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bolverk

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  1. 10 hours ago, austingirl said:

    Was thinking the same thing. It's nice till you try to breathe.

    I can't breathe...through my nose. Seriously, my  sneezing  woke me up and I'm finding it difficult to form thoughts in between allergy attacks.

  2. 32 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    I hope none of y'all had a trip to NY planned.

     

    Shit. I've been planning a road trip to take my daughter back up to school there at the end of August (driving so she can have a car to leave with her and fly back). This is all so fucked.

  3. 17 minutes ago, WBT said:

    I'm sure the protests didn't help but there's not going to be a 1:1 correlation with any one thing.  Reopening, protests, complacency/boredom with staying home and wearing mask, and countless other things have probably contributed.

    One role the protests may have had in a rise in cases indirectly is that it possibly normalized the notion that it's safe to go out and about. I dunno. That's just sheer speculation on my part.

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  4. 40 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Despite what Trump claims he asked "his people" to do, there is no way testing was actually slowed.  Most testing is administered at a state or local level.  The only way to get them to slow down would be to impede further delivery of test kits.

    Well, there was that odd decision early on when the CDC was in charge of most testing but then suddenly stopped without explanation, leaving it entirely to the states, locals, and private labs to perform all the tests. Also, yesterday, there was a report where there remain $13 billion in unspent federal funds that had been earmarked for testing.

  5. 12 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    Add in the Virginias, the Carolinas, Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana and Maryland.    And any other city named for someone.   Every city town should be renamed.   Let's do this!!!!

    Hold up now. Maryland AND Maryland? 

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  6. 38 minutes ago, alincoln said:

    Santa Rosa police believe it was linked to the protest.  Not much of a leap to ascribe it to the indiscriminate property damage part and parcel of these protests.

    Still need a link on this accusation because none of the local news stories I've found indicate or insinuate that.

  7. 6 hours ago, workswithseed said:

    A Holocaust memorial was just knocked down in California. Good job, people. Let's see what else we can destroy, cause it's fashionable.

    I looked this up and I think you're referring to the one in Santa Rosa that happened about a week ago. I haven't seen any assignment of blame, but I would bet that it's a different fascianable group than BLM. There was also another holocaust memorial in Nashville that was recently vandalized, as well as one in Boston a couple of years ago.

    If you've got a link handy that blames BLM for a holocaust memorial vandalism, I'd sure like to see it.

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  8. 36 minutes ago, stork642 said:

    So with cases going up if deaths don’t go up significantly is that proof that we are dealing with a weaker strain of Covid?   And if it is weakening doesn’t that change how we will treat this pandemic going forward?  

     

    23 minutes ago, stork642 said:

    Yes,  it seems to have mutated to a weaker strain therefore less deadly according to a medical journal out of Jerusalem.  People are living in fantasy land if they didn’t think a total shitload of people weren’t going to get Covid.  Question is is it still as deadly?   

    https://m.jpost.com/health-science/covid-19-is-weakening-could-die-out-without-vaccine-specialist-claims-632324

    We simply don't know yet. No one does. It may well have mutated to something less severe. It may be primarily hitting younger people now for whom it's not so fatal. The heat might be causing lower viral loads floating in the air. No one can say with any confidence.

    What we do know is that the increase in cases among a younger cohort is still resulting in a higher number of people being admitted to the hospital and also a higher number in ICU beds. We also know that there is some evidence, in at least one study, that even some asymptomatic cases show signs of ground glass, which puts into question the issue of permanent lung damage. Finally, we have some indications that the benefits of antibodies against the virus might well be a fleetingly temporary status.

    There are still a fuckton of questions about this thing. Go ahead and knock yourself out to see what your personal experiences are, but also know you have zero right to fuck over other people with your infested breath and finger germs.

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  9. 3 hours ago, mchookem said:

    *raises hand* i'm sure i'm considered part off the librul cabal on surly...but prior to 2016 i had in fact voted for the same number of Rs and Ds for president...and had actually voted 3rd party more than either (i am a rare Ross Perot Twice voter lol). 

    i have primarily voted for the individual over party platform. in 2016, i might have voted for Kasich.

    i still consider myself independent...but there's a malignant, rotting tumor that has taken over the republican party, i don't see myself swinging back any time soon. 

    I understand the hesitation, having voted for Nader twice and never voting for a Republican at any level of government.

    D > R, G > R, L > R

    There's just something about self-identifying a party affiliation that puts a bad taste in my mouth.

    Edit: OG Clinton was my first presidential vote.

  10. 1 hour ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:


    I’d definitely give him a heads up... especially if you’re able to work from home. Won’t hurt especially since your daughter lives with you and she’s potentially been exposed.

    ^ This. It's not just a CYA thing but a responsibility to those you work with. Even if you don't feel those who are in the office are "at risk," this can still wreck shop on the young and relatively healthy, who themselves could expose folks who are truly at risk in their homes. You just don't know, and wouldn't you feel like a real asshole if you even suspected that you were the vector causing another person's suffering.

    It's just the right thing to do, and I think you'd feel better about it not weighing on your conscious.

    That's my 2 cents anyway.

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  11. 1 minute ago, Bateshorn said:

    270towin is a tool, not a predictor. And the site owner will tell you as much.  He compiles polling data, but that’s not where you should be gathering your info. 

    That's well understood on my part, but that's why I prefer to look at the current polls map to get a better picture of their impact on the Electoral Votes picture rather than looking at the consensus or Cooke Report maps, which kind of are predictions because those are based on pundit opinions/predictions. I understand that the current polls map is a reflection of what it'd look like if the election were held today.

  12. 4 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Any lockdown won’t happen unless or until a city’s hospitals get overwhelmed. They’re all in on “open for business”

    Actually, he said Texas is "Wide Open for Business" which is the state's official tagline.

    77673_3461844a4bf983e34d146d890b620b00e8

    Because bragging rights are what's most important in times like these.

  13. 2 hours ago, Parliament said:
    5 hours ago, bolverk said:
    Oh, hey, Amarillo, Canyon, and Dumas are looking better!

    Perhaps. But it's still Amarillo, Canyon and Dumas.

    The Panhandle might be a bland, sterile landscape but it still beats the shit out of all the broken down rust piles strewn across Ohio.

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