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Which horse film is your favorite? This poll is closed. |
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| Black Beauty |
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2 | 1.06% |
| A Talking Pony!?! |
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| Mr. Hands 2x Apple Flavor |
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| War Horse |
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| Mr. Hands |
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Judakel posted:Denmark has been absolutely devastated by COVID. Errr, what? How do you define "devastated"?
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Steen71 posted:Errr, what? How do you define "devastated"? Apperently there's new B's unsourced things being posted that the danish population has been 1/4 crippled by covid, and 1/8 now have brain damage, with no sources or actual studies. Just absolute garbage from people to spout crap.
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Mar 15, 2022 09:05
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Judakel posted:Denmark has been absolutely devastated by COVID. No, it hasn't.
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Mar 15, 2022 09:19
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Apperently there's new B's unsourced things being posted that the danish population has been 1/4 crippled by covid, and 1/8 now have brain damage Oh, those are just Swedes living here.
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Mar 15, 2022 09:20
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Judakel posted:Denmark has been absolutely devastated by COVID. Ironic, since some here vehemently argued against proactive measures in favor of reactive measures. A country giving up, as Australia has, does not spare them the ongoing disabling and deadly effects of COVID waves. Australia is highly vaccinated and able to cope, where exactly is this disabling and deadly wave? And what the gently caress is this bullshit about Denmark being absolutly dvestated?
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Mar 15, 2022 09:22
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Australia is highly vaccinated and able to cope, where exactly is this disabling and deadly wave? 
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Mar 15, 2022 09:31
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Had to look up lorteby but lmao
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Do you have any proof for any of what your posting or are you just going to stick with telling people in the countries you keep attacking that they don't understand covid and only you know the best ways to combat it, and that china is the absolute gold standard we all should strive for (ignoring that china's vaccine isn't as effective, they have slowboated the mRNA vaccine because it's not there's, and actively aren't as vaccinated as they could be) At this point I've muted him because he constantly says Australia "gave up" - after we switched tack from elimination/COVID-zero when being in hard lockdown for weeks and months on end because it no longer achieved the result of, for example, Melbourne's previous FIVE lockdowns by driving cases down to zero or even driving them down at all. Apparently we should have just stuck with the lockdown for the rest of eternity no matter what. My friend's grandad whose dementia worsened and then he died after not being able to have visitors to his care home just "gave up." My neighbour with mental health problems who lives alone and couldn't visit his friends or his partner for months on end, and whose relationship subsequently ended, just "gave up." My local cafe owner who closed his business down after 18 months of cycling on/off lockdowns "gave up." (My local pub owner "gave up" too.) My friend whose already-concerning alcohol consumption took a steep rise when we hit the second long lockdown "gave up." My uni friends who lost the third and fourth years of their education to Zoom, all the new friends and contacts they could have made - you guessed it, they just "gave up." My friends who cancelled and rescheduled their wedding four times over as we flipped in and out of COVID-zero and precautionary lockdown - they "gave up" as well. My partner and the rest of her family who have a 3-year-old nephew/grandson in New Zealand they've only met once? Boy, you better believe they're giver-uppers. And as for my own family in Western Australia whom I haven't seen since 2019? Yep - we all just "gave up." None of which is to say these sacrifices weren't worthwhile in 2020. But it's not even the fact that we have vaccines now. It's the fact that the lockdowns STOPPED WORKING TO GET US BACK TO COVID-ZERO. This happened in Australia, it happened in New Zealand, it happened in Vietnam, it's happening right now in Hong Kong! I cannot loving believe people still espouse this. I don't give a flying gently caress whether it's because of the more contagious variants or the fact that people are people and just couldn't cope with it anymore, or - probably, given the geographic variety! - a combination of both. It is actually loving psychopathic to espouse some fantasy hard lockdown scenario, with all the misery entails, in 2022 in the age of Omicron and high vaccination rates. And I'm sorry, but given all of the above, given my own personal experience over the past two years, it also makes me really loving angry.
