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Discendo Vox posted:The US population is 329 million or so, and a lot of them don't need free masks (and depending on composition the masks won't be effective for very long). The strategic reserve appears to have had 750 million masks at its peak; I'm not sure of the levels it's at currently since they've been distributing them on an ongoing basis through smaller programs. Who doesn't need free masks? N95s cost me like $1 each I bet the government can get a better price. What are you trying to save here like $100 million? Is the reserve getting low? Buy more! Use emergency powers to force manufacture them; you're the US government!
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PostNouveau posted:Who doesn't need free masks? N95s cost me like $1 each I bet the government can get a better price. What are you trying to save here like $100 million? Heck, Biden himself said it could be done so if that doesn't happen it's definitely about not wanting to rather than being unable to: 
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PostNouveau posted:Who doesn't need free masks? N95s cost me like $1 each I bet the government can get a better price. What are you trying to save here like $100 million? The American Association of Mask Manufacturers, in April 2020 (!), sent a letter to the WH saying they had a poo poo-ton and could produce a gently caress-ton more with just a little funding. Those are technical numerical terms by the way.
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rko posted:Sorry, who doesn’t need free masks? Is means-testing a good use of resources in a pandemic, particularly when “means” have relatively little value when nobody can actually find the drat things to buy them themselves? PostNouveau posted:Who doesn't need free masks? N95s cost me like $1 each I bet the government can get a better price. What are you trying to save here like $100 million? Srice posted:Heck, Biden himself said it could be done so if that doesn't happen it's definitely about not wanting to rather than being unable to: The administration did that in 2021. To the best of my knowledge, the DPA has been under continuous invocation since. It is not a magic switch that creates an infinite supply of masks. This article appears to provide a dece summary of the DPA and its use under this and the previous administration. mdemone posted:The American Association of Mask Manufacturers, in April 2020 (!), sent a letter to the WH saying they had a poo poo-ton and could produce a gently caress-ton more with just a little funding. Those are technical numerical terms by the way. Can you provide a link for this? The trade group I'm aware of in the area, the AMMA, was set up in 2021 and functions to promote domestic manufacturer contracts over chinese ones, generally for non-certified products. Are you thinking of this letter? Because it's all about domestic protectionism, and, well, the whole org stinks to high heaven. edit: at some point I should do some effortposts on industry trade groups and their playbooks. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Can you provide a link for this? The trade group I'm aware of in the area, the AMMA, was set up in 2021 and functions to promote domestic manufacturer contracts over chinese ones, generally for non-certified products. Are you thinking of this letter? Because it's all about domestic protectionism, and, well, the whole org stinks to high heaven. No, I'm pretty sure there was a news story maybe a couple months ago, where it was discovered that Trump's WH ignored a letter from mask manufacturers about what they could do to help. Let me try to find it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...d691_story.html I don't think that's the story I'm thinking of, but I can't locate the more recent reporting yet. edit: maybe I'm conflating multiple stories. Never mind, for now. mdemone fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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Denmark - 19 January 2022 Holy poo poo. Just over 40,000 cases now reported on the 17th as the data gets sorted. Hospitalizations up again, yet ICU and ventilator numbers steady. In the last 24 hours, cases by age group: Aldersgruppe 0-2 991 3-5 2102 6-9 5375 10-15 4245 16-19 3483 20-39 10269 40-64 8830 65-79 991 80+ 188 Daily "Last 7 days cases" split into three age brackets: pre:19 Jan 18 Jan 17 Jan 15 Jan 14 Jan 13 Jan 12 Jan 11 Jan 10 Jan 07 Jan 0-19 years 43.3% 42.2% 40.9% 37.7% 36.5% 35.6% 34.2% 