Rad-daddio posted:

its just the flu bro yall need to calm down and try some essential oils

Domus posted:

So did anyone else’s workplace use the phrase “business as usual” while trying to explain why they’re still in operation? It’s eerily accurate. I fix vending machine coin mechs by the way, so it’s not like we’re some vital supply source or something.

QuarkJets posted:

West Virginia will be reporting 0 cases even as they fill gymnasiums with beds to treat Mystery Pneumonia

E: j/k people will just be sent home instead of receiving treatment

Hazo posted:

Politifact rates this as 50% true

Colonel Cancer posted:

Clear fire hazard tho, what if the dragon sneezes?!

large_gourd posted:

turning off the internet in any capacity during this would probably be the single dumbest thing a government could possibly do.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

If Biden were actually dead they wouldn't have an endgame. He's very sick, and they're hoping he won't die, so they won't have to admit he's old and sick.

Harminoff posted:

My mom, a nurse, is still posting on Facebook to "stop overreacting, it's just the flu, I've been exposed to much worse, I'm immunocompromised and doing fine"

Gah poo poo is frusterating

There Bias Two posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

There's a reason for this. They probably picked NJ as the default designation for errors because...NJ.

mrfart posted:

Wow, I really thought this was 3D.

Here's a picture of a depressed orangutan being cheered up by otters.
They're so used to visitors that they're freaking out and to combat the boredom and weirdness the watchers decided to let the otters go play in their pond.
Apparently it worked.

ruddiger posted:

Just in case you’re worried it’s not business as usual in the good ole us of a

Gianthogweed posted:

I got into an argument with my Dad. He thinks the NY numbers are bullshit and doesn't believe they're running out of body bags. His argument was that the death toll shouldn't be much higher than normal because more people are staying home (fewer traffic accidents, gang violence, etc). So I need some data. What is the TOTAL number of people who died yesterday in New York? Not just the covid19 deaths, I'm looking for the FULL TOTAL that includes ALL deaths in NY. I want to compare that number to the average number of deaths per day in NY. I suppose you can take the total number of people who died in NY last year and divide it by 365 to get an estimate of the number of deaths per day under normal circumstances. If you can compare those two number you can determine if the number of the deaths yesterday is significantly higher than the average and that should give you an idea of how devastating the death toll truly is. But I'm having trouble finding that data. Is there a reliable source for this stuff?

d0s posted:

so I never gave the IRS my bank account info and always got my refund as a check. am I waiting like 5 months or however long it takes them to cut checks?

Stink Billyums posted:

loling at the idea of trump learning about something from a newspaper article and not fox's evening lineup

Obeah posted:

Welp, my fellow gooners, it's finally happened. My goddamn mother's communal house is apparently under some level of pandemic-time scrutiny (though the specific nature of that scrutiny she herself does not seem to know), and as a result, the elders there have been divvying up the kids to send to houses outside of their property. I guess in case there's a CPS issue or something?

So now, mid-apocalypse, I have been saddled with a dumb ten year old with filthy hands and no common sense and apparently no family within the state that isn't currently living at the communal facilities. His first day here he was touching goddamn everything, so I've sat aside four pairs of nitrile gloves for him to use that we rotate day to day. He takes off the old ones when he wakes, we put them into their respective drawer, and we check off and move to the next day's.

https://i.imgur.com/W74CMw9.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/NWv6Kbq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3RoaWNp.jpg

Because those religious fanatic nutsos like to keep kids in the dark, I had to explain to him that likely every adult he knows will be dying within the next 2-3 years (whether of the virus itself, starvation, or the impending revolutions and riots), but that we could at least extend every meaningful person's respective lifespans a little bit by following basic loving common sense procedures.

