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Posts posted by bolverk
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3 minutes ago, Enchubben said:
It's like you've never heard of aggy engineering. These dorks cant build a football stadium, sewer system, swimming pool or even stack logs correctly.
You forgot the horse barn.
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20 minutes ago, Lobo said:
The death rate PER CAPITA in Belgium is twice that of the United States, and the highest in the world (nearly 860 deaths/million people).
Would one of you the Trumper/Coronavirusisahoax people like to tell me what in the fuck is the reason so many Flemish and Walloon people had to die? 5000+ miles from Texas to Antwerp. The nation with the absolutely most devastating death toll per capita, Belgium. What was their role in all this? Does it fit your narrative?
This arose as an issue a couple of months ago. I couldn't remember offhand but recalled that they were counting differently than everyone else.
Found this:
Belgian officials say they are counting in a way that no other country in the world is currently doing: counting deaths in hospitals and care homes, but including deaths in care homes that are suspected, not confirmed, as Covid-19 cases.
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Come on Hulu. I wanna know about how that crazy ice cream truck guy's conspiracy theory jibes with the on-screen mole people.
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31 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
Meanwhile, Cornyn isn’t sure kids can spread it.
Quick glance at that headline and I thought “That sounds about right. It’s awful but Texas is a big state.” Then, the county part registered. 👀😳😒
Corpus Christi is really taking the corpus part of its name seriously.
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27 minutes ago, immamac said:
The type of person who would accept a nomination under these circumstances is not the type of person who has the supreme courts best interests in mind.
The type of person who would not hold hearings on a potential nominee 8 months prior to an election is not the type of person who has the supreme court’s best interests in mind.
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5 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:
While we are sucking shit thorough a straw no doubt, the Asian countries lived through SARS-1 which was much more deadly. They aren’t fucking around w Covid
That was kind of rhe point. They masked up and didn't throw a shit fit about it. They also understood early on about the importance of contact tracing and isolating positives. It's almost as if they had a game plan that could be replicated elsewhere but hasn't been followed.
2 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:As far as death rates in Texas being low, I’ve been seeing some theories out there by folks in the medical community hypothesizing that Texas’ high airborne allergen exposure can lend people to better fight off the disease. No idea, just thought it an interesting idea/hypothesis. Who the fuck knows anymore why it do what it do
As an O+ allergy sufferer, I'll gladly accept the preliminary findings of those theories for very selfish reasons.
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Do y'all remember when the previous incarnation of the CR went absolutely ape shit for a week over Obama moving Churchill's bust onto a bookshelf or some shit?
I remember but probably won't this scandal. I'll have forgotten it by this time tomorrow night after the motherfucker claims prima nocta over the Virgin Islands.
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43 minutes ago, Bartles said:
No one ever came clean on who the DC guys were a few weeks back, right? I assumed national guard especially the ones in matching Texas shirts. Or maybe whatever Blackwater is called in 2020.
And now these pricks pull this right there in the Bundy/Ruby Ridge region. So much insanity going on, but I hope someone can dig up the details on these scumbags. Plenty of video of rental car license plates. Follow the money.
40 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
They are Border Patrol.
It’s insanity.Pretty sure the DC guys with the Texas flags on their shirts were determined to be some special forces group or whatever from the Bureau of Prisons.
These Portland "police" in camo that magically makes it difficult to read their chests are reportedly Border Patrol, operating there due to some obscure 100-mile border zone authority that allows them to operate within that limit along the entire edge of the country including coasts.
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12 minutes ago, achooloco said:
Fucking shit. My relative in the Austin medical community tested positive today. Day one of symptoms was yesterday and the test results came back today. Isolating at home now and luckily their spouse/kids have enough room to manage the next two weeks but the spouse had life threatening pneumonia a few years ago so they’re worried about that. These next two weeks can’t pass fast enough.
I had pneumonia a couple of years ago had to stay in the hospital for a week after an emergency appendectomy (really bad timing for that) when I was still trying to recover from it. Not a pleasant experience and one of the biggest reasons why I'm obsessively following this and other related threads.
Keeping my fingers crossed for your kin.
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1 hour ago, Superhero said:
Oregon is pretty far from the border, and these protesters aren't dang ferriners. What legitimate reason does US Customs and Borders have to do there?
I don't pretend to understand all the details of this, but apparently it's a thing.
- The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Americans from random and arbitrary stops and searches.
- According to the government, however, these basic constitutional principles do not apply fully at our borders. For example, at border crossings (also called "ports of entry"), federal authorities do not need a warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing to justify conducting what courts have called a "routine search," such as searching luggage or a vehicle.
- Even in places far removed from the border, deep into the interior of the country, immigration officials enjoy broad—though not limitless—powers. Specifically, federal regulations give U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authority to operate within 100 miles of any U.S. "external boundary."
- In this 100-mile zone, Border Patrol agents have certain additional authorities. For instance, Border Patrol can operate immigration checkpoints.
- Border Patrol, nevertheless, cannot pull anyone over without "reasonable suspicion" of an immigration violation or crime (reasonable suspicion is more than just a "hunch"). Similarly, Border Patrol cannot search vehicles in the 100-mile zone without a warrant or "probable cause" (a reasonable belief, based on the circumstances, that an immigration violation or crime has likely occurred).
- In practice, Border Patrol agents routinely ignore or misunderstand the limits of their legal authority in the course of individual stops, resulting in violations of the constitutional rights of innocent people. These problems are compounded by inadequate training for Border Patrol agents, a lack of oversight by CBP and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the consistent failure of CBP to hold agents accountable for abuse. No matter what CBP officers and Border Patrol agents think, our Constitution applies throughout the United States, including within this “100-mile border zone.”
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4 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:
Lots of empty apartments at my complex this month. Are evictions being processed in Austin now?
Those $600/week checks are coming to an end so people might be readjusting their living situation accordingly. I read somewhere that something like a third of American households didn't pay rent or their mortgages at the beginning of this month. Dunno when evictions are allowed to start kicking back in, but I imagine it's very soon.
We're going to start being in a world of economic hurt next month.
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3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Also, the longer this goes on we should get better at treating it based on lessons learned if nothing else.
1 hour ago, bolverk said:What jumps out me from this table is looking at the deaths per cases or population and seeing how extraordinarily low that rate is in Texas compared to everyone else. What's going on there?
- Is it that Texans are that more hardy?
- Is the quality of our healthcare that much better?
- Has the virus become less lethal?
- Is it because it didn't really become widespread in the early months like most of those comparisons (East Asians were never swamped) and therefore doctors have learned to treat it better?
- Is it because the segments of our population that have been most infected (i.e. younger) are less at risk?
I'm guessing that 4 & 5 are the most likely answers but am certainly willing to entertain the notion that 3 is also a possibility. I guess we'll begin to get some more indication as it starts to spread into more at-risk groups like our nursing homes.
Hey, Mr. Day Drinkerman.
(I'm jealous.)
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6 minutes ago, justhookit said:
It’s mostly because the deaths from our spike are just now starting to hit.
I understand that our deaths are rising, but the low rate at which they've occurred so far for the number of cases we've had is what's puzzling. You might well be right and are referring to the fact that deaths are a lagging indicator and our case load is so fresh. If so, that's not something I had not considered in my post of wild hypothesizing.
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27 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
So what their doing is cool, right?
His only problem with it is the tweeter dude made a typo. Otherwise, Alles ist in Ordnung.
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8 minutes ago, LebongJames said:
Only 232 new cases in Austin.
That's excellent news for us. What's also pretty kick ass for Travis Co. is the number of "active cases" here is really low compared to other population centers around the state. Sort by active cases and see who all is higher.
3,300 is still a shit ton, but I'll take it for now.
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59 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:
Jesus, is your friend the Hubble Space Telescope?
Even looking back towards the Austin lights, I managed to see it for about 30 seconds last night (with binocs) before a thin cloud wiped it out. Was about 9:28 pm. Timing is somewhat important because you need to catch it when the light from sunset is mostly gone, but before the comet gets too low in the sky.
