Fluffy Bunnies posted:

It's like looking into another world. Like, I know and remember that january 2020 involved me going out to my local chinese buffet and either january or february somewhat joking about taking dog coronavirus vaccines. my spouse had only been gone like, a month, from here at the farm. I threw away 3M N95 masks every time I dealt with diatomaceous earth.

I'm kind of with eye patch lady. I definitely feel like one of the few locally who give a poo poo and it's hard to keep caring when all you see is an endless expanse of this, forever.

Atrocious Joe posted:

these exist? are they available OTC?

Blackhawk posted:

Lmao I think I figured out why New Zealand is so keen on sticking to the elimination approach:

Our current outbreak has a total of 682 cases across the whole country, we have 8 people in ICU and we're reaching the comfortable capacity of our intensive care facilities and staff in our largest city...

https://www.skynews.com.au/australi...8749da834e83b8a posted:

But the Premier also pointed the finger at the Commonwealth-run NDIS and aged care programs which have also contributed to higher hospital admissions.

“There are actually a number of people occupying hospital beds as we speak who should actually be managed by the NDIS and a number of others who should be in aged care,” he said.

“So there’s actually in the hundreds who we can’t find spots for in those areas… which is putting huge pressure on the system”.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/PhilstarNews/status/1432893618235183114?s=19

Going from horses to cows

Homocow posted:

lol at this article from 2017

The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic


lol lmao

Stairmaster posted:

Lol my dad told me I only have a 1 in 138,000 chance of dying from covid according to the cdc

fosborb posted:

the loving thing was sequenced by dec 31st, and i remember watching it on CNN after the ball dropped on NYE

the correspondence leading up to the ProMED article are not public record and will not be found with the 5 minute google search she made before firing off a tweet and then 10 more tweets defending it

this is entirely Zeynep thinking everything possibly known is available to her, and thinking that there can't possibly be a connected world of scientists that exist outside of her personal information network that may be privileged to information she is not.

also, remember that at least several epidemiologists knew about the MA bear week breakthrough cases 2 weeks ahead of the paper going to preprint and the US government responding to it


e: also what Atrocious Joe posted above

Stairmaster posted:

Lol my dad told me I only have a 1 in 138,000 chance of dying from covid according to the cdc

Mola Yam posted:

is covid a zen koan now.

("mu" is - sort of - the answer to zen koans like "if a tree falls in the forest etc.", "what is the sound of one hand clapping". It's like a philosophical "#VALUE!")

Homocow posted:

because it's funny when republicans die and lose elections imo

Blackhawk posted:

I migrated from Australia to New Zealand 6 years ago lol, pretty good timing IMO.

kazmeyer posted:

The Republicans could lose 95% of their seats in the House and Senate and we'd still be hearing the Democrats talking about how it's just not possible to do anything and we just gotta be patient, jack.

Der Meister posted:

that’s california

Lastgirl posted:

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1432657940071297026

razorscooter posted:

Idiot Kicker posted:

Oregon has a supermajority and we don't do poo poo

Stereotype posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3912152&perpage=40&pagenumber=19#post501970519


lmao cspam was right about it being linked to epstein in january of 2020

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

I'm applying to reinstate my NZ PR and might be right there with you at this rate.

Shame I'll never be able to sell my heavily depreciated inner city apartment here.

FizFashizzle posted:

Floods probably just gave them cover

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1432881203733012482?s=21

Homocow posted:

lol at this article from 2017

The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic


lol lmao

Sphyre posted:

why would you want to come here it's shite

Idiot Kicker posted:

That Dr. John video made me feel terrified but also oddly reassured, something about him is kind of disarming I guess but also we're going to die??

Bearjew posted:

she's going to be shocked to learn that it's hard to go to disney world on $235 a week

Atrocious Joe posted:

COMPUTER, ZOOM AND ENHANCE


That motherfucker

i think the article in this issue is this one. it is about the need to fund US foreign aid, and his reasoning is that better healthcare in the developing world will cause people to have fewer children
https://time.com/4704550/bill-gates-cutting-foreign-aid-makes-america-less-safe/

also I wonder what else caused the Syrian Civil War to happen Bill?

quote:

The biggest public funder of anti-polio work has been the U.S. government, and for good reason: it is protecting Americans and helping us get ready for the next epidemic, which could be orders of magnitude deadlier than Ebola. To stop emerging diseases, we need the infrastructure built by consistent funding of well-run health programs.

gradenko_2000 posted:

okay so your contention is

"of loving course you wouldn't be able to know the earliest possible date that some scientists knew of COVID-19 just by scanning news articles, because people have backchannel and private contacts, and Zeynep, as purportedly being a journalist, should not only be aware of that, she should reach out and do some journalisms instead of sitting slack-jawed in front of Twitter expressing shock about it"

