[Covid-19 May] The study of hydroxychloroquine shows a significant increase in death

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Ringo Roadagain: Mar 27, 2010

FizFashizzle posted:

Reminder that this guy was WWE�s Kane.

he still is on occasion when they need him to wrestle in Saudi Arabia

Ringo Roadagain has issued a correction as of 21:06 on May 18, 2020

# ? May 18, 2020 20:50

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# ? Jun 4, 2024 07:56

Shotgun Willie: Jul 13, 2005; Shotgun Toting Hick

What do you mean? I have it on trusted authority that this will all just magically go away. Otherwise why would we allow a bunch of white people to drive all over the place to protest about the lockdown? *dons a N95 respirator, gloves, and lab goggles to go buy laxatives for my wife*

# ? May 18, 2020 20:51

Google Butt: Oct 4, 2005; Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

the thing that owns is that even if the vaccine is legit and the earliest it can be is jan people still won't just chill for a couple of months lmao

# ? May 18, 2020 20:52

Atrocious Joe: Sep 2, 2011

how does a county have a mayor. that title doesn't make sense. it'd be like if a duchy was ruled by a baron.

# ? May 18, 2020 20:53

Troy Queef: Jan 12, 2013

FizFashizzle posted:

Reminder that this guy was WWE�s Isaac Yankem, DDS.

# ? May 18, 2020 20:53

Der Meister: May 12, 2001

there is no justice and nothing bad will happen to anyone that deserves it

# ? May 18, 2020 20:54

Solarin: Nov 15, 2007

who the gently caress is ace

# ? May 18, 2020 20:55

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Solarin posted:

who the gently caress is ace

Ace Frehley, guitarist for KISS

# ? May 18, 2020 20:57

blue squares: Sep 28, 2007

Solarin posted:

who the gently caress is ace

my name on any games in which you enter your name by individually scrolling through the alphabet for each letter

# ? May 18, 2020 20:57

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

I�m running my calves into an explosion

I don�t care

# ? May 18, 2020 20:57

Shotgun Willie: Jul 13, 2005; Shotgun Toting Hick

Der Meister posted:

there is no justice and nothing bad will happen to anyone that deserves it

Gonna put a "Nothing Matters" bumper sticker on my ventilator :dance:

# ? May 18, 2020 20:58

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Times like this, I like to look on the bright side of things

I don't have kids, and I never will

# ? May 18, 2020 20:58

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

abbot is at impressive levels of idgaf

# ? May 18, 2020 20:58

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Chris James 2 posted:

Times like this, I like to look on the bright side of things

I don't have kids, and I never will

# ? May 18, 2020 20:58

Shageletic: Jul 25, 2007

shovelbum posted:

that's like saying "oh this gun is cursed because someone once shot an innocent man with it", the american left is obsessed with this idea of a "taint" upon common societal tools like incarceration or state violence that somehow if they are abused once they are fully illegitimate forever.

Lol this is the most ignorant post of the year. Wowzers.

# ? May 18, 2020 20:59

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

have u considered some leftists are anarchists

# ? May 18, 2020 21:01

docbeard: Jul 19, 2011

If we but look to the example of those nations who incarcerated or executed only the bad people, such as

# ? May 18, 2020 21:05

Mayor Dave: Feb 20, 2009; Bernie the Snow Clown

euphronius posted:

I’m running my calves into an explosion

I don’t care

Easy there beto

# ? May 18, 2020 21:06

Shageletic: Jul 25, 2007

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

Typically we deal with clinical depression by trying to restore neurochemical balance rather than meditating on the fact that Sisyphus is happy

I guarantee that man gets his philosophical "edge" from Buffy the Vampire reviews on youtube

