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- Ramanisky22
my wife BARB talked to God last night and so it’s time to tighten your belts ... also no paid sick leave for you.
- so we had that "national day of prayer" earlier this week. Did that move the needle much?mg33
- That's a lot of god chat for what should be a serious reality based letter.PhanLo
- So God had nothing to do with the virus? God can't get rid of it?********
- Wow cool company, he doubled all employees salaries twice minimum wage back in 2013. Credited his employees.robotron3k
- Praying makes so much sense.********
- Tweets & Prayersutopian
- They're the same company that was caught smuggling archaeological artifacts and looted Iraq during the war. They're good wholesome religious company, amen.utopian
- Worked on a pretty big rebrand of one of their competitors a few years back. The dirt on this company is astounding.ben_
- Shut the fuck up robo, nobody takes you seriously.garbage
- For the unfamiliar, this family also prays the gay away, fought tooth and nail to deprive health care for their own employees, and is against women's rights.garbage
- So again. Shut the fuck up *bobo. If you're old as you claim to be, you need to look yourself in the mirror.garbage
- utopian1
- This doesn't even pretend to mention Coronavirus. Take this shit to a political thread.MrAbominable
- It’s 100% about the virus.monospaced
- kingsteven1
I saw a few people talking about how 'they've found the solution to covid-19' tonight (in the in-game chat on a Rust server... where I get all my news). turns out they're talking about Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin - it was mentioned here when it was first reported (the French study from earlier this month that treated 26 patients with positive outcomes), just about made it in to mainstream media, then as the combo Trump was pushing with his "I have a hunch... We've ordered millions" spiel a few days ago... now all of a sudden without any further clinical trials it's the 'solution' and folks in Nigeria are being admitted to hospital for poisoning because they're preemptively popping it. Fucking wild.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…
Anyway, the original (so small it's statistically insignificant) trail halved treatment times, which I guess doesn't mean they died quicker... and as it seems the entire reason we're on lockdown is to prevent the overloading of the healthcare systems. This could be the graph with multiple plots and a big horizontal red line we've been waiting for...
More trials are happening globally ATM but it got me thinking about how my fellow gaymers received that news. Donald Tump may force through a massive trial (or many), and if it works (or sees a reduction of deaths) you just know by the time it gets rolled out all over the world in a few of months it's gonna be known as the
'Trump treatment' or some shit like that.- Any suggestions? There's got to be a better one than 'Trump treatment'! No prizes for winner, but you get sick in your mouth just for participating.kingsteven
- He was trying to poach scientists from Germany to make the vaccine exclusively for the US, no doubt he would have slapped his name on it.mg33
- I shared this article with my friend...A Trumpeteer, 5 seconds later I get texted back "Fake News". He refused to read the article.utopian
- Trump has converted Fox News and Religious right into believing every last word he says. Our country is truly fucked.utopian
- mg333
I hate to sound so dark, I'm trying to think and act more positively, but the more I read about the struggle doctors are facing, the lack of protective equipment, the rise of cases they can't treat, I'm feeling this wave rush across me in which I wonder what if we're only 1% through this... have we stopped to really imagine how exponentially worse this gets when the medical system breaks completely, as the cases rise anyways, to the point we're just watching the clock run out on the lives of millions of people for whom death is inevitable?
How many of us doing the right thing, staying inside, protecting ourselves and our families, are just slowly ebbing towards our own demise if and when this is past a point of no return?
I just want to get to the day when there's a positive direction the nation can rally behind. In my town north of Chicago, there are no cases I'm aware of, people are doing the right thing, it's a very family-oriented middle-upper middle class suburb with numerous suburbs of the same type around us. It's hard to look at what's happening in NYC and other hot spots and wonder if it's just a matter of time before it's here and spreading fast. I've not seen any thing abnormal at our local hospital. My biggest fear is that in towns like ours all across the country, there aren't any cases and suddenly there are, and it increases quickly. I think the sense of panic, fear of going out, intense desire to stay inside becomes problematic when people run out of supplies, can't find food. I mean, that feels like a very real possibility for numerous towns and communities.
- i'm in the least affected part of the UK (29 days behind lombardy) and people have a death wish. saw folks playing football heard a big party in a social club.kingsteven
- i'm trying to isolate as much as possible but i need to walk my dog... today a dog comes charging at us and had to grab it off a busy road with no collar...kingsteven
- me and another lad with dogs holding it as the owner runs up with puffy eyes and i just wanted to punch the fat cunt for his stupidity.kingsteven
- now i don't feel i can go and see my folks tomorrow (mothers day) for being in close proximity... i'm sure not a notion went through his pudgy little head...kingsteven
- 4bn people are demanding collection swabs, test-kits, drive-in tests and an instant solution what won't kill anybody now or 50 years later.sted
- A fraction of these humans are doing their best to make this happen.sted
- The best you can do is to trust, help and keep their lives running, regardless if the only thing you can do is keep everybody safe at home, or doing medicalsted
- product shipments 16h daily as a top level manager at a retailer.sted
- Paul Graham (
@paulg
) just donated $1,000,000 to http://Flexport.org. That gift will pay for almost all the protective gear required by the entire city of SFgrafician - Hey king. This virus is not a death sentence. Calm the fuck down with the rhetoric along those lines. It’s not realistic.monospaced
- and - for those it could be a death sentence for: 60+ million people will most likely die worldwide - don't listen to me though I'm a graphic designertimeless
- yes, for some people it is, but it's not going to be tens of millionsmonospaced
- ach i know mono, just my frustration at not being able to escape stupidity. i'd been isolating for 2 weeks for no other reason than i wanted to see my folkskingsteven
- before the inevitable lockdown... so it was incredibly disappointing.kingsteven
- teh2
- I think i only saw 1 article and 1 tv news mention about swine flu in 2009-2010 and no toilet paper panic buying.NBQ00
- When will Trump and his flock of sheep take this seriously?utopian
- well all those alt right mouth breathers love yelling statistics at people, wonder how they dance around this without upsetting their leader.inteliboy
- God, I hope someone comes of with a vaccine a lot sooner than the 1-2 year timeframe that they are talking about.utopian
- If not, millions upon millions of people around the world will die this and next year. And a vast major of people leftover will become homeless and hungry.utopian
- millions upon millions? no.monospaced
- You want stats? https://www.zerohedg…********
- mono do you still think that this is overblown, are the hospitals a little concerned yet?utopian
- are we talking about hospital overcrowding or millions upon millions dying? make up your mind, dudermonospaced
- utopian-4
Dr. Quack says it's the 'patriotic duty' of Americans to go without masks. Says the doctor peddling pseudo science, pills and supplements.