31.8% 30.1% 27% 20-39 years 29.2% 30.0% 31.0% 32.9% 33.8% 34.7% 36.1% 38.2% 39.1% 40% 40+ years 27.5% 27.8% 28.1% 29.4% 29.8% 29.7% 29.6% 30.0% 30.7% 33% pre:Actual Reported New Total Date Cases Cases Reinf. Hosp. Hosp. ICU Vent Dead ============================================================================================== Jan 19 --- 38,759 2,285 248 821 50 (+1) 30 (+1) 16 Jan 18 10,034 33,493 2,002 264 810 49 (-3) 29 (-8) 14 Jan 17 40,153 28,780 1,815 203 802 52 (-7) 37 (-4) 11 Jan 16 28,152 ------- ----- --- 734 59 (+0) 41 (+1) 16 Jan 15 25,188 25,034 1,644 202 711 59 (-1) 40 (+4) 16 Jan 14 25,883 23,614 1,519 215 757 60 (-4) 36 (-2) 15 Jan 13 23,776 25,751 1,822 194 755 64 (-9) 38 (-8) 20 Jan 12 22,575 24,343 1,614 215 751 73 (+0) 46 (+0) 25 Jan 11 22,656 22,936 1,459 181 754 73 (-1) 46 (-1) 14 Jan 10 23,244 14,414 941 156 777 74 (-3) 47 (-3) 9 Jan 09 16,330 19,248 1,327 126 723 77 (-1) 50 (-2) 14 Jan 08 13,573 12,588 984 161 730 78 (+0) 52 (-1) 28 Jan 07 14,434 18,261 1,482 186 755 78 (-4) 53 (+4) 10 Jan 06 15,417 25,995 2,027 161 756 82 (+2) 47 (-2) 11 Jan 05 17,577 28,283 2,083 204 784 80 (+3) 49 (+2) 15 Jan 04 23,698 23,372 1,701 229 792 77 (+4) 47 (+1) 15 Jan 03* 25,617 8,801 532 169 770 73 (-3) 46 (-4) 5 Jan 02 19,906 7,550 404 163 709 76 (+3) 50 (+1) 15 Jan 01 8,631 20,885 1,049 139 647 73 (+0) 49 (+0) 5 Dec 31 9,728 17,605 1,090 177 641 73 (-2) 49 (-1) 11 Dec 30 19,927 21,403 1,123 178 665 75 (-2) 50 (-2) 9 Dec 29 17,245 23,228 1,205 173 675 77 (+6) 52 (+2) 16 Dec 28 21,955 13,000 670 177 666 71 (+1) 50 (+4) 14 Dec 27 22,616 16,164 639 115 608 70 (-1) 46 (-2) 7 Dec 26 10,965 14,844 644 123 579 71 (-2) 43 (+1) 13 Dec 25 7,853 10,027 463 86 522 73 (-1) 44 (+5) 10 Dec 24 7,054 11,229 527 134 509 74 (+2) 39 (+1) 14 Dec 23 12,605 12,487 613 158 541 72 (+6) 38 (+1) 15 Dec 22 11,591 13,386 531 126 524 66 (-1) 37 (+2) 14 Dec 21 13,011 13,558 501 121 526 67 (+1) 35 (+2) 17 Dec 20 13,288 10,082 --- 85 581 66 (+3) 33 (-2) 8 Dec 19 10,231 8,212 Dec 18 10,049 8,594 Dec 17 10.614 11,194 Dec 16 10,171 9,999 Dec 15 10,775 8,773 --- 96 508 66 (+0) 43 (-3) 9 Dec 13 10,294 7,799 --- 61 480 64 (-1) 42 (+0) 9 Dec 12 6,986 5,989 --- 82 468 65 (+5) 42 (+6) 9 Dec 08 6,560 6,629 --- 72 461 66 (-1) 38 (-1) 7 Dec 01 4,464 5,120 --- 88 439 35 (+1) 35 (+1) 14 pre:Date Bed Availability ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 January 331 ICU beds, 76 COVID, 32 available 27 December 316 ICU beds, 71 COVID, 62 available 20 December 317 ICU beds, 60 COVID, 59 available 13 December 319 ICU beds, 64 COVID, 39 available 06 December 310 ICU beds, 67 COVID, 10 available <-- squeaky bum time here 29 November 318 ICU beds, 61 COVID, 25 available https://www.rkkp.dk/kvalitetsdatabaser/databaser/dansk-intensiv-database/resultater/ https://covid19.ssi.dk/overvagningsdata/download-fil-med-overvaagningdata https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/242ec2acc014456295189631586f1d26 https://covid19.ssi.dk/virusvarianter/delta-pcr [/quote] Rust Martialis fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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UCS Hellmaker posted:While it may be saturating the hospitals, Delta strain is still the primary strain killing people in ICU from my understanding. Much of omicron patients that are saturating the ERs are bullshit I just want to be tested or make sure that don't need to be there, or sent by lovely testy places because YOU TESTED POSTIVIE YOUR GONNA DIE GO TO THE ER NOW!!!!! Some of the worst part is the sheer misinformation that is being used to make people absolutely panic then run to the er where things just are broken right now. Okay, I thought about this more after I saw Walensky an LA County’s public health director made this claim, too, and it seems rather extraordinary. It’s now approaching three weeks since Omicron was 95% of US infections while displacing Delta, and you are claiming that this increasing diminishing number of Delta cases is causing a surge in COVID deaths to the [/i]peak[/i] of the Delta wave. And apparently it’s just coincidentally timed after massive surge in current hospitalizations and subsequent icu admissions to the highest since the pandemic started, all coming after that massive, massive omicron wave (again, displacing Delta). Now it’s possible to finagle some scenarios where this could occur if Delta had a sudden massive increase in IFR. That could happen if say nursing homes were suddenly restricted to a massive outbreak among just the most vulnerable people while disappearing from infections in the less vulnerable, or if non-icu hospital resource depletion by omicron was suddenly causing all the hospitalized Delta cases to receive terrible care. Neither of those seem remotely likely to explain the size of the increase in deaths and icu admissions. Neither Walensky nor the LA public health director suggest they have any data to back up this claim - Walensky just said she “suspected” it was true and the la hd said “likely”. Given Walensky’s history of stick to her desired narrative based on tenuous science (like the recent cdc study with a tiny, tiny sample size and inadequate controls) or science that doesn’t even remotely say (like the “Delta isn’t more dangerous than Alpha for kids” bs), I’m extremely hesitant to believe this without good data.
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At least in Ontario, the ICU surge has pretty much matched the curve of Omicron delayed by a couple of weeks (obviously much lower, but with the same overall shape). It feels like it's ridiculous on it's face to claim that this is somehow a Delta ICU surge when cases have been either flat or falling and the surge just happens to have happened exactly when you'd predict it to if it was Omicron causing it.
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Discendo Vox posted:The administration did that in 2021. To the best of my knowledge, the DPA has been under continuous invocation since. It is not a magic switch that creates an infinite supply of masks. This article appears to provide a dece summary of the DPA and its use under this and the previous administration. I’m sorry, the answer is literally just “Do you think there’s a magic mask button, idiot”? The UK has had no problems handing out seven tests a week per person; can we get their magic test button? Or maybe some of the magic buttons that get food out to support people in quarantine in other countries?What if the Democrats used their legislative majority to pass a new version of the DPA, perhaps one geared toward responding to this crisis? What if they had bothered doing literally any of this at any point in the last year, instead of just now, after the peak of the wave? Like, great, the DPA got invoked nearly a year ago—how does that result in the best government intervention today being a mask giveaway two weeks too late at participating CVS locations and a handful of tests per household that might get ruined in your cold mailbox? You couldn’t design an administration that was better engineered to make people lose faith in the government’s ability to effect change. No attempts are even being made to appear to be doing something other than congressional theater (e: excepting the too-late responses rolled out at the beat of some PR crisis firm’s drum over the last week). Reagan may have tried starving the beast, but Biden has evidently discovered that forcing it to contract covid over and over until it dies of cheeselung is much more effective, and unless he lucks out and the omicron optimists are right, it sure looks terminal to me.
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rko posted:I’m sorry, the answer is literally just “Do you think there’s a magic mask button, idiot”? The UK has had no problems handing out seven tests a week per person; can we get their magic test button? I have some bad news for you about this Rust Martialis posted:Denmark data Thanks for continuing to post this, it's super interesting
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Stickman posted:Okay, I thought about this more after I saw Walensky an LA County’s public health director made this claim, too, and it seems rather extraordinary. It’s now approaching three weeks since Omicron was 95% of US infections while displacing Delta, and you are claiming that this increasing diminishing number of Delta cases is causing a surge in COVID deaths to the [/i]peak[/i] of the Delta wave. And apparently it’s just coincidentally timed after massive surge in current hospitalizations and subsequent icu admissions to the highest since the pandemic started, all coming after that massive, massive omicron wave (again, displacing Delta). There is one alternative, but sort of unlikely explanation for that. Maybe most of the people in the ICU do have Delta, but since Omicron is basically omnipresent by now, they also have that one, making their delta worse. If Omicron had no effect whatsoever except making simultaneous delta worse that would match those case lines. But I'd imagine hospital tests can differentiate between delta and delta + omicron.
