Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

A meat processing COVID nexus: South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.

South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant ­pork-processing plant falling ill. With the case numbers continuing to spike, the company was forced to announce the indefinite closure of the facility Sunday, threatening the U.S. food supply.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/so...ts/ar-BB12zTcc

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Hi all, fisrst off thanks for the positive vibes and I appologize for posting my story in this thread. I was just reading seanos732 recent situation and posted what just happened to me because I was still in freak out mode.
Update- dad is getting a pacemaker installed tommorow so he should be fine.
Please carry on as the information here is top notch with the usual PR bullshit I expext in this strange little place on the internet. :yourock:
Huge thanks to all the folks on the front line!

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Must have been scary couple of days. Glad all is well.

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Originally Posted by MultiVerse

A meat processing COVID nexus: South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.

South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant ­pork-processing plant falling ill. With the case numbers continuing to spike, the company was forced to announce the indefinite closure of the facility Sunday, threatening the U.S. food supply.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/so...ts/ar-BB12zTcc

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Dozens of Tri-Citians sick with coronavirus from outbreak linked to beef plant

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Originally Posted by Ottime

While I agree with most of what you’ve said about the disgrace of our own slaughter houses (and feed lots) but Halal and Kosher have been around for some time and were created to make sure their own people did not get sick.

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Oh definitely. I see safe as part of the reason behind slaughter of live animals. You see it killed you know it’s not sick, you know it’s not been sitting around unrefridgerated. I don’t see it as race cultural, more as preservation. My grandma used to buy chuck roast and have the butcher grind it because she didn’t trust pre ground beef

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Originally Posted by MultiVerse

A meat processing COVID nexus: South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots.

South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant ­pork-processing plant falling ill. With the case numbers continuing to spike, the company was forced to announce the indefinite closure of the facility Sunday, threatening the U.S. food supply.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/so...ts/ar-BB12zTcc

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She's a crazy-eyed, mouth-breather:
Increasingly exasperated local leaders, public health experts and front-line medical workers begged Noem to intervene Monday with a more aggressive state response.

“A shelter-in-place order is needed now. It is needed today,” said Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, whose city is at the center of South Dakota’s outbreak and who has had to improvise with voluntary recommendations in the absence of statewide action.

But the governor continued to resist. Instead, she used a media briefing Monday to announce trials of a drug that President Trump has repeatedly touted as a potential breakthrough in the fight against the coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence.

“It’s an exciting day,” she boasted, repeatedly citing her conversations with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner.

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Senpaku, mothefucker.
You all will be drown.

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Sorry if I'm late to the secession party, but why can't Montana be part of the great Canadian empire? Doesn't it share a full border with Canada?

Or were those replies to the independent Republic of washigonia?

And more importantly(because I'm wearing star wars underwear right now) : does the great Canadian empire have access to the death star?

Northern Montana is a weird place even for a white guy. Best to leave it alone.

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Originally Posted by SKIP IN7RO

She's a crazy-eyed, mouth-breather:
Increasingly exasperated local leaders, public health experts and front-line medical workers begged Noem to intervene Monday with a more aggressive state response.

“A shelter-in-place order is needed now. It is needed today,” said Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, whose city is at the center of South Dakota’s outbreak and who has had to improvise with voluntary recommendations in the absence of statewide action.

But the governor continued to resist. Instead, she used a media briefing Monday to announce trials of a drug that President Trump has repeatedly touted as a potential breakthrough in the fight against the coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence.

“It’s an exciting day,” she boasted, repeatedly citing her conversations with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner.

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Crazy eyes!

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Originally Posted by AK47bp

People gotta eat and will sell whatever they catch.

If it’s made illegal it will still happen, just in the alley behind the wet market


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isn't that the paradox of a global world
if you try and take the gentle giants newfs that are the fabric of my life for nummies in yur tummies
im going to death in the market in the alley, in the street, your race doesn't matter
if you think collateral damage is any concern
you don't know what my dogs mean to me
strong work bringing the abc's of life to the scene thrashcan
hopin for the best for your kin
the mental and physical damages are going to be as bad as the disease itself

Testing in Korea. Never in a million years will we have this.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...45361435516619

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Testing in Korea. Never in a million years will we have this.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...45361435516619

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How ironic that this is THE price of capitalism. Must make conservative heads explode.

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Originally Posted by skifishbum

if you try and take the gentle giants newfs that are the fabric of my life for nummies in yur tummies
im going to death in the market in the alley, in the street, your race doesn't matter

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A Newfoundland could feed a family of 5 or more. It's probably more a holiday meal in China when the whole family gathers.

My grandmother said they used to eat horsemeat during WW2 when other meat was hard to come by. I don't think they ever ate dog though.

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Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

It seems like dream to me now.

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How was hitchhiking out of Saginaw?

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How ironic that this is THE price of capitalism. Must make conservative heads explode.

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Annnnddd....contrast that with the Greatest Country In The World. Yay, capitalsm!

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/cor...241920656.html

I guess she already has her shit ticket stockpile

https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/13/coors...irus-lockdown/

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Originally Posted by iceman

"The Nine Nations of North America" by Joel Garreau was a pretty good book, he broke the continent down into regions that had similar cultural and other traits, here's his map with nation names:

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/51/50/d6/5...46de829a5d.jpg

Hoe does "Ecotopia" grab you?

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hmm, had never heard of it so googled. Written in 1981. Wonder how/whether he would change it now? For example, The Foundry isn't any more.

Fuck...

ROME—Italian newscaster Alessandro Politi was shocked when he tested positive for COVID-19 on March 11. He and other colleagues were swabbed out of an abundance of caution after a co-worker contracted the virus. The 30-year-old had a slight fever and a sore throat, but none of the chest tightness or other nightmarish symptoms so many have suffered.

Following the Italian Health Institute guidelines for releasing someone from self-isolation, Politi was tested again two weeks after his positive swab. But, fever-free and with no symptoms at all, he tested positive once more. The test was carried out a week later, 21 days after his diagnosis, and he still tested positive for the virus. Now, 30 days later, Politi has just tested positive again, calling into question just how long the novel coronavirus stays in some people’s systems and whether that might play a role in why, despite a month-long draconian lockdown, Italy just can’t seem to shake the virus.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-itali...091501683.html

^ You keep that shit forever...like luggage.

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^ You keep that shit forever...like the herp.

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FIFY

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FIFY

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You didn't recognize that's a quote from an Eddie Murphy standup bit about herpes? FFS :rolleyes2

Dear Old Goat/other docs:

One thing I was pondering the other day...I wonder what effect the virus host's body temperature has on the viability of the virus's survival? For example, would the temporary reduction in human core body temperature through artificial temporary cooling have any effect on the virus survival, inherent 'strength' and ability to compromise human internal cellular function? Would it 'weaken' the virus so that it is more vulnerable to targeted therapies and cures via meds? No clue here, just a layman brainstorming based on the anti inflammatory reaction of the human body to cold water immersion/wim hoffing...and other reports of folks surviving severe hypothermia and being restored to normal function after reheating the body...just wondering what effect, if any, the cooling of core temperatures has on the little viruses and such.

In other news from Italy...

An AW139 of the Polizia di Stato (Italian State Police), was flying a routine patrol mission when the crew spotted a group who had gathered on the rooftop of a building for an Easter Sunday BBQ. But, as the chopper approached the block, fireworks were aimed at the helicopter, forcing it to remain at safe distance before going away.

The scene, that several media have called “a reckless show of defiance”, was filmed from the helicopter as well as from neighbours. Some videos posted on Youtube and on news websites, include scenes filmed by those who were taking part in the BBQ on the roof of an apartment block. “These people are nothing but idiots. We will track them down and they will face the full force of the law,” said Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando.

https://youtu.be/bSIEs8ARta4