Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[old goat]

Do the articles about these cases of positive then negative then positive again mention if the people are becoming sick again? Like a second round of symptoms? Or are they being retested because they are on a navy boat and it’s just protocol.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...RmNwBft1UO0uYo

could be a variation of this ^^ buddy is a professor of infectious disease, he has had covid for > 7 weeks

Yeah, some people are having trouble clearing the virus.

There are several possibilities--true reinfection after completely clearing the virus, viral counts reduced to undetectable but not zero and then increasing again, or virus is present and replicating or just sequestered somewhere other than the nasopharynx which I assume is the site being sampled. My money would be on 2 or 3. I think it will take a long time before we know if true reinfection can occur. Best to ignore the possibility because if there is truly no immunity the human race is doomed no matter what we do.

[The AD]

Trump team is really pushing this Obama "gate" nonsense hard. They pushed the agenda out to all their sources. They didn't forget that this is an election year and Covid19 isn't the distraction they want because they can't control the narrative.

Yes, it's called "wagging the dog."

[old goat]

Suppose this has always been in the back of my mind but it really hit home this morning -

We are no further today than we were when this first started with regard to operating businesses etc than we were when this first started.

With no therapy or vaccine nothing has changed and all these people rushing out without masks or social distancing is going to start the ball rolling all over again but then maybe that's what needs to happen. I just don't know anymore.

/depressing thoughts

The thing is--you're not supposed to have to figure it out for yourself. If we had true leadership there would be a clear and unified message and a clear and unified plan of action--modified based on results and new information. We could all understand what we are supposed to do and why, what the endpoints are at various steps along the way. The confusion you and I and everyone else feels is because there are multiple messages, multiple plans, and often no plan at all. The multiple messages are coming from both multiple sources and from a single source.

Coronagate

[huckbucket]

Youyang Gu's predictions for infection and death rates have generally outperformed all other models. Take note, this guy is an independent data scientist. Kinda impressive if you ask me.



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Youyang completed his Bachelor’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), double majoring in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Mathematics. He also received his Masters degree at MIT, completing his thesis as part of the Natural Language Processing group at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His expertise is in using machine learning to understand data and make accurate predictions.
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His current projections are for 110K by June first (range = 101K to 121K) and 152K by July 4 (range = 115K to 207K)

See all of the data here: https://covid19-projections.com/

[Benny Profane]

One claim. You've made it multiple times. I googled it weeks ago, I messed around trying to figure where you were coming from, I didn't see it.

Defend it or shut the fuck up. I love you but fuck you.

That wasn't hard. Quick wiki. She's not even #1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ress_by_wealth

Wake up dude, we're all owned . Washington DC is Hollywood for ugly people. But, they act really well.

Btw, how's the smell of salt water in the morning?

[Benny Profane]

polly ass fuck wipe

If you don't think politics are a big part of this, you are to be pitied.

[Rasputin]

you capitalize "lord"

I choose to mock.

Capitalization is appropriate for proper nouns, and it was capitalized in the post I was responding to. Mock away, it just demonstrates prejudice and a closed mind.

[The SnowShow]

Youyang Gu's predictions for infection and death rates have generally outperformed all other models. Take note, this guy is an independent data scientist. Kinda impressive if you ask me.



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Youyang completed his Bachelor’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), double majoring in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Mathematics. He also received his Masters degree at MIT, completing his thesis as part of the Natural Language Processing group at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His expertise is in using machine learning to understand data and make accurate predictions.
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His current projections are for 110K by June first (range = 101K to 121K) and 152K by July 4 (range = 115K to 207K)

See all of the data here: https://covid19-projections.com/

Fuck, so depressing. No decrease in cases coming, just a long slog uphill.

[iceman]

@bennie: She's worth money. She is married to money, she comes from money, and she's made money. She's not worth anywhere near 100 mil. You just use it as a talking point, man. You don't know and neither do I.

Which is besides the point. You voting for Trump, Benny?

[Cono Este]

How many sets of one did you get in?????

I’ve been doing the federal pen workout for 2 months. 10 burpees, 20 push ups, 5 pull ups x 5. Not bad for an old timer.


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[Vt-Freeheel]

Skiing workout is good for now.

Views are nice

[Benny Profane]

@bennie: She's worth money. She is married to money, she comes from money, and she's made money. She's not worth anywhere near 100 mil. You just use it as a talking point, man. You don't know and neither do I.

Which is besides the point. You voting for Trump, Benny?

