Thread: Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!
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10-31-20 01:51 #1856
Posts: 6735Then again, I'd still take my risk in order to meet with hot sweet Romanian and Bulgarian pussy across Europe. You only live once!
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10-31-20 01:46 #1855
Posts: 6735Well, sure sounds like Phallus Maximus is another one of Mursenary's clone accounts. Aside from that, it is too much to read. But of course it is a dangerous virus. Not to mention that 10% of the infected get long term problems it seems. But what do you know when it's a biological weapon!
I personally told a few people: 'lock the fuck down' (as I understood immediately that this was a bio weapon), and we got away with it better than the swedes. Not surprisingly in retrospect though, as anything polar opposite to the swedish model in anything is usually the best way to do things.
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10-31-20 01:12 #1854
Posts: 2073Sweden set their single day record with 2820 new cases on October 28. If the virus had been circulating freely in Sweden all these months, then shouldn't their single day record have been established sometime between April and September? My belief is that the Swedish have been diligently following the recommendations of their health authorities since the beginning of the pandemic. In other words, even though there was not an "official" lockdown mandate, most Swedish voluntarily limited their social contacts. To put 2820 new cases into perspective: if adjusted to USA's population, it would be the same as the USA logging 90 K new cases in a single day. But USA's single day record to date is only 82K. My prediction is the Swedish will have it under control before the Spanish, French, and Czech, because Swedish authorities just put out new recommendations:
Authorities advised residents to refrain from indoor environments such as shops, malls, museums, libraries and gyms. But necessary visits to grocery stores and pharmacies can be made.
Refrain from participating in, for example, meetings, concerts, performances, sports training, matches and competitions. However, this does not apply to sports training for children and young people born in 2005 or later, officials said in a statement.
If possible, avoid having physical contact with people other than those you live with. This means, among other things, a dissuasion from arranging or participating in a party or similar social gathering.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/sweden-reports-its-highest-daily-covid-19-cases/2024003
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10-31-20 00:11 #1853
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by ShooBree [View Original Post]
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10-30-20 23:31 #1852
Posts: 1138US Politics anyone on the weekend before the Election?
Since all the Trump haters keep bringing up his name, with special nicknames for the duly elected leader, for many of the issues that are not really in his control (as opposed to Trump lovers bringing up Biden's name that often), I wanted to throw couple of links (with views opposing to what the mainstream media like CNN, MSNBC, CBS etc want us to believe) for some more civic discussions and exchange of views about US politics and it's impact on us the mongers. Maybe we all will learn something from these, or maybe these will simply just generate more rants as this thread is aptly named, let's see. But I suggest anyone to comment on these only after reading thru the articles, please. Thank you all.
Newsweek opinion column: "Why I'm Voting for Donald Trump".
https://www.newsweek.com/why-im-voti...pinion-1542990
The Hill opinion column: "Trump or Biden? On the economy, the choice is clear".
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/...hoice-is-clear
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10-30-20 23:24 #1851
Posts: 541Hospital beds
Mursenary is correct, many of the "beds" are specialized and secondly beds without highly trained people that go with them are useless furniture, and when that is factored in, then it is easy to see why governments around the world clamped down, fearing hospitals being overrun. Whatever may be the case 6 months later with better data / testing and hindsight, when they started this COVID was a big black box, and they rationally made the right call. With winter coming, and clinical realities referred to, yeah, there is a big problem in the USA.
Putting aside useless entertainment franchise labels (known as political parties), the two brands in the USA (and the UK, and some others) screwed it up. Other countries devoid of the major US brands fared much better, in the case of NZ and Taiwan, over a 100 fold LOWER in per capita rates compared to UK / USA. My guess is the reasons are structural. The stats I referred to shows the USA has fewer per capita doctors and a hell of a lot more bureaucrats in hospitals, probably dealing with Byzantine insurance duplication and inefficiencies.
As for the future of the USA, Glenn Greenwald (of Snowden and other highly controversial exposes) just quit a journal, complaining that his articles about Biden family cash-for-access by Russian gangster (putting aside legal niceties) was met by official Biden silence and the mainstream and / or social media did indeed censor it. This is not a political advertisment, but an observation that the media is selective and not some priesthood of impartiality. The schism between say NPR and Fox news merely represents different tribes in their respective echo chambers.
Who ever is in control after next week faces an economic meltdown, and polarized, angry society that needs to be less shrill, more rational and focus on practical issues like liveable wages, economic opportunity, housing, nutrition, health and happiness rather than moral nonsense, idiotic slogans, race and hatred. The administration/congress will be forced to have a huge fiscal expansion, and hopefully go direct to households and bypass the banksters and hustlers.
It is well to blame politicians of all varieties for greed and corruption, but their behavior exists because we tolerate it and vote them in. All of that coupled with a lot of emotion, noise, outright BS and misdirection they exploit. If we as a population taught children critical thinking from pre-school and and became more evidence based and rational, then indeed America could prosper in a generation from now. Unfortunately, I think many power elites would be aghast at the idea they could not sway the cognitively trained and critical thinking natives with BS. Mursenary is spot on. Reductionist labels are the resort of intellectual straw men.
Mursenary is correct, many of the "beds" are specialized and secondly beds without highly trained people that go with them are useless furniture, and when that is factored in, then it is easy to see why governments around the world clamped down, fearing hospitals being overrun. Whatever may be the case 6 months later with better data/testing and hindsight, when they started this COVID was a big black box, and they rationally made the right call. With winter coming, and clinical realities referred to, yeah, there is a big problem in the USA.
Putting aside useless entertainment franchise labels (known as political parties), the two brands in the USA (and the UK, and some others) screwed it up. Other countries devoid of the major US brands fared much better, in the case of NZ and Taiwan, over a 100 fold LOWER in per capita rates compared to UK/USA. My guess is the reasons are structural. The stats I referred to shows the USA has fewer per capita doctors and a hell of a lot more bureaucrats in hospitals, probably dealing with Byzantine insurance duplication and inefficiencies.
As for the future of the USA, Glenn Greenwald (of Snowden and other highly controversial exposes) just quit a journal, complaining that his articles about Biden family cash-for-access by Russian gangster (putting aside legal niceties) was met by official Biden silence and the mainstream and/or social media did indeed censor it. This is not a political advertisment, but an observation that the media is selective and not some priesthood of impartiality. The schism between say NPR and Fox news merely represents different tribes in their respective echo chambers.
Who ever is in control after next week faces an economic meltdown, and polarized, angry society that needs to be less shrill, more rational and focus on practical issues like liveable wages, economic opportunity, housing, nutrition, health and happiness rather than moral nonsense, idiotic slogans, race and hatred. They will be forced to have a huge fiscal expansion, and hopefully go direct and bypass the banksters and hustlers.
It is well to blame politicians of all varieties for greed and corruption, but their behaviour exists because we tolorate it and vote them in. All of that coupled with a lot of emotion, noise, outright BS and misdirection they exploit. If we as a population taught children critical thinking from pre-school and and became more evidence based and rational, then indeed America could prosper. Unfortunately, I think many power elites would be aghast at the idea they could not sway the cognitively trained and critical thinking natives with BS. Mursenary is spot on. Reductionist labels are the resort of intellectual straw men. More signal, less noise.
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10-30-20 19:21 #1850
Posts: 2073Originally Posted by Pessimist [View Original Post]
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10-30-20 19:04 #1849
Posts: 1386Originally Posted by ShooBree [View Original Post]
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10-30-20 18:56 #1848
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by Oregon97 [View Original Post]
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10-30-20 18:41 #1847
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by ShooBree [View Original Post]
Never even voted for a Democrat in my life until just 2 hours ago. People who think the way you are presenting, demigod worship and lack of nuance in data analysis, have killed the Republican brand. Perhaps rational conservatives can fill the void and undo the damage that these anglo-centric nationalists have done.
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10-30-20 18:27 #1846
Posts: 76Sweden
Originally Posted by Paulie97 [View Original Post]
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10-30-20 18:12 #1845
Posts: 1680Lol
Originally Posted by SobeLizard [View Original Post]
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10-30-20 15:08 #1844
Posts: 2344Originally Posted by PahllusMaximus [View Original Post]
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10-30-20 09:28 #1843
Posts: 1184Originally Posted by Mursenary [View Original Post]
The worst affected states are still the blue ones, come back when that has changed.
The point is that the Democrats failed to make it better than the red states.
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10-30-20 09:13 #1842
Posts: 541Some basic facts
Mongerer88: it's emigrate (leave) rather than immigrate. As a matter of fact, I am thinking of that, joining Peter Theil (PayPal) and Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple), one of the founders of Google and several Wall St billionaires who have chosen New Zealand as home, getting a passport and buying housing. The list is long. I'm in good company. And have a look as USD currency pairs while you are at it. Furthermore, the UK and US are a covid disaster. That's just fact. And why we travel the world as pussy hounds is because US women are not up to snuff.
Some rough facts Mursenary queried:
USA: 924 k beds for a population of 328 million, so one bed for every 354 people, and 36.3 m annual admissions. Hospitals hit 100% theoretic capacity at 0. 002817073% of the population getting sick and needing to be hospitalized. Not all beds are the same. ICU beds are much shorter supply, about 80 k beds.
I plucked this from https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals.
Some definitions seem wonky, - the ratios do not make sense. From the looks of it, an admission to a US hospitals costs $30.6 k on average. Median is unknown.
A more detailed report is here:
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/...her-countries/#item-hospital-beds-per-1000-population-total-and-by-curative-care-and-rehabilitative-beds-2016.
Putting the usual labels aside, we did phuck it up. Let's start fixing it. Starting with slowing new cases (duh !)