?

in which case yes I agree

quote:

The organization of information and information resources is one of the fundamental aspects of LIS.[18]:106 and is an example of both LIS's uniqueness and its multidisciplinary origins. Some of the main tools used by LIS toward this end to provide access to the digital resources of modern times (particularly theory relating to indexing and classification) originated in 19th century to assist humanity's effort to make its intellectual output accessible by recording, identifying, and providing bibliographic control of printed knowledge.[18]:105 The origin for some of these tools were even earlier. For example, in the 17th century, during the 'golden age of libraries', publishers and sellers seeking to take advantage of the burgeoning book trade developed descriptive catalogs of their wares for distribution – a practice was adopted and further extrapolated by many libraries of the time to cover areas like philosophy, sciences, linguistics, medicine, etc.[19] :120 In this way, a business concern of publishers – keeping track of and advertising inventory – was developed into a system for organizing and preserving information by the library.

The development of Metadata is another area that exemplifies the aim of LIS to be something more than an mishmash of several disciplines – that uniqueness Bawden and Robinson describe. Pre-Internet classification systems and cataloging systems were mainly concerned with two objectives: 1. to provide rich bibliographic descriptions and relations between information objects and 2. to facilitate sharing of this bibliographic information across library boundaries.[20] :14 The development of the Internet and the information explosion that followed found many communities needing mechanisms for the description, authentication and management of their information.[20]:15 These communities developed taxonomies and controlled vocabularies to describe their knowledge as well as unique information architectures to communicate these classifications and libraries found themselves as liaison or translator between these metadata systems.[20]:15–16 Of course the concerns of cataloging in the Internet era have gone beyond simple bibliographic descriptions. The need for descriptive information about the ownership and copyright of a digital product – a publishing concern – and description for the different formats and accessibility features of a resource – a sociological concern – show the continued development and cross discipline necessity of resource description.[20]:15

Stairmaster posted:

Lol my dad told me I only have a 1 in 138,000 chance of dying from covid according to the cdc

fosborb posted:

wherein zeynep discovers that yes, the outbreak that hit loving CNN breaking news on Dec 31st was in fact known by actual, serious scientists around the world a bit ahead of that

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1432869196216651777?s=19

this timeline was even in that netflix documentary last year too. jfc we have to stop giving these people platforms

quote:

Germany to end free COVID testing in October
German leaders have agreed that the German government will stop paying for rapid coronavirus tests in order to encourage more people to get vaccinated. Unvaccinated people will still be required to take tests.

Glumwheels posted:

She thinks she’s very smart for someone who continues to talk out of her rear end about a topic she clearly knows nothing about.

We all got really sick 12/24/19 after a trip to Boston, no idea if it was COVID (we didn’t lose taste or smell) however we had fevers and sinus issues for days. My kiddo was really sick for almost a week.

gradenko_2000 posted:

okay so your contention is

"of loving course you wouldn't be able to know the earliest possible date that some scientists knew of COVID-19 just by scanning news articles, because people have backchannel and private contacts, and Zeynep, as purportedly being a journalist, should not only be aware of that, she should reach out and do some journalisms instead of sitting slack-jawed in front of Twitter expressing shock about it"

?

in which case yes I agree

Tzen posted:

lol yesterday i wore my secure click for a solid 3 hours, when i did finally take it off, just as i got back to my car, the hit of smells was really jarring
oh yeah these streets are filled with pissed stained sidewalks, overloaded garbage bins, and wow at least the trees smell nice!

ages ago someone posted about wearing a half mask in the forest and then taking it off to get a full load of nature and all it's beautiful smells or something along those lines. the next hike i go do i will be doing this. getting the urban streets version of this wasn't great

Coldrice posted:

I decided to work on a game to make people realize how easy it is to catch covid.





This game represents a factory of 250 people. This is full open'r up style with no protections.


They work from 8am-6pm, then they go home. Currently it starts with a single infected person.

each person is randomly generated by age, weight, gender, ethnicity, as dictated by 2020 census data.

A person requires 15 minutes of in game time contact to get infected. Severity of covid is random based on the CDC statistics of how infections progress. It is also modified by age/weight/ethnicity/gender/etc...

People who are "hospitalized" do not count towards the pool or infect others (since they'd be hospitalized)

I'd like to add a thing where you can hover over a person to see their stats, give them a mask, or vaccinate them. A slider for how fast times moves. Maybe add walls? I dunno. I just want people to see how fast it spreads


Color key:
white - nothing
green - mild symptoms
dark green - sick
Yellow - very sick/Hospitalized
Red - ICU
Purple - Dead

Google Butt posted:

someone had to fill the oster shoes