2020-03-20, 01:31 | Link #201 | |
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2020-03-20, 01:51 | Link #202 |
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So.... how about those people price gouging by trying to resell toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and masks to desperate fear crazed people? Some things just never change. Kudos humanity for disgusting me with you all over again.
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2020-03-20, 13:24 | Link #206 | |
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Sorry, but it had to be said. Another coronavirus risk factor that no one in northamerica wants to hear (since were are in the top 5), obesity: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...eople-17936652 The first victim of covid-19 on my country was an overweight man 41 years old, it took 6 days for symptoms to appear and 10 more for him to die. Before going to sleep, I came to the conclusion that we should be plenty thankful. Not of the coronavirus, but of living in an age where information and entertaiment is literraly at out fingertips, we might be on quarantine, but we can hear our fellow man. Last edited by mangamuscle; 2020-03-20 at 13:36. |
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2020-03-20, 16:42 | Link #207 | |
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There is also problem with the airlines now as well, the supply route are still open, but definitely not as many as it was, and there are many countries want it so some are going to get it, some are not, they can't produce enough for the entire world in such a short time. |
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2020-03-20, 17:59 | Link #208 | |
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the US is getting help from Italy, out of all places. //
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2020-03-20, 19:07 | Link #209 | |
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And who is the largest supplier of the material? Oh, China, of course A few weeks ago, their factories were not working, so there was no material for other countries. Now, their factories are working, but they prioritize making their own masks, instead of exporting the material. Also, transporting material between countries is difficult and time consuming now. How about normal cloth masks? Well yes, we can make them easily, but they are not as good at filtering as medical masks. Doctors won't use them, and people won't buy them. After all, if you really want a cloth mask, you can make one yourself.
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2020-03-20, 20:38 | Link #210 |
formerly ogon bat
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Mexico
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I know someday, when this becomes but a memory, somebody is going to make a movie, a comedy and people that weren't born or were too young to remember will cry tears of laughter.
Jan 20: "I know more about viruses than anyone.” Jan 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Feb 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” Feb 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Feb 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” Feb 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” Feb 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” Feb 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Feb 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” Feb 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” Mar 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” Mar 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” Mar 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” Mar 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” Mar 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” Mar 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” Mar 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” Mar 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it ... Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” Mar 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” Mar 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.” Mar 9: “This blindsided the world.” Mar 13: “National emergency, two big words.” Mar 13: “I take no responsibility at all.” |
2020-03-20, 20:42 | Link #211 |
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Have you ever heard of repurposing factories? The real question would be how and why factories in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and co have not seen their purposes changed for this moment of extraordinary circumstances. As far as I read since yesterday evening, the autombile industry in the West is currently working to adapt their factories in making ventilators with support from governments (which has not happened yet in the US until Trump signs it if ever).
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2020-03-20, 21:40 | Link #212 | |
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Of course you use selectively edited quotes. |
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2020-03-21, 00:20 | Link #214 |
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This was a much-needed moment of comic absurdity:
https://twitter.com/mrvndn/status/1241046275249881089
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2020-03-21, 00:41 | Link #215 |
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Join Date: May 2011
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I hope to be wrong, but seems to me that to cover the whole blunder the moron in chief did in respect to coronavirus, the right is using the "china did it" card. What is troublesome is that at a time of heightened tensions due to the trade war, if the USA irritates the CCP too much this could mean war and I mean it literally, china could decide to take taiwan by force when the world is distracted with quarantines and from there who knows to what levels it might escalate.
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2020-03-21, 01:23 | Link #216 |
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While you all argue about politics, I just learned that one of my doctor colleagues died in the ICU after 1 week fighting their own fight. He got it from a patient who lied about their travel history.
The virus doesn't give two fucks if you're left, center or right. If Keynes and Marx went to get plastered in a bar last week in the middle of the pandemic, they'd both be equally critical and/or dead.
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2020-03-21, 02:38 | Link #217 | |
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This is absolutely the right time to talk about politics. There are places running out of medical supplies, while the stock market gets stimulus and some Senators profit from the pandemic. We want to be more like South Korea, who got the pandemic about the same day as the US but is handling it much better. Why can they afford to do a lot more testing per day than every other country? That's a policy issue. And how about social distancing? Some people can't afford not to go out to work and take 2 weeks off. Paid leave? That's another policy issue. Not to mention that some people are already going full yellow fever over Covid19 to shift the blame. //
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2020-03-21, 03:36 | Link #220 |
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Exactly
https://imgur.com/xftyKIl Saying the public should not talk about public health policies during a pandemic is like saying "don't talk about firearm policies" after a mass shooting //
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