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nocal
Mar 7, 2007

If we're made in the image of god, and covering your face is an affront to him, are you going to uncover yr fukken dick and balls?

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Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Platystemon posted:

He wants to speak to the pandemic’s manager.



But Ms. Karen... YOU are the Pandemic's Manager

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/warning-of-serious-brain-disorders-in-people-with-mild-covid-symptoms


Delta-Wye posted:

Yeah, to be clear these are things that I've thought "hey, that seems like it could be the case...." and have just been keeping my eyes out for evidence either way. I think a thumbs up or down on either of those theories would have significant impacts on how this plays out in the long term. Imagine a world that the only people who are still fertile are those who made it for the two years without getting infected until they could get a vaccine. Basically, what I'm saying is by staying at home I'm saving myself for the breeding pools in 2023. :parrot:

Here is some good reading tho.

March 16th, not a reputable rag and not reputable sources necessarily, but enough to go "hosed up if true" and caught my eye early on.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/16/WS5e6ed7eea31012821727f4b1.html
Male patients should have reproductive tests after beating new virus

&


March 31st, ow my balls, virus edition!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7138186/
Abdominal and testicular pain: An atypical presentation of COVID-19


Apr 20th, new theory: cv19 was engineered by china to fix their gender imbalance and age imbalance in one go by killing the olds and feminizing the boys
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-020-0319-7
The need for urogenital tract monitoring in COVID-19


Apr 21st, very much "here is a possible path we should look into" and NOT "this is happening"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171435/
Does COVID-19 affect male fertility?


May 7th, now there is evidence of coronacum?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2765654?mod=article_inline
Clinical Characteristics and Results of Semen Tests Among Men With Coronavirus Disease 2019

:yooge: if true

Jun 22, I don't know what a seminiferous tubular injury is but I don't think I want one thank you very much.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/publication/32563676
Pathological Findings in the Testes of COVID-19 Patients: Clinical Implications.


Basically, we don't know enough yet but if you plot a trajectory of the news here it's clearly headed straight into we're all gonna die land; in this case, it's by slowly going extinct as our reproduction rate drops.


I'm hoping these are just because the illness affects everyone in a seemingly random way

On the other hand:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8478299/Covid-19-cause-PRIAPISM-62-year-old-infected-man-suffers-four-hour-erection.html

(My suspicion is this guy just swallowed a viagra pill and said he had covid)

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Why can't we have fun pandemics that give people hours long uncontrollable erections and not bleeding from everywhere or drowning in your lungs :(

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

hi all I live in maricopa county, arizona, the world's #1 covid-19 pandemic hot spot, ask me anything

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/briefing/arizona-mary-trump-facebook-your-wednesday-briefing.html

Piss Meridian
Mar 25, 2020

by Pragmatica

Colonel Cancer posted:

Why can't we have fun pandemics that give people hours long uncontrollable erections and not bleeding from everywhere or drowning in your lungs :(

How are we supposed to get erections without that?

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

deep dish peat moss posted:

hi all I live in maricopa county, arizona, the world's #1 covid-19 pandemic hot spot, ask me anything

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/briefing/arizona-mary-trump-facebook-your-wednesday-briefing.html

If you had covid, would you prefer to wear a blue mask or a green mask?

zer0spunk
Nov 6, 2000

devil never even lived

deep dish peat moss posted:

hi all I live in maricopa county, arizona, the world's #1 covid-19 pandemic hot spot, ask me anything

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/briefing/arizona-mary-trump-facebook-your-wednesday-briefing.html

fav adam sandler movie?

GreenBuckanneer
Sep 15, 2007

Blitter posted:

And just think, to get the 60-70% required for the still theoretical herd immunity, only need another 190 million cases!

I'm so sad for you guys, this is going to get incredibly hosed up.

There's been stuff that says, like the common cold, herd immunity is probably not a thing.

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

deep dish peat moss posted:

hi all I live in maricopa county, arizona, the world's #1 covid-19 pandemic hot spot, ask me anything

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/briefing/arizona-mary-trump-facebook-your-wednesday-briefing.html

If you were pragnent, would you like a boy or a girl

logical fallacy
Mar 16, 2001

Dynamic Symmetry

deep dish peat moss posted:

hi all I live in maricopa county, arizona, the world's #1 covid-19 pandemic hot spot, ask me anything

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/briefing/arizona-mary-trump-facebook-your-wednesday-briefing.html

Is Arizona Trump's plan to get Mexico to pay for the wall?

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

Wtf is herd immunity I may be full of bull but I'm no cow.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



deep dish peat moss posted:

hi all I live in maricopa county, arizona, the world's #1 covid-19 pandemic hot spot, ask me anything

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/briefing/arizona-mary-trump-facebook-your-wednesday-briefing.html
What do you want on your Tombstone

naem
May 29, 2011

FlamingLiberal posted:

What do you want on your Tombstone

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

Cases still coming in at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

But so far we’re at 59,452 new cases and 857 new deaths.

We might hit 60k/1k today :sigh:


:smugdon:

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

I had COVID in March is there any way I can tell if my balls are still producing top quality semen, perhaps a change in taste?

stab
Feb 12, 2003

To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high

deep dish peat moss posted:

hi all I live in maricopa county, arizona, the world's #1 covid-19 pandemic hot spot, ask me anything

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/briefing/arizona-mary-trump-facebook-your-wednesday-briefing.html

How is Sheriff Joe handling law and order

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

[snarky comment]
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/us/tulsa-covid-trump-rally-contact-tracers-trnd/index.html

quote:

There had been a 20% decline in new Covid-19 cases the week of June 28 through July 4.
The Tulsa Health Department reported 266 new cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number in the county to 4,571. There are 17,894 cases in Oklahoma and 452 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases in the United States.

When asked if the cases in Tulsa are going up due to the rally on June 20, Dart said that there were several large events a little over two weeks ago.

quote:

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

Rime
Nov 2, 2011

by Games Forum
The world really needs to level sever sanctions and harsher travel restrictions against the USA for willingly becoming a global plague boiler, just as people were demanding regarding China four months ago.

call_of_qthulhu
Nov 21, 2003


Fun Shoe
anyone else that got your sinuses scraped for a test, did you have discomfort the next day? i got a total of 4 swabs (rapid test & regular) and my sinuses still ache a bit. not debilitating, but definitely noticeable. fwiw the rapid test came back negative and now i'm just waiting on not getting a phone call.

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

Rime posted:

The world really needs to level sever sanctions and harsher travel restrictions against the USA for willingly becoming a global plague boiler, just as people were demanding regarding China four months ago.

If you mean travel restrictions and mandatory quarantines and such for those who do travel then yeah, those are already in place pretty much everywhere.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Rime posted:

The world really needs to level sever sanctions and harsher travel restrictions against the USA for willingly becoming a global plague boiler, just as people were demanding regarding China four months ago.

Classic American to tell the world what they should do without even bothering to check to see if they’ve already done it

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

not_superiority posted:

anyone else that got your sinuses scraped for a test, did you have discomfort the next day? i got a total of 4 swabs (rapid test & regular) and my sinuses still ache a bit. not debilitating, but definitely noticeable. fwiw the rapid test came back negative and now i'm just waiting on not getting a phone call.

I’ve not gotten it personally but from all accounts I’ve read, the soreness inside is pretty common, probably best to avoid blowing your nose too much

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

Colonel Cancer posted:

If you had covid, would you prefer to wear a blue mask or a green mask?

The mask that I have is white but I don't wear it because I never leave my apartment, it's like that movie Signs where everything happens for a reason, in this case I have social anxiety for a reason

zer0spunk posted:

fav adam sandler movie?

Wow I'd have to go with Happy Gilmore I think? But I re-watched Click during the recent coronavirus swells and it was good too.

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

If you were pragnent, would you like a boy or a girl

I just had a baby boy, a baby boy kitten, so I would pick the opposite for the new one.

logical fallacy posted:

Is Arizona Trump's plan to get Mexico to pay for the wall?

Yes I believe so, as Mexico parked a wall of vehicles across the road on the 4th of July to prevent American tourists from visiting.

FlamingLiberal posted:

What do you want on your Tombstone

I'll take Supreme or just Pepperoni

stab posted:

How is Sheriff Joe handling law and order

Sheriff Joe got arrested and kicked out of his job permanently, my guess is he is camping on rooftops aiming sniper rifles at black protestors.

LemonLimeTime
May 30, 2011

I don't have low self-esteem. I have low esteem for everyone else.

Mithaldu posted:

Had to edit because i didn't have the per capita version at first.

In any case, no matter how you look at this, those countries may have done well at first, but now they're loving up.



What, you think you're better than us, Isreal? Getouttahhere!

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Ehud posted:

We might hit 60k/1k today :sigh:


61, 848! A new record! :stoked:

That's a cumulative total of 3,158,932 infections. In about three days the US will pass the magical "1% of total population" official infection rate!


E: now multiply all this by 70 times and you'll have herd immunity!

