You must be hanging out with the wrong class of demons.
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You must be hanging out with the wrong class of demons.
What the hell..Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
You're either having sex with the wrong demons or you're not doing it right. (pages through notes) What kind of ritual circle were you using?Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
She was a very classy demon in bed.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
She didn't tell me it was a ritual circle!Quote:
Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
Thought Twitter was just desperately scraping the bottom of the meme barrel with this demon sex stuff but nope it's just reality again
Meanwhile, conservatives are mad that Twitter is taking steps to foil their plan to spread covid disinfo:
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The UK government have signed an agreement for early access to another 60 million doses of COVID vaccine, this time with GSK and Sanofi Pasteur. That brings to 250 million doses of vaccine on order so far, they're certainly not messing around waiting to get the orders in considering our population is nowhere near 250 million . . .
From 2:30
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Just write it off and stop being dumb.
Quite frankly during the pandemic wasting money is not the #1 priority. As I said in my last post, the UK has a population of 67m people, this year's flu vaccine rollout is our largest ever in history and is 30m doses of vaccine going out - and the government has purchased 250m doses of vaccine. They will literally be wasting millions on at least some of those vaccines but the cost of that is negligible to the cost of the pandemic.
If you think a cure works and purchase it and then it doesn't work then c'est la vie just move on.
I normally hate the government wasting taxpayers money but during a once in a century pandemic the normal rules go out of the window.
It is still insane that the text in the bottom is not from the onion but true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
We now go to American conservatism for a comment:Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
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Originally Posted by Aimless
Navarro also thinks Tariffs are good, and Tariff Wars are 'easy to win'. Even when he stays in his lane as an economist, he's wrong. Now he's sitting on a stockpile of hydroxychloroquine and thinks Trump talked about it in a "sophisticated way". Just sayin' :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
I just got activated by emergency operations for covid test site duty, I have to report once the sites open back up after the tropical storm
Fuck.
What are your duties, OG? Are you responsible for data collection and reporting it to the State Health Dept, or something else?
I could be, or checkin processing, or bagging and tagging samples after they are taken, or traffic management. The nurses have shown to be pretty shitty at the data management part, that's why they activated more library personnel. Cause if you can't trust the data in the hands of the person making $50-$100 an hour plus hazard pay, give it to the librarian who makes $20, isn't there by choice, and doesn't get hazard pay. :noob:
Sounds pretty fucked up, but not surprising that states are figuring out their own strategies on the fly. USA #1! :cheerleader:
Hope you've got childcare, that's the least you should expect as a "first responder" state employee. Wait, your wife is is a childcare worker, right? :eek:
For context:
"If two large planes crashed every day in the US, killing everyone on board, the nation would be despondent.
If the US suffered a loss of life on the scale of the 9/11 attacks -- 50 times over -- the tragedy would be incomprehensible.
But that's how many lives coronavirus has claimed in the US since this pandemic started just six months ago.
More than 150,000 people have died since the first known US death in February. That means every day, an average of more than 850 Americans have died from Covid-19."
Continue reading at https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/healt...000/index.html
It doesn't have to be this way; we don't have to go through this; but it boils down to personal responsibility! Can the US do that?
CAN WE DO THIS?
Coronavirus: England highest level of excess deaths in Europe
England had the highest levels of excess deaths in Europe between the end of February and the middle of June, official analysis shows.
The Office for National Statistics says England saw the second highest peak rates of death in Europe, after Spain.
But England had the longest period where deaths were above average, and so overall had the highest levels.
Areas in Spain and Italy, like Milan and Madrid, were harder hit than cities in the UK
But the ONS analysis shows the epidemic in the UK was more widespread than in other countries, with Scotland seeing the third highest death rate in Europe.
Pfft, that's only because our data is better than everyone else's. We have the best data. World beating data.
The county is providing zero childcare assistance, despite the activation hours being different and commonly requiring overtime (or even being overnight), and most activations have less than 24 hours notice (I got lucky cause of the TS).Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
My wife does work in childcare, and her place of work has already had 1 scare. Which everyone now thinks was a false positive.
Over the past two weeks, positive cases have been on the rise here. While testing also increased at the same time, the test positive rate is also rising, so it definitely looks like cases are increasing. Plus Belgium, which is very close to where I live, has strong rise in cases as well, particularly in the city where my sister and my nephews live. At the same time, our government is still saying masks are not necessary in most situations. Even if they're not - at least people won't forget that there's a virus going around if they wear it.
On the bright side, number of people admitted to hospitals has not risen, maybe it still will, or maybe we are now finding more mild cases (there is a major increase in positive tests for younger people). And after the government sounded the alarm on the number of people with mild symptoms not getting tested, literally the next day there was a massive increase in tests already. So people are still listening, so perhaps the rise in cases will slow down soon as people are aware it is happening. We'll see.
If I were to visit my sister now, who lives ~40 minutes away, I'd have to quarantine for 2 weeks now :bulb: Then again, I avoid traveling as much as possible anyway so I was not planning to do that.
I am curious why the French numbers are so extraordinarily low when their official numbers are not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2Coronavirus: England highest level of excess deaths in Europe
England had the highest levels of excess deaths in Europe between the end of February and the middle of June, official analysis shows.
The Office for National Statistics says England saw the second highest peak rates of death in Europe, after Spain.
But England had the longest period where deaths were above average, and so overall had the highest levels.
Areas in Spain and Italy, like Milan and Madrid, were harder hit than cities in the UK
But the ONS analysis shows the epidemic in the UK was more widespread than in other countries, with Scotland seeing the third highest death rate in Europe.
edit: just saw that this is from may 23d onwards, so I guess their numbers peaked well before that.
Well, testing has finally come my way.
Colleague of my partner's has tested positive. She had socialised with three other colleagues the day before testing positive. One of those other colleagues was in the office yesterday with my partner and around 10 others.
We just found out about the positive tester socialising with the three others. So we have just gone through the government COVID response website, whacked in our details, found the nearest test centre - around 3 miles away - and we have an appointment in just under an hour's time. Really efficient process, am quite impressed.
Hope everyone ends up negative, buddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Thanks. Results take 24 hours.
Jesus, only a day? The state run tests here are taking 2 weeks to get results back. People are starting to realize that they are next to pointless to bother with at that point and are electing to not say anything about possible infections, cause who wants to be quarantined away from work for 2 weeks with no pay just to be told the test was negative?
Official line is it takes 48 to 72 hours to get the results, but we were told we should receive them in 12 to 24. Suppose it depends how busy they are. Big drive through test centre we went to was almost entirely empty.
2 weeks is crazy though :bulb:. You guys need more Ssssocialist ssspending...
Glad the process was efficient for you Tim, hoping its negative.2 weeks? What's the point in even bothering with the test if it takes 2 weeks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
It took 48 for mine when they first rolled out, but its hours is the norm here now. My wife gets one every week now for work.
Mean wait in MA is 2.2 days and it would be faster but we're dealing with overflow from states that didn't scale up capacity as aggressively.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
A limited local lockdown is being reimposed in parts of Northern England, including swathes near to where I live, but not covering where I live. Not surprised at all having been keeping an eye on the data - my particular city I live in now (in Lancashire) is trending next-to-no infections, but the nearest other city to us is trending one of the most in the country. They're being locked down, we're not. Its logical, hopefully it works.
The local lockdown is not as severe as what Leicester had. Basically just saying not to mix households so businesses don't need to close down but don't go into each other's homes and only go to a restaurant with your own household. Hopefully its enough to work.
Belgium 861.14
United Kingdom 691.26
Spain 608.71
Peru 588.2
Italy 581.3
Sweden 562.69
Chile 495.38
USA 459.97
France 449.67
Brazil 430.3
Latest update on the ole scoreboard. Looks like Belgium and UK continue to lead the shitshow but South American countries are fast catching up. France used to be worse than America but we've now pulled ahead of them. With more cases springing up comparatively we might approach Sweden's numbers but I think Brazil will rocket up past us soon.
Thanks. Just received a text and email. Negative.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Still treating it like a scoreboard? Oh wait you actually used the word scoreboard?
Dipshit.
I wouldn't pay any attention, his numbers are either using a meaningless metric, totally out of date, or completely incorrect.
True picture of per capita cases as of today is below.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...6166bc0e_c.jpg
He's just reposting something posted by some goober on one of his forums for sad sacks. The numbers are from statista, and they're a count of deaths per million. Steely's post here is an effective illustration of just how dumb our "data is data" friend is being:Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
http://theworldforgotten.com/showthr...542#post216542
France's momentum is concerning from that graph Tim.
I am starting to think maybe we should quarantine anyone who does international travel afterall.
Glad to hear :)
I have arrived at the unsettling conclusion that the WSJ's editorial board is actually full of actual fucking idiots:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-loc...on-11596150889
I'm amazed how the costs of a lockdown are always contrasted with the pre-covid figures. Yes, it has costs, but without any measures your economy will also be hurt (significantly).
Shhh, you'll hurt Dread's feelings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
SAGE scientist on Sky saying that the reason pubs are allowed to open but home gatherings are being banned across the North West is because their data shows that transmission is happening within homes and between families and not pubs.
Interesting.
