April Current Events: "I just dont trust anything the white house says"

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Proud Christian Mom: Dec 20, 2006; READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Bulky Bartokomous posted:

I know this isn't about Joe Biden so sorry if it is too far off topic:

https://gothamist.com/news/surge-nu...HiwhTqJ_WgHu8as

COVID deaths possibly being undercounted because lots of people are dying at home and not being tested.

My wife's uncle was going to die at home until his brother, who lives half a country away, called the sheriff to do a welfare check. He's now on like day 5 of being in an induced coma on a ventilator. I have no doubt there are many more like this.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:09

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 12:07

Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

Mr. Nice! posted:

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1247601182312366081

gently caress off clown

Good, gently caress that idiot piece of poo poo bootlicker chud gently caress.

gently caress the entire GOP while we're at it. Ghouls and sycophants, the lot of them.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:11

Flying_Crab: Apr 12, 2002

Mr. Nice! posted:

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1247601182312366081

gently caress off clown

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:12

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Milo and POTUS posted:

photoshop goatse into the reflection

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:13

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

bloops posted:

The word in Chicago is we’re doing much better than expected and this week is critical for people to seriously not go outside.

Next two days are supposed to be beautiful out....

And my mom's cardiologist just canceled her pacemaker replacement and is pushing it off until the end of June.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:13

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

facialimpediment posted:

Here's information on the IHME model out of the University of Washington that has been driving some talk: http://www.healthdata.org/covid/faqs

Another on how localities are partnering with universities to make their own models, with different assumptions, and why DC thinks the IHME model is bad: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-peak-dc-maryland-virginia/2020/04/03/0636bc6c-75cf-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html

Here's a longread about where the Trump presser model came from and why epidemiologists think the model was suspect / hot garbo https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/02/experts-trumps-advisers-doubt-white-houses-240000-coronavirus-deaths-estimate/

The trouble is that there's so much we don't know, and no federal government model/standard, and each model is based on assumptions, so localities are pulling from a gazillion different sources. We're so far behind that contact tracing really isn't A Thing in the hotspots.

Thanks!

Edit: Reply =/= quote...

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:14

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

Slight update - Modly has tendered resignation. Esper has not yet accepted it.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:15

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

EBB posted:

lmao

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:15

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Mr. Nice! posted:

Slight update - Modly has tendered resignation. Esper has not yet accepted it.

https://twitter.com/connorobrienNH/status/1247602281115254791

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:17

Handsome Ralph: Sep 3, 2004; Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!

Mr. Nice! posted:

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1247601182312366081

gently caress off clown

Good, get hosed.

Also,
https://twitter.com/notlarrysabato/status/1247605083673632768
Thoughts and prayers.

Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Apr 7, 2020

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:31

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/connorobrienNH/status/1247602281115254791

gently caress

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:31

SquirrelyPSU: May 27, 2003

Did Crab Dad get home alright?

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:41

McNally: Sep 13, 2007; Ask me about Proposition 305

Do you like muskets?

SquirrelyPSU posted:

Did Crab Dad get home alright?

Yeah, he's reenacting Neil Armstrong's quarantine by living in an RV in his driveway for a few weeks.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:45

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

McNally posted:

Yeah, he's reenacting Neil Armstrong's quarantine by living in an RV in his driveway for a few weeks.

Is he peeing in his ~~pajamas~~ space suit?

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:47

Riot Carol Danvers: Jul 30, 2004; It's super dumb, but I can't stop myself. This is just kind of how I do things.

McNally posted:

Yeah, he's reenacting Neil Armstrong's quarantine by living in an RV in his driveway for a few weeks.

I would totally move into an RV if I could.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:53

Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

I would totally move into an RV if I could.

During video calls a director is either in a Disneyland themed room or his RV's living room. I have no idea what's going on with his home life.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:56

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Mr. Nice! posted:

Slight update - Modly has tendered resignation. Esper has not yet accepted it.

