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No the problem is that YOU can’t discuss what YOU consider the single most important factor. Oh wait you can and it’s called the CR. You know I’m far, far from a political poster but over the last few weeks I’ve ventured over there a few times to post things that I thought might be a little over the line for this thread. Works for me.12 points
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I'm not. This staff has proven time and again that there is not a single piece of info that leaves the building unless they want it to leave. Even the hardcore Herman haters have to admit that he, Carrington, and Chang have that shit on lockdown. It's been hilarious to watch the 9.95ers try to deal with it and pretend that they have sources.11 points
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Heard on NPR that Senegal is offering everyone free or cheap in home testing. Results in minutes. Both antibody and active infection tests. Took me two days just two weeks ago to find a test for my son who was sick. Which country is the third world shit hole?10 points
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One of the things I keep hearing are several scientists saying this wasn't created in a lab. I don't think most rational people think it was created in a lab, but a great many believe it was being studied in a lab, and protocol wasn't observed, or some other type of accident occurred. That's how it may have been released. That or it did come from a wet market.10 points
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The world is showing us so many different ways to approach the problem, and we just absolutely fucking refuse to pick even one of them because we'd literally prefer to die than to admit that people outside of America might have a good idea about something.10 points
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Well Potus literally said he doesn't like test because they make us look bad. So yes I do. Especially considering testing capabilities around the rest of the world. The rest of the world raced to secure mask also. Our leaders say they don't work and refuse to wear them. We've redefined American Exceptionalism to mean the entire world largely agrees on solutions and best practices Except America. Evil? Probably. Incredibly Stupid? Definitely9 points
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I haven't made a snapshot post of my model in a while. There's two causes (1) I'm exceptionally busy with my real life (2) it's essentially the same as the last time I posted: slow slope downward on infections/day. Transmission rate at 0.09. IFR at 0.65%. ------ Instead I'll opine on the melange of popular topics: Origin - The virus seemingly to went from a horseshoe bat to either a pangolin (chinese armadillo) or some kind of snake then to humans. Live market: This hypothesis is very much plausable. This certain snake and bat are uncommon but actual foods and the pangolins are sold because the scales have medicinal value. Natural contact: No idea. Someone needs to get a bat, pangolin, and snake expert into a room to figure out if and how much these specific species may or may not interact in nature. Bats tend to cover large distances and are immune to the natural boundries that inhibit those of us walking around. Lab (accident): I think this is actually equally or more likely a scenario than above. The SARS-COV family of viruses is actually one of the most studied viruses in the world right now and part of that research does create new strains. Many of these varieties are accessible down to even the graduate/doctoral level even if the access is controlled and monitored. I'm not sure exactly what the safety and security protocols are in China, but they in the past at least did not meet the US standard. The two biggest labs heading up this type of research are in Wuhan and somewhere in the US that I can't remember (California?). There's no record of a similar strain in online databases before 2020 (besides the bat one itself), but China gonna China. Lab (purposeful): I don't think there's much evidence to support this. Much of the evidence used against it, I don't find compelling either. I've seen two "studies" telling us what a bioweapon would look like and how this doesn't look like one. Ironically, the studies had differing criteria for what a bioweapon should look like to begin with. At best they were telling us how much better their bioweapon would be. They are also assuming that someone had infinite resources before releasing this and didn't get grab whatever they could get their hands on. It would be expected to quickly mutate into something else after the inital release anyway. I'm not a big fan of this hypothesis, but it's also not patently false. I will say that there would be no better cover than to release this in Wuhan, where there are several other origins as distractions. ---- What this thing looks like in a month: No one knows, everyone will claim they were right. We are staring into a blackhole just like we were in March. It's not clear how much reduction was social driven and how much is policy driven. I'm leaning towards social being more important overall, but one also does inform the other. You should be very skeptical of "government does X and we get Y" hindcasting or projection. We are very unlikely to go back to anything close to the inital surge of the virus in any scenario cooked up by governmental leadership. We should start to see some data following the effects of lifted restrictions as early as next week.9 points
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The denialism that some people still exhibit about what Trump can and can't do is interesting. We've got the past 3.5 years to show us what he's been able to get away with and the entirety of human history to show us how dictators can undermine and destroy restraints on their power, yet some people are still pretending that there's any restraint but Trump's own incompetence. He's already destroyed most of our institutions and succeeded in removing anyone who would slow or oppose him. He's absolutely going to try to steal the election. If Trump loses in November and actually leaves office, it won't be because our institutions were strong and successfully restrained him. It will be because he was too busy live tweeting cable news to more completely dismantle them.9 points
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The problem is that you’re retarded9 points
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Northwestern hospital in Chicago is losing 150,000,000 per month. At 39,000 per Covid death they need to fake 3800 deaths a month to get back to even. People really believe that shit happens? I had surgery and an overnight there last year. Total bill was 100,000. Logic would dictate that if anything they would hide all Covid deaths so they can open up and get that hospital going 100% again. Thats the incentive.8 points
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They don't WANT to the capacity. Trump can DPA order right this minute to mobilize hundreds of facilities to begin to produce needed materials. Authorize money for production of chemical reagents. Should have happened months ago, but weeks ago would have helped too. Doing it tomorrow would help. But he's simply never going to do it, and yeah "evil" is a perfect word.8 points
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Sounds like something a mask wearing pussy would say..7 points
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NO POLITICS! *criticizes Newsom* *spreads right wing talking points about faking cause of deaths for money* NO POLITICS!7 points
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Or, you can ask a simple question incorporating the obvious: "How much sense does it make for a virology lab to be studying a type of virus that 1) is endemic to that very region when 2) that type of virus has an established record of becoming a threat to human health (SARS, MERS)?" I mean....it's the same reason that Texas universities study hurricanes and coastal flooding, and California universities study earthquakes. It's not because Texas universities have a secret "let's cause hurricanes" plan. Coronaviruses are a long-known and established threat to human health, and becoming a pandemic. They are endemic to that region. It makes sense to have a local lab studying it, AND, because the type has shown that it can make the animal-human leap AND travel to become a potential pandemic, it likewise makes sense that other players -- like entities from other countries -- would be involved there. Occam's razor and shit.7 points
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They've been around for a long long time. Education helped some to learn how to think critically and keep an open mind, but others fall down that well and stay there for generations.6 points
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Hmm I wonder why some folks are pushing hard on the narrative that covid deaths are being over reported? Obviously it couldn't have anything to do with the P word because that is NOT allowed in this thread.6 points
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You may not be intending to victim blame, but your words are in fact victim blaming. I think you might be trying to make a simple cause-effect factual statement. "If he had put his hands up and cooperated he'd be alive." One could make similar factual statements about many date rapes. "If she hadn't flirted with him she would not have been raped." From a factual cause-effect analysis, these statements might be true, but in both situations, the cause-effect fact analysis is absolutely irrelevant. The jogger had no reason to believe that these guys "just wanted to talk" just as the girl had no idea that the guy she flirted with was a rapist. It may simply be cause and effect in your mind, but the statement directly addresses the action of the victim and is reasonably interpreted by others as trying to analyze blame based on the acts or omissions of the victim.6 points
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I like the theory that it was being studied in the lab on test animals, and that the test animals were later sold at the wet market for food. Voila - both sides appeased. And yes, China is still asshole.6 points
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This seems overtly political and mentions a politician by name. Just change the name of the thread already and stop pretending it’s most prolific posters are engaging in a discussion that isn’t political6 points
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just came here to post what amazing piece of shit our president is. i seriously don't think we could have put anyone worse in charge.6 points
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but this is funny AF :: Fortunately for us Sam and Mond both played LSU and OSU last year so we can do a little comparison. Here are the two game totals for the QBs. Sam: 682 passing 8 TDs 1 int 130 rushing 1 TD Mond: 187 passing 1 TD 3 int 109 rushing 1 TD6 points
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Nobody wants to stay sheltered until a vaccine. But in order to function *and limit the deadly impact* we need diagnostic and antibody testing coupled with isolation protocol and massive contact tracing, so exposed people can stay home and not spread the disease further. But that’s not happening. It’s just “back to work/restaurants/malls/haircuts”. Why can’t “re-open” be done in a scientific way designed to protect as many people as possible?6 points
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Holy shit this fucking dumb fat pussy that can't even handle basic questions from reporters without throwing a tantrum and shitting all over himself is the same person that 40% of the country has brainwashed themselves into believing is some alpha freedom warrior god. We are fucking toast.5 points
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Two months ago, I saw a provocative movie on cable TV. It was called The Net, with that girl from the bus. I did a little reading, and I realize, it wasn't that far-fetched.5 points
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boo fucking hoo - dude should be sitting in a jail cell right now anyways5 points
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email5 points
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