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I think that sheriff is setting himself and his department up to be sued into the loving ground. Imagine telling a jury, "It's true there were multiple gunmen just shooting the poo poo out of the place, but I told my deputies SPECIFICALLY they weren't allowed to wear body armor anywhere but the courthouse because no one knows if they were shooting bullets or blanks." I just am not sure how well that's going to hold up. edit: gently caress I didn't even think about the citizens who can trace it to having to interact with the cops, in the cop building, where you're not allowed to wear a mask "because BLM."
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Aug 12, 2020 23:38
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So I guess one more thing we’ve learned from this pandemic is that sheriffs can do literally whatever they want with impunity and suffer no consequences or checks and balances no matter how many people they kill.
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Aug 12, 2020 23:39
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How the gently caress does a cop have any jurisdiction over a medical emergency Holy poo poo in my country the medical edicts supercede the authority of the Governor What in the gently caress is wrong with you America
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Aug 12, 2020 23:50
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stab posted:How the gently caress does a cop have any jurisdiction over a medical emergency The answer is depressingly simple. Who's going to arrest him?
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Aug 12, 2020 23:51
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Folks, we're going for the spike (again).
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Aug 12, 2020 23:52
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So what, his plan is to arrest the first person who wears a mask in the sheriffs building because they care more about public safety than his stupid feelings? Who am I kidding, he absolutely will and charge them with something like “intimidation” and then go back to being a crybaby about how nobody respects the police. What a loving shitbag. It’s amazing that there’s nothing anyone can do.
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Aug 13, 2020 00:12
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WaryWarren posted:Folks, we're going for the spike (again). Spike implies it goes down. This thing is gonna soar like disco sales. 
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Aug 13, 2020 00:23
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My work just sent out a "We're all coming back Monday, folks!!" email today saying that most departments need to return monday and there's going to be an extra FIFTY DOLLARS on our paychecks for coming back to the office. Fortunately over the years I managed to work my way into a department where I can work from home and don't have to be even in the same building as our main call center so this doesn't apply to me but jesus christ so many people are going to get sick. They have a thing on the notice talking about requiring masks but they're only required if you're not at your desk. If you're at your desk you can take your mask off. They're just tired of trying to wrangle people who are working remote into logging into the queue to take calls when normally they could just walk up to you and threaten you to your face. Guarantee all the execs that work on the perimeter of the building and have their own offices are going to be staying the gently caress home though.
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Aug 13, 2020 00:37
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:It’s $30, but you “buy” it and it can be streamed as often as you want if you have an active Disney+ subscription. Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word buy that I wasn’t previously aware of.
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Aug 13, 2020 01:31
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Uncle Lloyd posted:Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word buy that I wasn’t previously aware of. This is the secret art that Blockbuster was searching for, yet Netflix failed to achieve. Buy this from us for X, but only as long as you keep paying us Y. They've done it, they cracked the seal. Welcome to the desert of the rental.
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Aug 13, 2020 01:35
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Hasn’t buying stuff on Amazon’s video service been like this for a while?
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Aug 13, 2020 01:40
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postmodifier posted:This is the secret art that Blockbuster was searching for, yet Netflix failed to achieve. Buy this from us for X, but only as long as you keep paying us Y. Actually, I should add that video game services have been doing this forever, like World of Warcraft, or FFXIV (amazing), or even stuff like PS Now or XBox Gamepass, BUT at least with that model, if you stop paying your subscription, the game continued to grown and entice you back to pay again for new content, whereas here I've seen mulan 16 times now, when's the new patch???
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Aug 13, 2020 01:42
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Rascar Capac posted:Hasn’t buying stuff on Amazon’s video service been like this for a while? I don't like supporting Amazon, but I do watch a lot of videos on their service. At least when you buy something it's just on your free account, you do not need a Prime subscription to access "Prime Video." Rentals work like you'd expect. Just don't get banned or forget your password...
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Aug 13, 2020 01:54
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Rat posted:Every day this year I thank myself for not getting an unlimited movie pass to the small indie theater. They've opened back up. Much as I miss going to watch a movie at a theatre it's not happening any time soon Going to a movie theatre prob isn’t the biggest concern in the general population in the U.S. But I hope your grand,a or kids don’t die
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Aug 13, 2020 02:21
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JonathonSpectre posted:edit: gently caress I didn't even think about the citizens who can trace it to having to interact with the cops, in the cop building, where you're not allowed to wear a mask "because BLM." It’s going to do wonders for their crime stats.
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Aug 13, 2020 02:34
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postmodifier posted:This is the secret art that Blockbuster was searching for, yet Netflix failed to achieve. Buy this from us for X, but only as long as you keep paying us Y. Did you know usenet is still is a thing? Not even that it's gotten better over time while I can't say that for Netflix.
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Aug 13, 2020 03:07
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Rascar Capac posted:Hasn’t buying stuff on Amazon’s video service been like this for a while? Yes, and it was a piss off back then.
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Aug 13, 2020 03:08
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Mrs. Sexual posted:Going to a movie theatre prob isn’t the biggest concern in the general population in the U.S. My last grandparent died in early March due to sudden severe pneumonia (probably COVID-19 but before there was regular testing here). I'm now worried about my mom with health issues who is a schoolteacher going back to class soon. And I'm getting angry watching my younger sisters going to illegal raves and beach parties on the reg
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Aug 13, 2020 03:52
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I'm just trying to figure out how many dead we realistically are going to see, and if it's going to feel like an apocalyptic movie with corpse piles, like a 28 days later hospital exit sequence, or if I won't see direct signs of this thing happening. Maybe I'm being overparanoid, but how bad does it realistically look like it's going to get?
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Aug 13, 2020 04:16
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stab posted:How the gently caress does a cop have any jurisdiction over a medical emergency Pretty much all of it
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rotinaj posted:I'm just trying to figure out how many dead we realistically are going to see, and if it's going to feel like an apocalyptic movie with corpse piles, like a 28 days later hospital exit sequence, or if I won't see direct signs of this thing happening. Maybe I'm being overparanoid, but how bad does it realistically look like it's going to get? We've been consistently losing around 1300 a day, since we've figured out how to bring down mortality rates by giving patients with severe symptoms extremely powerful blood thinners. It cant save everyone (see the nearly 9/11 everyday amount of deaths), but it does help some people.
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Aug 13, 2020 04:27
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Turns out it's pretty easy to forget a 9/11s worth of casualties occurring more often than good drink special nights at your local bar
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Aug 13, 2020 04:30
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The Real Amethyst posted:I'll start worrying when it gets to SARS or Swine Flu levels of outbreak. Have you started worrying yet?
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Hazo posted:So what, his plan is to arrest the first person who wears a mask in the sheriffs building because they care more about public safety than his stupid feelings? From what we learned in the last few months, if we didn't already know before, if that first person is black, there is a high chance they will be gunned down and the justification is "they were wearing a mask, only criminals and terrorists wear masks, we had to defend ourselves"... I wish I was joking.
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rotinaj posted:I'm just trying to figure out how many dead we realistically are going to see, and if it's going to feel like an apocalyptic movie with corpse piles, like a 28 days later hospital exit sequence, or if I won't see direct signs of this thing happening. Maybe I'm being overparanoid, but how bad does it realistically look like it's going to get? Multiply your infection fatality rate by your population. If we assume recovery does provide lasting immunity you could multiply that number by 80%, because once 80% are immune infections should taper off. Except nobody really knows the IFR. It's probably lower than the Diamond Princess days, since now they know about clots and stuff. So maybe just use 1% for simplicity. 3.3 million dead americans. 78 million dead world wide. Millions more with long term or permanent organ damage and disability.
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sokatoah posted:Have you started worrying yet?  edit: Answered: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3911826&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=974#post504886821 bort fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Aug 13, 2020 |
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The creepy part of those numbers are ~80 million symptomatic with ~15.7 million requiring hospitalization. I mean, an average of 6 days hospital time, at a cost of $73,000 uh .. 1149312 million. 11 trillion? Just ignoring the long term health implications and possible immunity issues uh.. the unlikely hospitalization of that many people is horrifying.
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Aug 13, 2020 06:07
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1149312 million is 1.1 trillion. Still a staggering number, mind you.
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stab posted:What in the gently caress is wrong with you America I'm definitely not saying all our problems are Australia's fault, but if Fox News had never existed the country might not be so divided that believing in science is a political position. Just teasing you, Australia.
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Beachcomber posted:I'm definitely not saying all our problems are Australia's fault, but if Fox News had never existed the country might not be so divided that believing in science is a political position. No that's a fair call, we'll cop to that one 
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HerStuddMuffin posted:1149312 million is 1.1 trillion. Still a staggering number, mind you. That's about twice the annual spend of the DoD so peanuts for the USA basically. If you can spend 600 billion to kill people surely you can afford 1.2 trillion to save some lives. Edit - in reality most people won't give enough of a poo poo until the anaesthetist is ramming that ET tube down their throat.
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the german major health research institute rki put out a message today that an earlier statement of them expecting a covid vacine by fall was wrong. they did not give an updated estimate
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Aug 13, 2020 11:52
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This NZ resurgence is wild. The idea that it could bounce around asymptomatically for three months before popping back up is pretty out there. For now I'm just going to assume the most obvious theory is true and somebody at some point of the chain was lying about their quarantine, but if not there's some major rethinking to do about transmission theories!
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Aug 13, 2020 12:07
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The cluster’s nexus at a cold storage facility is suggestive. It could be a coincidence, but I’d put money on it coming in via freight.
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Aug 13, 2020 12:11
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The freight ships and planes have crew that are human that could spread it, Wild I know!
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Aug 13, 2020 12:13
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yeah, every single open border without mandatory quarantine and tests is a lottery for inviting covid, from the national level right down to the town level
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Aug 13, 2020 12:23
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Saw the frozen goods theory, yeah. I haven't seen anything on how long it can remain infectious at that kind of temp but surely that stuff must have been in transit for days if not weeks?
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darkwasthenight posted:Saw the frozen goods theory, yeah. I haven't seen anything on how long it can remain infectious at that kind of temp but surely that stuff must have been in transit for days if not weeks? Frozen virus don't just die normally, they just stay there until they are defrosted, depending on the virus.
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