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Every day I go to check Alabama's corona report, and every day I see that someone has already archived the current day's update before me. It's a good feel. :semperfidelis:

"In December 2019, a new (or novel) human coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) type emerged in China."

I keep watching to see if that line ever mysteriously changes or disappears, but so far Alabama is calling a spade a spade.

General situation report from suburban Lower Alabama is business as usual, only slower. I'm seeing a lot of families and kids playing/working outdoors since schools aren't in session. If people are feeling the pressure, they aren't showing it yet.
 
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Mr. Manchester said:
So if Corona spreads through water droplets, isn't vaping the ultimate spreading method? Couldn't someone just go carpet bomb the fuck out of people with a big ass vape exhale?

(Correct thread this time)
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ultimate swerve is that time vaping was killing everybody was secretly Winnie The Flu
 
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Non-Expert! said:
Problem is much more complex than what it seems. Los Angeles really has become "Los Assholes" (I renamed it after living here for about 5 years).

Unfortunately many of the homeless are also "Assholes" and if you want to gain a basic understanding of this problem, pay a visit and drive thru the flower district, turned Skid Row, after 6 pm, when they set up camp.

Although you can't say this about every homeless person, by any means, the ones downtown would probably not accept help, even if you offered it to them. In general, these folks are very sick, physically and mentally. We are talking about the kind of people who get into a fistfight with a mailbox, because the mailbox disrespected them.

Granted you can round them up and put them in a mental institution, but you have to have the staffing, and the collective will, on the part of this population, to take medications with awful side effects and to live basically incarcerated. You also have to have the will, among the taxpayer and health systems, to fund such an operation.

And you have to have very special people who are willing to help folks who they might place on a gurney, and when they turn around to check on them, the patient tries to take his or her hepatitis shit-infested fingernail to the responder's eyeball.

Perhaps this Wu-Flu might be enough to persuade the non-crazy homeless to give up panhandling and soup kitchens, and life a settled life and be boring. Who knows?
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I was born and raised in California, I understand the problem of wealthy liberal urbanites running cities into the ground for their benefit very well. The San Francisco Public Works Director was recently indicted for bribery and embezzlement. He tried to steer contracts to build homeless shelters, portable toilets and a restaurant to his pals. The homeless are left to stew in drug addiction, mental illness and alcohol on the streets while the money to help them goes into someone's pocket. That's just one recent example but there are many.

California is probably the wealthiest and most technologically advanced state in the Union and you believe the primary reason people are living in the streets is because it's their fault? Wake up sister.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Did I say we needed to fight CCP propaganda in my last post? I forgot to add that should include an angry mob of Georgians with a guillotine marching into downtown Atlanta.
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Oh if you really want to get weird, check out this FARA filing for China Global Television Network, CGTV (Formerly CCTV). That name might ring a bell if you remember that the Chinese journalist who was turned away from the White House for running a fever, was a journalist who just happened to be from CGTV. It's pretty interesting that even this seemingly-innocuous company has deals that tie directly to companies like CNN and AP and Reuters, which just happen to be all the same companies that are pushing Chinese propaganda as hard as they can, all of the sudden.

I sincerely doubt that's an accident.
 
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Slap47 said:
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Is eating horse, frog and gator even that bad? Pretty sure everybody eats that tbh.

Although, I thought Americans were horrified by the idea of eating horse. I know the Mongolians do it.
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I'd shy away from those based on the fact that I can have beef (I love steak), but no, eating those animals aren't bad.

It's entirely possible to pick up prion diseases, but those are rare. I know lizards like alligators can carry salmonella, but then, so do eggs on occasion. Just prepare and cook the alligator properly, and you should be good to go.

Why the hell anyone would eat a bat when it has a small body and disgustingly leathery wings is fucking beyond me.
 
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Shield Breaker said:
My job last week 'We will not fire anyone.'

My job today 'Part timers gtfo.'

I know that it sounds awful, but I am torn between feeling bad for them and being glad I not only have a necessary position, but also seniority .
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Any idiots that still believe that their "corporate family" values them have now had that dream shattered. Based on this, I think this whole problem is a good thing overall.
 
