Which horse film is your favorite? This poll is closed. |
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Black Beauty | 2 | 1.06% | |
A Talking Pony!?! | 4 | 2.13% | |
Mr. Hands 2x Apple Flavor | 117 | 62.23% | |
War Horse | 11 | 5.85% | |
Mr. Hands | 54 | 28.72% | |
Total: | 188 votes |
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Sub Rosa posted:We should ban sugar water and candy though nomad2020 posted:Unironically agree, also require cardio.
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# ? May 5, 2023 17:41 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 06:35 |
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Kidding aside though if somebody took away my candy and cigarettes I'd actually die a lot faster, by my own hand
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# ? May 5, 2023 17:42 |
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Might as well ban alcohol too then.
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# ? May 5, 2023 17:44 |
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Riptor posted:To be clear, no they did not: Here's the thing, though: Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme posted:In most cases, pandemics truly end when the next pandemic begins. I know that’s a terrible thought but that is the history of pandemics. At SOME point, we'll reach Zero COVID. By that time, though, something else will probably cause us to mask up. Edward Mass fucked around with this message at 20:47 on May 5, 2023 |
# ? May 5, 2023 20:42 |
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Edward Mass posted:Here's the thing, though: Why? Why would we ever reach zero covid? And how do you define zero covid? Zero infections or zero cases of disease?
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# ? May 5, 2023 20:47 |
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spankmeister posted:Why? Why would we ever reach zero covid? And how do you define zero covid? Zero infections or zero cases of disease? Zero acknowledgement with accompanying zero testing or wastewater monitoring or any other way of proving its circulating.
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# ? May 5, 2023 20:50 |
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Mellow Seas posted:We are never, ever, ever going back to 2020-21 death rates. Maybe from something else in the future but not from Covid-19. quote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/05/covid-forecast-next-two-years/:
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# ? May 5, 2023 20:52 |
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spankmeister posted:Why? Why would we ever reach zero covid? And how do you define zero covid? Zero infections or zero cases of disease? In this case, I define Zero COVID as zero cases of COVID-19 that result in hospitalization. I guess I should've specified that I do not expect Zero COVID to happen any time soon, given the behavior of SARS-CoV-2, and that my remark was an attempt at gallows humor.
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# ? May 5, 2023 20:55 |
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Phlag posted:
I'm not exactly sure what they mean by "omicron-like event," anyway. I assume they mean "near-ubiquitous infection of the entire population in a matter of weeks," and that's bad, but if (like the first Omicron wave) it doesn't increase (or decreases) CFR, it's something we can handle. During the Omicron wave infections went up >10x, but deaths only went up 2x. So yeah, sticking by what I said. But it's certainly a worrying possibility anyway. Things don't have to be "a million dead in two years" bad to be "really bad."
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# ? May 5, 2023 21:13 |
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edit: Eh, forget it. I don't feel like arguing on the Internet today
Phlag fucked around with this message at 22:09 on May 5, 2023 |
# ? May 5, 2023 22:04 |
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e: you know yeah nah it's cool have a good weekend Phlag
Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 22:14 on May 5, 2023 |
# ? May 5, 2023 22:10 |
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Phlag posted:edit: Eh, forget it. I don't feel like arguing on the Internet today Mellow Seas posted:e: you know yeah nah it's cool have a good weekend Phlag Pathetic, both of you. No one wants to debate anymore!
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# ? May 6, 2023 00:50 |
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:Pathetic, both of you. No one wants to debate anymore! I wont argue against that.
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# ? May 6, 2023 01:33 |
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Doesn't look finished to me https://twitter.com/fibke/status/1654819772305899523?t=Fmsa_aby1lHJzEGDKUGPog&s=19
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# ? May 6, 2023 14:17 |
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WHO isn't saying the pandemic is over though?
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# ? May 6, 2023 15:49 |
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spankmeister posted:WHO isn't saying the pandemic is over though? ... and yet: https://twitter.com/AP/status/1654479375926976515
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# ? May 6, 2023 16:33 |
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Ok so the media is saying the pandemic is over.
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# ? May 6, 2023 16:54 |
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Well, it’s an emergency in some places. Right now South Asia and Africa. But I think it’s reasonable to say it’s not a global emergency. I mean “over,” “emergency,” these are just words, it’s the WHO’s actions that matter, and I don’t know what actually changes with the semantic shift. E: from the linked article: AP posted:More than three years later, the virus has caused an estimated 764 million cases globally and about 5 billion people have received at least one dose of vaccine. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:05 on May 6, 2023 |
# ? May 6, 2023 16:55 |
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In terms of the USA, what the WHO says and doesn't say matter very little (if at all). Hell, it's doubtful that any single organization or agency, domestic or otherwise, is still capable of resulting in significant shifts in behaviors and attitudes. Once vaccines became widely available, Americans by and large stopped treating the pandemic as an emergency, and once it became milder and less deadly, they stopped taking it seriously. Covid deaths today are regarded as a normal occurrence just like deaths from most other causes. We can argue all day and all night about whether that is justified, and what types of individual behaviors and government policies are rational, but let's face it: it won't change a thing.
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# ? May 6, 2023 18:33 |
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Mellow Seas posted:No, it has not been fully regionally equitable
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# ? May 7, 2023 01:55 |
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Bit of an understatement here. Sure but at the same time, I was able to get Astra Zeneca about a month or so after the UK in regional Burkina Faso, from a clinic with WHO doses. I thought was well remarkable. The most inequitable thing was how much Africa was locked down from travelling relative to other nations with much worse outbreaks (looking at you the US). You could fly to EU from the US without too many hoops with a case rate multiples of Cote D'Iovire for instance but it was Cote D'Ivoire that was locked out, not the US. Same thing happened with Ebola though. Ol' fear driving policy rather than cold analysis.
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# ? May 8, 2023 13:13 |
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This isn’t covid-related, but should I be concerned about this? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-reports-case-atypical-mad-cow-disease-2023-05-19/ quote:CHICAGO, May 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Friday an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called mad cow disease, in an older beef cow at a slaughter plant in South Carolina. I’m not particularly comforted by the usda’s confidence in safety procedure, given the rough operation of our supposedly robust public health apparatus in 2019-2020 and beyond. Does anyone in this thread have the expertise to weigh in on the notability of this incident? I remember when I was a kid the UK had a mad cow outbreak and I don’t remember any humans coming down with spongiform encephalopathy.
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# ? May 22, 2023 02:55 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:This isn’t covid-related, but should I be concerned about this? It's not a specific point of concern. iirc the practices that allow for widespread contagion (feeding dead cows to other cows) are already banned.
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# ? May 22, 2023 03:29 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:This isn’t covid-related, but should I be concerned about this? We shouldn’t take cows unable to stand and slaughter them and put the meat on the market and feed the scraps to other cows, but even though Britain did do that, Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease has only killed like two hundred and fifty people worldwide to date. It is extremely far down my list of concerns.
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# ? May 22, 2023 21:04 |
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In-N-Out bans employees from wearing masks This is bad policy, and it ought to be opposed by elected and appointed officials. Laws in California and Oregon already prohibit the practice (with sunset provisions), which is why those states are not included in the memorandum.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 11:48 |
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It's just a baffingly bad move. Maybe things are different in the US, but up here things have settled into a equilibrium where some people (a very, very small group of people) wear masks, everyone else doesn't, but no one really says anything to anyone one way or another - mask wearing is no longer viewed as a political statement and people probably assume that someone with a mask is immunocompromised or has COVID or something like that, and doesn't really bother them. Why would you want to poke the bee's nest by making a rule like this when odds are the vast majority of customers don't care one way or another if the person handing them a hamburger has a mask on? It's like a press release saying "Remember how irrationally angry you got about COVID stuff? Let's try that again!"
