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35 Times People Spotted Others Acting Like Morons During This Outbreak And Shared Pics Online
Our lives are changing and we’re finding out that adapting to the “new normal” is harder than it looks on paper. While most of us occasionally slip up, there are some people who have completely left rational thought by the roadside the moment the quarantine came into effect.
Internet users can’t help but poke fun at how some people are clueless about how viruses work, so Bored Panda has collected some of the funniest photos of people doing dumb things during the pandemic. Scroll down, enjoy the coronavirus stupidity, and upvote your fave pics, dear Pandas. And let us know in the comments if you’ve encountered any Covidiots so far.
Avoiding products that have the name “Corona” in them is one thing, but microwaving money to “disinfect” it (pro-tip: don’t ever do this) and disregarding safe facemask and glove use is a whole ‘nother ball game entirely.
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#1
Stupid Mask
#2
Well, Thank Goodness The Virus Can't Move Sideways
#3
All The Beans At My Local Grocery Store Are Out Except This One
Fear makes us do stupid, dumb, irrational things. No matter how cool a cucumber you might be in fair weather conditions, once the coronacrap hits the metaphorical fan, your true character comes out. And the fear of the virus has created public panic in some places.
For instance, in China, there have been reported cases of people hunting down pet cats and dogs due to misinformation about how the virus works. Meanwhile in Malaysia, some citizens were busy spreading rumors that coronavirus patients turned into zombies.
#4
Just Your Typical Walmart Shopper
#5
Someone's Rooftop Party Is About To Get Raided By The Cops
#6
Went To The Shop Last Night. Every Aisle Had Been Picked Clean Apart From This... People Are Idiots
Hello it Smee 4 years ago (edited)
Let's start calling it the toilet paper virus so people won't hoard all the T.P.
McDonald’s in China apologized after one of the restaurant’s branches in Guangzhou stopped black people from going inside. The company temporarily closed down the restaurant when it found out about the notice. Online rumors about the coronavirus circulating in Guangzhou led to hundreds of Africans being evicted from apartments and hotels just last week.
#7
Someone Tell Snorkel Lady That It Won't Work
#8
$5000 Canadian After Someone Using The Microwave To Disinfect It
#9
5G —> Death = Science
We can judge all we want, but elementary human psychology tells us that fear changes the way that we see the world and react to things. In times of panic, we’re far more likely to conform and turn to herd-mentality so that we can feel safe.
If your friends, family, and neighbors are doing something, the odds are, we’ll be doing it as well. The best thing we can do is try to calm down and bring a bit of logic and common sense back into our lives.
#10
Well
#11
To Make This Safe
#12
If You Can’t Smell It, You Can’t Get It
#13
So, My Work Had A Meeting About The Importance Of Social Distancing Today
#14
To Shield The Face
#15
She's Wearing A Mesh Bee Keeper Type Helmet. I'm Not Sure She Gets The Point
#16
Social Gathering At St Kilda Beach Today
#17
This Guy Was Eating His Food Wearing The Same Gloves He's Been Wearing Since He Walked In
EA 4 years ago
Ewww! What the actual. Are people really this ignorant and missing the ENTIRE point of wearing gloves? At first I was amazed at the number of adverts and posters telling people how to wash their hands properly. As if people don’t already know but it wasn’t long before realising the horrible truth that people obviously don’t know!
#18
How To Protect Yourself From Coronavirus
#19
How To Put Your Mask Correctly
#20
Ladies And Gentlemen, The President Of Our Meatpacking Plant While Talking About The Plant's Safety Procedures During The Virus
#21
I Don’t Think She Knows What “Quarantining” Means
qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm 4 years ago
Didn't even realise till you pointed it out
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Pretty Pangolin 4 years ago
Oh dear, that freckle filter looks like the worst case of blackheads ever.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Do they have matching freckles or is this another disease from hell?
JessG 4 years ago
You keep on saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
Joran Quinten 4 years ago
Quarantine originated from France, where ships who were inbound from distant lands were required to stay docked for at least 40 days (quarante) before being allowed to disembark.
Rick 4 years ago
So? Giving someone a thumbs up is an offensive gesture in some parts of Australia. What’s your point? That different countries have different offensive gestures? That’s not new information.
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DexterDogTheLovey 3 years ago
It's a Snapchat filter, not photoshop. But yes, nobody mentions it XD
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Theherplover 4 years ago
She does not understand what quarantine means she prbly thinks it's like a game or s**t
Rick 4 years ago (edited)
Instagram filter that people think makes them look “cute”. You know that trend (thankfully I don’t see it much anymore) where grown adults used to have facebook photos of themselves with doggy ears and a stuck out pink tongue? This is the same. Fake freckles. It looks ridiculous.
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Roadkill TheBrave 4 years ago
He's not that far. They're using a filter for the freckle effects so he's still probably closer than 2 feet.
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Leslea Freeman 4 years ago
They look like they are brother and sister and probably live in the same home they are jusy kids!
Perfumista Perfumista 4 years ago
I am guessing the message is not for the person she is actually physically with. That might be a family member also sheltering in place.
Charlotte 4 years ago
I thought that was possible to. We had a birthday dinner "with" my mother-in-law & sister in law, but were were in 3 different locations. This could easily just be a silly way of describing a day spent Skyping someone. Of course, it could also be a moron. Not enough data to call it.
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Lana Jig-maker 4 years ago
Many of us know, but what are we supposed to do? Not do a hand gesture which means peace in so many places, because it is the equivalent to the middle finger in UK? Should we change our cultural norm, for your's? During time of the pic, were they in the UK? How do you know they're American, btw? If we stop doing that sign that way, will you call trash cans, cans instead of bins? What will you change? 😄
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To Protect Against COVID-19
#23
Wife Said To Wear A Mask In Public Areas?
#24
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Doesn't Seem To Understand How To Put On A Medical Mask Either. Mayor, Your Nostrils Are Showing
#25
It Was Painful Watching This Happen
Rick 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, cos I’m sure the kid being paid a s****y wage, being forced to go to work at the same time global news is urging people to stay at home as much as they can, probably working 12 hour + shift and the only protection they get from their managers is a pair of cheap gloves thrown at them at the start of the shift really cares by that point. And newsflash: if the gloves aren’t replaced after each transaction, there is no point in wearing them as they don’t offer any protection to the wearer or the people they are exchanging items/money with.
#26
Someone Brought These Bills To The Bank They Tried To Sanitize In A Microwave
Tracy Mouaikel 4 years ago
Well at least they didn't melt into 1 big blob like the plastic Canadian bills, but still who the hell put money in the microwave???
#27
No, I Don't Use My Nose To Breathe
Himanshu Raj 4 years ago
This is nothing. In some regions here in India people are even beating up the medical staff and stone pelting them for coming to their locality for testing.
#28
I Don't Believe This Is Proper Glove-Wearing Protocol
#29
Protesters Against Quarantine Back Again At The Ohio Statehouse
#30
I Don't Think That's How It Works
Taylor Karp 4 years ago
And they call Americans idiots...at least now we know Covidiots, which are the worst kind of idiots, exist in all countries
#31
N95s Filtering Improves If You Wear It As A Headband
#32
There Was An Attempt To Use A Mask
#33
Good To Know Coronavirus Only Travels Forward And Backwards
#34
Seen Today In The Atlanta Airport - Babies In Comforter Bags
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Full Name 4 years ago
Average Joe, fine, but the people in charge don't even know masks cover the nose? It's not just one or two either. Maybe a good culling isn't such a bad thing.
Chris Jones 4 years ago
Downside to that is the increased risk to dedicated medical staff.
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Lisa 4 years ago (edited)
I stopped at #2, people are attacking the Governor of Michigan for putting in stricter measures to protect Michigan citizens, but that photo was proven to be old. Ol' Teddy Cruz deleted his tweet about that photo with his tail tucked between his legs. How about BP put a photo up of the Michigan stay-at-home protesters who blocked streets to Sparrow Hospital.
Audrius P. (Post author) 4 years ago (edited)
Hey, thanks for your comment. We've removed the photo in question.
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David Jeu 4 years ago
The biggest issue here is education. HELP those uneducated people to understand the risk and take good measure. Just taking pictures of peoples inappropriately protected to make fun of them makes me thing the real idiot is on the other side of the camera.
Foock Auff 4 years ago
And hey -- if you think you've explained it well, go ahead a dumb it down an extra few notches just to make sure the idiots in the back get it as well. (All countries have idiots, and we need to watch them like hawks.)
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rai mei 4 years ago
🤦 these people are hopeless.. I wish covid19 virus will choose these people but I know wishing someone bad is not good..
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
I know what you mean. Inside a lot of us are thinking that it would be great if we could get rid of all the purely horrible bigoted people, but we can't.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Dumbest thing I've seen was the t-shirt on a family member at the hospital just today: "HOAX19". They sniggered an dsneered and laughed openly at the questions and the mask and gloves and soap and water, mimed wiping their butt before putting their hand on a door, and that, btw, was before they got past the *lobby*. Security ejected them. Person then raised a huge fuss about his "rights". Yeah, well, we hav ea right to *live*, thanks... Oy.
Full Name 4 years ago
Reminds me of that NBA player who touched all the mics as a joke, then got it.
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deanna woods 4 years ago (edited)
I can not say this enough: COVID19 is real and it is very serious. Please stop joking around and having to hang out with your friends and just stay home. We will get through this a lot faster if people would just do what is asked of them by health professionals. Unless you have to be out, just stay in your house.
Foock Auff 4 years ago
IF YOU ARE WEARING GLOVES/(non-homemade) MASKS INCORRECTLY, YOU ARE USING UP RESOURCES THAT OTHERS NEED. Hard-stop. Almost every single one of these posts shows how people's stupidity is causing even greater PPE shortages than we already have. A nurse could have used that mask to save a life.
Vonny 4 years ago
Being in the medical field I want to agree with your comment, but then again must say this: most of my family & friends have very few masks or gloves to use. We are all reusing what little we have, sanitizing masks & gloves so we can re-wear them. Which may be the case for some of the folks in these picss. But, idiots who aren't wearing them properly, their noses, mouths not even covered by their masks! Now that is a waste.
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Hollar Cut 4 years ago
Next step: People control other people and sort them out in good (responsible) and bad (not responsible). I don't know if I fear more Covid or the degenaration of public life. The real character shows itself in need.
Porosha Re 4 years ago
Absolutely. Stalking and judging all the time..This is what we see even here.. I am speachless!!!!!!
Load More Replies... Loretta 4 years ago
It's ironic how the same people who call cashiers "heroes" are quick to judge them and call them morons and eagerly take photos of the, how stupid they are for not using the safety equipments as intended (because maybe they've been wearing them for the past 10 hours continously).
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Experts have stated that the point of wearing masks is to keep the wearer from SPREADING the disease, not getting it. Covering your nose with anything less than an N95 mask doesn't do anything. Most of those shown with noses uncovered are wearing surgical or dust masks but by covering their mouths they are keeping others safe. btw- a Lancet study showed that asymptomatic carriers can be contagious by up to 8 weeks.
Zelda Blue 4 years ago
Well the upside of the covid-19 virus is that its helping to weed out the stupid.
Jen Smith 4 years ago
That's the thing- it kills far more than the stupid. The Vox has a great article and video explaining how the virus transmits from person to person.
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Jim Ellington 4 years ago
The most important rule to follow to prevent the spread of this (or any just about any other) disease is to isolate yourself. If you're sick, stay at home - not one single person out there wants your pestilence no matter what the payoff. Conversely, if you're not sick and for whatever reason you don't want to risk infection, stay at home - your mileage may very, but contagious individuals tend not to just wander in your door. Maybe now people will start acting courteously when they have a cold or flu and stay the hell away from me.
Just saying 4 years ago
People seem to think gloves are either magic or somehow kill the virus on contact. They don't, they're just an extra skin that pick up the virus in exactly the same way as your own skin.
Vonny 4 years ago
Exactly! Sanitize gloves immediately, even while wearing them, before touching other items! Use any qualified hand sanitizer, hell, use bleach! Kill the germs on the gloves, and I hope everyone knows how to safely remove the gloves, otherwise no sense wearing them.
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Bob Beltcher 4 years ago (edited)
You need to remove the pictures of Houston mayor and Congress woman. The captions are 100 percent fake.
Fulllength 4 years ago
The stupidity of people knows no bounds and/or the information being provided to these people is useless.
Alusair Alustriel 4 years ago
This reminded me why the stereotype of Americans being plain stupid exists.
Steve 4 years ago
A bunch of these pics feature the metric system, non-US currency...so sorry, but stupid people are everywhere
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HempFairy 4 years ago
I'm very surprise, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro didn't appear on this list!! That man should be arrested for what he's doing down there in Brazil.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Like most Brazilian presidents, he will end up in prison.
Load More Replies... djinnjeannie 4 years ago
Some of these are a bit snide. Most people can’t get access to proper PPE right now, making some attempt to restrict access to their mouth and nose might be the best they can do because they have no option but to keep going to work. Especially in America where basic worker protections and welfare provisions are non existent and you can get sacked for trying to organise.
Dynein 4 years ago
The overwhelming majority of posts here are either examples of protection that WOULD work, if used correctly, or of improvisations that completely miss the point.
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Lucas Layer 4 years ago
This is actually nature's way of killing off all the stupid people. A blessing in disguise.
weatherwitch 4 years ago
This post has left me feeling really wound up and angry! The sheer stupidity of some people who don't give a fk about their loved ones let alone others is beyond belief!!
di em 4 years ago
hi there. I am from Malaysia. may i know which source(s) you get the rumours from about covid19 patients turning into zombies?
Mumof1 4 years ago
Unfortunately this planet has a good proportion of idiots who think Social Distancing and wearing face masks doesn't apply to them. Until EVERYONE does what is expected this virus will remain and change from a pandemic to endemic. Why is it the minority always ruin it for the majority!
Caroline Driver 4 years ago
You can't fix this kind of stupid, but perhaps the virus will, temporarily
Eirik Johnsbråten 4 years ago
The comments on these are golden. My fellow boredpandians, I'm proud of you.
Tor Rolf Strøm 4 years ago
So.. if there was still ANY doubt. Humans are the problem. I don't mean that like "we are the virus" (even though we are) bu I mean, the reason the virus spreads like crazy, is because humans can't even do the simplest thing right.
DrBronxx 4 years ago
Regarding the masks not covering the nose - when I'm talking for a while, the mask tends to slip down under the nose, and I have to readjust it. I was just talking about it with a colleague who has the same problem. That could be the case with some of the people in these pictures. Of course, it's hard to tell from a still image whether that's the case or they're actually just wearing the masks improperly.
Jack Smith 4 years ago (edited)
I actually can see the dumbasses in my grade doing this, and thinking they are "cool" for having friends over while calling it "quarantine".
TheKnightOwl 4 years ago
All I keep thinking while scrolling through this, is "Were all gonna die", closely followed by, "Maybe we deserve this virus".
Full Name 4 years ago
Average Joe, fine, but the people in charge don't even know masks cover the nose? It's not just one or two either. Maybe a good culling isn't such a bad thing.
Chris Jones 4 years ago
Downside to that is the increased risk to dedicated medical staff.
