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video game mashup idea (RT'd into my timeline by nubby) -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:24
from that other site, I sold off a lot of stuff, holding very little, the past few days I've gained positions - call me Ishmael Mar 21, 11:22
Things I missed in school: a ventilator is a complex machine. -- nm - VMan Mar 21, 11:21 3
- Yep. Here's a thread about some of the particulars of putting someone on one. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:23 2
  - that was an informative thread -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 21, 12:02
  - Sorry to waste your time. I was joking. I thought that statement from you know who was self-evident. -- nm - VMan Mar 21, 11:25
Shot. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:18 1
- Chaser. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:19
Prescriptions for inappropriate quantities of hydroxychloroquine began in earnest Thursday. We're refusing them unless you were already taking it. -- nm - Tim Mar 21, 11:05 4
- you should report those doctors, they're like dr feelgoods with the b12/speed shots or pill pushers -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 21, 11:39
- Reports from around the world that people are getting chloroquine poisoning because of Chief Idiot perpetuating the misconception. - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:16
- We have a doctor, in one of the nearby mountain towns, doing "testing" for the virus--rubber stamping people good/healthy, hours after testing -- nm - Flavorize Mar 21, 11:11
- Good. - znufrii Mar 21, 11:08
Fauci: "You're not making things up." -- (link) - mud Mar 21, 11:02
Mathew Ingram (WaPo): The media must stop live-broadcasting Trump’s dangerous, destructive coronavirus briefings -- (link) - mud Mar 21, 10:53 20
- Stop watching stop watching stop watching stop retweeting stop sharing what he says. -- nm* - Dark Callisto Mar 21, 11:10 5
  - I stopped watching, and it was worth it. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 11:24
  - I feel like I'm singled out in these things because many many many here do this -- nm - mud Mar 21, 11:13 1
    - Not singling you. Intended for EVERYONE who is doing it. -- nm* - Dark Callisto Mar 21, 11:18
  - He's a social virus. We need to socially distance ourselves from him, for our own protection. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:12 1
    - (trump, not mud, obviously. 😂) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:13
- can't *stand* his voice, sound off it looks like he's playing zydeco accordian, when someone else is talking getting attn he waltzes -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 21, 11:09
- I don’t know that I’ve seen him speak live for more than a few minutes altogether since 2016. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 21, 11:02 4
  - I don’t think I’ve ever seen more than a clip od -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 11:51
  - I've actively avoided him. Not my circus, not my ringleader. (Specifically, actively avoided hearing him speak) -- nm* - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:07 2
    - you think he's my ringleader? This is ALL of our "circus", don't kid yourself -- nm - mud Mar 21, 11:11 1
      - Not my circus, not my howling orange shitgibbon. How about that? :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 11:12
- "TRE MEN DouS" - mud Mar 21, 10:59
- Minor corrective: he tweeted it, but the article is by WaPo's Margaret Sullivan (the former *amazing* NYT public editor) -- nm - ty97 Mar 21, 10:54
- Signed 2016 -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:54
- See? -- nm - Reagen Mar 21, 10:53 4
  - Not. Gonna. Happen. -- nm - mud Mar 21, 10:56 3
    - Given that it’s a psychological addiction for the people and a $$$ for the media, correct -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:59 2
      - This. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 21, 11:24
      - And his addiction. -- nm - VMan Mar 21, 11:01
A few days late, but the Biden campaign is starting to put info and responses out there -- (link) - Reagen Mar 21, 10:48
zeitgeist ygm -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 21, 10:46 4
- ok, when do you want me to begin? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 21, 11:06 3
  - please buy Thursday or Friday. $$ sent -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 21, 11:09 2
    - gotcha -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 21, 14:45 1
      - ok, Thursday is my regular buy day - zeitgeist Mar 21, 14:49
OMG in a much needed laugh, I've just heard portion the NPH autobiography where he describes the attempts of his husband and him to get pregnant - JD Mar 21, 10:44
There is a difference from something being invisible and something you are blinded from seeing. - Bacon Mar 21, 10:44 2
- and Donny is the acid thrown in our face -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 21, 10:45 1
  - HF. Nothing but the best. -- nm - VMan Mar 21, 10:58
A sobering point. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 21, 10:41
Better to pick up or have delivered? -- nm - JD Mar 21, 10:34 11
- Remember to tell them, "keep the change you filthy animal" -- nm - Bacon Mar 21, 10:56
- pick up. the delivery person is interacting with a lot more people -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 21, 10:51 2
  - Leave it on the porch. Cash is in the flower pot. -- nm - VMan Mar 21, 10:54 1
    - I thought you paid through the ap? -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 21, 14:50
- Delivery is tough. Incredible increase in requests and lots of shoppers (like myself) not willing to take the risk. -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 21, 10:44 2
  - Well now I kind of feel like a jerk as I was referring to just getting food from the local restaurant - JD Mar 21, 10:53
  - Right now in the Chicago area there are 740 open orders that have not been claimed by shoppers. Two Saturday ago that number would have been 50-75. -- nm - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 21, 10:50
- If they load it into your car, probably pickup? That way the deliveries can be reserved for people who are homebound. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 10:37 1
  - THis is a good point. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 10:45
- I don't think it matters. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 10:37 1
  - Personally, I am more worried about what happened/happens in the kitchen. Sorry, if being a Debbie Downer. -- nm - VMan Mar 21, 10:52
Schitt's Creek wants to help -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 21, 10:19
Colts: it's official. Philip Rivers is a Colt. -- nm - Remlik Mar 21, 10:17 1
- TaP -- nm - mud Mar 21, 10:26
Grocery store update, one week in - znufrii Mar 21, 10:16
excellent BBC documentary on contagions & how they spread from 2 years ago -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 21, 10:15 [youtube]
alright, which one of y'all is "db"? :) -- nm* - Beryllium Mar 21, 10:15 2
- sycor, maybe? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 10:39
- (A request came in from a name that's not familiar to me, because I'm bad with names, and it didn't have the ST handle in the description ...) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 10:18
Getting my auto racing fix in by watching the Formula 1 series on Netflix. - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 21, 10:06
Crawl is on Amazon Prime (In know what I'm watching tonight) -- nm - Beaker Mar 21, 10:00
I haven't yet mentioned that one of my coworkers (is suspected to have) had COVID19. Located in Colorado. Coughing is over & seems to be OK now. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:56
Cuomo -- (link) - ty97 Mar 21, 09:52 6
- The “eventually will become infected” number is another potentially alarming but plainly misleading number? 80Pct infected at the same time today? Fuc - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:06 5
  - But that's precisely the point of what we're doing right now. Keep the numbers lower so that when you do decide to do something important, like, oh - Reagen Mar 21, 10:28 4
    - (Not sure how my post got interpreted as meh let’s not flatten the curve?) -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:33 2
      - because I don't think "80 pct will eventually get it" is supposed to be alarming or misleading. - Reagen Mar 21, 10:35 1
        