K he's officially gone now.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1247613418300936193

# ? Apr 7, 2020 20:57

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

Mr. Nice! posted:

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1247601182312366081

gently caress off clown

That was fast.

Also get hosed NRA :byewhore:

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:00

SquirrelyPSU: May 27, 2003

Moreover......not the worst pick in the world? I don't know anything about the man, but the credentials sound reasonable.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:00

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

mlmp08 posted:

https://twitter.com/paulszoldra/status/1247587503738982400?s=21

We're not gonna mention aerial soldier and coast guarding soldiers here?

K, carry on seagoing soldiers.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:01

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Hyrax Attack! posted:

During video calls a director is either in a Disneyland themed room or his RV's living room. I have no idea what's going on with his home life.

We had a Teams meeting right after this all started and one of the sales guys had a Darth Vader costume in his home office. Turns out he builds props on the side.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:01

Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

Any chance they'll reinstate Capt Crozier?

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:01

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Fallom posted:

Any chance they'll reinstate Capt Crozier?

And admit getting something wrong?

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:02

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

Just blame it on the last guy and get points for doing the right thing?

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:05

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

The Graffiti Highway outside Centralia is being covered up.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:05

Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

Casimir Radon posted:

We had a Teams meeting right after this all started and one of the sales guys had a Darth Vader costume in his home office. Turns out he builds props on the side.

Dang I wish my team was interesting. We had a guy carry his laptop outside to try to show us something in his yard. Before he lost his wifi signal it felt like an episode of Frankenstein wastes a minute of our time.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:08

Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

FrozenVent posted:

And admit getting something wrong?

Well now they get to blame it on the recently-departed Secretary Dumbfuck.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:17

SquirrelyPSU: May 27, 2003

Midjack posted:

The Graffiti Highway outside Centralia is being covered up.

For those not in the know, Centralia is in Eastern-ish Pennsylvania, was the home of a coal mine that caught on fire and has been on fire ever since.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:18

McNally: Sep 13, 2007; Ask me about Proposition 305

Do you like muskets?

The Navy can only retroactively admit it made a mistake after at least 50 years have gone by, and even then only if Congress passes a bill saying so.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:22

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

SquirrelyPSU posted:

For those not in the know, Centralia is in Eastern-ish Pennsylvania, was the home of a coal mine that caught on fire and has been on fire ever since.

Since 1962!

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:26

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Last I heard Centralia may have burned itself out.... nobody has really checked.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:31

SquirrelyPSU: May 27, 2003

hobbesmaster posted:

Last I heard Centralia may have burned itself out.... nobody has really checked.

I feel that would have sparked a celebration in my area that I am not aware of occuring

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:32

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Looking at the current information about it I was probably thinking of the part of it near Byrnsdale. The "fire" is actually 4 separate ones and theres 3 definite fronts still going.

# ? Apr 7, 2020 21:59

Syrian Lannister: Aug 25, 2007; Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.; Sugartime Jones

I don't think its directly under the town, its spread to the outskirts.

https://youtu.be/LsvYfWjHL04

# ? Apr 7, 2020 22:06

A Bad Poster: Sep 25, 2006; Seriously, shut the fuck up.

Now, unless I'm mistaken, isn't what's going on in Centralia a micro-scale version of an extinction level event that happened a few hundred million years ago?

# ? Apr 7, 2020 22:29

BurningChrome: Jan 18, 2020; They said she cooked her own cancers for people who crossed her, rococo custom variations that took years to kill you. They said a lot of things about Chrome, none of them at all reassuring.

Milo and POTUS posted:

photoshop goatse into the reflection

You do it

# ? Apr 7, 2020 22:31

BurningChrome: Jan 18, 2020; They said she cooked her own cancers for people who crossed her, rococo custom variations that took years to kill you. They said a lot of things about Chrome, none of them at all reassuring.