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  1. 15 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    I was looking at this yesterday.  sweden, france, etc all have similar curves.  we(US) started climbing about 10/20.  we are probably 2 weeks from the drop.

    well wishful thinking has gotten this far, I guess...

    Pearland beat me to it, but on what earth are Americans taking COVID as seriously as Europe? If anything, I'd expect us to go significantly longer with more deaths than we saw in Europe. Shit, we're about to have a big national holiday where tons of families are throwing caution to the wind because they think it's a hoax or just another flu.

    But your sunshine pumping is nice, in an early season aggy sort of way

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  2. Just now, InkaUtexas said:

    Perhaps get them to the hospitals first, use this one for healthcare workers? If the rest of us need to wait, well we have to wait. 

    Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall discussion about the storage requirement being so cold that many hospitals and even universities don't have the equipment, or have only very small volume of storage that cold

  3. 34 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Yeah I’m not going to lose any sleep over that one. I’m not sure we should have a death penalty, but since we do I don’t see why Orlando Hall shouldn’t get it 

    +1 to this sentiment. I don't like the death penalty by policy - BUT - fuck this fucking fuck. My concerns with capital punishment are that it's a process without appeal, and our justice system isn't known for it's batting average. But this guy seems like a special piece of sick twisted shit, and definitely an edge case where I think the death penalty isn't out of the question

  4. 1 minute ago, HenryJames said:

     

    That's awesome news, but wasn't the Pfizer vaccine the one that needed to be stored in -70C? I'd think that's the larger limiting factor than manufacturing the injections. Most rural counties aren't gonna have easy or fast access to ultra-deep freeze facilities.

  5. Disturbing new details in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

    CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is new and disturbing information in the alleged militia plot against the governor of Michigan.

    The 14 men charged had far more violent plans than just a kidnapping, according to federal and state authorities.

    New filings claim there was a Plan B the militiamen had drawn up, that involved a takeover of the Michigan capitol building by 200 combatants who would stage a week-long series of televised executions of public officials.

    And, according to government documents now on file in lower Michigan court, there was also a Plan C -- burning down the state house, leaving no survivors.

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    In an interview with the ABC 7 Chicago I-Team last week, Michigan's attorney general, who's prosecuting some of the militiamen, discussed the domestic terror threat.

    "We are one of the few states that does not ban guns in our state capitol building, and clearly there have been threats made on the lives of our legislators; you probably saw the pictures back from in April, where we had armed gunman, some of them, same defendants in this case, that were hovering over state senators with long guns, screaming and yelling at them as they were deliberating, as they were discussing legislation and as they were voting, so that remains a big concern to me in a very scary scenario," said Dana Nessel.

    That fear bleeds over to Illinois. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker mentioned the Michigan case during Tuesday's COVID-19 update.

    "We have threats that stream into my office daily, while we have watched the kidnapping plot against the Michigan governor unfold just a state away," said Pritzker.

    Despite the violent nature of the charges, including an alleged plan to hold a mock treason trial for the governor of Michigan once she was kidnapped, several of the defendants have had bond reductions and are now free.

    Higgins' attorney suggested in court that he may challenge extradition altogether at Thursday's bond hearing in Wisconsin.

  6. Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse Used COVID-19 Stimulus Money to Buy Gun

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    In his first interview since his arrest, Kyle Rittenhouse told The Washington Post that he used government stimulus funds to pay for the gun that he later used to kill two people at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this summer. “I got my $1,200 from the coronavirus Illinois unemployment, because I was on furlough from YMCA, and I got my first unemployment check so I was like, ‘Oh I’ll use this to buy it,’” he told the newspaper. Rittenhouse, who is 17 years old, said he paid an adult friend to buy the gun for him since he was underage. “I feel I had to protect myself,” Rittenhouse said. “I would have died that night if I didn’t.” The teenager, who’s been charged with intentional homicide and illegally possessing a gun, told the Post that he didn’t regret having a firearm that night. One of Rittenhouse’s sisters referred to the Kenosha demonstrators as “monsters.”

    Jesus tittyfucking christ. It's a bingo card of terrible things

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  7. 1 minute ago, BabaYaga said:

    I'm saying the spike in cases specifically in EP is a little more complicated than just attributing to a lack of social distancing and masks.....

    Which is.... That they're mexican and will bring disease over the border? What's the additional complicating factors that differentiate EP from east TX from north TX? Show your work and maybe people won't assume you're posting in bad faith

  8. 5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Smart enough to recognize unique characteristics EP has that many other cities do not.  Everyone who mentions EP, but conveniently omits Juarez & Chihuahua is not telling the whole story.  You have tens of thousands of workers crossing back and forth daily in a region of more than 3M people.  You have gatherings and shopping of course, but a significantly higher proportion of generational living akin to what we saw in Italy living under one roof.  EP can mandate what they want.  Juarez is another story.  Even with similar messaging and mandates, Juarez and Chihuahua are beyond impoverished, 100% cartel controlled, and extremely limited in all things medical related.  So are we advocating shutting down the border completely in the region to isolate and contain the virus (being facetious of course).  It's more complex than "see......they're just not wearing their masks......."

    How are all those juarez residents sneaking all the way into east TX and Dallas to drive infections there? (Nice dog whistle of brown people bringing disease tho)

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  9. 37 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    it's bad engineering.  it's the macgyver equivalent of duct tape.

    IMO, the use of MCAS in itself isn't bad engineering nor does it inherently make an aircraft less safe. The bad engineering is when they hid their design decisions and material changes to flight characteristics from the end user who would ultimately die due to those changes.

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    And ya know, lied to regulators and customers, etc, etc. 

    This whole debacle is going to be the next Challenger/Morton-Thiokol engineering ethics case study in which business and non-technical factors determined technical outcomes, without fully considering the repercussions of their decision. I have no doubt that Boeing could have developed, built, and sold the 737MAX safely, just the same as the Challenger didn't HAVE to blow up that day.

    But in both cases, suits overruled the engineers and their documented objections. Only problem is the engineers answer to cold hard facts, while the suits answer to their share holders and careers

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    so...if there’s an efficacy threshold and it’s 70% or higher, we are not meeting it. 

    it's not so much that there's a line where anything less than isn't worth doing, as it's where it becomes significantly more effective. Even partial measures and partial compliance makes an impact on the R0 of an infected person. I posted this video months back, but it's a data scientist's visualization and explanation of the phenonium through modeling the behavior in models with many agents in them. Granted, he's not an epidemiologist, but it's a useful tool for better understanding how community spread occurs, and what different levels of mitigation does.

     

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  11. 10 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    Password requirements are tyranny!  These fucks will cry about anything.

     The victimhood complex is REAL. I was recently watching the docuseries "Five Came Back" about the filmmakers of WWII and the efforts to counter axis propoganda through the "Why We Fight" films. 

    One thing that really stood out to me was the 1940 description of fascists, and how they constantly seek to paint themselves as the victim and use that to justify their abhorrent behavior and tactics

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  12. 8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If you have friends/relatives who are anti-mask, don't focus on the mask wearing, focus on "do you want to keep schools, restaurants, etc. open?"

    We can't convince those people, no matter how many studies we send them, but if they think it keeps schools/businesses open, some will relent.

    alternatively:

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