Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[EmuWarsVeteran]

Its for Safety, there could be jizz in your throat, but it normaly doesnt goes into the nose.

You don't know him well enough to make that assertion! Having jizz in your nose is perfectly normal in some cultures.

Sources within the extended Swedish government says that politicians have spent their time laying the groundwork for their own inculpability for when people find out what a complete clusterfuck everything has been. Massive incompetence on a decision making level. Heads will roll when things have settled down.

That's weird. I've probably been the most critical towards the swedes here and even I don't think they did it THAT bad. I mean sure a lotta migrants and some boomers kicked the bucket but their healthcare didn't even collapse for a few hours. Usually it takes a whole hospital meltdown to see the first head rolling.

 

[GloriousRapeRabbit]

You don't know him well enough to make that assertion! Having jizz in your nose is perfectly normal in some cultures.



That's weird. I've probably been the most critical of the swedes here and even I don't think they did it THAT bad. I mean sure a lotta migrants and some boomers kicked the bucket but their healthcare didn't even collapse for a few hours. Usually it takes a whole hospital meltdown to see the first head rolling.

Heads never roll in sweden, people are pretty satisfied with the situation overall. I cant say i have come across any outcry whatsoever about the situation from the people i meet except a bit from nurses and people within elderly care, but they have been mumbling for so many years without taking action nobody really cares about them anymore.

No heads will roll in sweden. Nobody here cares. It is overall a very apathetic nation regarding most things.

 

[FuckedUp]

Heads never roll in sweden, people are pretty satisfied with the situation overall. I cant say i have come across any outcry whatsoever about the situation from the people i meet except a bit from nurses and people within elderly care, but they have been mumbling for so many years without taking action nobody really cares about them anymore.

No heads will roll in sweden. Nobody here cares. It is overall a very apathetic nation regarding most things.

If anything, I think Sweden's become the least likely place for heads to roll in the western world.

 

[Stoneheart]

Sources within the extended Swedish government says that politicians have spent their time laying the groundwork for their own inculpability for when people find out what a complete clusterfuck everything has been. Massive incompetence on a decision making level. Heads will roll when things have settled down.

They dont care about bombs going off daily, why should they care about this?

 

[deeplyhigh]

Thanks for the setup, Anon

One word: equity.

Anyway, enough off topic shitposting...

A local reporter from NY is upset that the plebs are telling him that he’s bad at his job. An alarming level of anger.

Source/Archive

Trump has retweeted the video twice now, which gets the reporter‘s dick extra hard.

Source/Archive


Source/Archive


Source #1/Archive #1
Source #2/Archive #2

Local upload of the video from Twitter...please excuse the screen recording, on mobile but wanted to get a copy saved here.

 

[JosephStalin]

What an utter fucking dumbshit. For the life of me, unless you are going to Hawaii on business, to visit family, or are on military orders, why go there at all, with their 14-day quarantine?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/new-york-tourist-arrested-after-posting-hawaii-beach-photos/ar-BB149Aki?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=mailsignout

https://archive.vn/YCEB5

Here's some news regarding Major League Baseball. Reading all this shit, the ONLY reason I can see the baseball season happening at all this year is to meet contractual commitments with the networks. Going to be lots of people, like me, who have paid to watch their team via streaming and now will apparently have to accept this farce. Without the fans, a baseball game is little more than a scrimmage or a practice game. Hardly of interest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/is-baseball-coming-back-here-s-the-latest-news-on-mlb-player-negotiations-to-restart-season/ar-BB13VdIU?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=mailsignout

https://archive.vn/tUuWT

Looking ahead to the NFL season, if fans can't attend normally and games are played without fans those games will also look like just scrimmages. However, since the NFL season consists of relatively few games, people are more likely to watch those games. NHL/NBA will be in the same fix. They can play only in front of all the fans or none of the fans.
Going to be a bad year for those who place their ads during the various sports broadcasts. Far fewer eyes to watch commercials. Far fewer people who may be able to buy the product/service advertised.


On a totally different subject, made the commissary run this morning. Supply of chicken okay. Little pork. Not a lot of beef - no hamburger. Paid $25 for a pack of three strip steaks, about twice what I would have paid a few weeks ago. But we aren't a huge meat-eating family, anyway. Water overall good. Didn't have wife's brand of water in the 2.5 gallon bottles. Got two one-gallon bottles. Wife asked me to go on Fridays from now on, maybe a better chance to get everything. Egg supply good. Local brand of butter on sale - $2.85/pound. Bought two pounds, put deep in the freezer as a reserve. Should last for a very long time. That freezer freezes shit real good and hard. Plenty of bread, bakery items. Still almost no Asian foods available, but plenty of rice. Dishwashing liquid rather sparse but scored a large bottle of my brand.

Noticed a large amount of a new brand of toilet paper/paper towels. Checked to see where the brand, Fiora, was made. Made here in the USA. Toilet paper looked good, didn't look at the paper towels since I only like Viva in the signature cloth choose-a-size sheet mode. Had a bunch of large (800-count) packages of Bounty napkins. Got one. I like these much more than the brand we bought before. Tells me the Defense Commissary Agency is working to find alternative suppliers for certain goods. Told the commissary manager someone needs to make up a "lessons learned" book/document for use when the next calamity hits.

https://fiorabrand.com/

Have found we aren't using tissues at the previous rate. Still have four or five boxes from the case I bought online a while back. Supplies of tissues at the commissary limited but improving.

 

[Shaka Brah]

So it seems like being a melanoid might not prevent infection after all... In fact, being a Kween or Kang subjects you to a substantially higher likelihood of Chinese Virus even when compared to people with pre-existing conditions like obesity and diabetes.

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1261425069537951744

Eric Topol on Twitter: "New, a unique window into the community "univ…

archived 16 May 2020 20:34:16 UTC

archive.is

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

You don't know him well enough to make that assertion! Having jizz in your nose is perfectly normal in some cultures.

I believe they call it a neti pot.

 

[JosephStalin]

So it seems like being a melanoid might not prevent infection after all... In fact, being a Kween or Kang subjects you to a substantially higher likelihood of Chinese Virus even when compared to people with pre-existing conditions like obesity and diabetes.

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1261425069537951744

https://archive.li/zUVk2

Still wonder if having a surgically repaired heart is any sort of risk factor. Anyone have anything on that, yea or nay? Thanks!

 

[Allanon]

Had a cabbie rant for a while about how angry he was with the governor for excessive lockdowns and overreaching declarations. Not sure if it's a thing but the cabbie seemed sure that the gov had ruled businesses weren't allowed to hire new people, and police could fine/arrest people outside displaying symptoms. He was very angry at the idea he might be forced into lockdown until he might then be made to take a rushed vaccine.

If nothing else, the local discontent is starting to boil over into people just making up dystopic things and getting angrier over them. From what I can tell, the hiring freeze only actually applies to the government because the lockdown ravaged its budget, but it's really not a good position to be in if your people are angry enough with you that they jump to the worst conclusions and then spread those around to anyone who will listen.

 

[JosephStalin]

Had a cabbie rant for a while about how angry he was with the governor for excessive lockdowns and overreaching declarations. Not sure if it's a thing but the cabbie seemed sure that the gov had ruled businesses weren't allowed to hire new people, and police could fine/arrest people outside displaying symptoms. He was very angry at the idea he might be forced into lockdown until he might then be made to take a rushed vaccine.

If nothing else, the local discontent is starting to boil over into people just making up dystopic things and getting angrier over them. From what I can tell, the hiring freeze only actually applies to the government because the lockdown ravaged its budget, but it's really not a good position to be in if your people are angry enough with you that they jump to the worst conclusions and then spread those around to anyone who will listen.

Sorry to double post, but this is entirely to be expected. Am surprised to see no widespread violence so far. States need to move quicker on lifting house arrests. And, as previously mentioned, the bonds of trust between the people and government/law enforcement have been gravely damaged, possibly irreparably. Likely more and more people are no longer giving their consent to be governed, least by these fools. May not matter to "them" right now, but they will reap the "benefits" of removal of consent later. A common-sense approach to these house arrests would have worked immeasurably better.

Would say it's being recognized that the pattern of one-size-fits-all, relatively inflexible house arrests may have been one of the worst, if not the worst things the applicable states have ever done.

 

[Allanon]

Sorry to double post, but this is entirely to be expected. Am surprised to see no widespread violence so far. States need to move quicker on lifting house arrests. And, as previously mentioned, the bonds of trust between the people and government/law enforcement have been gravely damaged, possibly irreparably. Likely more and more people are no longer giving their consent to be governed, least by these fools. May not matter to "them" right now, but they will reap the "benefits" of removal of consent later. A common-sense approach to these house arrests would have worked immeasurably better.

Would say it's being recognized that the pattern of one-size-fits-all, relatively inflexible house arrests may have been one of the worst, if not the worst things the applicable states have ever done.

Americans are just much less violent than the media would have the world believe. It takes a long time or a lot of insult to change 'enraged' to 'violent'. The people in my local area are full on enraged and despise the governor - enough that on-the-clock employees have now multiple times just stated flat out they will ignore the orders because they don't like them, nd don't even hesitate to spread information that's been skewed out of proportion. Also, there's some local businesses who've decided to just quietly reopen as cash-only and call ahead, because they'd rather break the orders than go under forever. What's amazing, frankly, is that these governors making their insane proclamations and thinking they can keep the nation locked down to Independence Day or later can't seem to comprehend that everyone reviles them, and people as a whole are not happily going along with each proclamation, or sighing in resignation and saying "Well, I don't like that I have to do it, but since you said so..." - it's just going to lead to a full scale rejection of the lockdowns, and out of touch governors rushing to save face by opening up after it's too late, losing them the effective ability to ever force it closed in the future again.

 

[Cycleye]

I don't think this has been posted but I may have missed it. In association with the Imperial Chinese University just makes it smell even more ...

Help COVID-19 and cancer research with DreamLab | Vodafone

Join a connected UK to take the fight to COVID-19 and cancer while you sleep - on our free, secure app.

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[CeleryStalks]

Michigan, USA

Sheriff of Genesee County, Chris Swanson (D), announces his department will not be strictly enforcing Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D)'s shutdown orders. Genesee County is home of Flint, notorious for lead in its water, and is our 4th most afflicted county (after the Detroit Metro tri-counties), with a population of ~426,000, 1,845 cases and 232 deaths.

It is dangerous for police officers to determine what’s right and what’s wrong. Otherwise I could look at Lafayette (Boulevard in Detroit) and say: 'You know, by the order of the sheriff, I don’t agree with the speed limit. Go as fast as you want.' I can’t do that. But what I can do is say: 'I’m not going to park cars there and pull over everybody going one (mph) over.' I tell this to my people in Genesee County, because I have seen people and I have seen people on the nursing side... the business side, they’re dying. We have not raided a business. We have not shut a business down. We’re not pulling people over. We’re not writing tickets. And don’t expect us to do it.

Genesee County sheriff: 'Don't expect us' to enforce state pandemic orders

"We have not raided a business. We have not shut a business down," Sheriff Chris Swanson said

www.detroitnews.com

(archive)

Follow-up on two unofficial reopenings I mentioned before:

The Capri Drive-in theatre reopened Friday, as they previously stated they would. Branch County has a population of ~45,000, 95 cases, and 2 deaths.
Chris Boger, the president of Branch County Gay Pride, called the police to report this violation of the Governor's executive orders, saying "They decided that they were going to open again and that they needed money more than the concern for the health of our community. We have two deaths, keep doing these type events then we go to 100 deaths, then where are we at because you wanted money,"
Sgt. Todd Price from the Michigan State Police arrived to make sure that they were following through on their stated intentions to forbid customers to leave their cars and to limit capacity to 50%. He does not seem to have issued any citations or the like as of yet, but the agency never comments before an enforcement action.

