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Sneak Lemming posted:Most checks are for fever, or rely on self-reporting. To be fair if you thought you had the virus why would you hide it and not seek medical attention? You want to infect a bunch of old people?
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Do people in the US actually need to pay to be tested for the virus? I knew the healthcare system over there was cooked but creating a situation where people have an incentive to not get tested and pretend they aren’t sick is next level retarded.
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Feb 29, 2020 05:46
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Some dudes' insurance sent him a bill for $3200 for his test that came back negative. In the US, of course. Lol no wonder people over there are making GBS threads themselves over this thing
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Feb 29, 2020 05:56
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PIZZA.BAT posted:sometimes your insurance will cover it if you're actually sick but if it turns out you're not then they won't cover it I’m not sure you could design a more perfect system for encouraging the spread of a pandemic
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Feb 29, 2020 06:28
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We know the virus is pretty bad for old people, what’s it like for fat diabetic rednecks with no insurance?
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Feb 29, 2020 06:29
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Mourne posted:
Any first world country that isn't the USA. More specifically, Australia. It never ceases to amaze me the number of times an American has spoken about their healthcare system like it's the most normal thing in the world, and not something used by every single other country as an example of what not to do.
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Feb 29, 2020 10:03
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mrfart posted:Is there any other evidence than that Japanese lady that you can get it multiple times? There was another case in Israel I think
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Feb 29, 2020 22:32
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VikingSkull posted:if smoking warded off the virus someone please explain china to me like you would to a small child It's probably just smoking weed that protects you, I don't think that's real popular in China
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Mar 1, 2020 02:08
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I saw in the news the Number went back up, Trump must be winning
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Mar 2, 2020 21:50
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:What does the CCP have to gain by lieing about disease statistics? 100 social credit points
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Mar 3, 2020 06:16
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Lambert posted:The same is true of the US, really. US and Chinese numbers shouldn't be trusted on anything. It's not really 'saving face' in the usual sense in the US, it's fear of looking like you've hosed up and getting voted out as a consequence.
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Mar 3, 2020 10:17
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Lambert posted:Ignoring it more easily leads to a situation where health resources are strained too much, even when the virus isn't that lethal. A certain percentage will need intensive care. The US doesn’t seem to fussed about people getting adequate healthcare for regular life threatening ailments, I’m not sure why they’d be suddenly concerned about people getting turned away just because it’s some fancy new disease
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Mar 3, 2020 21:09
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Fojar38 posted:Like, the current infections in the US right now are about 105 which is actually more than Hong Kong is reporting and almost as much as Singapore. Is the implicit assumption here that there are actually thousands of active cases and/or deaths that are being covered up? Or is the assumption that tons of people have gotten it and survived it without any significant medical intervention at all, which would seem to run counter to all the apocalyptic rhetoric? Nah the implicit assumption is that Hong Kong is testing gently caress loads of people so the number of confirmed positive cases there is more likely to be close to the overall number of people in the population that have it. The US is testing a very narrow spectrum of patients (very sick and just got back from a major infection zone) so the testing is very unrepresentative of what may or may not be happening in the general population. Combine that with people not asking to be tested because it’s ‘just the flu’, people not getting tested because they don’t meet the CDC criteria, and Americans’ fear of going to the doctor and it’s not unreasonable to assume the number of actual cases in the US is much much higher than the test results we do have would indicate.
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Fojar38 posted:This is true, and it's also something that epidemiologists account for. As someone noted in the D&D thread, this is called "under-ascertainment" and it's a staple of the field. Which you might be able estimate with reasonable accuracy if anything approaching a systematic testing regime was taking place, but lol America
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Mar 4, 2020 03:06
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smoobles posted:Are there any good resources predicting how widespread the virus ACTUALLY is? Not really. Testing for it in people who are sick is really only tracking some of the spread of the virus one to two weeks ago when they caught it. It’s also self selecting for people who are sick enough to see a doctor or have some other reason to suspect they have it. The closest we can get to an understanding of the spread is from the systematic testing being done in China and Korea, although I guess even that won’t show up people who have contracted it but haven’t had it for long enough to contain enough of the virus to show up on a test.
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Mar 5, 2020 23:40
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Bape Culture posted:So how is this still not a pandemic lol Pandemics are bad for the number
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Mar 6, 2020 12:49
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Wouldn't the military have some capacity to roll out a bunch of field hospitals or hospital ships? Presumably the level of care wouldn't be the same as a proper hospital but it'd be better than nothing.
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Durzel posted:
That's exactly what they'll do once the olds start panicking. Trump will probably make it an election promise
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yaffle posted:China chat: I'm in Beijing right now, suburbs, not downtown, and things are getting back to normal, people are out and about, not everyone is wearing a mask outdoors, everyone is masked indoors. Mind you you can't smoke or spit with a mask on so most old geezers are wearing a mask, but on their chin, like a crappy blue goatee. Are the factories starting to get going again? I guess it’d suck if they finally get everything back to normal only to find all the countries they used to sell cheap poo poo to are locked down and their economies are completely hosed.
