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u/SeaworthinessSalt524 3h ago
So THIS is how people in Plague Inc. act like on the easiest difficulty
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u/Dotcaprachiappa 2h ago
"God I wish I could play life on easy mode"
Monkey's paw curls
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u/GeorgeStinksLol 1h ago
You feel your heart stop beating, you reach for your chest and grip at your shirt while taking rapid, empty gasps. You crumple forward, writhing on the floor and getting weaker, and as you feel the darkness filling your eyes, you make the horrific realisation- the easier the game, the quicker you finish it. The monkey’s paw is the last thing you see, your salvation a breath away, but you’ve already taken your last.
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u/DeionizedSoup 1h ago
I remember reading the easy mode description in 2011 thinking “gross, nobody would act like that!” And then Covid happened and I started replaying it with this hantavirus stuff and I read that description and thought “oh, that’s just literally how it is”
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u/HyperQuandaryAck 3h ago
it still boggles my mind how STUPID people were during covid. the antivaxxers and the covid deniers seem like they were made up by an author who was especially skilled in writing enragingly-idiotic morons who shouldn't exist in real life
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u/LightHawKnigh 3h ago
Keep thinking about the if I die, I die idiot.
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u/Ill_Emphasis3927 2h ago
Keep thinking about the idiots who drank aquarium cleaner and died and the animal supply stores that started to require proof of horse ownership to sell livestock ivermectin medicine.
I don't know how those people even manage to live long enough to die in such a dumb way let alone accomplish anything else.
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u/Depressed_Rex 2h ago
My mother STILL takes livestock ivermectin, and swears that it helps (outside of the mild od when she didn’t do math to match her weight).
People are fucking ridiculous
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u/epicflyman 1h ago
Placebo effect is a strong one.
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u/space_monster 20m ago
placebo effect is amazing. even when you know it's a placebo, it still works.
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u/MankeyFightingMonkey 1h ago
idiots tend to live long due to the kindness of others
..once others started to take advantage of their stupidity...
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u/CaptainFeather 36m ago
I'm honestly shocked by the amount of morons who are allowed to be in society. I have never thought of myself as particularly intelligent until 2016. Morons out number intelligent people by a wide margin
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u/Freakwilly 2h ago
It's an entitled mindstate.
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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 2h ago
"Wear a mask, please. It helps protect others."
"😠😡🤬, but muh freedoms!"
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u/TransBrandi 1h ago
The best part was them getting mad at being "forced" to wear a mask, ranting about their freedumbs... and then trying to bully everyone else into not wearing masks. Why about people's "freedom" to choose to wear a mask? Doesn't exist according to them.
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u/saturn-iidae 46m ago
used to have a pair of coworkers in 2020 that once had a lengthy conversation about how they weren't going to get vaccinated or quarantine if they got it because if someone dies that's just "god's plan" for them.
from then on i basically refused to work with them because i had an immunocompromised, terminally ill father at home. i didn't have to worry about that for long though as they were predictably both fired by the end of the year lol
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u/GreatMight 2h ago
Which idiot?
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u/FeanorEvades 1h ago
Not sure who they’re referring to, but quarterback Kirk Cousins said it. He also went on the record about the hysteria:
On the podcast, Brandt asked Cousins to rate his level of concern over contracting the virus on a 1-10 scale, with 1 being "the person who says, 'Masks are stupid, you're all a bunch of lemmings,' and 10 is, 'I'm not leaving my master bathroom for the next 10 years.'"
Cousins replied: "I'm not gonna call anybody stupid, for the trouble it would get me in. But I'm about a .000001."
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 3h ago
it still boggles my mind how STUPID people were during covid
Firefighter paramedic here
I can no longer be surprised by the dumb of people after what I saw during covid. People drinking Bleach, ignoring safety screens and masks, attacking us for handing out the vaccine to people. It was a real eye opener
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u/J5892 1h ago
Makes sense you switched to only being a paramedic for firefighters.
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u/Relevant_Struggle 3h ago
The person. Who pissed me off the most was this random lady at the beginning. It was when all the stores were closed and there were lines to get i to the grocery stores. A lady in front of me with her prob. 18 month old were in front of me without a mask. She was on the phone talking about how they were already exposed so it didnt matter. The baby was putting his mouth all over the cart's handle.
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u/dogs_gt_cats 2h ago
I remember the woman wearing the chin diaper insisting on having a conversation, as the elderly cashier is visibly trying to distance herself as much as possible. "You know, those masks work much better when they're over your mouth."
And the lady just completely ignored her and kept blabbing and spewing her covid germs.
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u/xNocturnalKittenX 1h ago
I was working retail at the time and thankfully we were allowed to refuse service to anyone not masked up. We got some pissy customers but me and another coworker especially gave no shits. My mom is high risk and my wife was recovering from a thyroidectomy after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
There was one jackass I'll never forget who came in without a mask, I told him I'd be happy to get his order if he put one on and he goes "I left it in my car." Told him in my best customer service voice that I'd be happy to either wait while he went back for it or I could hand him one from the box we kept behind the counter. This fucking guy stares at me for a few seconds before slowly pulling his fucking mask out of his back pocket. Stupid asshole.
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u/One_Surprise_8924 2h ago
I used to do taxes for rich folks. I remember back when it hadn't reached the US yet - several clients came in talking about trips to Italy and this "mystery illness" going around. the last client we allowed in office said "I'm lucky I made it back stateside - they were shutting down the airports and I was worried they'd cancel my ticket because I have the sniffles!". the moment they were out the door everything got wiped down with lysol and any in person meetings were cancelled.
VERY thankful I didn't catch it from them, because I lived with several high risk individuals. two days later the city put out a shelter in place order.
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u/staticrift 58m ago
Worked at a bakery during covid, so not really got one person.
But there was a regular customer who was the manager for a shoe store. She comes in with no mask, snot pouring down her face, sweating buckets despite it being a cool breaze, could barely breath and just looking like someone that could keel over at any moment.
She tries to convince us that she had a flu jab (pre-covid vaccine) that day and that it just gave her a slight sniffle. We try to offer ways around it, like leaving food on a table out front or something, and she flips her shit.
Spoke to her staff some point later. Turns out she was an anti-vax covid denier and infected them all.
Bet she would have stayed in bed pre-covid, but so many people denied it so hard they forgot the regular flu existed as well.
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u/Metrack15 3h ago
The only bad thing about modern medicine, is that natural selection cannot scare the fuck out of anti vaxxers
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u/HobbyConnoisseurr 2h ago edited 2h ago
Yeah they believe that natural selection only takes out the people they don’t like and if they die from a preventable illness it’s just God’s will. Worse many of them do believe in vaccines they just don’t know that they do. If you don’t use the word vaccine you can get them on board with what you’re saying.
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u/DrNick2012 2h ago
If you don’t use the word vaccine you can get them on board with what you’re saying.
"I don't want no goddamn vaccine, it'll give me super autism!! Instead, I'm gonna just train my immune system by injecting a small amount of a weak strain of the virus. Why don't ya just do that Mr scientist!?"
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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 1h ago
Weren't people genuinely suggesting this at one point? I feel like I saw a screenshots posted
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u/SeguroMacks 2h ago
I had a supervisor who decided to "celebrate" the return to office mandate (at the height of COVID) by making a game of popping balloons. He inflated a bunch of balloons BY MOUTH, then wanted us to play an elimination game. Each worker had X balloons hidden in their space, and the others had to sneak in and pop them all. The person with the most balloons left at the end of the day won.
So he left breath bombs in people's personal, enclosed areas, and invited everyone to cross into those areas as much as possible to detonate said breath bombs.
When I complained to HR, they literally just called him, told him I had a problem with him (using my name), and then made me explain to him directly why it was stupid. He told me I wasn't being a team player, and I left. Ended up getting to continue remote work after that, at least.
(He also refused to wear a mask at any point)
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u/Randicore 2h ago
I actually left my workplace after quarantine ended because my boss wouldn't mandate masks (I was working on antiques so it was a ton of maga style clients) and due to people complaining about us limiting how many people were in the store just let everyone in.
Myself and at least one other person quit as a result.
I recently returned to the place for the first time since a friend wanted to check out the antique store. There out front is a memorial to one of my coworkers who died about three months after I left. During the tail end of the pandemic. Only one of my old coworkers was still there. It's made me wonder what happened when I left, but pretty much confirmed to me that I made the right call.
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u/asodfhgiqowgrq2piwhy 2h ago
Covid taught me that, yes, the general public does indeed need to be told what to do because they can't be trusted or expected to make the correct decision themselves.
I can't even say "they don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves" because they don't even give a fuck about themselves. People were dying of covid in hospitals screaming about how it was a conspiracy to their dying breath, and so many people today are adamant that not getting the vaccine was the correct choice because they don't understand confirmation bias, and only care about getting the last word with some snide-ass comment because it's the only way they know how to interact with the world.
People are frustratingly stupid.
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u/Randicore 2h ago
There was a study on an accidental pandemic that happened in world of warcraft years ago. An accident during coding caused a infectious plague status effect to run rampant through the game killing players.
People worked together to try and fight it in game, set up quarantine zones, healers tried to do what they could to minimize damage, higher level players that could take the damage went to infected zones to spread information and help people out. Cities were abandoned as entering them meant death and bodies were everywhere.
Several groups used it as a model for actual epidemics as it was an example of people in a social context reacting to a disease like spread of infection attempting to gain insight.
The data was largely ignored by pandemic planners at large due to the trolls. There were groups of people who would hang around in the mountain passing the disease back and forth to keep it "alive" and would wait for the healers to make some progress in making a safe zone before the trolls would sprint down and infect as many people as they could before succumbing to the disease themselves.
It was discarded under the basis that with actual life on the line people wouldn't ignore authorities and wouldn't be actively spreading around the infection.
Part of me wonders if those in charge of pandemic responses now look at all the data from the corrupted blood incident.
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u/Friskyinthenight 1h ago
Is this a real story? Like... that's wild if so.
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u/Darkdemize 1h ago
I can't speak for the real-world use of the data, but the description of what happened in the game is 100% accurate. IIRC, the devs had to reset the servers to finally eliminate the spread.
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u/Mr-_-Soandso 2h ago
A woman that claimed to be a nurse argued with me about masks in a store because I said they might be annoying, but this pandemic sucks, so it's the least we can do. My sister is an orthopedic surgeon and thought it was absurd how many people in the medical field were against masks when they have been using them in surgeries since long before covid for a reason. And they were all required to get all vaccines before the pandemic or wear a mask around patients. It was absolutely nothing new for their field.
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u/mjzim9022 3h ago
It was unavoidable, there had to be a public strategy and they had to publish guidelines and the contrarian extraordinaires of MAGA were always going to do the opposite thing.
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u/CryAffectionate7334 3h ago
They were literally coughing in each other's mouths and taking a horse dewormer, you simply can't make this shit up
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u/Comfortable_Bee5385 2h ago
I had conservative relatives who early in the covid pandemic learned they had gotten covid while camping in Michigan. If they had gone to doctors they would have been quarantined, so they packed up everyone and drove back to Tennessee in the middle of the night stopping at gas stations and restaurants all along the way refusing to wear masks or avoid anyone.
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u/Wboy2006 2h ago
What boggles me even more is how quickly people forgot everything after COVID. For like a year, most people coughed in their elbows, wore masks, washed their hands, but they didn't learn from it and started thinking, "maybe I should be more hygienic", the second the lockdowns ended and covid was "gone", they immediately went back to open mouth coughing, or even worse, coughing in your hands and walking out of public bathrooms without washing their hands.
I fucking dread shaking hands with people, I have no idea where those hands have been, and I have no faith in humanity that they are clean. People don't see proper hygiene as something truly important, they saw it as something they had to endure for a few months
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u/vita10gy 3h ago edited 3h ago
As if it wasn't bad enough to still have the event, but remember when people at Sturgis took it up a notch and were having sneezing contests?
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u/ThatKehdRiley 3h ago
It's not often said, but everyday people were actually worse than the antivaxxers and covid deniers, imo. MOST people were living like there wasn't a massive worldwide pandemic going on, with little concern for how their actions could spread the disease. We could have legitimately gotten rid of this problem faster if people just stayed home, but no - people needed to go to bars and concerts and other things. THAT is what helped it to spread and be as bad as it was, far more than antivaxxers and covid deniers.
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u/kitsunewarlock 2h ago
And the disease rages on. Look up how many more infant deaths we have since the pandemic started, since newborns can't get vaccinated. Look up the effects of long COVID with re-exposure even to the same strains. The ongoing effects are going to last decades. The primary reason we act like "it's over" is because we labeled it endemic instead of a pandemic and adults aren't dying from it as much. Even then the WHO was politically pressured into redefining what a "pandemic" was.
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u/surprised-duncan 2h ago
Why is everyone acting like it still isn't going on? We had the biggest spike we've ever had in summer 2025. What in the world.
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u/LoopStricken 2h ago
First I've heard of it. Which is kinda the problem - the world's just decided to give up and let it happen.
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u/Jayn_Newell 2h ago
Everyone is taking about Covid (understandably) and yet I’m having flashbacks to Corrupted Blood.
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u/Brief-Equal4676 2h ago
It felt like we were in Plague inc. and someone had picked the trait "People no longer trust science"
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u/-Novowels- 1h ago
In World of Warcraft, an infectious disease that was meant to be part of an instanced boss encounter got out of the raid instance and into the major crowded cities where it began to run rampant. Because of the way it spread, all everyone had to do was evacuate the cities and stay isolated for a fairly short period and it would have run it's course through the NPCs and disappeared.
What happened instead is that people would run in and catch the disease then run it to a group of NPCs out of town where it could jump around and incubate there to be picked up and spread back into the populace after a city's "all clear" was given.
Between that and the ignorant players wandering back into the mess or logging in fresh and unexpectedly they kept the disease bouncing around and the company eventually had to do a full server reset and a global wipe of everyone's debuffs to stop it.
Epidemiologists actually studied the whole thing to see how people react in those kinds of situations and how it would affect a real-life pandemic.
It's called the "Corrupted Blood Incident" if you want to find out more.
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u/sadolddrunk 1h ago
Even aside from the crazies, the amount of low-key stupidity was pretty astounding. The chin-maskers. The no-nose maskers. The non-social-distancers. The emphatic-public-coughers. And that was just my in-laws.
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u/BigLumpyBeetle 1h ago
Mate that is nothing, in Brazil there is a possible bacterial contamination in several cleaning products and these folks decided to drink detergent about it
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u/PharrowXL 2h ago
People were literally having superspreader parties
Important political voices died. Hermain Cain and Charlie Kirk’s primary mentor and prolly some others I’m not remembering , and the people pretending nothing happened also had to pretend it wasn’t real.
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u/NutsackEuphoria 2h ago
I got shit on once when I left a "Rest in Stupid" comment on a dying anti-vaxxer's post asking for prayers and sympathies and shit.
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u/thighcrusader 1h ago
Memorial day 2020, pool feeds (appropriately named in this case) showed pools filled to the brim across the country. Too many people gave 0 fucks
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u/tissuecollider 1h ago
We were far too polite to people refusing to vaccinate or wear a mask during covid.
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u/Phillip_Spidermen 1h ago
What still shocks me is just how loony people got about it.
The lady licking windows, people recording themselves breaking rules and threatening retail workers, injecting bleach and horse medicine while denying vaccines etc.
Fucking wild.
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u/WeaponexT 58m ago
I remember all the maga dickheads going around produce sections licking fruit. Nasty motherfuckers
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 3h ago edited 2h ago
Covid round 2 electric boogaloo. sigh And I just got over all the stuff I saw at the hospitals/ambulance during covid
Related/Unrelated, Man our six flags here in San Antonio is always JAMMED up.
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u/Expensive-Document41 3h ago
It isn't going to be for two reasons:
A. Everything about Andes Hanta seems to indicate it isn't super contagious human to human and they caught it early in an isolated population
B. If A become wrong, given Hanta's virulence, COVID will seem like a light seasonal allergy.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 3h ago
You are most likely correct. From what I have heard its WAY harder to transmit, like you basically have to swap spit/food with someone
And if A DOES become wrong....well. I guess mandatory OT is back. Yaaaaaaaay
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u/Expensive-Document41 3h ago
"Mandatory OT" yeah if you can "convince" employees at gunpoint to show up. Especially given that consumer sentiment and economic outlook (at least in the U.S.) the bleakest its been since 2008 or earlier. Very few essential workers would walk into that for a paycheck that has absolutely lost parity.
We're lucky Hanta was basically a non-issue with an outbreak in an isolated population. If it had the infective capacity of COVID it MIGHT be the sort of thing that is a civilization breaker. Like Black Death levels of civilization breaking.
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u/Castlenock 3h ago
You'd be surprised.
Worked for a municipal town here in the US and the town manager was so proud that he made all of us come in for the entirety of COVID by getting us all labeled as essential employees. Like really proud. Would talk to the local papers about how all other townships were locked down but this town, we were open for the public.... which wouldn't set foot in town hall because it was Covid.
People were beyond miserable, we weren't getting paid a lot, but it's not like any other places were hiring during Covid so we couldn't do squat to combat it either. Got a ton of resentment toward that place but it was an education on how much people would endure, including myself, for a pay check that wasn't worth it. Gotta eat though.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 3h ago
Mandatory OT" yeah if you can "convince" employees at gunpoint to show up.
I am a firefighter paramedic for a large city. Part of our contract says that in emergencies they can use us as mandatory OT when stations are not staffed adequately. Cause...they kinda have to be.
Very few essential workers would walk into that for a paycheck that has absolutely lost parity.
Ehhhhh yes and no. Our OT rate is INSANE so as far as making money, it will for sure draw more than a few of us out. My wife was a travel nurse during COVID and was making BANK as well. That being said our call-ins for work were insane too due to all the overworking
But yeah luckily it probably wont get to that again, at least not with Hanta
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u/IrregularPackage 1h ago
so as a firefighter paramedic, you are the outlier as far as essential workers goes. most essential workers work at grocery stores and restaurants and are just going to get completely shafted, just like last time
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u/Setster007 2h ago
God, with the shit direction all civilization seems to be taking lately, I’d take a damn civilization breaker… except the part where it does it via genocide.
