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Horn Dog

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  1. 7 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Latest MAGA talking points from my MIL's Facebook; it's back to being the regular flu, because hospitals and doctors are reporting everything as a Covid related death, because they (hospitals and doctors) get paid more for a Covid death than a "regular" death.

    What the fuck.

     

     

    This is true.  I just got an email from my hospital admin that I am getting a fat Covid Death Bonus this quarter.  Fantastic news!

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  2. On 4/19/2020 at 2:18 PM, Irwin F Fletcher said:

    Oh the irony. I am all for Trump getting back out and interacting with his supporters.

    Get the rallies restarted.9aebeb32569d5525f75b817a914114d1.jpg

    Would...after she recovers of course.  I assume the condom is optional too.

    Also, she is against masks but is wearing a bandana??

     

     

  3. 17 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

    I can’t believe the people of Wisconsin came thru.

     

    everyone who voted blue deserves a medal. Some of those people got hailed on for 3 hours to do it.

    This right here.  Fuck these GOP ghouls in the ass for not delaying the vote during the height of a pandemic.  I’m in a blue state now, but I will walk through a fucking mine field to vote against Trump in November.

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  4. 18 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Read an odd report today from Bain Consulting (don’t have a copy to share). The report indicated a range of possible future scenarios, and the MOST likely scenario was that the government would deploy a
    lightly tested vaccine and/or treatment broadly by May. Pretty shocking if true.

     

    18 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    I could see that. They're going to be desperate by then. That doesn't mean it'll be effective or without really bad side effects though. Big gamble.

    As long as the side effects are minor then I don't have a problem with that.   Our understanding of vaccines is pretty good now, and they are not using live virus, just surface proteins or snippets of viral RNA,  so making a non-fatal vaccine should not be that difficult.  Now whether it works or not is another story, but I know that no vaccine doesn't work.   At least make it available to medical personnel.  They understand the risk/benefits and need it now.  If they wait 18-24 months, the vaccine will be useless.

  5. 4 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    Right - given that percentages remain fairly constant for a country re observable hospitalizations/complications and deaths, you can extrapolate to those curves that would otherwise be verified by mass testing.  We're on the steep exponential upslope of the curve right now.  No brakes, no seatbelts.

    Interesting.  I definitely am not saying we have reached or are near reaching critical mass immunity , just that we might get there faster then anticipated.   I am no expert in statistics, but wouldn't a model composed of a large percentage of asymptomatic carriers still result in a steep upslope initially until critical mass is approached?   I would in fact expect an even steep initial slope in this model since the virus is spreading even faster then expected.   If the slope is completely stable, that means that the news we are hearing of large numbers of mild/asymptomatic cases is false....  yikes.

  6. 9 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    The problem is we are mostly testing those with fevers.  I’m betting there’s huge swathes of younger less susceptible people getting this and it passing with no fever.  I mean less susceptible to a serious bout of illness with COVID.   Hopefully we will know more w antibody testing.  

    I think this raises  an interesting point.  IF there are huge numbers of people getting infected with no or very mild symptoms, and IF those patients are gaining some form of immunity during their asymptomatic course, then perhaps we can reach critical mass herd immunity faster then is currently projected.   Lots of IF's and unknowns but a potential sliver of silver lining. 

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  7. 27 minutes ago, threesheets said:

    SIAP:
     

     

    Who wants to bet that Jerry will not be anywhere to be seen on campus as he "orders" everyone back.

    At my hospital I was recently told by an administrator that I needed to to a procedure on a high risk patient without an N95 mask cause it wasn't required.  I told him, sure, if he comes in with me with the same protective gear that I have.  Suddenly I was given a N95 mask.  Unfortunately these Liberty  students and faculty can't do the same.

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  8. 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

    why does facebook have 700k n95 masks ?

    You obviously have never  smelled cheesy poof/mountain dew fueled nerd farts

    55 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

    It's just the olds.  That's all.  And preexisting conditions.  

    Trump did say he had a plan to take care of preexisting conditions for almost no extra health premiums.  Promises kept.

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  9. Johnny Hack posting a supposed signature block from an alleged email from his financial advisor to own the libs - not quite Rocko posting a picture of his paystub level pathetic, but damn close.  


    Cashing in your 401k to buy a used Corvette to own the libs!

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  10. 11 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    Fuck, this is all depressing.

     

    Here's a break:

     

    This is awesome, but last time I did made a leaf pile for my dog I found 4 ticks on her.  Apparently ticks love leaf piles.  Bad time to deal with a Lymes outbreak.

  11. 3 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    And fuck the cruise lines along with the airlines.

    They charter in foreign countries to avoid paying US taxes and avoid US regulations and laws.

    They’re an even bigger “NOPE” than airlines and hotels.

    No shit.  Why the fuck would we bail out FOREIGN cruise lines?  They are mainly based in the Bahamas to avoid paying US taxes and now they want US tax payer bailouts??  Holy shit.

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  12. 21 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    So my company (tens of thousands of employees worldwide) has been dragging its feet on any official work policy, so I went into the office today. I found out in the afternoon that someone on my floor went on a cruise LAST WEEK and came into the office today.

    I have an immunocompromised pregnant wife at home. I am fucking livid at my company for not having any official policy that keeps obvious potential high-risk employees out of the office. Am I being unreasonable?

    You should be more pissed that he got your wife pregnant during the cruise  and gave her the AIDS.

  13. 22 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    We should get commensurate ownership stakes in any company we give bailout money to.

    How about conditions such as reasonable  seating distances, no more charges for stupid shit like seat assignments and carry on baggage, and general promise of humane treatment in exchange for keeping them alive with our tax money

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