Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
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@Luhmann said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
The yellow dots
I only see green dots...
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@dcon
it'syellowgreen dots 2.5 ...
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@Luhmann So what you're saying is that imposing lockdown causes the number of infections and deaths to rise?
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I know thread is but...
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@Zecc
statistics
statistics!
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@jinpa youtube might actually prevent that, people post how to videos for everything there.
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@Magus said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@jinpa youtube might actually prevent that, people post how to videos for everything there.
How to Do a (Bowl Haircut) Hairstyles – 04:24
— Boys And Girls Hairstyles
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@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Loading and unloading must be gruesome. It's hard enough to manipulate self-motivated persons into seats, much less bulky boxen!
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@Tsaukpaetra Actually, I would think that strapping them in / unstrapping would be the real issue because you don't have the usual attachment points like in a cargo plane.
Hauling the boxes into and off the plane might be faster though because boxes will not block the middle of the path to grab their carry-on luggage, then triple-check that they didn't forget to put their phone, books or reading glasses back into it. Boxes also won't start arguing that the line is blocked and thus won't cause any violent incidents.
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@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm not sure if blood donations are even being done right now.
I've received email requesting to donate. I can't right now, but they are low.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
That my personal psychological comfort (and ability to focus) is much higher when I'm properly clothed in front of people, even if they can't see it?
Even when I was calling in but seeing the meeting on webex, it felt like they could see me. I don't even have a camera on the computer I log into webex.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Scrub pants and a t-shirt
My preference is yoga pants.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm not sure if blood donations are even being done right now.
I've received email requesting to donate. I can't right now, but they are low.
I usually donate from work. I'm afraid of donating from home, though: the blood banks around here are the most annoying spam-callers.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm not sure if blood donations are even being done right now.
I've received email requesting to donate. I can't right now, but they are low.
I usually donate from work. I'm afraid of donating from home, though: the blood banks around here are the most annoying spam-callers.
When my work has one, I get 3 hours of comp time for donating. I'm pretty sure there won't be one anytime soon.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I can't
rightnowFixed for me. Pharmaceuticals.
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm not sure if blood donations are even being done right now.
I've received email requesting to donate. I can't right now, but they are low.
Haven’t done it in many years for, well, legal reasons, so they stopped mailing.
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@JBert said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
cargo plain
O give me a home, where the packages roam, and the warehouses ship stuff all day
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@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm not sure if blood donations are even being done right now.
I've received email requesting to donate. I can't right now, but they are low.
Haven’t done it in many years for, well, legal reasons, so they stopped mailing.
Aren't doctors still forbidden to rat you out in Germany, or have they been hollowing that out, too, lately?
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Got this in an email today:
Now that could be damn useful for people commuting to hospitals if they can figure out the parking details.
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@JBert Not sure why they don't simply remove the seats. It's not as if demand for passenger seats will pick up that suddenly.
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@Rhywden Storage space costs money and doesn't travel with the plane. Also, a lot of it might currently be full of 737 accessories.
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@dfdub Then simply put the seats into the 737!
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@dfdub said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Rhywden Storage space costs money and doesn't travel with the plane. Also, a lot of it might currently be full of 737 accessories.
Plus, they might need the seats on the way back. Now the seats are in the wrong place...
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@dcon said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I can't
rightnowFixed for me. Pharmaceuticals.
Mine's anemia caused by meds.
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Thus it is NOT like the flu. It's bullshit. It is naht.
Oh, hi Mark!
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@jinpa Seems to me that "high case-fatality" is the only numeric that's relevant for those guys or I'm not seeing why they'd not label it a HCID. I mean, of those bullet points:
- acute infectious disease
- typically has a high case-fatality rate
- may not have effective prophylaxis or treatment
- often difficult to recognise and detect rapidly
- ability to spread in the community and within healthcare settings
- requires an enhanced individual, population and system response to ensure it is managed effectively, efficiently and safely
it meets every single one except for the fatality rate. Also, both MERS and SARS are still on that list?
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Aaaand the flight on April, 1st for my relatives stranded on Aruba has been cancelled. They have no alternative date yet.
I suggested to them that maybe spending more time on Aruba isn't such a bad thing.
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Aruba
Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya...
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Finally under a "safer at home" order county-wide (plus some neighboring counties) as of tomorrow. Not much is gonna change for me, really. Except one of my D&D players (we're playing via discord currently) won't have to join from his phone from work. Because that's shut down.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
and then give the rest to @sloosecannon.
wooo!