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Slap47 said:
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Is eating horse, frog and gator even that bad? Pretty sure everybody eats that tbh.

Although, I thought Americans were horrified by the idea of eating horse. I know the Mongolians do it.
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isnt the issue less that they are eating these animals

and more the animals are kept in disgusting disease ridden wet markets?
 
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Yes, that's possible due to the fact that the ships aren't designed to treat Chinese Virus patients, but rather the USNS Comfort & Mercy will be treating trauma patients as well as other emergency patients in order to ease the overflow at hospitals, and help free up capacity and allow for more resources to be dedicated to the COVID patients. Good job at trying to mislead everyone though. Cunts.
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It's also because both ships had just returned from extended tours and entered refit and training cycles and will take some time to get put back together, staffed and out to sea. Although in theory they could probably sail them up the coasts, get them to New York and San Francisco, and finish any needed mechanical work while they are in port there.
 
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melty said:
I also just want to point out, and I've been meaning to say this for awhile, that while everybody is sperging about Chinese people eating bats and how they're dirty and they suck, it was CHINESE PEOPLE in WUHAN who were very early on posting videos warning the WORLD about what was really going on there, at great risk to themselves. I know nothing will stop racist kiwi shitposters so I almost never even try, but some people really need to calm down.
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The culture needs to change with how many people in China approach hygiene and their unconventional/gross eating habits in the name of "health." Culture is undoubtedly part of the problem with all that has happened.

That said, though, the Chinese Communist Government deserves most of the blame and anger. They have the power to stop these wet shops, and they don't. They had the responsibility to inform the entire world of what was happening several months ago, and they censored and arrested people who tried to do the right thing.

And right now, South Korea is being hit with a second wave of the virus, because lots of people from China are fleeing the country, and spreading it to other areas in Asia now. And the Chinese government is doing absolute jack shit about it (which, honestly, should be considered an act of war at this point).

Fuck the Chinese Communist Government. Fuck them, fuck them, fuck them.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Did I say we needed to fight CCP propaganda in my last post? I forgot to add that should include an angry mob of Georgians with a guillotine marching into downtown Atlanta.
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My 2020 New Years resolution was to finally start watching The Walking Dead and binge it from the start.

I have learned that guys, it’s really important that we don’t go to Atlanta
 
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It's HK-47 said:
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Yes, that's possibly due to the fact that the ships aren't designed to treat Chinese Virus patients, but rather the USNS Comfort & Mercy will be treating trauma patients as well as other emergency patients in order to ease the overflow at hospitals, and help free up capacity and allow for more resources to be dedicated to the COVID patients. Good job at trying to mislead everyone though. Cunts.
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It's basically like that other bluecheck on Twitter earlier who was yelling about how we have tons of ventilators but hospitals won't buy them.

The majority of hospitals run on razor-thin margins. And now clinical staff are going into OT, so...how about you just get the federal government to buy them, loan them to the hospitals and then they can go in the strategic reserve later?

Nobody really understands how our healthcare system works, except they know it's bad and wrong.

And where the fuck is my PPE?
 
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Wonderful news! Warms my heart that 300 of the smartest best qualified and selfless humans could come together to design this so quickly, and allow everyone in the world to build it. There are literally hundreds of nations and tens of thousands of hospitals that, with this design, if the worst happens and supply chains are broken and ventilators are needed, this will save the lives of their patients.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/19/o...ilator-validation-prototype-in-just-one-week/

"In a great example of what can happen when smart, technically-oriented people come together in a time of need, an open-source hardware project started by a group including Irish entrepreneur Colin Keogh and Breeze Automation CEO and co-founder Gui Calavanti has produced a prototype ventilator using 3D-printed parts and readily available, inexpensive material. The ventilator prototype was designed and produced in just seven days, after the project spun up on Facebook and attracted participation from over 300 engineers, medical professionals and researchers."

"The prototype will now enter into a validation process by the Irish Health Services Executive (HSE), the country’s health regulatory body. This will technically only validate it for use in Ireland, which ironically looks relatively well-stocked for ventilator hardware, but it will be a key stamp of approval that could pave the way for its deployment across countries where there are shortages, including low-income nations."
 
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