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Bellmaker posted:Yeah I’m not wearing a cloth mask to protect myself (if it does, great) but to keep spreading it everywhere as an “essential” worker if I have it before I’m symptomatic Yeah, this is the rationale behind all the cloth mask recommendations. It doesn't stop it coming in very well but it's decent at stopping it going out, so if we can get most of the population to wear them the unknowing carriers will not transmit it as much.
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Fritz the Horse posted:edit: holy poo poo his current rambling about how NY needs far fewer ventilators and hospital beds than we thought NY appears to be in the process of successfully bending the curve so he's going to claim he was right all along.
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Apr 10, 2020 19:56
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https://gothamist.com/news/coronavirus-updates-april-11-de-blasio-claps-helpers-bellevue De Blasio appears to have won (for once) and the NYC school year is over.
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Apr 11, 2020 17:55
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Monaghan posted:My province has a positive rate of 0.5%. lm curious to the differences in the state by state in America if the average positive result is 20%. Test availability is still way too low, so they're only being given to people who are more likely to have it. Truly widespread testing would be testing a lot of healthy people and bringing the number down.
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Apr 12, 2020 00:59
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PhazonLink posted:ah yes the homeopathy logic of get more of the thing to cure the thing. The effective treatment is eating five atoms of bat.
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Apr 12, 2020 19:43
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*hastily prints up E Pluribum Unus merch*
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Apr 13, 2020 21:19
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We're going to have weird semi-sports events like the NBA Horse tournament or WWE avant-garde video segments for the foreseeable future
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Apr 14, 2020 17:40
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Shifty Pony posted:Weren't a bunch of NASCAR folks doing streams of them racing each other in online games? Yes, also one of them ragequit a race after he got rammed off the track
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Apr 14, 2020 19:11
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:No chance. People will run screaming back into their homes if they even left in the first place. Yeah, I can't wait until the order to open everything up coincides with the removal of all the emergency business support programs and then they all go bust anyway because all the customers are staying home voluntarily.
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Apr 15, 2020 16:51
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Yes, Vince McMahon really did die in a limousine explosion in 2007.
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Apr 16, 2020 04:32
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Random Stranger posted:I was kind of shocked when it came out a few years ago that only something like 2% of eligible people use the service. They made the free file page as hard to find as technologically possible without straight up deleting it, it was effectively part of the dark web. This was so egregious that the IRS held it to be a violation of the agreement that prevented them (the IRS) from developing their own free file service; they're doing that now. https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-reforms-free-file-program-drops-agreement-not-to-compete-with-turbotax
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Apr 16, 2020 19:46
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I hope these interstate groups are coordinating with each other, too. The northeast and midwest coalitions share a border so they could be merged, then if they annex North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho they can connect to the west coast and form the North United States.
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Internet Explorer posted:Pretty much the next logical step of inter-state compacts. The next logical step is preemptively banning travel *to* Florida.
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Delorence Fickle posted:It's official now. DC, Maryland and Virginia are now acting as one. Capitol Wasteland, clearly
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Apr 18, 2020 01:47
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:The Model is going to have to do some serious revising soon to account for these states opening back up. That's funny, it's outputting nothing but skulls and gravestones now. Are those even in the font?
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Apr 20, 2020 21:21
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pacerhimself posted:You talking about the excavation equipment they own? Options for storing large amounts of liquid
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Apr 20, 2020 21:38
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I mean come on, that is literally from a quote saying they were canceling all parades and city events indefinitely. But that "someday" there would be parades, when this is all over. Including a big one for all the heroes that saved new york city, like health care workers. https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1252610038516068358 TBF this is a rewording of an earlier statement that sounded worse. But he's absolutely not proposing a parade right now like was originally posted.
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Apr 21, 2020 20:09
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cr0y posted:"ehhh that's probably good enough for most cases" TBH this is how basically all of biology and anatomy works
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Apr 22, 2020 18:32
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BIG HEADLINE posted:This seems like it'd be an SMBC comic. Isn't that basically the plot of Accelerando?
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Apr 23, 2020 20:43
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robotsinmyhead posted:Of all the "low death rate" things we've seen the chuds scream about, they seem to forget we live in the US. Even a short stay in-patient, or even a trip to the ER is gonna wipe out a lot of people's savings. Aren't you glad Congress never got around to banning that thing where if one doctor talks to the wrong other doctor anywhere in the hospital suddenly you owe an extra $10K?
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Apr 24, 2020 16:40
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We're lucky he doesn't know about endoscopes, he'd demand you hook up the UV deathray to one and stick it in your lungs.
