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Showing content with the highest reputation on 04/16/20 in Posts

  1. Good thing the WHO, that everyone is so concerned about being defunded, was still telling everyone in the world on Jan 20 that there was no human to human transmission. Fuck China, and fuck the WHO
    15 points
  2. Happy news. I found a home for the cat. God bless this person, they are a saint.
    14 points
  3. Wife just yelled at daughter for putting the broom somewhere she couldn’t find it. So I said, “Why, going somewhere?” Points with daughter. No points with wife.
    14 points
  4. guys, i think you're misinterpreting grhorn's post. he's saying there were some high numbers projected in the initial estimate, and because of some aggressive measures like social-distancing and stay-at-home orders, we've fallen short of these projections. but there's still time. if we get out there, release the rocket-ship that is our pent-up economy, open up our schools, and get back to work, then we still have time to achieve these high goals set forth by our hero president and his fearless administration. you guys sound like a bunch of whiners and quitters with your sheltered lives and low death totals. that's not what america is all about. the numbers are out there. we have our goals. there's no limit to what we can achieve, together.
    13 points
  5. And to answer his question, no we can’t have a good faith discussion about that, or anything else for that matter, because republicans have spent the last 20 years not having any discussion in good faith. I don’t see why this would make them start now.
    13 points
  6. Lol classic Me? No no no. See I can’t go out and expose myself because I can’t expose my family. But everyone should get back to work and do their best to mitigate the risks.
    12 points
  7. I don't know any poor people so I wouldn't know. I'd ask my servants to confirm, but they don't know any poor people either.
    11 points
  8. I gave my kid a couple of beers the other night. He held up pretty well. Which is good, because he's 31.
    10 points
  9. Every single regular player in this series is Emmy-worthy. I mean, I think. I don't watch the Emmys. Or the Oscars or whatever they're called. But Odenkirk is just ridiculous. We've talked in the past about Banks. His performance in the episode where he avenged Matty's death might be the single best acting performance I've ever seen in an episode of television. I think that was S2. Seehorn is absolutely owning it right now. If she doesn't win something, it would be a crime. And I'm beginning to think Dalton is a better actor than all of them. We should appreciate this show. Some may have some minor gripes with the details and that's cool, but man...I have a hard time seeing that we're ever going to get a congregation of A+ storytelling and acting like this again. I'll go there - the overall story might not be as good as the BB universe - but I think this might be a better show. Depends on what you value, I guess. I probably need to rewatch BB as I was just along for the ride the first time around. For BCS I am recognizing the brilliance in real time.
    10 points
  10. Thread still a clownshow. Not sure why we can't shit on China for being complete and utter pieces of garbage while also admitting our response left a lot to be desired. And if stating that is CR shit, then this place is lost. Anyways, it was good to see this thread isn't celebrating the end of C19 due to the emergence of Remdesivir...unlike Wall Street who is in full cocaine/hooker mode. It may shorten the duration and help with severity but it's no cure all. It likely has close to zero effect on lockdowns which are absolutely crushing the economy. It's very likely that prone positioning and not being overly eager to place pts on a vent has done much more good. But a magic med always sells much easier...
    9 points
  11. Captainant has shown himself to be little more than a fellow traveler when it comes views on the Chinese. To say he’s a sympathizer and an apologist would be an understatement. He actively bawled and campaigned for this thread title to change and remove any reference to China for weeks until the admin capitulated after being tired of his whiny shit. If he can undermine the position that China played a role in all of this, he’s damned sure going to do so. Also, bolverk can fuck right off for pushing the same bullshit.
    9 points
  12. hey all you cool cats and kittens.... I just successfully defended my dissertation at Nebraska (via zoom of course), and I'm now Dr. Pancho! I will be drinking the rest of the day, which has actually will be just like a normal Tuesday since quarantine.
    9 points
  13. How exactly is a sporting arena or a movie theater going to implement "strict physical distancing protocols"? Are they gonna only sell every 4th seat? This dumb motherfucker and all you dumb motherfuckers who voted for this dumb motherfucker are idiots. God dammit, man.
    9 points
  14. Not really. It’s more like unless you are a socialist then you are Hitler. If you don’t support open borders, free healthcare and college for all, and abortions up to the minute the baby’s head crowns then you might as well be leading the March of the 4th Reich. It’s beyond ridiculous.
    9 points
  15. I don't see how there's really going to be much controversy, other than whatever gets ginned up politically, around the next steps. Anyone advocating what's happening now for much longer is delusional. Anyone worried that everything is magically going to open up and go back to normal is also living in fantasyland. Churches/Mosques/Synagogues, movies theaters, sports arenas, playhouses, malls, subways, amusement parks, schools, anything else putting large throngs of people right on top of one another, closed until further notice. Sorry. Everything else, find your distance, don't physically touch one another, mask-up maybe, and get to it. Places like salons, restaurants, retail shops, half capacity and caveat emptor. Stop shitting yourself about doing things in sunlight and weather. Open up beaches with social distancin monitoring, same for parks. No one is catching this by tanning by someone else in the sand or by running by them on a jog. Find treatments that make things even more open. Let the SydneyCartons and GreenspointTexas' of the world shelter-in-place until a vaccine is available, along with the olds. If you show symptoms, get help and stay away. There will be flare ups that require more vigilance and people will die at a higher pace than the flu, but generally speaking, the CFR even with shitty measurement for people under 50 is already low. Worse than the flu? Suck it up and deal with it if you catch it. I caught hand, foot, and mouth from my kids who got it at Legoland and ran a 104+ for 5 days and couldn't eat or drink a thing. I'll trade this for that brutality. And then watch everyone shriek here every time someone deigns to go outside and meet another family for dinner or a picnic. Sweden and Arkansas are basically already doing exactly all of this minus the laughing at dipshits on Surly.
    9 points
  16. “Absolutely. It’s not the government’s job to pay people to not work. I had all my money handed to me, so people should listen to me.” - @Johnny Sack
    9 points
  17. For your daily livestock update. Cattle slaughter held steady around 80% capacity with beef values continuing their rally, we are about 5% below the recent high there, and not out of line for normal this time of year. Hogs stayed steady around 85% capacity, with pork values up solidly this AM, but well off the recent highs with bellies leading. CDC is in Sioux Falls trying to help Smithfield get going again.
    9 points
  18. It's not a dream destination, but Vegas is fun as hell. You sound like you suck.
    9 points
  19. got one year for the second time in my life yesterday. the first time was a decade ago after treatment, I was living in a halfway house on riverside in austin, and I was miserable. didn’t pick up a year chip and started smoking synthetic weed shortly after, which quickly became real weed, and then alcohol. this time is better and I do want to get a chip, but then there’s that whole global pandemic thing is going on... several of my buddies have gone out in the last month; when it’s taken away you really understand how much the daily interaction with other alcoholics is so important to not picking up.
    8 points
  20. Agree wholeheartedly. By my estimate, we (as Americans or maybe just humans) painfully lack mindfulness. Little awareness, perspective, or appreciation of the wonderful and simple things around us at any given moment. To the extent it breaks us out of our myopic selfish cocoons and notwithstanding the suffering, change can be a good thing it you can embrace rather than fight it. We had opportunities for reflection after 9/11 and largely squandered those. Here's to hoping for change for the better.
    7 points
  21. The CCP decided to say it was the wet market even though the person they identified as patient zero had never been there and no bats are sold there. The lab actually went to caves in southern China 1000 km or so away to collect the virus specimens closest to SARS cov2. And then they manipulated the viruses so they would spread in other mammals they could study in the lab. The lab was also caught using bsl 2 instead of bsl 4 gear while studying the virus.
    7 points
  22. It's a summary of reversing the measures that have been enacted for slowing the spread of the virus. It contains no information on when each step should be taken. It was drawn up by some jackass intern in the White House in 10 minutes. It's like a recipe for lasagna that has 3 steps. 1. Assemble the lasagna. 2. Bake the lasagna. 3. Eat the lasagna.
    7 points
  23. How can claiming a fear for your life be a justification for shooting someone to death, while fear of death from COVID infection can't justify a mail in ballot?
