D&D and the rising pandemic

[embee]

Well, my daughter, after missing all of kindergarten, has her class schedule for 1st grade.

On the one hand, I'm excited to walk her to school next week.

On the other hand, I know it's going to be short-lived. One of the high schools in our school system just suspended its football program indefinitely after 6 players tested positive for COVID. Yesterday alone, 4 different high schools reported new cases. These are all cases in vaccinated teenagers. Meaning it's almost certainly Delta.

At my temple, a Board member said that her family, all vaccinated, went on vacation. They're now quarantined at home because 5 out of 6 of them have Delta.

My wife's cousin is a high school teacher and he's just waiting for the "hybrid" order, which he thinks will probably be before October.

Personally, I think we're in the eye of the hurricane. I think once school starts in full, things will get bad again.

I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Garthanos]

Yeah… 600,00 dead isn’t worth it.

Gotta destroy property.

Remember things are more important than people. /sarcasm

 

[Umbran]

So the only thing that's keeping us from the future predicted by "Idiocracy" is Covid?

I haven't seen Idiocracy, so I can't really say.

 

[Ryujin]

I haven't seen Idiocracy, so I can't really say.

Trailer, for the basics.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Or, well, use the vernacular of the time. Set aside some vaccine, rebrand it Hyrdroxiverzinc or soemthing, and say, "Friends! Here's the stuff that They don't want you to know about! Big Pharma and the FDA don't want to talk about it, but it will SPERCHARGE your immune system, and make covid fears a thing of the past...."

(Note intentional misspelling of "supercharge". It adds folksy verisimilitude.)

Even if that worked, I’d ge so concerned that the NEXT pandemic after the well-intentioned duplicity were revealed, the fact of the trickery would be rhetorical fuel for the paranoia factories.

”They lied to us then. How do we know they’re not lying now?”

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I haven't seen Idiocracy, so I can't really say.

The smarter you are, the darker a comedy it is.

 

[Umbran]

Trailer, for the basics.

Got it. Then, no. Having a lid on your species'/culture's/world's development does not imply regression to stupidity.

 

[Ryujin]

Got it. Then, no. Having a lid on your species'/culture's/world's development does not imply regression to stupidity.

Additional to the trailer, the premise is that stupid people breed like rabbits and smart people are more measured and cautious, so natural selection works against intelligence.

 

[Umbran]

Additional to the trailer, the premise is that stupid people breed like rabbits and smart people are more measured and cautious, so natural selection works against intelligence.

So, that fails a bit of a sniff test in several ways, but, whatever.

 

[Ryujin]

So, that fails a bit of a sniff test in several ways, but, whatever.

It's not a documentary, it's a comedy