Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Don Rumata]

Save the Virus! They deserve to live too!

viruses aren't alive

People are so worried about the human rights of fictional characters nowadays, i figured that didn't really matter. 

[Occam]

South Korean medical authorities say the "relapsing" cases they had were not actual reinfections :

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-south-korean-reactivated-cases-not-reinfected-experts-2020-4

Good news.

[Tasty]

What the FUCK

[Tasty]

Wait it doesn't say that anywhere in the story, where dis bitch getting her info from

[Tasty]

Ah more info here: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/03/police-flint-guard-shooting-mask-family-dollar/3075515001/

[Tasty]

Hmmmm still just a bunch of unsubstantiated social media posts about it.

Waiting for concrete info.

Tweet says it was a girl refusing a mask and her dad was the shooter, but second article says it was a guy who wouldn't wear it and shot the guard.

[VomKriege]

French government is being coy about the tracking app, it won't be ready by May 11th (relaxing of the lockdown). It might just have been binned altogether, too hard to make it work within current legal constraints. The CNIL, which is the watchdog for electronic information repositories, voiced a number of potential issues they might take exception to. They're already working on alternative tracking methods using the info of labs and of national healthcare.

[Don Rumata]

"Phase 2" started in Italy, though not much really changes, you still gotta stay home for the most part, but you can now get out to "meet with your relatives" as an additional reason, also you can go to the park, though i'm not super clear under what circumstances.
Also some activities are allowed to re-open, but not really. I mean, everybody's pretty confused.
This morning they were fumigating the street with some shit though, not sure what good that does, but it was cool to see. 

Anyway since my stove broke, i had to buy some new ones and i figured i'd switch to induction, so i went to the local minimarket to get some, and also needed pots & pans compatible with it.
They tell me they can sell me the induction stove, but are not allowed to sell pots&pans... however i can buy everything from Amazon and have them delivered in a week at most. 
Is the government trying their hardest to kill local businesses? 

[BIONIC]

"This morning they were fumigating the street with some shit though, not sure what good that does, but it was cool to see. 

The Globalists are already taking advantage of the stay at home orders to initiate their eugenics plans 

[bork]

This was the first weekend after Georgia "re-opened" and some things were definitely noticeable.  More cars on the road again (highway still much less busy) and more people out and about in parks and shops, to the point that it was hard to avoid people even outside in some places.

The supermarket was fairly crowded and there were now way more people walking around without masks or gloves and ignoring personal space. 

We got some takeout on Saturday night.  Went to the same place the week before and it was a ghost town.  This past weekend, we pulled up and there was a small crowd outside the restaurant.  "Social distancing" was not a thing here.  My wife hopped out to get the food and I watched as she waited outside for a minute with multiple people coming right up and standing next to her.  At that point, she went in, grabbed the food, and noped the hell out of there.  There's a pizza place next door and while they didn't have any kind of line, what appeared to be three families had decided to get pizzas and then sit on lawn chairs, right next to/near other, eating in the parking lot and taking up a lot of space.

[nachobro]

rip georgia

[VomKriege]

rip georgia

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[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/MichaelDoudna/status/1257049515946725376

[CatsCatsCats]

Fuckin whites, dude

[EchoRin]

Fucking ironic that they are singing the line "I once was blind but now can see." You numbnuts are as blind as ever

Amazing Grace is probably my favorite patriotic song ever. These shits kinda ruin it for me 

[Tripon]

Do I take advantage of the pent up sexual frustration in between waves this Summer or is that guaranteed 'rona.

https://twitter.com/Nyx_19/status/1257284831853121536

[bork]

rip georgia

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[thisismyusername]

https://twitter.com/MichaelDoudna/status/1257049515946725376

May they all get 'rona. Inshallah.

Do I take advantage of the pent up sexual frustration in between waves this Summer or is that guaranteed 'rona.

You're in Miami, last I checked: Fuck no (pun intended). While Florida isn't bad (yet) with DeSantis opening the state back up, you'd be insane to fuck around (and find out that you got Corona) with how poor the handling of the virus is going.

[toku]

big horny may still win

[thisismyusername]

big horny may still win

Not if I storm 21337's backdoor with an armed response/lobby.

[Svejk]

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1257336004895219713
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1257339685942300674

[toku]

 

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1257336004895219713
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1257339685942300674

[toku]

easy to say when shit is still relatively sweet

[Coffee Dog]

I wish I thought that some great scientific awakening is going to come from this, but people are just flipping out because their routines are disrupted. If a scientist comes along that says "Don't do anything different, the other scientists are liberal liars" that would be more than enough for most people to shut your brain down and go back to making your own assumptions. Being an aware person requires self maintenance, it's too big an ask.

[Coffee Dog]

It's been a few weeks. Even went to work a couple times. I'm still the only person with a mask, man.  the only people i've seen wearing masks are fast food employees, and a bunch of them dont bother to wear gloves.

[stufte]

I'd say only about half the people I saw out yesterday when I went for propane had masks on. It was kinda infuriating.

