OT: Corona virus

[Canoerebel]

So, if I understand, New Cases is more reliable now and that will progress as we continue. That makes sense. Thanks.

[Chickenboy]

Yesterday's numbers sorted by deaths per MM. The Netherlands' climb up this chart bothers me. The United States and Germany still looking pretty good by comparison. Again, my US-centric 'landmark' for a really bad flu season's mortality would be 147/MM population.

[Cap Mandrake]

Isn't every death a "new death" to the victim? Unless you are talking about cats.

When this is over we need to confiscate every dollar in the Chicom national wealth fund. They may resist, but the aggrieved parties need to persist.*


*I stole this from the Lizzie Warren campaign, sort of.

[witpqs]

Thailand's king self-quarantining in Germany with 20 women, servants: reports

It's good to be the king.

[mind_messing]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

MindMessing, we can sidetrack this thread with our personal views, but that'll be a disservice to everybody.

To everyone else viewing, click on MindMessing's links above supporting his claim of American exceptionalism run amock. Enough said.

I see you did not take note of my careful choice of words. Let me make that explicit.

As an outsider, there's been a strong vein of American exceptionalism in this thread.

I'm not sure how you managed to interpret that the way you did.

FWIW, I think denizens of the forum can draw their own conclusions without your prompts.

Still to hear any counter-arguments from you on the point, or are we doubling down on ad hominems?

[Canoerebel]

MindMessing, I explained myself clearly and accurately above. I'm not going to sidetrack this thread further to deal with your malcontent, misreporting, and bad faith.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
When this is over we need to confiscate every dollar in the Chicom national wealth fund.

Well there's not many there. Dollars that is. [:'(] Now Renminbi/Yuan on the other hand...

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Thailand's king self-quarantining in Germany with 20 women, servants: reports

It's good to be the king.

Well, it depends on how many of those 20 women are wives ...

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Thailand's king self-quarantining in Germany with 20 women, servants: reports

It's good to be the king.

Well, it depends on how many of those 20 women are wives ...

The article says it's uncertain if any of his 4 wives are there, but it does describe the 20 women as concubines...

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Isn't every death a "new death" to the victim? Unless you are talking about cats.

When this is over we need to confiscate every dollar in the Chicom national wealth fund. They may resist, but the aggrieved parties need to persist.*


*I stole this from the Lizzie Warren campaign, sort of.

It does sounds like someone who took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks, and when she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one, would say.

[TulliusDetritus]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
When this is over we need to confiscate every dollar in the Chicom national wealth fund. [blah blah more lunacies]

India is gunna confiscate too the Americapital[ist] national wealth fund, eh little ignorant troll? After all the Spanish Flu orignated in Kansas and claimed most of its victims in India.

See the pic below, ignorant. Put that in your pipe and smoke it

[MakeeLearn]

6 feet enough for social distancing? MIT researcher says droplets carrying Coronavirus can travel up to 27 feet

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/hea ... 091526002/


"Lydia Bourouiba, an associate professor at MIT, has researched the dynamics of exhalations (coughs and sneezes, for instance) for years at The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory and found exhalations cause gaseous clouds that can travel up to 27 feet."

[MakeeLearn]

My county just got it's first case.
I live in a very rural county. We only have 2 red lights.

Went to town, stopped at 3 stores. The people with the most overloaded carts, were the most unhealthy looking people. Some so over weight they were on scooters.


Disgusting behavior from some people. Others were very friendly.

[MakeeLearn]

Six months in jail, $11,000 fine for leaving home without a 'reasonable excuse’
March 31, 2020

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/six ... 54fg8.html

"Anyone in NSW who leaves their house without a "reasonable excuse" could spend up to six months in prison and face an $11,000 fine under an emergency ministerial directive gazetted overnight.

The public health order, which enacts Sunday's recommendations of the national cabinet, gives police sweeping power to enforce the latest round of restrictions designed to limit the spread of Coronavirus in Australia."

[mind_messing]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

MindMessing, I explained myself clearly and accurately above. I'm not going to sidetrack this thread further to deal with your malcontent, misreporting, and bad faith.

Malcontent? au contraire, mon ami. I am quite sanguine.

Misreporting? I shall dispute that - my comments are referenced, and I challenge you to argue against a vein of American exceptionalism that is present in this thread.

Bad faith? Come now, you can do better than that. Try, perhaps, some evidence?

I am genuinely disappoint that you'll stoop to "Oh but you're acting in bad faith mind_messing" to avoid actually engaging with any hard facts.

[Cap Mandrake]

One can't glibly make claims about health system superiority based on mortality figures or numbers of cases. It has a lot more to do with geography and international connectedness (especially to ground zero in China). How many South Korean firms operate in China? Then you have geography. One border has about 200,000 land mines and the rest is surrounded by 45 degree F sea water. Then you add "cultural differences". Take Wuhan, when the police van drives by and blasts "everyone stay in home!"...everyone gets the message..because they bloody well know from experience what happens if you don't follow the "advice"

[HansBolter]

What EXACTLY the "f" is the issue with the belief on the part of Americans in American exceptionalism?

Why should evidence of it in a thread Americans are participating in be any kind of a surprise or any kind of an issue to anyone?

Our generation grew up being indoctrinated in the belief in American exceptionalism. It's perfectly NATURAL for it to be in evidence here.

Work on getting that chip off your shoulder.

[Cap Mandrake]

The CCP did a great job "restoring order" at Tienanmen too. The have about 150,000 full time troops with heavy weapons who answer only to the Central Committee and whose job it is to maintain "order".

North Korea has ZERO cases. Anyone planning on a trip to Pyongyang for your colonoscopy?

[RFalvo69]

Please, people: if you want to be involved in the "Great Math War of 2020" you can enlist in the derailed thread on the GD Forum. Let's keep the pissing contests out of here.

[Cap Mandrake]

Good point. Solve the problem and THEN exact revenge. Of course, planning ahead is a good thing too.