        You’re probably right that it’s not meant to be alarming but unfortunately without context it’s liable to get used as an alarming metric by panic - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:42
    - Right exactly - that’s what we are hoping to get to -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:33
workout: wrestlers workout! -- (link) - Remlik Mar 21, 09:51 1
- Meh. Spiderman pushups > Hindu pushups -- nm - Strongbad Mar 21, 10:11
County just issued shelter in place order for Monday. - spamlet Mar 21, 09:49 1
- The president should have done it when NYC did. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 09:49
Question - would it make more sense for the paper/media to report total number of new cases or active cases? Isn’t total number of cases somewhat misl - JackDawson Mar 21, 09:44 22
- Given the early nature of the curve, total is important imo. - Will Hunting Mar 21, 10:11 1
  - Ok so the two direct responses I’ve gotten are from you and loose and both are “they’re to scare people” - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:14
- If it's true fact and not sensationalized, I gots no ish. It morbidly lets you know how many of your loved ones you may want to be calling. -- nm - con_carne Mar 21, 10:00
- I don't see a reason not to publish both, including multi-day averages because daily count can be sporadic and imply something good about fewer new - Max Mar 21, 10:00 1
  - Well yeah trends and growth rates would be even better but we KNOW total numbers are misleading in most respects vs “maybe one day’s new numbers are o - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:03
- The real numbers are never going to happen now per CNN story - Bacon Mar 21, 09:47 11
  - There’s no tests what else are they supposed to do? -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 09:50 9
    - The number they should be reporting is respiratory condition hospital admissions, regardless of confirmed cause. -- nm - Max Mar 21, 10:01 6
      - Right and capacity / ventilators available, is a coda to my point -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:03 4
        
