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Whiskey 7
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PostPosted: 03-31-2020 12:16 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


27 Mar 500,000

28 Mar 591,802

29 Mar 659,367

30 Mar 721,584

1 Apr 846,156

:confused: :question: :eek:


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PostPosted: 03-31-2020 12:23 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Greatest country in the world :olo:

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Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded as one of the medical system’s crucial vulnerabilities: a shortage of ventilators.

The breathing-assistance machines tended to be bulky, expensive and limited in number. The plan was to build a large fleet of inexpensive portable devices to deploy in a flu pandemic or another crisis.

Money was budgeted. A federal contract was signed. Work got underway.

And then things suddenly veered off course. A multibillion-dollar maker of medical devices bought the small California company that had been hired to design the new machines. The project ultimately produced zero ventilators.


https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavi ... story.html
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PostPosted: 03-31-2020 09:38 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


https://kotaku.com/quakecon-2020-is-can ... 1842599749
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This won’t come as a surprise to any of you, but id Software officially cancelled QuakeCon 2020 today, saying “gathering is the last thing any of us should be doing right now”.

In a statement posted on the con’s site, id say the show—due to take place in August—just can’t be put together at the moment. Even were restrictions on gatherings to have been lifted by then, given the lockdown situation right now “it will not be possible to complete the work and planning with partners, vendors, volunteers, and others that is required to make QuakeCon a success”
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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 01:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


cons = petri dishes

good decision
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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 01:47 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:(
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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 07:41 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


So which one of us will get it first?
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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 08:07 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


well not you obviously
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Probably me if I haven't already had it... I had symptoms of something last week but they went away quickly, none of the symptoms at the time suggested covid but they've today advised other symptoms that might also be covid. All I had was a runny nose and my head felt congested and I had to go to the bathroom a lot. No unusual cough, shortness of breath or fever so I assumed it was just a normal cold.. Hoping that's all it was.
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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 08:45 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Of course it would be you.
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Gotta be 1st in everything ya know? I literally work with every at risk group. Hospitals, police, social development workers, emergency response, disaster planning etc...
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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 10:37 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
well not you obviously


Not necessarily. My job is essential infrastructure (I’ve got a letter and I.D. that will validate my travel and exclusion to the SIP). So unfortunately I still have some unwanted contact with people and facilities...
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Pence has just announced that the US is on the same trajectory as Italy; Italy has 60 million people...the USA 327 million...

That is a lot of dead people, brehs. Please stay safe.
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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 02:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I was trying to work out what 'Pence' was and then came across the article here on the subject.



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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 05:05 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I've been on paid leave for the last two weeks... not work from home, but get paid to do nothing at home. It's nice that I'm getting paid, but I'm also getting stir crazy, and I can't really travel anywhere to go climbing. Geoff's life must be so boring, I don't know how he hasn't already drowned himself in his above-ground pool.



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PostPosted: 04-01-2020 05:26 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Think of you all and 'staying inside' :)



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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 12:24 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Quarter of all confirmed cases now in the US.
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 01:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


confirmed
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 02:08 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


yep that's what he said
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 02:10 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The B-list politicians we've got doing the coronavirus updates in the UK (now that the main guys are in lockdown) are a pile of shit wankers.
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 03:17 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


So are your main guys...
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 04:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Can't disagree!
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seremtan wrote:
confirmed


The point he's trying to make is, you only get "confirmed" cases from testing. However, testing doesn't and never will tell you how bad the situation is. Deaths on the other hand will. Right now the UK, Spain, France and Italy (population of approx 240 million vs 320 million US) have nearly 30,000 of the nearly 49,000 global deaths. :toothy:
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YourGrandpa wrote:
seremtan wrote:
confirmed


The point he's trying to make is, you only get "confirmed" cases from testing. However, testing doesn't and never will tell you how bad the situation is. Deaths on the other hand will. Right now the UK, Spain, France and Italy (population of approx 240 million vs 320 million US) have nearly 30,000 of the nearly 49,000 global deaths. :toothy:


Yes that's how confirmed cases work.

Did you really just use a big toothy grin smiley there when talking about 30,000 deaths? You've always been a twat gramps, but that's fucking abysmal.
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Yeah, he's actually gloating over the fact that the UK, Spain, France and Italy have more dead people due to a viral outbreak than the US.
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 07:19 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


UK Goverment thinks China are underplaying death/infection rate by anything from x15-40
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YourGrandpa wrote:
seremtan wrote:
confirmed


The point he's trying to make is, you only get "confirmed" cases from testing. However, testing doesn't and never will tell you how bad the situation is. Deaths on the other hand will. Right now the UK, Spain, France and Italy (population of approx 240 million vs 320 million US) have nearly 30,000 of the nearly 49,000 global deaths. :toothy:


Give it time you colossal bellend.
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 09:04 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


#boomerremover... :olo: ...
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vesp wrote:
Yes that's how confirmed cases work.

Did you really just use a big toothy grin smiley there when talking about 30,000 deaths? You've always been a twat gramps, but that's fucking abysmal.


If people in other countries aren't being tested or not being tested at the same rate, then they're going to have less confirmed cases.

BTW, that emoji doesn't look like it's smiling at all. It looks to me like it's wincing in pain. Losing 30,000 people is awful. And fuck you too.
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Doombrain wrote:
Give it time you colossal bellend.


Bellend? Says the fucktard condemning others before looking at his own back yard. It couldn't be more obvious that more deaths per capita equals more infections or worse health care. Neither of which should encourage you to berate another country. This is bad for everyone.
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vesp wrote:
yep that's what he said


not counting the unconfirmed ones

and by that i mean the ones that kept the incinerators going night and day in Wuhan back in january
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 09:39 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


40k deaths in Wuhan alone if you believe the rumour mill
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That fits with the best guess from gov advisers. Getting my popcorn ready for the HUGE backlash against China.
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seremtan wrote:
vesp wrote:
yep that's what he said


not counting the unconfirmed ones

and by that i mean the ones that kept the incinerators going night and day in Wuhan back in january


yep, think we're all agreeing that China is not reporting it's figures correctly (if it ever did)
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PostPosted: 04-02-2020 01:09 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Meanwhile, the west is begging Cuban doctors to save them. Even with the illegal sanctions, Cuba is responding in the name of solidarity and compassion :up:
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