[COVID-19 April] I've licked things I might not ordinarily have licked

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Raiad: Feb 1, 2005; Without the law, there wouldn't be lawyers.

Innocuous posted:

incredible math here

with the advent of gyms it became impossible to do things like jumping jacks or push ups or weight loss videos to attend to those chronic health conditions

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:06

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 20:17

Farm Frenzy: Jan 3, 2007

ChipNDip posted:

How many additional deaths will happen if people visit others on a limited basis, but do not visit the old and vulnerable? What is the magic that transmits the virus?

i think this is actually gonna be the compromise we'll end up with. segregation but for old people

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:07

oxsnard: Oct 8, 2003

Admiral Ray posted:

we definitely know it won't kill 50,000,000 people dude.

That's only 0.6% of the global population tho

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:07

Mr. Sharps: Jul 30, 2006; The only true law is that which leads to freedom. There is no other.

ChipNDip posted:

I'll ask again because nobody ITT seems to have a real answer (other than "indefinitely" with Sheng claims nobody is saying). When, in terms of virus spread or an actual date estimate, do you think it will be OK for people to:

- Buy "non-essential" items at stores? This includes items like paint, seeds, furniture, etc. that the dumb CHUDs protested about

- Visit friends who aren't in their ~household~? In groups of 5? 10? 15?

- Do any sort of "normal" activity with precautions like masks and 6-ft distancing?

This is all I have ever argued about and asked about ITT.

here we can do all those things and also maintain social distancing and we�ve gone from a top 10 impacted state to somewhere near the bottom

edit: and we still have chuds at the Capitol demanding that we reopen the state dammit i wanna haircut

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:07

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

are people really melting down this badly about not seeing their friends for a few weeks?

I've been falling out of touch and have been just playing octopath traveler and watching movies for most of the past few weeks. I don't go out except to go grocery shopping every 7-10 days, and I stop to say hi to my mom (who lives near the grocery) from the driveway when I go out to do that. it's not exactly exciting but it's pretty chill

but apparently there are people driven to, uhhh, Chronic Health Issues And A Greatly Shortened Life because they can't :roboluv:

with people for a month???

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:07

Admiral Ray: May 17, 2014; Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

oxsnard posted:

That's only 0.6% of the global population tho

yeah but i took him to mean in the US. otherwise that 200,000 figure is also way too loving low, it's definitely killing more than 200k globally.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:07

Peacoffee: Feb 11, 2013

like if you have this big reserve of friends that are dying to hang with you and you keep checking the thread filled with people who've been buying beans since January to get permission to do so... do i need to sign a permission slip. do i need to call up your friends individually and tell them that "their friend baby bitch needs more assurance" that its okay to do?

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:08

Crusader: Apr 11, 2002

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:08

shovelbum: Oct 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

ChipNDip posted:

Yeah, so we should all just stay at home indefinitely and definitely develop mental illness indefinitely. Massive brain conlcusion.

At my job I might socialize with a non coworker twice in a three month contract, which is considered short. Internet on container ships became common in *2019*. We're all just average morons and yokels, not astronauts or whatever. You can do this for a little while but you have to give it a chance.

If we don't know anything about what's going on in a few more months you may have a point but we're just a couple of weeks into this thing in the US and data from elsewhere is patchy bc they got blindsided (China) or bungled it (Italy) or did well enough that they didn't have enough cases to learn much.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:08

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

Lmfao it loving owns that chuds thirst to kill themselves and others they interact with on account of going stir crazy for seeds and paint in an incredibly traumatic lonely death

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:09

Sedisp: Jun 20, 2012

oxsnard posted:

That's only 0.6% of the global population tho

A small price to pay if my garage band of Gen X computer touchers can finally meet up again.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:09

Nothus: Feb 22, 2001; Buglord

In my neck of the woods, Lowes and Home Depot are essential business, and they've been crowded AF. So if you're horny for yard work, why not go there?

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:09

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

spaceblancmange posted:

I got the need, the need for seed

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:09

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1251841335092371456

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Happy_Time

quote:

The "Second Happy Time", also known among German submarine commanders as the "American Shooting Season", was the informal name for the Operation Paukenschlag (or Operation Drumbeat), a phase in the Battle of the Atlantic during which Axis submarines attacked merchant shipping and Allied naval vessels along the east coast of North America.

British experience in the first two years of World War II, which included the massive losses incurred to their shipping during the "First Happy Time" confirmed that ships sailing in convoy � with or without escort � were far safer than ships sailing alone. The British recommended that merchant ships should avoid obvious standard routings wherever possible; navigational markers, lighthouses, and other aids to the enemy should be removed, and a strict coastal blackout be enforced. In addition, any available air and sea forces should perform daylight patrols to restrict the U-boats' flexibility.

