COVID-19 (2): Turns out it's going to be pretty bad actually

Yeah like I said - it might actually get fuzzy between first wave and second wave. But I think re-opening will still be with masks in most places, better habits, and not opening bars, concerts, sporting events, etc.

R0 will be a lot lower in the second wave so it will be more of a slow burn. Plus the most vulnerable places like NYC might already have 20-25% herd immunity - so that will slow things down. Unless you can still catch this thing a few months after getting it the first time, then WAAF.

Not sure if serious. Not, right? Anyway, the article Chris linked to says the land could move 30 to a hundred feet to the west.

iirc there aren’t really any big cities in the path of a cascadia subduction zone tsunami. Victoria might have a bit of a sweat, but Seattle, Portland and Vancouver shouldn’t see much more than a high tide.

The West Coast north of SF is just remarkably devoid of cities/population.

Nope. She’s just like that. Worries about things like asteroids too. She doesn’t worry about arriving at a bus station in downtown Los Angeles at 2am by herself, but asteroids, earthquakes, volcanos and daddy long legs are all pretty serious.

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I was serious, maybe I misread the article I read on this ~a year ago and it was feet, not miles.

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Dak Prescott’s 31-year-old brother died, he weighed 350 pounds. No official word on the cause of death, but you may recall Dak and Ezekiel Elliott threw a party on 4/10. If this is coronavirus, it’s going to get a lot of attention.

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OMG - we had a nest of daddy long legs in the eave of our house in the midwest. Like hundreds of them. I decided to spray them with Raid while barefoot for some reason and they all dropped down right on me. Nightmare fuel.

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Well until you get to Arcara, CA - then it’s pretty populated going up the Oregon coast. Then in WA it gets unpopuated again.

If you’ve been watching the draft - sooooo many family draft parties with people who probably qualify as obese. I really hope we’ve passed the most dangerous point and those don’t end in deaths.

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Nova has an episode featuring a guy who literally found evidence of the giant flood caused by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Like we now have a fossil record of that day 65 million years ago. It’s so cool.

I always try to imagine if there’s some insane sci-fi way we could recover something like a video or sound recording of dinosaurs. Like light waves still traveling for 65 million years - but bouncing back and forth or something. I know it’s ridiculous but man.

After today’s press conference, I decided to check out r/AskTrumpSupporters reaction to Dr. Trump’s recommendation of injecting disinfectant to treat COVID-19. Unfortunately no such thread was up. However there is this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTrumpSupporters/comments/g6pp4q/if_a_coronavirus_vaccine_comes_out_will_you_get_it/

The general consensus was:

No

Nah. NFL will tell Jerry to give Dak whatever he’s asking plus $25 million to keep it quiet.

EM2 probably should stick to betting on Chinese LoL players.

In all fairness, I don’t live in the Dystopian Nightmare of the United States.

The Czech Republic had 55 news cases yesterday which was the lowest in 6 weeks. Less than 1% of the tests came back positive.

For people living here, the worry is the sudden removal of restrictions that came about due to a court case ruling that the restrictions were illegally passed. We’ll find out how that changes things come next week.

Fighting a war in someone else’s country that results in a middling estimate of 2.5 million deaths, but only counting American casualties.

UP 2020

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Please tell me your thumb suddenly feeling like it’s dislocated for no reason isn’t an early covid symptom.

I still think we’re just coming to terms with the fact that we were all nuked some time ago. And now our sense of reality is affected because we’re hovering somewhere in purgatory. It’s weird.

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Not for public sector pension plan actuaries!

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Oh you China