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In other Argentinian news...
When the province of Mendoza, which is governed by the opposition, purchased ventilators, the government blocked that purchase and decreed that all purchases of ventilators must be handled by the national government, so that the president can give those ventilators to obedient people...
Business as usual for Peronists...
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@LaoC said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I'm not sure if blood donations are even being done right now.
I've received email requesting to donate. I can't right now, but they are low.
Haven’t done it in many years for, well, legal reasons, so they stopped mailing.
Aren't doctors still forbidden to rat you out in Germany, or have they been hollowing that out, too, lately?
The form you fill out asks if you’re part of any “risk group”, which only considers you being in that group, not your personal risk / health. And you can’t donate if you answer truthfully, even if you’re perfectly healthy.
(You don’t have to, really. There’s another form where you can check whether to use the blood donation or destroy it, giving you the option to still look like you “donate” even if you have e.g. a transmittable disease. I assume that’s so if you go with a group you are not forced to reveal that you can’t donate.)
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
maybe spending more time on Aruba isn't such a bad thing.
But if they're locked indoors it might not be so nice
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@JBert Not sure why they don't simply remove the seats. It's not as if demand for passenger seats will pick up that suddenly.
That's a change into the plane's configuration. That'd need approval from regulatory agencies and the plane's manufacturer (since they mostly self-certify). Whereas hauling cargo on the seats is a "temporary" or "emergency" measure.
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Not sure why they don't simply remove the seats.
That's quite a bit of work. The demand for cargo transport is now.
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Apparently, not even the US numbers are trustworthy:
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@dfdub
so the US of A is basically running into the same issues as other countries
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And I've heard there was a lack of tests in the US, but holy shit, I didn't expect it to be this bad:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/young-people-are-not-immune-coronavirus/608794/
The title is not as interesting to me as the fact that of all people with clear symptoms of COVID-19, only the ones that need immediate hospitalization are even being tested in NYC right now. And I also wonder how many of the people who are sent away might be at risk at home, since there are already reports of a bunch of deaths at home after being classified low-risk.
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@acrow Regulations really are screwing all businesses right now who are trying to adapt.
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@Luhmann said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
so the US of A is basically running into the same issues as other countries
Underreporting deaths due to lack of testing of bodies is something I actually didn't expect from the US. Seems like I overestimated the CDC.
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@dfdub said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Luhmann said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
so the US of A is basically running into the same issues as other countries
Underreporting deaths due to lack of testing of bodies is something I actually didn't expect from the US. Seems like I overestimated the CDC.
Yeah, the CDC and FDA put us at least a month behind the curve on that (CDC's first test didn't work and the FDA wasn't approving labs to create their own or even run tests at first). There were about 100K test results yesterday nationwide but we were still getting less than
230K per day a week ago.
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Couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
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@dkf I don't know whether the downvoters disagree Boris Johnson deserved this or whether someone else deserved it more.
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@Zecc I'm pretty sure the downvoters disagree with wishing potentially deadly diseases on people. As much as I and the majority of Europe think he's a dickhead, there's a line somewhere.
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@dfdub Well, he's shown his true colours when he made it the official policy of the UK to "just let it rip" (granted, he changed it later on but still, seriously?)
Also, he gave a sweetheart deal to Dyson to produce ventilators. Who have never produced ventilators before. While kind of ignoring the already existing companies producing such machines. And also ignoring offers to buy already existing ones.
His government also first stated that they would not participate in a coordinated buying scheme initiated by the EU because they're not in the EU anymore. Even though they were explicitly offered to take part.
That statement later on changed to: "We didn't read the email in time."
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@dkf said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
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@Rhywden So he's not only a dickhead, but also corrupt. I guess I should have explicitly mentioned that?
That doesn't change the basic rules of decency, though. They apply regardless of your and the other person's political views and actions.
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@dfdub If your policy decisions directly lead to increased suffering and deaths (against better knowledge!) then I'm sorry, but you just revoked your "get sympathy" card.
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@dfdub If your policy decisions directly lead to increased suffering and deaths then I'm sorry, but you just revoked your "get sympathy" card.
Are you aware that the original plan was drawn up in 2011?
I haven't been following the events in the UK very closely, but I know that this wasn't a Boris original idea.