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Mar 15, 2022 13:09
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Judakel posted:The huge amount of misinformation about COVID vaccines did not help Hong Kong and they should've more tightly controlled their media in order to prevent. Going forward, I can only hope that there will be changes along those lines. In HK a good chunk of disinfo, misinfo, and generally confusing info about Covid was coming from official sources and another good chunk from old distrust of the central government, so I'm not sure tighter control of the media would have helped much. And uh, they also did shut down the largest media company in HK and put its executives in jail. I'm actually surprised how low the vaccination rate is among the 80+ population in China. It's barely over 50 percent. (I'm also kinda surprised that there are only ~40 million (?) people over the age of 80 in a country with 1.4 billion. It's loving hard to make it that long I guess.)
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Mar 15, 2022 13:17
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Rust Martialis posted:Oh, those are just Swedes living here. Malm 
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freebooter posted:At this point I've muted him because he constantly says Australia "gave up" - after we switched tack from elimination/COVID-zero when being in hard lockdown for weeks and months on end because it no longer achieved the result of, for example, Melbourne's previous FIVE lockdowns by driving cases down to zero or even driving them down at all.
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Mar 15, 2022 13:25
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the ride never ends https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1503571864861388802
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Mar 15, 2022 17:45
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brugroffil posted:the ride never ends Maybe I’m stupid, but wouldn’t that kind of increase correlate with more people being hospitalized, or with higher test positivity rates? What exactly is the claim with that wastewater thing?
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Mar 15, 2022 17:47
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Wastewater increases have been leading indicators of COVID waves
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Mar 15, 2022 17:56
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I AM GRANDO posted:Maybe I’m stupid, but wouldn’t that kind of increase correlate with more people being hospitalized, or with higher test positivity rates? What exactly is the claim with that wastewater thing? no, it's typically wastewater of entire areas. like everyone who shits in a given area has their poo poo go through the same treatment plant, and they test that plant for the incidence of covid viruses to get a pretty drat good predictor of covid rates in the area since it doesn't depend on people having to actually get tested or report the results of those tests
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I AM GRANDO posted:Maybe I’m stupid, but wouldn’t that kind of increase correlate with more people being hospitalized, or with higher test positivity rates? What exactly is the claim with that wastewater thing? In the last wave around Christmas/New Year it preceded a large spike in cases. Although I dunno, I recall the spike on those graphs (Boston got posted a lot) was substantially higher than 1000%. (More like 30-50x). Seems like the amount of infections and (especially) dangerous infections in the US is less indicative of a spike in mortality nowadays because Omicron variants are less lethal and there are just a shitton of antibodies in the population now that most people have gotten vaccines and many have been infected multiple times now. So even if the spike got as high as the January one it would probably be at least somewhat less lethal. CFRs have dropped significantly with each wave, for a bunch of reasons. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Mar 15, 2022 18:04
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The fact that the Biden administration is basically packing it up and saying "you're on your own and get back to the office," lol is so loving gross.
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Mar 15, 2022 18:44
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When was their message anything different? I guess last year it was “we gave you $2500, now get back to the office!”
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Mar 15, 2022 18:52
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LionArcher posted:The fact that the Biden administration is basically packing it up and saying "you're on your own and get back to the office," lol is so loving gross.
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Mar 15, 2022 18:54
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Barudak posted:Shenzhen is locked down for a week to try and get covid under control (I hope it works) I hope it works too - and not just because it's where a kickstarter I'm signed up to is doing their manufacturing, and literally every world event is a reason to delay even more these days
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LionArcher posted:The fact that the Biden administration is basically packing it up and saying "you're on your own and get back to the office," lol is so loving gross. It would be gross if this were a true thing that were happening. Biden is asking for tons of money, Congress is currently saying no. You are wrong.
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Mar 15, 2022 18:58
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brugroffil posted:the ride never ends i don't doubt that covid rates either are going up currently, or are bound to, but take a look through the responses. There's some real weirdness to the data behind that diagram: https://twitter.com/mikescar99/status/1503577610290229252?s=20&t=7mdgJVpAaLW74I9dl7_u5Q
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Mar 15, 2022 18:59
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Riptor posted:i don't doubt that covid rates either are going up currently, or are bound to, but take a look through the responses. There's some real weirdness to the data behind that diagram: lol they overflowed the buffer
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Riptor posted:i don't doubt that covid rates either are going up currently, or are bound to, but take a look through the responses. There's some real weirdness to the data behind that diagram: 2147483647 is the max value of a 32 bit signed integer. So those values are bunk.
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Mar 15, 2022 19:03
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2147483647 is 2^31-1 i.e. -1 as a signed twos-complement integer, meaning it is an invalid data sentinel being interpreted as data.
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Mar 15, 2022 19:03
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dwarf74 posted:Congress is refusing to fund the various programs. The Biden administration wants to keep all the programs and monitoring going and is asking congress to get off their asses. the good cop says he really wants to help me out, but he can't because his partner is such a bad cop 
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VitalSigns posted:the good cop says he really wants to help me out, but he can't because his partner is such a bad cop
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Mar 15, 2022 19:14
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Mellow Seas posted:Seems like the amount of infections and (especially) dangerous infections in the US is less indicative of a spike in mortality nowadays because Omicron variants are less lethal and there are just a shitton of antibodies in the population now that most people have gotten vaccines and many have been infected multiple times now. So even if the spike got as high as the January one it would probably be at least somewhat less lethal.  More than half of the total pandemic cases have been in the omicron wave, but a much smaller fraction of the total deaths
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Mar 15, 2022 19:15
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Which party holds majority power in Congress and who is that partys leader? Yes this is Bidens failure.
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Mar 15, 2022 19:15
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droll posted:Which party holds majority power in Congress and who is that partys leader? It takes 41 votes to block anything in Congress, there's 50 republicans.
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Mar 15, 2022 19:17
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dwarf74 posted:Right, because congress always does what the administration wants, and therefore shows us what the administration really wants. Excellent analysis. Agreed I think the good cop really wants to help us out, must be why he joined the force to fight bad cops like his partner! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 15, 2022 19:23
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UCS Hellmaker posted:It takes 41 votes to block anything in Congress, there's 50 republicans. Bill failed in the House https://mobile.twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1501650493592018946 E: more details https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/09/congress-government-funding-package-00014322 quote:House Democrats on Wednesday cleared a $1.5 trillion spending compromise — along with billions in emergency aid for Ukraine — in a major victory for President Joe Biden, even as a rank-and-file revolt forced party leaders to strip billions of dollars in pandemic relief from the same bill. VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Mar 15, 2022 19:26
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Barudak posted:Shenzhen is locked down for a week to try and get covid under control (I hope it works) and Shanghai whether or not numbers are going up up uppity up in shanghai residents are already acting like they are and flights and traffic are getting blocked*. Im hoping these measures work, but the current rumor is that the new strain is 80% asymptomatic with incubation periods over 2 weeks so the current methods aren't strong enough. I think I've seen that movie.
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Mar 15, 2022 19:55
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This was part of the Twitter thread posted on the last page and is a good visualization of the massive difference that vaccination makes to your CFR. 0.1% for New Zealand vs 4.7% for Hong Kong during their respective Omicron waves. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1503420660869214213 Given China's lackluster over-80 vaccination rate this does not bode well for them if they are unable to contain their most recent outbreaks in the face of the more contagious BA2.
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Mar 15, 2022 22:23
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https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1503809317174009858
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Why do people keep posting this guy if he can't even tell what a basic error looks like?
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I mean the line's still going up so that's bad, but 800 cases a day in a country with 1.4 billion people! By comparison, Japan is on the slow decline from the Omicron peak right now, and yesterday Shiga Prefecture, which has a population of 1.4 million people, had a bit fewer cases than all of China.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Maybe I’m stupid, but wouldn’t that kind of increase correlate with more people being hospitalized, or with higher test positivity rates? What exactly is the claim with that wastewater thing? wastewater > cases > hospitalizations > deaths a very cool and unexpected leading indicator!
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Mar 16, 2022 01:04
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Gio posted:wastewater > cases > hospitalizations > deaths So you're saying pooping causes covid
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spankmeister posted:2147483647 is the max value of a 32 bit signed integer. So those values are bunk. Is Eric Topol reporting on a bunch of divide by zeros?
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