Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[teriyakiburns]

fucker 100% belongs in the boston area

Did nobody ever explain to him that "no" is a complete sentence? Why they gotta justify everthing, man? If you don't want to go into the candy man's house, just say no! No. I don't want to. No thanks. I'm good. Why does it have to be complicated?

 

[Panama]

If I recall earlier in the thread, someone was sharing their experience with boating and mentioned how it only takes one available crew member without a replacement to keep a ship from moving because all crew members are required due to law and safety standards.

That would be @Drain Todger, regarding WA state ferries. Amusingly, the increased bureaucratizing of different industries has made them even more vulnerable to strikes. Minimum headcounts, required certifications, health and safety regs, etc. There’s even more bottlenecks, and no one is willing to put their ass on the line to bypass them. It’s been drilled into professionals’ heads since the 70’s that if you don’t follow the rules to the letter and have all your forms signed in triplicate, some humorless men in gray suits will spitroast you and your dog in front of your children.
Moreover, no one wants to hire scabs or strikebreakers, because the feds can’t be trusted not to entrap the business owners if the politics of the strikers suddenly become favorable.

 

[The Nothingness]

not sure where to post this, but related to Fauci

Democratic strategist rips her skydiving instructor after jump for having 'arrest Fauci' helmet sticker

Democratic strategist Tracy Sefl was a big fan of her skydiving instructor until she found out he wasn’t a fan of Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to a now-deleted tweet.

www.foxnews.com

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Dissenting opinions? The horror!

 

[ddw]

something that pisses me off to no end is the governors that are more-or-less based about COVID and virus personal responsibility and shit are all against marijuana legalization to various degrees. south dakota governor even went and filed a lawsuit to prevent recreational weed from being legalized there

 

[Drain Todger]

This is fucking eerie as hell. A bunch of the search results for DRACO and Dr. Todd Rider's DARPA funding appear to have been scrubbed from existence. It took a lot of digging to find this page, which is 404ed and only available through the Wayback Machine:

MIT Lincoln Laboratory: News: DRACO

Read the ending.

Dr. Rider says that although more extensive testing is needed, "DRACO has the potential to revolutionize the treatment and prevention of virtually all viral diseases, including everything from the common cold to Ebola." He adds, "Because the antiviral activity of DRACO is so broad spectrum, we hope that it may even be useful against outbreaks of new or mutated viruses, such as the 2003 SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] outbreak."

This work is funded by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the New England Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, with previous funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Director of Defense Research & Engineering (now the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering).

Yep, I'm living in a fucking Clancy novel.

If I recall earlier in the thread, someone was sharing their experience with boating and mentioned how it only takes one available crew member without a replacement to keep a ship from moving because all crew members are required due to law and safety standards.

Yes, that's correct. Here's an example of a Coast Guard Certificate of Inspection, or COI:

See the part where it says "This vessel must be manned with the following licensed and unlicensed personnel" and then lists the exact ratings and their exact number? If you have even one single crewman less than that number of bodies aboard, you cannot sail. The lines do not come off. The boat remains tied up. This is, of course, because of safety regulations. With fewer crew, the ability to respond to emergencies is reduced. You need crew to fight fires, rescue people who have fallen overboard, engage in damage control (weld patches in the hull or build shoring, pump bilges overboard, etc.), or, if necessary, guide evacuation efforts in the case all of the above fail and you need to abandon ship.

The US Coast Guard perform regular inspections, and if they see anything out of place that may inhibit the performance of such duties as described above (such as if the vessel's equipment changes and the workload increases due to a retrofit), they may actually raise your manning requirements during a review of the vessel, and now, you can't sail unless you add even more crew.

 

[Saint Alphonsus]

something that pisses me off to no end is the governors that are more-or-less based about COVID and virus personal responsibility and shit are all against marijuana legalization to various degrees. south dakota governor even went and filed a lawsuit to prevent recreational weed from being legalized there

What if I told you that marijuana legalization was rolled out when it did so that the people would be too stoned to mount an effective resistance against tyranny?

 

[ddw]

What if I told you that marijuana legalization was rolled out when it did so that the people would be too stoned to mount an effective resistance against tyranny?

i've heard that several times before but it sounds like something someone would come up with while high themselves and is flawed as hell. from my own experience if you need to get something done you just lay off the weed and do it. i could go on longer but basically even if it were true it doesn't negate the fact that it's inherently a victimless crime

 

[Lichen Bark]

What if I told you that marijuana legalization was rolled out when it did so that the people would be too stoned to mount an effective resistance against tyranny?

Isn't that how Trudeau got elected in Canada? His whole platform was "dude, elect me, and you get weed!" It seemed very effective at the time. I feel like it was all over imageboards. I'll be honest this covid thing has me really questioning a lot about what's good for a society. I have had more to time to stop and look. Really makes you think....

edit: @ddw I realize the marijuana topic is touchy for you, but consider this, there are quite a few studies that talk about marijuana use and it's negative impacts on sleep, which is strange when you consider some people use it to fall asleep. Marijuana use actually reduces how well you sleep. Sleep is very important, and it's not even that well understood, but knowing that marijuana might be robbing people of an important stage of sleep, REM sleep, was enough for me to really think about what chronic use might be doing frequent users long term. Chronic poor sleep leads no place good, just something to think about. Poke around on Pubmed, and read a bit about REM sleep. Don't worry this is my only PSA I will mention on this subject.

 

[ddw]

Isn't that how Trudeau got elected in Canada? His whole platform was "dude, elect me, and you get weed!" It seemed very effective at the time. I feel like it was all over imageboards. I'll be honest this covid thing has me really questioning a lot about what's good for a society. I have had more to time to stop and look. Really makes you think....

if someone's platform is constitutional carry we should clearly take away everyone's guns because they're an evil ploy by the NRA to make more money and murder more schoolchildren

 

[Salubrious]

Sports crossover, but it looks like Kyrie Irving is going to sit out all Brooklyn Nets home games after all for being unvaccinated (city of NYC determined NBA players were not exempt from the mandates).

I mean, Kyrie has always seemed like he was one incident away from saying "fuck it" and retiring, so this actually doesn't surprise me.

 

[The golden neckbeard]

something that pisses me off to no end is the governors that are more-or-less based about COVID and virus personal responsibility and shit are all against marijuana legalization to various degrees. south dakota governor even went and filed a lawsuit to prevent recreational weed from being legalized there

I dunno florida is as red as can be and Weed is pretty much legal here

but you have to see a doctor

Nigger they literally hand you a prescription for as much weed as you want after 60 seconds....depression totally counts.


Weed should never be available just anywhere for anyone to smoke at anytime in public recreationally. It should be a regulated substance like alcohol and yeah a doctor should

 

[jje100010001]

Typical MSM headlines:

Yet why is Southwest filing this injunction?

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.352616/gov.uscourts.txnd.352616.11.0.pdf

 

[SouthernBitchBob]

something that pisses me off to no end is the governors that are more-or-less based about COVID and virus personal responsibility and shit are all against marijuana legalization to various degrees. south dakota governor even went and filed a lawsuit to prevent recreational weed from being legalized there

Weed smells like sauteed dog shit and I have no idea why anyone would put something that smells that awful in their mouth. Anyone I know whose smoked it long-term without exception developed heeeeeeeey duuuuuuuuuuuude stoner voice.

Now, people should be able to do what they want, and it should be treated like alcohol. I just wish potheads would have the courtesy to smoke far, far away from me. I'd almost rather smell someone who hasn't showered in a month.

 

[Shark Senpai]

Typical MSM headlines:

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Yet why is Southwest filing this injunction?

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.352616/gov.uscourts.txnd.352616.11.0.pdf

Fortunately for the MSM they can spin this narrative because it would be retarded for any pilot union to acknowledge an actual sickout or strike due to the Railway Labor Act. A Quick highlight on collective bargaining in the RLA I got off some legal website.

Definition of Major Dispute. Major disputes involve the creation or changing of collective bargaining
agreements on rates of pay, work rules and working conditions, and are subject to conciliation procedures
that are purposely long and drawn-out. Unlike other industries, collective bargaining agreements under
the RLA do not expire on certain dates, but remain in full force and effect until changed in accordance
with the procedures of the RLA.