It's just an amazing shot. Check out that white horizontal line in the upper section of the photo to the right. Is that a satellite or the space station also crossing the sky?
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47 minutes ago, slorch said:
Tyler Institute of Teaching & Schoolin'
Ah, man, that'd be the tits!
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4 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:
More San Antonio data reshuffling:
Note the overall statewide total has been updated to include approximately 5,000 cases reported by the San Antonio Metro Health District stemming from a laboratory reporting backlog. More information may be found on the San Antonio website.That San Antonio data reshuffling because of the antigen/antibody distinction has given a lot of fodder to my more skeptical Facebook friends that the numbers are being cooked for whatever reason that they're more predisposed to believe. Lots of rampant conspiracy theorizing is going on there.
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1 hour ago, ABSR said:
I wanted to see what this mean on a death per case and population standpoint and then also using the 10x asymptomatic/unreported cases per reported cases number (which may be wrong) that the CDC put out a few weeks ago, what that meant on death per "assumed" infected.
Added a few countries in Europe thinking that they are a better compare and likely have somewhat reasonable numbers (compared to China, Russia, Iran, etc).
What jumps out me from this table is looking at the deaths per cases or population and seeing how extraordinarily low that rate is in Texas compared to everyone else. What's going on there?
- Is it that Texans are that more hardy?
- Is the quality of our healthcare that much better?
- Has the virus become less lethal?
- Is it because it didn't really become widespread in the early months like most of those comparisons (East Asians were never swamped) and therefore doctors have learned to treat it better?
- Is it because the segments of our population that have been most infected (i.e. younger) are less at risk?
I'm guessing that 4 & 5 are the most likely answers but am certainly willing to entertain the notion that 3 is also a possibility. I guess we'll begin to get some more indication as it starts to spread into more at-risk groups like our nursing homes.
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17 minutes ago, Chooky said:
Robert Elie
How about John Aielli High School? I imagine the marching band halftime shows could get quite eklektik.
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22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
If people/kids would wash their hands a lot more often and observe a few other practices (wear a fucking mask if you're sick and have to be out like they do in Asia), we could cut down on a helluva lot of things - we could lower percentages on the flu, cold, etc. and save lives.
The comparison between westernized East Asian democracies and the US/TX is absolutely staggering in contrast. These are yesterday's numbers as posted by Worldometers.
South Korea
Population: 51,271,209
Cases: 13,612 (265 per million)
Deaths: 291 (6 per million)Japan
Population: 126,457,976
Cases: 22,890 (181 per million)
Deaths: 985 (8 per million)Taiwan
Population: 23,818,733
Cases: 452 (19 per million)
Deaths: 7 (0.3 per million)US
Population: 331,086,970
Cases: 3,695,025 (11,160 per million)
Deaths: 141,118 (426 per million)Texas
Population: 28,995,881
Cases: 315,924 (10,895 per million)
Deaths: 2,864 (132 per million)
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:
Well, it does. Some of the rights are pretty basic and broad -- freedom of assembly, freedom to practice religion how you want, etc. So, any order that limits gatherings and the like (as just one example) implicates a constitutional right.
What so many people do not get is that constitutional rights are NOT completely and totally inviolable. I mean, every knows the "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater" exception to the first amendment. That rationale applies across the board. Narrowly tailored government action in an exercise of its police power to protect the public health and safety is not unconstitutional.
Well, I was thinking more about the mask issue. With that I guess, taken to its broadest interpretation, one could argue that requiring a mask would limit freedom of speech so I get your point.
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1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:
i never understood leaf blowers. most of the time they are just blowing leaves into the street, it seems. what's the big plan then? the leaves blow away? i don't get it. i always rake and bag.
Meh, I just mow over the fucking things.
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5 minutes ago, relapse98 said:
No, same side in this one.
They do note that they agree his order places "restrictions upon constitutional rights."
Really?
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Hope they double check the captol’s address before heading off to 1100 SOUTH Congress.