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

I'm writing a novel about an everyday citizen in the post-apocalypse where 80% of the population is dead and the rest are prisoners of mother nature in their own homes, wary of opening the door or the windows and letting in kamikazi death flu. At the end of the novel the protagnoist finds a terminal in an abandoned library that connects to the internet and discovers that the apocalypse was restricted to America. Every other country is living their normal circa 2019 lives.

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

You could label it Realistic Fiction or I guess Predictive Fiction.

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

61, 848! A new record! :stoked:

That's a cumulative total of 3,158,932 infections. In about three days the US will pass the magical "1% of total population" official infection rate!


E: now multiply all this by 70 times and you'll have herd immunity!

Why the gently caress do I keep seeing idiots on facebook claim that we are approaching herd immunity? Even with seroprevalence testing suggesting 10x the number of infected, that's still only 1/7th of the way there (which would be of course, catastrophic). Is this a right wing media talking point somewhere?

OxMan
May 13, 2006

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America... We don't go to America anymore. - Alyx

binge crotching
Apr 2, 2010

Whooping Crabs posted:

Why the gently caress do I keep seeing idiots on facebook claim that we are approaching herd immunity? Even with seroprevalence testing suggesting 10x the number of infected, that's still only 1/7th of the way there (which would be of course, catastrophic). Is this a right wing media talking point somewhere?

Because they think that herd immunity means no one can ever be infected again, which means they can stop pretending to give a poo poo about anyone other than themselves.

Blitter
Mar 16, 2011

Intellectual
AI Enthusiast

Whooping Crabs posted:

Why the gently caress do I keep seeing idiots on facebook claim that we are approaching herd immunity? Even with seroprevalence testing suggesting 10x the number of infected, that's still only 1/7th of the way there (which would be of course, catastrophic). Is this a right wing media talking point somewhere?

It's likely much worse; there is mounting evidence that most asymptomatic carriers don't develop significant immunity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0965-6#Sec8

So more like 200 million symptomatic cases, that would be something like 80 million hospitalized and would doubtless be waay more than a 1% mortality rate with that kind of crushing numbers.

The really gross part is that to actually get those number of symptomatic case immunities, you'd not only need to infect *everyone* but also endlessly re-infect the asymptomatic until you got enough properly sick.

Gross as hell, but I have faith that Trump 2021 can actually advocate that as a "plan".

(Just to be clear I doubt this could ever 'work' and there are way too many unknowns (immunity duration etc) to consider herd immunity)

Blitter fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jul 9, 2020

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/coronavirus-brain-damage-dementia.html

Kragger99
Mar 21, 2004
Pillbug

I'm guessing there are small mini-strokes/clots/vascular damage happening in the brain or something that leads to this. Hopefully it's not permanent.
Seeing lots of evidence of organ damage in some reports.

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
I wonder if we’re ever going to get a confirm/deny on whether the unusually severe respiratory virus going around in North America in late November through December was early COVID. Whatever it was, it certainly had a lasting effect on my lungs.

naem
May 29, 2011

Lazyhound posted:

I wonder if we’re ever going to get a confirm/deny on whether the unusually severe respiratory virus going around in North America in late November through December was early COVID. Whatever it was, it certainly had a lasting effect on my lungs.

I got hit with something then too

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


naem posted:

I got hit with something then too

So did my wife and I. Came back as not flu on the tests they did.

naem
May 29, 2011

Zil posted:

So did my wife and I. Came back as not flu on the tests they did.

it took me a couple weeks to be able to jog normally, a bit short of breath and a gradual return to normal

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Lazyhound posted:

I wonder if we’re ever going to get a confirm/deny on whether the unusually severe respiratory virus going around in North America in late November through December was early COVID. Whatever it was, it certainly had a lasting effect on my lungs.

my extended family all got it around the holidays and my sister's family and members of her spouse's family got antibody tests back in march or april when antibody tests were the brand new hotness available to fancy people only, and every single one came back negative, whatever that's worth (antibodies might not last 4 months, and the early tests might have sucked :iiam: )

poverty goat fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jul 9, 2020

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Blitter
Mar 16, 2011

Intellectual
AI Enthusiast

Lazyhound posted:

I wonder if we’re ever going to get a confirm/deny on whether the unusually severe respiratory virus going around in North America in late November through December was early COVID. Whatever it was, it certainly had a lasting effect on my lungs.

No, denied. You had a lovely cold/flu/whatever.

Strains of covid have been continuously tracked and if there was a regional variant that was present in the US in November it would absolutely been found in subsequent analysis.

See https://nextstrain.org/ncov and other similar projects that have been tracking, mapping and documenting timelines of the virus propagation.

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