Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


LionArcher posted:

I think he will want to, but I don’t think he has the balls to actually do it.

and if he does it would cause riots. and not like just a few either.

I don't believe there is literally anything that could cause full scale riots against the federal government. Maybe a few here and there but not enough to stop anyone in Washington from doing whatever they wanted.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


How can we go 18 months without everyone getting it eventually, gently caress

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Atoramos posted:

If everyone gets it over a period of 18 months, it doesn't strain the hospitals as much as everyone getting it in a period of 3 months, and less people die. Also, doctors become somewhat more experienced, PPE is somewhat more available, and as more people recover it becomes harder for the virus to spread (because those people are no longer vectors, the 'herd immunity' strategy).

But yes: most people will indeed get Coronavirus. Merkel wasn't joking when she said 60-80% Germans are going to get this, that's true everywhere. If you need solace, consider the majority of those who get it don't end up hospitalized, and there's no proven indication of reinfection. That said, our failure to prepare or properly handle this will indeed kill millions if not tens of millions, either of Coronavirus, or due to hospitals too strained to address non-coronavirus complications.

Yeah, I mean, I understand all that but it’s just hard to believe that over a year from now we will still have six months to go before everyone has had it. I’ve been trying to do my best on social distancing but I just assume I’m going to get it going to the grocery store every couple weeks or taking a walk around my neighborhood.

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Spoondick posted:

if the dems were smart they'd go for a 3rd and a 5th round draft pick

Give me Hawley and a first and I'll think about it

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


JEB!

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Stefan Prodan posted:

this is double funny to me because like ok 2-3% of kids would absolutely not die, so if he says 2-3% of kids are gonna die he's both overestimating the number of deaths by like 20-30x while also simultaneously saying that's fine lol

I thought he was saying a 2-3% increase of the overall projected deaths, not kids specifically

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Tirade posted:

That's necessary at the start of the crisis but I don't think it holds for the end of it. New Zealand was laying the groundwork for that yesterday where they'd essentially whitelist countries as being safe to travel to again, and I reckon Australia will do the same.

The US is demonstrating that of all western countries, its society is uniquely unsuited to effectively responding to the crisis. Doubt it will be getting whitelisted any time soon.

Every country will find a way to let American businesssmen in, but all us yokels who just want to go on vacation will be SOL

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)



tope suicida

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


shovelbum posted:

but theres earnest cautious optimism and theres "the US is doing literally nothing effective, just taking a trip down ineffective faux social distancing lane to immiserate and smash a proletariat emboldened by a previously improving economy, and then going straight for the disease worst case"

Like this isn't the corona speedrun, this is the 105% run

The state you are in has cases now doubling more than every 11 days and a lot of those are in concentrated facilities like nursing homes and prisons. The percent of ER visits for covid-like symptoms is going down. Testing definitely needs to be improved but I don’t think you can say literally nothing at least parts of the US are doing is working at all

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


My Gimmick Name posted:

we've reached it folks, the end game

"Drinking Bleach to Own the Libs" is now real

got em right where we want em

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


https://twitter.com/who/status/1253995619921821698?s=21

Doomer WHO

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


tbh I’m getting a little depressed at all the no immunity news the past few days

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


FizFashizzle posted:

lmao can you imagine how people would go nuts if this lockdown had happened in 1995 without like instant porn and video games on demand

people were not primed to go nuts like this in 1995 imo

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Impkins Patootie posted:

what about Y2K and the disaster obsession?

yeah I mean people had weird neuroses but I don’t remember mass chud rallies where everyone is armed with semi automatic rifles over y2k

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


MoaM posted:

COVID starts now.

The real Covid starts here!

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


IF there is immunity after you get this then why wouldn’t all the meatpacking plants open again in a month?

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Koirhor posted:

lol now they think pepcid ac works to prevent viral replication, I mean I’m taking it anyways for acid reflux so who knew. Glad I picked up a giant amount from Costco so I have some for the acid before everyone panic buys it

I hope omeprazole works cause I have a ton of that stuff lying around

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


shovelbum posted:

Like no one but broke brained internet leftists are seemingly taking this at all seriously and outside New York there haven't been like any big problems with just letting this virus do its thing and burn out. Management is gaining hugely and the places that are doing best are those that have refused to embrace the captalist poison of liberalism. Are we missing something here? Feel like I'm going crazy.

Aside from the rural nursing homes and meatpacking plants where like 75% of the facility gets it

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


hallebarrysoetoro posted:

roni was never going away

there never has been a market for a coronavirus vaccine

420 smoke capitalism's ability to innovate every day

I think there is a market for this one

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


A prison in NC has 700 inmates, 444 tested positive and 90% had no symptoms. does it mean anything, who knows

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Apraxin posted:

President Trump said on Tuesday that he planned to sign an executive order later in the day to address what he called the “liability problems” in the food supply without elaborating. “There’s plenty of supply,” he said. “It’s distribution and we will probably have that today solved. It was a very unique circumstance because of liability.”

lmao, as always
https://twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/1081267037937303552

Along with relaxing pork inspection rules this makes me kind of want to stop eating meat for a while

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Breaking news from WRAL for my NC CSPAMmers

quote:

New York Times data identifies Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh among next hotspots for coronavirus deaths — The New York Times has identified the Durham-Chapel Hill area as an emerging hot spot for coronavirus deaths. Among metropolitan areas with more than 20 coronavirus deaths, Durham-Chapel Hill is seeing the highest growth in the death rate (43%) and a doubling in the number of coronavirus deaths every 1.9 days. Raleigh ranked No. 12 on the Times' list of emerging hotspots for coronavirus deaths.

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

the militia movement's been preparing for this sort of confrontation for 30-40 years (although a lot of that was ineffectual, or just a fig leaf for organized crime), but what are they actually going to accomplish with this show of force?

killing people and doing actual terrorism i guess

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


DesertIslandHermit posted:

The ultimate Succ Zone is if a vaccine gets made in a few months because the history revision machine will be hot and ready to make this as a victory for dumbasses.

Good thing that's literally not possible

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Durf posted:

one of my college roommates went to law school and bombed out after a year, owed like $100k and did nothing but pace the apartment and do coke all day

law school can be a fine career path if you get extremely lucky

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


Durf posted:

also I hear it's generally expected you'll get a job placement good enough to quickly pay off your tuition, or the firm does it for you

but not if you fail all your classes lol

That's definitely not true even if your grades are in the top half of your class, hence the need for luck

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply