Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Lmao, the Obamacare website

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
So it’s 17,000 now. It was 12,000 last month.

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe

The Glumslinger posted:

Lmao, the Obamacare website

Gotta keep playing those greatest hits

Meanwhile,

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1251185512934633472

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
“Remember OBAMACARE which is now more popular than ever?! Huh do you?! This is good for me to bring up for reasons!”

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251185023459483653

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251186839983132673

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251186179548033025

meanwhile in reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VKuFxvl2HE

pacerhimself
Dec 30, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

DaveWoo posted:

Gotta keep playing those greatest hits

Meanwhile,

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1251185512934633472

Who could have imagined?

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Hairy Marionette posted:

You might want to shave that beard, champ. You’re not going to get a good seal with all the scruff poking out. The sarin gas will get it.

It started as a joke before the carona really hit, but in light of not having masks available it's been my go to to keep people from kicking me back outside.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
South Dakota currently has the nation’s largest hotspot.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
If you want some actual good news, Remdesivir is actually looking extremely promising in clinical trials, but obviously more data is needed

Objurium
Aug 8, 2009

D-Pad posted:

Just to be clear, the "intelligence sources" are supposedly not saying it is a bioweapon, but a natural virus that was being studied in a lab and escaped. There are a lot of chuds claiming it is a bioweapon, but this latest round of "reporting" isn't saying that. Most likely because genetic sequencing has already shown it to not be engineered, but there really isn't any way to prove it did or did not escape from a lab where it was just being studied and not engineered. This allows for enough uncertainty for it to spread beyond the tin foil people.

Full disclaimer that I don't know who this dude is but he lays out a pretty solid argument that echoes that sentiment here: https://youtu.be/bpQFCcSI0pU

Tl;Dr is that the Wuhan lab had job postings up seeking researchers to come study coronaviruses in bats on November 18 of 2019.

A subsequent post from late December reads like an announcement that the Wuhan lab had discovered a new virus and was still looking to recruit additional researchers to come study it.

Combined with the fact that the lab's top bat virus researcher wound up scrubbed from personnel lists, this guy's argument is that she was likely patient zero and IMO I think that tracks.

I have no idea if the job postings are still up but I did check when I first saw this and they were legit.

Considering that Wuhan's Level 4 lab exists because a Level 3 lab accidentally released swine flu (iirc), it doesn't seem like a leap to me to assume that this was another lab study that escaped, not a bio weapon.

Objurium fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Apr 17, 2020

Fritz the Horse
Dec 26, 2019

... of course!

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

South Dakota currently has the nation’s largest hotspot.

Here's a new BBC article out today on the Smithfield plant outbreak: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52311877?fbclid=IwAR2YZsqKj1x5c2ISE3qhcYqxgHowwdF0FrhB1WZIOMWe1UjLJ1TSwQ3i1MU

It's what you'd expect, largely poor immigrant workers who can't afford to miss work, Smithfield corporation not bothering to issue PPE other than hair nets to wear over their faces (ugh) and generally being exploitative scumbags, and a dumbfuck Trump toady governor who instead of quarantining just authorized the first state trials of hydroxychloroquine.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




Oh good, actually calling for insurrection now in his favor

Real Cool and Good we have no way of removing the dangerously insane President because everybody wants to follow an outdated document from almost 250 years ago, and all they could come up with is "Gentleman's agreements, toothpicks and snot hold everything together" :downsbravo:

TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Apr 17, 2020

Willo567
Feb 5, 2015

Cheating helped me fail the test and stay on the show.

The Glumslinger posted:

If you want some actual good news, Remdesivir is actually looking extremely promising in clinical trials, but obviously more data is needed

If we could get at the very least a reliable treatment, that would be a huge get for the world.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
https://twitter.com/marybschneider/status/1251179490195185664

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251186839983132673

Just flat-out abdicating any federal responsibility for testing.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



PenguinKnight posted:

Very cool that the president is calling for an insurrection in my state


I agree actually. Liberate these states from him

Fritz the Horse
Dec 26, 2019

... of course!

Willo567 posted:

If we could get at the very least a reliable treatment, that would be a huge get for the world.

Daddy gave us one weeks ago! Didn't you hear?

It just makes some peoples' hearts explode.

also it may or may not actually work

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

Willo567 posted:

I don't think we're going to have a war with either one, especially with Trump being Putin's puppet.

Also, both China and Russia have nukes, so there's that small caveat.

Trump wants to feel like and be called a "war time president" but, ultimately, since he's a coward, a draft dodger, despises doing work and since the military hates him he's going to settle on COVID19 as his invisible enemy and call himself a war time president like president big boy pretend driving a fire truck.

poo poo, if he's declaring war on anyone, it's roughly 80% of American citizens and almost half of them appear to be fine with it.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


FlamingLiberal posted:

We don't need more pickup artists in this country KM

She's REALLY good at negging, tho. :v:

KillHour fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Apr 17, 2020

IBroughttheFunk
Sep 28, 2012

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So it’s 17,000 now. It was 12,000 last month.

