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flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


so if (states re opening) = (guaranteed more death and destruction) does that = (illuminati population control) = confirmed truthiracy ? ? ?


like ok whats the end game here fellas. in a week you can get a haircut ofcourse but as you're walking out your front door you trip on the twisted tangle of corpses that stretches to the horizon and suffer internal decapitation. and ok maybe total carnage is good for the economy somehow that I just don't understand because I am a poor, but if every other person is sick / dead / dying who gives a rats behind what number do? I am literally shaking gang.

flubber nuts fucked around with this message at 17:22 on May 14, 2020

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shovelbum
Oct 21, 2010

Fun Shoe

Zugzwang posted:

The question is, how are the true believers going to handle it when they/their loved ones start getting pwned.

My prediction: many/most of them will rationalize it away. I've been seeing lots of reports about people dying of COVID-19 in deep red areas, and their families insisting that the cause of death be listed as something like "stroke, complicated by pneumonia."

also christians believe dying is the best thing, and that the ideal life would be getting aborted in the first trimester bc then you go straight to heaven without worries, anyone who thinks this is an irrelevant and infinitely brief waiting room where your behavior doesnt matter so long as you (internally, mentally, once, with endless wiggle room and caveats) "accept jesus" before you continue on to an afterlife in utopia for eternity is a loving death cult

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

simble posted:

I got some bad news about that recovery rate for you, my dude.

Recovery from this virus is brutal. If you end up in the hospital from this, then chances are you'll have life long health issues, in really extreme cases patients are needing surgery to have a lung removed because the damage is that bad.

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

KinkyJohn posted:

Is there a reason why Russia’s daily infection rate is skyrocketing like crazy? What’s happening on the ground there? Any ruski goons? привет?

yes. spring holidays were last week. millions of people traveled thousands of kilometres. basically the same thing as what happened with wuhan + lunar new year.

Bleusilences
Jun 23, 2004

Be careful for what you wish for.

The other thing is there should be a lot of cardiact arrest and other orgent failure that is passing under the radar right now as covid deaths.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Restrained Crown Posse posted:

Don't think that bloody-mindedness is unique to the US. Got into a taxi in the UK and heard a loud persistent beeping. About ten seconds into the ride, I realised it was because the driver wasn't wearing his seatbelt and was just wilfully ignoring the alarm.

This was somehow more terrifying than if the driver was driving poorly.

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

My favorite thing about the trials of casino goon is that our government hosed this up so bad that his company telling them to supply their own ppe is almost certainly legal.

Like its hilarious how hosed up it is that they just openly state they aren't supplying the necessary tools for even the illusion of worker safety.

Zero One posted:

Cross posting from a Disney World message board about a person planning to go to Disney World:

Imagine being a person who thinks 1/25 times my life will be messily ended if I pursue this and these are good odds worth gambling.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

ruddiger posted:

lol that there was a mass shooting the day Texas reopened and the entire nation just shrugged.

America "shrugging" over a mass shooting is a lot more of a response than most mass shooting get in the US. There were two different mass shootings in Texas on May 10th for example.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

Shaocaholica
Oct 29, 2002

Fig. 5E

BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:

like ok whats the end game here fellas.

The end game is that too many trump voters have died in swing states. Trump knows this and will cancel the election. With the help of big luau he will try to take absolute power as emperor of America.

Nucleic Acids
Apr 10, 2007

Shaocaholica posted:

The end game is that too many trump voters have died in swing states. Trump knows this and will cancel the election. With the help of big luau he will try to take absolute power as emperor of America.

Isn’t it overwhelmingly poor people of color who are dying from this?

Lenins Potato
May 8, 2008

Shaocaholica posted:

The end game is that too many trump voters have died in swing states. Trump knows this and will cancel the election. With the help of big luau he will try to take absolute power as emperor of America.

It'll also kill off a lot of Biden voters too... which opens the door for the either the libertarians or the greens :neckbeard:

LionArcher
Mar 29, 2010


Cough Drop The Beat posted:

I'm not going to a bar for like a year or more and not considering a restaurant outside of takeout/delivery until maybe July or August at the earliest, assuming our numbers don't spike up to tragic crisis levels again as I'm sure they will. So excited!!

It’s coffee shops that I like to write at that bum me out. gently caress I even miss going to Starbucks.

Bleusilences
Jun 23, 2004

Be careful for what you wish for.


Can you imagine selling a product that says do not use on it.

wilderthanmild
Jun 21, 2010

Posting shit




Grimey Drawer

Here's a thing to override the seatbelt alarm in your car. Don't use it!

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Shaocaholica posted:

The end game is that too many trump voters have died in swing states. Trump knows this and will cancel the election. With the help of big luau he will try to take absolute power as emperor of America.
Whole lotta non-Trump voters dying too. The virus gives no fucks.

I said come in! posted:

Recovery from this virus is brutal. If you end up in the hospital from this, then chances are you'll have life long health issues, in really extreme cases patients are needing surgery to have a lung removed because the damage is that bad.
My wife's doctor uncle noted that tons of people are going into kidney failure from this, which doesn't get talked about a lot.

Then they need at least temporary dialysis, for which there's limited infrastructure anyway, and so folks who were on dialysis pre-pandemic are at serious risk of exposure to the virus.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Bleusilences posted:

Can you imagine selling a product that says do not use on it.

yes

Shaocaholica
Oct 29, 2002

Fig. 5E

Zugzwang posted:

Whole lotta non-Trump voters dying too. The virus gives no fucks.

Have you not noticed how pro trump people are much more willing to jump into the meat grinder? Each chud is going to infect more chuds statistically.

mds2
Apr 8, 2004


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Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Shaocaholica posted:

Have you not noticed how pro trump people are much more willing to jump into the meat grinder? Each chud is going to infect more chuds statistically.

It will raise their fears and perception that they are being targeted.

Zero One
Dec 30, 2004

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

Shaocaholica posted:

The end game is that too many trump voters have died in swing states. Trump knows this and will cancel the election. With the help of big luau he will try to take absolute power as emperor of America.

The election will happen as normal because Trump's brain will never allow him to believe that he won't be reelected in a Nixon level sweep.

A Grand Egg
Jan 12, 2020

by Pragmatica

im essential

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Restrained Crown Posse posted:

Don't think that bloody-mindedness is unique to the US. Got into a taxi in the UK and heard a loud persistent beeping. About ten seconds into the ride, I realised it was because the driver wasn't wearing his seatbelt and was just wilfully ignoring the alarm.

This was somehow more terrifying than if the driver was driving poorly.

And it's entirely legal for him not to be wearing a seat belt.

quote:

When you don't need to wear a seat belt
You don’t need to wear a seat belt if you’re:

a driver who is reversing, or supervising a learner driver who is reversing
in a vehicle being used for police, fire and rescue services
a passenger in a trade vehicle and you’re investigating a fault
driving a goods vehicle on deliveries that is travelling no more than 50 metres between stops
a licensed taxi driver who is ‘plying for hire’ or carrying passengers

Apparently it's due to possibility of assault, so it's an exemption to a law that really doesn't make any sense.

mds2
Apr 8, 2004


Australia: 131114
Canada: 18662773553
Germany: 08001810771
India: 8888817666
Japan: 810352869090
Russia: 0078202577577
UK: 08457909090
US: 1-800-273-8255
I think Trump knows he will lose and is dooming America out of spite.

edit: I know he thinks he will win.

Fenarisk
Oct 27, 2005

I said come in! posted:

Recovery from this virus is brutal. If you end up in the hospital from this, then chances are you'll have life long health issues, in really extreme cases patients are needing surgery to have a lung removed because the damage is that bad.

Are there figures on this? Genuinely curious because anecdotally of the thousands of patients we have had the past two months with covid, just under 6% have had any sort of lasting, minor damage.

A Grand Egg
Jan 12, 2020

by Pragmatica
They are trying to kill people, if thats not in your metric youre living in a dream world

its hard to accept but its true.

If you work with old people, sick people, its undeniable.

Its also the same for broader society.

A Grand Egg fucked around with this message at 17:58 on May 14, 2020

Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

SCIENCE



Zero One posted:

Cross posting from a Disney World message board about a person planning to go to Disney World:

From our very own DisThread here:

Boxman posted:

Lol okay I'm reading the thread, most of the posts are "you're going to die lol" but others are purestrain chef kissy face


Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Richard Burr, Republican head of the Senate Intelligence Committee just resigned from that post because he was insider trading because he knew about the corona virus before the rest of us.

lol.

quote:

Burr sold a significant percentage of his stock portfolio in 33 different transactions on Feb. 13, just as his committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings and a week before the stock market declined sharply. Much of the stock was invested in businesses that in subsequent weeks were hit hard by the plunging market.

quote:

The same day Burr sold his stocks, Burr’s brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of six stocks, according to documents filed with the Office of Government Ethics.

