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The deal where the House didn't record who voted for the last bill should be a cause for great concern. Nobody wanted to put their name on it. Took a lot of guts for Massie to stand his ground in trying to get a formal vote.
 
Spike said:
Oh Tampa



Florida Megachurch Packed with Worshipers During Coronavirus Pandemic

This is the clear and present danger ... people continuing to congregate -- squeezing into close quarters like sardines -- and that's exactly what happened Sunday at a Florida Church.

The River Church in Tampa was packed to the gills with worshipers who clearly were looking for hope. Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, who presides over the megachurch and has been reportedly defiant over social distancing, has claimed he'll cure coronavirus just the way he did with Zika.

"We are not stopping anything. I've got news for you, this church will never close. The only time the church will close is when the Rapture is taking place.”

https://www.tmz.com/2020/03/29/chruch-service-florida-coronavirus-worship/
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It’s not just Tampa and churches. Jerry Falwell reopened Liberty University and now they have several students with COVID-19 symptoms.
 
Addendum to SF81's rules:
"Suck a Glock" is still the preferential response when responding to Hank the Tank. (BUT ONLY HANK THE TANK).
 
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Superman said:
Addendum to SF81's rules:
"Suck a Glock" is still the preferential response when responding to Hank the Tank. (BUT ONLY HANK THE TANK).
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So, 'Go die in a fire' is out then?

Does that extend to our animal friends?

'Shoot the dog and install field turf' is gone too?
 
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Troglodyte said:
It’s not just Tampa and churches. Jerry Falwell reopened Liberty University and now they have several students with COVID-19 symptoms.
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yes, God seems to be particularly spiteful with churchgoers breaking quarantine, it's a Sign


45 of 60 People Who Went to Washington Choir Practice Have Coronavirus

Medics say the transmission was AIRBORNE because they had all been social-distancing

A choir practice held in Washington state on March 10, as the new coronavirus was spreading in Seattle, left dozens of people with COVID-19.

45 out of 60 Skagit Valley Chorale who gathered at the Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church have tested positive. Three have been hospitalized and two have died. No one at the practice had symptoms and most avoided contact with others, but the act of singing could have dispersed virus-containing droplets into the air they breathed.

“It’s just normal, random people doing things that they love to do, and all of a sudden some people are dead,” chorister Carolynn Comstock told the Times. “It’s very sobering.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/coron...ent-to-mount-vernon-washington-choir-practice
 
Spike said:
yes, God seems to be particularly spiteful with churchgoers breaking quarantine, it's a Sign


45 of 60 People Who Went to Washington Choir Practice Have Coronavirus

Medics say the transmission was AIRBORNE because they had all been social-distancing

A choir practice held in Washington state on March 10, as the new coronavirus was spreading in Seattle, left dozens of people with COVID-19.

45 out of 60 Skagit Valley Chorale who gathered at the Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church have tested positive. Three have been hospitalized and two have died. No one at the practice had symptoms and most avoided contact with others, but the act of singing could have dispersed virus-containing droplets into the air they breathed.

“It’s just normal, random people doing things that they love to do, and all of a sudden some people are dead,” chorister Carolynn Comstock told the Times. “It’s very sobering.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/coron...ent-to-mount-vernon-washington-choir-practice
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So gathering 60 people, making them stand directly behind, beside, and in front of each other and having them basically yelling into the air for two hours results in a high transmission of a respiratory droplet spread virus? No way!
 
Ah Spike is back.

I can only imagine how gleeful you are.

For the record, based on up-to-the-minute details from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries ...

The percentage of people on the planet who have died from this global extinction event is - .00047% (yes, that's the actual percentage. You don't need to multiply that by 100, It's already been done.)

Yea, though we walk in the valley of the shadow of .00047% death, we shall fear no government...
 
As far as I can tell, this is far and away the greatest over-reaction in the history of humanity.

I imagine people were more chill about the ******* plague, which ACTUALLY killed people.
 
wig said:
As far as I can tell, this is far and away the greatest over-reaction in the history of humanity.

I imagine people were more chill about the ******* plague, which ACTUALLY killed people.
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You do realize the snowball isn’t even halfway down the hill?
 
wig said:
As far as I can tell, this is far and away the greatest over-reaction in the history of humanity.

I imagine people were more chill about the ******* plague, which ACTUALLY killed people.
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Or Polio which was not all that long ago. I remember when I was a kid in the 70s going to visit a relative who got a really bad bad case of it. She lived in an iron lung all those years. Guessing she got it in the late 50s. Can't imagine living out my days in one of those things. Just f'n k---.... never mind
 
Troglodyte said:
You do realize the snowball isn’t even halfway down the hill?
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Total U.S. cases (confirmed by testing, not total amount obviously): 145,131

Deaths attributed to Coronavirus (meaning virus played a role, did not simply kill patient like a bullet to the heart): 2608

Percentage fatalities among KNOWN infected: 0.18%.

Let me repeat: Percentage fatalities among TESTED AND CONFIRMED China virus case = 2608/145,131 x 100 = 0.18%.

https://www.covidus.com/coronavirus/usa/

Science.

So the fatality rate of the Chinese flu compared to the "regular" flu in 2017-2018, which saw 80,000 flu-related deaths: 80,000/49,000,000 x 100 = 0.16%.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/health/flu-deaths-2017--2018-cdc-bn/index.html (80,000 died from flu)

https://www.livescience.com/64476-flu-season-illnesses-2018-2019-estimates.html ("Since 2010, the yearly total number of flu cases has ranged from 9.3 million during the 2011-2012 season to 49 million during the 2017-2018 season, according to the CDC")

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

So this entire thing seems to be a panic about a hypothetical fatality rate - 2% to 4% - that was never going to happen, and projections about death rates that are JUST. NOT. TRUE.
 
wig said:
As far as I can tell, this is far and away the greatest over-reaction in the history of humanity.

I imagine people were more chill about the ******* plague, which ACTUALLY killed people.
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What PISSES me off is that I always advocated for some of these measures for new contagious viruses, but the theories behind limited quarantine and social distancing were never meant to ladt past one or two generations for a low lethal virus...


This thing isn’t deadly enough to warrent a full lockdown and contagious enough that it cannot be wiped out

You get ahead of it then aim for herd immunity... thats decades of people explaining why our pandemic plans were asinine

Now the same librral fucktards that argued with me when i advocated for ebola quarantine want us locked in our houses for a year and a half...

There is scientific basis for this, based on math... we have numbers... we have a good grasp of the viral effects...
Now we need the President and the Dems to quit playing politics and put together a specific list of achievable standards to end the lockdown

Namely a number of ventilators , a supply of masks and sanitizer, a number of testing capacity, and treatment medication levels... then the country opens back up

You cannot keep a significant portion of the population jobless and locked in cages without expecting riots... that has to be avoided
 
Steeltime said:
Total U.S. cases (confirmed by testing, not total amount obviously): 145,131

Deaths attributed to Coronavirus (meaning virus played a role, did not simply kill patient like a bullet to the heart): 2608

Percentage fatalities among KNOWN infected: 0.18%.

Let me repeat: Percentage fatalities among TESTED AND CONFIRMED China virus case = 2608/145,131 x 100 = 0.18%.

https://www.covidus.com/coronavirus/usa/

Science.

So the fatality rate of the Chinese flu compared to the "regular" flu in 2017-2018, which saw 80,000 flu-related deaths: 80,000/49,000,000 x 100 = 0.16%.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/26/health/flu-deaths-2017--2018-cdc-bn/index.html (80,000 died from flu)

https://www.livescience.com/64476-flu-season-illnesses-2018-2019-estimates.html ("Since 2010, the yearly total number of flu cases has ranged from 9.3 million during the 2011-2012 season to 49 million during the 2017-2018 season, according to the CDC")

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

So this entire thing seems to be a panic about a hypothetical fatality rate - 2% to 4% - that was never going to happen, and projections about death rates that are JUST. NOT. TRUE.
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The scare tactic is to show deaths/recovered... despite most deaths coming within ten days of contracting the virus and recoveries not being counted for 21 to up to 36 days to account for relapses, so the likely deaths are counted way before the recoveries and nobody is counting estimated infected and not tested numbers
 
madinsomniac said:
What PISSES me off is that I always advocated for some of these measures for new contagious viruses, but the theories behind limited quarantine and social distancing were never meant to ladt past one or two generations for a low lethal virus...


This thing isn’t deadly enough to warrent a full lockdown and contagious enough that it cannot be wiped out

You get ahead of it then aim for herd immunity... thats decades of people explaining why our pandemic plans were asinine

Now the same librral fucktards that argued with me when i advocated for ebola quarantine want us locked in our houses for a year and a half...

There is scientific basis for this, based on math... we have numbers... we have a good grasp of the viral effects...
Now we need the President and the Dems to quit playing politics and put together a specific list of achievable standards to end the lockdown

Namely a number of ventilators , a supply of masks and sanitizer, a number of testing capacity, and treatment medication levels... then the country opens back up

You cannot keep a significant portion of the population jobless and locked in cages without expecting riots... that has to be avoided
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There must be someway out of here...
 
Steeltime said:
Total U.S. cases (confirmed by testing, not total amount obviously): 145,131

Deaths attributed to Coronavirus (meaning virus played a role, did not simply kill patient like a bullet to the heart): 2608

Percentage fatalities among KNOWN infected: 0.18%.

Let me repeat: Percentage fatalities among TESTED AND CONFIRMED China virus case = 2608/145,131 x 100 = 0.18%.
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No,1.8%.

.18% would be 261 dead.
 
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