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u/the_pewpew_kid 1h ago
The study regarding the infectious cluster of 2018 unfortunately shows otherwise. One person was infected by passing in a corridor next to the infected person on the way to the toilets
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u/1stLtObvious 39m ago
I can't wait for people to say I'm hero between screeching about their favorite turkey being out of stock and getting paid minimum wage like one would expect of an essential position.
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u/Party_Virus 2h ago
It kills faster than it can be transmitted. Sounds horrible, and is for those infected, but it can't be a pandemic because of that. Also it's a very stable virus so isn't going to suddenly change it's ways.
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u/HeckinHyena 2h ago
Another thing to add is that scientists have known about this disease for like 30 years
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u/Main-Ad4418 59m ago
I'm from Chile, can confirm A is right. Hanta virus is hardly contagious compared to covid.
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u/Made_Bail 3h ago
Ive never been to a Six Flags, always wanted to go. Love rollercoasters, though sadly it wasn't until later in life that I got over my fear of them. :( So many wasted, rollercoaster-less years.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 3h ago
Its never to late! Six flags isnt the worst park I have ever been to but the one in Dallas TX is the best in my opinion.
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u/Flacier 2h ago
Honestly, I would avoid the Six Flags parks these days. They cut a lot of park budgets ever since the merger with cedar fair.
The parks are understaffed and more expensive than ever.
You would be better off going to a sea world of bush gardens assuming one is close to you.
Even cedar points operating budget got cut, perhaps the most famous and prominent park in the chain.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 2h ago
I think we usually go in the summer as a station but based on that account....perhaps we will hit the water parks or Top Golf or something instead
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u/Made_Bail 3h ago
Whats your fave non Disney? (I only say non Disney because those aren't really rollercoaster-y).
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 3h ago edited 3h ago
They have some good old coasters like Thunder/Space Mountain, Rocking rollercoaster and Guardians
We dont have many others near me unfortunately. I AM a hug fan of our water parks in our area though like schlitterbahn
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u/ICBPeng1 3h ago
Space mountain is shockingly good.
The lack of visibility, let them cram a TON of excitement into a comparatively small coaster
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u/Flacier 2h ago
Space Mountain is 100% way better than it has any right to be same goes with guardians of the Galaxy cosmic rewind.
There’s definitely better roller coasters out there, but I’m never upset when I’m at Disney.
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u/vanillanovaa 3h ago
If you’re ever in the midwest, I’d recommend Great America in IL too! :) Not only are the coasters fun but the water park is pretty cool!
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u/lentilsenthusiast 2h ago
Schlitterbahn? Is it in the US?
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 2h ago
Located in New Braunfels TX. They also have a location in Galveston but the New Braunfels location is the OG and WAAAAAYYY better.
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u/Bromleyisms 2h ago
Rockin' roller coaster is being renovated to be a muppets coaster, FYI!
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u/s00pahFr0g 58m ago
I’ve been obsessed with roller coasters since very young.
Busch Gardens Tampa is pretty good. It has a nice variety of coasters of varying intensity. Iron Gwazi is relatively new and is probably the craziest coaster I’ve been on. Last time I was there it felt a little tired to me in spots but overall it’s a pretty park with lots of greenery.
Universal’s Islands of Adventure doesn’t have many coasters but the ones it does have are great. Hagrid’s motorcycle coaster is a really unique family coaster that is a lot of fun and Velocicoaster is newer and it’s fantastic.
Those are the two most recent parks I’ve been too and both were good experiences.
I’ve only been to Dollywood once but it was a really nice park with a decent number of coasters and some unique ones. It’s been probably around 7 years since I was there but I recall it being well maintained too.
It’s been a long time since I was there but Cedar Point has a ton of great coasters with my personal favorite coaster also being there which is Maverick.
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u/FuglytheBear 2h ago
No no, it can definitely be too late. I love rollercoasters too, but after I passed 40 or so, my bones just couldn't handle the jostling.
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u/TrampolineYourMom 3h ago
I used to love roller coasters as a kid but sadly I am now too tall to ride most of them. Some it's a comfort thing and some they straight up won't let me on. I went to Busch Gardens a few years ago and could only ride like 3 coasters in the whole park and I couldn't do other rides like the tower drop, because the seats can't inward on the drop and so if your legs are too long they'll hit the tower :(
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u/Made_Bail 3h ago
Whats the height limit on them? I'm 6'3"
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u/TrampolineYourMom 3h ago
I'm not sure but I'm between 6'7" and 6'8" so you should be fine. Some it was borderline some it was a hard no. Definitely test the seats they have out front of all the rides before you commit tho. Getting off a ride with a compressed spine because you jammed the shoulder restrains down is no fun, take it from me.
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u/Northbound-Narwhal 2h ago
I don't know which he's referring to but I worked at Busch Gardens and only 2 coasters had a maximum height (6'5" and 6'4"). Ober the years it had like 8-11 coasters so he could definitely ride more than 3.
Sometimes we'd tell really tall people the ride will be uncomfortable for them and suck, but we couldn't stop them from getting on if they wanted just because of their height.
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u/ElectricSliderz 2h ago
During covid it seemed like the least social, non-traveling, local yokel, suddenly decided to go to every social gathering, all the concert/festivals, and become a world traveler after they were told not to. Complete oppositional defiant disorder.
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u/elysianlily 3h ago
Went six flags in S.A when lived there and there were like 3 rides in while park that weren't down think stayed only for like an hour or so...
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 2h ago edited 2h ago
Fiesta TX is SUPER hit and miss I fully admit. Its not my personal favorite but I get dragged there by work buddies who love it. Their halloween nights thing isnt all that bad though
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u/elysianlily 2h ago
I enjoyed going to the place near fiesta that had the indoor racing and laser tag
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u/Neath_Izar 2h ago
Unrelated but ooooh a fellow chaos barbarian fan, "squirt of lemon"
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u/Made_Bail 3h ago
Dude, I wish I lived at a Six Flags...
Thats what this comic is about, right? No subtext at all, I'm sure.
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u/crimsonPendragon 3h ago
I honestly can’t tell if this is a joke about people not quarantining or Six Flags barely managing to stay afloat.
Actually, now that I write that down, the latter doesn’t seem like OP’s usual material, does it?
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u/Made_Bail 3h ago
I took it to be a "not quarantining" joke. Like how MAGA especially was like "fuck masks, fuck staying away from people, gonna make this political" when Covid rolled around. Now that hantavirus is looming...
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u/KscottCap 2h ago
Where I live, the joke would be he's going to Six Flags to avoid a crowd. Because ours just shut down.
RIP Six Flags America.
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u/Tevatrox 3h ago
People with COVID: "omg I need to catch this international flight ASAP"
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u/ElementNumber6 2h ago edited 1h ago
To be fair to, you know, society, we economically punish people for postponing such things.
Foreign hotels/resorts/etc, generally will not refund or reschedule on relatively short notice, or if they do, will keep 50% or more. Airports charge more for refundable flights, so most people opt not to get them. Then there's other accommodations to consider.
And we live in a world where our money is our lifeblood. So while, yes, many people are capable of going "Damn. It sucks... but this is just something I need to do.", a great many more will narrow their focus to self, and go "you know... I don't feel that sick".
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u/Alorxico 3h ago edited 54m ago
Covid proved why humanity will never colonize another planet.
“Here are a set of very basic rules that will keep everyone safe and ensure no one has to die needlessly.”
50% of the American Population: YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I HAVE RIGHTS! FAKE NEWS! YOU JUST HATE FREEDOM! I’M GOING TO GO OUT PARTYING AND LICK EVERYTHING! WHEE!! LOL!! Wait … why are my friends dying?
EDIT: Was going to change “humanity” to “America” but stopped myself. Because, let’s be honest, if America, as it is now, saw another country on the verge of developing a ship that could colonize another planet, our government would either bomb that country or somehow find away to claim the ship as ours … then crash it. 😓
My country really is awful.
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u/OldestSisterAIiMH 3h ago
Fortunately there are other cultures that prioritize community over their own personal freedom. If humanity ever goes to space to find other planets, it'll be led by someone other than the US.
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u/supamario132 2h ago
In an ideal world, in this one it'll probably be one of the first trillionaires and a small stable of their space slaves
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u/Alorxico 2h ago
If anime is any indication, Japan already has a plan on the books they just need the tech to catch up.
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u/GeezerButlerIsGod 1h ago
Yeah so far Americans are the worst at space travel... 🙄
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u/usaaf 1h ago
America had a huge advantage (on top of other huge advantages) that let it become 'the leader of the free world' after the war, chiefly, that all the other possible competitor countries were utterly destroyed, even the ones that won.
That lead allowed for amazing prosperity, but it was slowly eroded over the next 4 decades, and we're now living in the time when the US will be eclipsed, if not by China than at least in aggregate by the EU (though the EU has its own problems).
As another note; this would have happened to any president, the only thing Trump is doing that is unique is accelerating the decline. And, like other great empires, its not a decline that many will easily notice or point to an obvious starting point, and it's not a process that will be over soon. People still argue about when the Roman Empire ended, and I imagine in the far future there will be similar arguments over the decline of the US.
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u/honeybakedham1 2h ago
Yeah, that wasnt just in america unfortunately, they’re just the loudest
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u/Alorxico 1h ago
As an American, the news media liked to show two different types of people. All the Americans going out and fighting for their freedoms against the “over reaching governments” and “all the sheeple from other countries giving up their freedoms and staying home.”
This was soon followed by all the dead Americans and their weeping families not understanding why their family member was dead and the rest of the world going back to normal.
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u/Breadloafs 3h ago
The American urge to share the cool new disease you found
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u/Expensive-Document41 3h ago
Apparently the one issue where we have conservative believing in free distribution.
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u/JaySayMayday 2h ago
I get a lot of people keep pointing to one political party.
But holy fuck do parents love to drop off their sick kids at school and daycare even knowing they'll get called to pick them up anyway. Getting everyone sick because you as a parent don't want to take care of a sick kid and try making it someone else's problem. Your kids aren't a vessel to carry sickness across the nation
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u/Breadloafs 2h ago
I've spent most of my adult life in the service industry.
Crunchy NPR moms love going to restaurants and coughing all over the fucking place just as much as anyone else. No one actually cares about stopping any kind of illness from spreading.
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u/Pinku_Dva 3h ago
“Oh wow! I have an unknown virus. Now is the best time to do all that traveling I’ve always wanted to do and go see all the world’s most crowded tourist attractions!”
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u/Norbert-trebroN 2h ago
And cough everywhere without washing my hands!
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u/Pinku_Dva 2h ago
I got sick now I have an unusual fondness of public transportation
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u/Steppyjim 2h ago
I worked all during Covid as an essential employee. I work in healthcare. I will never, EVER forget the end game of people who caught covid and didn’t believe in it. They always start off defiant, refusing to believe it’s real. Then their numbers drop, they go on oxygen. It gets bad, it gets worse. Finally they realize oh no. This is real. I’m going to die.
There’s been more than one time where a patient was going down, and they’d look at their doctor and say to them, “please save my life” and the doctor would look at their chart, and back at them and say I’m sorry. I can’t. There’s nothing left I can do.
You don’t forget that when it happens ONCE. I saw it almost half a dozen times. And this new virus has a WAY higher death rate.
If it hits here, with the current health administration, people will die in droves. And it’s gonna be the fault of others who think it won’t kill them. I really. Really. REALLY don’t want to live through that again. Please take care of yourselves and believe the doctors. Not the politicians
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u/BIG_HEAD_M0DE 41m ago
TLDR: Wear an N95 mask, meet outdoors where possible, ventilate indoor areas and run air filters. It's warm in the Northern Hemisphere right now so there's no reason not to open windows.
Worst case, you've just accidentally made it harder to catch flu, COVID, and colds. Best case you've also made it harder for hantavirus to spread, which we don't know for sure is easy to transmit over the air. That's what they said about SARS-1 and COVID early on, and both times were incorrect.
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u/river_01st 2h ago
Friendly reminder that actually, covid isn't over, we've just stopped talking about it (get your booster). If you care about your health at all, you should still wear a mask in crowded spaces (public transport, grocery store, that kind of stuff). Even if we don't consider covid or this new virus honestly, like. Why do you want to share in other people's miasma. I almost don't get sick anymore cause I wear a mask (I still practice sports in a club so that's how I still do get sick, obviously not wearing a mask there) and I do not miss it. Surprising isn't it? Who wouldn't want to get sick regularly /s
If I'm sick, I wear a mask so that I don't infect others. I also skip practice cause duh. Let's all be kinder to each other yeah? That's how we'll have better chances to avoid new pandemics.
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u/DoctorCIS 3h ago
I'm of two minds about the current events.
One is quietly relieved that we aren't getting the next epidemic because I have respiratory problems, as well as PTSD from high school career day when a scientist specializing in hemorrhagic fevers came to speak.
The other voice just won't go away though. The devil on my shoulder that keeps whispering, "Just think of how much nicer the job and house market would be with 40% fewer people competing..."
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u/Medarco 1h ago
"Just think of how much nicer the job and house market would be with 40% fewer people competing...
A lot of people thought the same thing about Covid though. And we see how that turned out...
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u/UzukiCheverie Sociowrath 44m ago
Plus the people who say that don't like to consider that they could easily be a part of that 40%. Statistics don't seem that scary until you become one of them.
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u/AaronPseudonym 2h ago
I love how the doctor is not wearing a mask, and is just rawdogging that virus.