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Mar 18, 2020 05:28
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Could someone explain to me about this malaria drug Trump ordered and it's effects? Does it actually work? It’ll probably make someone extremely rich so depending on your definition of an effective drug, yes it will work.
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Mar 21, 2020 03:32
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Waltzing Along posted:See if you can find some intubation porn. It's topical. is that like the ones where they stick an enema full of milk up someones arse?
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Mar 27, 2020 11:36
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Ultimate Mango posted:Why are people not picking up torches and pitchforks over this? It's probably more important to understand the potential for the virus' ability to spread among animals than it is to find out that a couple more people have it.
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Apr 6, 2020 08:47
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Barudak posted:A cruise ship company recruiter reached out to me today and Im genuinely loving curious as to why they dont have deep hiring freezes Gotta replace all their workers who have died of the roni
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Apr 12, 2020 08:55
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Lol India.
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Apr 12, 2020 08:56
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unpacked robinhood posted:So is it deadlier for white people, or are we just reporting more data ? Deadlier for white people, the Chinese were pretty careful to include this feature in their bioweapon
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Im Ready for DEATH posted:Trumps about to execute order 66 isnt he more like order 69
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Apr 14, 2020 11:18
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Wafflecopper posted:australia is just mini america fyi pretty much, thanks murdoch
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Apr 14, 2020 11:18
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Is this the $1200 that is actually just an early payment of your tax return or something?
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Apr 15, 2020 09:39
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:No, it's just a government handout, better known as socialism, the thing Trump pretends to hate. Is it a one-off, or recurring?
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Apr 15, 2020 11:40
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QuarkJets posted:Unironically, everyone should opt into this. Seriously. This is how effective contact tracing works. I would but I don't trust the current lot of neo fascists to use it with any kind of responsibility
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Apr 15, 2020 12:00
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'm leaning towards opting in but I'm going to wait and see what the end product is like before I make a decision I'll give you a sneak peak 
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Apr 15, 2020 12:30
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Pennywise the Frown posted:GOP Congressman: More Coronavirus Deaths Are ‘Lesser of Two Evils’ to Help the Economy I guess these are the same people that want contraception banned because it kills babies?
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Apr 17, 2020 10:49
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E_Motion posted:Hah! Amateurs! You've got to look at these as a per capita number of deaths don't you? The Netherlands has twice as many people as Austria
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Wutang-Yutani posted:Wife's going in to labour. FedEx?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Celebrities and sports people are already starting to talk about their worries about the coronavirus vaccine (even though it might still be a year to 18 months away). Top ranked men's tennis player Novak Djokovic has said that he's opposed to a vaccine and if they make it compulsory for players to take the vaccine before they're allowed to play in tournaments again he would have to make a "difficult decision". Personally I think you'd have to be mad or have some significant Covid risk factors to be lining up to take the first batch of vaccines. There's enough fuckups with drugs when there isn't massive time pressure, and the commercial incentive to get something approved has probably never been higher for any drug in the history of modern medicine. I hate to think what complications are being handwaved away or deliberately under reported in trials. This isn't coming from some addled anti-vaxxer concerned about autism or whatever, I happily get flu shots yearly and booster shots of various things before travelling etc. I'd just rather stay inside for 6 months rather than risk lifelong immune complications from some rushed vaccine.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's just a flu, bro Could they not just dump them all in a trench and pour diesel all over them?
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May 1, 2020 08:55
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Nice fanfiction. Most people at protests are wearing masks. What type of mask offers the best combines protection against covid and tear gas?
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Outrail posted:I'm extremely pro vaccination, but I have some trepidation about a covid vaccine that's been fast tracked by people with a political agenda to be seen 'just doing something'. How likely is it a vaccine with badly understood side effects gets rushed out? Nah, it's not antivax to be a bit suspicious of a vaccine that's been rushed out. The commercial and political incentives to have the first Covid vaccine in production are unprecedented, and even with lesser incentive to rush a crap product onto the market there's plenty of examples of drugs and vaccines that turned out to either be ineffective or cause some nasty side effects. The number of doses produced initially will be fairly limited so it's only going to be at-risk groups getting them - medical workers and other people exposed to the virus on a daily basis. By the time it's available to the general population there should be a fair bit of info as to whether it's working and whether it's causing any problems. As someone else mentioned, it's worth looking at which countries have approved it. The EU seems to have higher standards generally, and the US quite low standards so if something is approved for use in the US but not the EU it might be worth holding off on getting vaccinated.
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Sir Not Appearing posted:idgi I assumed the post was implying that people were going full prepper and getting ready for a prolonged period without basic necessities.
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