Seriously? Wiki didn't pull that number out of it's ass. It's public knowledge. Declared. What, are you going to pull the old school, she's married to money bullshit. Like they don't fucking share notes at dinnertime? C'mon. Wake up. There's a ton of fucking money to be made at the upper levels of power, and it's fucking legal! Scratch my back, blah blah. C'mon. The woman is second generation politician dynasty. Her old man was mayor of Baltimore. Yeah, that was a clean career, I'm sure. She studied hard, I'll bet.

Doesn't matter if I vote for the Republican senile elderly rapist or the Democratic senile elderly rapist. I live in a blue state.

[iceman]

The reason I ask, Benny, is, I'm curious what you want to accomplish, given the facts as they are.

You're good at haranguing, Unlike most here, I think, I enjoy them and tend to get something from them. I'm a fan, man. But I'm asking you to live in realpolitik for a minute instead of Ideal World. How do we go forward? Pelosi is your enemy, I get it. But she's not your main enemy. Let's try to focus on the business at hand.

So maybe let's focus on Job #1, for a minute. Without forgetting about the rest of it.

[Benny Profane]

The reason I ask, Benny, is, I'm curious what you want to accomplish, given the facts as they are.

I'd like to ski in real mountains again and drive from Barcelona to Lisbon, too. Both look bleak right now.

[glademaster]

There is something to be said for respecting the sanctity of the secret ballot.

Asking someone who they're going to vote for is marginally more inappropriate than asking someone if their wife prefers it when they to pull out first, or drop a load straight in her colon.

[Benny Profane]

Well, I ain't voting for Trump. Maybe Biden, too.

[Benny Profane]

The reason I ask, Benny, is, I'm curious what you want to accomplish, given the facts as they are.

You're good at haranguing, Unlike most here, I think, I enjoy them and tend to get something from them. I'm a fan, man. But I'm asking you to live in realpolitik for a minute instead of Ideal World. How do we go forward? Pelosi is your enemy, I get it. But she's not your main enemy. Let's try to focus on the business at hand.

So maybe let's focus on Job #1, for a minute. Without forgetting about the rest of it.

I don't know. We're at a fork in the road. Revolution, or, Brazil. I'm too old to determine either. Sure glad I'm not 22.

[iceman]

Well, I ain't voting for Trump. Maybe Biden, too.

If you don't vote for Biden it's a vote for Trump. Straight up. 100%. Which is why I asked earlier. Will you choke down the bile and vote for Biden or not?

[DBdude]

The reason I ask, Benny, is, I'm curious what you want to accomplish, given the facts as they are.

You're good at haranguing, Unlike most here, I think, I enjoy them and tend to get something from them. I'm a fan, man. But I'm asking you to live in realpolitik for a minute instead of Ideal World. How do we go forward? Pelosi is your enemy, I get it. But she's not your main enemy. Let's try to focus on the business at hand.

So maybe let's focus on Job #1, for a minute. Without forgetting about the rest of it.

Benny lives very well

Anybody that lives better than Benny is a crook

We good - you got it ice?


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[Lone Star]

If you don't vote for Biden it's a vote for Trump. Straight up. 100%. Which is why I asked earlier. Will you choke down the bile and vote for Biden or not?

eh, that's pushing it a bit, isn't it? there are certain states that are totally not in play. not going to hurt anything (maybe help) by voting for a third party candidate. ive only been registered to vote in utah and california so I guess i am used to not having to play the "hold your nose" game.

[Benny Profane]

If you don't vote for Biden it's a vote for Trump. Straight up. 100%. Which is why I asked earlier. Will you choke down the bile and vote for Biden or not?

No, don't mean shit where I live. Maybe I'll write in Mickey fucking Mouse. It's not either or.

[jono]

If you don't vote for Biden it's a vote for Trump. Straight up. 100%. Which is why I asked earlier. Will you choke down the bile and vote for Biden or not?

If only. The EC still decides the winner. Benny's blue state vote doesn't count. There's no prize for winning the popular vote.

[iceman]

If only. The EC still decides the winner. Benny's blue state vote doesn't count. There's no prize for winning the popular vote.

The way it works, in my heritage, is, you're either with us or you're against us. So which is it?

You gonna worry about Pelosi's net worth or about Trump?

You tell me.

[Benny Profane]

Both

[jono]

Yup. Imagining that the lesser of two evils must be good is a problem on both fronts: no credibility and no need for accountability as long as they're not worse than Shitler. The bar is too low.