[thisismyusername]

america in genuine socioeconomic trouble is going to look way more like all those small businesslords with rifles in state legislatures than anything Good.

Cyberpunk 2020 coming true. Just no flying cars. :'(

[stufte]

masks are expensive.

I have a home made one. Even a bandanna is better than nothing. But nah, people are lazy selfish shits.

[Coffee Dog]

masks are expensive.

I meant face coverings. my shitty painter's masks arent medical grade but it's more than everyone is doing. :/

[nachobro]

almost everyone just got a $1200 check, they can afford $10-15 for a mask

[curly]

We did a half lockdown and it half worked so we declared victory and started reopening. 

Forget replicating what South Korea and New Zealand have done, we're doing worse than the supposed basket cases like Italy

[Madrun Badrun]

If I wear a mask, people can't see how cool my mustache is.

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[Madrun Badrun]

We did a half lockdown and it half worked so we declared victory and started reopening. 

Forget replicating what South Korea and New Zealand have done, we're doing worse than the supposed basket cases like Italy

Maybe try not to replicate what happened in the Black Death.  That seems like an achievable goal for Americans. 

[nachobro]

ONE mask? Are the rewashable ones actually safe? And are you going to throw your mask in the wash or in the sink and hang dry every single day if you're out frequently?

yes? it's not that difficult of a process

[Coffee Dog]

They can use their socks and throw them in the wash after. Just cover your face with literally anything so I know you aren't a problem individual spreading this. 

[thisismyusername]

People have been saying what you're saying "it'll eventually come around to science again" since like 2000, REEEtious.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185833.The_Republican_War_on_Science

[thisismyusername]

Well, I'm to go back to work next Monday.

Supposedly, they're getting PPE's and limiting the amount of people coming in and doing curb-side work (yeah... good luck with that for our location. Half our location can't use computers/reservations...) as we re-open.

Not sure all that bullshit is worth less than unemployment paychecks.

[Coffee Dog]

They can use their socks and throw them in the wash after. Just cover your face with literally anything so I know you aren't a problem individual spreading this. 

Please correct me if I'm wrong but there's no way sock-material is going to help mitigate the spread. The holes in the fabric are gigantic.

Yeah, socks dont work, I just like the mental image of all these people with like 4 socks wrapped around their face. Shirts of various materials do though, fabric from pillowcases/furniture, bandanas. It doesnt have to be near medical grade for me to feel like someone's trying, at least.

[Joe Molotov]

They can use their socks and throw them in the wash after. Just cover your face with literally anything so I know you aren't a problem individual spreading this. 

riotous just wraps his huge cock around his face, but some of us don't have this luxury

[thisismyusername]

"Well loud moronic Trump supports won't change" doesn't really refute that.

Except it does.

Science will never be taken into account by a large majority of the public. Republican or not. You already see it with "FAKE NEWS!!!!!" even from non-Republicans. You're too optimistic, because again: This very thing (the "death of science") has been explored for 20 years. If Corona can't keep people inside and have people protesting because "I NEED MAH HAIRCUTTTTTTTTT!!!!" nothing will.

[Tasty]

Previous societal changes did not have to contend with the rise New Media and its ability to completely warp large sections of the populace in a short amount of time with no repercussions.

[curly]

Despite having just said that "we" were reopening too early after a half-assed lockdown, I don't think the poor handling of the coronavirus is because Americans are are fundamentally anti-science morans. Polling says the the anti-lockdown people are way in the minority and speaking anecdotally most people I interact with are serious about following the guidelines. It's the incredible dysfunction of our political system that makes our coronavirus response such a failure.

[Rufus]

Previous societal changes did not have to contend with the rise New Media and its ability to completely warp large sections of the populace in a short amount of time with no repercussions.

Transmission of attitudes and knowledge (true or not) to the next generation is never perfect. Change is certain, because death is certain. The direction of change? Not so much.

[Tasty]

Saying "people will come around on science" is like saying "people will come around on income inequality."

As long as bootrstaps are a thing that will never happen.

[Nintex]

Blood for the blood god
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1257337329028653057

[nachobro]

income inequality is an odd one to use as an example if you look at attitudes a decade ago vs today

[Tasty]

income inequality is an odd one to use as an example if you look at attitudes a decade ago vs today

And income inequality is worse today than it was a decade ago. What did the bluster accomplish?

I see the the "return to science" calls the same.

[VomKriege]

I wish I thought that some great scientific awakening is going to come from this, but people are just flipping out because their routines are disrupted. If a scientist comes along that says "Don't do anything different, the other scientists are liberal liars" that would be more than enough for most people to shut your brain down and go back to making your own assumptions. Being an aware person requires self maintenance, it's too big an ask.

This already happened when Fox's nighttime crew was rolling out doctors EVERY NIGHT to say that hydroxychloroquine was working in their clinics (probably because they had a financial interest). As a society we don't have the capacity or the institutions anymore to decide on truth and vet information.