Moviegoers pack Michigan drive-in theater, defying Whitmer’s stay-home order

“It’s all a double standard,” the theater owner said while opening with two double features on Friday, May 15.

www.mlive.com

(archive)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/2020/05/15/capri-drive-opens-season-state-police-take-complaint/5203418002/

(archive)

Hair stylist Sarah Huff, of Holland, MI, reopened her salon Friday, with a limit of one customer in the waiting room at a time, and various other precautions. Holland straddles the Ottawa-Allegan border, which two counties have between them ~375,000 population, 692 cases, and 26 deaths.

Holland police Capt. Keith Mulder said the police have requested “voluntary compliance” from Huff as of Friday.
He said no citations have been issued to any Holland businesses, so far, for violating the governor’s order.
“If further action is required because of a possible continuing violation, we send the complaint to the Ottawa County Prosecutor’s Office for a decision on enforcement or further action,” he wrote in an email.

Ms. Huff said she would likely comply with a cease-and-desist order.

‘It’s about the principle of everything,’ says Holland salon owner defying Whitmer’s coronavirus order closures

Sarah Huff opened Ardor and Grit on Friday, May 15.

www.mlive.com

(archive)

Spoiler: Michigan Recap

SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN
Shelter-in-place order from Tuesday March 24 to Monday April 13. Friday, May 1, Friday, May 15, May 28 May 1, maybe? (archive) (executive order saved on KF) . The Republican-controlled legislature has refused to extend Governor Whitmer's emergency authority. Governor Whitmer insists her emergency orders are all still in effect (Rundown on the laws).
State attorney general Dana Nessel (D) is also leaving enforcement of the stay-at-home order to local discretion until the courts weigh in on it (archive). She has stated Governor Whitmer's orders are valid and are to be enforced (archive). The legislature is not calling for civil disobedience at this time (archive).
The legislature has filed a lawsuit against the governor (archive). Oral arguments were heard May 15 (archive). The judge's decision is pending, but will most likely be appealed either way.
State senate leader Mike Shirkey (R) is also supporting a petition drive to change the law. Such a petition would require 340,047 signatures to be collected. It would be veto-proof if approved by the legislature, and would go on the next general election ballot if denied by them (archive 1, archive 2, archive 3).
U. S. Rep Paul Mitchell (R - The Thumb) has filed a lawsuit independently against Governor Whitmer, in federal district court. Link, pdf on KF. He has also founded a committee to work on the petition recommended by Sen. Shirkey.
There have been at least nine other lawsuits against Governor Whitmer's actions during this crisis, mostly regarding the shut-down order, in various stages of progress and in various courts (summary of eight of them). However, "all deadlines applicable to the commencement of all civil and probate actions and proceedings" are suspended until the end of the states of emergency and disaster. Executive order, and thus in limbo. (archive).

OTHER SHUTDOWNS
Recap from NPR
Major protest at the State Capitol April 15 (A&N thread). Minor protest outside Governor's Mansion April 23 (archive). Protest at the State Capitol April 30 (A&N Thread). Protest at the capitol May 14 (archive).
Auto manufacturing resuming May 18. (archive)

ECONOMY AND MISCELLANY
Over 1 million unemployment claims filed = 10% of the total population of the state, nearly 25% of the workforce (Archive - April 16).
Massive phone-tracking project reveals Michigan travel is slowly creeping back up (website).
Car crashes are down, fatal car crashes are down, and overall death is actually down. (archive - April 12)
The State is facing a $2.5 billion budget shortage (archive).

FREE STUFF!
Evictions suspended while the state of emergency lasts (archive) Executive order. May or may not still be valid.
Water will be turned back on for all households while the crisis lasts (archive) Executive order. May or may not still be valid.

HEALTH CARE
Hydroxychloroquine banned by governor's order (archive). Nevermind LOL! Now she's asking the federal government for it and claiming the ban was a mistake in the first place. (archive). Detroit-area hospitals are testing the drug's effectiveness as a preventative on first responders and health-care workers (archive). Article on results, May 8 (archive).
Elective surgeries are banned. Maybe? Who knows. If/when in effect, abortions were not included in the ban (thread).
At any rate, hospitals are resuming elective surgeries.
Up-to-date count of available hospital beds, etc. in the State (the Detroit area is "Section 2, North and South.")(government website)
State of affairs May 5 - about half as many hospitalized cases and ICU cases as on April 12 (archive).
Detroit field hospital, capacity 1,000, closed. Never had many more than 20 at any time. (archive, May 7).

LAW AND ORDER
All localities given more discretion to release prisoners early (archive). It was an executive order. Who knows if it's still valid?
Lansing (the capitol) police are not physically responding to minor crimes such as larceny, property damage, and break-ins to unoccupied buildings, including garages. Other police are adopting similar policies (archive) (archive).
Detroit shootings up, but most other crime down (archive - April 30); Muskegon police report crime is up (archive).
Breaking the lockdown is a misdemeanor, punishable by $1500 fines and 90 days jail time. (Still valid???) Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) has stated there will not be a "ramp up" of police enforcement (archive). The attorney general has left it to local law enforcement to close businesses, as her hands are full with price-gougers and con artists (archive).
The police cannot, at present, pull drivers over simply for being out during the shutdown (archive). Multiple sherrifs from the rural north to Detroit suburbs have stated they will not be enforcing parts or the entirety of the order (archive).

OFFICIAL DEATH TOLL

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reviews deaths and adds overlooked cases to the count three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Recovery counts are updated on Saturdays.
19 deaths were added today.

Regular reviews of death certificate data maintained in Vital Records reporting systems are conducted by MDHHS staff three times per week. As a part of this process, records that identify COVID-19 infection as a contributing factor to death are compared against all laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS). If a death certificate is matched to a confirmed COVID-19 case and that record in the MDSS does not indicate the individual died, the MDSS record is updated to indicate the death and the appropriate local health department is notified. These matched deaths are then included with mortality information posted to the Michigan Coronavirus website.

Note on recovery: During this response, MDHHS is reviewing vital records statistics to identify any laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases who are 30 days out from their onset of illness to represent recovery status. As the pandemic continues to impact Michigan, this pool will expand to include more cases. Recovered is defined as the number of persons with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis who are alive 30 days post-onset (or referral date if onset is not available). The number of persons recovered on May 15, 2020 represents COVID-19 confirmed individuals with an onset date on or prior to April 15, 2020. If an individual dies from a COVID-related cause >30 days from onset/referral, they are removed from the number of persons recovered. These numbers will be updated every Saturday.

Detroit Metro (pop. 3,860,000 total; 1,796/sq. mi.; 694/sq km):*

33,343 confirmed / 3,861 dead
33,150 confirmed / 3,817 dead yesterday
(i.e. 44 new deaths, down 61 from this day last week)
Normal Detroit Metro Death Rate: 104 per day.**

Other Michigan (6,120,000; 65/sq. mi.; 25/sq km):

17,161 confirmed / 1,019 dead
16,929 confirmed / 1,008 dead yesterday
(i.e. 11 new deaths, down 9 from this day last week)
Normal not-Detroit Death Rate: 167 per day**

All Michigan (9,990,000; 103/sq. mi.; 40/sq km):

50,504 confirmed / 4,880 dead / 28,234 recovered
50,079 confirmed / 4,825 dead yesterday
46,756 confirmed / 4,526 dead / 22,686 recovered last week
(i.e. 55 new deaths, down 78 from this day last week, down 30 without adjustments)
(354 dead (down 152) and 5,548 declared recovered (down 1,479) since last week)
Normal Michigan Death Rate: 271 per day.**

Death toll doubled since: April 19.
We have been (were?) locked down since: March 24 (until April 30?),
Masks have been mandatory in stores since: April 27 (until April 30?).

