Zeriel posted:

They've detected a strain of the virus in Arizona with with a new mutation. It's deleted part of its genome. The same thing happened with sars before the virus vanished.

If trump ends up being right about the virus just disappearing I might have a mental breakdown.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-scientific-team-unique-mutation-coronavirus.html

The Alpha Centauri posted:

are we dead yet?

Homeless Friend posted:

Listening to Alex Jones while workin out and he's saying Louisiana is under napoleonic law

Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:

its been obvious that every number the whitehouse has produced since trump took office has been something someone took 5 minutes to crank out in excel and each time the nytimes and others will respect the office and repeat these numbers uncritically

TRIMP!

*cough*

Drinkfist posted:

Hey look its the Bold flank. The only loving strategy drilled into US Army infantryman that immediately stops working when someone knows about. Which is everyone in the middle east because all the fresh units keep doing it instead of just walking in indirect fire like they should instead of getting kids killed doing dumb poo poo that doesn't work in a loving desert.

Flesh Forge posted:

Lol it's literally all over the whole US, in every state, and in every county of most states, not to mention a lot of the rest of the planet. It'd be neat if they all politely agreed to mutate to something harmless overnight but that is some Darwin's Radio level science fiction.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Be fair. All the strategies they drilled into me other than "call someone with a bigger boom" stopped working when someone knew about them.

Now more than anything I want to make friends with a helicopter pilot and airstrike a random paintball arena.

Drinkfist posted:

Yeah. Funny thing about that. It works both ways.

I am allergic to bullets. Just mortar them because we can. The key to everything is to be lazy and aggressive. Everything the Army teaches is just dumb and accounts for getting people killed because they don't care. Stack up on a door and run in a room guns blazing into the unknown? The army considers it a victory if one of you is left alive and you took the room. So we just blow open a side wall with a MK19 making a nice big hole and shoot into it. Guys on the second floor? Duct tape a claymore to a board and just prop it up on the windows. gently caress going up stairs and being all by the book. You start losing friends to their dumb book strats and you come to realize real loving quick that everything you were taught is Lemming poo poo.

Drinkfist posted:

The real invisible defense was the genetic disorders of the incestuous hicks. The virus just crumbles when attacking the three stooges immune system of fourth generation inbreeding.

The Alpha Centauri posted:

is worldmeters.info still reliable?

The Alpha Centauri posted:

is worldmeters.info still reliable?

CODChimera posted:

What's this about trump making the virus magically disappear?

shovelbum posted:

like we're disintegrating over a very very controllable virus, identical to but less severe than the viruses we get every several years like clockwork, which every other country has easily reduced to nearly zero with an 8-week lockdown, UBI, track and trace

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

They're going to lose their parents / spouses and they're just not going to give a poo poo. It's already happening here and there and they make some mutterings about "Chinese virus" right before they go back to crying about not being able to eat at Chilis. We have entire generations taught to be sociopaths, and it's logical that would extend to their own families.

CODChimera posted:

None of the info is reliable

Flesh Forge posted:

Seriously it is all best visualized with clouds of shrug and thinky face emojis

CODChimera posted:

What's this about trump making the virus magically disappear?


If he pulls that off then maybe God really did send him here

Syncopated posted:

Apparently the French retroactively tested blood samples from a dude that had pneumonia in late december and he had Corona. No known contact with people travelling or whatever. Maybe this has already been discussed itt idk

Inceltown posted:

Drinkfist posted:

No one ever answered me if Rice-a-Roni is racist now.

twoday posted:

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1257596580544331777?s=20

The Alpha Centauri posted:

are we dead yet?

twoday posted:

From CNN:

Do you have the 'skin hunger'?

The Dutch-born anthropologist Harald Prins points out the effect coronavirus has already had on his native language:
It appears, not surprisingly, that Covid-19 related neologisms are rampant in the Netherlands (and probably in most if not all other languages, too). I doubt most will survive but some will, albeit with unsuspected accretions.

In Dutch, for example, few realize that a popular word like "klerevent" (difficult to translate, but equivalent to bastard or rotten fellow) derives from cholera (klere).

Here are some Dutch corona neologisms with my free translations (but several terms resonate in a unique social-cultural way in the Netherlands):

Huidhonger / skin hunger: a longing for human contact while in isolation
Anderhalvemeteresamenleving / six-feet-society: an society constructed to avoid spreading coronavirus
Hoestschaamte / cough-shame: the anxiety one may experience about possibly triggering a panic among the people nearby when making a coughing sound for whatever reason
Coronahufter / coronajerk: shopper at a supermarket or store who violates the six-foot social distance prescription or other safe-keeping protocol.
Druppelcontact / spray-contact: exchange of little droplets when sneezing or coughing, esp. as source of infection
Onthamsteren / dehoarding: processing long-stored shelf-stable food into a meal.
Straatschaamte / street-shame: the embarrassment someone experiences when being out for urgently necessary errands during lockdown
Toogviroloog / blather-virologist: dilettante who spreads false or unsubstantiated information about the virus, its transmission, or its treatment

A new Dutch corona lexicon was created and is updated. It already comprises 700 new words, including those noted above.