Thread title should have been COVID-19: Don’t show up. Don’t come out.
Well god damnit.
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Phil Galfond could easily be the greatest general in history by applying his poker skills to the battlefield.
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I’m fine with a little bit of creative license, but this is quite a bit over the line IMO.
Late night pandemic thoughts:
Billy Joel’s The Stranger is a really good album
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I grew up in Morris County, NJ. When I was like 26-27, I got a local driving job. There was like 10 towns within a 20 mile radius that I had never heard of until that particular job. Peapack and Gladstone blew me away. I was like “WTF town is this?”
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Pointless anecdote, but my Trumptard older brother has lived in Omaha his whole life, but about a decade ago was transferred out to KC for work for 2 years. I thought, cool, maybe he’ll finally do something interesting for once in his life. Nope, him and his then fiancée just holed themselves up in a way too massive house in Liberty and rarely even ventured into KC. Kidless and plenty of cash and couldn’t even really enjoy anything KC has to offer b/c living near city centres is for libruls. Typical MAGAt mindset, uninterested in anything outside of their tiny bubble (and it isn’t even like KC is much of a culture shock from Omaha).
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Which is exactly when you knew the article was total bullshit strawmanning. Just absurd to bring that up when literally nobody is dumb enough to suggest that.
Yeah this stuff is driving me nuts. A huge percentage of doctors, nurses, medical professionals, etc were pooh-poohing this thing at the beginning just like Dr. Drew was, but they weren’t famous so we don’t have receipts. But they were telling everyone it was no big deal, and people who didn’t want to make a big deal out of it were like “Yeah, OKAY BUDDY, you know more than a doctor about a virus? HA!”
But then when some chain email goes around about holding your breath for 10 seconds, of course that gets shared a hundred million fucking times.
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When I lived in a tiny rural town in Florida, I knew an old guy that fought in the Korean War. He told me except for being in the army, he has never left the county he lived in. He was like this 70 year old Boomer dude that’s never been to the beach. Blew me away.
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There’s also the possibility that some of these low antibody cases are from people who’d been exposed to coronavirus-caused colds from coronaviruses that have some homology to covid-19 but that aren’t, and their antibodies manage to have some built-in efficacy against covid-19, so they fight it off with relative ease, even if they do become symptomatic and aren’t totally immune. Most things we call colds are rhinoviruses, but some are coronaviruses, which is exactly why coronaviruses were the target of that research team in Wuhan. Any respiratory illness deserves a ton of attention.
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Man, I don’t know what to say. Hang in there, brother.
“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.”
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It’s probably near Noblacksallowedville
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I went to high school in Oregon and many of my friends had never been out of state.
There’s one Black person there. Whenever another Black person asks what’s up with that, someone explains it’s no Blacks allowed.
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iirc Inso married his high school sweetheart. What are the odds he’s never left his county? State? Country?
Apologies if this has been posted already. I think I’ve read this whole thread and surprisingly haven’t seen it. It’s just too wacky to let pass unremarked.
From the New York Times via the Seattle Times:
A ‘liberty’ rebellion in Idaho threatens to undermine coronavirus orders
Y’all remember Ammon Bundy, right? “…the man who once led an armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge.”
What’s he up to these days? Just hanging out with “a few dozen” of his friends.
[…] Bundy said he also hoped to create a network of people ready to come to the aid of those facing closure of their businesses or other interference from the government as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.
“If it gets bad enough, and our rights are infringed upon enough, we can physically stand in defense in whatever way we need to,” Bundy told the meeting. “But we hope we don’t have to get there.”
Thankfully he’s just a garden-variety right-wing idiot, right? But wait, there’s more:
State Rep. Heather Scott, a Republican from Blanchard, northwest of Coeur d’Alene, is encouraging her constituents to push back on the statewide stay-at-home order, saying people have “a God-given constitutionally protected right to peacefully assemble.”
Okay, well, that’s just one lawmaker, who isn’t actually responsible for enforcing the laws… Uh oh, what’s this?
And in Bonner County, Sheriff Daryl Wheeler posted an open letter saying that the public had been “misled” by public-health officials’ dire predictions and called on the governor to convene an emergency session of the Legislature to debate his stay-at-home order.
“In the spirit of liberty and the Constitution, you can request those that are sick to stay home,” Wheeler wrote. “But, at the same time, you must release the rest of us to go on with our normal business.”
Fuck, even the sheriff is on this shit? At least it’s just a podunk empty state, how bad can it get?
While the state was one of the last in the country to identify a coronavirus case, it now has far more cases per capita than California.
Oops.
Maybe there is hope though:
“I want the virus now,” Bundy said.
God willing, you will get your wish, Ammon.
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Didn’t see these posts…? It was a Simpson’s joke
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The CEO of the company that claims to be ramping up to 1M tests a day is answering questions on HackerNews.
