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GATES FOUNDATION
Apr 28, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 7 years!
the average american eats 218 lbs of meat a year, or 98,883 grams, or 270 grams a day, or 9 ounces a day.

the meat ration for GPCR china was 500g a month , or half an ounce per day, and that's if it was even available to begin with.

GATES FOUNDATION has issued a correction as of 15:51 on May 5, 2020

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InsertPotPun
Apr 16, 2018

Pissy Bitch stan
they hadn't been paid in months and were sleeping in a cemetery.

https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1257537757150359552

so trump mercenaries confirmed i guess.

Star Phlatulence
Jan 14, 2006

by Cyrano4747
Bleak Gremlin
There Will Be Adequate Beef

FUCK SNEEP
Apr 21, 2007




GATES FOUNDATION posted:

the average american eats 218 lbs of meat a year, or 98,883 grams, or 270 grams a day, or 9 ounces a day.

the meat ration for GCPR china was 500g a month , or half an ounce per day, and that's if it was even available to begin with.

Hell yeah america #1

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010


This is my pornstar name

pigz
Jul 12, 2004

Nearly as overlooked as Joe Mauer
These daily conference calls are starting to not be good for my mental health. This PM will not stop insisting on making travel arrangements and now is organizing a 20+ person quarterly meeting in June which he very much wants to travel for so he can sit in a room with all those people. Like he said specifically to see about reserving a conference room.

Def won't be attending that. People are weird.

Never knew there were so many death cultists out there.

Mike the TV
Jan 14, 2008

Ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine

Pillbug

ChristsDickWorship posted:

we're gonna have to fly to japan for a real berg. if they ever let us back in

Someone post the Archie final berg comic please

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

I keep remembering about how NYC had trucks of rotting corpses stacked like cordwood and it was like, a 4 hour news story.

crack

ping.

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum

Burn Zone
May 22, 2004




my mother was telling me about a family she knows with child recently diag’d as Kawasaki syndrome and she was convinced they actually had the Roni

looks like she was right

Knight
Dec 23, 2000

SPACE-A-HOLIC
Taco Defender

mystes posted:

How many Wendy's locations do you go to on a typical Saturday?
LOL. Only went to one location, but I used to work there so we were talking at the drive-thru. Last time was November.

vyst posted:

Just wait until McDonalds supply chain gets hit and Trump cant get no mo berders
We'll look back at those WH McDonald's buffets as a time of opulence.

Charlz Guybon
Nov 16, 2010

How does worldmeter count numbers like that? Do they try and backdate them? Just dump them into today's number or just add them to the total?

InsertPotPun
Apr 16, 2018

Pissy Bitch stan
and none to be found

post COVID
Mar 5, 2007

free college, free healthcare, free Shmurda


twoday posted:

Good news, everyone

https://twitter.com/Shermichael_/status/1257639676200005633?s=19

Also the mutations are happening in the spike protein which is what many of the vaccines have been designed to target

gonna try a basic explanation of this because I'm bored. i'm a biochemist, not a virologist or epidemiologist, which will bias my explanation.

a key piece of context for this study is here:

quote:

New global sequences arrive at GISAID at a furious pace; currently, hundreds of new SARS-CoV-2 sequences are added each day (Sup. Fig 1)... a full genome alignment (4,535 sequences as of April 13th), to enable tracking the Spike mutations in a phylogenetic context

only relatively recently have we developed the technology to sequence thousands of viral RNA genomes in the span of a month or two. This is the first global pandemic that has occurred since the sequencing revolution. So, there is not much of a precedent for these type of data (probably influenza mutation rates are well known, but not by me).

the key bit of insight the authors offer is a

quote:

...framework for identifying positive selection... based on GISAID data, which provides a rich database of thousands of sequences linked to geographic information and sampling dates.

