Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[glademaster]

If you can't understand why misleading public health information and hair-brained conspiracy theories that don't impact anyone except the nuts who believe in them are treated differently, you're beyond help. I think all the auto-erotic asphyxiation you've been engaging in to pass the time has caused brain damage.

[happytimefunbox]

Could just be a sinus infection or allergies. I deal with both and often have debilitating headaches accompanied by loss of smell/taste.

It really sucks esp. now that this virus is circulating and those are symptoms. Lately I've found some relief from an old fashioned source - a Vicks inhaler stick.

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That's what we think it is. She is feeling better today.
Vicks that's a nice touch.
If I pulled one of those out my wife would wonder if I was having a midlife and going to raves again.

Buddy of mine that lives in San Diego reached out to me after my minimal ordeal.
He is a medical equipment field service engineer working on stuff in OR's, not sure what type of equipment, but lived out of a suitcase.
Company he worked for supplied ZERO PPE for him and never really had a plan for their field team that traveled into the hotzones according to him
What.The.Fuck
The hospitals he went into did not supply PPE to contractors due to shortages, he supplied his own except for when he couldn't up until the end of March still traveling to service the stuff cause they need it in OR's.
He became symptomatic beginning of April and has been hospitalized once with COVID symptoms struggling to breath with "viral pneumonia" but has tested negative for COVID 2x.
He is a month in and at home on supplemental oxygen and nebulizers and a bunch of pills said it is like a different truck runs him over every day.
Tylenol isn't taking the edge of the headaches said he is eating over 100mg of edibles a day just to be knocked out enough to not suffer.
His wife got it with mild symptoms and tested positive the first time and is past the 7 day window with no symptoms and his hasn't left their bedroom for 2 weeks.
I told him to sue his employer but maybe the turtle dick Moscow Mitch is going to roll corporate protections from liability into the next bailout.
That was a sobering fucking phone call

[St. Jerry]

Censorship, smensorship. Who gives a flying fuck? The only thing that matters is data. Those two docs were polished, charismatic, and convincing. They also happened to be factually wrong which is the only thing that matters.

Yea, that video was all the buzz on Trumptard facebook pages, etc. Damage done.

[wooley12]

You say damage. They say winning. The Great Divider wants to rally.

[Lone Star]

Again use this with most people and logic goes away. They're smaller, less people, not same, blah blah blah.

If we had Sweden's death rate per capita, we'd be just shy of 80,000 deaths. How does that logic fit into your outlook?

[huckbucket]

Yea, that video was all the buzz on Trumptard facebook pages, etc. Damage done.

Pick your sources wisely and past performance IS a predictor of future outcomes when it comes to leadership.

[MontuckyFried]

I worked on that datacenter. Scary shit.

Yet far too many people seem to think it'd be totes ok to have contact tracing on their phones. Screw.... That....

[MontuckyFried]

Back at ya Zuck.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...ew-poll-finds/

What's insane about that poll is that it tells me that the other half of Americans ARE ok with this:



NOPE!!!

[wooley12]

What are you hiding? Must be guilty of something that you don't want THEM to know.

[Benny Profane]

The experts and elites lectured the middle and lower classes that globalisation would be good medicine for all. Damage done. Trust in institutions damaged even more.

Fify

[::: :::]

Listening to OPB last night (our local NPR) interviewing Oregon farmers about summer crops

They are planting less due to anticipated labor shortages due to illness & separation reqts

So, we’re going to see shortages of food in a few months.
To date, we’ve been rolling on stocks that were produced prior to the Covid outbreak...but we’re headed towards food uncertainty despite populations maybe cresting the curve in the next month or two

[Skidog]

If we had Sweden's death rate per capita, we'd be just shy of 80,000 deaths. How does that logic fit into your outlook?

as said we surely couldnt do anywhere near exactly what Sweden has attempted. Im hoping we can learn something thats all.

[gravitylover]

billions? I haven't seen any #'s even close to that. I'm not belittling anyones death, or those at risk, and for the most part am not too crazy about the steps taken thus far. As mentioned many many times here, antibody tests that are effective and re-infection rates will be the real determining factor.

I also have no delusions we could ever do what Sweden did/attempted in the USA. People here are just different. Some listen, some refuse to. Apparently in Sweden they are much more amicable to doing it on their own. I still think there are "lessons learned" from their way though.