Load More Replies... Lisa 4 years ago (edited)
I stopped at #2, people are attacking the Governor of Michigan for putting in stricter measures to protect Michigan citizens, but that photo was proven to be old. Ol' Teddy Cruz deleted his tweet about that photo with his tail tucked between his legs. How about BP put a photo up of the Michigan stay-at-home protesters who blocked streets to Sparrow Hospital.
Audrius P. (Post author) 4 years ago (edited)
Hey, thanks for your comment. We've removed the photo in question.
Load More Replies... David Jeu 4 years ago
The biggest issue here is education. HELP those uneducated people to understand the risk and take good measure. Just taking pictures of peoples inappropriately protected to make fun of them makes me thing the real idiot is on the other side of the camera.
Foock Auff 4 years ago
And hey -- if you think you've explained it well, go ahead a dumb it down an extra few notches just to make sure the idiots in the back get it as well. (All countries have idiots, and we need to watch them like hawks.)
Load More Replies... rai mei 4 years ago
🤦 these people are hopeless.. I wish covid19 virus will choose these people but I know wishing someone bad is not good..
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
I know what you mean. Inside a lot of us are thinking that it would be great if we could get rid of all the purely horrible bigoted people, but we can't.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Dumbest thing I've seen was the t-shirt on a family member at the hospital just today: "HOAX19". They sniggered an dsneered and laughed openly at the questions and the mask and gloves and soap and water, mimed wiping their butt before putting their hand on a door, and that, btw, was before they got past the *lobby*. Security ejected them. Person then raised a huge fuss about his "rights". Yeah, well, we hav ea right to *live*, thanks... Oy.
Full Name 4 years ago
Reminds me of that NBA player who touched all the mics as a joke, then got it.
Load More Replies... deanna woods 4 years ago (edited)
I can not say this enough: COVID19 is real and it is very serious. Please stop joking around and having to hang out with your friends and just stay home. We will get through this a lot faster if people would just do what is asked of them by health professionals. Unless you have to be out, just stay in your house.
Foock Auff 4 years ago
IF YOU ARE WEARING GLOVES/(non-homemade) MASKS INCORRECTLY, YOU ARE USING UP RESOURCES THAT OTHERS NEED. Hard-stop. Almost every single one of these posts shows how people's stupidity is causing even greater PPE shortages than we already have. A nurse could have used that mask to save a life.
Vonny 4 years ago
Being in the medical field I want to agree with your comment, but then again must say this: most of my family & friends have very few masks or gloves to use. We are all reusing what little we have, sanitizing masks & gloves so we can re-wear them. Which may be the case for some of the folks in these picss. But, idiots who aren't wearing them properly, their noses, mouths not even covered by their masks! Now that is a waste.
Load More Replies... Hollar Cut 4 years ago
Next step: People control other people and sort them out in good (responsible) and bad (not responsible). I don't know if I fear more Covid or the degenaration of public life. The real character shows itself in need.
Porosha Re 4 years ago
Absolutely. Stalking and judging all the time..This is what we see even here.. I am speachless!!!!!!
Load More Replies... Loretta 4 years ago
It's ironic how the same people who call cashiers "heroes" are quick to judge them and call them morons and eagerly take photos of the, how stupid they are for not using the safety equipments as intended (because maybe they've been wearing them for the past 10 hours continously).
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Experts have stated that the point of wearing masks is to keep the wearer from SPREADING the disease, not getting it. Covering your nose with anything less than an N95 mask doesn't do anything. Most of those shown with noses uncovered are wearing surgical or dust masks but by covering their mouths they are keeping others safe. btw- a Lancet study showed that asymptomatic carriers can be contagious by up to 8 weeks.
Zelda Blue 4 years ago
Well the upside of the covid-19 virus is that its helping to weed out the stupid.
Jen Smith 4 years ago
That's the thing- it kills far more than the stupid. The Vox has a great article and video explaining how the virus transmits from person to person.
