Nokra Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, SlipperySlope said: Sleepy Joe Biden! A perfect example of that classic line from Goebbels: "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 https://theweek.com/speedreads/903570/lindsey-graham-reportedly-trying-talk-trump-coronavirus-relief-checks-americans lindsey please just fuck off and go diddle boys in peace somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 14 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Fingers crossed, but Canada appears to have community spread under control, at least in the sense that new cases are remaining level or dropping, and testing has gone up: God I hate you guys how can I get a permanent Visa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Physical operations of all 'non life-essential' businesses must cease in Pennsylvania by Saturday. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 I'm about to brave the super market or Walmart grocery side for the first time since the shit hit the fan. Hopefully I can find some water Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 24 minutes ago, Dodger said: I'm about to brave the super market or Walmart grocery side for the first time since the shit hit the fan. Hopefully I can find some water I think it really depends where you live. I was working in another city today, stopped at a grocery store to buy lunch and they were cleaned out of all paper products and canned goods. Where I live I have at least 5 grocery stores within 10 minutes and they only seen to be low on toilet paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 minute ago, DarkStar189 said: I think it really depends where you live. I was working in another city today, stopped at a grocery store to buy lunch and they were cleaned out of all paper products and canned goods. Where I live I have at least 5 grocery stores within 10 minutes and they only seen to be low on toilet paper. I don't care about TP because I have some and I can just jump in the shower and wash my ass after since I'm stuck home all day. I care about food and water so hopefully it's not that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 33 minutes ago, Dodger said: I'm about to brave the super market or Walmart grocery side for the first time since the shit hit the fan. Hopefully I can find some water Go at like 5 or 6 in the morning. That is your best bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Just now, mclumber1 said: Go at like 5 or 6 in the morning. That is your best bet. I'll have to check what places are doing early entrance for seniors only first, because I ain't that old yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 In my experience if you have any smaller stores in your area, they are less picked over than the big chains like Krogers and Walmart. My Krogers was not as bad as some stories I've heard online but they were completely out of water and toilet paper with the canned goods and meat very bare. But we have a Dollar General and Dollar Tree in town that was largely untouched in the canned goods. Though no water or toilet paper(but plenty of paper napkins) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Chris- said: Physical operations of all 'non life-essential' businesses must cease in Pennsylvania by Saturday. My wife might be out of work then. She works at a big preschool. I think they normally have around 150 kids enrolled. They have been staying open this week only for families where the parents work police/fire/ems, or are a Dr or nurse that cannot call off. The past couple days they have only had 10-15 kids in the entire place. It's a church based center which gets them out of paying in to unemployment so if they close I don't think my wife can collect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, Chairslinger said: In my experience if you have any smaller stores in your area, they are less picked over than the big chains like Krogers and Walmart. My Krogers was not as bad as some stories I've heard online but they were completely out of water and toilet paper with the canned goods and meat very bare. But we have a Dollar General and Dollar Tree in town that was largely untouched in the canned goods. Though no water or toilet paper(but plenty of paper napkins) Also keep in mind that these stores are designed to sell to people who can’t afford to stock up so don’t buy them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 My wife asked me if we should be buying water. I told her that if it gets so bad that we need water, it really won't matter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Just now, ort said: My wife asked me if we should be buying water. I told her that if it gets so bad that we need water, it really won't matter. Yeah, there are a couple eventualities I am not worrying about too much because if they become a problem then it's likely the entire society has collapsed and we're all fucked anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, Chairslinger said: Yeah, there are a couple eventualities I am not worrying about too much because if they become a problem then it's likely the entire society has collapsed and we're all fucked anyway. You are, of course, referring to porn, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Just now, Mr.Vic20 said: You are, of course, referring to porn, no? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cusideabelincoln Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 My city just had its first confirmed case, and it's at the hospital where my mom works. I don't think she would have treated this patient, but the news only broke an hour ago and they haven't released any names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said: You are, of course, referring to porn, no? People will lose their minds if if public services/utilities start to go down. 6. Television 5. Trash collection 4. Internet 3. Cell phones 2. Electrcity 1. Water Once you lose those last two items, it'll be chaos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexy_shapiro Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, mclumber1 said: People will lose their minds if if public services/utilities start to go down. 6. Television 5. Trash collection 4. Internet 3. Cell phones 2. Electrcity 1. Water Once you lose those last two items, it'll be chaos. I was telling a friend yesterday that if a solar flare was to take out our technology now it would send us into chaos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted March 19, 2020 Author Share Posted March 19, 2020 10 minutes ago, mclumber1 said: People will lose their minds if if public services/utilities start to go down. 6. Television 5. Trash collection 4. Internet 3. Cell phones 2. Electrcity 1. Water Once you lose those last two items, it'll be chaos. People still watch Television? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 So my wife wouldn't be able to collect unemployment from her job and I'm self employed. I'm pretty sure my job isn't on the governors list of businesses that have to close. If I couldnt work I would be pretty fucked right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Some SARS-CoV-2 populations in Singapore tentatively begin to show the same kinds of deletion that reduced the fitness of SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV Quote Here’s an ELI5: The researchers sequenced the genome of a number of COVID19 viruses from a series of infected patients from Singapore. They found that the viral genome had a large deletion that was also witnessed in past epidemics of related viruses (MERS, SARS), especially later in the epidemic. The form with the deletion was less infective, and has been attributed to the dying out of these past epidemics. In other words, COVID19 seems to be following the same evolutionary trajectory. Well why is that? Why would a virus evolve to be less infective? Seems kind of counterintuitive, right? The authors hypothesize that it has to do with the selective pressure from the human adaptive immune system. In other words, that region that is deleted happens to have a high level of antigenicity (human antibodies like to target it), which means its presence leads to lower levels of survival of the virus. So the removal allows the virus to be less detectible at the expense of a lower infectivity/replication rate. So in the evolutionary arms race between the human adaptive immune system and the virus, the immune system is basically driving the virus into a corner. This is really good news as it suggests that as this pandemic proceeds, the virus will (likely?) tend to evolve into a less virulent strain, and so fizzle our eventually. Just for reference, SARS-CoV-1 hasn't surfaced again since 2004. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 As of right my, my hospital is keeping all of the suspected cases isolated to one unit. But talking to some on the hospitalist team last night, it's not going to last. I think we all knew that. It certainly feels different at work lately. You can feel the tension, most notably from the physicians. Nice to see some of them not hold back on their disgust for "our distinguished leader" though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Are you telling me another Republican is a piece of shit? Oh my what a revelation 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Ontario has a 2nd death attributed to the virus. Sadly this one is a little too close to home being in the next town over. The hospital is only about 15-20 minutes from me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Minions got delayed from it’s July release date, which exposed the next thing that will cause the theatrical release calendar to get torn up. With post houses closing all over the world, these movies which often aren’t complete until days before their premieres are simply not going to be completed in time to hit their release dates. We could be in a situation with no tent pole films until November/December... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 19 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Are you telling me another Republican is a piece of shit? Oh my what a revelation over/under on how many get caught? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 I was feeling better about stuff the last 2 days because for whatever reason I avoided coronavirus news. I feel the doom and gloom settling in again tonight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 What's the angle here? I dont know what this world is.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Firewithin said: What's the angle here? I dont know what this world is.... Tucker is actual conservative populism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Firewithin said: What's the angle here? I dont know what this world is.... This story is easy to get upset over. That makes Burr a good scapegoat to take some of the pressure off of Trump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 Just now, Firewithin said: What's the angle here? I dont know what this world is.... There were times during the Mueller report that Burr did questionable things like informing the White House of things seemingly more for political loyalty than any valid reason. However, the Senate also ran a marginally more bi-partisan, less hackish investigation than the House. Coming to the conclusion that Russia interfered, and they did it to help Trump, for instance. Even that little bit of independence may have put Burr in Trump's crosshairs. And, like Ghost said, this is a pretty easy story to score political points on. I still highly doubt this will result in any consequences. We don't punish corruption anymore. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 A group of friends spent 25 days rafting in the Grand Canyon with no outside contact — and returned to find the world in the midst of a 'disorienting' pandemic https://www.insider.com/grand-canyon-rafters-didnt-know-coronavirus-extent-for-25-days-2020-3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, DarkStar189 said: A group of friends spent 25 days rafting in the Grand Canyon with no outside contact — and returned to find the world in the midst of a 'disorienting' pandemic https://www.insider.com/grand-canyon-rafters-didnt-know-coronavirus-extent-for-25-days-2020-3 Reminds me of this. Quote My name is Shackleton,” I said. Immediately, he put out his hand and said, “Come in. Come in.” “Tell me, when was the war over?” I asked. “The war is not over.” he answered, “Millions are being killed. Europe is mad. The world is mad.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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