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Ironic take; given the relatively low lethality of this virus (compared to SARs) and the fact that a lot of people who get it don't even exhibit symptoms, the Trump administration's "ignore it and it won't be a problem" attitude might actually be correct.
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UnknownTarget posted:Anything happening? Seems like we're in a big lull now. https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1234822447947558915
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UnknownTarget posted:Ironic take; given the relatively low lethality of this virus (compared to SARs) and the fact that a lot of people who get it don't even exhibit symptoms, the Trump administration's "ignore it and it won't be a problem" attitude might actually be correct. Ignoring it more easily leads to a situation where health resources are strained too much, even when the virus isn't that lethal. A certain percentage will need intensive care.
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Mar 3, 2020 16:39
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CPA Hell posted:Looks like someone is on a god appointed mission to start the revelation. Pence or Trump?
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Mar 3, 2020 16:41
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UnknownTarget posted:Ironic take; given the relatively low lethality of this virus (compared to SARs) and the fact that a lot of people who get it don't even exhibit symptoms, the Trump administration's "ignore it and it won't be a problem" attitude might actually be correct. it's basically a round of russian roulette for anyone over 75
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Mar 3, 2020 16:42
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I don't think Pence itself will be infected but somebody will be infected sooner or later. Because theres probably a lot of smart people in the white house, they will probably have a cache of test, and use them. And scan people for the symptoms. People talk about asymptomatic spreaders, but I think if you don't have the symptoms, you are probably a ineffective spreader. People on the whitehouse can get infected, but much later when the infection become more prominent, not just in the beginning. Tei fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Mar 3, 2020 |
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Mar 3, 2020 16:45
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bob dobbs is dead posted:it's basically a round of russian roulette for anyone over 75 And you don't die right away, you lie on a bed for 3 weeks and breath harder and harder and harder until you can not breath no more.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea9sYVGJy3s
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Mar 3, 2020 17:11
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Uh...who is this guy and why should I watch him talk into the camera for any amount of time?
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Mar 3, 2020 17:12
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He's a journalist who uses his southern accent to talk some sense into rednecks.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:14
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Wonder if any of the people who flipped out to chinese adjustments will have a breakdown over this too. https://twitter.com/CherylRofer/status/1234469759124566017
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Mar 3, 2020 17:41
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UnknownTarget posted:Ironic take; given the relatively low lethality of this virus (compared to SARs) and the fact that a lot of people who get it don't even exhibit symptoms, the Trump administration's "ignore it and it won't be a problem" attitude might actually be correct. He's going to blame losing the election to MAGA virus and its going to be great because there's so many tweets and sound bytes of him saying it doesn't matter. That or he uses the situation to take absolute power as emperor of north america which has its own entertainment value.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:48
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bob dobbs is dead posted:it's basically a round of russian roulette for anyone over 75 So is everything. Eating bacon is a round of russian roulette for over 75's. Going to the dentist is a round of russian roulette for olds. Blinking faster than normal is russian roulette for the aged.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:49
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Shaocaholica posted:He's going to blame losing the election to MAGA virus and its going to be great because there's so many tweets and sound bytes of him saying it doesn't matter. After all you have seen you still think Trump won't be reelected? You sweet summer child.
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Hopper posted:After all you have seen you still think Trump won't be reelected? You sweet summer child. Waiting on the MAGA virus. That's the wild card.
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Mar 3, 2020 17:58
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Tei posted:Because theres probably a lot of smart people in the white house, they will probably have a cache of test, and use them. [citation needed] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-defends-cuts-cdc-budget-federal-government-hire-doctors-coronavirus-2020-2-1028946602
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Mar 3, 2020 17:58
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Fartbox posted:Isn't it good that we're culling all the old? It also has much high death rates among those with heart issues, lung issues, immune system issues, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
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Mar 3, 2020 18:00
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bob dobbs is dead posted:it's basically a round of russian roulette for anyone over 75 My mom's 88 and living in a dementia facility.  For the love of God, no jokes.
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Mar 3, 2020 18:02
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golden bubble posted:It also has much high death rates among those with heart issues, lung issues, immune system issues, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Darwin was right.
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Mar 3, 2020 18:02
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Arsenic Lupin posted:My mom's 88 and living in a dementia facility. My grandmother is around that old and definitely that senile. She lost her marbles well over a decade ago, can't keep a train of thought more than 30sec. Honestly, it'd be merciful if she just went in her sleep sometime in the next few weeks, but she's a fighter like her own mother, who died at like 96, couldn't recognize anyone, was literally capable of going through the motions only with two people helping. So yeah, I'd miss my grandmother, but her mind checked out so long ago that she's only going through the motions now. Her, and her mother, are good examples of why I never want to live that long. Just going to smoke my way to an early grave. Seems more tolerable an idea than freaking out every 30 seconds about where I am and why I'm sitting in a full diaper.
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Mar 3, 2020 18:15
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golden bubble posted:It also has much high death rates among those with heart issues, lung issues, immune system issues, diabetes, and high blood pressure. The last two are probably going to kill me anyways, might as well die from the meme virus
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Mar 3, 2020 18:15
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Smoking yourself to death is not a quick, painless, or dignified death either
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Mar 3, 2020 18:18
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Arsenic Lupin posted:My mom's 88 and living in a dementia facility. Going through a fully functional same age grandpa who is going out of the country next week, planning on going to yet another country in April too and still planning to go on his cruise in June that's going all over the place. I'm the only one in the family that thinks he'll stand greater than a 50% chance of catching and dying from this during these combined trips. So now I have to sit back and watch this happen and hope he doesn't get exposed. He's in every single risk group, COPD? Check, Diabetes check, high blood pressure? Yup. I'd say your mom is safer than my grandpa.
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poverty goat posted:Smoking yourself to death is not a quick, painless, or dignified death either Who said I was going for dignity, speed or relative pain? The high end of my bar is 70. I get there, I might as well start deciding what cliff to jump off.
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poverty goat posted:Smoking yourself to death is not a quick, painless, or dignified death either Once you get in the thing, close the door, and let the scents of the gently smoldering applewood chips take you away, it can be quite a pleasant way to go.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Who said I was going for dignity, speed or relative pain?
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numberoneposter posted:Midsommar fan I see. Haven't seen it. I keep passing by it on hulu or prime and think, "I'll watch that eventually" but haven't gotten around to it.
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Jesustheastronaut! posted:I've got a flight booked to London and Paris in June. Really banking on this whole "coronavirus" thing blowing over within the next couple months hahahahah you are hosed. it will be fine in a year or more. but yeah, June is still going to be hosed.
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My mom is still quite functional: can hold conversations, has strong opinions, is currently manning the switchboard for the dementia ward part of the day. She just has hallucinations and can't remember stuff. She hates it.
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Hallucinations are probably the worst thing to hear about. Last time I saw my grandmother she was talking about seeing the boys (her three sons) playing in the yard outside the kitchen window. In reality, she was looking out the window of the dementia home, but in fairness, it's all corn and beans outside both windows. I slipped out of recognition a few years back. She spent a good five years raising me, so it's a little disheartening, but I know it's just the disease eating away. loving shame.
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My grandmother lived for over a decade after a stroke that wiped out her short-term memory. So you would go to visit and the whole time she would talk about how sad she was that you had to leave so soon. Over and over and over. Then when you left all she would talk about to the caregivers was how sad she was that nobody came to visit. So my dad just told me to kill him if that ever happened to him. Uh, anyways....
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poverty goat posted:Smoking yourself to death is not a quick, painless, or dignified death either Cancer or carbon monoxide?
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how can they say it won't work when they haven't even tried it! just put some nCov in the vaccine and shake it up, for godssakes
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:So is everything. If I understood the statistics correctly at 75 you have a 5% chance of dying. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/older-american-health.htm
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Mar 3, 2020 19:02
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month three or four of the pandemic and the president is having the basics of flu != cold explained to him
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My grandma is 103. She survived having the Spanish Flu in 1918, even when two of her siblings didn't. Her mind is going, but she's in excellent physical health for someone that insanely old. She could totally fight of the coronavirus.
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From the Guardian's rolling coronavirus storyquote:A British guest is the latest person to be diagnosed with coronavirus at a Tenerife hotel. The H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel has been under lockdown due to an outbreak of the virus.
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Guests without symptoms have been allowed to circulate around the hotel, making use of facilities like pools and shared dining areas, as long as they wear a mask, wash their hands frequently and submit to regular temperature checks. They’re on holiday, gotta get a little relaxation in somehow!
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