And he's been good at that for the most part, admittedly. He cried a lot the first few days or so, but he seems pretty content to just lay around within the guest room now. He does keep asking about masks. We have two n90 masks that my cousin and I use about the house through most of the day (typical boomer uncle refuses to wear one except for when we send him out for groceries), and a loving gigantic stockpile of them we bought in February. Our mid-day rotationals have been hung up and had a warning sign placed above them so his grubby little mitts know to lay off.

https://i.imgur.com/2omXfIN.jpg

I still hate having a potential contagion in the house, but mom's gonna be cutting a check at the end of the month for us so it's whatever. Uncle has some recurrent cardiac issues, and I love him to pieces, but if he croaks, I'll finally be getting the bedroom with the en suite bathroom, limiting my chances of getting infected or, conversely, infecting the others.

I will say that reading this thread has at least made me happy to know I'm in good company. Stay safe, goons!

bird with big dick posted:

Lol at the snowflakes itt that refuse to tell children the truth that everyone they know will be dead soon and they'll be living in a lord of the fliesesque hellscape for the remainder of their short and miserable lives.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Oh gently caress!

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html

Chinatown posted:

So I work in commercial real estate. Below is what they think NEW workstations will look like. Not sure if this is an elaborate joke or what.







Someone got paid to do this.

Mons Hubris posted:

I had to start going back to work this week and I have legit been toying with the idea of bringing a piss jug so I only have to leave my office for number twos

Mons Hubris posted:

Somebody else empties the trash can so I would feel bad using something I can't pack up and haul out

Earwicker posted:

dont know if it was posted itt yet but to me this poo poo is even worse:



https://www.fastcompany.com/90496843/flying-after-covid-19-will-never-be-the-same-heres-what-airplane-seats-could-look-like

how the gently caress do you even get out if you are in the middle

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Trust the "cubic fit" graph, everything will be fine in a week or two!

https://twitter.com/noahweiland/sta...agenumber%3D158


Note that the cubic fit graph has already failing to keep up with the actual number of deaths and will be even more obviously wrong when today's final numbers are released

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouseCEA/status/1257680258364555264

ThermoPhysical posted:

Great...now I'm going to have to probably stockpile on Vitamin D just so that I can actually take it as prescribed by my doctor.

I wish they didn't post articles like this. I'm currently running low and it's going to be a bitch finding it once that's spread by the mass and local media.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Musk got sick of waiting for permission and just went and reopened the Tesla factory

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1259899417202589697

ruddiger posted:

Hell yeah gently caress the packers

no but for real what the hell is wrong with this country?

goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1261013685641908232

Cough Drop The Beat posted:

I wish my company was doing this because like 98% of their workers can do their job remotely, but I have to go back to work on June 1st unless Ohio decides to put us in lockdown again which probably won't happen.

Shaocaholica posted:

You know someone out there is trying to figure out how to make covid-19 more powerful.

Dr.Caligari posted:

PYF Twitter chud

https://twitter.com/TimothyPaulMon3/status/1256835741583314944?s=20


e; woops. Now corona related - chud

ee; CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

Alan Smithee posted:

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Remember when the world changed because 3 thousand Americans died on 911

Fallows posted:

I woke up and saw this spike and got scared this morning. Then later this morning getting gas I was held up in line this by a really old guy with a walker and no mask trying to convince the cashier she didn't need one because its a medical fact that now its summer the virus is destroyed and hes worked at tampa general hospital for 50 years so he knows everything about it. A week or so ago another guy in a gas station buying beer at like 10 am yelling some poo poo about the bill gates virus.

My parents just booked $8000 summer cruise tickets last week my mom said "you gotta live". Theyre 75 year old who both use CPAP and sleep sitting up.

I should be getting my antibody results back anytime, Im pretty sure I got it in March. I really hope so because it was bad and i hope I have some immunity to it because i dont want to get it again. Two of the three guys I work part time with stripping cars both told me they are sick yesterday.

Stressful times goons! Ahhhh

Waltzing Along posted:

I'd never heard Ben Shapiros voice before. How has no one just up and punched him in the face? It's one thing to say awful things, it's another to say awful things while sounding that annoying.

Zugzwang posted:

We've known about underreporting and number-fudging of covid deaths for a while. I hope it becomes an actual scandal, not yet another thing that either gets believed or disbelieved according to which side of the aisle you're on.

Hope springs eternal...