Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Tasty]

A fucking $200k TV camera and a fleet of salaried makeup and camera people actually do make a difference, who knew?

[Tasty]

Imagine if it was unscripted and horribly awkward.

"Oh wow, I guess they really did have writers on that show."

[Tasty]

Web cams and selfie cams in general use wide angle lenses that distort people's faces.

Correct. And outside of auteur directors and well the 90's in general, you're not really going to see such lenses used in actual productions (except for hyper-specific shots.)

[toku]

im ready for successful writer tasty

[Flannel Boy]

[Tasty]

im ready for successful writer tasty

God, me too.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1256237492086456325

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/tweetbrk/status/1256334751343849474

[toku]

https://twitter.com/nbcbayarea/status/1256311356107698177

[Occam]

"Government clinical trial investigators changed the primary metric for measuring the success of Gilead’s experimental drug remdesivir as a coronavirus treatment two weeks before Anthony S. Fauci’s announcement that the drug would be the new “standard of care.”

Instead of counting how many people taking the drug were kept alive on ventilators or died, among other measures, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said it would judge the drug primarily on a different outcome: how long it took surviving patients to recover.

Death and other negative outcomes were moved to secondary measure status: They would still be tracked, but they would no longer be the key measure of remdesivir’s performance."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/01/government-researchers-changed-metric-measure-coronavirus-drug-remdesivir-during-clinical-trial/

Who cares if the death rate is actually higher with remdesivir as long as those who don't die recover slightly quicker. Awesome!

[Raist]

lol UK.

So they said 100k a day tests by end of april.

On the last day they send out 39k tests so it looks like we made 100k a day testing.

That is like me doing an essay the night before and then just not quoting any sources and say well I just knew it myself.

LOL.

https://twitter.com/JPR_88/status/1256264888827162628

[EchoRin]

From what I've seen doing google hangouts. People who use their included laptop webcams all look like shit (aka me). People who use their phones as their cameras look stellar.

[Ghoul]

most inbuilt webcams are after thoughts so they just put any cheap shit in and call it a day.

[Tripon]

Yeah, most front facing cameras are phones are good while cameras in laptops are intentionally poor. It makes sense, people who use cell phones expect good cameras in general, so even a poor cell phone camera is probably better on average than what a laptop uses.

I still rather use Zoom on a laptop though, the cellphone app sucks.

[Occam]

Surely you know about Beauty Mode?



Smartphones have had it for years.

[Nintex]

Zoom Virtual Backgrounds 

[Tripon]

[Ghoul]

Yeah, most front facing cameras are phones are good while cameras in laptops are intentionally poor. It makes sense, people who use cell phones expect good cameras in general, so even a poor cell phone camera is probably better on average than what a laptop uses.

I still rather use Zoom on a laptop though, the cellphone app sucks.

iPad pro is the best experience, good camera and not terrible UI.

Also @vice thing? That isn't how you wear a mask? We get it you have a septum piercing... but lol. NO.

[Raist]

The vast majority of people I see around wearing masks have absolutely no idea WTF they're doing.

[Madrun Badrun]

Surely you know about Beauty Mode?

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Smartphones have had it for years.

Someone stop the freckle police!

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That looks like just a smoothing filter, so not specifically targetting freckles but not protecting them either!

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[Madrun Badrun]

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I'm developing a mask fetish. 

[Madrun Badrun]

Two comments in a row objectifying women in the Corona thread is not a good look, so I'm posting this to break up the flow before I post a third. 

[Madrun Badrun]

[Ghoul]

Two comments in a row objectifying women in the Corona thread is not a good look, so I'm posting this to break up the flow before I post a third. Her tits do look good though.

Madrun stop this madness. Please this is a pandemic thread.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1256361546516697088

[Himu]

Today I found out someone I know had CV19. Today I also find out someone I know currently HAS it. I've never seen a virus like this.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/01/devos-sued-for-seizing-student-loan-borrowers-wages-during-pandemic-228519

cindy

[Tripon]

The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC's reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths — that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus — has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620. [Jeremy Faust, Scientific American]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/flu-deaths-were-counted-covid-053449918.html

[benjipwns]

what is this Faust dude revealing secrets for

[thisismyusername]

https://earther.gizmodo.com/shell-ok-we-may-actually-be-fucked-this-time-1843200534?_ga=2.97160991.1005429678.1588360658-407295250.1574177419

Ya love to see it.

[Tasty]

what is this Faust dude revealing secrets for

This post sent me looking for a clip and I found out the whole movie's on YouTube.

[Tasty]

Up in the air whether it's the unrated version though, viewer beware!

[Great Rumbler]

https://earther.gizmodo.com/shell-ok-we-may-actually-be-fucked-this-time-1843200534?_ga=2.97160991.1005429678.1588360658-407295250.1574177419

Ya love to see it.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1256437033465188352

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[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/NotoriousKreid/status/1256310589518839810

[Tripon]

https://laist.com/2020/05/01/what_it_was_like_today_at_the_crowded_huntington_beach_demonstration.php

[StealthFan]

This thread is giving me an ulcer

[Madrun Badrun]

America is giving me an ulcer.  I call it Ulcer Sam.  He owns firearms and lets me know it. 

[thisismyusername]

#ACAB

Wasting time on Mary J. Blige-carrying members instead of wearing their masks properly and watching released sick inmates.

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1256636100795346947

[Mandark]

farehopping while you're holding and the cops are way less busy than usual

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/corporate/promo/covid-19/maps_graphs.html



New Brunswick: Of the 118 total number of confirmed cases:

• 66 are travel-related,
• 42 are close contacts of confirmed cases
• 10 are the result of community transmission
• 0 remain under investigation
• 13 people have been hospitalized and 13 have since been discharged
• 0 patients remaining in hospital, 0 patients in an intensive care unit

To date, 118 people have recovered.

[Bebpo]

Today I found out someone I know had CV19. Today I also find out someone I know currently HAS it. I've never seen a virus like this.

Yeah I was talking with someone on the phone yesterday who had it and their mother was in a coma on a ventilator for 3 weeks and just woke up and survived on Monday. They said out of like 12 people in the social group her mother was in who went on a ventilator with her mother, everyone else died and her mother was the only survivor. Scary.

[Mandark]

Looking at places like South Korea and New Zealand which seem to have pummeled covid19 into submission and getting extra depressed about the discourse in America.

[Himu]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/01/devos-sued-for-seizing-student-loan-borrowers-wages-during-pandemic-228519

cindy

Fuck her

[Nintex]

#ACAB

Wasting time on Mary J. Blige-carrying members instead of wearing their masks properly and watching released sick inmates.

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1256636100795346947

What band cover is this lmao

[Phoenix Dark]

Looking at places like South Korea and New Zealand which seem to have pummeled covid19 into submission and getting extra depressed about the discourse in America.

NZ passed a large stimulus that directly subsidized workers on a monthly basis, whether they were full time, part time, or unemployed. The US could have easily done the same. Instead they basically starved people, fucked up the small business loans, and forced people back to work.

Those federal UE benefits expire on June 31st. No way the senate renews it, even if we get hit with another wave of cases/layoffs.

[Bebpo]

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1256296009249980416

I mean, charity is cool and all but all I can think at this is: 1) Who cares and 2) DAMN, Chris Pratt looks horrible without make-up/stylists now.

I watched it last night, and they all looked awful. Make-up/stylists truly are an essential job.

Just watched it. Thought it was cute. Rob Lowe looked damn good, how does he do it at his age jfc.
Still crushing on Rashida Jones 

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/ajc/status/1256625009746944000
 

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[Kunai With Chain]

https://twitter.com/laurahancock/status/1256268361928978432
What's the point of being a society of gun nuts when you can't legally whip out your colt to put people like this in their place? 

meanwhile across the pond they are doing mass hug protests 

https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1256547250249125888

[CatsCatsCats]

Looking at places like South Korea and New Zealand which seem to have pummeled covid19 into submission and getting extra depressed about the discourse in America.

Seeing a former poster’s story on Facebook of them having an awesome time in a Korean club makes think staying in the west might the worst thing I’m doing to myself

[team filler]

Looking at places like South Korea and New Zealand which seem to have pummeled covid19 into submission and getting extra depressed about the discourse in America.

Seeing a former poster’s story on Facebook of them having an awesome time in a Korean club makes think staying in the west might the worst thing I’m doing to myself

etiolate living his best life 

[CatsCatsCats]

Yup, that’s the one

[EchoRin]

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Beautifully fucked up. Truly an art piece this photo. But who is JB?

[Kunai With Chain]

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/coronavirus/bombshell-dossier-lays-out-case-against-chinese-bat-virus-program/news-story/55add857058731c9c71c0e96ad17da60

I'm assuming this is what set Trump off the other day.

[mormapope]

World war 3 is gonna suck

https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1256576858923073539

[Madrun Badrun]

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1256682904027041792

I get he has an obsession with being able to say he was right ("I said it would be under 60k and it was!") but dude. No projections, inside or outside the WH, suggested this would magically stop at 60k. We'll be past 70k very soon. Going over 100k is all but assured.

[Flannel Boy]

5:50 makes my brain hurt. Democrat voters may have cut travel more than Republicans (it's almost certainty), but you can't necessarily conclude that by comparing the travel habits of states, let alone the travel habits of Hawaii and Wyoming. Wyoming has the second lowest population density in the US (after fucking Alaska) and is one of the most rural states. Hawaii has a high population density and is one of the most urban.

By the way, Wyoming is tied for the second lowest fatality rate (tied with Alaska), barely worse than Hawaii's. Who cares if you're traveling alone in a pickup for ten miles to get to a nearly empty grocery store.