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Alctel posted:I have some bad news for you about this I'm getting less and less happy about that loving caseload. I see no reason for the curve to bend down until it's had its way with the entire population. I mean we're way down on ICU bed use but at some point we run out if regular beds. And I dunno how many of THOSE we have
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Alctel posted:I have some bad news for you about this Despite the fact that the program is ending—months from now, without anything preventing the Tories from reinstating it if necessary, presumably—the island nation that just economically cut itself off from its mainland and is led by an idiot clown monster managed to do this much for this long. Why didn’t we do that? What’s preventing us from doing more? If it’s our stupid political system, why am I not hearing about it all of the time from the administration? Why is the message not one of constant fury directed at whomever is preventing the basic pandemic prevention techniques our peer nations are doing, instead of being told over and over again that we should voluntarily mask and vaccinate ourselves on our way to getting back to work? It really honestly does baffle me. I don’t understand how the country muddles on like this, and how we just all keep shambling forward as thousands of people needlessly die every day. It can’t last, and yet it keeps on going. Our stupid zombie empire.
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rko posted:Despite the fact that the program is ending—months from now, without anything preventing the Tories from reinstating it if necessary, presumably—the island nation that just economically cut itself off from its mainland and is led by an idiot clown monster managed to do this much for this long. Why didn’t we do that? What’s preventing us from doing more? Not disagreeing with you on the fact the US has a political system that (from an outsider POV) seems purposefully designed to prevent anything getting done, but there is a massive shortage of tests in the UK right now (and least where my friends and family live).
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rko posted:What if they had bothered doing literally any of this at any point in the last year, instead of just now, after the peak of the wave? Like, great, the DPA got invoked nearly a year ago—how does that result in the best government intervention today being a mask giveaway two weeks too late at participating CVS locations and a handful of tests per household that might get ruined in your cold mailbox? Because the administration wanted an easy win a year ago 
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Alctel posted:Not disagreeing with you on the fact the US has a political system that (from an outsider POV) seems purposefully designed to prevent anything getting done, but there is a massive shortage of tests in the UK right now (and least where my friends and family live). My mistake, my google to try and figure out what exactly you were getting at found the wrong thing, clearly, and I’m sorry that’s happening for you and yours now. e: and it’s not designed to get nothing done—we dutifully paid off the military-industrial complex for another year! And congressional stock portfolios are through the roof! rko fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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rko posted:I’m sorry, the answer is literally just “Do you think there’s a magic mask button, idiot”? The UK has had no problems handing out seven tests a week per person; can we get their magic test button? The UK has a smaller population, a larger existing test reserve, an existing national health system with near universal enrollment, is planning to switch to requiring payments in June, and is still using distribution at pharmacies (which is easier despite the existence of the NHS) rko posted:Or maybe some of the magic buttons that get food out to support people in quarantine in other countries?What if the Democrats used their legislative majority to pass a new version of the DPA, perhaps one geared toward responding to this crisis? It's not clear what "new version of the DPA" could get by the courts even if it were able to get past Manchin and Sinema. It's not appropriate to assign blame to the entire party in this. rko posted:What if they had bothered doing literally any of this at any point in the last year, instead of just now, after the peak of the wave? Like, great, the DPA got invoked nearly a year ago—how does that result in the best government intervention today being a mask giveaway two weeks too late at participating CVS locations and a handful of tests per household that might get ruined in your cold mailbox? They have in fact been doing mask giveaways throughout the year, at lower and more targeted scale. If they gave away two thirds of the strategic reserve earlier, it is unlikely that they would have been able to rebuild stocks during a lower prevalence period to give away 500 million now. rko posted:You couldn’t design an administration that was better engineered to make people lose faith in the government’s ability to effect change. No attempts are even being made to appear to be doing something other than congressional theater You ignoring other federal public health interventions, or how the government is structured, does not obligate everyone else to do so.
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PostNouveau posted:Why not just put a box of tests on every doorstep? You keep asking this and everyone keeps responding to you about global supply shortages in the US, UK and Australia. Why isn't that enough of an answer for you that you need to keep repeating yourself? PostNouveau posted:Because the administration wanted an easy win a year ago I mean christ, this right here completely ignores everything we knew and had data for at the time. Already we have folks demanding that vaccines be made for everyone in every clade the virus comes in while ignoring things like "expiration dates" and "manufacturing capacity". By the way, there's nothing easy about a widespread vaccination campaign.
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Solkanar512 posted:You keep asking this and everyone keeps responding to you about global supply shortages in the US, UK and Australia. Why isn't that enough of an answer for you that you need to keep repeating yourself? Oh are things going to be difficult? Will it be tough to stop this pandemic? I didn't know it might be hard, please allow me to withdraw my complaints.