Load More Replies... Jim Ellington 4 years ago
The most important rule to follow to prevent the spread of this (or any just about any other) disease is to isolate yourself. If you're sick, stay at home - not one single person out there wants your pestilence no matter what the payoff. Conversely, if you're not sick and for whatever reason you don't want to risk infection, stay at home - your mileage may very, but contagious individuals tend not to just wander in your door. Maybe now people will start acting courteously when they have a cold or flu and stay the hell away from me.
Just saying 4 years ago
People seem to think gloves are either magic or somehow kill the virus on contact. They don't, they're just an extra skin that pick up the virus in exactly the same way as your own skin.
Vonny 4 years ago
Exactly! Sanitize gloves immediately, even while wearing them, before touching other items! Use any qualified hand sanitizer, hell, use bleach! Kill the germs on the gloves, and I hope everyone knows how to safely remove the gloves, otherwise no sense wearing them.
Load More Replies... Bob Beltcher 4 years ago (edited)
You need to remove the pictures of Houston mayor and Congress woman. The captions are 100 percent fake.
Fulllength 4 years ago
The stupidity of people knows no bounds and/or the information being provided to these people is useless.
Alusair Alustriel 4 years ago
This reminded me why the stereotype of Americans being plain stupid exists.
Steve 4 years ago
A bunch of these pics feature the metric system, non-US currency...so sorry, but stupid people are everywhere
Load More Replies... HempFairy 4 years ago
I'm very surprise, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro didn't appear on this list!! That man should be arrested for what he's doing down there in Brazil.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Like most Brazilian presidents, he will end up in prison.
Load More Replies... djinnjeannie 4 years ago
Some of these are a bit snide. Most people can’t get access to proper PPE right now, making some attempt to restrict access to their mouth and nose might be the best they can do because they have no option but to keep going to work. Especially in America where basic worker protections and welfare provisions are non existent and you can get sacked for trying to organise.
Dynein 4 years ago
The overwhelming majority of posts here are either examples of protection that WOULD work, if used correctly, or of improvisations that completely miss the point.
Load More Replies... Lucas Layer 4 years ago
This is actually nature's way of killing off all the stupid people. A blessing in disguise.
weatherwitch 4 years ago
This post has left me feeling really wound up and angry! The sheer stupidity of some people who don't give a fk about their loved ones let alone others is beyond belief!!
di em 4 years ago
hi there. I am from Malaysia. may i know which source(s) you get the rumours from about covid19 patients turning into zombies?
Mumof1 4 years ago
Unfortunately this planet has a good proportion of idiots who think Social Distancing and wearing face masks doesn't apply to them. Until EVERYONE does what is expected this virus will remain and change from a pandemic to endemic. Why is it the minority always ruin it for the majority!
Caroline Driver 4 years ago
You can't fix this kind of stupid, but perhaps the virus will, temporarily
Eirik Johnsbråten 4 years ago
The comments on these are golden. My fellow boredpandians, I'm proud of you.
Tor Rolf Strøm 4 years ago
So.. if there was still ANY doubt. Humans are the problem. I don't mean that like "we are the virus" (even though we are) bu I mean, the reason the virus spreads like crazy, is because humans can't even do the simplest thing right.
DrBronxx 4 years ago
Regarding the masks not covering the nose - when I'm talking for a while, the mask tends to slip down under the nose, and I have to readjust it. I was just talking about it with a colleague who has the same problem. That could be the case with some of the people in these pictures. Of course, it's hard to tell from a still image whether that's the case or they're actually just wearing the masks improperly.
Jack Smith 4 years ago (edited)
I actually can see the dumbasses in my grade doing this, and thinking they are "cool" for having friends over while calling it "quarantine".
TheKnightOwl 4 years ago
All I keep thinking while scrolling through this, is "Were all gonna die", closely followed by, "Maybe we deserve this virus".
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