# ? May 18, 2020 21:06

Marx Headroom: May 10, 2007; AT LAST! A show with nonono ~~commercials~~!; Fallen Rib

today i read about the 1918 flu and turns out the first wave hit mostly old + young, but the second wave most likely mutated bc it targeted 20-40 yr olds

so thats fun

# ? May 18, 2020 21:08

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

the whole past 2 months were a loving waste. the morons never stayed at home and screamed and screamed and screamed and cried and screamed and screamed that they were being infringed upon. now we're reopening. we all* stayed at home for 8 weeks for loving nothing

*the like 60% of the population who bothered to do that

# ? May 18, 2020 21:08

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

SKULL.GIF posted:

the whole past 2 months were a loving waste. the morons never stayed at home and screamed and screamed and screamed and cried and screamed and screamed that they were being infringed upon. now we're reopening. we all* stayed at home for 8 weeks for loving nothing

*the like 60% of the population who bothered to do that

can�t wait for staying home nothing again part 2

# ? May 18, 2020 21:09

HugeGrossBurrito: Mar 20, 2018

SKULL.GIF posted:

the whole past 2 months were a loving waste. the morons never stayed at home and screamed and screamed and screamed and cried and screamed and screamed that they were being infringed upon. now we're reopening. we all* stayed at home for 8 weeks for loving nothing

*the like 60% of the population who bothered to do that

the important thing is the lifelong anxieties and compulsions we developed along the way

# ? May 18, 2020 21:09

brugroffil: Nov 30, 2015

https://twitter.com/LisaBaumann/status/1262471181636001792

# ? May 18, 2020 21:10

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

brugroffil posted:

https://twitter.com/LisaBaumann/status/1262471181636001792

hahahahah

# ? May 18, 2020 21:11

Bernie Panders: Apr 27, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

SKULL.GIF posted:

the whole past 2 months were a loving waste. the morons never stayed at home and screamed and screamed and screamed and cried and screamed and screamed that they were being infringed upon. now we're reopening. we all* stayed at home for 8 weeks for loving nothing

*the like 60% of the population who bothered to do that

turns out a lot more people would have stayed at home if people were being given regular cash while they watched their careers evaporate, or if literally anywhere did any testing, things that democrats can control too

not taking a botched, hosed up isolation plea seriously is inevitable when you're not promising CASH to go along with it

# ? May 18, 2020 21:11

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

JESUS CHRIST

https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1262029906512404480

# ? May 18, 2020 21:11

COVID-420: Apr 21, 2020; Natural cures they don't want you to know about.

That Washington Post story about the Georgia shopping center is the best thing to come out of this pandemic.

I say we officially put it on C-SPAM's summer reading list. Here it is so you can avoid the paywall. I know this post is long. But it's worth it. Every word is a subtle teacher to the soul. I added some relevant images to break up the text a little

quote:

�This feels great�
A preview from Georgia about how America might reemerge from the coronavirus: Eating, drinking, touching and throwing caution to the wind

ALPHARETTA, Ga. � The sky was blue, the sun was rising, and as the death toll from the coronavirus continued to soar across much of America, the fountains switched on in Avalon, a development of restaurants and shops in a wealthy corner of suburban Atlanta. It was time for life to resume, Georgia�s governor had decided, so a masked worker swept the threshold of Chanel. A clerk brushed off windows at Fab�rik that had been gathering dust. A gardener fluffed pink roses in planters along the sidewalks, where signs on doors said what so many had been waiting to hear.

�Open,� read one. �Welcome back!� read another. �Yay!!� read another, as a great American experiment got underway in a place promising �the luxury of the modern South� with none of the death.

Versions of this pledge are now being made all over the country as stay-at-home-orders are being lifted, businesses are opening, and millions of Americans now find themselves free to make millions of individual decisions about how to calibrate their sense of civic duty with their pent-up desires for the old routines and indulgences of life. In this grand gamble, Georgia has gone first, with Gov. Brian Kemp (R) dismissing public health experts who�ve warned that opening too soon could cause a catastrophic surge of deaths, placing his faith instead in the citizens of Georgia to make up their own minds about what risks and sacrifices they were willing to accept.

