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03-28-2020, 04:06 PM
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Re: Consider the source but
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I've got enough to stun a stable of horses.
Wolf can't easily reopen the stores because the workers are unionized and the union is saying no way. And I'll bet a ton of the workers now have the disease because Wolf announced the closure two days before it happened, creating standing room only collections of consumers in every store for 48 hours.
A buddy of mine is doing disaster planning for a city (he's a bit busy) and seizures from booze and opioid withdrawal are a serious concern. A client that designs rehab facilities has been asked to look into how they may be expanded to include makeshift triage area, so ERs don't have to deal with addicts seizing.
I have had strange chills for a few days, however. I can't imagine I have it, but I was going to the gym daily until Wolf closed them, and to stores fairly frequently thru last week. So I'm not totally ignoring such symptoms, as I normally would.
ETA: Oh, and we're definitely getting civil unrest.
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aren't you a short drive to NJ? I feel bad for the poor folks in those mountain towns.
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03-28-2020, 09:05 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Government Yard in Trenchtown
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Re: Consider the source but
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
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Yeah, and one thing we know is that that combination is really bad for folks who have any heart issues or even just high blood pressure.
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03-28-2020, 10:33 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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03-28-2020, 10:45 PM
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#964
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Monty Capuletti's gazebo
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Re: Consider the source but
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
aren't you a short drive to NJ? I feel bad for the poor folks in those mountain towns.
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Yes. But I planned for dual shutdown.
Folks in the country will do better than the rest of us. Coal crackers here are more transactional, and less respecting of law, than Trump. We go Thunderdome, I’ll reconnect with the people who’ll treat you as blood. Even the upper classes there hook up a perceived local by birth.
It’s all the inside handshake in this east coast Alabama. If I need a ventilator, I need the old friends.
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03-28-2020, 10:53 PM
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#965
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Same sort of shit played out between Cuomo and DeBlasio. Worked out brilliantly for NYC.
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Gavin Newsome has avoided picking fights with Trump, and the federal government sent us nothing but a bunch of ventilators that don't work. Trump seems to be on fine terms with Florida's governor, whom he is pressuring to leave the beaches open and businesses open. Florida had more than 500 new cases today. So it's not clear that Trump is helping anyone, really.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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03-28-2020, 11:32 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Gavin Newsome has avoided picking fights with Trump, and the federal government sent us nothing but a bunch of ventilators that don't work. Trump seems to be on fine terms with Florida's governor, whom he is pressuring to leave the beaches open and businesses open. Florida had more than 500 new cases today. So it's not clear that Trump is helping anyone, really.
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He doesn't know how to "help". It's not a concept he really understands. He wants to "win" in some big dramatic fashion.
Which isn't going to be obvious because "winning" against this thing is taking measures to prevent it from happening in the first place, which isn't glamorous and people get pissed because they're forced to shut down without understanding why.
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03-28-2020, 11:34 PM
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#967
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Gavin Newsome has avoided picking fights with Trump, and the federal government sent us nothing but a bunch of ventilators that don't work. Trump seems to be on fine terms with Florida's governor, whom he is pressuring to leave the beaches open and businesses open. Florida had more than 500 new cases today. So it's not clear that Trump is helping anyone, really.
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Are there ventilators he controls? I don't understand. GM is gearing up to build them, but I have not seen an estimate of when 1 hit a hospital. Trump today granted Michigan's request for aide, but I have no idea what any of it means. i'm not a smart man; I come here so you all can explain stuff.
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03-29-2020, 01:31 AM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Are there ventilators he controls? I don't understand. GM is gearing up to build them, but I have not seen an estimate of when 1 hit a hospital. Trump today granted Michigan's request for aide, but I have no idea what any of it means. i'm not a smart man; I come here so you all can explain stuff.
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There are some in the national stockpile.
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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03-29-2020, 05:25 PM
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Wearing the cranky pants
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pulling your finger
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
There are some in the national stockpile.
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/...s-15164180.php
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03-29-2020, 09:27 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Monty Capuletti's gazebo
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
If anyone here has to cover a payroll besides Hank (who I assume is in his tricked out bunker in [undisclosed]), the Free Money 2020 Act, a/k/a CARES, has a lot of nice features. It's a $350 bil giveaway masquerading as a crisis loan.
Kill a credit line with it. Hire everybody back and have pizza parties with it (pretend a client's going to pay you becuase You're Just That Good And Essential in the next month).
This is helicopter $$$.
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03-30-2020, 01:53 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
How about that Richard Epstein?
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Seems like there is an under appreciated interrelationship between Dunning Krueger and the Peter Principle.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 03-30-2020 at 02:48 PM..
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03-31-2020, 06:47 PM
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
https://vimeo.com/399733860 An NYC doc does video chat to friends and family. Worth an hour of your life. To quote Howard Stern’s dad, “don’t be stupid you moron.”
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03-31-2020, 09:55 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
In the New York Times, Ross Douthat says that until sometime in February, "liberal officialdom and its media appendages were more likely to play down the threat, out of fear of giving aid and comfort to sinophobia or populism. This period was the high-water mark of “it’s just the flu” reassurances in liberal outlets, of pious critiques of Donald Trump’s travel restrictions, of deceptive public-health propaganda about how masks don’t work, of lectures from the head of the World Health Organization about how 'the greatest enemy we face is not the virus itself; it’s the stigma that turns us against each other.'”
I don't remember this *at* *all." Is my head screwed on wrong? I have been a little more obsessive about this story than most people, but this is crazy. The news sources that liberals turn to -- NPR, the New York Times -- were reporting from Wuhan and the rest of China on a story that most people were not paying attention to. I don't remember anyone playing down the threat.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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04-01-2020, 12:26 AM
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
https://vimeo.com/399733860 An NYC doc does video chat to friends and family. Worth an hour of your life. To quote Howard Stern’s dad, “don’t be stupid you moron.”
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do any of you see a problem with this guy's take? i want to post but wondering if there is some problem?
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04-01-2020, 06:49 AM
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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
do any of you see a problem with this guy's take? i want to post but wondering if there is some problem?
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Always check the date. New information on tests, antibodies, etc., comes out every day. Anything more than a day old, I don't even look at.
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