If the world had just let it play out like Sweden is doing there's a pretty good chance that we'd hit numbers like that. Even if the virus only hit the at risk population 500 million is a low estimate (IMHO) but there is also a fair percentage of victims with no underlying issues.

[Skidog]

Yet far too many people seem to think it'd be totes ok to have contact tracing on their phones. Screw.... That....

had this discussion with my sister last night whos "totally cool" with it. Shes of the camp Snowden warns against. The "i have nothing to hide, go ahead and listen". Try explaining the slippery slope and she just wont get it.

[wooley12]

POTUS said anything under 100,000 is Winning.

[Casey E]

POTUS said anything under 100,000 is Winning.

He’ll soon say he meant to add another zero to that, so he is still “doing a great job”.

[Skidog]

POTUS said anything under 100,000 is Winning.

certainly far from "winning" anything

I guess my hope is "we" come out spending...though i just took a salary reduction so not likely I will be spending shit.

[The AD]

If the world had just let it play out like Sweden is doing there's a pretty good chance that we'd hit numbers like that. Even if the virus only hit the at risk population 500 million is a low estimate (IMHO) but there is also a fair percentage of victims with no underlying issues.

Wait a minute. The total world population is somewhere around eight billion. COVID-19 would absolutely not kill 500 million people. That's over 6% of the world's population. The mortality rate looks to be 1% on the high end.

[Ottime]

Which came to the US by way of Europe, which came to Europe by way of China.
Using critical thinking we don't have to deflect culpability that parrots the Communist Chinese Party's propaganda.
I mean shit happens and I don't think we go to war or cancel debts either, but at the end of the day, it originated in China, they lied and now they are doing a massive PR coverup.

Did anyone reasonable ever think China was not lying? The rest of the world fucked up too. They wanted to take China at their word so they would have to do nothing to prepare. And they did nothing too prepare as this thing speed. Well, South Korea and Hong Kong did. But they are not run by a Baffin and know to never take China at its word.

[hutash]

Which came to the US by way of Europe, which came to Europe by way of China.
Using critical thinking we don't have to deflect culpability that parrots the Communist Chinese Party's propaganda.
I mean shit happens and I don't think we go to war or cancel debts either, but at the end of the day, it originated in China, they lied and now they are doing a massive PR coverup.

Which is exactly what the US did in 1918. Should we pay reparations to the entire world?

Actually, what the US did in '18 was far worse as it was a national cover up where as China was really just a local cover up in Wuhan.

[Ottime]

If you can't understand why misleading public health information and hair-brained conspiracy theories that don't impact anyone except the nuts who believe in them are treated differently, you're beyond help. I think all the auto-erotic asphyxiation you've been engaging in to pass the time has caused brain damage.

I was going to say something like this, but a little less dramatically and without the choking sex thing. But yeah, believing Bush allowed the towers to fall is not dangerous misinformation that will spread disease.

[Skidog]

Which is exactly what the US did in 1918. Should we pay reparations to the entire world?

Actually, what the US did in '18 was far worse as it was a national cover up where as China was really just a local cover up in Wuhan.

agreed here. which is part of the reason i dont like the censorship i see happening these days. I get that these companies have the right. Its just funny how they can be selective in their choices.

[Core Shot]

I worked on that datacenter. Scary shit.

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Create an alias with a vpn and spill your guts.

Most sheeple have no idea that even exists.

[Ottime]

Wait a minute. The total world population is somewhere around eight million. COVID-19 would absolutely not kill 500 million people. That's over 6% of the world's population. The mortality rate looks to be 1% on the high end.

500 Million sounds high. 1% die of COVID. How many more die of heat attacks, strokes, cancer, etc that goes untreated as the world soon out of control with first hospitals crashing, then economies and finally governments? How many die forms eh violence that ensues? Have you not watched the Walking Dead?

[Skidog]

I was going to say something like this, but a little less dramatically and without the choking sex thing. But yeah, believing Bush allowed the towers to fall is not dangerous misinformation that will spread disease.

But they basically said Sweden was making a bad choice too and it turns out maybe not as bad as expected? I don't know. Just seems odd to me that some misinformation is ok, and to my eyes, a lot of it is misinformation. The data is ever evolving, ever changing. Too many unknowns for me. Seems selective. I mean I dont think those guys were trying to kill people do you? Was it malicious or were they providing their data points, even if flawed? Arent they kinda all flawed until we have a higher percentage of known cases? Again. not trying to start and argument, and 100% not conspiracy guy just honest observations.