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  1. Here's how this is going to go down. Over the next few weeks one or two of these antivirals are going to prove to be effective enough to keep the death mostly limited to the very elderly and very unhealthy, which will allow us to open the economy back up (perhaps with some distancing measures still in place). We'll make it to a vaccine early next year. A bunch of morons will claim that they were right about it being "no big deal, just another flu" the whole time, despite the fact that the only reason we mostly made it through it was because the professionals didn't listen to the morons, and shut everything down for two months. By middle of next year everything will be fully back to normal, and we will have forgotten all of the lessons we learned. China will still be eating fucking bats and spiders and whatever other bullshit they eat. We as a country will still refuse to stock up on hospital equipment and gear that we'll need if this happens again because it would require we buy one less fighter jet. People will still profit-take every ounce of blood out of their businesses so that a one-week interruption in revenue requires bailouts, and we'll derp along until the next crisis hits with a bunch of toilet paper in our attics. Way she goes.
    33 points
  2. My wife and kids leaving the house for 8+ hours a day.
    25 points
  3. At this point, those wet markets are a known threat to global security. By continuing them, China is endangering the entire human race. The answer has to be firm, and uniform, sanction of some sort. Seriously, we sanction the hell outta North Korea for playing around with nukes, but their carelessness hasn't actually nuked anyone. China has already nuked humanity with COVID-19 (and they should have learned from SARS). Continuing with the same reckless, cavalier, and deadly conduct? I see no problem with a ban of all travel and entry by Chinese nationals. All of them. Nobody with Chinese citizenship/residency gets into any other country so long as these markets continue to operate. They can still participate in the economy, ship goods, etc.....of course all such goods will be quarantined for 14 days to allow time for any viruses to die. If China wants to roll around in deadly viruses, we can't stop them. But we can stop them from coming here or sending shit here that will kill us, too. If everyone of note takes these measures, China knows where their bread is buttered -- they'll shut that shit down, with authoritarian force. Muslim terrorists aren't really coming to kill me. North Korean nukes aren't really coming to kill me. People infected with diseases originating in a Chinese wet market ARE coming to kill me. Shut them down.
    19 points
  4. We undershot the trend everyday last week and are doing a bit better than my 70% reduction model. Deaths are still roughly on trend, but this is not unexpected. I should be able to actually get a firm lag period out of this. Transmission 10-day trend is 0.26, down from 0.35 last Monday. 5-day trend is 0.21, down from 0.39 last Monday. If we stay on the current trend, Friday's O/U: 447,692 cases. The reduction model's O/U: 303,639 cases. I'll probably attempt a rebuild some time this week. We have a good idea of the exposed -> reported case time frame. Should be getting a good idea of exposed -> death lag time. I wish there was information out there on hospitalizations and intubations, as the real goal is to keep those down.
    17 points
  5. Either provide a link to the "tons of evidence" or shut the fuck up troll
    17 points
  6. Wow!!! That is very exciting. I presume our history books will each get a new chapter detailing the valiant efforts of Shane and his gash, as they overcame nearly insurmountable hurdles and managed to set up a go fund me campaign. Just the two of them. I can hardly believe it. Great....wash some cars, bake some cookies, finger each others b-holes on chaturbate...whatever it takes to earn some cash. Fucking lulz at "giving back to their community" by filling out a web form that effectively asks others to donate. I'm gonna assume this is Paige's doing, and Bueche went along so he continues to get action. Cause I dont see many Buecheles on the donor list.
    15 points
  7. and they'll be replaced by all of the out of work waiters and bartenders.
    15 points
  8. Right. But recognize that what you did was to post pretty bold claims without evidence — claims many of us have evaluated previously and found lacking based on evidence available to date. Society today is rightly sensitive to propaganda and understands that broadcasting inaccurate factual claims is a key part of propaganda efforts. The best propaganda efforts separate their factual campaigns from the policy advocacy. Combining the two makes the duplicity too overt. It’s more effective to inundate the population with incorrect factual information that supports your policy preferences first, preferably through voices that appear to be independent third parties. Then, only after those you seek to persuade have absorbed and accepted your false facts as true, you propose the chosen policy as a reaction to those false facts. Not saying you are part of such a propaganda effort here. Just that many of us are skeptical of the anecdotal and flawed early evidence for this drug cocktail. Trump himself blasted out bullshit about its effectiveness and has openly stated a desire to get Americans back to normal life much more quickly than most experts believe is safe. It’s perfectly reasonable to suspect this administration and its enablers of pushing bad information about chloroquine now with the intent to use the hope such information creates to build public support for a premature end to social distancing efforts.
    15 points
  9. Homemade pasta turned to cacio e pepe
    14 points
  10. Smoked a fatty while I was making my brisket. Breakfast for the week
    13 points
  11. Well, uh I guess I, deep down, am feeling a little confused. I mean, suddenly, you’re in a pandemic, and you're supposed to be this entirely different guy. I don't feel different. I mean, take yesterday for example. We were eating takeout from the Olive Garden for dinner, which was lovely. And, uh, I happen to look over at a certain point during the meal and see a post from Penelope talking about the lack of laundries in Manhattan, and I found myself wondering what color her underpants might be. Her panties. Uh, odds are they are probably basic white, cotton, underpants. But I sort of think, well, maybe they're silk panties, maybe it's a thong. Maybe it's something really cool that I don't even know about. You know, and uh, and I started feeling... what? What, I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not?
    12 points
  12. Some companies are building their brand and others are wrecking it.
    11 points
  13. these people are called "Republicans"
    11 points
  14. The folks with the fancy degrees at UT Austin’s medical school, aren’t putting out papers warning us to get close to 90% in social distancing for shits and giggles. They put that paper out there because it’s in the community and spreading, and we don’t know how many have it. Bookmark your post and come back in a week or two and tell us how you were right, and how few have it, and how the UT Austin medical school folks got it wrong.
    10 points
  15. 10 points
  16. Perhaps you're not ready for the CR
    10 points
  17. Ravioli is done. It's not the easist pasta to make. I know a lot now about it that I didn't know before. I did end up with a brown butter and herb sauce on top. The flavors were spot on. I just need to work on my ravioli making skills a bit.
    10 points
  18. Props to these people. God bless em. At their wages they could probably sit at home and make the same money but they come every day and work their ass off. My favorite people in most of the places I work. I’m serious.
    9 points
  19. He thinks it's all part of China.
    9 points
  20. My nephew’s wife is an assistant principal & teacher at a private high school in the HillCountry. She’s also the IT person for the school, so working 18 hour days, she single-handedly set up their online instruction program and got it running last week. She and some of the teachers are actually working from the school building to begin with, then will start from home this week. anyway, when she was online with one of her own classes last week, she was called out of her classroom briefly to help another teacher with a technical problem. While she was out, one of her students in the “Zoom” class mooned the rest of the kids. Hilarity ensued, but of course one kid ratted him out to Teach. Lol Dunno how she’s going to deal with that bit of discipline..... send a drone to whack the kid... a robot?
    9 points
  21. I built a frankentele a while back. Giutar fetish body routed HH (who knows what wood it is, probably Chinese Balsa). Warmoth neck, Les Paul scale. Ultra gnarly but super toneful hand wound Bill Lawrence pickups (real deals, non stewmac ripoffs). Video is straight into C30 (probably with gain set too high).
    8 points
  22. I mean, if any western country's numbers are outright false, it's the US. Testing was intentionally avoided here. No comparison between countries is apples to apples, but to not "remotely trust the numbers coming in from other countries," with the implication that American data is somehow better, is an astonishing abdication of facts on the ground.
    8 points
  23. 8 points
  24. Little fucker slept the whole damn way home from Silsbee to Dallas...
    8 points
  25. 8 points
  26. Yes. The people on this thread are really the largest culprits of bad behavior. Why don’t you make a sign and go picket outside Kroger about social distancing and practice the courage of your convictions. But thanks for the Monday morning shrill bellyache, I can now set my watch.
    8 points
  27. Well, well, well. I don’t know what in the fuck you two think you’re doing, but it is obvious you’re trying to slip a few fastballs by us here in the later hours, so let me help you out with a few key pointers to counteract the positivity here. 1) It’s a Sunday. The past 3 have had weird lulls. Same for this one. 2) We’re all going to die, and soon. 3) We’re all Italy, only 7 weeks behind. 4) Some people here saw a few things today that invalidate all other positive thoughts. One guy saw multiple people in the same vehicle on a few occasions. Another guy saw people within shouting distance of one another at a grocery store and only a couple of psychopaths weren’t wearing masks. According to my calculations, that means 750,000 are going to die by Mother’s Day and you are a traitorous piece of shit for thinking otherwise. So yeah, pull yourselves together and get that cyanide pill back within arm’s reach of being ingested, because nothing else matters.
    8 points
  28. Good lord. "Bush wars aside?" Bush was a lot closer to Trump than he was to Obama. He was a disaster. He didn't protect us from another major terrorist attack. None were attempted. 9/11 took years of planning and coordination and funding. They didn't have to attempt another one because 9/11 gave them such a great return on their investment. Clinton warned Bush that Islamic terrorism was the greatest threat to this country. Bush ignored him. Richard Clarke, the "Terrorism Czar," warned him. His office was defunded and defanged. The intelligence agencies warned that there were blinking red lights indicating something big was coming. Bush was more concerned with tax cuts. He received a PDB titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." What did Bush do? Not a goddamned thing. Just like Trump with the Pamdemic, Bush ignored the warning signs and got caught with his pants down.
    7 points
  29. So the thing is: the vast majority of those who get this virus will recover with “tremendous success” without any treatment at all. That’s why a proper scientific study, with a control group, is needed to determine whether this is anything more than a placebo.
    7 points
  30. Fuck you. You can go back and look at my previous posts, I am no troll and I fucking hate Donald Trump with the fury of 1000 suns. I was just noting the amount of stories piling up that the shit actually works. You guys are fucking animals.
    7 points
  31. If the 2020 season is cancelled and the University doesn’t refund season ticket purchases, then in light of the decline of college football attendance over the past few years, combined with the product Longhorn fans have seen on the field the past decade, there’s a strong chance the University loses a ton of good will and a significant amount of season ticket holders. Maybe a lot of folks will accept that and continue to fork over money for season tickets. I likely won’t be one of them. And despite RD’s obtuse response that meanders in off-point directions, there is indeed a meaningful distinction between whether a governmental entity can legally be forced to pay or refund private citizens money in light of immunity and whether it will in fact do so out of contractual obligation, good business sense, and/or public relations. Were there none, governmental entities would breach contracts or refuse refunds when paid-for goods and services aren’t not provided with impunity. And spare us all the do-something-or-don’t-complain mantra. It’s a fucking message board with a wide variety of topics where we all do just that, for Christ sake. If a lack of action precluded us from raising and discussing critical issues, this board would dry up.
    7 points
  32. Leftover rib meat on Brazilian cheese bread with some whataburger pepper sauce, some japs, and cheese. Quarantine fuel.
    7 points
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