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kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

Crusader posted:

not necessarily - if human immunity protection is akin to other coronaviruses it could last anywhere from like 6 months to 3 years

edit: i would expect it to be apparent before the year is out - if we're rolling into 2021 and there's a for real second wave around the globe, welp

sure, just seems like a waste to worry about it now when there’s so many other things to worry about

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Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

uncurable mlady posted:

if reinfection was trivial then wouldn’t you be seeing it in China by now? also NY? there’s always weird one-off exceptions but the risk seems pretty low

no, probably not

I don't think there's enough evidence of reinfection at this point to worry about it, but it's still way too soon. the other problem is that the places that have had this the longest are also the places where it's pretty under control. if immunity lasts for six months, then the odds of anyone in China getting reinfected are pretty absurdly low.

Bullfrog
Nov 5, 2012

i did urban camping in the van where i just park on the street, read a book and and pray that nobody breaks in

i guess it was practice for impending homelessness

Zeriel
Nov 6, 2004

Just imagine how much convelasent plasma will be available for therapies after we get into the double digit total percentage infections.

They'll be selling that poo poo at 7-11

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
My friends school district in Illinois, one full of poor people, announced full stream ahead 5 days a week in school. His kid has serious peanut and dairy allergy issues so kids trying to eat in classrooms is gonna be a mess

The neighboring rich district is.giving everyone a choice of online only, or a/b in school/remote day, which is completely stupid and helps no one

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Italy is my guess as to where it would show up. They had a crazy huge spike and apparently they literally cannot stop old people from hugging and kissing each other all day and crowding into soccer stadiums

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

oxsnard posted:

I loved the ending of one flew over the cuckoo's nest, for the record

It's such a surreal story now considering the public backlash against the deplorable treatments being done to mental health patients that the book helped expose. Now we just pretend it doesn't exist and either throw pills at people or do nothing.

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

mastershakeman posted:

My friends school district in Illinois, one full of poor people, announced full stream ahead 5 days a week in school. His kid has serious peanut and dairy allergy issues so kids trying to eat in classrooms is gonna be a mess

The neighboring rich district is.giving everyone a choice of online only, or a/b in school/remote day, which is completely stupid and helps no one

they're all gonna close, so your friend shouldn't worry too much

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass
mt. baker - snoqualmie national forest in washington is huuuuuge and allows dispersed camping pretty much anywhere. if you work for it you can get out really far away from anyone. glacier peak and the area around it is beautiful this time of year, here's a view from camp on the approach to glacier peak last year:

Zeriel
Nov 6, 2004

Brawndo, it's got antibodies

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

uncurable mlady posted:

sure, just seems like a waste to worry about it now when there’s so many other things to worry about


agree

it also helps that it's such a horrifying concept it's easier to push it to the back of the brain for now

Bulgakov
Mar 8, 2009


рукописи не горят

Chamale posted:

gently caress no, lmao. Some Americans sneak in by claiming to be going to Alaska, so vigilantes are trashing cars with American plates, and when the owner tries to file a police report they get a massive fine for not being in Alaska already.

lol

DesertIslandHermit
Oct 7, 2019

It's beautiful. And it's for the god of...of...arts and crafts. I think that's what he said.

Epic High Five posted:

Reinfection being a thing is like...game over, nightmare scenario. No coming back from that no mitigating or anything will work. Impossible to even comprehend. Lmao

Corona cases just sweep back and forth until it consumes us all

s0j
May 17, 2003

get fucked, round-eye

Dolphin posted:

are any countries accepting American covid refugees

just quarantine me for 14 days and let me out of this hellhole



GET ME THE gently caress OUT OF HERE

count me in for some sort of Camp of the Saints style convoy. i got nothing left here.

Bullfrog
Nov 5, 2012

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

Ham Cheeks
Nov 18, 2012

Feeling hammy
On the one hand the GOP wants to protect capitalists from the consequences of their actions. On the other hand civil unrest has already shown that consequences can be doled out in very cool ways

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Taco Duck posted:

How hard would it be for the US to just nuke itself

depends on the weapon, ICBMs/SLBMs have a preprogrammed list of targets to select from which I would assume does not include american cities as valid targets. gravity bombs you can do whatever the gently caress you want with and the cruise missile ones might be able to accept a custom target

riseofmydick
Dec 18, 2019

by Pragmatica

DesertIslandHermit posted:

Corona cases just sweep back and forth until it consumes us all

People simply change their way of life.

Always use mask. No more big parties. No one would do high risk jobs. No opening of indoor eating spaces at restaurants, or at very least very limited amount of it.
Those companies that have high risk jobs will either be bailed out by the government unendingly or go bankrupt. No more in person school. Very limited national travel and almost no international travel. All this goes on for however long it takes to create a vaccine.

But it creates a scary precedent.

In the long term half of the food industry is just gone permanently. That takes at least 10-20 years to recover without any kind of government intervention. The tourism sector and casino sector will be in the same boat. Flying will probably never come back not reach the same heights in our lifetime. Every single airline will go bankrupt and 50% of plane stock will just be abandoned. I mean without any real government intervention.

Basically it's complete regression of every bit of economic and infrastructure growth the nation has had over the past 50 years.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Epic High Five posted:

Italy is my guess as to where it would show up. They had a crazy huge spike and apparently they literally cannot stop old people from hugging and kissing each other all day and crowding into soccer stadiums

yeah they love their limoncello parties over there.

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


mastershakeman posted:

My friends school district in Illinois, one full of poor people, announced full stream ahead 5 days a week in school. His kid has serious peanut and dairy allergy issues so kids trying to eat in classrooms is gonna be a mess

The neighboring rich district is.giving everyone a choice of online only, or a/b in school/remote day, which is completely stupid and helps no one

My wife's district is doing a/b too. Yes insanely stupid. Just as many kids in the building every day.

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



uncontrolled fission chain reactions are a great metaphor for pandemics. especially in america. already a bunch of prompt neutrons zipping around, and oops the screwdriver just slipped

Penisaurus Sex
Feb 3, 2009

asdfghjklpoiuyt

VectorSigma posted:

uncontrolled fission chain reactions are a great metaphor for pandemics. especially in america. already a bunch of prompt neutrons zipping around, and oops the screwdriver just slipped

If you think about it, Disneyland is basically Deuterium

WorldsStongestNerd
Apr 28, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

dead gay comedy forums posted:

well, my mother got it last week and the doctor was a motherfucking sage

he prescribed antivirals to be taken right there because he was confident she was in the window of treatment, so in terms of symptoms, she felt as if knocked down by the flu, besides some weird cramping in the leg that could be side effects of the medication. Five days later she is back up and was doing a lot of house chores, lol

so she is going to have another week at home and taking antivirals. I am feeling fine and no symptoms whatsoever, but even though I have been striving to be diligent with care and prevention, I cannot help but feel that I had it at some point (iirc last time I felt sick was mid february, which matches well with the contagion timeframe around here) given how sticky this virus is

I think this is the secret our rich overlords are using (not calling your mom rich).

No need for a secret miracle cure. If Trump or a senator can simply get a course of antivirals everytime the get a sniffle, that could explain why no one high up has died yet.

Lacrosse
Jun 16, 2010

>:V


brugroffil posted:

My wife's district is doing a/b too. Yes insanely stupid. Just as many kids in the building every day.

When I was in high school, we had A/B day schedules, but then Wednesdays were late start for high school because they wanted the elementary school kids to start earlier one day a week (for some reason), so I ended up having to memorize 4 different schedules lmao.

Maria Juana
May 31, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

mod sassinator posted:

mt. baker - snoqualmie national forest in washington is huuuuuge and allows dispersed camping pretty much anywhere. if you work for it you can get out really far away from anyone. glacier peak and the area around it is beautiful this time of year, here's a view from camp on the approach to glacier peak last year:


Pathetic, wimpy glaciers. Sad!

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

VectorSigma posted:

uncontrolled fission chain reactions are a great metaphor for pandemics. especially in america. already a bunch of prompt neutrons zipping around, and oops the screwdriver just slipped
If people don't believe in viruses why would they believe in radiation poisoning?

oxsnard
Oct 8, 2003

Asproigerosis posted:

It's such a surreal story now considering the public backlash against the deplorable treatments being done to mental health patients that the book helped expose. Now we just pretend it doesn't exist and either throw pills at people or do nothing.

I spent 5 days in a mental ward after checking myself in for a suicidal episode. It was the "low violence" ward so it was mostly drug addicts. It was still extremely dehumanizing and talking to people who check themselves in because they can't afford their antipsychotic medications or because the homeless shelter didn't have room and they know they can't be turned away was pretty :waycool: to see first hand

PerniciousKnid
Sep 13, 2006

Lacrosse posted:

When I was in high school, we had A/B day schedules, but then Wednesdays were late start for high school because they wanted the elementary school kids to start earlier one day a week (for some reason), so I ended up having to memorize 4 different schedules lmao.

My mom's childhood high school was overcrowded so she went from 6am to noon or noon to 6pm. I dunno if that's good or bad.

riseofmydick
Dec 18, 2019

by Pragmatica

WorldsStongestNerd posted:

I think this is the secret our rich overlords are using (not calling your mom rich).

No need for a secret miracle cure. If Trump or a senator can simply get a course of antivirals everytime the get a sniffle, that could explain why no one high up has died yet.

Antivirals are not proven to work against coronavirus and anyone can obtain them as long as they have health insurance. And yes while many Americans have lost health insurance more Americans have it than don't. So this really doesn't make a lick of sense.

Penisaurus Sex
Feb 3, 2009

asdfghjklpoiuyt
The truly wealthy can isolate forever and if you never come into contact with someone who has corona, you never get corona.

Rectal Death Adept
Jun 20, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Xaris posted:

can we use the crooked cartridge trick to hack the covid and escape covidari forest early

Red Baron posted:

only using half-A presses

I know it's controversial but if you start the disease with a cough held down then you can glitch through the entire symptomatic phase in a single half lung contraction.

Lacrosse
Jun 16, 2010

>:V


Penisaurus Sex posted:

The truly wealthy can isolate forever and if you never come into contact with someone who has corona, you never get corona.

I take solace in the fact that they're stuck in this shithole country too instead of jetting off to Italy or wherever the gently caress

VectorSigma
Jan 20, 2004

Transform
and
Freak Out



covid is the demon core
nyc in april was harry daghlian dropping it
louis slotin just grabbed the flat-head out of the drawer

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
wow poo poo Grant Imahara died

not of covid maybe but could have been related.

Xaris has issued a correction as of 05:03 on Jul 14, 2020

Blockade
Oct 22, 2008

The advantage the rich have here is frequent, quick, and competent medical care.

Even 'middle class' Americans are hesitant to visit the doctor, and certainly couldnt get one at a moments notice usually.

endlessmonotony
Nov 4, 2009

by Fritz the Horse

riseofmydick posted:

Antivirals are not proven to work against coronavirus and anyone can obtain them as long as they have health insurance. And yes while many Americans have lost health insurance more Americans have it than don't. So this really doesn't make a lick of sense.

How, exactly, do you think health insurance works for the people without infinite cash? :thunk:

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



Xaris posted:

wow poo poo Grant Imahara died

not of covid maybe

Aw gently caress :(

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Xaris posted:

wow poo poo Grant Imahara died

not of covid maybe but could have been related.

brain aneurysm apparently

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snoo
Jul 5, 2007




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