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Having any symptoms at all with this virus is rare.
If 4.8 billion people get infected with COVID-19 (as some epidemiologists have indicated with claims like it infecting 60% of the globe), then 4.32 to 4.56 billion will be completely asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms the entire time they have it.
Of the 240 to 480 million who develop noticeable symptoms, 48 to 96 million will have severe or critical COVID-19 and may die from it, and if the virus is allowed to rampage out of control, that latter group will die. All of them. More people than the number who died in WWII. That’s what could happen if we did nothing.
As it is, we’re already on track for a recession worse than the subprime lending crisis. Our global economy is such an over-leveraged pile of bullshit that a couple months of severely reduced industrial activity is enough to set us up for a decade of hell.
Haven't you considered that this thing might actually start a shooting war in our lifetimes?
Russian warships in English Channel prompt UK Navy shadowing operation
Nine Royal Navy ships have completed a "concentrated operation" to shadow seven Russian warships, the British Royal Navy said Thursday, citing "unusually high levels of activity" in the English Channel and North Sea.
www.cnn.com
The plot dickens!
They all know. I had multiple people contact me all like “Why are you posting on Kiwifarms?” without any prompting at all.
Just, out of the blue, like they stalked me all the way here. I didn’t tell anyone. They all figured it out on their own.
Isn’t that kinda fucking weird? I mean, I don’t dig into their posting habits on other sites.
Imagine how catty these people are. “OMG *THASF* is posting on Kiwifarms, we must scold *THASF* now!”
Jesus. Get a life.
The truth is far less tragic and far more autistic than you can possibly imagine.
I was one of the earliest adopters of Xbox Live. I mean, I had an account right when MechAssault originally came out in ‘02. I picked the name b00msl4ng, after the excellent Razer Boomslang mouse. People made fun of it over voice chat.
“Boomslangalanga”, like boomshakalaka. The Boomslang is a species of snake, ffs.
Next, I used the GT “Querulus”, which is Latin for “inclined to argue/quarrel”, but people made fun of that over voice chat, too.
“Yo Queerulus you suck balls.”
“Queer-rule-us? Wow, what a fag.”
One day, in Halo 2, I played a match of Team Snipers on the map Terminal.
For the uninitiated, this is what Terminal looks like:
My entire team quit right at the beginning of the match, because they were deranking. Deranking in XBL is when someone throws a match on purpose so they get matched up against weaker opponents they can beat more easily.
It was me versus four guys, all alone. I realized that in Snipers, that was not a disadvantage at all. You see, in close combat, attritional damage will chip away at your health and wear you down, but with sniping, it’s all about the headshots. Also, their scoring was dependent on my deaths. All I had to do to win was go positive. The enemy lined up, confident in their forthcoming win and superior numbers. They hadn’t counted on my perseverance.
We squared off in the train station, over and over again. I started killing them, one by one. I was consistently taking down one or two of them for every time I died. I was winning. They were losing, and they were furious.
“Quit, quiiiiit you motherfucker!” They screamed on voice chat. They even threw in some gang-teabagging to drive the point home, but I didn’t care. Every time I respawned, I calmly, methodically kept sniping them.
They tried bringing a Warthog into the equation. As they tried running me over, I lured them out onto the tracks, and the speeding maglev train that crosses the map crushed their conveyance like a tin can, its flaming wreck launched out of the train station and hurled to the ground below. I beat them with a 1.8 K/D. The post-game trash talk was a stream of loud invective.
I opened up the Gamertag change menu.
From then on, I was Train Dodger.
What's the firs thing that comes to mind when you read a title that says;
Pope Explicitly Condemns Trickle Down Economics as Immoral - and Ineffective
Well obviously it's "snap my neck cyber daddy".
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and chauffeured limousine for a simple apartment and the city bus. I do have problem with this, since he is who he is the threat to his life is too great to take unnecessary risks. I want to give the new pope a hug. He's that awesome. And based on everything I have read about Francis, he...forums.spacebattles.com
Someone on TV Tropes (not me) thought that was good enough to quote, if you can believe it:
SpaceBattles.com / Quotes - TV Tropes
Peptuck (yes, that Peptuck) Others....Goddammit, Spacebattles. I'm paranoid enough about derails as is!
Wait till you get to the Sarkeesian freak-outs where I got brutally dogpiled by SJWs all day while I tried championing creative freedom in fiction, and the perennial feuds between me and Gamesguy, a Chinese expat slumlord living in California who makes money flipping houses and brags about the Patek Philippe watches that he bought with money that he made from gentrifying neighborhoods and making them unaffordable for average Joes. I tried convincing him that money wasn’t real. He didn’t take it too well.
You are in for a treat.
