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  On 3/27/2020 at 1:56 PM, RomaVicta said:

We're preaching the same sermon. Preach on, brother.

The disease is still an abstraction to most of the people and it's not their fault. The story has not been properly told by the sources we rely on. Rachel Maddow is an exception here. Here story on supplies last night was outstanding.

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Tom Hanks should have taken one for the team and died with Rita live streaming to social media.

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For the Surly Austinites, the City now has a dashboard giving details on cases (wish they or the County would publish a ZIP code map like Dallas).

https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/39e4f8d4acb0433baae6d15a931fa984 

Notes (county data):

  • 137 cases reported so far.
  • The bar chart on new cases is promising, so far.
  • No overall real gender gap, so far. (Should note that young women out pace young men, but older men outpace older women.)
  • 56 percent of infected under the age of 40.

Age Group

(Years)

Female

Male

Total

0-9

0

0

0

10-19

1

0

1

20-29

21

15

36

30-39

20

17

39

40-49

5

17

22

50-59

9

11

20

60-69

7

5

12

70-79

1

3

4

≥80

2

1

3

Total

68

69

137

 

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  On 3/27/2020 at 2:08 PM, bolverk said:

For the Surly Austinites, the City now has a dashboard giving details on cases (wish they or the County would publish a ZIP code map like Dallas).

https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/39e4f8d4acb0433baae6d15a931fa984 

Notes (county data):

  • 137 cases reported so far.
  • The bar chart on new cases is promising, so far.
  • No overall real gender gap, so far. (Should note that young women out pace young men, but older men outpace older women.)
  • 56 percent of infected under the age of 40.

Age Group

(Years)

Female

Male

Total

0-9

0

0

0

10-19

1

0

1

20-29

21

15

36

30-39

20

17

39

40-49

5

17

22

50-59

9

11

20

60-69

7

5

12

70-79

1

3

4

≥80

2

1

3

Total

68

69

137

 

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Thanks for posting - agree on the zip code map.  On the M/F infection rate, my understanding is that there typically isn't much of a difference - it's the death numbers that seem to be 2:1 M/F. 

Posted
  On 3/27/2020 at 6:30 AM, Hookah Horns said:

This shit about the DPA continues to mind fuck me. Years from now people will be looking back on his conduct during this crisis in fucking wonderment. 

What is the downside to getting this shit going full bore? The downside to pussy footing around is massive. 

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I don't see either of these guys putting much thought into it.

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  On 3/27/2020 at 10:52 AM, tantric superman said:

I billion for 80,000 ventilators?  That's $12,500 a pop.

I'd buy me and the wife our own ventilator for $12,500. 

They could offer a time share deal (you get priority and everyone else can use it when you aren't) and pay for those in the open market in a couple of days.

 

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Bill Gates, Tito B, Warren Buffett, Mike Bloomberg, Michael Dell and a few other actual billionaires could get together and fund those ventilators as easy as tipping on a dinner tab.

Plus, Trump's head would explode, so free dessert.

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  On 3/27/2020 at 1:56 PM, RomaVicta said:

We're preaching the same sermon. Preach on, brother.

The disease is still an abstraction to most of the people and it's not their fault. The story has not been properly told by the sources we rely on. Rachel Maddow is an exception here. Here story on supplies last night was outstanding.

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Three American GIs lie dead on Buna Beach.[389] [Note 36] The image was captured by George Strock on 31 December 1942[390] though it is sometimes described as having been taken in February 1943, a month after the battle ended.[391] Life was finally able to publish it on 20 September 1943 after President Roosevelt authorised its release. It was the first photograph published in the United States during World War II to show American soldiers dead on the battlefield. Roosevelt was concerned that the American public were growing complacent about the cost of the war on human life.

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  On 3/27/2020 at 2:08 PM, bolverk said:

For the Surly Austinites, the City now has a dashboard giving details on cases (wish they or the County would publish a ZIP code map like Dallas).

https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/39e4f8d4acb0433baae6d15a931fa984 

Notes (county data):

  • 137 cases reported so far.
  • The bar chart on new cases is promising, so far.
  • No overall real gender gap, so far. (Should note that young women out pace young men, but older men outpace older women.)
  • 56 percent of infected under the age of 40.

