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« Reply #9720 on: July 10, 2020, 06:15:43 PM »
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US not the only one having trouble. 50 cases in Hong Kong today and there's the Kazakhstan thing.
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« Reply #9721 on: July 10, 2020, 06:25:28 PM »
50 cases are bad.  US has just lost all perspective. 

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« Reply #9722 on: July 10, 2020, 06:26:30 PM »
Every time there's a new outbreak in an Asian country the numbers just make me more depressed about the situation here.

I live in a state that's avoided the current spike and has a lower population than Hong Kong, and we get 400-500 new cases daily.

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« Reply #9723 on: July 10, 2020, 06:31:39 PM »
Going to be 66-69K+ today I think, which is consistent with it growing ~10k+ for each weeks peak.

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« Reply #9724 on: July 10, 2020, 07:13:52 PM »
just like the flu

"it only effects old people"

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« Reply #9725 on: July 10, 2020, 07:16:14 PM »
I honestly believe there’s millions of Americans out there that want to die, they just want it done by the hands of another. So, covid comes along as this reprieve from the pain and all they have to do is live recklessly. Which is how they were living anyways because they don’t respect their own life.

Sorry for the cynicism, but when I read that shit about Richard Rose, that’s what leaps out at me.

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« Reply #9726 on: July 10, 2020, 07:21:23 PM »
Check the suicide rates for white males in this country. They are only 30 percent of the country, but represent 70 percent of the suicides.

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« Reply #9727 on: July 10, 2020, 07:25:44 PM »
Some people spend decades killing themselves with intentionally poor health decisions. Covid just speeds up the path they are on.

There are less than 50k suicides a year and millions of people being idiots about COVID.  Math doesn't really add up.

Check figure 9 in this report. They estimate that 9.8 million adults in 2017 had serious thoughts about suicide.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml


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« Reply #9729 on: July 10, 2020, 07:34:03 PM »
South Korea's suicide rate is ~50% higher than the US IIRC, so I don't think I'd pin it on that.

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« Reply #9730 on: July 10, 2020, 07:40:30 PM »

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« Reply #9731 on: July 10, 2020, 07:46:19 PM »
I think it's a combination of things. People who are reckless because they don't care if they die but also people like that putting others at risk that do want to live.
There's also a chunk that probably couldn't miss out on their income and had no choice but to put themselves at risk.

It also doesn't help that hugging is a sort of normal way to greet friends and Americans in general have a more physical way of socializing.
Including huddling up in churches holding hands, elaborate handshakes and other such things. I noticed that in the protests too, a lot of physical contact.

In countries like Germany and the Netherlands friends acknowledge each other with a nod or a slap on the shoulder.
Only BFF's, lovers, family etc. hug and even for the latter that is fairly uncommon in public.

It wasn't hard for us to stop doing handshakes as that is the only type of physical contact commonly used when interacting with other people.
I wonder if that's the reason why Germany did so much better than Spain and France at the beginning of the outbreak.  :doge
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« Reply #9732 on: July 10, 2020, 07:49:00 PM »
AbBOT keeps malfunctioning and flip flopping on shit.

Absolutely feckless cunt.
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« Reply #9733 on: July 10, 2020, 07:50:14 PM »
Jesus, it might actually be 70K today.  LA is only at 324 and they were 1734 yesterday. 

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« Reply #9734 on: July 10, 2020, 07:52:09 PM »
Check the suicide rates for white males in this country. They are only 30 percent of the country, but represent 70 percent of the suicides.

Should be higher tbh.

Native women have the highest suicide rates, but yes let’s make it all about white dudes  ::)

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« Reply #9735 on: July 10, 2020, 07:57:20 PM »
The problem with corona suicide is that it looks painful as fuck

No one wants tubes down their throat
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« Reply #9736 on: July 10, 2020, 07:58:01 PM »
https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1281674796707831809

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If we've learned anything during this pandemic, it's that a wait-and-see approach always pays off.

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« Reply #9737 on: July 10, 2020, 07:59:39 PM »
tbh, this whole suicide discussion is all kind of moot because that particular dude that just died regretted his decision almost immediately, according to his FB page :yeshrug

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« Reply #9738 on: July 10, 2020, 08:01:00 PM »
No one wants tubes down their throat

On the contrary, I honestly believe there’s millions of Americans out there that want a big old cock down their throat, they just don't want to admit it and so go for surrogates.  So, covid comes along as this reprieve from the pain and all they have to do is live recklessly and get their throat stuffed finally. 

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« Reply #9739 on: July 10, 2020, 08:02:01 PM »
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« Reply #9740 on: July 10, 2020, 08:03:41 PM »
No one wants tubes down their throat

On the contrary, I honestly believe there’s millions of Americans out there that want a big old cock down their throat, they just don't want to admit it and so go for surrogates.  So, covid comes along as this reprieve from the pain and all they have to do is live recklessly and get their throat stuffed finally.

Im pretty miserable and I just want someone to hold me but ok
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« Reply #9741 on: July 10, 2020, 08:05:08 PM »
I don't know why we're even entertaining the idea that there is a statistically significant amount of people who "don't care about dying" that aren't 60+.

These people are reckless and restless and are making decisions to go to WDW, the gym, the mall, crowded areas of the beach, bars etc. it's not a bunch of White sadboys opening the door like they're emotionally detached and playing with a glock in their mouth.


Exactly, white sadboys don't go to the beach, they post on the Bore dot com.

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« Reply #9742 on: July 10, 2020, 08:05:36 PM »
It’s the global media’s fault for turning this into a competition between countries. We have to be first in everything we do.

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« Reply #9743 on: July 10, 2020, 08:52:51 PM »
As always. 

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« Reply #9745 on: July 10, 2020, 10:15:56 PM »
I went out to pick up beer tonight and the streets were full and everyone shopping had masks.  It was a pretty sight.  Mask laws work.

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« Reply #9747 on: July 11, 2020, 01:03:11 AM »
seeing chuds die painfully of covid is the only consolation prize in this whole shitfest

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« Reply #9748 on: July 11, 2020, 01:07:39 AM »
people dying is bad

where did i mention people?  :doge

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« Reply #9749 on: July 11, 2020, 01:19:41 AM »
people dying is bad

If it's so bad, explain this

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« Reply #9750 on: July 11, 2020, 01:32:26 AM »
I think it's tempting to say people got their just desserts but no one deserves to have their organs shut down and die of renal failure just because they were misguided.

except a lot of these people end up being like the guy in the article, hurting other people in the name of his shitty and selfish politics. it's ok when bad things happen to bad people; the idea that you can be above it all and still have things work out for the best is a silly fantasy.
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« Reply #9751 on: July 11, 2020, 01:35:36 AM »
Shosta: What Hitler really needed was a mental health specialist to help him work through his problems. Celebrating his death is bad, it's not his fault he was misguided.
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« Reply #9752 on: July 11, 2020, 01:39:57 AM »
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« Reply #9754 on: July 11, 2020, 06:38:24 AM »
Pneumonia is a very horrible way to go I would not wish it on my biggest enemy.
Hopefully his death will make others more aware of the dangers though.
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« Reply #9756 on: July 11, 2020, 09:29:54 AM »
is this guy "misguided" too?

https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1281598453622222851

Hope he’s signed up at the front of the fucking list.

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« Reply #9757 on: July 11, 2020, 09:37:25 AM »
It's not ok when bad things happen to bad people. I'm pretty sure that's the point of preventing more coronavirus cases. Anyway I'm just asking for people here to demonstrate a little humanity.
Ackshually, It's very human to wish ill on people you despise.

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« Reply #9758 on: July 11, 2020, 09:47:11 AM »
Check the suicide rates for white males in this country. They are only 30 percent of the country, but represent 70 percent of the suicides.

...Which has nothing to do with COVID stupidity.

White women kill themselves more often than PoC as well. Are you going to conflate that with COVID as well?

Yeah it's because conservative Americans are fucking arrogant morons.

Exactly.

tbh, this whole suicide discussion is all kind of moot because that particular dude that just died regretted his decision almost immediately, according to his FB page :yeshrug

Good. Maybe he'll be a lesson to the "fake news!" folks.

Anyway I'm just asking for people here to demonstrate a little humanity.



You know that adage, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes?"

Dude played a stupid game (not wearing a mask, taking precautions) and won a stupid prize (death).

It's not ok when bad things happen to bad people. I'm pretty sure that's the point of preventing more coronavirus cases. Anyway I'm just asking for people here to demonstrate a little humanity.
Ackshually, It's very human to wish ill on people you despise.

:trumps Maybe the "die on the 4th to own the libs #FAKENEWS" crowd will actually learn something from this. :idont

:idont Don't count on me expecting that to happen though, so I'll laugh at the schadenfreude of it. :idont

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« Reply #9759 on: July 11, 2020, 11:54:26 AM »
Ordered a pizza for pick up yesterday.

Went inside and there was a a whole ass family of like 10 eating inside, multiple people eating in there, just sitting and talking as if we don't live in a Covid hot spot. None of them wearing masks of course.