note that the authors are most concerned with mutations in the spike protein. the spike proteins protrude from the viral capsid and interacts with human cell-surface proteins. because the spike proteins are displayed on the surface of the virus, they are typically the antigens that raise an immune response. so, the sequence of the spike protein is related to the mechanism of infection by the virus, and is significant for vaccine development.

the authors identify the D614G mutation as significant for improving the fitness of the virus. this is the strain that has become dominant in EU and US over the first-sequenced Wuhan strain. D614G means that the amino acid D (aspartate) at position 614 (proteins are polymers of amino acids) has been changed to a G (glycine) resulting from a single mutation to the viral genome.

the 3-dimensional structure of the Wuhan-stain spike protein was determined months ago (which is honestly incredible). three spike proteins (black, light gray, dark gray), each with their own D614 residue (red), come together to form the spike. the bottom is attached to the virus, the top is exposed to the environment:



so the bottom line: evidence from this article suggests that G614 is more infectious than D614 covid-19 strain. when G614 becomes present in the population, it takes over, and gives higher viral loads (probably). so, the amino acid at position 614 of the spike protein is relevant in disease progression, but the mechanistic details (is it better at infecting cells? better at evading the immune system?) are not known.

will vaccines currently being developed against the Wuhan strain (D614) be effective against the prominent US (G614) strain? no one knows. the people making the vaccine will have a better idea. for instance, Moderna is likely using the full Wuhan spike protein sequence for their vaccine. it is possible that such a vaccine will not be effective against the G614 strain. structurally, it seems to me like D614 is unlikely to be an important feature as far as immune response, but that is total speculation on a topic I am not super familiar with.

yes i will pull forward, thank u

NofrikinfuN
Apr 23, 2009



and so are you :mmmhmm:

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

facetoucher cat posted:

never poo poo again you say?

https://www.cnet.com/news/florida-lizard-sets-depressing-record-for-constipation-in-a-living-animal/

Florida lizard sets depressing record for constipation in a living animal



:chloe:

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Throatwarbler posted:

Just catching up on some podcasts

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/business/china-coronavirus-government.html



Hope they're doing OK in China :ohdear:

lmao what the Christ

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

slopJoe 2020330 posted:

There Will Be Adequate Beef

get adequate beef piss bitch

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Dustcat posted:

now i'm no market analyst but it seems like a burger chain taking burgers off the menu could have a negative effect on their revenue

wendys could get by selling just the spicy chicken sandwhiches, chili, fries, and frosties

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



GATES FOUNDATION posted:

the average american eats 218 lbs of meat a year, or 98,883 grams, or 270 grams a day, or 9 ounces a day.

the meat ration for GPCR china was 500g a month , or half an ounce per day, and that's if it was even available to begin with.

when we say meat are we talking both red and white or mainly red

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

do not worry, our beloved too big to fail fast food restaurants, who employ so many and satisfy countless millions more, will be bailed out by the government

GATES FOUNDATION
Apr 28, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 7 years!

triple sulk posted:

when we say meat are we talking both red and white or mainly red

The aggregate consumption of all dead animals

Impkins Patootie
Apr 20, 2017





InsertPotPun posted:

they hadn't been paid in months and were sleeping in a cemetery.

https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1257537757150359552

so trump mercenaries confirmed i guess.

lol gj erk b blackwater u gonna get ur boys back?

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

galenanorth posted:

Two months ago, my city had 50,000 without power for 5-7 days after a tornado. Another strong storm happened last night and 80,000 are currently without power.

Over the past 50 years, Tornado Alley has drifted eastward from Kansas toward the Southeast. Strange times!

(This post was worth the battery power)

Greetings from Tornado Alley, eastern Tennessee.

"Climate change isn't real" I say as we've had the 9th tornado this year when they used to be a once a generation occurrence.

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum
remember when mcdonalds worked with the government to stop unionization efforts because they said that each of their restaurants was a different business

Jon Irenicus
Apr 23, 2008


YO ASSHOLE

just got the notice that school is digital the rest of the year

school got caught flat footed cause the governor was supposed to announce it at 4pm but just tweeted this morning lol

gregday
May 23, 2003

https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/1256242628917694472

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

This is so hosed up

https://mobile.twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1257675080013885441


quote:

States left cash-strapped by the coronavirus crisis shouldn’t count on federal bailouts — especially states run by Democrats, President Trump told The Post on Monday.

“It’s not fair to the Republicans because all the states that need help — they’re run by Democrats in every case. Florida is doing phenomenal, Texas is doing phenomenal, the Midwest is, you know, fantastic — very little debt.”

Trump also said, “You look at Illinois, you look at New York, look at California, you know, those three, there’s tremendous debt there, and many others.


skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

French hospital discovers Covid-19 case from December
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/french-hospital-discovers-covid-19-case-december-retested

He said the patient had survived and that a first investigation to trace the first contamination had been carried out.

“He was sick for 15 days and infected his two children, but not his wife, who works in a supermarket,” he said.

“He was amazed. He didn’t understand how he had been infected. We put the puzzle together and he had not made any trips. The only contact that he had was with his wife.”

:stonklol:

magiccarpet
Jan 3, 2005




so whats the new mason dixon line going to be called

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
drat India is getting Swipe Flu at the same time as the Coronavirus too.

Also, mega locust coming from Middle East in the summer.

RIP

Boxman
Sep 27, 2004

Big fan of :frog:


Charlz Guybon posted:

How does worldmeter count numbers like that? Do they try and backdate them? Just dump them into today's number or just add them to the total?

They try to back date them. A while back NY announced a bunch more deaths in a single day, and the site briefly had, like, 6,000 deaths in a day. Over a day or two the graph went back to now-regular levels of horror rather than pants-making GBS threads horror.

pigz
Jul 12, 2004

Nearly as overlooked as Joe Mauer

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

Greetings from Tornado Alley, eastern Tennessee.

"Climate change isn't real" I say as we've had the 9th tornado this year when they used to be a once a generation occurrence.

In Georgia we are getting the Tornado producing storms a lot more now. Last 3 years have been bad. We also get hurricanes coming up much further than normal from Florida.

My Coworker was without power for over a month after one of the hurricane remnant storms last year or the year before.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

magiccarpet posted:

so whats the new mason dixon line going to be called

Mason Dicks-69

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

pigz posted:

In Georgia we are getting the Tornado producing storms a lot more now. Last 3 years have been bad. We also get hurricanes coming up much further than normal from Florida.

My Coworker was without power for over a month after one of the hurricane remnant storms last year or the year before.

Growing up in northern Illinois, a short walk from Wisconsin, I saw tornadoes all the time as a kid. Had one hit our barn and just miss killing us in our sleep

Feel like there's no tornadoes that far north anymore

Impkins Patootie
Apr 20, 2017





magiccarpet posted:

so whats the new mason dixon line going to be called

The Wall

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Charlz Guybon posted:

How does worldmeter count numbers like that? Do they try and backdate them? Just dump them into today's number or just add them to the total?

the last few times this happened they put the numbers on hold while trying to backdate them. after a certain time period if they can't backdate them then they add it to the day that it was announced

so it'll likely be a few days before we see this being added to WM's data

nikosoft
Dec 17, 2011

ghost in the shell, but somehow much worse
College Slice
I don't remember which thread it was in, but I thought about it all night and decided that applesauce on top of a bowl of chili is okay. It's tickling some repressed, childhood memory, so I think I've even had it before?

Anyway, that was my post.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006


Lmao Florida is going to get wrecked this year since so much of the state and local budget is linked to tourism (Hotel Tax/Restaurant tax)

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The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

nikosoft posted:

I don't remember which thread it was in, but I thought about it all night and decided that applesauce on top of a bowl of chili is okay. It's tickling some repressed, childhood memory, so I think I've even had it before?

Anyway, that was my post.

As long as that chili has beans any topping is fine

Chili has no rules

Except it must contain beans

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