I'm not even sure it has to do all with financial interest in the drug itself (though more indirectly a lot of doctors and hospitals are impacted, less to no elective surgeries for instance). Hydroxychloroquine also is a good fit for some popular narratives, it's a cheap, plentiful drug so :
- We can reopen now.
- The sickness can't be that bad if an existing, old, semi mundane drug can treat it.
- Big Pharma is lying because they want to push expensive new drugs / mind control mark of the beast vaccines.

Defending Hydroxychloroquine is defending Trump, shifting blame to experts, arguing we can reopen now (so everything Fox wants) and it is scratching the itch for conspiracy and demagoguery which is always popular.

[Tasty]

income inequality is an odd one to use as an example if you look at attitudes a decade ago vs today

And income inequality is worse today than it was a decade ago. What did the bluster accomplish?

A measurable increase in Americans having a positive view of socialism.   Major cities electing socialists to their city councils... Bernie Sanders being almost a viable dem candidate...

And zero impact on anything of value because the people holding all the keys are the ones calling the shots.

[BisMarckie]

I wish I thought that some great scientific awakening is going to come from this, but people are just flipping out because their routines are disrupted. If a scientist comes along that says "Don't do anything different, the other scientists are liberal liars" that would be more than enough for most people to shut your brain down and go back to making your own assumptions. Being an aware person requires self maintenance, it's too big an ask.

This already happened when Fox's nighttime crew was rolling out doctors EVERY NIGHT to say that hydroxychloroquine was working in their clinics (probably because they had a financial interest). As a society we don't have the capacity or the institutions anymore to decide on truth and vet information.

I'm not even sure it has to do all with financial interest in the drug itself (though more indirectly a lot of doctors and hospitals are impacted, less to no elective surgeries for instance). Hydroxichloroquine also is a good fit for some popular narratives, it's a cheap, plentiful drug so :
- We can reopen now.
- The sickness can't be that bad if an existing, old, semi mundane drug can treat it.
- Big Pharma is lying because they want to push expensive new drugs / mind control mark of the beast vaccines.

Defending Hydroxychloroquine is defending Trump, shifting blame to experts, arguing we can reopen now (so everything Fox wants) and it is scratching the itch for conspiracy and demagoguery which is always popular.

Y'all should still buy some Resochin and help me out a little since I foolishly bought Bayer stocks for way too much money.

[Tasty]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-apps-idUSKBN22G28W

Some mildly positive news on that Apple/Google COVID tracking partnership. Relying on Bluetooth of all things instead of GPS and other sensors is an interesting solution to the privacy concerns I and many others had. Perhaps this thing was more thought-out than I judged at first.

[Nintex]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-apps-idUSKBN22G28W

Some mildly positive news on that Apple/Google COVID tracking partnership. Relying on Bluetooth of all things instead of GPS and other sensors is an interesting solution to the privacy concerns I and many others had. Perhaps this thing was more thought-out than I judged at first.

Except that the inventor of Bluetooth Jaap Haartsen has said that his technology is not suitable for this type of tracking because it isn't very accurate. 

[Tasty]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-apps-idUSKBN22G28W

Some mildly positive news on that Apple/Google COVID tracking partnership. Relying on Bluetooth of all things instead of GPS and other sensors is an interesting solution to the privacy concerns I and many others had. Perhaps this thing was more thought-out than I judged at first.

Except that the inventor of Bluetooth Jaap Haartsen has said that his technology is not suitable for this type of tracking because it isn't very accurate. 

It's better than the alternative of caving to the govt's requests to scoop up location data.

Also the dude may have invented Bluetooth 1.0 or whatnot (it's on 5.2 now), but Apple and Google are literally making the OS and hardware. If they think a BT-only method is accurate enough to be useful, I'm inclined to believe them.

[Pissy F Benny]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-apps-idUSKBN22G28W

Some mildly positive news on that Apple/Google COVID tracking partnership. Relying on Bluetooth of all things instead of GPS and other sensors is an interesting solution to the privacy concerns I and many others had. Perhaps this thing was more thought-out than I judged at first.

Except that the inventor of Bluetooth Jaap Haartsen has said that his technology is not suitable for this type of tracking because it isn't very accurate. 

of course bluetooth is a creation of dutch directness

[Tasty]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-apps-idUSKBN22G28W

Some mildly positive news on that Apple/Google COVID tracking partnership. Relying on Bluetooth of all things instead of GPS and other sensors is an interesting solution to the privacy concerns I and many others had. Perhaps this thing was more thought-out than I judged at first.

Except that the inventor of Bluetooth Jaap Haartsen has said that his technology is not suitable for this type of tracking because it isn't very accurate. 

of course bluetooth is a creation of dutch directness

Is that why it never works well?

[benjipwns]

I saw a bundle of dudes playing basketball at the church court I use sometimes. Missed opportunity to have yelled "social distance!" then gone around the block and yelled "illegal defense!"

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1257330698110873601

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/Tylerjoelb/status/1257330698110873601

That's another level of Judeo-Christian stupid I didn't know existed, and I'm fairly familiar with the subject.