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Like "oh yeah, of course everything's gonna be just fine once there's a vaccine in a year or two ☺️☺️" two years of "non-essential" population being unable to earn or spend money to any significant degree will be devastating to the economy and normal way of life even in countries which take the most robust stance to support laid off/furloughed/unused hourly/gig workers. Two years of not being able to leave the goddamn motherfucking house for anything but groceries is going to utterly ream a lot of people's mental health. Two years of having to resist the temptation to play Nintendo all day and do all classes online is going to get all but the most motivated and intuitive kids severely behind in their education. There's aspects to this that even the most caring, constituent-oriented, and careful politicians can't solve. This isn't about them. This is about, don't go acting like everything will instantly be fine, dandy and back . ... to normal the moment we have a vaccine or other solution for this if it doesn't come in a matter of weeks.                    

My dude, how you managed the olympic level reach from ‘owlet tells an anon that she doesn’t know when we can go outside again, but eventually we will’ to ‘owlet said everything will go right back to normal’ is freaking beyond me. I never said any of that. I said that people are working on it. They are. I said that the supportive measures for it are not up to scientists but to politicians. They are. If you wish to rant about the unfairness of the world, go elsewhere than me blog. I work fulltime in a hospital lab. Don’t fucking tell me about the toll this is going to take on people.

Cute how you completely failed to address the first half of my reply which is the much more pressing matter and does apply to a large portion of the world. I'm not asking you for a solution or a hard date I'm just saying that "ohh we'll eventually have a vaccine in a year or two" is an INCREDIBLY dry platitude for those of us who stand to become homeless or be dramatically uprooted (I could move back in with my parents, but they live in another state) if this isn't  solved in a month or two.

Have something to say?

My dude I’m a science blogger. If you want political answers, and you obviously do: ask a fucking politician of poli-sci major.

I can only tell you what the scientific stand of things, and that is: fuck if we know how long it takes or how bad it’ll get. Your country has done some pretty disasterous mismanagement at the start of this, paired with a truly horrid healthcare system. I can’t fix that. Nobody can fix that right now anymore. Your government fucked up and no amount of science will allow timetravel to undo that damage.

Like seriously, what do you think a biology blogger from Germany is going to be able to tell you? I‘m sticking with the facts here. The facts are that chances of this being ‘solved’ in a month or two are asymptotic to zero. It’s a pandemic with an R0 of somewhere between 2 and 3. That means that unless you stop half to two-thirds of infections from happening, this disease won’t stop.

That’s what we’re all handling right now. And you seriously, honestly, have the gall to complain that scientists are taking ‘too long’ to find a fix for a disease they’ve never seen before, know very little about, and that spreads like wildfire? People ARE on the frontlines and doing their best, but treatment studies take time! Vaccine development takes time! You cannot rush those things, unless of course you want to have either a useless product (best case) or one that actively harms people in the short or long run (worst case)

I understand being upset, but you’re upset at the wrong people here. The ones who could have diminished the impact are not scientists. It’s the people in charge who refused to take action until it was too late. And there’s still actions they can take to mitigate this. They could do like what Germany has done, and make it illegal to evict renters who fall behind on payment during this crisis. Thus, taking a lot of pressure off renters. They could instate paid sickleave, effective immediately, for workers, to ensure people don’t show up to work while ill because they can’t take the paycuts.

“ Since the fallopian tubes just sorta open into your stomach cavity ” … can eggs just get lost, then? what the hell

Yes! That’S how ectopic pregnancies happen, essentially! 

is this like, paleontology squabble, creationism or birds are drones?

paleontology ‘squabble’ in so far as the guy also didn’t believe that we’ve got ‘sufficient’ evidence for feathers on dinosaurs

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but reusable pad

How the heck do you put them in without an applicator though? They’re soft and fold over on themselves and become an awful lump? And the dry fabricy material they’re made of scrapes and chafes? The applicator just lets them slide in smoothly, and they have cardboard ones if you’re worried about plastic.

Wait as second they WHAT now? How soft are the tampons over yonder, i couldn’t fold a german tampon in half if I tried, much less by accident, they’re pretty solidly compressed bits of cotton until you soak them?

also pretty smooth usually, there’s just an extra bit of smooth fiber applied over the very top to make them smooth. 

wait why would you not be a fan of applicators, do you enjoy sticking your fingers up into your own blood? do you think that’s sanitary? it’s important to wash your hands afterward either way but starting out with not getting blood up under your nails has got to make a job like that a little bit easier ya know?

You wash your hands before and after changing a tampon (or using the toilet in general, really...) and frankly you’re potentially getting blood on there anyways because you gotta remove the thing somehow and if you’re like me, that removal is often preceded by leakage and/or a soaked string and there’s no way to avoid the blood anyways.

who are the Four Thieves collective?