President Biden announces the end of the pandemic in the United States
 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/polit...tes/index.html

We did it, boys

He should've said this months ago. Take the win.

Is this real? So no more mandates and other ********?

It's "over" but i'm still required to wear a mask multiple times a day where I live. Until it's downgraded to 'strongly advised but not required' and STAYS that way, people being required to wear masks will remain a constant reminder about the pandemic, meaning we can not move forward. We are stuck in this state of, "but the pandemic..." that holds so much **** back and gives so many people and companies excuses to slack off of their responsibilities in this society.

They'll probably leave the mandate stuff up to the states, so if your state wants to you to wear a mask, you'll probably have to.

you can't end a virus you created biden.

CDC already said masks should be optional... but Cali is fubar'd. Lol

Maybe just stop wearing it & tell off anyone who tells you to wear a mask. Then tell them to follow the science of the cdc & who (i believe both have now said masks don't work or at least heavily implied it)...

Oh, sure, it’s over now because that demented potato says it is. But if it was the orange man, the government would have called him a liar.

What confuses me is aren't they supposed to be releasing a 'new and improved' vax in November or something? What will be the push for it then if 'the pandemic is over?'. Will it suddenly 'return' until the democrats win the primaries?

President who did nothing of relevance related to the pandemic comes on national broadcast and announces "the pandemic.... is OVER!!!" a week before midterm elections.

And his peasant followers will cheer as they watch this charade on CNN.

It's over! Clap, you stupid bastards! Come on, man! Covid Pop was a bad dude!

Basically Clown World continues.

Clown World, now showing at Martha's Vineyard! (For a limited time only if hypocrite Dems have their way.)

Ehhh... I'll be willing to consider that it may really be on its way out for good if and when there is no notable spike of it through the winter and the flu regains its title as being the one to watch out for.

NJ's Covid Force Field has remained intact since the beginning, so frankly, over here the pandemic was "over" about three weeks after it started.

Must be all the lead in the drinking water. OR the fact that collectively we're all a bunch of potheads and a high THC concentration has been proven to block Covid from penetrating the cells (Gospel Truth). Whatever it is, everybody here's been more or less Fine and Dandy.

We got hit with that nasty Flu bug I had back in the Spring, that zipped through the state like wildfire and kept everybody down for a few weeks. But everybody who had that said it was WAY worse than Covid; Covid was a f*cking breeze for most folks over here, 2-3 days tops and a little fever, but that Spring Flu put a few people in the hospital or in bed for a month, no joke.

We're a different breed, here. That's why they sell those "NJ: Where The Weak Are Killed And Eaten" shirts at the Boardwalk. But yeah we told Covid to go pet sh*t with the NYC chickens right at the start and shockingly, that's exactly what Covid did. :lol:

Eh, that's not really the expectation. That's never been the expectation except by the crazies early on and on an ongoing basis saying we need to fight for "0 COVID."

It's endemic and newer strains have just gotten weaker. It's over. It's been over for a long time now.

I've heard some trying to walk back Biden. I'm not sure who but some congress person was quoted saying what Biden REALLY meant was the WORST of the pandemic is over and then there's Fauci...

Also: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...plicates-fight

Of course, without CoVid Fauci is a nobody. Maybe one or two documentaries or whatever about 'the man that saved us from CoVid' and some BS but his celebrity will come to an end.

Of course they're trying to backtrack on Biden. They want this **** to last forever.

Yeah, Biden has no clue what he is talking about at any time whatsoever.

He just doesn't.

I'm reaching for nuance and I can't find any.

For once, the people on FB have a point with their "You've been exposed by now, go live your life" memes.

Some variant of the virus will always exist in nature. You're gonna get it one day, but hopefully not Today. But now we know it's only gonna get weaker and weaker. Expecting to NEVER get it is like expecting to never catch a cold. Good f*ckin' luck with that. The last huge "spike" in the Spring came parallel with a flu bug that was WAY more serious and damaging to everyone it hit. People who had already had Covid and self-medicated and got over it in 3 days, tops, ended up in the hospital and spent WEEKS fighting off this "regular" little flu bug.

So this begs the question, naturally: Who Actually Gives A Sh*t about Covid anymore? And WHY? We've seen, definitively, that the current "model" is even weaker than an "ordinary" flu. There is objectively NO reason to give a sh*t. There hasn't been for a long time, but this past Spring should put it to bed in everyone's mind once and for all.

I just want what's best for everyone, and when I see otherwise-rational people scared of their own shadow it just drives me nuts. Don't smoke cigarettes (but DO smoke weed), and don't be a f*cking fatass, and guess what? Even if you get Covid, you'll be over it in three days or a week, tops. You Have Already Had Worse. Only chain-smoking pill-popping fat-asses have EVER had anything to fear, along with those who were ancient and already on thin ice. If you're healthy, the big scary germs won't hurt you. It's been proven.

Go have fun and live your life, people, you deserve it. Worry about things that are of Actual Concern, not a cold you're gonna be over in 3 or 4 days. Please. PLEASE.

As for the four people in this house, I'm still a bit pleasantly surprised that somehow none of us have gotten any variant of it (knock wood). Mother-in-law babysits, so she's in and out daily. Drunk-in-law is more of a homebody but he goes out to the liquor store every day, and he's also been in and out thanks to being arrested, taken to the hospital, put in rehab facilities, etc. etc. And my wife and I have gone out almost every single day for two years. Concerts, wrestling shows with hundreds of people, or even just the gym, we're always around people. I am glad none of us have gotten Covid yet, but I confess that I don't understand it. Statistically, it makes very little sense. Especially since we HAVE all gotten a few colds, and that flu bug.

I say this with all sincerity: All I can figure is the whole "smoking pot prevents the Covid virus from penetrating" theory that was published last year, because we all do that a lot and we've also all managed to avoid Covid entirely. I'm reading articles about some people who theorize that there are people who have some kind of "natural immunity" to the virus and thus "can't" catch Covid, but... I think that's kind of bunk, honestly. I think the other thing is way more scientifically plausible, based on the medical articles I've read. I don't think anyone is naturally immune to anything.

Either way, I know the time for panic and worry should have been over some time in May of 2020 by the latest. And apparently, if a person is THAT scared even still, you can just go to the dispensary and "get protected". :trazz:

A lot of it is guilt. Deep down, a lot of this big COVID "I'm doing this to save lives!"/"Stay the f*** home!"/"Shut everything down, including schools!" crowd feels some sense of that around this time or earlier. That it's starting to sink in that they threw in with an agenda predicated on a lie, or a series of lies. You see this with the people driving around, alone in their cars with a mask on (as if to say, "SEE?! Still doing my part! The threat is still very real! I wouldn't be wearing this mask if I didn't still believe, would I?"). The longer COVID can be drawn out or made to seem still like a big danger, the more they can still feel validated and mitigate that guilt.

Yeah, nobody ever likes to admit that they backed the wrong horse. People generally dig in deeper and prefer to die, alone, on that hill.

I was hit by the Delta variant back in 2021, and I only got mild symptoms. But the quarantine part really messed me up mentally. I couldn’t touch or be near another human being for 10 days. Every night I’d go to bed worrying about whether I’ll get up the next morning because of the virus. And before I got sick, my mom told me stories about people my age dying in the hospital because of COVID. That was all I could think of for over a week. I’m still going to therapy over it.

COVID didn’t hurt me; the mass hysteria did.

That's how it turned out for most people, unfortunately.

I do admit, shamefully, that the first week of Pandemic Game was really rough on me, mentally. I lost the job I had for a decade, had no savings, unemployment wasn't a guarantee, we hadn't heard any talk of "stimulus payments" yet, we didn't have a lot of food in the house and going to the grocery store was being played up as more or less surviving "The Mist". I mostly slept, so I wouldn't eat and dig into our meager cupboard-fill. I'd wake up, scroll the news, see that things were getting much worse and not better, then go back to sleep. I've always been a fan of "The Stand", and the similarities were downright eerie - some careless lab creates and accidentally unleashes a biohazard weapon that starts suddenly killing a ton of people (don't anyone kid yourself, that IS what happened, 10000%) - and I couldn't help but think, "Well, here it is in Real Life."

Once we were able to go out and get food, a lot of that anxiety went away. At first only my wife ever left the house, cuz she ain't scared'a no ghost. Then her mother would go out for her own groceries, and then I'd occasionally join my wife on trips to the store, after the Stimulus money came. And then once I was on unemployment, I'd go out more often, and then I'd look around and be like "Wait... nobody's even sick. These 'precautions' are entirely performative, and the few people I know who are getting Covid are getting over it REALLY fast, most of them not even going to the hospital. Something isn't right here."

And then we'd look at the TV and they'd talk about NJ being a major disaster area with lines outside of the hospitals and triage tents set up and all that, "death tolls skyrocket" and we were going out every single day and... NONE of that was true. Not one bit. At that point I fully snapped out and was like, "They are absolutely, positively, 10000% lying about this sh*t." I can't speak to elsewhere, but as to Right Here? NONE of the sh*t the news said happened, ever happened. People in NJ were walking around maskless as much as possible as early as Summer 2020, there were never any triage tents or state of emergency, it was lies. You can drive from North Tip to South Tip of this state in two hours, East Coast to PA Coast in less than that, and since the whole deal started I've criss-crossed every inch of the state multiple times going to and from wrestling shows. It was ALL lies. And if they lied about the situation Here, you can bet your ass they lied about the situation Elsewhere, too.

When people lie to me, I simply stop listening to anything they say. That's the proper protocol.

And it drives me crazy, knowing what I know, that some people still can't snap out of it and shake off the fear-mongering. The Pandemic was a media creation, end of story. There was a "super flu", a lot of people got it, and some people - regrettably - couldn't shake it off. But frankly, their odds of surviving a "regular" flu or pneumonia or something similar were just as bad, given the state they were in. They were always gonna die soon of SOMEthing. "Death By Covid" was just sexier for the media. It's a shame they died, but That's Life. Would it truly be any different if they'd died of pneumonia? Of so, how/why? I don't think it'd matter at all, except hospitals got more grant money for "Covid Deaths".

But yeah, I still have friends in other countries who are STILL completely wracked with fear as if it was March 2020 and we haven't already seen the Ins and Outs, the Ups and Downs. "I mean, I'd LIKE to go out and do stuff again... but I feel like it's better safe than sorry." :roll: Meanwhile, they're inside miserable and falling apart from depression and anxiety. "I can't even go to the bar with my friends!" YES you can, go do that, PLEASE! "But the germs!" Hey man, one'a these days "rhythm is gonna get ya", don't be a yutz. Take off the goddamn bubble wrap and GO LIVE.

And then there's the suicides among those suffering from Pandemic Depression. But we're not supposed to talk about that.

The hysteria was a media creation and did way more harm to way more people than the actual virus ever could. These are now Facts. I feel bad for those suffering from said hysteria. Covid lasts a week, but two-plus years in and we STILL have people who insist that they "can't" just go out and do the things they always did, so the suffering from hysteria is clearly far, far worse than the disease itself.

Go out and live it up before it's too late, or just build yourself a bunker and crawl in there forever if you're so inclined. Sh*t's over and done with whether a person wants to accept it or not.

It's odd that Biden declared the pandemic over considering he was strongly encouraging measures against the virus. Furthermore, it is actually worse than it was a year ago today. There has been a lot learned about the novelty virus and measures that appear to suggest annual flu shot-like prevention will be encouraged for the foreseeable future. The Bubonic Plague was active for six years from 1347-1353. The Spanish Flu took four years to dissipate into a minor endemic from 1918-1922. It will be some time before it fades into an endemic occurrence. I am sure it was a few years after 1922 that it was declared to have ended then too.

It strikes me odd how Biden has been so strongly about about enforcing measures and suddenly declared its over. One person doesn't get to decide the dash, but time does. Sure, like him I am tired of it, but its still here and it's not endemic yet.

Nah, it's done. It's a cold.

He gets to decide because it was preordained that Biden would be "The One Who Saved Us From Covid". Exploiting fear of the virus was the only way he ever won in the first place. The entire point was to prolong it until he was in office and in turn he could make a big Hero Declaration. Would've likely happened a while ago but inflation was dominating the news cycle, so if he had said this six months ago it would have been met with a lot of angry "Who cares?! Gas is six bucks a gallon and the damn pandemic has BEEN over!"

Now that inflation has mostly stabilized and things are more quiet, he can come out with this to slightly less ridicule. Also, nothing the Dems are trying to pin on Trump is sticking, and Democrats need a big "win" or talking point heading into the elections. "Our Guy ended the pandemic!" was always designed to be their fallback Trump Card, pun slightly intended.

As saviors go, he's kinda underwhelming.

People who would be the most vulnerable to suffering from it if catching it, for a variety of reasons. Such as a mate of mine who's just tested positive and recovered from cancer a few months ago. His immune system is still shot. Covid has absolutely floored him symptom wise so I hope he recovers okay.