I was in there only a few minutes on the edge of the restaurant waiting for my shit. I swear to God I hope I don't catch this just picking up a pizza. I hate this state.
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« Reply #9760 on: July 11, 2020, 12:42:08 PM »
https://globalnews.ca/news/7164325/grocery-store-coronavirus-pay/

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Executives from three of Canada’s largest grocery chains were in communication before launching and ending temporary wage increases for grocery store workers during COVID-19, but maintain their decisions were not co-ordinated.

Metro Inc. was aware of Loblaw Companies Ltd.’s decision to stop its so-called pandemic pay program before it made a similar decision, chief executive Eric La Fleche told the House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and technology Friday.

Loblaw president Sarah Davis echoed the sentiment, but noted she sent a “courtesy email” to both competitors, as well as Walmart and Save-On-Foods, on June 11. The latter two did not appear at the hearing.

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« Reply #9762 on: July 11, 2020, 12:52:06 PM »
I don't know what stage of capitalism this is, but this is fucking stupid  :doge
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« Reply #9763 on: July 11, 2020, 01:10:14 PM »
are we ever going to hit a point where people say enough is enough? sure doesn't feel like it right now
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« Reply #9764 on: July 11, 2020, 01:17:28 PM »
You'd need an Italy style lock-down of the worst hit areas with military and police patrolling the streets to prevent this from spreading further at this point.
Which is not something that will be accepted for various reasons.
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« Reply #9765 on: July 11, 2020, 01:36:54 PM »
It's going to get worse before it gets better.  My worry is that we won't see significant organized countermeasures until Biden is in, which is way too far away.

Just to continue the down-fall-of-the-American-empire show, I'd like to see state militia be used to prevent interstate travel or quarantine.

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« Reply #9766 on: July 11, 2020, 01:41:42 PM »
It‘s easy to think Biden will change anything seeing how Trump completely bungled this, but only blaming Trump kinda overlooks the fact that the response on a state level was also just mindblowingly awful

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« Reply #9767 on: July 11, 2020, 01:45:05 PM »
Yes but it's a lot easier to fuck up at the state level if the federal message is the same.  Also, think post-election will give a lot of opportunity for them to change their opinions without the backlash that would happen right now. 

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« Reply #9768 on: July 11, 2020, 01:50:05 PM »
I am just saying the US are a lost cause, we should probably keep our borders closed and watch it turn into a Mad Max world in real time.

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« Reply #9769 on: July 11, 2020, 01:52:10 PM »
Maybe the Supreme Court will give it back to the natives before it gets that bad.  Put all the Republicans in a reserve in Florida. 


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« Reply #9772 on: July 11, 2020, 04:55:38 PM »
It‘s doubly weird when you consider that the German soccer league resumed play like two months ago with absolutely no issues and other leagues have started as well and it has gone smoothly.

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« Reply #9773 on: July 11, 2020, 05:08:42 PM »
It‘s doubly weird when you consider that the German soccer league resumed play like two months ago with absolutely no issues and other leagues have started as well and it has gone smoothly.

It’s almost like Americans are fucking dumb, and don’t like being told what to do even if it’s objectively good for them  :thinking
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« Reply #9774 on: July 11, 2020, 05:12:59 PM »
https://twitter.com/lapublichealth/status/1282042901392879616

If L.A. was its own state, it'll be 6th behind Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, and Arizona.

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« Reply #9775 on: July 11, 2020, 05:18:47 PM »
It‘s doubly weird when you consider that the German soccer league resumed play like two months ago with absolutely no issues and other leagues have started as well and it has gone smoothly.

It’s almost like Americans are fucking dumb, and don’t like being told what to do even if it’s objectively good for them  :thinking

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« Reply #9777 on: July 11, 2020, 05:34:17 PM »
No big deal though, catchers always wear masks :rodney

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« Reply #9778 on: July 11, 2020, 05:50:32 PM »
Just intuitively I'd expect care to be more effective after four months of dealing directly with the virus. I saw somewhere that the survival rate in Britain for COVID patients in the ICU had gone from 50% to over 70%.

That's why I'm "optimistic" about not hitting New York-in-April levels, but it's still going to be real bad.

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« Reply #9779 on: July 11, 2020, 06:11:01 PM »
Just intuitively I'd expect care to be more effective after four months of dealing directly with the virus. I saw somewhere that the survival rate in Britain for COVID patients in the ICU had gone from 50% to over 70%.

That's why I'm "optimistic" about not hitting New York-in-April levels, but it's still going to be real bad.
i said this earlier in the thread but I have a friend who’s uncle had it. He’s overweight, in his sixties and has diabetes. He survived and that’s because they were more aggressive in treating him early than they would have at the beginning. They threw him on a ventilator at the first sign of trouble.
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