Stereotype posted:

lasers are actually terrible at shooting down missiles because of thermal blooming and plain old atmospheric dispersion.

Taco Duck posted:

The Dutch fell apart because they started putting mayonaise on their french fries like hedonists

Taco Duck posted:

The Dutch fell apart because they started putting mayonaise on their french fries like hedonists

FAUXTON posted:

they lost because nothing rhymes with orange

Telsa Cola posted:

Or thousand island sauce and cheese and cooked onions

Inceltown posted:

Trump won't stop people from golfing, he wants people to play while the world burns because they give him money to play at some places.

snoo posted:

is there info on what is happening to suspected "reinfected" patients? are they sick again? are they dying? or is it just still detected in their system?

gay picnic defence posted:

What is the source for the huge numbers of people dying at home in NYC?

quote:

But another 200 city residents are now dying at home each day, compared to 20 to 25 such deaths before the pandemic, said Aja Worthy-Davis, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. And an untold number of them are unconfirmed.

That’s because the ME’s office is not testing dead bodies for COVID-19. Instead, they’re referring suspected cases to the city’s health department as “probable.”

“If someone dies at home, and we go to the home and there [are] signs of influenza, our medical examiner may determine the cause of death was clearly an influenza-like illness, potentially COVID or an influenza-like illness believed to be COVID,” said Worthy-Davis. “We report all our deaths citywide to the health department, who releases that data to the public.”

But the health department does not include that number in the official count unless it is confirmed, a spokesman said.

“While undiagnosed cases that result in at-home deaths are connected to a public health pandemic...not all suspected COVID-19 deaths are brought in for examination by OCME, nor do we provide testing in most of these natural at-home deaths,” Lanza said.

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

*banging pots and pans together*

All of you can suck my dick.

friendly 2 da void posted:

New York City's medical examiner.

twoday posted:

a brief history lesson:

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

The correct french fry toppings, from best to least best are:

- old bay seasoning
- curry ketchup
- malt vinegar
- sriracha ketchup

Also Boris Johnson's lungs are an above-ground swimming pool for covid and that's hilarious.

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

The correct french fry toppings, from best to least best are:

- old bay seasoning
- curry ketchup
- malt vinegar
- sriracha ketchup

Also Boris Johnson's lungs are an above-ground swimming pool for covid and that's hilarious.

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

It's detected in their system mainly but that might mean they're being an asymptomatic carrier. The tests aren't very good at this point so as the article and Korea's CDC point out a reasonably likely explanation is that the test hosed up because it gives a false negative or false positive roughly 20% of the time. Even if you do the test twice to be sure there's still a 4% chance you get a wrong result two times in a row. So the hospital gives them a bad test, and rushes them out the door while they're still infected to clear the way for the next patient since hospitals are all pretty overwhelmed or expecting to be overwhelmed right now. Ultimately every single expert says there's not enough data to make a conclusion either way but that the fact that the data's even showing up means it needs to be studied more closely since its a hell of a thing to get wrong.

TL;DR: It could be something to panic about but there's so much to panic about right now that we should prioritize our constant panicking and doom-posting and wait for the science to become more firm while we panic about the current outbreak and where the gently caress our money is right now.

Zotix posted:

the gently caress is this.

Spergin Morlock posted:

just use more photons, duh!

snoo posted:

thank you.

it's all so hosed up and I feel like it's hard to discount anything remotely plausible right now, hell in the very beginning they said there wasn't evidence of human to human transmission and look at us now

shovelbum posted:

Anyone who thinks nukes aren't still the worst and final weapon of the present and foreseeable future is insane.

shovelbum posted:

Anyone who thinks nukes aren't still the worst and final weapon of the present and foreseeable future is insane.

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

The correct french fry toppings, from best to least best are:

- old bay seasoning
- curry ketchup
- malt vinegar
- sriracha ketchup

Also Boris Johnson's lungs are an above-ground swimming pool for covid and that's hilarious.

Inceltown posted:

twoday posted:

if you all like my history posts I also have been doing a history podcast, haven't worked out the kinks but the next episode will be about The Great Plague as soon as my cohost fixes his mic problems

and with this I will stop posting about history and go back to posting spurious theories about unproven medications

Inceltown posted:

Inceltown posted: