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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Svartalf » Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:54 am

rainbow wrote:
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Ive wanted to be at Oktoberfest at least once in my life
just to sample many different beers, piss by the mass, and never be able to go to bed sober for three days.
Be honest. You just want to perv over the boobies hanging out of the dirndls?
Frankly, I'm rather past that stage... now, I know me... If one of dese hübsche Fraülein would let me take the Dirndl off her somewhere private...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:15 am

Sean Hayden wrote:I just wear one so I don't have to smile. Underneath it I'm snarling away, and what a sense of relief it has brought me! 'Welcome to Walgreens!' --snarl, snarl--
I wear mine because it makes me look like a bandito.
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Post by Svartalf » Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:34 am

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Post by Tero » Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:31 am

Animal slaughtering and motorcycle meet hosting states cranking out a whole bunch of cases:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... ctions-us/

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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:25 pm

NineBerry wrote:
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9. There is no scientific evidence headlights work.
10. In fact they cause accidents when not used correctly
What is this game? You cant compare the two but because there is no scientific evidence all the stupid comparisons are being made and advice ignored.
Social distancing and ventilation is vital. If the room is too full dont go in and dont put on a mask thinking you will be safe. It is all hype.
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Tero wrote:Animal slaughtering and motorcycle meat hosting ...
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Post by JimC » Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:49 pm

Scot Dutchy wrote:
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9. There is no scientific evidence headlights work.
10. In fact they cause accidents when not used correctly
What is this game? You cant compare the two but because there is no scientific evidence all the stupid comparisons are being made and advice ignored.
Social distancing and ventilation is vital. If the room is too full dont go in and dont put on a mask thinking you will be safe. It is all hype.
Sure, crowded indoor spaces are ideal for transmission. Here, at least, there are strict guidelines as to how many people at a time are allowed to be in a particular area - from what I've seen, it works well, there is no overcrowding in supermarkets etc. And yes, masks would not make you perfectly safe; they simply act on the probability of transmission, so widespread mask wearing in shops or public transport is a useful additional tool on top of hygiene and sensible social distancing. Masks are a little absurd when walking outdoors with few if any people around...
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Post by Tero » Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:34 pm

Rather a poor record of quarantine and keeping workers from bringing in the virus. One home tried to house the nurses in trailers in 2 week terms, then time off, did not help.

Our state has 400 deaths. 185 were in nursing homes:
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In all, through Sept. 6, 31 homes have reported fatal outbreaks, totaling 185 deaths. That’s approaching half the state’s total death count of 400-plus, underscoring the critical need to protect nursing home residents.

Nine homes had 10 or more deaths, including five in Douglas County. In Grand Island, one home saw 20 resident deaths.

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Post by JimC » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:12 am

Our new case numbers in the state of Victoria are dropping fast - only 11 over the past 24 hours, with 4 deaths (all in nursing homes). Everyone is hopeful that the roadmap for the staged ending of restrictions can be accelerated...
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by rainbow » Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:14 am

Svartalf wrote:
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Dutch crap is the best crap. How many cases in your country today?
Dutch grap grow the best tulips.
Yebbut they think they are onions, because of masks, and then die of tulip poisoning.

The Illuminati/WHO are using this to make the Dutch Government look bad by blaming "Excess Deaths" on Covid.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by rainbow » Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:58 am

Tero wrote:
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In Grand Island, one home saw 20 resident deaths.
Uranium poisoning, more likely.
But the city's got a radioactive problem. Grand Island draws water from a well field along the Platte River. Buildings house pumps that bring water into town. There are 21 pumps in all. But groundwater there contains uranium.

Luchsinger said, "It's a naturally occurring substance from the mountains."

If there's a health threat, it's from a lifetime of drinking the water. Grand Island falls within safe limits, but the levels are rising. So that explains the need for the treatment plan under construction.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Tero » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:28 pm

Ha ha, our own flint. No republican governor will do anything about it.

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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:35 pm

What a surprise! The great app was going to do so much. How much public money did this cost?

Contact-tracing app for England and Wales 'hampered by loss of public trust'
Summer of UK government scandals will reduce take-up of Covid-19 app, says expert

Dominic Cummings’ lockdown travels and the exams fiasco could have contributed to dooming the government’s Covid contact-tracing app before it even launches, a technology expert has warned.

Evidence of low uptake overseas also suggests the app may not live up to ministers’ early hopes of a panacea. In late May, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, admitted it was “the cherry on the cake but [not] the cake”; in recent weeks it has barely been mentioned.

The app, which is due to launch in England and Wales on Thursday 24 September, will use the bluetooth signal in mobile phones to track close and sustained contact between users and then warn those who may have been exposed to an infectious person that they should self-isolate.
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Re: The Coronavirus Thread

Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:44 pm

Under cover of coronavirus, the Tory government is bulldozing basic liberties
The Tories have been increasing police powers, bringing in laws by diktat and sowing mistrust. When will the left speak up?
Which left is that then?
Towards the end of last week, someone I know posted a video and photograph on social media, taken one balmy afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north London. They showed a group of young people – who, by the look of them, had spent the day together at school or college. The images also featured three police officers, dispatched to disperse the gathering. In response, everyone had tried in vain to retreat into groups of six. “In the end they give up and all leave together,” ran the accompanying text. And that was that: a small, faintly absurd incident that highlighted the strange times in which we now live.

The underlying logic of England’s so-called rule of six is, I suppose, clear enough. But the sheer complexity of apparently simple regulations – not to mention the fact that they exempt grouse-shooting parties – shows something is clearly wrong. Given that schools are back, people are being encouraged to return to work and visiting restaurants and pubs is still held to be some kind of moral duty, the effectiveness of the new rule is obviously open to question.

And then there is the biggest issue of all: the fact that breaking the rule is a criminal offence. As the Hampstead incident suggests, some police officers are evidently seizing their chance to indulge in the kind of neurotic, unnecessary behaviour that first reared its head at the start of lockdown.As part of a quest for “stronger enforcement of the rules”, Boris Johnson has proposed local “Covid marshals” who will ensure any miscreants do as they are told. Now, there are to be fines of up to £10,000 for people judged to have breached self-isolation rules, and the police will be checking compliance in the “highest incidence areas” and “high-risk groups”, based on “local intelligence”.
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Post by Sean Hayden » Mon Sep 21, 2020 1:43 pm

...still less than a year in folks.

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It's the one in every group problem, or the 'there's always that guy' problem. If you need to be quiet, they're too loud...need to run, they stand still...yadda, yadda.

I wonder if monkeys have the same problem. Like the species that uses very specific vocalizations for different threats. I wonder if they've got that one monkey. Snake!.......Stick. It's a fucking Snake!......Stick.
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