Rauros posted:

Paradoxish posted:

Nah.

"Mild" cases are too harsh and long-lasting, even when they affect younger, healthy people. China pressed the panic button because they were afraid for their economy, not because they were so worried about people dying. We're just too stupid at this point to understand how much damage this is going to do when you have whole offices or stores burning through a virus that can knock someone on their rear end for 2-3 weeks or longer.

Rauros posted:

Zil posted:

I love these images where they just pull random words together to try to make themselves sound important

facetoucher cat posted:

https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1262095075963736064

How's everyone's pandemic posting going?

Bar Ran Dun posted:

nah competent governments have kicked this things rear end.

more accurate to say shows the limits of American power and government.

Pretty good posted:

Turns out bad stuff happens when your economy depends on having a huge population of migrant workers and you force them to live in ultra dense + super lovely conditions.

Vast vast majority of daily new cases in sg are in the dorms, not the "local community".

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

maybe you just can't defeat SARS-CoV-2 until it almost defeats you

https://twitter.com/PaulBieniasz/status/1261464406979944454

Rauros posted:

A Buttery Pastry posted:

At least whoever made this is actually on to something, they're just confused about terms. Replace warcrime with crime against humanity, vaccines with forced injection of experimental vaccines, and the Nuremburg Code with the International Bill of Human Rights and you actually have a point. Also, like with warcrimes, no American is gonna ever get prosecuted for it.

Musk AND Ivanka have become communists?

facetoucher cat posted:

https://twitter.com/MikeDorning/status/1260915276994011136

fosborb posted:

they are, but positive, 2 weeks of quarantine, and then two asymptomatic negatives and then showing symptoms and testing positive again, is way out of the normal time frame, even if they are using poo poo Abbott tests to get a positive, false negative, false negative, positive pattern. 13 of those, out of only several hundred cases, is significant.

Mr. Sharps posted:

lol at the people in the replies demanding to know if they were obese diabetic or over 55, as if that doesn’t cover most of americas population

Schnorkles posted:

the something awful forums may not be the best judge of complex outcomes on planet earth

Squizzle posted:

arent something like 48% of negatives on the abbott tests, false?? i remember a 48% rate of something bad wrt those tests

Squizzle posted:

arent something like 48% of negatives on the abbott tests, false?? i remember a 48% rate of something bad wrt those tests

facetoucher cat posted:

He's this kind of socialist apparently

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209

and apparently opening the Cypertruck plant in Austin Texas because he loves their socialism so much

https://electrek.co/2020/05/15/tesla-factory-austin-texas/

Facebook Aunt posted:

They have decided that letting 1% of the population die is better than letting 15% of the working population be temporarily unemployed. Of course they say it isn't that bad and it will be much less than 1%, but even if it was a guaranteed 2% of the population they'd go with let 'em die. Mostly elderly, sickly, or poor people dieing? Hell yeah, let 'em die. (They won't say this part out loud yet, but letting those people die may even improve the national finances.)

Once things open up they won't close again regardless of the numbers of deaths. Sacrificing a few hundred thousand citizens to Mammon for continued prosperity is a bargain they are willing to make. The government isn't going to protect anyone.


So that puts the ball in your court.

• You can try to hold out in seclusion for a year while it rips through the population, hoping for herd immunity or better tested and proven treatments to be released.
  
  
• You can go back to work, do what you can with sanitizer and masks (and face shields?) to try to prevent yourself from getting it for as long as possible -- this has the advantage that you don't need to forage for nuts and berries to survive.
  
  
• You can throw up your hands, return to your normal lifestyle, and embrace the bloodshed -- accept that you will inevitably get the roni and just hope that you'll be in the majority of infected who don't have serious complications. Once you get it be one of those people who doesn't even bother to self-isolate. Embrace your destiny as a plague rat and breath on every boomer chud you see and hope to take them down with you.
  

I'm lucky, since I'm on disability I can try for seclusion without having to learn how to snare squirrels for protein. If you don't have a guarenteed income you'll have to work out the best plan with what you got.

Squizzle posted:

so all meat is just loving covered in virus rn right

Squizzle posted:

so all meat is just loving covered in virus rn right

Spoondick posted:

solemnly pulling my "official meat inspector" cropped mesh t shirt from the closet and donning it to respect my fallen comrades

Squizzle posted:

so all meat is just loving covered in virus rn right

Squizzle posted:

so all meat is just loving covered in virus rn right

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

went out to get a couple cases of vodka, they took it to my trunk and just took a picture of my credit card through the window to charge it was great.

Steve Yun posted:

according to one study, yes. abbot is contesting this and wants to go into the study in detail

suffice it to say, most antibody tests have double digit inaccuracy so... get tested multiple times

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Like, the entire narrative here is that the Chinese economy runs solely on stolen American intellectual property.

fosborb posted:

yeah, that was the NYU preprint finding

but I think false positives are significantly less, and there's also the extreme time between positives where they were asymptomatic.

could be weak initial infection = crap antibodies + lol social distancing on a boat

flu herpes is funnier though

Inceltown posted:

How much vodka do you drink? That would be ~17l of vodka here which is a concerning amount to get unless you're buying for a bar.

Apraxin posted:

https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/1262042416527429633

shovelbum posted:

maybe but also living thru feb/march while paying attention to this thing has left most of us here hypersensitive to the risks of surface transmission

Turtle Sandbox posted:

Those stolen IPs manufacturing themselves out of thin air right? Do people believe China is incapable of R&D and would be stuck in time like the Amish if they couldn't steal plans?

juche avocado posted:

some the limits are artificial and created by ideology!!

Squizzle posted:

yeah but a false neg rate of 48% is ridiculous

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

I'd probably be more worried about the random contaminants and poo poo that aren't getting caught from the stripped down inspection lines more so than some babby SARS virions sitting on top.