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 13:50 |
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It's definitely different in the US. In our two party political system, one side has no policy besides Irrational Anger and flooding their constituents with culture war bullshit, especially regarding wearing masks
DeathChicken fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jul 18, 2023 |
# ? Jul 18, 2023 14:32 |
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enki42 posted:It's just a baffingly bad move. Maybe things are different in the US, but up here things have settled into a equilibrium where some people (a very, very small group of people) wear masks, everyone else doesn't, but no one really says anything to anyone one way or another - mask wearing is no longer viewed as a political statement and people probably assume that someone with a mask is immunocompromised or has COVID or something like that, and doesn't really bother them. A lot of executives overseeing customer service businesses feel that the customer does care whether they can see the employee's corporate-mandated smiling face, even if the customer thinks they don't care. A lot of effort goes into carefully curating the general appearance of chain restaurants - including the appearance of staff - to provide an atmosphere and impression they believe will appeal to customers. Masking can also impact clarity of communication, which is important both behind the counter and across the counter.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 14:55 |
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Will there be boosters this fall? It’s been almost a year since my last one.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 15:16 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:Will there be boosters this fall? It’s been almost a year since my last one. Yes they’re doing XBB only boosters instead of bivalent but likely not for you if Offitt gets his way (or you’re in Britain) CNN quote:Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine scientist and professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the advisory committee, emphasized before the meeting that it’s important to discuss who needs an updated vaccine this fall.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 15:40 |
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Main Paineframe posted:A lot of executives overseeing customer service businesses feel that the customer does care whether they can see the employee's corporate-mandated smiling face, even if the customer thinks they don't care. A lot of effort goes into carefully curating the general appearance of chain restaurants - including the appearance of staff - to provide an atmosphere and impression they believe will appeal to customers. Masking can also impact clarity of communication, which is important both behind the counter and across the counter. LOL. I worked at the Kalahari Resorts. A singular guest complained that they thought a front desk agent was mouthing off to them behind the mask the first week we opened after our 3 month closure in 2020. Masks where forever banned at the front desk from that point forward. If you insisted on wearing a mask, they provided some flimsy transparent plastic contraption that did absolutely nothing to prevent air transfer - no fit to the face at all and it had ventilation holes.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 21:17 |
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This month we reached zero excess deaths over what would be expected without the pandemic. NYT posted:Excess deaths, as this number is known, has been an important measure of Covid’s true toll because it does not depend on the murky attribution of deaths to a specific cause. Even if Covid is being underdiagnosed, the excess-deaths statistic can capture its effects. The statistic also captures Covid’s indirect effects, like the surge of vehicle crashes, gun deaths and deaths from missed medical treatments during the pandemic. Deaths have been under 200/day since the spring and are currently well under 100 per day. It seems that vaccines, natural immunity, and better treatments (and the million plus vulnerable already dead) has put us in a prolonged period of low death counts. We have touched down at zero excess deaths before, in the springs of 2021 and 2022, so things can always get worse, but this is the longest stretch of good numbers we’ve had since the start of the pandemic.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 21:47 |
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Oracle posted:not for you if Offitt gets his way Offit has tried this bullshit before, repeatedly, and it’s not even the first time that he’s said some variation of “all the other panelists are just out of frame, nodding along with me”. I don’t think that he’ll get his way, but we’ll have to wait and see. Oracle posted:(or you’re in Britain) Yeah as we discussed in January, British vaccine policy is deeply unwell. My personal favorite example is that the shingles vaccine is only offered to people older than seventy years of age, because below that ostensibly the cost:benefit just isn’t there, but it’s also not offered to people over eighty years of age, because their immune systems are alleged to be so feeble that it wouldn’t do them any good anyway. Oh, and they don’t vaccinate children against chickenpox.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 21:48 |
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Mellow Seas posted:This month we reached zero excess deaths over what would be expected without the pandemic. Leonhardt makes this claim based on a model from The Economist, which warns against the exact conclusion he has drawn. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/05/23/our-model-suggests-that-global-deaths-remain-5-above-pre-covid-forecasts posted:Because data on total mortality is scant outside the rich world, our model’s estimates have become less precise over time. Its confidence interval for the world’s current excess-death rate stretches from near zero all the way up to the estimated levels of mid-2020. There’s also the small wrinkle that it has had no new COVID death input since May. As they say in data science: garbage in, garbage out.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 21:51 |
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eh, at least for me, Malaria has killed more of my workmates than Covid both this year and last, 2021 not. On the positive, now that the covid fear has relented, they are getting back to work on the vaccine for Malaria (a disease killing a few hundred thousand children under five every year for a very long time). Predicting >60% efficacy so hopefully that bares out.
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 23:17 |
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whoops didn't realize that post was so old my bad
Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Jul 19, 2023 |
# ? Jul 19, 2023 00:58 |
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Would there be interest in my returning to the antivaxx bookshelf concept for, perhaps, something from our next President of the United States, Robert F Kennedy Jr?
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 01:10 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Would there be interest in my returning to the antivaxx bookshelf concept for, perhaps, something from our next President of the United States, Robert F Kennedy Jr? Consider me interested if no one else, those were some great write-ups.
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 01:19 |
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I'll head things up by reposting an article from last year about RFK Jr.: NYT has a profile of Robert Kennedy Jr (one of the US antivaxx movement leaders) up today. Some major bulletpoints:
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 03:18 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 06:35 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:This isn’t covid-related, but should I be concerned about this? Wasn't the deal with mad cow that it could take decades for symptoms to show up in humans? So they had a mad cow outbreak but there was no way to tell how many ticking timebombs resulted from it. When I gave blood a few years ago in Canada the questionnaire still asked if you had been in the UK during the mad cow risk years, apparently they thought the risk from that outbreak still wasn't over?
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# ? Jul 19, 2023 08:35 |