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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Wow! The US has tested 1.8 millio people, that's drat Spaniards! Stealing our infected-per-capita-record! Still #1 in tests per capita. People around here seem to be staying at home... Let's wait this poo poo out.
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Warthog posted:drat Spaniards! Stealing our infected-per-capita-record! Not even top ten in tests per capita, USA is 41st. 
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Wisconsin governor suspends in-person voting for Tuesday's election ..well thank goodness. Dang.
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Supermarket trip report. People have wisened up to markets being empty just before closing. Which means that is now not a thing anymore. However, on the plus side, there are way more people wearing masks, most of them self-sewn. I'd say almost 1/4 of people wearing masks as opposed to nearly no-one last week. Still, gonna have to go shopping even earlier in the morning to dodge crowds.
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Guy Axlerod posted:A friend of mine said 1800 contacts was filling orders without an updated prescription. that's cool. I've been ordering contacts from overseas vendors since 2009 because a) an injury in my left eye back in 2006 messed up my vision and "US health care" b) i hate faking it on vision tests for the opportunity to get an rx c) it already takes extra weeks to get my contacts because that rx i have isn't kept in store. only just recently did i have an issue where a vendor was blocked from accepting US cards and paypal, but they emailed me with info if another company to use, and they've been great. i an currently waiting on 4 boxes of acuvue 2s that i ordered a month ago thinking it was time to stock up. ive kept using the same rx for the last 11 years (I'm a gen x'er) and the only thing I've recently noticed is: with both my contacts in I'm now becoming farsighted, which i think just comes with old age, though. i guess that's why reading glasses exist. but if i only wear one contact (i do this a lot) then I can read up close small print and also things 50 feet away, with a hint of blurriness thrown in.
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Grocery shopped at supper time yesterday, it was nearly empty. All of the stores now have arrows to guide you and lanes are one way. Some folks did not pay attention to that. I watched a young couple pick up and put down multiple items and the lone other shopper told them off (from a safe distance). There was a limit on frozen vegetables and a few canned goods. Pretty much every item was stocked just fine aside from baking supplies. Could not get baking powder Wasn't sure if I'd be out of place in a mask. A good third of people I saw were masked up. Cover up in public
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Big Beef City posted:Wisconsin governor suspends in-person voting for Tuesday's election
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10K deaths in the US as of today. Seems fine.
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Big Beef City posted:Wisconsin governor suspends in-person voting for Tuesday's election its gunna be fought in court lets hope the judge doesnt suck
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Hopper posted:Supermarket trip report. People have wisened up to markets being empty just before closing. Which means that is now not a thing anymore. I went to a grocery store in NC today and the stock was better than usual, the only things they were totally out of were eggs and flour, which I’m fine on. There wasn’t more than 1 person in each aisle, most of them had masks and they had a person in self checkout wiping the screens after each use. All in all it was much better an experience than a week ago.
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Sure, Covid-19 is horrible but we're going to get a sweeeeeeet memorial out of it
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/04/medics-in-brazil-fear-official-coronavirus-tally-ignores-a-mountain-of-deaths Brazil coronavirus: medics fear official tally ignores ‘a mountain of deaths’ “What’s happening is enormous underreporting,” said Isabella Ręllo, a doctor working in emergency and intensive care in Rio de Janeiro hospitals, in a widely shared Facebook post challenging official numbers. “There are MANY more,” she wrote.
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Apr 6, 2020 19:39
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Trump gunna push elections to 2021 now.
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MattO posted:Sure, Covid-19 is horrible but we're going to get a sweeeeeeet memorial out of it Its gonna be... beautiful. Some are saying the most beautiful. More beautiful than the 9/11 memorial? I dont know. Some people are saying that. We'll see.
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15k bronze toilet paper rolls stacked in a massive pyramid
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It’s going to be some horribly ageing avant‐garde poo poo.
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Another Bill posted:Its gonna be... beautiful. Some are saying the most beautiful. More beautiful than the 9/11 memorial? I dont know. Some people are saying that. We'll see. We're gonna have the most deaths, the bigliest number
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quote:Bats are speculated to be reservoirs of several emerging viruses including coronaviruses (CoVs) that cause serious disease in humans and agricultural animals. These include CoVs that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) and severe acute diarrhea syndrome (SADS). Bats that are naturally infected or experimentally infected do not demonstrate clinical signs of disease. These observations have allowed researchers to speculate that bats are the likely reservoirs or ancestral hosts for several CoVs. In this review, we follow the CoV outbreaks that are speculated to have originated in bats. QuarkJets posted:Most modern disease outbreaks have come from domesticated animals, not bats. I think it makes sense to not eat bats I'm just saying that your risk profile is all janked And yet the most recent and most dangerous diseases globally have come from bats, primarily. Not to mention that unlike domesticated animals which we need for food, we can comfortably cease most contact with bats and be little worse off. That isn't true of livestock, nevertheless new laws concerning sanitation and livestock care shouldn't be out of the question. The more conscientiously we handle and distribute these animals the more protected we will be, and bats is a very good place to start it seems, despite your ranting about risk profiles and how you are the only one who can understand them.
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I’ve found that by checking the instacart app a couple times a week meant I could see when bulk items like rice that sold out get restocked and make a big order also canned goods weren’t limited for online orders (limit 4 in person, all you what online) gave my delivery guy a big tip
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batman fuckin up
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Spinz posted:We're gonna have the most deaths, the bigliest number 'member how earlier in this thread people were bitching that "both sides equally bad, come on now?" And how Trump's been pushing for people to just start taking Hydroxychloroquine because in his own words, literally, "whats the worst that could happen", despite it being proven to have pretty awful potential side effects? Major Producer of Hydroxychloroquine Once Paid for Access to Trump Both sides bad. Remember.
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Global bat eradication program seems reasonable. Do bats have a important ecological niche? Probably not.
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Big Beef City posted:'member how earlier in this thread people were bitching that "both sides equally bad, come on now?" And how Trump's been pushing for people to just start taking Hydroxychloroquine because in his own words, literally, "whats the worst that could happen", despite it being proven to have pretty awful potential side effects? maybe they're donating 130m pills as penance for giving money to a icky lobbyist
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Big Beef City posted:'member how earlier in this thread people were bitching that "both sides equally bad, come on now?" And how Trump's been pushing for people to just start taking Hydroxychloroquine because in his own words, literally, "whats the worst that could happen", despite it being proven to have pretty awful potential side effects? It's idiots or assholes. At least the assholes are not idiots, sometimes.
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NihilismNow posted:Global bat eradication program seems reasonable. Do bats have a important ecological niche? Probably not. “Bats are our friends! They eat lots of bugs!” is the stump speech, but right now I’m feeling like taking my chances with the bugs.
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Cue the worst year on record for mosquoto-borne illness. West Nile virus is what will kill us all in the states this summer.
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"We don't really see that bats are eating a lot of mosquitoes," said Tim Carter, associate professor of biology at Ball State University who studies bats. "Sometimes when biologists say things like that, when they're actually saying is 'mosquito-sized insects.' "Do bats eat some mosquitoes? Absolutely, but it's not a major part of their diet."
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Why are bats so disgusting? Why don't we give them a bath sometimes
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I got back from Target for a couple essentials and maybe 1 in 10 people are wearing masks while they're out and about. I think everyone is still afraid of looking dorkey. I don't care I feel like a ninja, a big fat ninja
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Stop talking about doing things and start doing things, people.
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I built a bunch of bat boxes over the summer for the state park because bats are losing their habitat I’m sorry guys it’s all my fault
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Bats are fine, it's the wily pangolin we have to worry about.
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NihilismNow posted:Global bat eradication program seems reasonable. Do bats have a important ecological niche? Probably not. They eat bugs but we’re gonna kill all those too.
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It was not a good idea for Boris Johnson to wash his face in COVID-19 viral particles and then drink some for all those weeks. Really have no idea what he was trying to prove by doing that
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whats the pokemon that looks like a pangolin, i bet it's taking a popularity hit
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Well that sounds like the safest place to be! Better than being in the "No one gives a poo poo" Ward, I'd say! All good here!
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