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cgeq posted:"in the hospital" or "in a hospital," but not just "in hospital" as if "hospital" is like heaven or hell. "in hospital" is fairly common in British English. Likewise, "I'm in school" which in American English would be "I'm in a/the school"? "I'm in/at church" vs "I'm in the church" But it only works for some things because English in all forms is stupid, so you can't say "I'm in store" or "I'm on bus". e: snype 
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Is it "I'm in a derailed thread" or "I'm in derailed thread"?
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May 2, 2020 14:53
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BMX Ninja posted:"in hospital" is fairly common in British English. “I’m in school” in American English means you’re enrolled in classes and not talking about a physical school building
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May 2, 2020 14:55
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im here where r u in restaurant wtf do u even english
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May 2, 2020 14:58
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Neil gaiman is cool and good
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May 2, 2020 15:00
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:you can’t be “in work” because work is an activity not a place (the phrase at work technically means actively working, not physically at your place of work, hence “hard at work”) you can go into work tho
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May 2, 2020 15:05
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Gillette Stadium is a stadium in the northeastern United States, located in Foxborough, Massachusetts...The seating capacity is 65,878,
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May 2, 2020 15:07
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Renaissance Spam posted:I still contend that Hatful of Sky was Pratchett taking shots at Rowling. Was he really upset about having the idea of a school for magic stolen from him by Rowling? He wasn't the first to come up with idea.
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May 2, 2020 15:09
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this reminded me that when my dad was dying, there was a dude that nobody knew in the ICU room with my grandpa and we couldn't figure out who he was. turned out he was a "faith healer" my grandpa hired to come in and pray my dad back to good health. I've often wondered how much my grandpa paid for that scam
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kater posted:positive cases grew linearly the entire month of April. +30k sick every day. presumably because testing was at capacity. early mid April New York was 30-40%, once 50% of that. this last week it was only ever 15%. still same 30k growth. the rest of the country is more than capable of picking up the slack.
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May 2, 2020 15:14
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Singapore is having a big breakout after stifling the virus the first time around
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Also it feels weird that we haven't heard barely anything from the southern hemisphere in general
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May 2, 2020 15:17
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SKULL.GIF posted:Singapore is having a big breakout after stifling the virus the first time around It's gonna rule when we learn protection only lasts a few weeks and the herd immunity people melt into screeching puddles of denial
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SKULL.GIF posted:Also it feels weird that we haven't heard barely anything from the southern hemisphere in general I mean Brazil seems determined to gently caress this up even more than us, so there's that.
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May 2, 2020 15:22
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Blarghalt posted:I mean Brazil seems determined to gently caress this up even more than us, so there's that. It's like... Peru and Brasil? Like 17k in Chile? And nothing else? India somehow has only half China's cases despite putting in the absolute bare minimum effort instead of what China did, lock down the entire country and aggressive contact tracing. Most African countries are reporting cases in the thousands, with like 1-2 coming to the five digits. AU/NZ are 6700 and 1500 each.
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SKULL.GIF posted:It's like... Peru and Brasil? Like 17k in Chile? And nothing else? India somehow has only half China's cases despite putting in the absolute bare minimum effort instead of what China did, lock down the entire country and aggressive contact tracing. Most African countries are reporting cases in the thousands, with like 1-2 coming to the five digits. AU/NZ are 6700 and 1500 each. it's been loving ecuador up for awhile now, their excess deaths are through the roof and bodies have literally been piling up in the streets of their biggest city
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:Is it "I'm in a derailed thread" or "I'm in derailed thread"? All threads are derailed by default, so it's just itt
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SKULL.GIF posted:It's like... Peru and Brasil? Like 17k in Chile? And nothing else? India somehow has only half China's cases despite putting in the absolute bare minimum effort instead of what China did, lock down the entire country and aggressive contact tracing. Most African countries are reporting cases in the thousands, with like 1-2 coming to the five digits. AU/NZ are 6700 and 1500 each.
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May 2, 2020 15:35
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Collateral posted:Was he really upset about having the idea of a school for magic stolen from him by Rowling? He wasn't the first to come up with idea. If he was bitter I suspect it had more to do with her selling more books than him, but I like to think it was him criticizing the extreme materialism of Rowling's books. There's a whole bit in HFoS where he talks about how buying stuff doesn't make you a witch which really stuck out in my mind as a pointed remark. From what I've read about Pratchett he had a very short internal fuse, and while he rarely outwardly expressed his negative emotions he was basically a pressure cooker of anger and frustration at other people. Knowing this makes some of his writing make a LOT more sense (Pretty much anything with Sam Vimes is basically Pratchett's internal monologue).
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SKULL.GIF posted:Also it feels weird that we haven't heard barely anything from the southern hemisphere in general FWIW only like 10% of the world's population lives in the southern hemisphere. Outside of Brazil, Indonesia, and the Congo there's not (comparatively) much.
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Blister posted:It's gonna rule when we learn protection only lasts a few weeks and the herd immunity people melt into screeching puddles of denial Herd immunity is a political fantasy cooked up by the west because disease control and prevention is fundamentally incompatible with modern liberalism
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GATES FOUNDATION posted:Herd immunity is a political fantasy cooked up by the west because disease control and prevention is fundamentally incompatible with modern liberalism Excellent username post combo there
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Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't herd immunity only work if the disease hasn't loving turned into a pandemic?