And that's still lower than the actual official death count we have which if anything is an undercount. gently caress, he can't even do stupid lies very well.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

DaveWoo posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251186839983132673

Just flat-out abdicating any federal responsibility for testing.

every time i sorta think he might do a smart thing he just pisses it away. like holy gently caress. can't wait for his jerk off hour today.

Car Hater
May 7, 2007

wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!
Lol the president is advocating for secession and if the president does it that makes it legal, Great Lakes Federation grows nearer by the day

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



KillHour posted:

She's REALLY good at negging, tho.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

DaveWoo posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251186839983132673

Just flat-out abdicating any federal responsibility for testing.

I take no responsibility.

D-Pad
Jun 28, 2006

Objurium posted:

Full disclaimer that I don't know who this dude is but he lays out a pretty solid argument that echoes that sentiment here: https://youtu.be/bpQFCcSI0pU

Tl;Dr is that the Wuhan lab had job postings up seeking researchers to come study coronaviruses in bats on November 18 of 2019.

A subsequent post from late December reads like an announcement that the Wuhan lab had discovered a new virus and was still looking to recruit additional researchers to come study it.

Combined with the fact that the lab's top bat virus researcher wound up scrubbed from personnel lists, this guy's argument is that she was likely patient zero and IMO I think that tracks.

I have no idea if the job postings are still up but I did check when I first saw this and they were legit.

Considering that Wuhan's Level 4 lab exists because a Level 3 lab accidentally released swine flu (iirc), it doesn't seem like a leap to me to assume that this was another lab study that escaped, not a bio weapon.

It's certainly within the realm of possibility. The issue is there is no way to prove it outside of China admitting it happened or some intelligence agency providing physical evidence of some kind like a recording of Xi discussing it or something similar. Most importantly (to the right wing ghouls) is there is no way to disprove it which means it's an easy way to scapegoat china.

Koalas March
May 21, 2007



Car Hater posted:

Lol the president is advocating for secession and if the president does it that makes it legal, Great Lakes Federation grows nearer by the day

I hope I have birthright citizenship. Otherwise I think I'm gonna head out West. I heard it's a long trip but there's great opportunity waiting to be seized.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


Koalas March posted:

I hope I have birthright citizenship. Otherwise I think I'm gonna head out West. I heard it's a long trip but there's great opportunity waiting to be seized.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Car Hater posted:

Lol the president is advocating for secession and if the president does it that makes it legal, Great Lakes Federation grows nearer by the day

Glory to to the Great Lakes Federation!

If Trump honestly causes the balkanization of the US through sheer incompetence it might be the greatest self-own in history

(Also extremely destabilizing and potentially killing millions in a WWIII like event)

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
So long suckers!

Koalas March
May 21, 2007




I haven't even left!! My worst run yet 😭😭😭

Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit

Koalas March posted:

Iol remember in 2016 when I said Trump would call his supporters to violence and people said I was crazy and doomsaying



Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
Califoreshington Rises

C411
Jun 22, 2004
STUPID
DICK
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251193712580968450

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

So it’s 17,000 now. It was 12,000 last month.

Trump's death number keeps growing, it's not fair that Obama's doesn't do the same!!

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




So he's just admitting now that he's letting people die because he is a petty bitch?

cochise
Sep 11, 2011



I can't stand to read his dumbass tweets anymore. Every single one enrages me more than the last.

Willo567
Feb 5, 2015

Cheating helped me fail the test and stay on the show.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1251131855535046661

Further tanking the economy to own the libs

Prester Jane
Nov 4, 2008

by Hand Knit

D-Pad posted:

It's certainly within the realm of possibility. The issue is there is no way to prove it outside of China admitting it happened or some intelligence agency providing physical evidence of some kind like a recording of Xi discussing it or something similar. Most importantly (to the right wing ghouls) is there is no way to disprove it which means it's an easy way to scapegoat china.

The CCP certainly hasn't helped matters because they very clearly lied during the early days of the outbreak- the case files on the first forty cases for example demonstrate that 17 of them had no contact whatsoever with the move on wet Market, including patient zero. On top of this China had literally hundreds infected medical workers in Wuhan at a point in time at which it was still publicly declaring that there was no evidence for human-to-human transmission.

Curiously, one of the very first things China started to do once they admitted that this virus was transmissible was gone and all out massive campaign attacking the idea that this might have been an accidental release, and trying to pay any criticism of China's handling of the coronavirus as racist. One of the best ways to assertiveness the truth when listening to liars is to take note of which lies they choose to tell; and at a point in time which the CCP was lying about everything about this virus it was also very loudly declaring that it was racist to suggest that the virus might have leaked from the Wuhan lab.

And this is all occurring in a context in which CCP bio labs are notoriously leaky, there have been four separate recorded examples of czars leaking from the Beijing level 3 lab for example. (Also the mid-50's swine flu pandemic was an accidental release from a CCP biolab)

The CCP isn't any more reliable or honest than the US government, and in fact is one of the few world powers that one could make a strong case is actually less transparent and honest than the United States government.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Bugsy
Jul 15, 2004

I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.


Slippery Tilde
Piss face cant math, and all he has done today is tweet fox news bullshit an a 20 minuted delay.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1251193027328184320

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014



"state sponsor of pandemics" is something you'd write to parody the right.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply