87 points

Hey NWO conspiracy big brains. I thought this was supposed to be a permanent visa?

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7 points

Wasn’t it considered a conspiracy that they would even exist at all?

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55 points

I’m still waiting for the vaccine to kill me. They promised I only had 2 years, but here I am…

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30 points

Wait, the 5G alert that went out earlier today didn’t activate the nanite shed and turn you into a zombie?

Huh, you must have gotten one of those placebo shots.

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13 points

Bbbrrraaaaaiiiiinnnnnssssss

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5 points

2 years? Damn mine promised to kill me in short 6 months. Still waiting though, so you might have got the better deal…

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28 points

“iTS BeCaUsE wE sToPpEd ThEm!”

  • magical thinking morons
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-40 points

At one point people couldn’t even go to a sporting event without one. Now it’s, “Just kidding.”. Idiots

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I wasn’t allowed to eat in the food court at the mall with my daughter and we both had ours.

But because I don’t carry my government issued ID with me at all times (I have my vaccination stuff in my iOS wallet and my daughters in a PDF and pay for shit using my watch) the security guards wouldn’t let us sit down to eat.

It was perfectly fine for us to sit on a bench in the mall and eat though. It was perfectly fine for us to stand in line to buy food, too.

Just not good enough to present a vaccination card without a government issued photo ID to sit in the food court. I don’t know how the security guards expected me to have a government issued photo ID for my daughter though, maybe that was just a requirement for people 18+

So ridiculous.

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43 points

“These policies could have saved hundreds of lives but it inconvenienced me a tiny bit so I will not stand for it!”

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If you think government overreach during covid ‘inconvenienced’ people a ‘tiny bit’ you’re crazy.

My wife lost her job 3x, 3 different jobs, all because the government kept shutting down businesses.

Even my barber lost his business, I donated to a go fund me he put up to try to save it, but it wasn’t enough.

Because he stepped out in his own and took the risk of starting his own business (dude had 5 kids and he and his wife both ran the barbershop together) but hadn’t been in business for two years or whatever, the government shut him down and didn’t pay him anything.

He still had to pay rent on the space though, he still had to pay his loans to get the business up and running. I hope he’s recovered somewhat financially from that, but he never returned to that business.

Maybe he killed himself, I sure hope not, but people surely did.

So no, government overreach didn’t ‘inconvenience’ people ‘a little bit’

It hurt a lot of people.

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2 points

So we are just making shit up now?

I swear you people forget that we all lived through this shit too. It wasn’t that long ago.

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-3 points

Are you like a paid user to shill bullshit? Or are yo undoing it for free?

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52 points

I’m gonna keep mine and pull it out when I want to revisit the time I got on 95 in New Hampshire the day after they announced everything is shut down.

Just me.

Normally, it’s thousands of cars.

Just me, lol. I was laughing my ass off and just kept saying, “No way, man. No fucking way.” That was so wild.

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12 points

Los angeles freeways were empty! It was beautiful. Everyone on them were flying at 80mph with zero accidents.

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9 points

Yeah, it was eerie. I was “essential” and driving in during what would normally be rush hour and only seeing two cars the whole way was wild.

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19 points

I just remember gas being 1.99 and thinking how crazy that was.

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12 points

And they were still bullshitting us at that price. They hit negative numbers. Were paying oil barrel buyers to store it. Negative prices.

Mid to late 90’s in Georgia (US) when I heard OPEC would start limiting barrel sales. We were at $0.63/gallon. Knew I’d never see that again. The days of pocket/couch change road trips.

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6 points

Crude isn’t RBOB. Converting crude oil (which went negative) into automobile gas (which didn’t) is a process that takes time/work, and not everyone has the infrastructure to do it. Crude also loses the ability to convert to RBOB in time, so if you buy and can’t convert or use it otherwise in time, it’s wasted money. Crude went negative but RBOB didn’t, and auto gas companies were making only their usual profit off of it at the time.

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8 points

I lived in a major city at the time, the sidewalks were insanely empty. I was the only person for 3 blocks at one point, blocks that are usually absolutely packed. When everyone started coming back, and I lost my peaceful big city… >:[

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5 points

Same here. I was alone on the 405 by LAX. It was surreal.

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16 points

Yep. Essential healthcare worker here. Spent every day feeling like I was living in an apocalypse movie during my commute. Normal 30+ min commute was 22 minutes.

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3 points

Oh man, I can’t imagine. I live in the south. Learned to drive in Atlanta. I can’t even imagine

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2 points

Learned to drive in Atlanta.

Having driven in Atlanta, all I can say is I’m sorry.

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3 points

When I was 15 and learning to drive my dad lived in Atlanta. I went there for a visit once and he had me drive there, and everywhere for the whole week. My first experience driving on an interstate included going 90 around the perimeter full of other cars going faster than me and requiring getting from one onramp and moving over 4 lanes to get tot he next exit in half a mile. It was terrifying and I definitely cut waaayyy too many people off driving into town and I’m shocked I didn’t cause a wreck. That was always his teaching style, just throwing me into the deep end. It’s still burned into my brain as one of the most dangerous things I’ve done (And that’s a long list). But, when I had to go into my drivers ed class the following school year I was the only one who was at all comfortable on the interstate and one of the best drivers in the class.

I don’t recommend teaching things that way and I’d never do that with my children, but damn was it effective since I didn’t die. Not dying was probably a close call though.

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2 points

That’s how driving on 90 or Route 9 east into Boston was. Normally a nightmare but on Route 9 I’d hit green lights the whole way.

1 hour commute turned into 15-20 minutes

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I filled mine up a while back and just use the one on my phone wallet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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4 points

Wait, no prize for a full card? WTH, you sure?

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1 point

The prize is not getting horribly sick or dying of COVID. I got it once in the very beginning pre-vaccine, and it was 12 days of the worst misery I’d ever experienced. No thanks on a repeat of that!

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13 points

I threw mine out long ago. I live in a deep red state, and nobody ever asked for them anyways.

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11 points

I lived in a fairly liberal city (Denver) and nobody has cared at all since mid-2021. Funny thing is Covid rates have gone up and down since then, but if you didn’t have it in 2021 some people acted like you were a total heathen.

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yeah when Alpha variant was fucking killing people

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3 points

More Delta at its height there, but anyway, I just meant that Covid never stopped killing people.

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7 points

The only time I was ever asked for my vaccination card was by a healthcare client at a previous gig. I’ve had more cards than I’ve had questions about it.

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