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It's the unclean and close-quarters keeping of many animal species that's the issue, not their 'wild' status so much.

Yeah, cages stacked on cages with feces and food and other secretions mixing in a big dumb petri dish is the problem.

The known cases in the US is closing in on 170k as I type this.

We're still only testing obvious symptomatic patients for the most part, it's hard to find negative test results though they are of critical importance when it comes to estimating what sort of measures need to be taken, so it's a good thing the agencies responsible for tracking this information and providing it are... *touches ear* uh huh... uh huh... FUCKING WHAT... shit... ok, well, yeah, remember when that one website stopped providing negative testing numbers because it might make the administration look bad? Apparently that was THE website which is supposed to do this.

Ideally we'd know about ~170k cases and have done nearly 2 million tests, but it's completely possible we've inverted those numbers and only gotten 15~20k negative test results.

It did surpass 9/11 in death toll at some point yesterday... though I must point out that is just confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 so far.

Whenever we end up with a better idea of the excess mortality rate[n] we can realistically attribute to this, you could write a book on how to not handle a pandemic and call it "n Hidden 9/11's: How NOT to Handle a Pandemic" if it isn't something horrifying like 100 or more implying ~290k extra deaths which is unfortunately not a possibility we can readily dismiss.

It's actually even more surreal watching this trainwreck happen with the direct memory of how utterly bizarre that morning 19 years ago was, I didn't approve of anything dubya was doing really, but I never felt such a gaping void of anything resembling leadership as we do right now.

I mean, I knew we had fallen pretty goddamn far with all the republican bullshit prior to Trump, but I guess the constant low level crisis of his presidency in general made it easy to overlook just how calm everything really was and how lucky he has been the whole time that no real crisis popped up because he is so much less than we needed it's hard to be properly scared.

You can't overreact to a pandemic, btw, because overreaction looks like the handful of countries that jumped on this shit and locked it down, and the only way that is incorrect is if for some strange reason the virus had burned itself out weeks ago... but it's never the wrong choice.

We, here in the USA, are a case study on why you only ever regret underreacting to shit like this, don't be like us, for fuck's sake.

Quote from: Max™ on March 29, 2020, 01:52:32 pm

I'll let you try my pork pancake *eyebrow waggling intensifies*... wait, I don't think that turned out right. Cancel those waggles.

Aww yeah boi, I like 'em thicc and * F L A T *

Like an alien saucer, Unidentified Flying Penis

Thick and flat makes me think of uromastyx tummy scritches which are not to be eaten because they eat flowers.

I'll let you try my pork pancake *eyebrow waggling intensifies*... wait, I don't think that turned out right. Cancel those waggles.

Seems relevant, if you know or happen to be someone in a situation where repairing a ventilator may become an important option: https://www.ifixit.com/News/36582/our-medical-repair-database-is-going-strong-but-still-needs-help

The whitest of white hats, ifixit, has got you, hopefully.

US cases: 124k, deaths, 2.1k and expected to speed up now after ~800 deaths yesterday and ~20k cases.

Got that sweetness that damn near tricks your mind into thinking it's actually savory and a tart pop to finish it.

Plus: we don't even know how many people actually have it right now in the US, and the 1200~ deaths are just from cases where we knew they had it first.

Extrapolating that to either number puts you at a guesstimate of 120,000 to 960,000 cases in the US right now and unfortunately that sounds pretty fucking low. If we aren't in the low millions of infected right now I'll be goddamn amazed at how lucky we've been.

Yeah, taking the idea apart into a wedge and a wall was why the claim it made less dust seemed plausible, that tangential pressure is going to get applied against the other moving materials which are less likely to crush each other than the total forces coming exclusively from the wedge.

I suspect that's the same reason stuff comes out along the rim when the screw passes it and cycles around normally while spinning the case makes it scatter from the entire rim, all the rest of the material is lifting/scattering vs the presence of the screw causing material to pile up and fall off.

The US fucking with central/south america started way before WW2, we don't talk about it for some reason these days but we've been busily cultivating compliant governments down south since Teddy was running around. Shit, we once held Cuba and the Phillipines and these were a thing though I don't recall much talk about them in school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars but after we stopped directly dicking around in the nearer southern countries we set to work further south.

As for reelection, it seems comforting that someone who clearly looks up to authoritarian strongmen has turned out to be a complete fuckup. The full economic and human effects of the pandemic will be much easier to see by the time of the election, and rather than using this ready made opportunity to seize more power and authority for himself, we were handed a wonderful quote to run nonstop.

"I don't take any responsibility at all." ~Wannabe-Authoritarian Weakboy Donald J. Trump