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Posts posted by Helobious
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21 minutes ago, Tailgate said:
Everyone, calm down...it will be ok.
If it’s any consolation... official numbers say less than 80,000 people were infected in Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of all this. Realistic estimates put that number well over 100,000. I say fuck that, let’s take the estimated number and x10 it. Let’s say there’s over 1,000,000 people infected in Wuhan.Â
ÂThat still means “only” about 9% of the city of Wuhan got infected with this thing. Scary for sure, but perspective can’t be lost. Obviously the number of cases will still grow, but 9% in the city where this was most out of control isn’t too bad.
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23 hours ago, Js1 said:
Amazing how often that guy self-owns himself.
What a dumbass.Â
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3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:
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Lulz.
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You dumbasses buy all the ammo and guns you want. If things go to shit I’m spray painting a giant red X on my door and writing “INFECTED” on top of it. Let’s see how many people try and loot me.Â
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Masks are entirely worthless without goggles and gloves too. Also there’s roughly a 100% chance you’ll fuck up the removal/disposal of your safety gear if you’re not a medical professional. But at least you feel like you’re doing something.
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Meh. I live in SA, it’s already here.
More worried about going to Houston Saturday to watch some of those Minute Maid classic games.Â
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35 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:
Why did you need 800 words to correct a single number?Â
If you are so dumb to believe presidents literally, perhaps you could show us where your family saved $2500 from Obamacare.Â
But do that in the correct thread.
Your post is far more CR than any of his. Pretty telling that people get this offended by other people pointing out that our president said something that was inaccurate.Â
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54 minutes ago, Somnio said:
“Rumours about a virus began to circulate in November but no one took them seriously,” said one member, a 28-year-old kindergarten teacher.
Damn, I hope this broad didn't infect a bunch of kids.Â
I do remember reading that apparently this virus is hardly infecting kids for some reason. No one really knows why.
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36 minutes ago, horncyclist said:
I've been following this thread and the news developments. Reading this it kind of sunk in. Is it really a 15-20% hospitalization rate? This is going to disrupt our way of life for a year. Until the vaccine is widely available.
Lulz at there ever being a vaccine for this.
No one knows what the true hospitalization rate is. Roughly 20% that tested positive for it needed to be hospitalized. But not everyone infected even gets tested or needs to go to the hospital.Â
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2 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
It’s not inevitable that every disease must evolve reduced mortality.  This virus apparently has a long incubation period during which the infected is contagious.  And 2% is already a pretty low mortality rate.  98% of infected don’t die and are thus infectious for the maximum duration.  It’s spreading rapidly at the current rate; this isn’t SARS or MERS, which petered out precisely because they killed too effectively. Â
ÂSo what, in your expert opinion, is the environmental pressure on a disease with those characteristics to become less lethal?
We don’t even know what the true mortality rate is, how infectious it is, etc. This disease has only been at the forefront for about 2 months. But your Harvard professor wouldn’t get much attention for saying, “we’re still in the early stages of this disease, we don’t fully understand how severe a crisis it can truly become”. It’s much easier to say “this will infect everyone and end the world” because that’s much more attention grabbing.
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12 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
Okay, that’s fine squishy analysis.  But you’re ignoring the mathematics of it.  The current data points to a 2% mortality rate.  An expert in epidemiology, having studied other relevant statistics about the disease, is predicting 40-70% infection rates.  If those numbers are correct or approximately correct, then the fatalities will be along the lines of what I posted.  That’s just math.
Now, the experts might be wrong and the data might be skewed. But I’m not going to take some random message board dude’s word that “It’s just another cold.”  Because you have cited absolutely zero data to support that view.
It’s pretty naive to think that mortality rate will hold steady. Unless this acts like no other virus in the history of mankind, it’ll eventually evolve down to a less lethal strain (like the spanish flu did).Â
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1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:
All true.  We also don’t know what the mortality rate will be when the number of serious cases exceeds hospital capacity.  So while it’s possible this may not be as bad as current data suggests, it’s also possible it may be worse.  But it’s interesting to put this thing into context assuming current data are accurate and applicable globally.
It’s hard to imagine it getting to apocalyptic levels like you and others on here predict. For example I’d be shocked if it isn’t currently being transmitted openly across the US. I wouldn’t even be surprised if I have been exposed to it already. Seems like other viruses, it’ll kill some people, some people won’t even get sick, and everything in between.Â
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3 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
Just read an Atlantic article in which a Harvard epidemiologist predicted 40-70% of the global population will be infected within the next year. Â At a 2% mortality rate, that amounts to approximately 60-110 million deaths.
Those are Black Death-level numbers.
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That’s pointless extrapolation given how little we know about it. Also we don’t know how it infects an entire populace living in a place with first-world healthcare and air quality.
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43 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:
Do you support the Yankees being fully investigated by MLB? Â
Yes. They’d find absolutely nothing on them. The Yankees & sox did their rudimentary electronic sign stealing, then the MLB issued a league-wide warning. The Astros went full steam ahead anyway. Now all their fans are completely oblivious as to why the Astros punishment differed from the other teams.
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1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:
Man that's crazy.
I mean it's not true, but it's crazy. Didn't even have to go to the second inning to find one.
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Meme says “they did not swing and miss at none of them” so it actually is true. Bet you feel stupid.
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1 hour ago, Iconoclast Texan said:
LOL. this coming from Harlingen Helo. You had Astros fans refute your stupid claim that Giancarlo Stanton sucks and you're calling us dumb?Â
Yes, I’m calling you dumb. I expect nothing else from Iranian Icono.
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They ain’t swung and miss at nothin that game.
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2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:
You mean the guy who won the AL batting title last season?
On the whole, Astros fans are the least knowledgeable about baseball of all the fanbases out there. The vast majority aren’t fans of the sport and have only been following the team itself for 4 years. Minute Maid will go back to being an empty wasteland in a couple years when the Astros run of competitiveness is over.
And say what you will about me, there’s a huge difference between not knowing who Tim Anderson is and not knowing who Adam Duvall (does he even play anymore?) is.
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2 hours ago, Xian said:
Screams of the lockdown. It really looks like a horror movie
to make things worse, reports are that the government barricaded the tenement buildings. So everyone is stuck in high rise prisonsÂ
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oh and did I mention the fuckers are all spitting from their windows? Wtf  Trying to infect everyone elseÂ
Seems like an incredibly easy thing to fake. Just edit the audio.Â
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I cringe every time they Say “El Cuco”. Growing up we always called it “El Cucuy”. More menacing name anyway.
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Don’t see the relevance anyway. The Astros had comically low strikeout rates the past few years because of their cheating. The Yankees had crazy high K rates, that alone should tell you everything.
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3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
Please explain how barrel % is calculated for me.
http://m.mlb.com/glossary/statcast/barrel
That’s what I was trying to say. Voit had a good of whatever that is.Â
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16 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:1 hour ago, Helobious said:Tauchman and Urshela had unreal luck and extended hot streaks, they’ll be back to being spares this year. Both faded towards the end last year. Voit and DJL are grown ass men and there were mountains of evidence that they were poised for breakouts.Â
You're completely full of shit. Voit was hitting 182 for the Cardinals when traded. He hit 333 the rest of the year, higher than he had ever hit in the minors. His SLG beat his minor league high by nearly 200 points.
But his exit velocity & launch angle & barrel % and stuff. River ave blues (best MLB fansite hands down, RIP) had an article about why his peripheral stats were good when the Yankees got him.Â
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Lulz at Stros fans commenting on honor & sports.Â
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7 dead in mass shooting at Coors in Milwaukee
in Daily Texan
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This. Never got that response at all.
Most fascinating episode of season 1 of “I am a killer” on Netflix is the episode where they interviewed the guy that killed 3 people in Laredo with an axe. He says he felt happy after the murders, because by killing he appeased the devil, and now the devil would protect him and he would never die. He says, “whether or not that makes sense to anyone else, it didn’t matter. It made sense to me”.Â