Tough break for your buddy and other people in that vast minority. I think it's way past time everybody else take the bubble wrap off.

I'm reading this page and I can't help but wonder what the counter-conversation to this thread is on places like Discord or wherever else the usually vocals lefties who used to populate the board here now post.

Probably celebrating Biden's "success" and buying-in as completely as they can. "Man we dodged that bullet, thank God we got Trump out just in time for Biden to come in and clean this mess up! WHEW! -wipes forehead- WHEW! The pandemic is ovaaaaaaa". And then they go back to drawing pictures of dicks, talking about furry sex or other commentary about being generally angry at the abuses of a life as a woman in retail.

Actually, believe it or not I've seen mostly the opposite. The Libs are mostly shrieking about how grossly irresponsible his statement is because a few fat people still die every day and that means we still need to all mask up and get our shots like good little she-... I mean "soldiers". "How can he SAY this? It's horrible! People are gonna start falling over by the thousands, or MILLIONS even!" They're accusing him of "being like a Republican" and using this to swing the elections, and they're not happy about it.

It's like Andrew said, they went in SO HARD for Covid that they're fully indoctrinated in the lie. They have no problem at all turning on Biden for this. That's how deep in they are. I'unno if it will hurt or affect anything at the polls either way, but no, the most vocal of his constituents are actually very unhappy. Because for two years they've been drinking that Covid-flavored Kool-Aid. "It's not over just because HE said!"

Uh, yeah it is, except it's not over because he said, it's over because It's Been Over. Like whoever the f*ck it was said, (paraphrasing) "The President's statements merely reflect the reality of life as it's been for millions of people for the past several months." Bars, stadiums, festivals and cruises are packed, and have been, and NOBODY is getting sick and dying. Super-high risk people are super-high risk, they should mind their protocol. We are WAY past the point where things need to still be at a standstill just to protect Those People.

But yeah, I assumed the Dems would be throwing Biden a parade, too, but instead they're mad at him. Go figure! Shows how deep irrational fear can take hold, I guess. But then the Left always eats their own eventually, anyways.

I actually think that minority is not as small as you think. But I do agree with the sentiment in general, for those that can, we are probably at a point now bar total eradication, it's not going to get noticeably better case wise.

It makes sense to start turning on Biden as much as possible right now. The Left will have to disown him and find a new candidate come election time.

I'd actually be surprised if the left were happy about anything, especially since they want the pandemic to never end but also vaccinate every last person at the same time.

I'd love to see their excuse if everyone was still vaccinated and yet people were still getting sick or dying. As well as all the 'sudden deaths' and such.

Yeah, every time someone lifts restrictions they're always the first to screech that 'it's too soon'. They want this to last forever.

I can only speak for my experience with Covid. I know others have died or ended up in the hospital but for me it was like having the common cold. I have 2 Moderna Shots and got Covid about 3 weeks ago. I could tell I was getting sick because 4 days prior to testing positive, I felt hot and had that ugly feeling in my throat and it got worse each day until the day of testing positive where I felt super hot, coughing like crazy, dizzy, headaches the first 2 days and sweat baths when I woke up from sleeping…..that is when I could sleep as I was never really tired and a struggle to sleep when I had Covid. And I was extremely hungry though out Covid. But that’s all the symptoms I had. It was 6 days later when I took a test again as I was feeling better and was negative. So this lasted about a week for me. I’m 39 and I’m pretty much good health so maybe that’s why my bout with Covid wasn’t too bad plus the Shots….I dunno.


But I can say comparing this with past times that I got sick….this bout with Covid was minor. I’ve had worse than this. Again, just my experience with Covid as I know others got much worse experiences.

Yes, I've seen quite a bit of this myself lately. "Biden's really dropping the ball here!" and so on. Because without Biden/Fauci/the media still propping up COVID as a scary plague, they're left holding the bag and looking stupid and misguided/paranoid to everybody else and they know it.

I'm honestly surprised that the guy who was fully vaccinated, double boosted etc and still caught the **** twice is the one who ended the pandemic. Democrats rejoice.

BUT, not only did he get it twice, but he got over it twice, despite being pretty old and feeble and thus in a high-risk group.

I know he's rich and powerful and therefore can have the best treatment and care possible, but still... it illustrates just how very dangerous this thing ISN'T, anymore, if this crotchety old fart can shake it off not once, but twice to no apparent significant ill effect.

It's common knowledge that us peons dont have the resources the rich and powerful do when it comes to disease like this.