Age Group

(Years)

Female

Male

Total

0-9

0

0

0

10-19

1

0

1

20-29

21

15

36

30-39

20

17

39

40-49

5

17

22

50-59

9

11

20

60-69

7

5

12

70-79

1

3

4

≥80

2

1

3

Total

68

69

137

 

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Not surprised at younger folks being bigger % of infected. I know of a couple of cases where roommates both have CV-19. Austin rent prices being what they are 22-30 yo singles are often in shared spaces in apt/condos. 

Posted
  On 3/27/2020 at 2:40 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Bill Gates, Tito B, Warren Buffett, Mike Bloomberg, Michael Dell and a few other actual billionaires could get together and fund those ventilators as easy as tipping on a dinner tab.

Plus, Trump's head would explode, so free dessert.

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George Soros should do it. 

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Posted
  On 3/27/2020 at 3:05 PM, A-Tex Devil said:

These are two good companion pieces that weren't necessarily meant to be.

1. Published 3/20.  It ran some math to predict numbers, and has been prescient.  In fact, things have been slightly worse.  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hell-coming-mathematical-proof-185019616.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=fb

2. From The Atlantic today.  https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-will-coronavirus-end/608719/?fbclid=IwAR13fspWXu4LVFP90mFCLL71MgeP8i7nE3tqfKaNZlLdhzbJlecZ0Zdjqno

Fuck Trump.  The exacerbation described in these articles are on him and his administration.  Anyone that says otherwise is frankly an idiot.  Why we weren't spending the drop in the bucket to produce masks, ventilators and fucking tests in early February is an absolute failing.  You can argue no president would.  Fuck your hypotheticals.  This president didn't.  And said there would be close to zero cases less than a month ago.  We should NEVER let society forget that.  That single statement fuels a moral imperative that folks vote him out of office.  If you vote for him in November, you are immoral and/or stupid.  

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I don't even have to read The Atlantic article to know it is bullshit.  Here is the heading from the article.

How the Pandemic Will End  (oh really great swami, you know exactly how this is going to end?  You the journalist, not a medical expert, not a doctor, not even a scientist, a journalist.  You know how this is going to end.  You don't know shit.  You are guessing and it isn't even going to be an educated guess.  You are pulling shit out of your ass and smelling your fingers.)

Next part of heading.

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world.  This is how it is going to play out.

Oh really, you know exactly how this is going to play out?  Then why are you working at The Atlantic and not at the CDC or WHO?  Because you don't know how it is going to play out.  Nobody knows how it is going to play out.  Not the CDC, the WHO, the Surgeon General, or Mentor the Mystic.  ANYONE that claims they know how this is going to play out is full of shit because nothing like this has ever happened in modern times.   The last time something of this scale was going on television hadn't been invented, computers hadn't been invented probably about 10,000 advances in medicine hadn't been discovered.   And if you actually did know how it was going to play out you wouldn't have used the word may in the very sentence preceding your declaration.  You would have used the word will.  This is fear mongering, plain and simple.  This guy doesn't have any more idea of how this is going to play out than any of us do.

 

 

 

How the Pandemic Will End

The U.S. may end up with the 

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Posted
  On 3/27/2020 at 3:23 PM, EMAWesome said:

I don't even have to read The Atlantic article to know it is bullshit.  Here is the heading from the article.

How the Pandemic Will End  (oh really great swami, you know exactly how this is going to end?  You the journalist, not a medical expert, not a doctor, not even a scientist, a journalist.  You know how this is going to end.  You don't know shit.  You are guessing and it isn't even going to be an educated guess.  You are pulling shit out of your ass and smelling your fingers.)

Next part of heading.

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world.  This is how it is going to play out.

Oh really, you know exactly how this is going to play out?  Then why are you working at The Atlantic and not at the CDC or WHO?  Because you don't know how it is going to play out.  Nobody knows how it is going to play out.  Not the CDC, the WHO, the Surgeon General, or Mentor the Mystic.  ANYONE that claims they know how this is going to play out is full of shit because nothing like this has ever happened in modern times.   The last time something of this scale was going on television hadn't been invented, computers hadn't been invented probably about 10,000 advances in medicine hadn't been discovered.   And if you actually did know how it was going to play out you wouldn't have used the word may in the very sentence preceding your declaration.  You would have used the word will.  This is fear mongering, plain and simple.  This guy doesn't have any more idea of how this is going to play out than any of us do.

