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Zugzwang posted:Tbh this doesn't make less sense than many of the rules I had to follow when I was in school ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Meanwhile the UK continues having a great time, with the health secretary saying some breathtakingly stupid poo poo. https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1303588331914223616 
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Death secretary’s logic is rear end‐backwards there. People with symptoms can assume they have the coronavirus and quarantine. If the symptoms become serious, seek medical aid. We want asymptomatic carriers to be tested and found so they can also be quarantined.
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Sep 9, 2020 10:23
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Their priority appears to be getting people who have symptoms but not COVID back to work. My UK friend's kids have classic virus symptoms, got tested, are negative, so are now required to go back to school to infect more people with their influenza or whatever. Those people then have to get tested.
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The entire UK approach seems to be to shift between pulling the plaster off as slowly as possible for maximum pain, and sticking it back down again.
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Platystemon posted:Death secretary’s logic is rear end‐backwards there.  Xaintrailles posted:Their priority appears to be getting people who have symptoms but not COVID back to work. My UK friend's kids have classic virus symptoms, got tested, are negative, so are now required to go back to school to infect more people with their influenza or whatever. Those people then have to get tested. Be aware that certain types of tests have fairly high false-negative rates, differing by day of infection, so unless they had multiple negative tests it means little.
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The big transmission vectors in Finland have recently been A) schools and B) large gatherings. Schools are starting to switch to remote learning again, but give up large gatherings? Fuuuuuck that! Some rear end in a top hat morons from a god drat business university in Helsinki are planning on holding a 1000+ person indoor drinking party in the city where most of our COVID cases have originated, and where the disease never really stopped spreading. Currently there are no plans to cancel the event despite public outcry, because "you have to keep living your life". Some other rear end in a top hat morons from my university also hosted some drinking party a few weeks ago, where hundreds were exposed and at least 15 people have already tested positive. I've said it before, I'll say it again: this poo poo should literally be illegal.
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Mithaldu posted:Be aware that certain types of tests have fairly high false-negative rates, differing by day of infection, so unless they had multiple negative tests it means little. I know. They don't tell you the type of test so you can't check false negative rate for yourself, or even mention the possibility on the results email - it directly says "you did not have the virus when the test was done." It does say to self isolate if you have symptoms but their school apparently wants them back in regardless.
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Brazil is currently at the "newsclip montage that plays during the opening credits of a zombie movie" stage https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1303419012450222084
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The Oxford vaccine has hit a snag, could be bad news https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1303443741764661253 GOP goes "Pandemic stimulus? Never heard of her!" https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1303416985565315074
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In Norway news, infections are rising in my area, bars and restaurants are still open, but they are now forced to register the name of all guests to assist in contact tracing.
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My local supermarket here in Australia has a thing going where you can scan a QR code to "check-in" at the store as part of a voluntary contact tracking scheme, I think they were even offering a 10% discount on your shop the first time you did it or something.
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The press secretary is getting hammered by the media at the moment because Bob Woodward's never ending quest for money led to him holding off on releasing a Trump interview where he admits he purposefully played down the danger of COVID until it was time to release his book with the quote. There's also apparently audio of him saying it and everything, so good luck getting out of this one Imagine lacking literally any self awareness: Washington Post posted:Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, is quoted by Woodward as saying, “The most dangerous people around the president are overconfident idiots,” Lazyfire fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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Lazyfire posted:The press secretary is getting hammered by the media at the moment because Bob Woodward's never ending quest for money led to him holding off on releasing a Trump interview where he admits he purposefully played down the danger of COVID until it was time to release his book with the quote. There's also apparently audio of him saying it and everything, so good luck getting out of this one *taps the sign until my finger is bloody*
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Lazyfire posted:There's also apparently audio of him saying it and everything, so good luck getting out of this one
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Freedom ain't free  https://twitter.com/alexnazaryan/status/1303404555246465027
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Lazyfire posted:The press secretary is getting hammered by the media at the moment because Bob Woodward's never ending quest for money led to him holding off on releasing a Trump interview where he admits he purposefully played down the danger of COVID until it was time to release his book with the quote. There's also apparently audio of him saying it and everything, so good luck getting out of this one finally, some evidence that trump is full of poo poo
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Sep 9, 2020 19:18
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Think of all the meth that could have bought.
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I’m wondering how they traced all those attendees from Sturgis back to their home states? Are they just using estimates or something? I’m assuming contact tracing isn’t something widely rolled out in the US, and it usually requires people to install the app, which I’d assume many of these people wouldn’t do anyway.
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Where's the tweet about him wriggling out of this one again because none of his base (and therefore the GOP in Congress) don't care
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Freedom ain't free But this is happening at the same time as return-to-school, which has been a disaster literally everywhere, including in my hometown. So I am really wondering how/if they controlled for that in the study.
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Looks like they're going all in and that whole herd immunity idea https://twitter.com/weinbergersa/status/1303750595724140550
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Diva Cupcake posted:He literally responded to the Access Hollywood rapey stuff by saying it wan't him despite there being tape evidence. It changed zero minds.
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Lazyfire posted:The press secretary is getting hammered by the media at the moment because Bob Woodward's never ending quest for money led to him holding off on releasing a Trump interview where he admits he purposefully played down the danger of COVID until it was time to release his book with the quote. There's also apparently audio of him saying it and everything, so good luck getting out of this one Spoiler: He's going to get out of this one.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Looks like they're going all in and that whole herd immunity idea
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Cacafuego posted:Where's the tweet about him wriggling out of this one again because none of his base (and therefore the GOP in Congress) don't care 
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Wow, the US not making GBS threads on foreigners and making them jump through extra hoops at the border just because? I never thought I’d see that in my lifetime. In covid news, the school I teach at has a possible student carrier (was in contact with people who later turned out positive). Aside from informing us that he’s staying home and being tested these days, the administration is not saying much. Every teacher and every student is masked at all times inside the school... except for the cafeteria where students are packed and maskless because there is neither enough room nor enough time to allow them to eat away from each other. They tell us it doesn’t matter because the second they’re out the school they take off their masks anyway. They’re teenagers, invincible and immortal even in normal times, but they’re acting like they’re all immune. We’re doomed.
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Kragger99 posted:I’m wondering how they traced all those attendees from Sturgis back to their home states? Are they just using estimates or something? I’m assuming contact tracing isn’t something widely rolled out in the US, and it usually requires people to install the app, which I’d assume many of these people wouldn’t do anyway. Probably cell phone data. There were similar maps for spring break.
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Cacafuego posted:Where's the tweet about him wriggling out of this one again because none of his base (and therefore the GOP in Congress) don't care Yep! This will change absolutely nothing. I loving hate everything. God loving drat it.
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my brother is going ahead with his wedding  and im a groomsman 
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Pretty soon this won't matter, cuz no one in their right mind will travel to the US.
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dwarf74 posted:OK so I have no doubt that Sturgis was a major nexus for new infections. They used baseline data for comparable counties. Seriously, everyone should read the paper. http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Wow, the US not making GBS threads on foreigners and making them jump through extra hoops at the border just because? I never thought I’d see that in my lifetime. I'm picturing that Korean cartoon meme with the guy wiping his head with a handkerchiefas he decides between two buttons. Except the guy is Trump and the buttons are labeled "Slow Covid infections in the US to help election chances" and "Spread more Covid to dirty foreigners to make us look less bad."
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numberoneposter posted:my brother is going ahead with his wedding Spend the week before coughing violently any time you talk to him.
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numberoneposter posted:my brother is going ahead with his wedding Would this be a bad time to admit you've been smashing out your future in-law? Man, bro's gonna be pissed. Might save some lives though.
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numberoneposter posted:my brother is going ahead with his wedding don't go, bro
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yep! I actually wonder if this may actually be something that hurts him for once (how do you bumble a pandemic this bad and still have a chance at an electoral college victory?) due to the debates in three weeks and the Biden campaign has shown a willingness to really press Trump on things in ways Clinton didn't. Of course, logic doesn't apply to Trump or his voters, so maybe history just endlessly repeats per usual.
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My neighbors are giving me the cold shoulder because we skipped an outdoor get to know you street party over the weekend, like 12-15 people. It's kind of because they're all geezers but also because I'm not even hanging out with my friends in those kinds of numbers, so why would I hang out with a bunch of people I don't know? ? Anyways, I said hi to one yesterday when I was gardening and got an eye roll from a 70 year old back lol
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covid cases are super low here and its outdoors and the guest list has been chopped and people arn't travelling too far but yah im not thrilled because its events like this that are problematic got an email from my brother and his fiancee about social distancing and wearing masks and table pods???? 
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