Polo-Rican posted:

looks like someone doesn't live in a city with an Alamo Drafthouse

I was really fuckin sick of theaters before Alamo opened up. It's everything you want in a theater! Amazing picture and sound, great seats, huge-rear end beer list, and extremely strict no-cell-phone rules.

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1252973741019033600?s=20

Polo-Rican posted:

looks like someone doesn't live in a city with an Alamo Drafthouse

I was really fuckin sick of theaters before Alamo opened up. It's everything you want in a theater! Amazing picture and sound, great seats, huge-rear end beer list, and extremely strict no-cell-phone rules.

Schnorkles posted:

Fundamentally, the difficulty always was the return to normalcy without the proper resources.

Capital has a lot of magical thinking brought on by its notorious recent turn towards short term thinking. There's likely giant consulting agencies pumping out risk assessment scenarios that say even if the number spikes again, allowing things to jump helps the bottom line or w/e.

Our system is just so completely incapable of dealing with a challenge like this. We're going to open back up, and by the end of May it could and probably will be worse than right now.

quote:

The first previously known death in the US was in Seattle on 26 February and the first in California on 4 March.

New information from a Santa Clara county coroner changes that timeline.

Autopsies on two people who died on 6 February and 17 February show they died with Covid-19.

Samples from the autopsies were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which confirmed the presence of the virus, California's Santa Clara County coroner's office said in a statement on Tuesday.

The death of a third Santa Clara individual on 6 March has also been confirmed to be coronavirus-related.

"These three individuals died at home during a time when very limited testing was available only through the CDC," the coroner statement said.

At the time, the CDC's criteria restricted testing only to people with a known travel history and who were showing specific symptoms.

Doc Fission posted:

you ever just sue China

the whole thing

the entire China

Phi230 posted:

If I were China I would be preparing for a defensive war with the US within the next 8 years.

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1252973642692079616?s=20


If they didn't meet the travel criteria, wouldn't that mean that they were cases of community spread, and that other people had it even earlier, who then passed it on to them?

The_Franz posted:

what about good movies that aren't just 2 hours of cg poo poo on the screen?

Bearjew posted:

yeah lol



always cracks me up to see a 4th or 5th year lawyer on these things lmao

facetoucher cat posted:

I have outside clothes and inside clothes, the stuff I wear when I'm out in public isn't what I'm going to wear when I'm hanging out inside. This isn't more a style thing because lmao IDGAF what people think of what I'm wearing, it's more of a sanitary thing now. Same with shoes, no one is allowed to wear shoes past the foyer area of the 4ft of tiles by my front door and they immediately go into the closet, if you want to wear shoes put on some house slippers

Quiet Feet posted:

I'm glad I'm not the only one this paranoid.

Schnorkles posted:

idk what this summer looks like, but its probably pretty

Schnorkles posted:

grim

Squizzle posted:

The_Franz posted:

what about good movies that aren't just 2 hours of cg poo poo on the screen?

Squizzle posted:

Squizzle posted:

quote:

The Guardian:

French researchers to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients

Study – which stresses serious health risks of smoking – suggest substance in tobacco may lower risk of getting coronavirus

French researchers are planning to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients and frontline health workers after a study suggested smokers may be much less at risk of contracting the virus.

The study at a major Paris hospital suggests a substance in tobacco – possibly nicotine – may be stopping patients who smoke from catching Covid-19. Clinical trials of nicotine patches are awaiting the approval of the country’s health authorities.

However, the researchers insisted they were not encouraging the population to take up smoking, which carries other potentially fatal health risks and kills 50% of those who take it up. While nicotine may protect those from the virus, smokers who have caught it often develop more serious symptoms because of the toxic effect of tobacco smoke on the lungs, they say.

The team at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital questioned 480 patients who tested positive for the virus, 350 of whom were hospitalised while the rest with less serious symptoms were allowed home.

It found that of those admitted to hospital, whose median age was 65, only 4.4% were regular smokers. Among those released home, with a median age of 44, 5.3% smoked.

Taking into account the age and sex of the patients, the researchers discovered the number of smokers was much lower than that in the general population estimated by the French health authority Santé Publique France at about 40% for those aged 44-53 and between 8.8% and 11.3% for those aged 65-75.

The renowned French neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux, who reviewed the study, suggested the nicotine might stop the virus from reaching cells in the body preventing its spread. Nicotine may also lessen the overreaction of the body’s immune system that has been found in the most severe cases of Covid-19 infection.

The findings are to be verified in a clinical study in which frontline health workers, hospital patients with the Covid-19 virus and those in intensive care will be given nicotine patches.

The results confirm a Chinese study published at the end of March in the New England Journal of Medicine that suggested only 12.6% of 1,000 people infected with the virus were smokers while the number of smokers in China is around 28%.

In France, figures from Paris hospitals showed that of 11,000 patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19, 8.5% were smokers. The total number of smokers in France is estimated at around 25.4%.

“Our cross-sectional study strongly suggests that those who smoke every day are much less likely to develop a symptomatic or severe infection with Sars-CoV-2 compared with the general population,” the Pitié-Salpêtrière report authors wrote.

“The effect is significant. It divides the risk by five for ambulatory patients and by four for those admitted to hospital. We rarely see this in medicine,” it added.

Schnorkles posted:

tryin to keep the faith squizzle but its a struggle right now

Chris James 2 posted:

Films rule and theaters better not go under

twoday posted:

If they didn't meet the travel criteria, wouldn't that mean that they were cases of community spread, and that other people had it even earlier, who then passed it on to them?

Phi230 posted:

If I were China I would be preparing for a defensive war with the US within the next 8 years.

twoday posted:

If they didn't meet the travel criteria, wouldn't that mean that they were cases of community spread, and that other people had it even earlier, who then passed it on to them?

facetoucher cat posted:

https://twitter.com/GeorgiaEMA/status/1252949890877067264

facetoucher cat posted:

https://twitter.com/GeorgiaEMA/status/1252949890877067264

twoday posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/french-study-suggests-smokers-at-lower-risk-of-getting-coronavirus?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

facetoucher cat posted:

https://twitter.com/GeorgiaEMA/status/1252949890877067264

e: the catch is that it's not simple