        Reporting ventilators available would push my anxiety through the roof. I am sure others as wel -- nm - Bacon Mar 21, 10:10 3
        
        As opposed to the anxiety currently caused by the total number ever infected in the history of the virus’ life ever? - JackDawson Mar 21, 10:12 1
        
        I am not saying not to publish it, just that it would cause panic as the number of ventilators available went to zero. -- nm - Bacon Mar 21, 10:16
        
        We're on the Titanic. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 10:12
      - Agreed. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 10:03
    - Not my point. I agree with them. I am just saying you can't have real hard numbers if everyone isn't tested. -- nm - Bacon Mar 21, 09:52 1
      - BTW I misread your subject line. I thought you were talking about suspected cases vs. positive test cases. I see what you meant now. -- nm - Bacon Mar 21, 09:53
  - It makes sense when there is a severe shortage of tests. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 09:48
- New cases are the number that matters. The angle of that curve tells you how bad it is. So yes, total number is misleading, but if it gets people's attention, I'm ok with it. -- nm* - loosilu Mar 21, 09:45 4
  - Getting people’s attention by misleading them is a bad long term idea IMO. If they catch you later...your credibility is shot and then we are in bigge - JackDawson Mar 21, 09:52
  - And sudden jumps as testing capacity opens up means that the previous numbers (and any projections derived there from) were bad -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:47 2
    - Right making the total number just a rather meaningless and misleading statistic -- nm - JackDawson Mar 21, 09:51
    - The lack of testing means we really don't know what we're dealing with. WE're blind. We can't see the real dynamics. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 09:48
Lines at ATL Airport -- (link) - budice Mar 21, 09:32 12
- This is competely insane. The numbers this morning are BAD. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 09:38 5
  - I can't wait for the numbers in 2 weeks! (NM) - Marlowe Mar 21, 09:43
  - If you are in an area that is forced to stay at home this would really piss you off right? This state by state response is going to get a lot of - Bacon Mar 21, 09:41 3
    - Everyone in American should be in lockdown NOW. The numbers are really, reawlly bad. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 09:42 2
      - I'm still fairly sure we're not seeing the real numbers. - JaxSean Mar 21, 09:43 1
        
        What I saw this morning wasn't as bad as China or Italy. It was far, far, worse than that. And that's with desperately low testing. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 09:44
- Why the hell are airports open at all? -- nm - Max Mar 21, 09:37 3
  - This is a catastrophic failure, and I don't use that word lightly. -- nm - loosilu Mar 21, 09:46
  - Shut up! *throws bailout money at Max to get him to shut up* -- nm - Humpty Trumpy Sat On A Wall Mar 21, 09:40
  - This surprised me as well -- nm - JaxSean Mar 21, 09:39
- wha? -- nm - ty97 Mar 21, 09:36
- As a nation we are very stupid. that is all -- nm - bacon Mar 21, 09:35
Has this bored sports commentator made it to ST yet? -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:31 2
- I love this! Thanks for sharing. -- nm - Mop Mar 21, 11:44
- lol, awesome! (NM) - Marlowe Mar 21, 09:42
Weekend Stimulus Package approaching 2 Trillion+ -- (link) - budice Mar 21, 09:27
Good thing markets are closed. Orange Menace holding another news conference soon -- nm - TWuG Mar 21, 09:25 7
- Tweet this morning: "H... & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine." -- nm - Max Mar 21, 10:06
- I wonder what is the kickback from Putin and MBS for Drumpf making the market tank every time he opens the mouth. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 21, 09:28
- STOP. AIRING HIM. LIVE. -- nm - Reagen Mar 21, 09:28 4
  - NO. -- nm - mud Mar 21, 10:25 2
    - Don't air him until you have the corrections handy. -- nm - Reagen Mar 21, 10:34 1
      - that would certainly be optimal but you know it'll never happen -- nm - mud Mar 21, 10:38
  - We'll have a coherent unified message this time! -- nm - con_carne Mar 21, 09:43
One Doctor's opinion on Prez's H+A solution -- (link) - budice Mar 21, 09:21 1
- jfc -- nm - znufrii Mar 21, 10:24
Even though all races are canceled I am still following my training plan. - Dano Mar 21, 09:11 2
- Well done 8-) Related and conversely, I woke up to find an email from the OC Half Marathon rescheduling to Nov from May - JD Mar 21, 09:41
- Rule #1: Cardio. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:12
Alright, so far one person has requested access to the doc in the news box. So it seems like the request access system works. - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:08 4
- Six -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:41
- Five -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:39
- Four -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:22
- Two, now -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 09:13
Today's slate of NCAA games starts with Michigan (7) vs. Florida (10) 2:00 EST -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 21, 09:08 [youtube]
well, there's 1 good thing to all of this situation … traffic in my hometown is down... which is good because ... - call me Ishmael Mar 21, 09:06
Lord of the Rings Online, D&D Online DLC is free for everyone stuck at home right now The content will remain free until April 30 - crash davis Mar 21, 09:01 5
- I need to get back to LOTRO, it's been a while. (NM) - Marlowe Mar 21, 09:13 4
  - I was thinking we could add a LOTRO gaming session to our D&D group once in a while. - ReluctantCynic Mar 21, 09:17 3
    - Sounds good. - Marlowe Mar 21, 09:34 2
      - I miss having fun with yall. -- nm - Strongbad Mar 21, 10:07 1
        
        Yep. We are in Gladden, incidentally. Whoever wants to join us, is more than welcome. - Marlowe Mar 21, 10:12
I’m back at work today and boy a whole lot of folks still aren’t getting the message. Way too many people still going about as if nothing is happening -- nm - Qale Mar 21, 08:55 3
- Staying in. Building Onyxmyre! -- nm - Dark Callisto Mar 21, 09:16
- Y'all should be Time's People of the Year -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Mar 21, 09:10
- Yeah, I've noticed a whole heck of a lot of folks acting like they have a free vacation time. -- nm - crash davis Mar 21, 09:04
Happy birthday reagen :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 08:53 1
- Happy Birthday, R! -- nm - Max Mar 21, 08:54
not quite ghost town -- (pic) - mud Mar 21, 08:52 [Attachment] 2
- Victoria (downtown) was pretty empty last night, but not entirely a ghost town -- nm - Beryllium Mar 21, 08:54
- looking south: -- (pic) - mud Mar 21, 08:53 [Attachment]
RC and I have started a Slackers group on Marco Polo. With the current stuff going on, it's a fun way to be silly with each other. - bacon Mar 21, 08:48
I took a nice little 500 mile drive yesterday. Daughter drama. Nothing serious but I feel bad for the kids. - zunkskunk with the bad take Mar 21, 08:41 1
- :-[ -- nm - mud Mar 21, 08:44

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