For several months, none of the recommendations were followed. Coastal shipping continued to sail along marked routes and burn normal navigation lights. Boardwalk communities ashore were only 'requested' to 'consider' turning their illuminations off on 18 December 1941, but not in the cities; they did not want to offend the tourism, recreation and business sectors. On 12 January 1942, Admiral Andrews was warned that "three or four U-boats" were about to commence operations against coastal shipping (in fact, there were three), but he refused to institute a convoy system on the grounds that this would only provide the U-boats with more targets.

Despite the urgent need for action, little was done to try to combat the U-boats.

When U-123 sank the 9,500-ton Norwegian tanker Norness within sight of Long Island in the early hours of 14 January, no warships were dispatched to investigate, allowing the U-123 to sink the 6,700 ton British tanker Coimbra off Sandy Hook on the following night before proceeding south towards New Jersey. By this time there were 13 destroyers idle in New York Harbor, yet none were employed to deal with the immediate threat, and over the following nights U-123 was presented with a succession of easy targets, most of them burning navigation lamps. At times, U-123 was operating in coastal waters that were so shallow that they barely allowed it to conceal itself, let alone evade a depth charge attack.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:09

shovelbum: Oct 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

Innocuous posted:

made some black beans the other day with rice and canned salmon, punched it up with goya seasoning, v. good

who else ITT is enjoying the nutritious benefits of beans in these troubled times

I got a bunch of black beans recently and I'm stoked

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:10

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

I don't care if it kills a thousand grandmas. I'm going to walmart.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:10

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

ChipNDip posted:

How many additional deaths will happen if people visit others on a limited basis, but do not visit the old and vulnerable? What is the magic that transmits the virus?

We do know that being a hermit indefinitely is very, very bad for your health in a lot of ways. Dooming a large % of 300 million to chronic health issues is definitely more humane than a couple thousand potentially dieing, yes, I agree

let me cough in your mouth or shut the gently caress up

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:10

Fleetwood: Mar 26, 2010; biggest hochul head in china

really craving fast food, it's been so long, wanna do a run at taco bell and wendy's

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:10

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

Extroverts are going to die from an early death on account of lack of socialization

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:11

CODChimera: Jan 29, 2009

Wait you guys are already on the gruel stage? Wow what happened to all the stockpiled beans??

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:11

corn haver: Mar 28, 2020

if you exhibit a pouchy-faced phenotype please be responsible and volunteer to be a "living seed bank" by going full chipmunk. they keep on talking about this on the radio and it's the socially responsible thing to do

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:11

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

i think of demons posted:

if you exhibit a pouchy-faced phenotype please be responsible and volunteer to be a "living seed bank" by going full chipmunk. they keep on talking about this on the radio and it's the socially responsible thing to do

I volunteered to be a living seed bank at a bar once but I didn't get any plants

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:12

ChipNDip: Sep 6, 2010; How many deaths are prevented by an executive order that prevents big box stores from selling seeds, furniture, and paint?

Mr. Sharps posted:

here we can do all those things and also maintain social distancing and we�ve gone from a top 10 impacted state to somewhere near the bottom

edit: and we still have chuds at the Capitol demanding that we reopen the state dammit i wanna haircut

That's all I'm arguing for, but people ITT think I'm some astroturfed CHUD

SKULL.GIF posted:

are people really melting down this badly about not seeing their friends for a few weeks?

It's not a few weeks, it's the people arguing that it needs to be indefinitely/until there's a vaccine.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:12

Fleetwood: Mar 26, 2010; biggest hochul head in china

CODChimera posted:

Wait you guys are already on the gruel stage? Wow what happened to all the stockpiled beans??

I still have lots of beans

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:12

Sedisp: Jun 20, 2012

My wife has asthma and got hit with what was probably covid for a week I was on the verge of panic induced madness at the idea of losing her and rapturous joy that perhaps I would die.

She is fine now but thank you ChipnDip for your pathological inability to not go to give a big handshake to the paint merchant.

Sedisp has issued a correction as of 01:15 on Apr 20, 2020

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:12

Raiad: Feb 1, 2005; Without the law, there wouldn't be lawyers.

CODChimera posted:

Wait you guys are already on the gruel stage? Wow what happened to all the stockpiled beans??

stress eating

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:13

Peacoffee: Feb 11, 2013

SKULL.GIF posted:

are people really melting down this badly about not seeing their friends for a few weeks?

I've been falling out of touch and have been just playing octopath traveler and watching movies for most of the past few weeks. I don't go out except to go grocery shopping every 7-10 days, and I stop to say hi to my mom (who lives near the grocery) from the driveway when I go out to do that. it's not exactly exciting but it's pretty chill

but apparently there are people driven to, uhhh, Chronic Health Issues And A Greatly Shortened Life because they can't with people for a month???

The number of people I know who hid behind happy hour drinking with "friends" before all this are going steadily insane because the constant day drinking with only their own voice for comfort is starting to make them suspect they are miserable shits. Everyone else with jobs far away from where we could hang out normally are fine.

My family that never video calls has a whole setup and has adapted pretty well. I've been watching with group streams for movies and marathons for a few years already so in the last week I've had the experience of watching fun poo poo with dozens of other people. laughing and sharing thoughts.

Just seems to be based on what your expectations were going into this.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:13

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

ChipNDip posted:

That's all I'm arguing for, but people ITT think I'm some astroturfed CHUD

i mean youre parroting the same poo poo they are verbatim so just tell us how many deaths youre cool with so that u can go play dnd or whatever you ghoul

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:13

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

ChipNDip posted:

I'll ask again because nobody ITT seems to have a real answer (other than "indefinitely" with Sheng claims nobody is saying). When, in terms of virus spread or an actual date estimate, do you think it will be OK for people to:

- Buy "non-essential" items at stores? This includes items like paint, seeds, furniture, etc. that the dumb CHUDs protested about

- Visit friends who aren't in their ~household~? In groups of 5? 10? 15?

- Do any sort of "normal" activity with precautions like masks and 6-ft distancing?

This is all I have ever argued about and asked about ITT.

watch out we got a cspam mod over here

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:14

facetoucher cat: Dec 20, 2013; by sebmojo

I made a bacon fat Italian vinaigrette with chopped garlic fried in the bacon fat before I used it in the vinaigrette then put it in whole wheat rotini with a drained can of chopped tomatoes then crumbled all the bacon I fried up into it and I'm cooking up a pot of cannellini beans to put into it then I'm going to chill it for a little bit and shave some parmesan cheese on it

I love me some beans

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:14

mystes: May 31, 2006

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1251841335092371456

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Happy_Time

I had no idea about this. That's really interesting.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:14

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

i live in new york and home depot is loving popping every weekend with dumbfucks hanging out and buying seeds, maybe the chuds should come to the least free state in the union and get their burpee on???

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:15

ChipNDip: Sep 6, 2010; How many deaths are prevented by an executive order that prevents big box stores from selling seeds, furniture, and paint?

shovelbum posted:

At my job I might socialize with a non coworker twice in a three month contract, which is considered short. Internet on container ships became common in *2019*. We're all just average morons and yokels, not astronauts or whatever. You can do this for a little while but you have to give it a chance.

If we don't know anything about what's going on in a few more months you may have a point but we're just a couple of weeks into this thing in the US and data from elsewhere is patchy bc they got blindsided (China) or bungled it (Italy) or did well enough that they didn't have enough cases to learn much.

shovelbum posted:

I think there is a point where the cure is worse than the disease, and "locking down for a decade until a vaccine" is probably it

Sounds like you agree with me.

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:16

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

ChipNDip posted:

It's not a few weeks, it's the people arguing that it needs to be indefinitely/until there's a vaccine.

let us know when you successfully negotiate a compromise with the COVID-19 virus

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:16

shovelbum: Oct 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

ChipNDip posted:

That's all I'm arguing for, but people ITT think I'm some astroturfed CHUD

It's not a few weeks, it's the people arguing that it needs to be indefinitely/until there's a vaccine.

It's until we know what the gently caress is going on. If it has a cfr of 20% in a full healthcare collapse and no natural immunity then yeah, that's the worst reasonable case and we lockdown until vaccine. We know that's the worst lethality/immunity case so presumably it's something less and the actual numbers dictate the lesser response but we don't have them and there's no political will to you know, actually study this pandemic, so lmao

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:16

Peacoffee: Feb 11, 2013

always be suspicious when someone talks about a massively shitposting forums user named "Thread", sometimes referred to by the slur "in here"

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:16

Innocuous: Mar 1, 2003; It's a strange world.

ChipNDip posted:

That's all I'm arguing for, but people ITT think I'm some astroturfed CHUD

not so, i genuinely believe you're this dense

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:16

a helpful bear: Aug 18, 2004; Slippery Tilde

I've been saving my paint rations for a delivery of a couple cans of the paint+primer in "Green Diarrhea" for my guest/bean room

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:16

Crusader: Apr 11, 2002

ChipNDip posted:

That's all I'm arguing for, but people ITT think I'm some astroturfed CHUD

It's not a few weeks, it's the people arguing that it needs to be indefinitely/until there's a vaccine.

here's the thing

right as social distancing was starting in ny, mid-march, a friend asked if i wanted to come over to play some board games with a few other people

i said no, and it's fortunate i did not, because a few days later covid symptoms showed up

now, whatever i had was mild, but there are several studies that indicate i could have passed something, probably covid, to my friends without knowing it was even happening in that presymptomatic period

with this bug, until there's better treatment and prevention beyond what we're doing, it's risky to yourself and your community to be visiting people

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:17

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 20:17

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

as long as a single person is advocating for limiting my ability to buy seeds and paint in any way, regardless of my ability to do so right this second, in gonna melt th gently caress down dude

# ? Apr 20, 2020 01:17

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