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Mozi posted:i happen to be somewhat familiar with online schooling and i can guarantee that if teachers can't prepare ahead of time and the idea is that they can just flip a switch and have all the students just be online suddenly then the school administrators are in pure denial. it takes a lot of work ahead of time (both learning the tools and preparing the curriculum) to just have a somewhat acceptable experience. you just can't have everybody plan to come in physically and just say later 'whoops you're all online now starting next week'. well you can i suppose but it's not going to be a pleasant experience for anybody This will be then used as an attempt to justify a "see, online classes don't work, we NEED them in the school!"
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Seems like New Zealand will wait it out and then become a globe-spanning empire. I for one, welcome our kiwi overlords. Ireland here may see some survivors too. Looking forward to populating the UK a la 28 weeks later soon. Until some of us meet some feral Gammon coughing still, then we get machined gunned down.
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Manager Hoyden posted:Honestly if you asked me to guess what music acts would be playing at a biker rally I wouldn't have put Smash Mouth at the top of that list Great White was busy
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Most of the real acts (Willie Nelson was supposed to play, for example) cancelled like responsible people for the rally this year. Also all those estimates of 200-250k bikers are shaping up to be real low, traffic from last year's rally (with 495k estimated attending) is only down 3.8% https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/s...=home-top-story I drove through Deadwood this morning and saw two bikini bike washes, it's business as usual here with the bikers not giving a poo poo: https://www.bhpioneer.com/covid-19/...0081f6b268.html
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Dr. Despair posted:Most of the real acts (Willie Nelson was supposed to play, for example) cancelled like responsible people for the rally this year. 
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Drowning Pool are also playing it. Thousands of overweight biker boomers moshing to 'Bodies', unaware of the irony of the situation.
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Riotgrrill posted:Drowning Pool are also playing it. As if these guys would be able to mosh without getting into a fight over who bumped who and how 'dare you disrespect me'.
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Zugzwang posted:lol I don't understand this because I didn't study any of this stuff. I'm curious, not trying to 'trap' you or anything. I realise I had to write this before asking my questions: Are you saying that the CDC's recommendations are not conservative enough, or are you saying that shedding virus is not the same as, I don't know, being infectuous? is RT-PCR what is done with the sample from a swab test or is it some other thing?
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Manager Hoyden posted:Honestly if you asked me to guess what music acts would be playing at a biker rally I wouldn't have put Smash Mouth at the top of that list look up who headlined they Harley Davidson 100th anniversary party, hahaha
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redreader posted:I don't understand this because I didn't study any of this stuff. I'm curious, not trying to 'trap' you or anything. I realise I had to write this before asking my questions: Are you saying that the CDC's recommendations are not conservative enough, or are you saying that shedding virus is not the same as, I don't know, being infectuous? RT-PCR is generally what's being done from swab tests. RT-PCR basically means you make a DNA copy of the RNA (that's RT, or reverse transcription) and then exponentially copy the DNA (PCR, the polymerase chain reaction) until it's easily detectable. Other types of tests are out there now too, notably antigen tests. These detect proteins on the virus instead of the genome and can also be used to detect someone who's currently shedding virus. They are generally less sensitive than RT-PCR, but are also easier to implement and more mobile, which is turning out to probably be more important in all of this because you can test people more often.
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food court bailiff posted:just had three giant dudes follow me to my car trying to start a fight and shouting homophobic slurs because I had the audacity to tell one of them that masks were required in store It’s apparently a felony now to do this poo poo. Not that rules matter here anymore.
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discretion is the better part of valor just physically avoid the morons until this is all over
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naem posted:discretion is the better part of valor just physically avoid the morons until this is all over My gf is not afraid to throw shade at people for mask poo poo, I told her as good as it feels people have gotten loving shot over this poo poo so just do your best to avoid them.
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explosivo posted:My gf is not afraid to throw shade at people for mask poo poo, I told her as good as it feels people have gotten loving shot over this poo poo so just do your best to avoid them. I’ve cleverly planned for this by not having a gf due to my terrible personality
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explosivo posted:My gf is not afraid to throw shade at people for mask poo poo, I told her as good as it feels people have gotten loving shot over this poo poo so just do your best to avoid them. pre-emptively mace their gaping maws, that'll show em
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Fun and totally not terrifying to live through the collapse of the USA,
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Unless you have a good mask and a face shield on don't engage with these morons. You are likely to get it from them when they get in you face and froth into a rage over the audacity of having to wear a loving mask! These people are beyond saving at this point, they have had 5 months to learn and they just don't care at all, sad!
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Derpies posted:Fun and totally not terrifying to live through the collapse of the USA, Born of terrible white people, died from terrible white people
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Derpies posted:Fun and totally not terrifying to live through the collapse of the USA, Grondoth posted:Born of terrible white people, died from terrible white people lotta talk about divesting from whiteness in 2020, I didn't expect whiteness to jump the gun by preemptively killing us all
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I'm fortunate to live in a place where indoor no-mask chuds are almost unheard of, but I do have to diligently avoid people with the valve masks. I figure as long as they aren't actively coughing/sneezing the risk is probably low. But I could be wrong  zgrowler2 posted:lotta talk about divesting from whiteness in 2020, I didn't expect whiteness to jump the gun by preemptively killing us all 
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Zugzwang posted:I do have to diligently avoid people with the valve masks. I figure as long as they aren't actively coughing/sneezing the risk is probably low. But I could be wrong that said, taping something over it or wrapping something around it shouldn't be that hard 
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Der Shovel posted:But hey, good news, our government is preparing to consider the possibility of inspecting reintroducing recommendations to think about masks and travel. THL really needs to throw out all the side-hussle businessmen and political nominations from its "panel of experts". They are actively making things worse with their non-decisions and maybe-recommendations trying to cater to both the private medicare businesses and people's safety. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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Imagine being a country where the virus is taken seriously when it gets out of control.  e: drat, look at that, the cop even gives his legal name and town on camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svogj_qPL_I Mithaldu fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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boar guy posted:i was thinking more like the 'stiff upper lip. keep calm and carry on' thing the brits did during the blitz Looting and even robbing the dead were common in the Blitz, as was rampant black-marketeering. Also HERO OF THE NATION Winston Churchill only visited a bombed-out East End of London once before beating a hasty retreat in the face of a hostile crowd asking why the government hadn't built any shelters, weren't helping relocate people whose houses had been destroyed, and how he stayed so fat while everyone else was on the rations. Also for all those who like to say it's "the wrong time" for protest - dockers, miners, munition factory workers, agricultural workers and even firemen all went on strike or took other kinds of industrial action at various times through the Blitz.
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Mithaldu posted:Imagine being a country where the virus is taken seriously when it gets out of control. As it seems it only guarantees that the sitting cabinet takes a victory lap, starts arguing on what major reform will be driven in to capitalize on the popular support, and completely mess up the response and/or prevention of the second wave.
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4 new cases with no known travel links in Auckland, New Zealand. Prior to this it was thought contained at the border with any overseas arrivals going into managed isolation for 2 weeks. This is our first community transmission in a couple of months I think? Now Auckland is going back into a level 3 lockdown (stay home if possible, long-distance travel prohibited, venues closed, gatherings limited to 10 people for weddings and funerals only) until at least Friday while the rest of the country is going to level 2 (bars etc can stay open but have to use social distancing and single-server table service, gatherings limited to 100, venues and events have to register everyone entering).
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Just checking in to see what is going on in the White House: "If I didn't close up our country one and a half to two million people already dead. We've called it right. Now we don't have to close it. We understand the disease. Nobody understood it because nobody has ever seen anything like this. The closest thing is in 1917, they say right? The great pandemic and it certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. Probably ended the second World War. All the soldiers were sick. That was a terrible situation and this is highly contagious. This one is highly highly contagious." Poor Hitler, brought down by a simple flu. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1292872318562205699 Here is how I see that going: quote:"Twenty score and thirty years ago some real patriots brought forth near the site of Trump Tower, a new country, conceived in brilliance and good thinking, and dedicated to the idea that this nation is the greatest and making good trade deals and buying Greenland.
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Last time I got paid, I decided to buy a new mask because I wanted something more stylish than what I have. I searched for the most popular men’s mask and wound up on gaiter listings, and got one that looked cool. Now I’m hearing that gaiters are worse than useless.  I just want something that will fit my big fuckin’ head
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Looting and even robbing the dead were common in the Blitz, as was rampant black-marketeering. Also HERO OF THE NATION Winston Churchill only visited a bombed-out East End of London once before beating a hasty retreat in the face of a hostile crowd asking why the government hadn't built any shelters, weren't helping relocate people whose houses had been destroyed, and how he stayed so fat while everyone else was on the rations. if you think about it striking during the blitz is the perfect time to strike. what are they going to do, bring soldiers off the front line for strike breaking? bring in scabs? (sorry all the men are drafted!). nope, they need that ammo, so they will give the striking ammo factory workers whatever the hell they want
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Mithaldu posted:https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/russia-registers-1st-coronavirus-vaccine-in-the-world/1938105 totalitarian regimes that can force the population to take a dodgy vaccine will be at an advantage. maybe 1% of the population will die, but the rest of the economy can open while the western world continues to disintegrate Beachcomber posted:I honestly.thought better of Smash Mouth should renamed themselves to Smash Lung
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Grondoth posted:Born of terrible white people, died from terrible white people The actual white genocide Hey now, you're infected Get your cough on, go play Hey now, you're a cough star Get the vent on, get tranq'ed And all that splatters is COV Only Maskless fools take the gold pop fly to McGillicutty fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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Mozi posted:i happen to be somewhat familiar with online schooling and i can guarantee that if teachers can't prepare ahead of time and the idea is that they can just flip a switch and have all the students just be online suddenly then the school administrators are in pure denial. it takes a lot of work ahead of time (both learning the tools and preparing the curriculum) to just have a somewhat acceptable experience. you just can't have everybody plan to come in physically and just say later 'whoops you're all online now starting next week'. well you can i suppose but it's not going to be a pleasant experience for anybody Well, that's what we did in Italy as the alternative was a 10% death rate before the push for anticoagulants treatment.
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