 

 

 

How the Pandemic Will End

The U.S. may end up with the 

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He gives multiple directions this could take based on how it's handled but you'd have to actually read it to understand that.

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  On 3/27/2020 at 3:23 PM, EMAWesome said:

I don't even have to read The Atlantic article to know it is bullshit.  Here is the heading from the article.

How the Pandemic Will End  (oh really great swami, you know exactly how this is going to end?  You the journalist, not a medical expert, not a doctor, not even a scientist, a journalist.  You know how this is going to end.  You don't know shit.  You are guessing and it isn't even going to be an educated guess.  You are pulling shit out of your ass and smelling your fingers.)

Next part of heading.

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world.  This is how it is going to play out.

Oh really, you know exactly how this is going to play out?  Then why are you working at The Atlantic and not at the CDC or WHO?  Because you don't know how it is going to play out.  Nobody knows how it is going to play out.  Not the CDC, the WHO, the Surgeon General, or Mentor the Mystic.  ANYONE that claims they know how this is going to play out is full of shit because nothing like this has ever happened in modern times.   The last time something of this scale was going on television hadn't been invented, computers hadn't been invented probably about 10,000 advances in medicine hadn't been discovered.   And if you actually did know how it was going to play out you wouldn't have used the word may in the very sentence preceding your declaration.  You would have used the word will.  This is fear mongering, plain and simple.  This guy doesn't have any more idea of how this is going to play out than any of us do.

 

 

 

How the Pandemic Will End

The U.S. may end up with the 

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This is such an unfathomably stupid post, but par for the course.  I guess in your world, there is no place for using data to try to predict the outcome.  Read the week old article instead then.  Or stop shit posting.  Either way, you are on ignore now.

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Posted
  On 3/27/2020 at 3:31 PM, A-Tex Devil said:

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This is such an unfathomably stupid post, but par for the course.  I guess in your world, there is no place for using data to try to predict the outcome.  Read the week old article instead then.  Or stop shit posting.  Either way, you are ignore now.

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Why doesn't EMAW use that much time scrutinizing the articles from his favorite websites like Daily Caller. 

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SIAP

EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus

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I mean really, fuck these people straight to Hell. 

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Those tweets of him ragging on General Motors.  Just about the most disgusting things I've read over the last few weeks.

What a grotesque waste of organic matter.

That none of these assholes, or people they love, will die for lack of a ventilator is a wonderful example of the the cosmic veracity that life is unjust.

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  On 3/27/2020 at 3:42 PM, DixonHur said:

SIAP

EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus

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I mean really, fuck these people straight to Hell. 

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We're too busy fighting a national health crisis to care if you pollute our air and poison our water. 

This isn't a surprise at all. We knew they'd take advantage of the National Emergency to commit all sorts of skullduggery. 

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  On 3/27/2020 at 3:52 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

We're too busy fighting a national health crisis to care if you pollute our air and poison our water. 

This isn't a surprise at all. We knew they'd take advantage of the National Emergency to commit all sorts of skullduggery. 

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There were arguments that the environment was benefiting form the social distancing.  Can't let the environment have a good time while we all have to suffer stuck in our houses with our families.  

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  On 3/27/2020 at 3:42 PM, DixonHur said:

SIAP

EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus

  Reveal hidden contents

I mean really, fuck these people straight to Hell. 

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Actually.....as someone connected to this  field, that's really not what's happening -- there is no "pollute away, we don't care!" order.  Rather, it is a limited relaxation of ongoing reporting and sampling obligations, and even then, it has to be for a documented COVID-19-related reason.  What this means is that the folks working at your local water and sewer plants can and should focus on keeping the infrastructure running instead of filling out lengthy reports to the EPA.  Priority is functionality, not reporting.  And again, if your plant has all the personnel in place and isn't impacted by COVID-19, then the obligaion remains.  It all depends on whether or not you are impacted by reduced staffing.

And FYI, in places where distancing etc. orders are in place, plants ARE experiencing reduced staffing.  The EPA is far from perfect, but this is something that's being done uniformly, nationwide now (many states have their own regulatory authorities, and the ones I know of are doing the same).

If you decide to use this opportunity to dump barrels of toxic waste into the river, you're still gonna get popped.

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Once we have a vaccination, is this what forces the government to require vaccinations for 100% of the population or does the GOP continue to allow anti-vaxxer idiots to influence their votes?

 

Posted
  On 3/27/2020 at 4:11 PM, CooterBrown said:

Once we have a vaccination, is this what forces the government to require vaccinations for 100% of the population or does the GOP continue to allow anti-vaxxer idiots to influence their votes?

 

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For every Anti-vaxxer on the right there is a crystal hoarder on the left who believes the same. My ex, who is about to become and Austin Nurse, still thinks her crystals are stronger than isolation or modern medicine. She lectures the kids about how this is overblown and if we manifest together mentally we can beat it. Crazy times indeed. 

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  On 3/27/2020 at 4:15 PM, InkaUtexas said:

For every Anti-vaxxer on the right there is a crystal hoarder on the left who believes the same. My ex, who is about to become and Austin Nurse, still thinks her crystals are stronger than isolation or modern medicine. She lectures the kids about how this is overblown and if we manifest together mentally we can beat it. Crazy times indeed. 

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She must have HUGE tracts of land.

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  On 3/27/2020 at 4:03 PM, Brisketexan said:

Actually.....as someone connected to this  field, that's really not what's happening -- there is no "pollute away, we don't care!" order.  Rather, it is a limited relaxation of ongoing reporting and sampling obligations, and even then, it has to be for a documented COVID-19-related reason.  What this means is that the folks working at your local water and sewer plants can and should focus on keeping the infrastructure running instead of filling out lengthy reports to the EPA.  Priority is functionality, not reporting.  And again, if your plant has all the personnel in place and isn't impacted by COVID-19, then the obligaion remains.  It all depends on whether or not you are impacted by reduced staffing.

And FYI, in places where distancing etc. orders are in place, plants ARE experiencing reduced staffing.  The EPA is far from perfect, but this is something that's being done uniformly, nationwide now (many states have their own regulatory authorities, and the ones I know of are doing the same).

If you decide to use this opportunity to dump barrels of toxic waste into the river, you're still gonna get popped.

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Yeah, I'm sure no company will try to break the rules and, if they do, Andrew Wheeler's EPA will hold them to account. 

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Posted
  On 3/27/2020 at 4:15 PM, InkaUtexas said:

For every Anti-vaxxer on the right there is a crystal hoarder on the left who believes the same. My ex, who is about to become and Austin Nurse, still thinks her crystals are stronger than isolation or modern medicine. She lectures the kids about how this is overblown and if we manifest together mentally we can beat it. Crazy times indeed. 

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i love random both-sideism, especially when it isn't warranted

anywho, those people have existed for a long time. they're not new. 

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Posted
  On 3/27/2020 at 3:42 PM, DixonHur said:

SIAP

EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus

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I mean really, fuck these people straight to Hell. 

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  On 3/27/2020 at 3:52 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

We're too busy fighting a national health crisis to care if you pollute our air and poison our water. 

This isn't a surprise at all. We knew they'd take advantage of the National Emergency to commit all sorts of skullduggery. 

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  On 3/27/2020 at 3:53 PM, A-Tex Devil said:

There were arguments that the environment was benefiting form the social distancing.  Can't let the environment have a good time while we all have to suffer stuck in our houses with our families.  

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  On 3/27/2020 at 3:59 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

Pollution = Prosperity

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I hope Brisket is right in his post above because this really sounds like a typical ratfuck move by this wicked administration and their fuck-average-Americans agenda.

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  On 3/27/2020 at 4:11 PM, CooterBrown said:

Once we have a vaccination, is this what forces the government to require vaccinations for 100% of the population or does the GOP continue to allow anti-vaxxer idiots to influence their votes?

 

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In fairness, RFK Jr. out front would tell you this is bipartisan stupidity, but also another thread....



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