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Blarghalt posted:Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't herd immunity only work if the disease hasn't loving turned into a pandemic? You're wrong. It's just that herd immunity is typically discussed as immunity from vaccines but the same principals apply
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May 2, 2020 15:52
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herd immunity, more like nerd immunity
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May 2, 2020 15:52
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I’m watching PA social media and it’s completely loving insane, reopening is being presented as the only reasonable choice between “stay home and go bankrupt” or “go to work and possibly die.” Anyone who suggests caution is a neckbeard loser who lives in their mom’s basement and has no job. It really is incredible.
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GATES FOUNDATION posted:Herd immunity is a political fantasy cooked up by the west because disease control and prevention is fundamentally incompatible with modern liberalism no it’s a real term that’s being misappropriated by idiots to justify their inaction.
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BMX Ninja posted:"in hospital" is fairly common in British English. 
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I drove in to hospital for call and I came to the realization that it is impossible to do a proper lockdown. There is just no way to do this in america without a strong well coordinated plan from the federal government with heavy use of national guard. Just loving open it all back up who loving cares anymore, rip the band aid off America's gaping you know what and let the small business tyrants enjoy their hastened bankruptcy as the 30 million unemployed remain unemployed with no discretionary spending. Only way we can get any leftward progression is if we just accelerationist this bad boy and let all the succ libs and chuds realize how absolutely hosed it all is when we come out of quarantine.
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Blarghalt posted:Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't herd immunity only work if the disease hasn't loving turned into a pandemic? The issue with trying to herd immunity your way out of this by giving it to everyone is that: 1. nobody knows how long immunity lasts, with coronaviruses in the same family it can be as long as 2 years or as little as 2-3 months. 2. by letting it spread you invite uncontrolled levels of mutations, visit nextstrain.org/ncov and take a look at how few genetically distinct strains there are from the chinese/asian outbreak (in purple) compared to the west making GBS threads the bed and letting it spread. this means you are trying to plan group immunity for a constantly moving target. it is a dangerous assumption because a genetically distinct enough strain could reignite infections among previously recovered people. this was seen in 2014 west africa with the ebola outbreak, they asked for previous ebola survivors to volunteer at containment facilities until those people also got sick and died from the new strain. 3. while your country is battling flareups, countries with a disciplined 2 month lockdown can safely resume travel after eradicating the virus from its borders. it isn't a nano plague like the gray death in deus ex, it needs hosts and cannot survive for more than 72 hours on smooth surfaces. those countries will form travel and trade pacts with each other and not plague-ridden shitholes like the non-oceania anglosphere and western europe.
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The ideal scenario would be instant nationalization of hospitals with a trillion dollar coin robust funding along with finally doing something about ppe and testing. But you know, just continuing on without ever addressing ppe and testing along with hospitals laying off staff because the board had no way to prepare for 1 month of revenue cut in half is fine too.
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Asproigerosis posted:I drove in to hospital for call and I came to the realization that it is impossible to do a proper lockdown. There is just no way to do this in america without a strong well coordinated plan from the federal government with heavy use of national guard. Talking to people on the internet that aren’t in this thread is frustrating as gently caress because so many of them never grow past their teen boy “sociopathy is badass” phase and think it’s cool and masculine to talk about how grandpa needs to die so they can go golfing. It’s beyond depressing.
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Seeing all these people out in Wilmington because it's a beautiful spring day. The right is going to cruise to victory as they save the day by giving americans freedom and suppressing the covid tallies.
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Asproigerosis posted:Seeing all these people out in Wilmington because it's a beautiful spring day. The right is going to cruise to victory as they save the day by giving americans freedom and suppressing the covid tallies. Well it's the one weird trick they did in Florida, most likely to protect Chud boss Ron Desantis.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Talking to people on the internet that aren’t in this thread is frustrating as gently caress because so many of them never grow past their teen boy “sociopathy is badass” phase and think it’s cool and masculine to talk about how grandpa needs to die so they can go golfing. It’s beyond depressing. grandpa's on his own for this pandemic thing but don't you dare ok boomer him
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Asproigerosis posted:I drove in to hospital for call and I came to the realization that it is impossible to do a proper lockdown. There is just no way to do this in america without a strong well coordinated plan from the federal government with heavy use of national guard. lol, accelerationism is a bunch of just world claptrap. there is no reason at all to expect utopia to come out of letting the not-very-good situation we have go completely into the shitter, it's more likely to get stuck in an even worse state. cf. the dark ages although I guess tell yourself whatever you have to to have some hope 
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Asproigerosis posted:I drove in to hospital for call and I came to the realization that it is impossible to do a proper lockdown. There is just no way to do this in america without a strong well coordinated plan from the federal government with heavy use of national guard. What do you mean? 
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a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is trump 2020
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GATES FOUNDATION posted:The issue with trying to herd immunity your way out of this by giving it to everyone is that: what effect would bolded have on vaccine development
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opening back up in Texas is going great: click to watch video of a park ranger being pushed into a lake for asking people to engage in social distancing. https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/gbait0/austin_parks_ranger_gets_pushed_in_water_at/  👍🏻 that guy has been arrested amd charged with attempted assault
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