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Apr 24, 2020 19:18
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Grayly Squirrel posted:There are some people who genuinely just have amazing insurance through their jobs. I have a $0 co-pay and $0 premium insurance policy that covers everything-- even ambulances. There is an optional rider for prescriptions that costs $200 a month. I also happen to work in the public sector, and my insurance is self-funded by the political subdivision. So I essentially have single payer. There are other options I could have chosen, but for the life of me I don't understand why anyone would. The other options cost hundreds or even thousands a month in premiums, plus co-pays, for less benefits. I'm sure it has something to do with public bid law, or the like. Yeah there's basically three categories that are fine with the US system and will resist attempts to change it: -Has really good insurance set up and paid for by someone else -Is lucky enough to have never had a major health crisis or reason to interact extensively with health insurance at all -Is literally employed by the current system
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Apr 24, 2020 19:36
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Jaxyon posted:Many Americans live in bubbles listening to propaganda blasted at them 24/7, but also we're a really racist and stupid country. We've also absorbed a lot of attacks on public health care, instigated by those three groups (mostly the third).
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Apr 24, 2020 20:54
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I wonder when reality will set in for Trump because basically the only thing keeping that fucker going right now is his insistence that the economy will explode and be better than ever starting as soon as like July. Reality is not going to set in even after he gets kicked out of the white house. He will think he was unjustly deposed until the day he dies.
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Apr 28, 2020 17:35
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Thanks, Hanks.
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Apr 29, 2020 18:25
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A lot of the time involved in vaccine creation is making sure it has no long-term side effects and the only way to prove that is to give it to a test population and wait. If you skip that, you run the risk of causing a second different medical disaster down the road. Although, since that would probably happen in someone else's administration, they've probably given this more than a little consideration. The best we can do is what we're already doing- develop as many different simultaneous ideas as we can afford, so if one of them works it doesn't have to wait for any others.
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Squalid posted:what i really hate about this is the implication insurance people were totally aware of the risks and implications of a modern pandemic, even when political leaders were apparently oblivious. Same as the military having plans for war with Canada or whoever- they made it someone's job to think of everything.
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Apr 30, 2020 18:57
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NYC went "gently caress it, anyone who comes to a school gets a meal, no questions asked" a while ago. I haven't kept close track of it but I also haven't seen reports of mass starvation throughout the city so it probably helped.
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May 1, 2020 20:04
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Yeah, it’s more or less an ecosystem built around a large chunk of the population being culled by humans every year. If that step is taken out the whole thing is disrupted. You can’t keep them for next year and you can’t just let them go so there’s nothing to do but slaughter them and dispose of the carcasses because butchery isn’t available.
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May 3, 2020 02:07
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I've got a garage and a chainsaw, how hard could it be?
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:Florida has 35,000+ cases and over 1,300 deaths that they're acknowledging (for now), so no they have not avoided the worst. One of the features of corona is it can take several weeks for someone who is sick to die. They are also trying hard not to acknowledge deaths unless absolutely unavoidable, so it's almost certainly much worse than they're letting on. But on the other hand, they also got a disproportionate share of federal resources because they're a right-leaning swing state, so who knows.
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VH4Ever posted:"Why can't more people be more creatively evil and pedophilic?" - A totally normal person Not even that, just do something more with your insane wealth than sit on it and watch the number get bigger. If we're going to replay the Gilded Age can we at least get some respectable public institutions and giant ridiculous construction projects out of it again? Why aren't they trying to make their mark upon the world in some way beyond baking oligarch-friendly policies into the government? Somebody step up and be the next Carnegie. Basically where is that bit character from the one Simpsons episode who introduces himself by saying "Son, I represent a group of oil tycoons who make foolish purchases" haveblue fucked around with this message at 17:31 on May 4, 2020 |
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You will also have to find a way to fend off the incoming lawsuit for IP theft, no matter how baseless it may be.
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May 4, 2020 20:53
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cage-free egghead posted:Was that the model that had some ridiculous timeline to 0 deaths daily? Like weeks? Yes. The only more optimistic model was the one Trump ordered his cronies to fabricate to make him feel better.
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SpaceDrake posted:Right now the virus has a US fatality rate of about 5% - 1.2 million infections vs. ~69-70k deaths as of today. It's 5% because we're badly undertesting and strongly biased towards people who already have it (symptomatic or high risk). Other countries with good responses aren't seeing numbers that high.
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May 4, 2020 21:35
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Stickman posted:We could have issued homemade mask recommendations early, but with low compliance, low population infection rates, and less information about how covid was transmitted, authorities were concerned that they may actually be counter productive and encourage people to be less strict about following distancing and stay-at-home guidelines. It also took a while to settle on droplets as the main form of transmission, we thought it was primarily surfaces at first.
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May 5, 2020 17:23
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Kaal posted:It's a violation of GoFundMe Terms of Service to raise money for illegal activity. The first couple might skip through the cracks, but eventually GoFundMe will crack down to avoid prosecution for aiding and abetting. Not just illegal activity, they banned legal defense fundraisers a while back IIRC. Too many wannabe George Zimmermans and Kim Davises were signing up.
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Paradoxish posted:What the gently caress is even the point of doing this? Antivaxxers already do this for other diseases, it's not rational.
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Solkanar512 posted:No loving way he sticks to this. Ideally this will result in Congress presenting him with a must-sign bill that was developed entirely without White House input
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