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Solkanar512 posted:I mean christ, this right here completely ignores everything we knew and had data for at the time.
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Discendo Vox posted:It's not clear what "new version of the DPA" could get by the courts even if it were able to get past Manchin and Sinema. It's not appropriate to assign blame to the entire party in this. I think the broader point is that the American political system is antithetical to anything getting done. Why is the bottleneck Manchin and Sinema, and not any of the 50 other people in the Senate voting no out of spite? Why aren’t the Democrats constantly screaming about Republican obstructionism? If abolishing the filibuster is the only way to get anything done, why hasn’t it been abolished? It’s a foregone conclusion that nothing good will ever happen because the system is terrible and there’s no appetite to change it.
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Discendo Vox posted:The UK has a smaller population, a larger existing test reserve, an existing national health system with near universal enrollment, is planning to switch to requiring payments in June, and is still using distribution at pharmacies (which is easier despite the existence of the NHS) I don’t see how this is supposed to quell my obvious frustration; I don’t understand how it quells yours! The government’s only excuse is two senators, whom everyone in power treats with utmost decorum as they sadly explain how little they can do? This is to say nothing of the executive’s power to set narratives (overwhelmingly focused on getting back to school/work in the face of legitimate scientific uncertainty regarding a novel disease) or staff agencies like the CDC, which has been tripping over itself week after week for months now. What’s the point of all these “targeted” interventions if the overall message is still “Schools are the safest place for kids, mask up and get back to work”? The problems you claim are tying our hands now are problems we knew about last year. I don’t think I’m unreasonable for wanting to see the frustration I feel about this mirrored by the party and presidential administration that ostensibly seeks to represent my interests. quote:You ignoring other federal public health interventions, or how the government is structured, does not obligate everyone else to do so. Nor are we obligated to ignore the mountain of corpses you’re walking past to pat Joe Biden on the back. I’m not ignorant of how the government works—I’m angry that we’re asked to accept it as an unfixable status quo instead of being called to any kind of action, any at all.
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PostNouveau posted:Oh are things going to be difficult? Will it be tough to stop this pandemic? I didn't know it might be hard, please allow me to withdraw my complaints. You’re adding literally nothing to the conversation but constant rants against Biden. That’s it. Hearing a poster constantly cry wolf contributes nothing and obscures legitimate criticism of what’s going on. The sarcasm and inability to address the points people raise against you is just icing on the cake. By the way, the number of tests available for free was just doubled to 1,000,000,000.
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Solkanar512 posted:You’re adding literally nothing to the conversation but constant rants against Biden. That’s it. Hearing a poster constantly cry wolf contributes nothing and obscures legitimate criticism of what’s going on. All you seem to be doing is posting about posters, which I'm pretty sure is against the rules oh no I'm doing it toooooooooo
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Solkanar512 posted:You keep asking this and everyone keeps responding to you about global supply shortages in the US, UK and Australia. Why isn't that enough of an answer for you that you need to keep repeating yourself? It's not make the drat thing, which you would get if you had read it. It's 'have a recipe ready to go'.
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StratGoatCom posted:It's not make the drat thing, which you would get if you had read it. Uh, we've already sequenced these clades, that's how we know the clades exist in the first place. What is it exactly that you think is missing?
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Solkanar512 posted:Uh, we've already sequenced these clades, that's how we know the clades exist in the first place. What is it exactly that you think is missing? Make a vaccine recipe specific to each of the major clades, so we don't get blindsided by a derived relative.
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Solkanar512 posted:You keep asking this and everyone keeps responding to you about global supply shortages in the US, UK and Australia. Why isn't that enough of an answer for you that you need to keep repeating yourself? In fairness, average Joe Q Poster is merely asking for what was promised of this magic MRNA thing. I doubt your average Joe Q Poster has the relevant experience to say the heads of Pfizer are moderately full of poo poo. nomad2020 fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:There is one alternative, but sort of unlikely explanation for that. Maybe most of the people in the ICU do have Delta, but since Omicron is basically omnipresent by now, they also have that one, making their delta worse. If Omicron had no effect whatsoever except making simultaneous delta worse that would match those case lines. But I'd imagine hospital tests can differentiate between delta and delta + omicron. It’s certainly a possible effect, but as you say it would have to be huge for it to be the primary driver of increasing deaths. On testing, I not 100% certain, but I doubt that hospitals are regularly doing anything to distinguish Delta and Omicron, let alone simultaneous infections. E: Sounds like that is the case.
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Solkanar512 posted:You’re adding literally nothing to the conversation but constant rants against Biden. That’s it. Hearing a poster constantly cry wolf contributes nothing and obscures legitimate criticism of what’s going on. PostNouveau posted:All you seem to be doing is posting about posters, which I'm pretty sure is against the rules oh no I'm doing it toooooooooo Koos Group posted:Greetings. D&D moderation is going to be moving away from moderating positions, and getting more stringent on moderating the quality of arguments. I made a few (marked) changes to the OP to show this. The top priority now is that what you post be interesting, in good faith, and not discourage discussion on some way. Here are a few things you could consequently be punished for:
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rko posted:I don’t see how this is supposed to quell my obvious frustration; I don’t understand how it quells yours! This is a discussion forum, not a livejournal. Its purpose is to discuss things, not vent at each other. rko posted:The government’s only excuse is two senators, whom everyone in power treats with utmost decorum as they sadly explain how little they can do? This is to say nothing of the executive’s power to set narratives (overwhelmingly focused on getting back to school/work in the face of legitimate scientific uncertainty regarding a novel disease) or staff agencies like the CDC, which has been tripping over itself week after week for months now. What’s the point of all these “targeted” interventions if the overall message is still “Schools are the safest place for kids, mask up and get back to work”? The problems don't go away because we ignore them or because we rant about them. "The government" doesn't become a monolithic entity because it does not reflect your inner mental state. rko posted:Nor are we obligated to ignore the mountain of corpses you’re walking past to pat Joe Biden on the back. I’m not ignorant of how the government works—I’m angry that we’re asked to accept it as an unfixable status quo instead of being called to any kind of action, any at all. I am not "patting Joe Biden on the back". I'm stating facts, which you keep skipping over. If you know how the government operates, then why are you ignoring it in your posts? blastron posted:I think the broader point is that the American political system is antithetical to anything getting done. Why is the bottleneck Manchin and Sinema, and not any of the 50 other people in the Senate voting no out of spite? Why aren’t the Democrats constantly screaming about Republican obstructionism? If abolishing the filibuster is the only way to get anything done, why hasn’t it been abolished? It’s a foregone conclusion that nothing good will ever happen because the system is terrible and there’s no appetite to change it. I was responding to an accusation levelled at the Democratic party. The Democratic leadership is in fact trying to overturn or at least limit the filibuster; you may have seen recent coverage of this. The Democrats do in fact blame the Republicans, but this tends not to be mediated clearly. There's plenty of appetite to change things, but appetite doesn't translate to 50 senate votes.
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crepeface posted:How romantic! May their love weld their hearts together like the doors to the apartment complex.
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Wow, 3500 deaths today in the USA. loving insane, and right on schedule. If this trajectory continues, I wonder if anyone who peddled "omicron is mild" will feel bad for normalizing covid infections & participating in this wave of deaths. Probably not.
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crepeface posted:How romantic! Honestly? Good for them! It'll always be a hell of a story to tell. On the other subject currently under discussion: rapid tests don't work unless you have a fuckload of them. One box of tests per person or so? Useless! If you don't have supply to feel confident using them as a matter of habit, there's just no point. If you're rationing them rather than using them on a regular basis, you're going to use them when you feel ill, and the false negative rate is enough that you can't really be confident that you don't have COVID if you have COVID symptoms, so you shouldn't go anywhere anyway. So, oh great, you're now certain you have COVID! What will you do with that information? What can you do with that information? RATs should be used to detect infection that's not obvious, and that's simply not possible unless you have enough to use them regularly.
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smoobles posted:Wow, 3500 deaths today in the USA. loving insane, and right on schedule.
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crepeface posted:How romantic! Is this a different case than the one where the girl was posting on social media about how the guy was boring as hell but at least left her alone? Or did the story take a complete u-turn?
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smoobles posted:Wow, 3500 deaths today in the USA. loving insane, and right on schedule. 9/11 every day is loving insane again. Couple of my guys are completely out of breath The entire day at work after having covid for a week and a half. It's nuts however good things from the UK in terms of cases going back down it would seem. I say seem as it probably will just never stop in the US because of constant reinfections
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smoobles posted:Wow, 3500 deaths today in the USA. loving insane, and right on schedule. Where are you getting this number? NYT says just under 2k. Which is not good, but it's not 3.5k.
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killer_robot posted:Where are you getting this number? 
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