SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

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  1. shootER

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    As are most 12 year olds.
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    Don't worry, I know my argument is way over your head. You just sit down there with your blocks and play like the child you are.
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    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    That is nice and all, but when his business license and barber license is revoked he is fucked. He can still cut hair, but without those he cannot be insured and his landlord can pull his lease for operating illegally. It is not going to last very long if you know how things work. These are his last days before they take everything he owns in fines if he ever wants to do business again.
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    The irony is you posted a meme in which you're a major SW character, whilst having the username of a minor SW character, and in actual fact you're Jar-Jar.
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    If the “experts” were right, this week should be a bloodbath. It has been two weeks since Florida and Georgia opened up, which is the minimum time needed for someone to catch the disease, exhibit symptoms, go to the hospital, get tested, and finally become a Covid statistic.
    Florida’s new cases actually declined by 14% compared to the previous week, and Georgia’s fell by 12%”
    https://www.axios.com/newsletters/a...il&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top
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    do you know anything about me? After Jabba died I opened Max's Flanth House on Coruscant and became richer than shit.
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Out of curiosity, where did you earn your medical degree?
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    And after the Rebels won, you were held up on several charges of trying to stick your trunk up girls' "hyperspace corridors".

    Yeah, I know you, Trunkula.
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    At the same school where they teach engineers to make a long tube to your death star's core so that some X-wing pilot with "The force" can shoot a torpedo in and destroy your master plan.
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    Yes. You are stupid, and you enjoy trying to hurt other people.
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    Shrug. I offered data and a link and you responded with snark. I assume that means you are incapable of forming a counter argument so you just mumble bullshit.
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    I assumed you knew how to interpret the data. Apparently not.
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    So are the cases in GA and FL not declining?
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    For the moment. Tell you what - impress me. Take any of the data presented by O2C or spot and try to refute them with your "Ooo, look what I found!"
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    Ok. Gave you two chances. You don’t engage in meaningful conversation. Just obfuscation. I’m going to place you on mute now.
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    You forgot ugly, lazy, and disrespectful. You also forgot has a microdick, and enjoys felching shit out of powerful white men's asses.
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    There's a heck of a fascist streak to that novel, so using the quote in this context doesn't necessarily make them look like bad guys.

    Which parts exactly?
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    FTFY. Knew you couldn't do it.
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    I know, but to my mind it does.
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    Me as well without the quote source context. :D
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    Florida, in its infinite wisdom, stopped reporting new cases and is now reporting all positive tests (ie, people can be counted for positive tests on multiple days). Which means its numbers are incomparable to other states, and not super useful over time.
    However, if you run the math, indeed, a 7-day trailing average of the last 7 days (through the 11th) is below the previous week’s trailing average ... but if you look at the actual numbers, for the last 7 days up through the 12th, every one is 15-45% higher than the same day the week prior. How’s that possible? The 7-day trailing average they’re using (while calling it a 7-day moving average, which they can’t have for this Monday yet) includes part of the last week of April for the 4th, which had as high positive tests as we’re seeing now. If you use 538’s metric of % tests positive rather than number of positive tests, you find a similar result, except for the 10th and/or the 7th, and the Day over Week increases are non-uniformly smaller (this uncertainty is possible because FL reports percent of positive tests for new cases, but not the number of new cases :rolleyes:), topping out around 30%.

    I can check Georgia too, if you like.

    Axios is no Five Thirty-Eight. They should stick to summary, and leave the analysis to others.
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    REOPENING PLANS Y'ALL! Pick a state...any state! Good info here but of course, subject to change. And how about those slogans? I thought the military came up with corny names for missions and projects - some of these are holy shit weak sauce! :lol: I have a few of my own that can apply to any state:

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/w...d-what-that-means/ar-BB142m5A?ocid=spartandhp

    FUCKED IF WE DO, FUCKED IF WE DON'T
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    Georgia's plan is "reviving a healthy Georgia" :unsure: umm...if something is healthy why does it need to be revived? Is that like the "well baby clinic"? If my baby was well I wouldn't be bringing them to the hospital, now would I? Some of our mid-May business reopening goals got pushed back two weeks. My dentist is still closed (hey I'm not British ya know!) and my wife can't get her medical referrals yet because they aren't life critically essential or whatever. Our COVID death rate & positive rate are going down - not sure about Atlanta or the whole state.
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    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Three hours? The staff better be entertaining the hell out of me if I'm waiting three hours. :lol: They better take the rubber bands off the lobsters and have death matches or something!