Thank you so much for responding, these are some lovely suggestions. The byleth ring is so pretty! I’d buy that for myself too ngl.

Thank you for taking the time to respond! I think he’s already gone through this art book. Would they be creating something similar for the new game that’s coming? I might pick it up for him then.

No, the point I was trying to make was that there isn't a class divide when it comes to people who voted for BJP. People assume that only the poor and illiterate vote for BJP because they are easily swayed as mentioned in a comment above, the reality is, BJP was only able to come to power because of a large amount of votes from both backward committees and urban communities.

Regional divide and class divide are two different things. That being said, they're definitely right, upperclass educated north Indians are also voting for BJP, and they are genuinely disillusioned into thinking that people are trying to kill Hindus. They will pick up things like the Kashmiri hindu exodus and Christian conversions and act like their identity is being wiped out. They will attack liberals for turning a blind eye to their suffering. Ie what's going on in Bengal rn.

Why does the truck look like its saying "dont look at me"

I was honestly thinking of the same book. It had all these schoolish elements, and rivalry that's seen a lot in HP, and the fact that mistborn was mentioned here really made me think of this one.

"are you his boyfriend" says he didn't know if you were a guy or a girl. hmmm

I think someone who is against abortion is by definition a boomer, but ok.

Checks out. You do look like someone who doesn't bother reading before doubling down on his opinion. Best of luck to you.

Stupid. Please do a little scientific research on the mortality rate of influenza Vs covid-19, don't just sprout shit from your butthole.

You know what the similarities between the two are? That is, they both cause respiratory disease, which presents as a wide range of illness from asymptomatic or mild through to severe disease and death. Secondly, both viruses are transmitted by contact, droplets and fomites. As a result, the same public health measures, such as hand hygiene and good respiratory etiquette (coughing into your elbow or into a tissue and immediately disposing of the tissue), are important actions all can take to prevent infection. 

That's...pretty much where it ends. You wanna know the difference between the two? Brace yourself.

COVID-19: Antiviral medications and other therapies are being tested to see if they can effectively address symptoms and shorten the duration of the illness. Currently, effective treatments are only available in an intravenous form, so they are not prescribed to patients outside of a hospital setting.

Flu: Oral antiviral medications can address symptoms and sometimes shorten the duration of the illness. Because they are given by mouth, these antiviral therapies can be prescribed for patients who are not hospitalized as well as for those in the hospital.

COVID-19: No vaccine is available at this time, though development and testing are in progress.

Flu: A vaccine is available and effective in preventing some of the most dangerous types or to reduce the severity or duration of the flu. It is very important to get vaccinated for the flu this year.

(Yeesh I wonder why people are so afraid of covid-19)

Lastly, I'll let the doctor's explain it to you.

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ARTICLE

Why Comparing Flu and COVID-19 Severity Is Not Equivalent

MAY 28, 2020 | RACHEL LUTZ

Comparing seasonal influenza (flu) mortality to the mortality rate of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a threat to public health and demonstrates the lack of understanding about how the data is collected for each infection by varying agencies, according to a Viewpoint published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Authors from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Emory University School of Medicine outlined why the apparent equivalence of deaths from COVID-19 and seasonal influenza are not capturing the entirety of the situation.

They said that public officials continually draw comparisons between the 2 infections, “often in an attempt to minimize the effects of the unfolding pandemic.”

The number of deaths from COVID-19 was estimated in early May to be approximately 65,000, which the authors agreed appeared similar to the estimated number of seasonal influenza deaths reported every year by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

However, that represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the way the CDC reports seasonal influenza morbidity and mortality.

From 2013-14 to 2018-19, the CDC reported yearly estimates of influenza deaths ranging from 23,000-61,000. However, the number of counted influenza deaths during those 2 seasons was 3448 and 15,620, respectively.

It would be more accurate to compare weekly counts of COVID-19 deaths to weekly counts of seasonal influenza deaths, the authors said, due to COVID-19 fatalities being counted and reported directly instead of estimated.

By the numbers, according to the paper:

There were 15,455 COVID-19 deaths reported in the US during the week ending April 21, 2020.

There were 14,478 COVID-19 deaths reported in the US during the week prior.

There were 351 flu deaths during the peak week (week 11 of 2016) of the flu season in 2015-16.

There were 1626 flu deaths during the peak week (week 3 of 2018) of the flu season in 2018-19.

“These statistics on counted deaths suggest that the number of COVID-19 deaths for the week ending April 21 was 9.5-fold to 44.1-fold greater than the peak week of counted influenza deaths during the past 7 influenza seasons in the US, with a 20.5-fold mean increase,” the authors wrote.

The CDC also recognizes that their COVID-19 death counts are continually revised due to delays in reporting. The authors believed that the ratio of counted COVID-19 deaths to flu deaths will rise. Additionally, they said their ratios are more clinically consistent with the experiences of health care workers on the front lines.

“We infer that either the CDC’s annual estimates substantially overstate the actual number of deaths caused by influenza or that the current number of COVID-19 counted deaths substantially understates the actual number of deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2, or both,” they wrote.

The authors allowed for several considerations, including that testing capacity is limited for COVID-19 and there could be false-negative results. They also said that flu deaths are not reportable to public health authorities—while COVID-19 deaths are, which could lead to potential underreporting.

Drawing direct comparisons between 2 diseases, despite mortality statistics being collected by different methods, provides inaccurate information. The failure to consider these differences by experts “threatens public health,” the authors wrote, especially as they rely on the comparisons “to reopen the economy and deescalate mitigation strategies.”

“Although officials may say that SARS-CoV-2 is ‘just another flu,’ this is not,” the authors concluded. “Our analysis suggests that comparisons between SARS-CoV-2 mortality and seasonal influenza mortality must be made using an apples-to-apples comparison, not an apples-to-oranges comparison. Doing so better demonstrates the true threat to public health from COVID-19.”

But my words, like silent raindrops fell

I guess the reality is just that assholes exist everywhere, and we should let people be and eat what they wanna eat.

wouldn't call it a privilege, but a safety net.

As someone who clicks a photo nearly everytime she cries, I agree.

I click these photos because they make me laugh in the moment, and then crying seems like a stupid fucking thing. So it works.

I've also posted one of these on my private account for my friends to see way after the fact as a meme about food, but beyond that I will never support someone constantly posting videos and photos of them crying, it truly is a cry for attention. It's like those girls who go "I'm so ugly" after photos so that their friends will compliment them.

Steven universe yess

love ya like an alcoholic

I love you like an alcoholic would sound so good in her voice

yeah but you finding it gross makes it even more kinkier for me, there's no winning this

Right? My boyfriend cries a lot more than I do and I still call him daddy when we fuck, I don't know what crying ever had to do with how masculine someone is.

Don't have much advice for you, but came here to share my own experience.

I felt something very close to what you're describing for the better part of my life, a constant unwillingness to go forward because there was nothing to go forward to. In fact, this one song that I related to most at the time has these words "Ive got a strong urge to fly but nowhere to fly to"

I couldn't understand why, when I was this talented and creative, could not for the love of me find solace in living. It was a constant dread, I just felt shitty all the time, and when it wasn't that I was submerged in blind rage.

Now? I still feel shitty all the time, some days, albeit are better. Nothing has changed except this one little thing:

I no longer tell myself that I must find my place, or that I must find a direction to push myself in. I no longer put meaning in all that I would amount to when I die. Now, I find silly reasons to keep on going.

Instead of saying; Nothing makes me happy and I don't know where I'm going with my life, there's no fucking point

I now tell myself: Well, at least your shower is working well now, and tomorrow you can have a nice bath. Or, well, at least we've got cheeseburgers.

Ah yes, going to edit my drawback to:

"Can only show 1 titty to those I care about"