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    If there is ever a real apocalypse, Greenpoint will get taken out early. He's literally playing the role of Bill Paxton in Aliens.
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    For reference, there have been 74 official deaths in the US, 42 of them in Washington State.
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    He also describes at 48 seconds Manila being in a state of "calamity". Is that true? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMXekRVnHo
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    Deaths appear to have peaked on Sunday. I believe it went from 369 to 348, doing it from memory not doublechecking. So I can't say exactly the number of days since lockdown, there were two "lockdowns", the second one being the full deal, and the lockdown was different and earlier in Lombardy, where most of the deaths and stress on hospital resources have occurred.
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    I'll leave it to the experts, I'm not an expert on the FDA and their procedures. But my best guess is that you are wrong. The FDA did not design their immunization protocols with the goal of mitigating a global crisis that would entirely shut down society. Do you have any reason to believe that they did?
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    The virus itself is a single stranded RNA virus with 30k base pairs. It was sequenced in January. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-virus-discovered-by-chinese-scientists-investigating-pneumonia-outbreak-11578485668?mod=article_inline As an aside, here's a quote from that article, which was published 8 JAN. Caveat fucking emptor. Phase I trials are supposed to be (more or less) safety only, not efficacy. However, the trial was scheduled to begin in April, and it's begun already. So it's moving faster than expected. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/when-will-a-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-be-ready-human-trials-global-immunisation I don't know why you make a bacteria produce the protein rather than just injecting it, but whatever, that's not a new technology. Bottom line, it will generate an antibody mediated immune response and immunologic memory.
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    While they are talking about more than a year to approve it, I think over time they will realize that they can loosen the safety protocols. It's a government bureaucracy, it's not flexible but over time and given a complete breakdown in society they will be forced to take more risk that they are normally comfortable with. I think I have an reasonably informed opinion and I am optimistic they can come up with something in a faster time frame, like before the expected fall resurgence. Herd immunity doesn't require 100% population immunity to be effective, just a good majority of the population.
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    Debuting at No 41 on iTunes - REM's brand new song (that no one's ever heard of) called "It's The End Of The World As We Know It". https://www.cnet.com/news/coronavirus-has-r-e-m-s-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-climbing-charts/
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    I'm able to go running here. People are exercising and walking dogs. It's pretty common. I'm not bothering to bring my "permit" as I don't think there are enough police around. I see them in the city center, and there may be checkpoints on major roads, but they're not around the rest of the city.
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    Immediate 2% drop after that.
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    It would really help if you could post some more pics.
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    On a not unrelated note, I recently discovered that the age of consent in Italy is 14, also known as 8th grade.
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    True enough. UK just quarantined although they're not closing schools yet. Italy seems to have peaked.
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    Maybe I'm a lunatic, but I just want to get it. I'm not in the risk group, and I'd just rather quarantine and move on.
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    He's making decisions on a rolling basis. He's having trouble standing up to the restaurant lobbyists though.
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    Buy netflix lololol?
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    Even if it drops 50%, who would look around and say "shit everything's cheap!"? That's the danger of having such amazingly high multiples, once we try and find a bottom, it's a long way down. Never mind that entire industries will come close to liquidating and that banks are probably fucked again. Get out your Down 10,000 hats.
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    Apparently, it's "continuing to spread" in Italy. Don't know if this is the ten day delayed snapshot, more testing, or actual spread. Been less than a week of actual shutdown so far. I just threw away the last of my pizza. Can't get more, everyone's closed. https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/03/16/coronavirus-continues-spread-italy-despite-lockdown/
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    The Fed just shot the last round in it shotgun. Result: limit down on the market. Excellent job, fake government agency.
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    NRAA = no rules at all? No regulation? No reserves? No residual value?
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    I think large institutions are gonna start blowing up soon. At least around the edges of the system. Obviously the big ones have systems in place to avoid disclosure and direct lines of unlimited credit with central banks. But lots of smaller entities don't have that. Hedge funds, for example, many of which are highly leveraged and have trading accounts and leveraged contracts with the money center banks.
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    Pornhub wants my email to get premium access. I didn't do it. What exactly do I get with Premium that is so awesome?
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    Avatar checks out.
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    Men run to the sound of gunfire. We don't run and tell daddy that somebody was mean to us.

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