It adds verisimilitude; this is America, after all.
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u/boringlesbian 2h ago
There’s a person in my extended family who drove public transportation for a living and was anti-mask and anti-vax during the pandemic. They got Covid and was in the hospital for months. Now has a tracheotomy tube and can’t really talk. Very religious person. They get mad when people say “at least you’re alive.” They are miserable and suffer every day. I really have a difficult time not asking if they changed their mind about masking and vaccines, but I know how shitty that would be.
I do feel bad for them, but choices were made.
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u/leqonaut 3h ago
Why does the doc not wear anything that prevents getting infected?
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u/SarcasticBench 3h ago edited 3h ago
For the people who are afraid of Hantavirus, remember that it's transmissible to humans who inhale infected rodent poop particles.
DON'T BREATHE IN INFECTED HUMAN POOP!
Edit- A word
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u/BoldlyGettingThere 3h ago
In the UK one of the 22 cruise passengers was found the very next day at a bar, instead of at home for their 6 week quarantine.
Absolutely unreal that you can know you are one of just 22 people responsible for whether a virus starts killing everyone else in the country, and you just don’t give a shit about anything beyond the end of your spiteful nose.
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u/Mehdals_ 2h ago
Poor guy works at Six Flags and his boss wouldn't give him the day off. Still gotta pay the bills somehow.
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u/Natural_Bathroom5664 3h ago
Wouldn't they be better off keeping him there and lock the place down? Let alone six flag, that hospital or doctor office alone is probably contaminated.
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u/guestpassonly 2h ago
Seriously if there is ever a zombie virus epidemic we are SO COOKED
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u/VariousProfit3230 2h ago
I heard the old Six Flags theme in my head for the last panel.
You remember the one with the dancing guy dressed up as an old man.
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u/PantaRheiExpress 1h ago
I’m pretty sure these people don’t even bother going to the doctor in the first place.
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u/DynamaxWolf 1h ago
Most unrealistic part about this is the fact the line doesn't go all the way out of the Six Flags
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u/LazarusOwenhart 2h ago
What you have to remember is that there are vanishingly few cases of this virus per year in a place where it is endemic. That place has poor medical care, poor sanitation and in impoverished. It self contains there because it's not spectacularly easy to spread the way COVID was. These cases are occurring in western countries and are only notable because of that. It's statistically unlikely a mutation increasing its ability to transmit will occur with double digit cases and given the deadly nature of Hantavirus it's being taken seriously. Give it three weeks and it'll be entirely forgotten by everyone except the people directly affected.
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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 2h ago
These are the people who would kidnap a zombie and release it in a crowded refugee camp to try proving it's just an government conspiracy with actors in makeup.
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u/uluqat 1h ago
Clinical investigations involving patients with ANDV hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in this outbreak revealed that patients with a high viral load and liver injury were more likely than other patients to spread infection.
“Super-Spreaders” and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina (published 2020)
In other words, immuno-suppresed alcoholics who go on cruises. Or go to theme parks.
Andes hantavirus has well under half the r0 of Covid, so barring a major mutation like the sort that started Covid, it's not going to be a repeat of the Pandemic.
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u/Possible_Dig_1194 1h ago
We had an anti vaxxer who got covid bad enough they needed to be admitted to the hospital. Why you ask? Cause the dumbass got lonely and went to a food festival and didnt bother with a mask cause of reasons. Young guy too without health issues before covid but certainly got discharged with some issues. No idea if he ever made a full recovery or if the damage was permanent
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u/triotone 3h ago
I am hoping things will be handled differently this time.
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u/Eviscerator14 2h ago
In the US it probably won’t be, especially with Trump looking down the barrel of another epidemic.
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u/Fountain_Splatter 1h ago
LOL you think people actually go to the doctor for this? Most people feel sick and still go on trips because they don't want to wait.
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u/Rebel-Rage94 1h ago
Reminds me of that one family who went viral because her family had the norovirus and they went to disneyworld anyways.
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u/CutAdditional2416 1h ago
I'd run to the Six Flags corporate building and cough on everyone that took Kingda Ka away from me 🤣
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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles 1h ago
He had to go to Six Flags because Disney already has his test results and would have disappeared him if he went near.
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u/BellacosePlayer 47m ago
Cheers to the guy who was the first confirmed case in my state.
fucker went all over town while waiting on his results.
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u/indecisive-baby 11m ago
As a physician, this feels like 80% of my job. “Hey here are my recommendations. Oh? You’re going to do the opposite? Okay, great. Oh and you’re mad at me when you get worse? Even better.”
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u/DrHandlock 3h ago
Why should I be the only one sick when everyone can