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10-16-2020, 07:55 PM #28351
Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey
71.8k new cases today in the US.
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10-16-2020, 08:14 PM #28352
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10-16-2020, 08:53 PM #28353
I love the Italians.
Italian governor says covid-19 means no parties for Halloween, which is ‘a huge American stupidity’ anyway
By Adam Taylor
Vincenzo De Luca, the forthright Italian governor who heads the southern Campania region, said that the rise in coronavirus cases in the country should curtail any planned Halloween parties.
“Halloween is this huge stupidity. A huge American stupidity which we have imported into our country,” De Luca said in a video posted to his Facebook page, where he has over 1 million fans, according to a translation by Reuters News Agency.
To stop late-night parties, the governor said, he would be imposing a 10 p.m. curfew on the weekend surrounding Oct. 31. It would be a “total curfew,” he explained, meaning transiting home after this time would not be allowed.
“With these numbers, you cannot joke,” De Luca said, adding that the aim was to keep up to 90 percent of the economy running by people taking simple measures like wearing masks and no “irresponsible outings at night.”
De Luca is a popular center-left politician in Campania, a region that includes Naples, and he easily won reelection in September. In March, he had threatened strong action after rumors of students planning a graduation celebration. “We’ll send the police,” he said. “We’ll send them in with a flamethrower.”
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10-16-2020, 09:12 PM #28354
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10-16-2020, 10:17 PM #28355Registered User
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10-16-2020, 10:46 PM #28356
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10-16-2020, 11:49 PM #28357
The Swedes that i know (over 70) never stopped doing their regular thing. No social distancing, no mask wearing, social restaurant gatherings with friends almost daily, transit commuting to town, face to face client meetings. So far so good.
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10-17-2020, 12:02 AM #28358
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10-17-2020, 05:18 AM #28359"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
"I have posted in here but haven't read it carefully with my trusty PoliAsshat antenna on."-DipshitDanno
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10-17-2020, 06:44 AM #28360
My sister in Germany said her husband was sent home and ordered to get a test. The person who uses his work vehicle for the other half of the day is one of three people at his work who tested positive. They have two kids in school. Oh, and their schools just decided that masks are to be worn at all times and not just in the hallways. It is only October. Buckle up.
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10-17-2020, 08:13 AM #28361
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10-17-2020, 09:00 AM #28362
We’re fucked.
a single fitness studio in Hamilton, Ontario, was linked to more than 72 positive cases of COVID-19, with an additional 2,500 people potentially exposed. What's shocking is that the gym seemingly did almost everything right: six-foot distancing, 50 percent capacity, screening customers, a robust sanitizing regime. "This is not about how well the gym was run; this is about how COVID spreads," Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist at the University of Toronto, explained to The Spec
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10-17-2020, 09:31 AM #28363Registered User
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10-17-2020, 09:55 AM #28364
The crazy thing is they don't wear masks in Sweden. From the NYTimes article:
A major flaw in the Swedish approach. “They continue not to wear masks. That can be a big drawback in the Swedish strategy if masks prove effective and key in fighting the pandemic.”
Sweden might also just be enjoying a lull between peaks of infection. Mr. Tegnell, agrees, but noted “Sweden has gone from being one of the countries in Europe with the most spread to one that has some of the fewest cases in Europe.”
Mr. Tegnell said that Sweden would in certain cases prescribe face masks, particularly to contain local outbreaks. And in a break from the past, he would now even consider limited, local restrictions on movement and school closures.
But he still insists that distancing provided overall better protection than masks, which he says could give people a false sense of security.
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10-17-2020, 10:06 AM #28365
Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey
When your head of state is a quantum chemist.
https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/...991954432?s=20
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10-17-2020, 10:08 AM #28366
My point on Sweden is they kept their rules simple and consistent in order to gain and maintain the public's trust. They understood that government over-reaction during a pandemic has more negative effect than under-reaction because an overreaction will cause citizens to doubt the government's expertise. I know we are not Sweden; we are fat, all hate each other, and have an imbecile for a leader. But maintaining the public's trust is the most important thing.
In Washington State, we closed some businesses but left others open. We closed some parks, but left others open. We chastised people for outdoor recreation. And there is some truth that the closures and openings were based on who was able to lobby the the governor the hardest. This creates doubt in our government. You can't blame Trump for this.
It is too soon to say Sweden has been a model on how to handle the pandemic. But if they get through this winter and into Spring relatively unscathed, I think you can. Way back at the beginning of the pandemic, the argument was slow, but do not eliminate the virus spread (because you can't). It was never about trying to keep everyone from getting the virus, it was about flattening the curve. Sweden knew we are in this for a long haul, assumed there would never be a vaccine to bail us out, and acted accordingly.
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10-17-2020, 10:17 AM #28367
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10-17-2020, 11:02 AM #28368
Sweden has still had a lot more death and illness than Germany and other Nordic countries per capita. It looks like they are definitely experiencing wave #2, based on the graphs in worldometer. I haven’t seen any recent indication about social health, but the old Swedes that I know are completely oblivious to all of it. Their economy, apparently, from some indicators, is doing slightly better than the other Nordic counties. Has it been worth it? https://voxeu.org/article/labour-mar...its-neighbours
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10-17-2020, 11:10 AM #28369
Have you flown anywhere since March? Airports are pretty empty for the most part. I'm not worried at all passing through airports. And of course there are the odd dipshits, but my experience is that mask compliance is pretty good on airplanes. Obviously there's not zero risk, but I feel pretty safe flying right now.
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10-17-2020, 11:16 AM #28370
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10-17-2020, 11:33 AM #28371
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10-17-2020, 11:37 AM #28372
Oh, yeah, of course! It's the husband! The husband who, I assume, has a very open channel to the most powerful house member, the same body that appropriates trillions of dollars in spending, before he makes investment decisions.
Remember that awesome futures contract that Hillary made a shitload of money on in like a week when she was first lady? How lucky was that?
Happens every fucking day in that town. Maybe not a million bucks, maybe just 50 grand, every week or so. And, it's all fucking legal. A CEO in the private world could go to jail for years doing the same shit.
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10-17-2020, 11:48 AM #28373
speakin of sex with nerds
hows the former mrs. profane doing bunny?
remarry a wealthy politician
that would sure explain the hard on"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
"I have posted in here but haven't read it carefully with my trusty PoliAsshat antenna on."-DipshitDanno
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10-17-2020, 11:50 AM #28374
Oh well numbers here are exploding.
I went bouldering instead of skiing. (mainly because I thought the weather would be worse). I'll be teaching fully masked from Monday on. I sure hope we'll make it to the holidays and the borders stay open.It's a war of the mind and we're armed to the teeth.
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10-17-2020, 11:58 AM #28375
I'm not saying that everything is necessarily on the up-and-up, but it certainly isn't clear that there's anything shady going on either based on her worth. You seem to think everyone who has money is shady and that's not true. Being rich doesn't automatically make you a bad person.
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