    7 points
  24. Here's the deal for me: It seems strange to me that the success of social distancing and shelter in place leads some people to conclude that it must be ended. It is absurd to me that persons who denied the disease, promised it wouldn't get beyond 15 cases, and are even now resisting testing and supplying medical needs of hospitals, are now to be trusted with this decision. I do not rule out judicious return to the work place for some workers based on specific, professional assessment of the danger. I dismiss someone pointing to the success of a strategy as reason to abandon that strategy. Your presentation is a perfect representation of the kind of simplistic thinking that gets lots of people killed. Without looking deeper into why the numbers are the way they are (why is the prediction low? Is the prediction low in light of new information about people dying in their homes and other deaths that are not included yet in the statistics?) and accepting the notion of warming weather definitely making everybody safe, you reach a conclusion wholly devoid of foundation. Conventional wisdome doesn't cut it.
    7 points
  25. So let's try something today in this thread guys... One set of posters will take the side that this is the most uber serious threat ever, mankind itself is about to be exterminated by the Covid19, we have no hope, we are never going to unfuck ourselves and there are going to be bodies in the trees. The other set of posters will take the side that this is all a fucking media propagated snow job. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, look that Covid19 straight in the eyes and fuck it in its face. The economy is collapsing and if we don't unfuck ourselves now there are going to be more bodies in the trees than that other side full of all the scared pussies think there will be. IT'S GOING TO BE FANTASTIC
    7 points
  26. Saw a few interesting graphs from @lymanstoneky on twitter. First, estimates of the % of Americans who have gotten COVID-19 based on the number of deaths: and tracking the daily growth rate for these estimates: Finally, the weekly mortality rates in NY this year compared to past 7 years:
    7 points
  27. Trump's OUAA plan looks like something I used to throw together 15 minutes before a class on homework I should have done a week ago instead of playing video games and getting high.
    6 points
  28. Follow up with “You’re just upset because a house fell on your sister” since your not going to be getting any anyway.
    6 points
  29. without large scale testing we won't know for 2 or 3 weeks whether it's raging back. by then it's too late. we're not going back to work without mass testing and trump doesn't want to do that so we're fucked until he is no longer calling the shots.
    6 points
  30. He refuses to post his long form diploma for the board to review. So the only logical explanation is that he's lying and probably a Muslim.
    6 points
  31. Brisket, refried and cheese. Dos.
    6 points
  32. They are. Vanilla ISIS Y’all Queda
    6 points
  33. This guy has been flying under the radar too long. Unlike Cruz, he's not been as vocal in the past, but for some reason he is beginning to speak up a lot more. And in doing so display his idiocy more often. Most recent was the Corona beer tweet. But shit like the following needs to be plastered from Harlingen to Dalhart, El Paso to Beaumont. We really need to start talking about this fool now to get the fever up to oust him come November. Yeah, Trump needs to go, but this tool needs to go just as badly if not worse. It's morons like him who put us where we are now. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-deniers-turn-to-attacking-coronavirus-models/
    5 points
  34. a Republican crybaby. Redundant.
    5 points
  35. In 10 years there will be a flood of beer gutted guys in their late 20s telling us how they could have gone D1 in football if it hadn't have been for that damn pandemic. Covid 19 is going to be this generation's knee injury.
    5 points
  36. We haven't had a decent Senator in that seat since Lloyd Bentsen. I've donated to MJ Hegar's campaign. It's an uphill battle, but she'd be 50 times the Senator Cornyn is.
    5 points
  37. The WHO is a UN body that relies on information freely given from world governments, relies on said governments for funding, and has relatively zero leverage on world governments. They have no ability to make decisions for any world government, it only offers guidance based on the data made available to them. The US has a vast intelligence gathering apparatus (human intelligence, satellite imagery, signal intercepts, the list goes on) in China, and has vast leverage on almost all world governments due to its prolific economy and military power. Even if we couldnt directly squeeze China, we can normally get enough support to collectively squeeze something like China into getting back in line. Tell me again why you would put the blame on the WHO, when the president and his staff has access to better information than them on a daily basis?
    5 points
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