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This is interesting
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/health/f ... index.html


If there is any more to this, I can't help but wonder how long until the two-minutes hate gets directed away from bat-eaters and towards frog eaters.

buddy bradley wrote:Christ, my first post on this forum I've been reading for ages is about a virus and not a game. .

Welcome aboard then.

Thanks for posting that Trekkie review. It's good to know that the show now fondly remembered for airing the first interracial kiss originally got hate for its tokenism and stereotyping.

FrankTrollman wrote:All in all, this is the most dystopian thing I've seen in my entire life.

I find it gallows humorous that WV is among the last to be picked for a team.

So, about six weeks ago, I watched the revelation that Covid-19 had a pretty scary death rate in older populations be followed by the most rapid and drastic public health measures in my lifetime. Shit that was impossible, like companies allowing peons to work from home and Congress actually passing ...

How do you fix your brain when it's been damaged by depression? Mostly, I want to fix/overcome the executive dysfunction and start to overcome some of the behaviours that it's conditioned in me. I am not a medical professional, but my treatment plan would be something along the lines of: Better die...

Dr. Dre Dr Seuss mashup is the best thing to come out of 2020. https://youtu.be/hqIbEHNqbPs

And a train engineer derailed on purpose to try to crash into a hospital ship.

While the POTUS is recommending the use of drugs he can profit off of over ventilators.

The novel Kings of the Wyld is an awesome mashup of IP-scrubbed D&D and classic rock tropes/references. Well worth a read. Doubly so for JigokuBosatsu

Also the choice is not "keep the economy running and accept collateral damage or tank stocks to save lives" it is "how bad does that market crash when somewhere between 0.8% to 4% of your population and twice that number of your healthcare workers die of the same cause within an 18 mo...

Wow.

No self awareness that he's saying the quiet part out loud nor how much panic doing so could trigger.

I have seen reports from individuals who have caught the virus that there are mental side effects. Some have said that they are making stupid decisions. Others are saying they're more angry and argumentative. .... If any of you have information about this, I would appreciate linkable sources. You j...

I recognize the wing patterns.

That's not a winged spider. That's a wasp paralyzing a spider so she can lay her eggs inside it.

I only dabbled in CP 2020 in my younger days, but my group's consensus from back then was that a Reflexes of 8 was the absolute minimum you could get away with -- and going that low was only acceptable for characters who were trying to specialize in non-combat roles.

Britain is fucked in all projections:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/ ... ly-impact/

deaddmwalking wrote:Not that this should shock anyone, but financial markets are down sharply.

Briefly in the interday today they were below the numbers they held at Drumpf's inauguration.

If you had a few months to prepare but not more, how would you add a significant number of acute care beds? Could it be done? I'm asking because we're more or less in that situation in NZ and I'd like to know what to look for in gov't actions and what to put pressure on them to do. I have no expert...

Doing napkin scratch estimates for my own region -- the Pittsburgh Greater Metropolitan area is going to have very roughly 3000 to 5000 people hospitalized due to Covid-19 in very roughly 90 days. And that's not the peak, just the point where saturation and recoveries mean the rate of new cases slow...

I hate that this thing is making me feel like a hypochondriac. I had a sore throat for a few days and every time I blew my nose (rare) I'd be like "Is this it?" Ditto whenever anyone else coughs. Coughing in public is rapidly becoming as socially unacceptable as farting in a crowded eleva...

Can I wish that the Senators who neutered impeachment be tried for criminally negligent mass homicide?

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus ... ebsite/amp

Based solely on what I have read from sources I trust, and not on any sort of formal qualification or prior expertise: -The worst pandemic in a century, but it passes. Coronavirus has a reinfection rate too low to survive once it runs out of naive hosts, or else an effective vaccine is developed wit...

My nephew has a 5 point plan


https://photos.app.goo.gl/RfXt8X91YKiH95R7A

Why is nobody talking about the chance it mutates?.. I mean Covid's Metamorphoses is right there.

This is next-level meta nerd hilarity:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBtnLznwZW4

Current random musing: Why do so many people flip out over whether to use the common English or more directly Greek-derived pluralization of "Octopus" when nobody ever does it over creatures from actual Greek myth? I mean arguing that the monster manual should list Pegapodes and Catoblepon...