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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52180783

They start with younger kids because older kids don't need supervision. Younger kids take essential workers out of the workforce and are more likely to have to be looked after by older and more vulnerable adults.

This is low quality trolling

Studies are showing school closures are making little to no difference on the spread of this.

I stopped drinking to save money and found I didn't miss it at all.

I prefer to do the cooking anyway

do you what you like

The kind of person who thinks you spend 24/7 with your partner has likely never been in a serious relationship.

I use 3 tablespoons and let it brew in half the water I plan to use before topping it up afterwards. I keep mine in the fridge rather than freezer but I think it's the container being airtight that makes the mosr difference.

Glory holes

I want to do something but I won't be a grunt for some corporation. Would be nice to run a small company or write or something.

No gym
Holiday cancelled (probably)

I don't have a favourite game/book/album but I'm supposed to be able to pick a favourite child? Give over

In the book Feed by Mira Grant there is a subgenre of bloggers and vloggers who create fictional scenarios that revolve around the zombies infesting the planet.

Compsognathus posted...

I mean I got through the whole book. It just never grabbed me. I am a sucker for intricate world building so I did enjoy that aspect.

My main problems with the book were the absurd dialogue and the inane way it explained each characters inner thought processes at completely inappropriate times. I found it interesting enough though. Would probably describe it more of a fantasy in a space than I scifi since biology aside it went completely out it's way to avoid science as much as possible.

You can't help who you fall in love with

I'd write online blog posts about what I would do if I was a man for the day to troll mra types

Alucard188 posted...

I get the logic behind it, but early analysis of people who have recovered from the virus show that they have low to no antibodies developed as a result of covid-19. That's without factoring in the hundreds of thousands of deaths that would arise from lack of being able to care for everybody. This isn't like giving chicken pox to children.

Source?

First one. Was supposed to be seeing them in may

Why are Americans more interested in casting blame than actually stopping the virus?

I quite like society tbh

Not anxious, just fed up

Been working from home for a month now

The Book is on my to read list

Joe Rogan seems like a decent guy who some times gets taken in by dumb shit. Alex Jones is the guy maliciously inventing the dumb shit for personal gain.

Not really because I went to a very big school and the classes were arranged so everyone with the top grades were together. Considering this encompassed about 70 kids, these classes had their own internal social hierarchy.

One friend who is a chef had his restaurant closed. Another who is a window clean has had to suspend his business.

Once restrictions are lifted

Sackgurl posted...

they do tolerate guys known to be 'creepy' for legitimate reasons, though, rather than protecting the women in their life properly by ousting potential predators from their social groups

I disagree

Ancient Egypt was around for millenia. It probably changed drastically depending on what period you refer to

just seemed like a video stuffed with as many fallacies as possible

Southernfatman posted...

Catholics who continue to support the church are complicit in all of these cases.

As are all Australians who don't renounce their citizenship immediately.

Sounds like a bad batch of testing kits

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Jagr_68 posted...

Nobody's going to get this reference.

I did but I thought the age was 25

Nothing

It's unlikely you can catch it twice. We're a million plus cases deep so if you could there would be more than a few disputed cases out of Asia by now.

Also there's overlap between the options stated. Even the countries in lockdown acknowledge that high levels of infection with 'herd immunity ' is largely an inevitability. Most of the fake outrage about it is based on a bit of a strawman and the false notion that the virus will be contained.

Conker posted...

@scar_the_1
Except total population is helpful for determining all of those other things. As I said, its not the only thing that matters, you need additional data to put it in context that is understandable and shows relevant info, but without the total population of an area the info is just as useless.

You had to derp about population density, which would not be known without the total population.

Youre not actually connecting how that makes population as a whole meaningless. All youre saying is, A is meaningless because B. Not how or why youre coming to that conclusion, and those things dont correlate.

Now tell me how total population is meaningless because it doesnt take into account the means to deal with the outbreak. Even before you attempt to answer, Ill offer one example already proving you wrong: if you dont know how many people are in the total population, you dont know how many people to consider taking measures such as distancing, stay-at-home, or complete isolation. So to help contain it, youd either have to go blind and say everyone stay home, or attempt to calculate some semblance of normalcy based on how many people could be out and about without spreading it too much and causing the healthcare system to be overrun.

It doesnt inherently solve the problem by just knowing total population, but that isnt what I said or was even responding to. scar said it was not helpful to compare per capita deaths or total pop when they dont solve a problem, but they certainly help give info to solve the problem.

I think you misunderstood my point on means that it's not really worth arguing further. My point was that resources for tackling an outbreak are rarely distributed evenly throughout a country. For example if Italy's outbreak had been in the south rather than the north it would likely have run an entirely different course for a variety or different reasons and the strategy for tackling would need to be vastly different even though obviously in both scenarios Italy's population is entirely the same.

My motivation for downplaying total population is seeing people constantly downplay America's problem because deaths per capita for example while completely ignoring that the bulk of the outbreak is going on within a population of 20m or so at a much faster rate than anywhere else with an equivalent population. Within medium to large countries it is much more useful to look at the spread not as a single outbreak in a single population but rather as lots of different spreads at varying stages within different localisations

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Conker posted...

WTF? This is hugely helpful and there are numerous reasons why total population would have an effect on the spread or mortality rate of the virus based on obvious things like geography and demographics, but also the things that country is doing in response to the virus.

It's helpful if you're doing comparisons and the rate at which those deaths occurred from the onset. It just requires a lot of statistical data and competent people to put it into a method of understanding that is helpful. For ex: just knowing 100 people died in one country and 100 people died in another wouldn't mean anything without each country's total population. You also need other info, like when the first reported case/deaths occurred, time passed to reach those number of deaths, and additional confirmed cases. Then the total population helps to paint a picture on the spread and impact it is having relative to another countries total population, and then you look at specifics of what is different, actions being taken, and why one country may have differences.

If a country has very few deaths per capita, and it continues for a long period of time without an outbreak, it would indicate that country is doing something differently than other countries with similar populations and/or worse per capita outcomes that could potentially be adapted by other places.

Population as a whole is meaningless because it doesnt take into account the localisation of either the outbreak or the means to deal with it.

iPhone_7 posted...

I know this is a joke post but I just wanted to mention that theres been cases where people have been twice infected.

People get chicken pox twice. There's been over a million cases. There will be all sorts of weird outliers.

People don't like sparkling water because they expect it to still plus bubbles when it's an entirely different drink with a different taste.

yes. I have gone from nothing to 2 or 3 beers a week

I don't know if they are over hyping it but some of the emotive stuff hasn't been helpful and just scares people. All the war metaphors irritated me as well but the politicians seem have adopted these now too

No but I haven't been in public for a month now

Depends to whom. I imagine it is pretty essential to some freelancers.

They are generally more rural and hotter so it remains to be seen.

I will be fine. Still hope it isn't bad for other people obviously.

I already read loads anyway