Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Nintex]

webcams what is this 2004?

This is COVID and people working in tech who somehow have shitty gear or no gear at home. 

I never quite realized how that differs so much today from 5 - 10 years ago when all of us in tech were nerds who could build our own rigs and your computer at work or school was always shittier than the absolute beast you had at home.
Some didn't even have SSD's or a decent display.

[Pissy F Benny]

i work on an imac so its built in anyway

[Nintex]

Biggest Dutch newspaper wrote an op-ed on the corona measures and lock down and how the government feels about our health minister.
A senior government official was quoted: "These are distinguished mentally-challenged policies not based on any facts"

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dutch directness 

[tiesto]

webcams what is this 2004?

This is COVID and people working in tech who somehow have shitty gear or no gear at home. 

I never quite realized how that differs so much today from 5 - 10 years ago when all of us in tech were nerds who could build our own rigs and your computer at work or school was always shittier than the absolute beast you had at home.
Some didn't even have SSD's or a decent display.

I've found the longer I've spent working in tech, the less and less I'm interested in fiddling around with any sort of tech at home.

[T-Short]

They finally did it, Sweden banning the sale of alcohol in bars/restaurants after 10PM starting November 20:th. Good riddance. Stand by for outraaaage!

[Raist]

That will make zero difference.

[Pissy F Benny]

They did that over here in england and I'm pretty sure it made no difference anyway, we're back in lockdown

Its a token gesture to tell people the government means business and you need to comply now

it has been floated that supermarkets and off licences should also stop selling booze/close at 10pm too

[EchoRin]

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/11/national/social-issues/tokyo-317-coronavirus-wednesday/

[james]

Every other thread is about a game getting cancelled

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/

Get fucked SEC

[james]

The first cruise ship to resume sailing in the Caribbean is having a COVID scare
https://thepointsguy.com/news/caribbean-cruise-covid-scare-seadream/

 

There are 53 passengers and 66 crew on board the small, yacht-like vessel, which was anchored off Union Island in the Grenadines at the time the announcement was made.

They cant even keep 100 people safe 


Oh shit my cruise stocks are down 30% 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1326566347556446208

Madness.  I was comparing North Dakota to Saskatchewan last night, were Sask.'s two largest cities are approx. double the size of Fargo and has a larger pop over all.  North Dakota has 56,342 cases and 674 deaths and Sask. has 4,214 cases and 29 deaths. 

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1326598492815564808

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1326566347556446208

Madness.  I was comparing North Dakota to Saskatchewan last night, were Sask.'s two largest cities are approx. double the size of Fargo and has a larger pop over all.  North Dakota has 56,342 cases and 674 deaths and Sask. has 4,214 cases and 29 deaths.

sucks red is simultaneously communist and republican in american discourse, makes it hard to pick a direction with a take

[OnlyRegret]

like damn, which to go with
sleepy joe with the radical socialist/marxist agenda blanketing america or new electoral map just dropped breaking news

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stop the count 

[james]

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1326566347556446208

Whats up there on the very top right, looking down at everyone?

 

[tiesto]

NY instituting new policies - no more than 10 people at indoor gatherings; restaurants and gyms to close by 10PM (to be honest, not too many restaurants and gyms are open past that anyways...)
Don't think it will do all that much to help, but we'll see. WFH extended till the end of March 2021 for me at least.

[Pissy F Benny]

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1326566347556446208

Madness.  I was comparing North Dakota to Saskatchewan last night, were Sask.'s two largest cities are approx. double the size of Fargo and has a larger pop over all.  North Dakota has 56,342 cases and 674 deaths and Sask. has 4,214 cases and 29 deaths.

Was never this bad under trump

[james]

145k today with 1,450 deaths.

I think 200k is possible next week.

[Transhuman]

[BIONIC]

145k today with 1,450 deaths.

I think 200k is possible next week.

Shonda will never get a James like again 

[T-Short]

Saw this retweeted today:

https://twitter.com/ChrChristensen/status/1326810112313487365

That quote obviously sounds scary, but I find myself asking what sort of calculation this is based on. If you look at the graphs in the same story, it sort of creates another context. I mean, how is the doubling rate calculated? Doesn't say:



Let's see if the current three-day trend (plateauing at around 4500 cases per day, ICU patients at ~130) holds. Hope so.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/CP24/status/1326904492634279937

https://twitter.com/mtlgazette/status/1326921886463369216

[Joe Molotov]

Herd immunity is kicking in any day now.

[Akala]

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1326713017791213568

[james]

Meanwhile, the state’s largest city, Sioux Falls, rejected a proposed mask mandate on Tuesday night. Mayor Paul TenHaken cast the tie-breaking vote after the City Council was split on the ordinance.

The mandate would have required face coverings to be worn by people in most indoor public places where 6-foot social distancing was not achievable. Violations carried a $50 fine.

