone's family member to go out on the piss with the lads.
We were lucky it wasn't something as contagious as covid but as deadly as ebola. If we ever get anything like that then we don't stand a chance. We will still get people complaining that their rights are being taken away and the government is oppressing them as they want them to wear a mask.
When I seem to spend my entire life looking out for others and trying not to get in anyones way, it's made my question why I bother. Everyone else would happily risk your life as they're self centred and dumb as fuck.
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u/conrad_w 23h ago
My experience of COVID was the exact opposite. People were scared, and despite this (or because of it) they looked out for each other.
The number of acts of kindness I came across in those days. My neighbour knitted me a little teddy bear wearing scrubs. Another neighbour fixed all the bikes in the building just for something to do.
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u/Wooshio 1d ago
What does it have to do with covid? My guess is that he is just running on private beach front and that's a security guard.
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u/whoami38902 1d ago
This is in Pescara, Italy. Not a private beach
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u/zorrorosso 1d ago
Isn't Italy a shitshow that only got worse throughout the years? The beach is not private, however you can close it down as technically everything on the sand, including fences and those walking stones, are. It's legal to stay on the waterline, but owners of the stands and facilities still treat it like a private property. However I'm not aware of the laws in province/region, so I cannot tell what's the difference there.
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u/SushiLovingApe 23h ago
It can vary slightly depending on the specific places, but in general beach establishments pay a concession to the State to use part of the beach for their business. So while they pay, that beach area is "theirs". They have to leave 5 to 10 meters from the water free and accessible to anyone and they cannot block access to the waterfront in any way. So it is quite well regulated and the system works reasonably well in most places.
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u/Expert-Butterfly-415 1d ago
I think this might be Spain. If so, there's no such thing as a private beach.
And, given he's running below the high watermark, he'd be free to do so in most other countries too.
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u/SushiLovingApe 23h ago
The sign at the end says: "SoleLuna Ristorante Pizzeria". That's definitely somewhere in Italy. But the rest is absolutely valid in Italy, too: the beachfront has to be freely accessible to anyone.
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u/loulan 1d ago
Yeah I don't understand this video or why it has so many upvotes.
Someone is running. Someone runs after them for a while. We know nothing about these two people or the circumstances. How is that funny?
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u/fuggerdug 1d ago
Because it's allowed a lot of fucking idiots to wang on about and exaggerate Covid restrictions.
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u/IngeniousQuokka 1d ago
This was on a public beach in Italy and it happened during the first covid wave IIRC. We’d been hit hard, nobody really knew how the virus spread yet, and the whole country was in full lockdown. So no, you weren’t allowed to be out unless it was for groceries or emergencies, and that's police (Carabiniere actually) trying to fine the guy.
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u/Deep-Instruction4634 1d ago
A lot of beaches were closed during Covid because most places were in lockdown and you couldn’t leave your house unless necessary. Running on beach is not necessary and he could have gotten a fine for being out for an unnecessary reason. But everywhere was different and I don’t know the context to this video. Just giving you a reason why it might have something to do with Covid and might be an old video from then.
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u/Entire_Proposal_1318 23h ago
I'm really surprised at how fast people forgot about COVID... Absurd scenes like these were filmed and shared every day back then. It was just five years ago lol
In my country, some dude was kayaking by himself on a canal and a whole team of policemen had to go on their own boat to intercept him and give him a fine. It made the news...
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u/sampysamp 1d ago
What is with these comments. It wasn’t handled perfectly but was an unprecedented time where people came together to protect each other and their communities. It also really highlighted who the worst of us was.
Yes parts of it were absurd and silly and didn’t make sense but the expectation that a global lockdown wouldn’t have things that were silly and didn’t made sense and everything should be appear perfectly logical to everyone is extremely childish.
The lockdowns were applied blankety even where in some cases they didn’t make sense as places adapted and figured out how to come out of it. I think the blanket approach was an abundance of caution and so the authorities didn’t have to deal with everyone and their mother being like but what about my jog on the beach there’s no one around but what about, but what about. Rather than focusing on keeping public order and saving lives.
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u/FreeFlyingDragon 23h ago
Guarantee this had nothing to do with Covid and this is a stupid political bot post trying to make people hate regulation of any kind.
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u/Yasirbare 23h ago
writing a fiction about creating a virus to lock people in and use the period to move assets. Noting the smart thing about a real virus needing real cure but the origin was created.
That fiction would either be taken as "conspiracy" or a "jab" or "naive" etc.
We live inn a script, who to say this was not a part of the script - when reality is that 95% is. We have it form themselves. Mossad, KGB, cia - Flooding the zone.
The Masked Mossad Agent in 60 minutes got the program shut down.
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u/InAppropriate-meal 1d ago edited 1d ago
Spreading a lethal disease is so funny.. EDIT Carry on dv anybody who still thinks it wasnt serious is a brain dead moron anyway
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u/Bobbybobinsonbob 1d ago
Until the mob tried chasing her down, she was maintaining at least a 60 foot social distance, or do you think she was spreading the disease to the fish or something?
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u/whoami38902 1d ago
She still had to get in and out of her home. Nearly 200k people died of Covid in Italy
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u/rimeswithburple 1d ago
It wasn't as lethal as they made out, though it apparently turn Joe Rogan green according to CNN.
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u/InAppropriate-meal 1d ago
Yes it was. Im not going to argue science with you you're just a moron
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u/rimeswithburple 1d ago
So you are angrier at me and this guy than you are at Peter Dazsak, Fauci and the CIA who developed the virus? Yeah, you are the genius alright.
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u/Cow-Brown 1d ago
Much less embarrassing than it’s been for the anti-science crowd ever since. All your conspiracy theories and none have come true
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u/loulan 1d ago
...seriously?
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u/LoLLiGoGs 1d ago
Looks like you lost your mind and common sense in the last few years. We're all wishing you a speedy recovery out of your insanity
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