C- effort from her publicist
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There’s a scene in Contagion where they saw Gwyneth Paltrow’s head open and the doctors are shocked at what they see inside. They’re immediately all like “OMG, call the CDC right now.” And this has always confused me because as a layman I didn’t know these respiratory viruses like SARS fuck with your brain much. It’s one of the things I’m hoping my mom can explain to me when she finally gets around to watching it.
Yeah the hospice workers caring for my mom a few hours a day and the helpers that come cook and clean for my 80 y/o dad are still not even wearing masks.
Starting noon tomorrow, the Czech government is making masks or some kind of garment covering your nose and mouth mandatory for going outdoors with a penalty of 20,000 crowns ($811) for going out without one.
Yeah, there’s no fucking around here. The government is going at this hard.
And it works too. Since the quarantine, the number of new cases has gone down from 109 on March 15th to 85 on March 16th to just 51 today. Look at France, Germany, Spain, Italy and most other European countries and they go up exponentially day by day.
Not here though. Not everything has been perfect (respirator delivery came through a few days late) but people are taking this seriously and it’s paying off.
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Fuck I forgot to put this asshole on my firing squad list.
They saw goop inside.
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I thought a medical grade mask and a respirator were the same thing? And a surgical mask was just the cheaper cloth and fiber “dust and droplet” masks?
That makes me feel great. Europe will probably follow suit which will make it much much harder for the US to just say fuck off we don’t do masks here.
I’m sorry if it sounds like I’m bragging. I mean it sucks to have to deal with it but it’s nice that it’s being taken seriously.
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Other than the not dying at like 35 and not being as cold, hungry, or disease ridden.
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Modern medical jargon calls a machine that aids in artificial respiration a “ventilator” and a mask as a “respirator”. Early ventilators were known as “respirators” and some people still use the term.
The poker analogy is a set vs trips. Old school poker players refer to any three of a kind as a set, while modern usage tends to prefer a set to mean three of a kind in hold em involving a pocket pair and one on the board.
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Please God don’t let my 15 year old hear this
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I have seen stories of 6 people under 35 in critical condition with no comorbidity issues, in the last two days.
I at least find it disturbing.
Nah, you’d die at like 12 or something. But if you could fade that you were good for another 50 years.
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Yeah this thing is super bad news for anybody. For old people and/or people with exacerbating conditions, it’s super super SUPER bad news. I’m isolating not just To protect the weaker, I also really don’t want to get sick.
Actually, I think 0-3 most likely. You’d live to like 60 but have a toothache and gout for the last 15 years.
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For a 2nd grader - 7 yo or so, right? Absolutely nbd imo! Try this if you want for a young/elementary kid who’s out of school for a day or so imo.
Whenever my kids (both a bit older) are off school sick even for a day - or like right now - I make them do two things that I made clear very early on as soon as they had days off for sickness or whatever. Two maths sheets that I print out from online that is appropriate for their age/level, and also a short one (or two) “paragraph” essay (or whatever age appropriate amount), written in pencil and written as neatly as possible (I’m the judge of neatness according to their level! They can shut the f up if they want to argue); poor = go erase and fix. I very, very often give some mild squint eye and say “you could do a little bit better with neatness”. Mainly just to write neater 'cos that sucks up to teachers and getting grades, but it’s a good thing anyway. But I also very briefly mention how to make better punctuation/sentences/paragraphs…the word is briefly - otherwise they tune out too quickly & dgaf. The essay can be about something they choose, and they can watch the show on netflix/youtube/whatever - so them being allowed to choose to watch a show or something helps get them into that part and commits them to it. But it has to be non-garbage. Nature documentary, science documentary, history/whatever. For a 2nd grader I might allow “Whales are big and cool”, but I just cannot remember now.
Just a bit of level-appropriate maths and a tiny bit of writing/punctuation about something they find interesting.
We’ve found this a good/easy system that allows them to choose something about what’s usually the tough part for them.
If you’re a religious nut then disregard my advice.
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Ava Louise (Influencer?) licks a toilet seat and only has 167k followers on Instagram.
It’s tough out there in socialmedialand/
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My guess is that showing autopsy guys snapping open Gwyneth Paltrow’s ribcage with bolt cutters so they can look at her lungs would be too grisly for a mainstream Hollywood movie, whereas showing them saw the top of her head off with a power saw is just the right amount of gore to make it fun but not deeply disturbing. They might have altered the science a bit for the purpose of moviemaking. Or maybe SARS really does do some crazy shit to your brain, idk.
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Kansas orders all K-12 schools closed for the remainder of the school year, California likely to follow suit.