Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[Skidog]

Create an alias with a vpn and spill your guts.

Most sheeple have no idea that even exists.

I dont know a whole lot more than most really. I worked inside it when it was being built and shortly thereafter doing building controls implementation. What i do know, like most, is its a huge building whos sole purpose is to store surveillance data. Where it comes from you'll have to call Snowden.

[Ripzalot]

Swedes are much more calm and stoic. Swiss aren't far off. Its a matter of attitude.





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[Cono Este]

Just think, we sent the lakers 4.5 million, but the elementary school down the street, aka germ factory, nothing.

Very short sighted relief package. Long term this will be like a war, future costs will be a multiple of the immediate damage. Getting some people back to work will require a cattle prod. Economy is toast. Socialism will be a necessity.


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[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.

and what say ye of 5G cancer proponenets passing their message and then others burning down towers? Seems like harmful misinformation to me? Not covid level, but people could get hurt, property destroyed. All because of a video spreading misinformation. why not censor that too?

edit: love how you all key in on 1 aspect when I gave multiple options in my post including the 5G nonsense.

[Cono Este]

What’s the over/under on the debt in 2 yrs?

I say 30 trillion, and our peso goes in the shitter.

I’m going to go buy another American eagle and put it in the safety deposit box with the rest of my meager fortune.


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[gravitylover]

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.

Now we have 3% in some places with minor mitigation but surrounded by places with more extreme measures in place that are more like 1.5-2%, now imagine if only something like social distancing where possible and events where lots of people from different areas congregate (funerals/weddings, etc) and in general, more normal life. Health care personnel and facilities would be overwhelmed to the point where standards of care fall off and (IMO) it's not a stretch that those percentages would bump up by 2-3%. I don't remember specifics and don't feel like looking it up but in 1918-19 wasn't it something like 500 million infected and 50 or 60 million dead with a world population of about 1.5 billion?

This is just my thoughts, not intended misinformation...

[Deebased]

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.

Of course they did. No one likes reliable data points that are counter to their "professional" opinion.

If the leadership on the left and right didn't have obsequious minions reciting their platitudes do you think they'd be able to unify behind dump or Biden?

[riser4]

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?

I stopped watching TWD in 2016 when tRump got elected. Reality was too depressing and the whole Negan story arc didn't help matters. Hopelessness was not something I wanted to dwell on.

[byates1]

you meant 8 billion world pop right? there are 8 mil in nyc..

[Casey E]

H.L. Mencken once said that in America, “the general average of intelligence, of knowledge, of competence, of integrity, of self-respect, of honor is so low that any man who knows his trade, does not fear ghosts, has read fifty good books, and practices the common decencies stands out as brilliantly as a wart on a bald head.”

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/tempor...rus-censorship

Not having been educated in the US, how did your education system fall so low? Ghosts, creationism, climate change hoax, Trump. Probably should shore up critical thinking skills and readin writin ‘n rithmetic, and less on exceptionalism myths. Could take a couple of generations tho.

[The AD]

Now we have 3% in some places with minor mitigation but surrounded by places with more extreme measures in place that are more like 1.5-2%

But we know that there's probably an order of magnitude more people infected than have actually tested positive, so any numbers that give a mortality rate based on these numbers is going to be way too high.

[The AD]

you meant 8 billion world pop right? there are 8 mil in nyc..

Yes. Fixed.

[Skidog]

But we know that there's probably an order of magnitude more people infected than have actually tested positive, so any numbers that give a mortality rate based on these numbers is going to be way too high.

EXACTLY.

[summit]

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?

And the USA is 2 weeks ahead in the epidemic curve vs Sweden so if you look back 2 weeks we were at about 24K deaths to Sweden's equivalent of 80K.

[mcski]

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

Not sure how I feel about it’s removal given all the bullshit YouTube doesn’t remove. Not because of censorship per se, but because most of my redhat friends had already been singing the praises of the trumpdoc video or at least knew about it. it’s removal just launched them into a conspiracy frenzy. The damage was kinda done already and the deletion reinvigorated them. I lean toward it was prob the right thing to do though now.

Taibbi used to be a decent journo, now he writes everything w his smug cunt spin while pretending to be seeing both sides of an issue. He’s garbage peddler and him latching onto the censorship aspect of the Bako story is typical of him. If he thinks the vid shouldn’t have been removed, removing it was most likely the right choice.

[MontuckyFried]

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.

