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Vakal posted:I bet with some clever re-classification they could get that number down to 20. Ironically, the hospitals are trying to get the number up as high as it will go. The thinking is that the feds will bail out the hospital systems for the cost of plague treatment, so they want to demonstrate how many people they had to treat. The bottleneck is testing as always.
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numberoneposter posted:seems to be behind a paywall Incognito mode: WAPO posted:Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats. The cables have fueled discussions inside the U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus — even though conclusive proof has yet to emerge.
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Same kind of numbers in The Netherlands: source: https://www.rivm.nl/monitoring-sterftecijfers-nederland
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 16:43 |
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1250063051182747651 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1250075668282576898
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 16:44 |
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lol what in tarnation.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 16:46 |
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"Mutinies are fun" - The President
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 16:47 |
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Can’t wait for nov when he goes off the deep end and tries to take over as emperor.
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America is so hosed. And so is the world in that case. Can't wait for the tweet about how Canadian freshwater actually belongs to American corporations
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Rutibex posted:i am willing to sacrifice pork and chicken if it means no more world wide plagues. I am not
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Manager Hoyden posted:Ironically, the hospitals are trying to get the number up as high as it will go. The thinking is that the feds will bail out the hospital systems for the cost of plague treatment, so they want to demonstrate how many people they had to treat. wtf I’d like to think they want to report them accurately
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Rutibex posted:agreed. we can keep cows for milk/cheese, but nothing else. India figured this poo poo out like 5000 years ago. i am willing to sacrifice pork and chicken if it means no more world wide plagues. Absolutely not, no. Not pork anyways, gently caress chicken. Its weak bird that cant even fly, but youre not taking the pig majestic away from me.
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Munin posted:Any close contact with animals in unhygienic circumstances is a problem. Close unhygenic contact with animals is why we have vaccines and no smallpox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox smallpox was possibly the most destructive virus in human history with an R0 of 5 and a case fatality rate of 30%, killing half a BILLION people in the last century of it's existence (in a world with a much smaller population than now) (just arguing the toss, animal to human disease transmission is a huge deal as should be obvious right now, and eliminating animal husbandry and hunting altogether would bring nothing but benefits for myriad reasons)
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Burt Sexual posted:wtf I’d like to think they want to report them accurately Oh yeah I wasn't trying to imply they were inflating numbers or anything like that. I just meant that right now it is not in a hospital's best interest to try to downplay the number of infected, mainly due to the assumption that doing so will cost them money later.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1250063051182747651 Trump somehow manages to see himself as a benevolent Captain Bligh.
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Rutibex posted:agreed. we can keep cows for milk/cheese, but nothing else. Question: can I lick the cows?
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Mozi posted:yes but it would need to be more than a simple mistake - it would need to be a mistake that both releases the virus in an infected bat AND gets that bat into the wet market so it can infect a pangolin this already feels like discussing ancient history
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sweet thursday posted:And so is the world in that case. Can't wait for the tweet about how Canadian freshwater actually belongs to American corporations when did we start talking about trudeau
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sweet thursday posted:America is so hosed. Yeah, really. It's all well and good for Euros to sit around mocking dumb Americans and lusting for our downfall until there are destroyers shelling Wales because that, all of a sudden, makes sense to our collapsing government. Hope you don't have anything we want.
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Xenocides posted:Trump somehow manages to see himself as a benevolent Captain Bligh. unfortunately its actually a good metaphor
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I enjoy that he specified the movie, because he can't read. Great, now we're gonna have Fox News hosts explaining the story to their illiterate viewers and twisting fervently about how ACTUALLY Bligh was the GOOD GUY until we end up in a stupid debate about the meanings of a century-old novel while we all die.
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Hazo posted:I enjoy that he specified the movie, because he can't read. Trump's second term: everyone gets one sip of water a day, but only if they work!!!
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Raku posted:Trump's second term: everyone gets one sip of water a day, but only if they work!!! On track towards "Third term: the flowers didn't bloom".
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Hazo posted:I enjoy that he specified the movie, because he can't read. well i mean thats the worst part bligh was the good guy book, movie, history, no matter how you shake it
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My republican mom in the Deep South called me mad at Trumps press conference just now. Wow.
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Trump is more Queeg than Bligh, about to say at any moment that he's proved with geometric logic that the economy must be restarted.
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Ah yes, the Mutiny on the Bounty. Well known for going so well for all concerned and especially for how well the Captain fared as a direct result of it. Very good. Also of note how well states have mutinied against Federal law in the past and how well that all went. Also an excellent time had by all. Wonderful and am exceedingly looking forward to another go 'round with that.
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Big Beef City posted:Ah yes, the Mutiny on the Bounty. the captain made it back to england, was hailed a hero, and the mutineers were hanged have any of you even read this story before
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i dont know why im defending captain bligh here lmao
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The only thing I know about Mutiny on the Bounty was the bunch of looney tunes parodies and I think that is probably Trump's experience as well
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GolfHole posted:the captain made it back to england, was hailed a hero, and the mutineers were hanged drat your eyes, sir!
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GolfHole posted:i dont know why im defending captain bligh here lmao Neither do we. As "a direct result of it", I meant "having your crew mutiny and abandon you at sea", in general, isn't a favorable way to compare yourself to being a good leader in the short term during a time of crisis.
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Big Beef City posted:As "a direct result of it", I meant generally "having your crew mutiny and abandon you at sea", in general, isn't a favorable way to compare yourself to being a good leader in the short term during a time of crisis. oh ya for sure, sales 101 is "dont poison the well"
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The bounty mutineers established a wait for it here a pedophile island, makes u think
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Rectal Death Adept posted:It's all well and good for Euros to sit around mocking dumb Americans and lusting for our downfall until there are destroyers shelling Wales because that, all of a sudden, makes sense to our collapsing government. #NoBloodForRarebit
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Big Beef City posted:Ah yes, the Mutiny on the Bounty. Do you just not know what any of the things you are saying mean? You are wrong about literally everything. You don't know the plot you are referring to, and there is no federal law in play here. Why bother posting if you have no idea what you are talking about? You might as well have posted instructions you made up for unicorn hemorrhoid surgery
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pop punk posted:My republican mom in the Deep South called me mad at Trumps press conference just now. Why was she mad?
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GolfHole posted:the captain made it back to england, was hailed a hero, and the mutineers were hanged It actually ruined his career. Even his supporters at the trial said that the stories of his worst excesses were accurate. The Admiralty largely looked down on him as incompetent throughout the court martial. Some of the mutineers were hanged but many were acquitted. Oddly (Narrator: It was not that odd) it was the wealthier that lived and the poor who were hanged. Bligh went on serving but his career was pretty lackluster after that. He was made governor of New South Wales but an army revolt deposed him. He was really bad at the whole leadership thing. Yeah, the metaphor is kind of uncanny and unintentionally accurate.
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Rectal Death Adept posted:Yeah, really. The response in the rest of the UK to Wales being shelled would probably be uproarious laughter.
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pop punk posted:My republican mom in the Deep South called me mad at Trumps press conference just now. My WASP mom has lung cancer and is madly sewing cloth masks from old sheets and dishrags for the community and is beside herself that he won't wear a mask and encourage everyone to wear one
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