Another Republican (sensing a trend?) Check out what she bought stock in:

quote:

In late February and early March, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) sold stocks valued at between $1.25 million and $3.1 million in companies that later dropped significantly, including ExxonMobil. She also bought shares in Citrix, which makes telework software.

dudeness
Mar 5, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
Fallen Rib

Hazo posted:

From our very own DisThread here:

We Are All Gonna Die: Nothing will happen to you if you do what you want to do 👍

Zugzwang
Jan 2, 2005

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.


Ramrod XTreme

Fenarisk posted:

Are there figures on this? Genuinely curious because anecdotally of the thousands of patients we have had the past two months with covid, just under 6% have had any sort of lasting, minor damage.
That's good to hear. 1 in 16 is still a lot though. What do you think is the percentage of people with lasting, severe damage?

Shaocaholica posted:

Have you not noticed how pro trump people are much more willing to jump into the meat grinder? Each chud is going to infect more chuds statistically.
True. Lotta pre-November months left for that meat grinder to start whirling.

By the way, everyone talking about Trump cancelling/postponing the election: isn't it only Congress that can do that? I realize that "you can't do this" hasn't stopped Trump much before, mind you.

lol.

Selling stock is one thing, but selling and buying the right kind is another.

The Ferret King
Nov 23, 2003

cluck cluck

Big Beef City posted:

It...it's not.
I mean, you look at the date and then look at news about two weeks prior.

And the 'two weeks' thing is a rough estimate. The people exposed today because of yesterdays bad decision don't have an egg timer started that say ok well check back in exactly 14 days that you have to check up on, you'd have to watch for spikes in trends, which, from you admitting you have a hard time remembering large decisions about a topic you're already interested in from two weeks prior, you might have issues doing. I dunno, maybe not.

I'm just saying, no, it's not really that hard to track this stuff or correlate it to things that are actually happening, no.

Well good, then you'll have no problem summing it all up for me, thanks.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Zugzwang posted:

Selling stock is one thing, but selling and buying the right kind is another.

Yeah the FBI doesn't tend to raid sitting Senators homes for their cellphones for no reason.

A Grand Egg
Jan 12, 2020

by Pragmatica
Funny how certain people and "politics" floods the thread at certain times.

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*



Unperson_47 posted:

I saw a comment on my local paper's Facebook saying Hillary killed more people at Benghazi than Covid-19 has.

I was watching a World of Warships video on YouTube, and in the match chat there was some guy giving it the old "it's just a cold" speech, claiming the stats are doctored, less than 1% of people die, a cold is more dangerous, many of the victims died from something completely unrelated and were listed as covid casualties for political reasons etc.

Just can't avoid those fuckwits anywhere anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1H122UnBc

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Zero One posted:

The election will happen as normal because Trump's brain will never allow him to believe that he won't be reelected in a Nixon level sweep.

I don't know about that, Jared Kushners comments this week about wanting to cancel the election is disturbing as gently caress.

Shaocaholica
Oct 29, 2002

Fig. 5E
It’s a nice rock and hard place. He can’t admit that more of his voters died from his and their bad advice. There’s a contingent of libertarians who will infight over excuses he might make.

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

Shaocaholica posted:

It’s a nice rock and hard place. He can’t admit that more of his voters died from his and their bad advice. There’s a contingent of libertarians who will infight over excuses he might make.

Trump is also aware of his polling numbers going down like a rock to the bottom of the ocean. He has threatened to sue and fire his campaign manager as of a few weeks ago over this.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Der Shovel posted:

I was watching a World of Warships video on YouTube, and in the match chat there was some guy giving it the old "it's just a cold" speech, claiming the stats are doctored, less than 1% of people die, a cold is more dangerous, many of the victims died from something completely unrelated and were listed as covid casualties for political reasons etc.

Just can't avoid those fuckwits anywhere anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1H122UnBc

To be fair I would be surprised if World of Warships *didn't* attract a more conservative demographic.

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Zero One posted:

Cross posting from a Disney World message board about a person planning to go to Disney World:

People are loving morons. If you were getting on a plane and they said it had a 4% chance of crashing and killing all on board and you still get on the plane you are a grade A dipshit and these people are saying you should not only get on the plane you shouldn’t even worry about it.

The same people buy lotto tickets that have a 0.000000001% chance of winning.

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

I said come in! posted:

I always found that completely weird. Like these were super villians that wanted to wipe out all life on the planet. But somehow 9/11 was going too far.

Post-9/11 was a confusing, extremely stupid time where everyone from musicians to TV shows to restaurants to sports to even Marvel comic books felt like they had to fellate America as much as possible and it was amazingly dumb in every way.

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GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

Der Shovel posted:

Just can't avoid those fuckwits anywhere anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1H122UnBc

people who want you to give them your money?
they're everywhere

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