Geez that's scary. I guess Wooley is in her camp too. WTF is wrong with America? Since when have we become such cowards and wards of the state?

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

Slippery. Meet slope. Might want to listen to some of the Edward Snowden interviews. Spooky stuff. This COVID BS is JUST the excuse the government AND Big Data (even more so) wanted to seize more power right before our very eyes. They're not even hiding it!

Oh, and don't think for a second that Mark Fuckerberg / Jack Dorsey / Sundar Pichai / et al are not salivating at the very thought of aggregating that kind of monetizable data on EVERYONE.

[wooley12]

Then why does he call it winning?

BTW young man, EVERYTHING is. Slippery slope. Now what are we going to do about it?

[MontuckyFried]

Then why does he call it winning?

BTW young man, EVERYTHING is. Slippery slope. Now what are we going to do about it?

We can start by not willingly handing over our lives' minute by minute details via contact tracing apps. Simple enough, right?

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[DBdude]

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.

the lying was at the local level... china is a complicated place and things are not as cut and dried as just saying you can't take china on their word. you always have to go to the opposition and dissident press based in Taiwan

that said, they have by at least a factor of ten under counted the dead in Whuhan. the 4500 does not bear scrutiny

[Viva]

...there are several vaccines in development, and we don't know which will win out as effective and safe, and how effective and safe that vaccine will be. So short answer is your question is currently unanswerable, and even when a vaccine standard is agreed upon (which in itself is not a sure thing), it'll take awhile to figure out.

Allow me to answer- Of the current SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates there is one group, virus, viral vector, and nucleic acid, that either suck or are unproven (cheap to make, though), and there is a second group of protein-based vaccines that are both proven and effective, although more expensive to manufacture.

Also, your question is also difficult to answer in that we're still figuring out, and are still uncertain on, the extent of immunity generated by people getting and recovering from SARS CoV2 as a population, given biological variability.

You mean that there's more to it than all the folks currently infected are producing antibodies targeting the spike protein, and folks who have recovered did so because they produced antibodies against the spike protein?

[DBdude]

Just think, we sent the lakers 4.5 million, but the elementary school down the street, aka germ factory, nothing.

Very short sighted relief package. Long term this will be like a war, future costs will be a multiple of the immediate damage. Getting some people back to work will require a cattle prod. Economy is toast. Socialism will be a necessity.


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socialism necessary. laughing my ass of. cattle prod to get people back to work. not really. things are going to be different, not the end of american democracy being replaced by social democracy (the style of DEMOCRACY practiced in northern europe and Italy).

[DBdude]

all the fucktards on here with the democracy is going to end because of corona is such a fucking stupid fucking arch type that camouflages a basic fear of change due to social forces that they fear are going to marginalize them

[BlatantAlias]

But we know that there's probably an order of magnitude more people infected than have actually tested positive, so any numbers that give a mortality rate based on these numbers is going to be way too high.

Agreed, but the same can be said for the Flu where not everyone that gets it is accounted for, right? Somehow we trust those figures of mortality rates for the flu wholeheartedly enough to draw a comparison with Covid to illustrate one's point one way or the other. But if we eliminate the variables and focus on just known facts like the number of people overwhelming hospitals and dying then there is no comparison to any flu season is there? 60k in 5 weeks considering the drastic measures the entire globe has taken to mitigate spread? And we STILL want to compare it to the flu? I don't get it.

[LeeLau]

Not having been educated in the US, how did your education system fall so low? Ghosts, creationism, climate change hoax, Trump. Probably should shore up critical thinking skills and readin writin ‘n rithmetic, and less on exceptionalism myths. Could take a couple of generations tho.

I'm blown away by the contempt for science. And that cuts across all political spectra

[dunfree]

H.L. Mencken once said that in America, “the general average of intelligence, of knowledge, of competence, of integrity, of self-respect, of honor is so low that any man who knows his trade, does not fear ghosts, has read fifty good books, and practices the common decencies stands out as brilliantly as a wart on a bald head.”

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/tempor...rus-censorship

Not having been educated in the US, how did your education system fall so low? Ghosts, creationism, climate change hoax, Trump. Probably should shore up critical thinking skills and readin writin ‘n rithmetic, and less on exceptionalism myths. Could take a couple of generations tho.

How? Because it’s harder to make money on the quantifiable and rational. It’s much easier to be a bullshitter with a brand. That runs from Trump to GOOP.