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xer0s
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PostPosted: 03-10-2020 07:04 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


lol, Gramps’ Representative...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... ame=iossmf
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PostPosted: 03-10-2020 01:27 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


US MotoGP rescheduled to November. Ugh.
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PostPosted: 03-10-2020 03:56 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Get use to it. This thing is just beginning. Look for more and more sporting events and social functions to start to cancel. 2020 is going to be an absolute shit show. I guarantee it...(I know, wild prediction)

But seriously, this will get very bad...
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PostPosted: 03-10-2020 04:21 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yep, this is gonna fuck up the NHL playoffs for sure.
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PostPosted: 03-10-2020 09:14 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The way Drumpf is handling things, I wouldn't be surprised if we learn he's contracted Covid-19 in the next few weeks. :rolleyes:
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 03:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
The way Drumpf is handling things, I wouldn't be surprised if we learn he's contracted Covid-19 in the next few weeks. :rolleyes:

That would be a blessing!



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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 07:30 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Covid-19 followed by Trump beating feeble old Joe in November

what a time to be alive :dts:
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 10:18 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


E3 2020 cancelled.
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xer0s
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 10:50 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


This is a nightmare!
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 04:08 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


gaming conventions were already notorious as hotbeds of illness even before Covfefid-19
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 04:38 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Toilet paper out of stock everywhere... :rolleyes:
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 05:25 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Tom Hanks infected! :eek: :(
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 05:48 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


NBA suspends the rest of the season. Shits getting weird...
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 08:00 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
Tom Hanks infected! :eek: :(


"Celebrity gets a cough"
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 09:21 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
Tom Hanks infected! :eek: :(


Just reading the news now :ninja:

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(CNN)Actor Tom Hanks says he and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, have been diagnosed with coronavirus.
In a statement posted to Instagram, Hanks said he and his wife were traveling in Australia when they were tested after exhibiting symptoms like tiredness, body aches, chills and "slight fevers."
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PostPosted: 03-11-2020 10:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


TV late shows are beginning to air without their regular studio audiences. It was kind of weird to just hear laughter from a few writers and other staff scattered around the seats....
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PostPosted: 03-12-2020 05:22 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Writers laughing at their own jokes delivered by untalented morons. Where does this brutality end???
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PostPosted: 03-12-2020 08:40 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


We had a good run.
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PostPosted: 03-12-2020 12:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


well, 3% of us did
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PostPosted: 03-12-2020 11:28 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I find it extremely odd that Apple added a covid-19 emoji in November of last year when they added 27 new ones on that iOS update. Look under the “objects” emojis in the keyboard field right next to the Pill emoji and under the DNA emoji.
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 01:46 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:dork:



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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 11:11 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Our (german) minister of finances together with the minister of economy today announced "unlimited credits" for the economy in the struggle that has already arrived and is expected to get even worse.
The overall possible pot is one trillion euros. (I used google translate for this as german has different counting methods than english. In german it's one billion. 1000000000000.)

This is just surreal. I mean it has been one fucking surreal week already but this.... sounds like the first step in preparation to shut down all unnecessary businesses for some time.
It's good news for the company I work for since in maybe 2 or 3 weeks we would have run out of assignments anyway.

On a personel level my father wants to have his 80th birthday party together with 30 other elderly people in one private room of a restaurant.
I won't attend it. I have to go to work. I have to meet and get in touch (not literally) with other people. I will get infected at some time if I haven't already.
And it's not even just about his or my or the other 30's individual health but about all of those attending as possible spreaders after that meeting.
Even Merkel yesterday made the recommendation on a public press conference: All unnecessary gatherings should be avoided or cancelled.
Yet my father wants to have his party. Because all of it is just panicking and this is just one gathering of 30 people and so on.

I hope most people all around the world will understand that now is the time for each individual to make more or less drastic changes to his or her life.
Use your phones to talk to others, don't meet them in person unless you have to.
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 12:02 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I know we’re still fighting this, but can we please force China to put an end to these wild animal markets? It’s fucking horrific in its own right. And now it’s caused this. I’ll leave the harsh Chinese comments to feedback, if he’s still around...
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 12:06 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


What about Ebola. Or HIV or the ordinary influenza?

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-cond ... onaviruses
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 01:36 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ebola and HIV are not airborne
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 02:03 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Europe got locked down overnight
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 02:55 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Numbers to date

4 March 92,860

6 March 97,876

7 March 101,731

9 March 109,835

14 Mar 140,875

link

Seems someone forgot to put data for Australia in this update.



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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 03:18 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ferrao10 wrote:
What about Ebola. Or HIV or the ordinary influenza?

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-cond ... onaviruses


What about em?
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 03:44 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Are people where you're at fighting over toilet paper?



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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 05:59 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


What makes a good zombie survival movie isn't about the zombies being monsters and eating people, but about how perfectly well functioning people in society dissolve into stabbing each other in the back and becoming the real monsters.



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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 06:33 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Actually, people generally are in a better state of mind during times of crisis. During war times, crime rates drop and suicides decrease significantly. People come together and help each other, unlike times of peace. People have a sense of community that isn’t typically there unless we are under distress. During times of peace, people isolate themselves and often feel like they don’t have a purpose, creating depression. We evolved as tribes, constantly under some type of distress (from conflict with other tribes, trying to find food, etc.). Our overall state of (hive)mind is surprisingly improved during times like this.

If you want to read more on this topic, check out Sebastian Junger’s Tribe. It was a great read...
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 07:06 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/13/2 ... onies-sing

They're doing fine in Italy. Air pollution levels have dropped significantly, too, so there's that. :smirk:
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PostPosted: 03-13-2020 09:13 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


All this corona madness will be over world wide by end of April. It will have peaked and be on the fast decline by then. Still a nasty bug but not as prevalent.
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PostPosted: 03-14-2020 06:00 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


https://gfycat.com/yawningliquiddegus-c ... down-italy. Lol?...
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PostPosted: 03-14-2020 07:37 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I wonder how big the positive environmental impact of this whole thing will be...
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