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seremtan
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PostPosted: 12-16-2020 02:43 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


"Sicilian"

hey, remember that scene in True Romance with Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper...? :paranoid:
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PostPosted: 12-16-2020 12:03 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


This is beyond disgusting... So the leaders of the great United States of America wanted Americans to get infected to achieve herd immunity.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/1 ... egy-446408

This is what happens when you have a fucking moron at the helm. A : Business man" in control during a pandemic worries about business, not the people.

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Alexander also argued that colleges should stay open to allow Covid-19 infections to spread, lamenting in a July 27 email to Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield that “we essentially took off the battlefield the most potent weapon we had...younger healthy people, children, teens, young people who we needed to fastly [sic] infect themselves, spread it around, develop immunity, and help stop the spread.


They would rather see your kids dead than watch businesses struggle, not to mention the lingering effects of the disease would have on them. Fantastic. Anyone that supported Trump really needs to hang their heads in shame. The world would be better off without the 70 million or so Americans that voted for that fool.
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PostPosted: 12-16-2020 01:57 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


This is a shock for you?
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PostPosted: 12-16-2020 06:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
"Sicilian"

hey, remember that scene in True Romance with Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper...? :paranoid:



Love it, explains my huge cock... No joke...
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PostPosted: 12-17-2020 12:49 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


So is your scrotum lopsided, or does the one ball reside in the middle resulting in a cyclops type visage? A cycocks, if you will.
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 12-17-2020 12:57 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


S P A W N E D
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PostPosted: 12-17-2020 10:24 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Incredible numbers..

Worldwide Corona Virus Cases:

3 Dec 64,737,145

11 Dec 70,711,368

18 Dec 74,928,265

Total deaths
• World 1,662,489
• USA 315,641
• Brazil 183,959
• India 144,786

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PostPosted: 12-17-2020 10:26 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Still out-third-worlding the third-world shitholes. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
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PostPosted: 12-17-2020 01:50 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


fake injection anyone :olo:



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PostPosted: 12-21-2020 10:52 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


gg UK,
you're some bloody cheaters. Well ,we are as well, fuck you though.
So we ban you from our servers.
:D
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 12-21-2020 03:41 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


our own special edition of the plague :D
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PostPosted: 12-23-2020 11:40 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


South Africa now apparently has a new, more virulent strain too.
This shit really isn't going away any time soon.
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 01:02 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's probably going to become a part of the common cold that goes around each year. There are a few strains of coronaviruses that make up the common cold, and as Covid-19 mutates it will probably be added to the list and never really go away completely. Although there have been recent advances in making an antivirus that can kill all strains of the common cold, so there's that to hope for.
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 05:08 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
It's probably going to become a part of the common cold...


I seen people say this. Along the lines of, this will be like the flu, we’ll have it every year. But I haven’t seen any experts saying this. Do you have any legitimate sources for this claim?
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 07:05 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


We have been vaccinated... Jellus?...
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 07:10 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


By we, you mean your wife...
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 09:00 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
Transient wrote:
It's probably going to become a part of the common cold...


I seen people say this. Along the lines of, this will be like the flu, we’ll have it every year. But I haven’t seen any experts saying this. Do you have any legitimate sources for this claim?


I don't doubt this could be true, but what bothers me is that by saying that, people downgrade the virus like it's an ordinary flu that you won't have anything to worry about of you're in decently good health.
Right now people are dying of COVID-19 who most likely wouldn't have died of an ordinary seasonal flu. That might happen 2 years from now as well.
Personally, I don't want to catch COVID-19 ever. Not now, not 10 years from now when it might just hospitalize an insignificant fraction of the people it does now.
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 09:49 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I was only going off news articles I read months ago when less was known about the virus. As I recall, supposedly the virus will continue to mutate and get more contagious but less deadly over time. That's not meant to downplay the severity; if anything, it means it will be worse since it'll never really go away and will continue to kill people year over year. Considering Covid-19 seems to have some potentially severe long-term or permanent effects on the body after you recover (lung scarring, heart weakening), that could really suck.
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 03:55 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


So you don’t have any legitimate sources...
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 04:44 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I don't have any sources, period, that I can be bothered to Google. It's from like 6 months ago, I don't know where I read it anymore, LOL.
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PostPosted: 12-24-2020 06:53 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


This is a good thing!
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PostPosted: 12-25-2020 03:23 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
I was only going off news articles I read months ago when less was known about the virus. As I recall, supposedly the virus will continue to mutate and get more contagious but less deadly over time.


While I agree with the first part of this, that the virus will continue to mutate, I can't see there being any logical reason to assume that more mutations means it will get less deadly.

Virii don't get "diluted" the more of them there are :tard:

If anything, it will become more deadly, simply because we will have to try and keep up and develop new treatments for each variant. For existing examples, see multiple drug resistant bacterias and virii that have reared their ugly heads in recent years.
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Well the more people who have it, the more people will die from it. So in that sense, it's gonna be deadlier just by sheer volume.

But in general if a virus mutates to kill its host easier, then it has less of a chance of being passed on to other hosts since the sicker a person is, the less likely they are to be out and about, infecting others. So people with weaker strains of the virus who are out going to work are more likely to pass that version on to others than if they were laid up in bed at home.

But I'm not an immunologist, I just play one on the internet. :owned:
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PostPosted: 12-25-2020 01:14 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Mat Linnett wrote:
While I agree with the first part of this, that the virus will continue to mutate, I can't see there being any logical reason to assume that more mutations means it will get less deadly.

Virii don't get "diluted" the more of them there are :tard:

If anything, it will become more deadly, simply because we will have to try and keep up and develop new treatments for each variant. For existing examples, see multiple drug resistant bacterias and virii that have reared their ugly heads in recent years.


uh, the common cold is a coronavirus that has mutated into something less harmful because that's the best path to long-term survival as a species. more virulent covids = quarantines and lockdowns = an early extinction for that form of virus

the only question is: will the necessary mutations occur in Covid-19 to create a path to being less harmful like the common cold, or will it go out in a blaze of glory, or will it get thrown into horny jail like smallpox and spend the rest of its existence in a glass vial in sub-zero temperatures?
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PostPosted: 12-28-2020 05:27 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ebola couldn't wide-spread because it killed the hosts too quickly.
So, if there get to come up more deadly strains of Covid-19 they will have a higher chance of being eliminated early on. Either now by ways of vaccination or later by their own way of killing hosts too fast.

seremtan wrote:
uh, the common cold is a coronavirus that has mutated into something less harmful because that's the best path to long-term survival as a species.

The common cold is an Influenza-Virus. Not part of the Corona-family, afaik.
Viruses don't think though. They are not aware of their species. They don't have a natural drive for reproduction.
They just mutate and the mutation that fits the situation best is going to stay and keep on mutating.
There are thousands of viruses around us everytime. A lot of them just don't affect the human race as it stands right now.
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PostPosted: 12-28-2020 11:33 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ferrao10 wrote:
seremtan wrote:
uh, the common cold is a coronavirus that has mutated into something less harmful because that's the best path to long-term survival as a species.

The common cold is an Influenza-Virus. Not part of the Corona-family, afaik.


Wrong, common cold is a coronavirus.
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PostPosted: 12-28-2020 12:24 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ferrao10 wrote:
Viruses don't think though. They are not aware of their species. They don't have a natural drive for reproduction.
They just mutate and the mutation that fits the situation best is going to stay and keep on mutating.


that's what i said :|
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PostPosted: 12-28-2020 02:58 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Captain Mazda wrote:
Wrong, common cold is a coronavirus.

Actually it's both. There are multiple viruses involved. Rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, parainfluenza viruses and adenoviruses. There are like 200 different specific viruses it could be.
https://www.healthline.com/health/commo ... onaviruses
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PostPosted: 12-28-2020 05:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I scanned some pages for interest and stumbled across this alternate site..

Worldwide Corona Virus Cases:

11 Dec 70,711,368

18 Dec 74,928,265

29 Dec 81,651,939

Total deaths
• World 1,780,850
• USA 343,072
• Brazil 191,641
• India 148,190

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PostPosted: 12-29-2020 01:34 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Whiskey 7 wrote:
I scanned some pages for interest and stumbled across this alternate site..

Worldwide Corona Virus Cases:

11 Dec 70,711,368

18 Dec 74,928,265

29 Dec 81,651,939

Total deaths
• World 1,780,850
• USA 343,072
• Brazil 191,641
• India 148,190

Source


You were linking to that first URL earlier in this thread :paranoid:
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PostPosted: 12-29-2020 09:55 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Whiskey is slip’n. Could be Alzheimer’s...
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PostPosted: 12-29-2020 01:36 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


If Whiskey ever stops posting here, the average age drops about 15 years.
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PostPosted: 12-29-2020 02:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Don Carlos wrote:
You were linking to that first URL earlier in this thread :paranoid:

Correct :up: I just checked the previous page and it is there as Source #2 so thank you :)
My bad.... I haven't heard or used that term in ages.

Eraser wrote:
If Whiskey ever stops posting here, the average age drops about 15 years.

.... and the IQ will fall dramatically :)



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PostPosted: 12-29-2020 02:35 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:olo:
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I don't doubt that.
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