�God bless,� he�d said as he gave the order to reopen hair salons, nail salons, massage parlors, tattoo shops, restaurants and retailers across the state. That order would be supported in the days ahead with data on an official Georgia website claiming that confirmed cases in the state�s hardest-hit counties were in steady decline since the reopening. The claim would turn out to be erroneous and Kemp would issue an apology, but such details were not on many minds in Avalon, where a middle-aged man calibrated his way into a Starbucks, deciding to stand mask-free before a 60-year-old barista nervous on her first day back at work.

�Venti dark with cream and 12 sugars?� he breathed cheerfully, then headed outside into a glorious spring day.

It was all so orderly in these first post-lockdown moments in Avalon, a place that had epitomized the rewards of upward mobility since opening in 2014, a date chiseled into the stone pillar at the entrance. Avalon had a long boulevard with a green central plaza. It had fountains. It had wide sidewalks and trees strung with lights. It had fresh impatiens and sculpted shrubs and music floating out of hidden speakers, a dreamscape of suburban aspiration that was what many middle-class Americans meant when they talked about wanting to restart their lives.

Now there were signs here and there that read �better together, apart.� There were green one-way arrows painted on the sidewalks in anticipation of a surge in foot traffic. And soon, the voice of Frank Sinatra was drifting out of the bushes and into the cool morning as the walkers began arriving, resuming their regular loops past the glass-front shops offering a semblance of pre-virus life � new iPhones in the Apple store, new Tesla in the Tesla dealership, new mauve pillows at West Elm and new white jeans at a store called Free People, which was how people were trying to feel.

�The future is bright,� read the words on one window. �Do not enter if you have a fever or other symptoms of Covid-19,� read another, and a woman and her husband breezed past it into Anthropologie. �You�re open!� she said to the clerk. �Welcome in,� the clerk said through a mask as the woman, not in a mask, skipped the hand sanitizer at the front and wandered through the racks, touching a yellow sundress here, a striped sweater there, smelling the lavender candles and after a few minutes, walking outside.

�I just want to feel normal, I guess,� she said. �It�s a personal choice,� said her husband, mask-free in shorts and a polo. �If you want to stay home, stay home. If you want to go out, you can go out. I�m not in the older population. If I was to get it now, I�ve got a 90 percent chance of getting cured. Also, I don�t know anybody who�s got it.�

They strolled hand in hand down the sidewalk as �I Love Vegas� played through the speakers, untroubled by the reality that Fulton County, where Avalon is located, had more than 3,600 coronavirus cases and 151 deaths so far, numbers that were growing even as people began sitting down for a glass of wine at Cru. So far, most of those cases were in the part of the county closer to Atlanta � the poorer and more heavily African American part � which was not the typical demographic of Avalon, where shoppers tended to be wealthy and white. At a shoe store called Marmi, Debbie McGuiness, a clerk, stared out of the window at the people whose pandemic calibrations seemed so different from her own.

�I live an hour away and was driving in this morning, only me on the road, and I was thinking, �Am I doing the right thing?� � she said through a mask. �And you see some out there jogging, no mask on. I think their confidence is rising.� A few doors down, Tamara Mitchum had started her shift with a prayer � �Lord, I know you�re bigger than corona� � put on her mask, and now she was turning to one of her first customers, a woman holding up a green bathing suit. �What about a little skirt to go with it?� the woman said. �For your height, this would be perfect,� Mitchum said.

Meanwhile, outside Crate & Barrel, June Sheets, a retiree, was loading her trunk with a box of new acrylic plates and an outdoor planter for a luncheon she was hosting. �This is glorious � I think the news is blowing it all out of proportion. The wineries are opening this weekend for indoor service and we�re going there tomorrow. I can�t wait!� Outside Urban Outfitters, Jennifer Kiernan was having a glass of wine as her daughter shopped inside. �Oh my God, this feels great � I love it,� she said, explaining that she assumed that she and everyone around her was healthy. �I think people would not be out if they had been exposed to anyone with corona.�

Inside Parisian Nail Salon:

�Who specializes in ingrown? Because I have an ingrown,� Greta Holland, who was in her 60s, said, extending her hand through a hole in an acrylic partition so she could get a manicure from a woman on the other side, wearing a mask. Holland, who was not wearing a mask, turned to chat with her friend in the next chair, who was reclining for her pedicure. �If this is risking my life, then I�ve been risking my life going to Costco,� said Betty Luke. �I went to the antique mall yesterday on Highway 9 and it was just like � it was like freedom. We have to get out. We have to live in this world, and if we don�t ��

�It�s not living,� said Holland, who checked her nail color � �Oh I love it!� � paid $32 and began to put on a surgical mask, but then decided not to. �I hate these things,� she said, heading back outside into the sun, where the music had switched to �Party in the U.S.A.� and the sidewalks were getting more crowded with people walking three and four across along Avalon Boulevard. Many were no longer paying attention to the green one-way arrows, the dashes of fluorescent tape marking six-foot increments or the clerk at the front of Urban Outfitters offering Purell.

�Hand sanitizer?� she said to the people walking by. �Hand sanitizer?� Shannon Lloyd headed for a rack of fleece tops. Oh, this is cute � is this pajamas?� she said, holding a pair up. �I love that,� said Amber Medley, Lloyd�s nanny, who had gotten the coronavirus back in March, nearly went to the hospital, and was now enjoying her retail outing mask-free, assuming that she was no longer contagious and also immune to the virus.

�This is good for our mental health,� Medley said. �It�s a distraction from what is going on in the real world,� said Lloyd. A few doors down, Beth Painchaud was pushing her 88-year old mother in a wheelchair around carousels of floral blouses. �How are you feeling, Mom?� said Painchaud, 60, placing a bare hand on her shoulder. �Feels good to be out browsing,� said her mother, Joan Painchaud. They had already had cocktails and appetizers at Kona Grill, and now they were drifting around, not buying anything � �just escaping,� said Beth, who wheeled her mother out of the store and onto a sidewalk that was only getting busier, filling with mask-free walkers, mask-free shoppers and mask-free children running around a fountain.

In the warm afternoon, a group of teenage girls were smushing together for selfies in front of Brooks Brothers. Neighbors were meeting each other for cocktails and hugging. �Yeah, I�m going to do the laser and the filler,� a woman was saying to her friend as they shared a bottle of wine on the patio of Cru. �I�m getting my nails done tomorrow � screw it,� said a nurse drinking a glass of wine on a bench after work, as the order of the morning was collapsing into the results of a thousand individual decisions.

On the sprawling green plaza, people began gathering elbow-to-elbow on blankets and lawn chairs, opening beers and bottles of wine. �I think you have to live life,� said Jeff Lampel, taking a sip of beer.

�When you start seeing where the cases are coming from and the demographics � I�m not worried,� agreed his friend Scott Friedel. �I know what people are going to say � 'Those selfish idiots are killing our old people!� � said Lampel. �How do you give up a day like this � really, how?� Friedel said, enjoying the last rays of sun as the music kept playing and the crowds kept coming.

Along Avalon Boulevard, people were clustering at restaurants for their first dinners out, and at one of them, every table inside and outside was full, and people with done hair and done nails gathered hip to hip at the entrance to put in their names. They waited around the bar and they spilled out onto the sidewalk as sweating, masked waiters tried to weave around them with cocktails and trays of food, and out on the patio, two couples were talking about how they had decided it was okay to come out for dinner, okay not to wear masks, okay to share a plate of hummus, okay not to worry about spreading or catching the coronavirus, not here in Avalon.

�If people had symptoms, they wouldn�t be out,� said Jeff Weisberg, sipping a cocktail. �If I was immune compromised, I wouldn�t be out,� said his wife. �We are not topping the charts with deaths like they said we would,� said their friend, who began talking about how she felt President Trump had been �brainwashed by a bunch of liars� who had exaggerated the coronavirus threat, and when her husband said that he thought that all the restrictions were actually based on a �false narrative,� they all nodded. They dug into the hummus. And when Weisberg finished the last of his cocktail, he suggested his friend should try one too.

�Will I like it?� his friend said. �Yeah, it�s got a little jalape�o in it,� Weisberg said, raising his voice over the louder and louder din of people enjoying themselves on a lovely evening in pandemic America. �Isn�t this great?� he said. He flagged down one of the waiters who hurried over.

�I�ll take another spice mist,� he shouted.

# ? May 18, 2020 21:12

Zberan Madowinty: Dec 7, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

SKULL.GIF posted:

the whole past 2 months were a loving waste. the morons never stayed at home and screamed and screamed and screamed and cried and screamed and screamed that they were being infringed upon. now we're reopening. we all* stayed at home for 8 weeks for loving nothing

*the like 60% of the population who bothered to do that

america is a toddlerstate, every good thing we've ever had a chance to achieve has been destroyed by white people screaming about how they're inconvenienced by it

# ? May 18, 2020 21:13

Bearjew: Apr 18, 2017

brugroffil posted:

https://twitter.com/LisaBaumann/status/1262471181636001792

haha

# ? May 18, 2020 21:14

facetoucher cat: Dec 20, 2013; by sebmojo

I just went down a rabbit hole researching something totally not related to coronavirus and it wrapped around to be maybe I don't know potentially related to coronavirus and I'm not sure if I should half-rear end effort post because it might be dumb AF and I'm not sure if it's worth it maybe I should eat instead of just drinking whipped coffee and smoking

I'll just leave this link here as one of the crazy things I'm reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon_gamma

# ? May 18, 2020 21:15

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Arsenic Lupin posted:

JESUS CHRIST

https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1262029906512404480

Well at least they left the manipulated data up for everyone to see.

Unlike Devious Desantis who had the FL State department of health correct the record when medical examiners found additional corona virus deaths.

# ? May 18, 2020 21:15

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

https://twitter.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1262470854144700416

# ? May 18, 2020 21:17

NofrikinfuN: Apr 23, 2009

FizFashizzle posted:

Reminder that this guy was WWE�s Kane.

democracy doesn't work because people are dumb enough to vote for people because they saw them on the tee vee

# ? May 18, 2020 21:18

sullat: Jan 9, 2012

brugroffil posted:

https://twitter.com/LisaBaumann/status/1262471181636001792

quote:

A county judge has declared Oregon Gov. Kate Brown�s coronavirus restrictions �null and void� because she didn�t have her emergency orders approved by the Legislature.

Baker County Circuit Judge

Baker County is right next tp Malheur and has less than 20k people. This is some hick judge and if the state Supreme Court upholds it I will eat my hat, which I will probably make out of beef jerky before hand.

# ? May 18, 2020 21:19

Pead: May 31, 2001; Nap Ghost

Arsenic Lupin posted:

JESUS CHRIST

https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1262029906512404480

Does anyone have the MSNBC screenshot of that chart that was posted in here handy? Georgia updated and memory holed the original.

# ? May 18, 2020 21:19

ShutteredIn: Mar 24, 2005; El Campeon Mundial del Acordeon

sullat posted:

Baker County is right next tp Malheur and has less than 20k people. This is some hick judge and if the state Supreme Court upholds it I will eat my hat, which I will probably make out of beef jerky before hand.

Baker county is like 4 hours from Malheur but the rest of your point stands

# ? May 18, 2020 21:20

Mayor Dave: Feb 20, 2009; Bernie the Snow Clown

COVID-420 posted:

That Washington Post story about the Georgia shopping center is the best thing to come out of this pandemic.

I say we officially put it on C-SPAM's summer reading list. Here it is so you can avoid the paywall. I know this post is long. But it's worth it. Every word is a subtle teacher to the soul. I added some relevant images to break up the text a little

Quoting in case we need it for June thread op

# ? May 18, 2020 21:20