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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 11:16:13 GMT 1
Headline: New Yorker suspends Jeffrey Toobin for allegedly masturbating on Zoom call
Who among us, though...
No one wants to be where Toobin is now, but the real question is, why did it take months to have a major Zoom jerk-off accident like this?
I thought we would have this kind of a story in a WEEK after the Zoom conference became the thing.
Are we actually surprisingly disciplined?
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 12:20:52 GMT 1
How are you dressed when you do a Zoom/whatever other similar app conference? Do you even have anything more than the underwear on under the table/desk?
I often don't.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 12:30:39 GMT 1
Of course it's a damning indictment of the political leaders that we have to do another round of lockdown in so many places. Yes, what a waste, what a failure. They basically sleepwalked into this mess.
I know that. I was mocked viciously by many Europeans as I warned them about the second wave. They even went so far as to say that in places like Madrid people "are already virtually immune."
And, no, I'm not talking about some laymen. A few of them are European bureaucrats.
So I understand all of that even more than you do. It's a gigantic failure.
But that can't be an argument against lockdown. It's necessary at this point, and doesn't have to be as severe as the last one. It's not worth it to take too much risk at this point. A "lockdown that's called not lockdown" would probably do it, indeed.
"Herd immunity" is a crazy talk, folks.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 13:12:17 GMT 1
It's just incredibly irresponsible of them to just say, "Protect the vulnerable and open up everything else!" with no concrete, specific strategy and measures to accompany that slogan whatsoever.
How the fuck could we do that?
Do they not know how many households have at least one 65+ family member in the developed world?
And what about younger ones with comorbidities? There are a gigantic shit load of them particularly in not-so-healthy countries like the US and UK.
I wouldn't even bother to calculate here, but I'd bet much more than half of all households have either someone with comorbidities or a senior or both.
Isolate all of them, you say?
Are you really a scientist?
Are you a fucking idiot?
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 13:17:09 GMT 1
Look, it's not like we haven't done anything at nursing homes.
We did have some measures, pretty strict ones. And the virus STILL GOT IN.
Of course the results say that our measures and precautions weren't enough. We should've done a whole lot more.
But it's not like we didn't care. We did, and still lost so many lives.
You "open up everything else" and expect what to happen in those nursing homes?
Are you mad?
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 13:18:31 GMT 1
That goddamn SimCity crowd.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 13:42:24 GMT 1
Oh, come on. Shouldn't we stop the game now? I was guilty of playing that game too, but who cares at this point?
Donald Trump doesn't just "sound like he's on Adderall." He is on Adderall. He's a fucking addict. He's been for YEARS.
The Trumpians wouldn't mind his being an addict at all. They would like him more for that. So why should I give a shit?
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 13:54:56 GMT 1
The election day really can't come soon enough. The mass psychosis is just not pretty. MAGA are getting dumber and stupider and more moronically unhinged every day, and libs are getting disturbingly and aggressively nervous and very unpleasant.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 15:40:36 GMT 1
Yet another one asked me for the probability of Trump winning it.
Yes, probability. Again.
Do they really understand what it would mean if I said, say, 25%?
What does that number mean?
It's not an easy question. In fact, it's a very, very difficult one to answer. It touches on the fundamental problem of the concept of probability, especially since we are dealing with a presidential election, a one-time event.
People like Nate Silver and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, although they completely disagree with each other, do understand the complexity that lies there. But a vast, vast majority of people have no idea. In fact, they wouldn't understand a word of what I'm saying here.
So, my answer was, again, ZERO. And once again I ended up giving someone a bad impression, like I'm a dick.
But I couldn't do that, man. I couldn't say stupid shit like, "Oh I would say it's not very high, probably around 16%" like a clueless fool who has never thought hard about mathematics.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 18:06:00 GMT 1
Once the infection rate went over a certain level, there's nothing you can do except lockdown. No measures work anymore. You put a mask on everyone's mouth and nose, and it wouldn't change a thing. Because it's too late. The whole point of masks and social distancing and washing hands and all the other preventive measures is to keep it under the threshold so that you can more or less manage it.
No measure can magically make Covid-19 disappear. Things that are already there, are there. You have to lock down and wait. That's the only option once it's out of control.
We've been telling them for months and months that no one would want to be there. But some of them chose to get there.
Look at the Czech Republic for example. They flushed their initial success down the toilet in an astonishing manner. That "farewell Covid party" in Prague was a bad, bad omen although none of us said anything at that time. "Take off your mask, people!" shouted a mayor, jubilantly.
We just didn't want to be party-poopers, but that made us feel fairly uneasy to say the least. Maybe Slovakia sensed that, and opted to take the different path of being constantly alert.
It's basically too late over there. They'll have to endure it.
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 20, 2020 18:25:51 GMT 1
As far as I know, from what I heard from my friends over there, the biggest problem in Belgium was that too many people simply didn't give a shit.
Part of it is lockdown fatigue, no doubt. But as a country who has lost so many lives, literally the second worst-hit country in the world after Peru, such an attitude is absolutely inexcusable.
They ought to think hard about how embarrassing it is to lose so many people while having one of the best health care systems in the world.
My Texan friends would be appalled at how lax and care-free Belgians were even as late as in September.
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Post by rictor on Oct 20, 2020 19:45:03 GMT 1
Got sinusitis. My nose is running like crazy and the sore throat kills me but at least I've gotten rid of the fever. Feels like shit :/
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Post by K1power on Oct 21, 2020 16:09:37 GMT 1
Getting sick on top of all this shit sucks especially hard.
Get well soon, man.
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Post by K1power on Oct 21, 2020 16:10:42 GMT 1
Nice, I think my ex girlfriend was or still is the third or fourth in command at the Frankfurt church, lol. That's a funny coincidence. Small world sometimes. |
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Post by miscmisc on Oct 22, 2020 15:19:10 GMT 1
Got sinusitis. My nose is running like crazy and the sore throat kills me but at least I've gotten rid of the fever. Feels like shit :/ That sounds a little more serious than average. I hope it's going to be relatively brief. It's really a lousy timing to get sick now, but it's not like you can choose when... |
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