Detroit Metro Daily Deaths Last Seven Days:
18 / 15 / 69*** / 25 / 27*** / 18 / 26*** = 241***

State Government site, daily - today's archive;
State Gov site, total, includes breakdowns by sex, age, race and ethnicity - today's archive.
*Here defined as the City of Detroit, and Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties, minus state and federal prisoners, who are not counted towards any county's cases, but are kept in categories of their own.
** As of 2018.
*** 19, 35, and 19 statewide deaths, respectively, were added on these days upon State review. Presumably most were in Detroit, but I don't know exactly how many.
One Ann Arbor man allegedly killed by his roommate in a Corona-related dispute (archive). The suspect has been released from custody while the investigation continues (archive).
One Flint security guard allegedly murdered for telling a woman that her daughter needed to wear a mask in a dollar store. Multiple suspects are in custody (archive, A&N thread).

 

[Bender]

and the children.....dear god is nobody thinking about the children?

Nah, I don't give a shit about them, I'm more important.

 

[NyQuilninja]

EDIT: Too much personal insight. TL;DR: Lockdown has been bad for my physical and mental health.

@Slappy McGherkin That looks great. I wish I could go there. If Trump would let me in I'd probably be happy to rent a place for a month or two and just live in Alabama for a bit.

You don't want to live in Alabama minor power leveling I have a relative that lives there it is a third-world shithole that isn't an exaggeration it is the poorest place in the United States and I mean all of it is a poverty cesspool

ALABAMA HAS THE WORST POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD, U.N. OFFICIAL SAYS
https://alabamapossible.org/2019/07...0000-alabamians-live-below-poverty-threshold/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-poverty-environmental-racism-743601?amp=1
https://www.al.com/news/2018/11/alabamas-place-on-the-list-of-most-dangerous-states.html
Alabama’s place on the list of most-dangerous states

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....tables/table-6/table-6-state-cuts/alabama.xls

 

[Flaming Carrot]

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/14/855641420/with-school-buildings-closed-children-s-mental-health-is-suffering

Pediatrician Urges Early Reopening Of Schools : NPR

archived 15 May 2020 05:07:17 UTC

archive.is

I think the article would have better if it had pointed out that other countries are re-opening their schools, but it's encouraging to see someone pointing out, at NPR of all places, that isolating children for months on end is a bad thing.

Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor’s Visits

Afraid of Covid-19, parents are postponing well-child checkups, including shots, putting millions of children at risk of exposure to preventable deadly diseases.

www.nytimes.com

Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor’s Visits - The…

archived 23 Apr 2020 12:32:43 UTC

archive.is

People aren't taking their kids to get vaccinated because they're scared of leaving the house. I don't understand how people don't understand that kids are largely unaffected by Coronavirus, but they can die as a result of the diseases we vaccinate for. I genuinely don't get how our nation's governors are ordering playgrounds wrapped up in police tape ostensibly to keep children safe, but they're not sounding off about this 24/7.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Americans are just much less violent than the media would have the world believe. It takes a long time or a lot of insult to change 'enraged' to 'violent'. The people in my local area are full on enraged and despise the governor - enough that on-the-clock employees have now multiple times just stated flat out they will ignore the orders because they don't like them, nd don't even hesitate to spread information that's been skewed out of proportion. Also, there's some local businesses who've decided to just quietly reopen as cash-only and call ahead, because they'd rather break the orders than go under forever. What's amazing, frankly, is that these governors making their insane proclamations and thinking they can keep the nation locked down to Independence Day or later can't seem to comprehend that everyone reviles them, and people as a whole are not happily going along with each proclamation, or sighing in resignation and saying "Well, I don't like that I have to do it, but since you said so..." - it's just going to lead to a full scale rejection of the lockdowns, and out of touch governors rushing to save face by opening up after it's too late, losing them the effective ability to ever force it closed in the future again.

The media conflates American gun ownership and brandishing with "violence". Americans are very much like dogs. We will bark and growl to show our strength, but actually biting is only done in grievous circumstances. Unlike other countries, we were never de-toothed, so we are much more aggressive and the media picks up on that.

Civil disobedience is something Americans excel at. Simply IGNORING the law and the authorities. You see it everywhere here in the midwest, employees not wearing masks, people violating social distancing, having parties, large peaceful protests, notably I watched a group of children rip apart the police tape on their favorite playground, and after the police chased them away and spent 2 hours retaping said playground, the kids were back not 5 minutes later, with no parents in sight, because the parents might risk arrest from a particularly pissy cop, but they wont touch the kids.

The media also portrays your typical american as a total moron, and while I dont think highly of many I deal with, the truth is most americans are not that dumb. Most know these orders are BS and are seeing through the media's fear-mongering lies, after their trust has been steadily eroded away the last 4 years. Violence wont help them, nobody wants to go to jail, they are silently starting the economy back up without the governments approval. Now, if the authorities started cracking down on people and harassing them, you'd see violence start to break out, but around here most people own guns, and things have been very peaceful. Even in liberal cities like LA, the sheer number of people present at rallies make guns fairly worthless for either side. The protesters dont need them to sow chaos, and the authorities are not numerous enough to stop a million+ people rioting at once.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/14/855641420/with-school-buildings-closed-children-s-mental-health-is-suffering

https://archive.li/vTRS5

I think the article would have better if it had pointed out that other countries are re-opening their schools, but it's encouraging to see someone pointing out, at NPR of all places, that isolating children for months on end is a bad thing.

Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor’s Visits

Afraid of Covid-19, parents are postponing well-child checkups, including shots, putting millions of children at risk of exposure to preventable deadly diseases.

www.nytimes.com

https://archive.li/jjptc

People aren't taking their kids to get vaccinated because they're scared of leaving the house. I don't understand how people don't understand that kids are largely unaffected by Coronavirus, but they can die as a result of the diseases we vaccinate for. I genuinely don't get how our nation's governors are ordering playgrounds wrapped up in police tape ostensibly to keep children safe, but they're not sounding off about this 24/7.

Because if the governors hounded them about vaccines, two things would become apparent:

1.) the economic damage these governors are sowing spreads far and wide, many parents cant afford a doctor visit right now, and that falls squarely on the governor's choice

2.) If parents are told to leave the house for any reason, the fear curtain of coronavirus falls. It only took a few trips to the supermarket for most people to significantly ease their fears of corona. The propaganda only works via total control, no exceptions.

Both of these events shine very poorly on the state government, and they would prefer sacrificing the lives of kids while screaming about saving kids then actually dong something useful.

 

[Nykysnottrans]

So the Dr. Campbell guy says 1000-2000 IU daily should be good, while the 4chan thread says go for 5000 IU daily. This disagreement is a common theme in all sources I found on vitamin D3: they all agree it's important but recommend various doses. Poisoning yourself takes real effort, but I've also read that taking too much D3 for too long can eventually lead to calcification in blood vessels, so I can't decide which recommendation to follow.



The 5000 IU 240-pill packs are never available in my pharmacy anyway, so I got 360 * 2000 IU for roughly $12 instead. And they're not hard pills, but gel capsules with oil. Absolutely no issues finding them in stock though, pharmacies are always so chock full of D3 supplements, all you have to do is browse all the brands for the most cost-effective offer.

Spoiler: A few words on Vitamin D doses

Colecalciferol is Vitamin D3, ergocalciferol is Vitamin D2. I will address both. Make sure you know which one you are taking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholecalciferol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergocalciferol

People who are extremely low on hemoglobin (aka anemics) are given a so-called "start-up dose" of 50 000 IE of colecalciferol weekly for a month, then they go back to either 800 IE of colecalciferol a day or a weekly dose of 5 600 IE ( 0,14 mg of colecalciferol).

Taking more than 5 X the weekly dose for the duration of a week is considered toxic. So please, don't get those weekly dose colecalciferol pills and then start taking them every single day, that's really not good for you.

Known adverse side effects are hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria (too much calcium in the blood and urine), thirst, nausea, constipation, swolen face, itching. Use of the supplement must be stopped when any of these occur.

The Vitamin D that's in over-the-counter supplements is usually not colecalciferol but ergocalciferol, so Vitamin D2 instead of Vitamin D3. A brand-name over-the-counter multivitamin pill might contain 400 IU or 10 microgram of ergocalciferol. If you need to consume both types AFAIK you need to seek them out separately. I am personally not aware of an over-the-counter supplement that contains both Vitamin D2 and D3 but if someone here is aware of one post a link please.

The problem with increasing your hemoglobin is that, ohai, Covid-19 does the same thing (because it renders present hemoglobin useless, the body ramps up red blood cell production to make new hemoglobin*), so if you've been taking a lot of Vitamin D and need to get tested for some reason, when they look at your blood the doctors will see elevated hemoglobin levels and might assume it's the Covid-19 reaction of your body. Like any drugs, make sure to always disclose which supplements you are taking to your doctor so they can take that into account.

* See:

The past 48 hours or so have seen a huge revelation: COVID-19 causes prolonged and progressive hypoxia (starving your body of oxygen) by binding to the heme groups in hemoglobin in your red blood cells. People are simply desaturating (losing o2 in their blood), and that’s what eventually leads to organ failures that kill them, not any form of ARDS or pneumonia. All the damage to the lungs you see in CT scans are from the release of oxidative iron from the hemes, this overwhelms the natural defenses against pulmonary oxidative stress and causes that nice, always-bilateral ground glass opacity in the lungs. Patients returning for re-hospitalization days or weeks after recovery suffering from apparent delayed post-hypoxic leukoencephalopathy strengthen the notion COVID-19 patients are suffering from hypoxia despite no signs of respiratory ‘tire out’ or fatigue.
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The red blood cells just can’t carry o2, end of story. Only in this case, unlike CO poisoning in which eventually the CO can break off, the affected hemoglobin is permanently stripped of its ability to carry o2 because it has lost its iron ion. The body compensates for this lack of o2 carrying capacity and deliveries by having your kidneys release hormones like erythropoietin, which tell your bone marrow factories to ramp up production on new red blood cells with freshly made and fully functioning hemoglobin. This is the reason you find elevated hemoglobin and decreased blood oxygen saturation as one of the 3 primary indicators of whether the shit is about to hit the fan for a particular patient or not.

Covid-19 had us all fooled, but now we might have finally found its secret.

In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and characteristics of…

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Disclaimer: this post does not constitute medical advice. Always consult with a doctor about using supplements.

Some videos I forgot to post here before, so here we go:

Spoiler: Videos of interest, please do not archive

Mexico is so fucked:

Students want their money back because they did not pay for e-learning:

I don't know what this quarantine vlog is about but that thumbnail makes me reluctant to click on it...

More 1984 digital dog collars in the making. Fuck this shit:

There has been a decrease in blood donations in LA, gee, I wonder why with a perpetually extended lockdown...

An alterantive ventilator that is less invasive

Here's my absolute favourite unintentional shitpost of this week: "SEX WITH A BAT CAUSED COVID-19 PANDEMIC", courtesy of RadFem Reddit:

I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out that it Wasn’t the consumption of a bat that caused covid-19, but sex with an animal that created it. Other diseases have been created by men and their sticking their peepees anywhere, it’s terrifying

r/PinkpillFeminism - Comment by u/Happy_face_caller on ”Coronavirus found in infected men's semen”

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It's the return of the "white American NYC fag went on sex tourism to Africa, ended up fucking the bush apes because no black man would touch him, took AIDS to the US as a souvenir" conspiracy theory in a batsuit.