Comments on: Life during the time of covid the Great http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:54:38 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: Wag the Dog « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-7242 Wag the Dog « The Tar Pit Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:58:35 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-7242 [...] mean, let's look at covid for example. Six years after the whole thing started, don't fucking tell me that the isolation and [...] [...] mean, let's look at covid for example. Six years after the whole thing started, don't fucking tell me that the isolation and [...]

]]> By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-7195 spyked Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:55:26 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-7195 So I'll have to admit (to myself, first and foremost) that I'm sometimes trying to play the <a href="http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-chip-shortage-and-what-it-means-to-you#comment-4480" rel="nofollow">prophecy</a> game, and for some reason I also manage to get it right once in a blue moon. Let's see if I'm right this time around: the next covid is right around the corner. Don't say you haven't been warned. (Sure, this may or may not have something to do with the stuff going on in the Middle East nowadays.) So I'll have to admit (to myself, first and foremost) that I'm sometimes trying to play the prophecy game, and for some reason I also manage to get it right once in a blue moon.

Let's see if I'm right this time around: the next covid is right around the corner. Don't say you haven't been warned. (Sure, this may or may not have something to do with the stuff going on in the Middle East nowadays.)

]]> By: On perversion « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-7177 On perversion « The Tar Pit Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:33:11 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-7177 [...] and manages to co-opt certain characteristics, such as the immune response in the case of coronaviruses, to the point where said genetic material becomes integrated into the living host. So for all we [...] [...] and manages to co-opt certain characteristics, such as the immune response in the case of coronaviruses, to the point where said genetic material becomes integrated into the living host. So for all we [...]

]]> By: The perpetual transition « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-6906 The perpetual transition « The Tar Pit Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:50:13 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-6906 [...] they were then, even if through today's lens. The point being that you really can't blame Russia, covid or whatever other strawmen you've created for yourself for the situation that you've created for [...] [...] they were then, even if through today's lens. The point being that you really can't blame Russia, covid or whatever other strawmen you've created for yourself for the situation that you've created for [...]

]]> By: The City of Lost Children « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-6623 The City of Lost Children « The Tar Pit Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:22:35 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-6623 [...] it or not, one of the more important matters of the twenty-first century, post-covid, is that of sane people finding each other, and overall of pockets of humanity surviving the times. [...] [...] it or not, one of the more important matters of the twenty-first century, post-covid, is that of sane people finding each other, and overall of pockets of humanity surviving the times. [...]

]]> By: Poor Romania... « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-6362 Poor Romania... « The Tar Pit Wed, 07 May 2025 19:03:33 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-6362 [...] the right to own an iPhone, when, wait, it was more than that; and meanwhile you got lost between a very nasty cough and the war going on in the neighbouring yard, and... what [...] [...] the right to own an iPhone, when, wait, it was more than that; and meanwhile you got lost between a very nasty cough and the war going on in the neighbouring yard, and... what [...]

]]> By: Squid Game « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-5514 Squid Game « The Tar Pit Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:00:12 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-5514 [...] from within. This is how Nazi Germany, the USSR and, more recently, how the entire world under the WHO worked. This is precisely how "defending our democracy" works; I've already discussed at length how [...] [...] from within. This is how Nazi Germany, the USSR and, more recently, how the entire world under the WHO worked. This is precisely how "defending our democracy" works; I've already discussed at length how [...]

]]> By: So... shit's actually happening over in Bucharest « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-5455 So... shit's actually happening over in Bucharest « The Tar Pit Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:45:36 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-5455 [...] one that we haven't seen for a few years now... which is perhaps how we could compare this to covid. They haven't brought the army out in the streets yet, but make no mistake, they will if you cause [...] [...] one that we haven't seen for a few years now... which is perhaps how we could compare this to covid. They haven't brought the army out in the streets yet, but make no mistake, they will if you cause [...]

]]> By: The Romanian Reality TV Show S35E48, explained « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-5446 The Romanian Reality TV Show S35E48, explained « The Tar Pit Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:19:59 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-5446 [...] the very same bitches and their stupid sons who almost five years ago told us to stay indoors lest covid would come and eat us all alive -- along with the so-called mainstream yet increasingly irrelevant [...] [...] the very same bitches and their stupid sons who almost five years ago told us to stay indoors lest covid would come and eat us all alive -- along with the so-called mainstream yet increasingly irrelevant [...]

]]> By: The Walking Dead, the TV show « The Tar Pit http://thetarpit.org/2020/life-during-the-time-of-covid-the-great#comment-5434 The Walking Dead, the TV show « The Tar Pit Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:17:26 +0000 http://thetarpit.org/?p=364#comment-5434 [...] ones start appearing. The fact that S11E17 was aired a short while after the craze with that goddamned virus has to make you think: wasn't the sort of thing portrayed in this episode precisely the same kind [...] [...] ones start appearing. The fact that S11E17 was aired a short while after the craze with that goddamned virus has to make you think: wasn't the sort of thing portrayed in this episode precisely the same kind [...]

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