- Err. To be fair, he's saying that people need to stop buying masks because the people who really need them — medical professionals — are running out.Continuity
- utopian0
- In just one week infection doubled and twice as many deaths. Fuck!!!!!utopian
- Damn...but in order to prevent completely freaking people out I think it would be better if they broke down the numbers.yuekit
- For instance...out of this 300k there are around 200k active cases, 100k recovered. And out of the active cases, 190k are mild, 10k serious.yuekit
- ^YEAH :)) the situation is really NOT that bleakgrafician
- Hmmm. Almost like a flu even.monospaced
- yuekit0
Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled, forcing the implementation of "continuity of government" plans that include evacuating Washington and "devolving" leadership to second-tier officials in remote and quarantined locations.
But Coronavirus is also new territory, where the military itself is vulnerable and the disaster scenarios being contemplated -- including the possibility of widespread domestic violence as a result of food shortages -- are forcing planners to look at what are called "extraordinary circumstances".
Above-Top Secret contingency plans already exist for what the military is supposed to do if all the Constitutional successors are incapacitated. Standby orders were issued more than three weeks ago to ready these plans, not just to protect Washington but also to prepare for the possibility of some form of martial law.
According to new documents and interviews with military experts, the various plans – codenamed Octagon, Freejack and Zodiac – are the underground laws to ensure government continuity. They are so secret that under these extraordinary plans, "devolution" could circumvent the normal Constitutional provisions for government succession, and military commanders could be placed in control around America.
"We're in new territory," says one senior officer, the entire post-9/11 paradigm of emergency planning thrown out the window. The officer jokes, in the kind of morbid humor characteristic of this slow-moving disaster, that America had better learn who Gen. Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy is.
He is the "combatant commander" for the United States and would in theory be in charge if Washington were eviscerated. That is, until a new civilian leader could be installed.
- oksted
- just understand that the entire world follows almost the same procedures shutting down things to avoid the chaos. if nobody is stupid we will be out in 2 monthssted
- but we have to plan for stupid what means 6-18 months.sted
- stupid is growing right now and these thing aren't helping to stop that.sted
- Yeah not trying to feed the panic but this is Newsweek, not Alex Jones or somethingyuekit
- And I do wonder about the cascading effects if there are months of lockdowns, governments bungle the response, etcyuekit
- Unfortunately, stupid has an exponential infection curve that rivals the coronavirus's.Continuity
- Newsweek. Ugh.monospaced
- is this a script-pitch for a forgettable made-for-tv movie starring Matthew Modine?********
- Ramanisky27
When working from home during the coronavirus outbreak goes sideways.
- sted0
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- NBQ00-5
- srhadden2
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- srhadden2
- They don't have QBN, so it must be even worse.PhanLo
- true datnbq
- these animals just don't appreciate that we've robbed them of the natural process of violent death from their predators, and they get food & medical care********
- mm, because Pandas in their natural habitat are beset from all sides by the prospect of violent death from predators *rolls eyes*Nairn
- Live free or die Nairnsarahfailin
- I can only hope that everyone gets the chance to die Nairn.Nairn
- grafician3
#funny
- #fake newsgrafician
- Its a breaking News, its realBennn
- Know I'll see someone posting this seriously on facebook before the day is out.webazoot
- is he riding one of them too?Beeswax
- i heard they fight like noone... or was that the tiger?SimonFFM
- Tigers are just happy to have the job what the Siberian Bear&Wolves union refused by saying that it's a suicide mission.sted
- mort_1
- mono would find this racisthotroddy
- The Chinese government have been incredibly irresponsible. And unfortunately people will use this to justify their xenophobic agendas.mort_
- way to troll hotbobomonospaced
- The only thing racist is if you insist this has something to do with being Chinese in general.monospaced
- chinese people (like HK & Taiwan) must disavow china, like persians disavow iran. Racism is cheering slaughter in Tibet and concentration camps for non-chinese********
- https://www.nytimes.…********
- Not relevant to the virus or this discussion though. And also not representative of Chinese people.monospaced
- Omg busty! Such a simple solution. How come nobody ever thought of that?pango
- You are a genius!!pango
- Do you see the western world promoting wild game market for the poor? Its not in our culture or decision.Raybandana
- lol pangohotroddy
- didn‘t watch, but for your information China announced in february they were looking at regulations for wild animal consumption / markets.uan
- Funny how all the bigots act like they knew all along that their markets might cause THIS problem. Fucking assholes.monospaced