“I believe the small uptick we’ll see in compliance is not worth the community division that this will create,” TenHaken said as he ended debate.

 

[EchoRin]

Oh. Here we go again. Take 2

https://wgntv.com/news/coronavirus/chicago-issues-stay-at-home-advisory-new-restrictions-on-gatherings-as-covid-19-cases-surge/

[Flannel Boy]

USA +150,109

[Tripon]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sweden-plays-down-immunity-hopes-151842673.html

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Immunity to COVID-19 in Sweden is likely lower than previously estimated, the country's top epidemiologist and architect of its unorthodox pandemic strategy said on Thursday, as daily deaths in the disease rose to their highest level in months.

Chief Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, whose rejection of lockdowns and widespread use of face masks made Sweden a European outlier, also acknowledged the country was battling a second wave of the pandemic after suggesting in August such a scenario was unlikely.

"I don't think the definition is that important, but we see community spread in many regions simultaneously right now," Tegnell told a news conference.

[OnlyRegret]

USA +150,109

broke 160k
man, to think there was a time when people thought 100k was lofty

[BIONIC]

  Die Amerifats

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/Matt_Alt/status/1327096838030123011

I guess people are hyped for Jil Sander?

[BIONIC]

All according to keitoku

[Madrun Badrun]

Why get that worked up over Uniqlos?

[T-Short]

Why get that worked up over Uniqlos?

Collab hype, man. People were going similarly nuts over the various H&M collabs, and the IKEA x Virgil Abloh one.

[Madrun Badrun]

 

[Joe Molotov]

Just imagine if Tim Hortons was having a collab with bagged milk.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

What if corona is the new normal and it's on tiktok catch?

[T-Short]

Just imagine if Tim Hortons was having a collab with bagged milk.

As with the 'rona, China is ahead of the game



 

[Madrun Badrun]

Just imagine if Tim Hortons was having a collab with bagged milk.

Tims rep as a Canadian brand (its Brazilian now owned with Burger King or some shit) has basically vanished over the last few years. 

[Pissy F Benny]

i'd forgot about canadians having bagged milk, the degenerate freaks

[BIONIC]

i'd forgot about canadians having bagged milk, the degenerate freaks

The weirdos even have a seemingly functioning government 

[Nintex]

Elon has the COVID

[Madrun Badrun]

i'd forgot about canadians having bagged milk, the degenerate freaks

The weirdos even have a seemingly functioning government 

Correlation is causation in this case.  The logistics of bagged milk require a functioning goverment.  Boxed milk

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Elon has the COVID

shut up

[Nintex]

Our government has banned fireworks on New Years Eve because of the situation regarding COVID-19.
They've paid the fireworks sellers 40 million Euro in compensation.

[james]

Just imagine if Tim Hortons was having a collab with bagged milk.

Tims rep as a Canadian brand (its Brazilian now owned with Burger King or some shit) has basically vanished over the last few years.

Brazil has bagged milk too, so youre still good

[james]

 

First state to drop the hammer is Oregon

She will limit all bars and restaurants to takeout only, close all gyms, prohibit indoor and outdoor gatherings to no more than six people from two different households, limit capacity at grocery stories and pharmacies, and allow churches and faith groups to accommodate indoor crowds no larger than 25.

The statewide “freeze” will be effective next Wednesday and run through Dec. 2.

https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/11/oregon-governor-orders-2-week-coronavirus-freeze-restricting-bars-and-restaurants-to-takeout-closing-some-businesses.html?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

[james]

BAN CHRISTMAS

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Obama plz

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[CatsCatsCats]

That Halloween bump

[Transhuman]

Why settle for killing people just on Fifth Avenue

[james]

That Halloween bump

15 college football games cancelled this weekend due to outbreaks.

The fact that not one institution apparently connected the danger dots between "college students" and 'HALLOWEEN ON A FUCKING SATURDAY WITH ONE EXTRA HOUR" is alarming.

"what about Thanksgiving"

College students arent doing keg stands and fucking a line of freshmen at thanksgiving

[james]

+161,762

 

[Transhuman]

At 2% death rate, that's 3,000 deaths.

You guys finally did it! A daily death toll higher than 911.

[Flannel Boy]

+180,026

[Madrun Badrun]

Canada is at +4,741 and 60 deaths today

[shosta]

“So my friend and I did a thing yesterday,” local parent Kozo Fuyutsuki posted on Facebook after the explosion. “We did a REALLY big thing. And we had a lot of support. And a lot of help. And a lot of really happy scientists. And it was kind of amazing. And I really want to recognize and thank these people but I can’t. But my heart is full and I think the scientists are happy and it was worth it. I would do it again. I’m happy and sad at the same time and I want normalcy. I think we delivered this for one night. #SEELE2000.”

[Great Rumbler]

+180,026