RLA Bargaining Procedures. The RLA's procedural steps for major disputes are as follows:

- A party desiring to effect a change of rates of pay, work rules, or working conditions must give advance
written notice (so called "Section 6 notices").

- The parties must confer, and if they fail to resolve the dispute, either or both may invoke the services of
the NMB. The NMB may also offer its services if it finds a labor emergency to exist.

- The NMB can keep the parties in mediation indefinitely, so long as it feels there is a reasonable
prospect for settlement. However, if mediation fails, the NMB must endeavor to induce the parties to
submit the controversy to binding arbitration, which can take place, however, only if both consent.

- If arbitration is rejected, the parties must maintain the status quo for a 30-day period. If the NMB
determines that the dispute threatens "substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as
to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service," the NMB shall notify the
President, who may create a PEB to investigate the dispute for a 30-day period and issue non-binding
recommendations for resolving the dispute. The parties typically agree to PEB requests for extensions of
time to further study a dispute. The last stages of the conciliation procedures differ slightly for publicly
funded and operated rail commuter carriers.

- While the dispute is working its way through these stages, and for an additional 30 days following the
issuance of the PEB's report, the parties must maintain the status quo , and cannot utilize self-help
measures. Although not specifically provided for in the RLA, the NMB typically works with the parties to
try to induce a last-minute settlement or voluntary extension of the status quo.

- If, after the final 30-day status quo period has expired, a settlement has not been reached, the parties
are free to resort to self-help and cannot be enjoined from doing so.

While it's not impossible for them to strike legally, pilots I know who work for companies other than Southwest bitch all the time about their unions, how inept and useless the unions are, and the fact that they cant take matters into their own hands and just strike.

 

[Dona Morte]

Oooof.
Anyway I would be willing to share this in a non-copyright infringing way.
Advice?
On Disney Plus.
OF COURSE.

 

[Getting tard comed]

Sports crossover, but it looks like Kyrie Irving is going to sit out all Brooklyn Nets home games after all for being unvaccinated (city of NYC determined NBA players were not exempt from the mandates).

I mean, Kyrie has always seemed like he was one incident away from saying "fuck it" and retiring, so this actually doesn't surprise me.

All respect to Kyrie. He's redpilled on the round earth question and now he's gonna be the face of the antivaxx movement for athletes.

While all of that sounds like a bad thing... idk how it's gonna turn out. Respect nonetheless.

 

[SouthernBitchBob]

I do have a morbid fascination with the mind of a Branch Covidian. Their thread over in Lolcow Cults is just endless "FOOLS! They're all FOOLS! Going to get sick and DIE! Science Priests know better!"

Almost two years. We're not dead. Stats keep proving us right. Every kuh-raaaaaazy "conspiracy theory" comes true three months after the prediction. Every one of their justifications follows the tired "we're not doing X and here's why X is a good thing" lolgic. Are they human? Zombies? Automatons? That much cognitive dissonance with the world in front of their faces must have caused a burst blood vessel or two. Right?

 

[Drain Todger]

I do have a morbid fascination with the mind of a Branch Covidian. Their thread over in Lolcow Cults is just endless "FOOLS! They're all FOOLS! Going to get sick and DIE! Science Priests know better!"

Almost two years. We're not dead. Stats keep proving us right. Every kuh-raaaaaazy "conspiracy theory" comes true three months after the prediction. Every one of their justifications follows the tired "we're not doing X and here's why X is a good thing" lolgic. Are they human? Zombies? Automatons? That much cognitive dissonance with the world in front of their faces must have caused a burst blood vessel or two. Right?

I was pretty freaked out at first, just like them. But then, I looked at the statistics, and observed how the sky is objectively not falling, and how, if you turn off the news, every day has pretty much been like every other damn day.

Then, I realized I'd been had. And that made me very ticked off.

 

[Jarolleon]

something that pisses me off to no end is the governors that are more-or-less based about COVID and virus personal responsibility and shit are all against marijuana legalization to various degrees. south dakota governor even went and filed a lawsuit to prevent recreational weed from being legalized there

Maybe it's rooted in a strong dislike for unnecessary drug pushing in general, whether they're cooked up by Big Pharma or Juan? I wonder what their views on the psychiatric profession are...

 

[ddw]