Coronavirus: COVID-19

The Batlord · 01-19-2021, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

For three days. Biden already said he's going to reverse that.

I just don't understand why he did this. It's the equivalent of leaving a taxi door open on purpose to spite the driver.

Lol maybe he's just gonna skip the country to avoid prosecution.

OccultHawk · 01-19-2021, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Lol maybe he's just gonna skip the country to avoid prosecution.

Get him and his crew a crib in Saudi Arabia and reality TV that ****.

Trollheart · 01-19-2021, 04:51 PM

On the way to Saudi, the plane develops difficulties, ends up forced landing in Afghanistan. After surviving three weeks in the mountains by subsisting off of Rudy and Don Jnr., he is rescued by Afghan warlords. They hold him for ransom, threaten to behead him but when nobody cares, an angry Trump rises to power in the war clan, overthrowing the local warlord, Abu bin Biden by having his own followers storm the mountain.

He then leads a revitalised Al Quada/ISIS against the USA in a true war, (only pussies indulge in namby-pamby civil war!) and finally establishes the worldwide caliphate, under the Trump brand.

The Batlord · 01-19-2021, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

On the way to Saudi, the plane develops difficulties, ends up forced landing in Afghanistan. After surviving three weeks in the mountains by subsisting off of Rudy and Don Jnr., he is rescued by Afghan warlords. They hold him for ransom, threaten to behead him but when nobody cares, an angry Trump rises to power in the war clan, overthrowing the local warlord, Abu bin Biden by having his own followers storm the mountain.

He then leads a revitalised Al Quada/ISIS against the USA in a true war, (only pussies indulge in namby-pamby civil war!) and finally establishes the worldwide caliphate, under the Trump brand.

I thought you were gonna have him build an Iron Man suit.

Trollheart · 01-19-2021, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I thought you were gonna have him build an Iron Man suit.

Doesn't need it. He's already an iron man. Didn't you hear he single-handedly beat Covid personally? He's immune (also to 400 K US deaths).

ando here · 01-19-2021, 07:37 PM

Saw this interview on CNN earlier today. Was hoping to see a YT clip but nothing surfaced so here's an extended quotation of the brief segment:

Michael Osterholm, a coronavirus adviser to President-elect Joe Biden and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said on CNN’s New Day Tuesday, that he worries that in the coming weeks, the coronavirus pandemic will turn into something unlike anything seen before, and most people don’t realize that yet.

“We’re going to suddenly see these variants come to play that based on the experience we’ve seen in Europe, in particular, South Africa, these variants can substantially increase the number of cases,” Osterholm said.
“I worry desperately in the next six to 12 weeks we’re going to see a situation with this pandemic unlike anything we’ve seen yet to date,” Osterholm said. “And that is really a challenge that I don’t think most people realize yet.”

When asked by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota if there was anything that the Biden administration could do to prevent this, Osterholm said the first step is “to get people to understand: This will happen, we are going to see a major increase in cases, the challenge is how many.”

Secondly, he said “we can’t make the vaccine go much faster than it is right now,” adding that while he knows the Biden administration will do everything it can to move vaccine out, other actions are needed now.

“The difference is going to be, are we going to react now or later,” Osterholm said. Like other places, he said that the US will take “dramatic steps” to deal with the variants, but “the question is how soon will we do it? Do we put the brakes on after the cars wrapped around the tree, or we try to put the brakes on before we leave the intersection?”

“That’s the challenge,” he said. “I just don’t know if we’re really prepared to even have that discussion yet.”

This guy was talking about the world's failure to deal with the cytokine storm in the 1918 epidemic and predicted an upcoming crisis looming from the failure back in 2019 (the ebola days) -

OccultHawk · 01-19-2021, 07:56 PM

To get this straight it’s not that the variants are any more lethal or otherwise harmful after they’re contracted it’s just that the increase in their contagiousness means we can expect the spread to almost certainly outpace the vaccine?

Obviously that’s a huge concern but I can’t help but worry with the virus having had and apparently will continue to have so many opportunities to mutate something is going to come along that beats the vaccine and/or becomes more dangerous once contracted.

Along those lines, it’s still a battle to keep up antibiotic resistant superbug bacteria. Ultimately, that may not even be a long term winnable war because the ability to mutate is endless but the variations on more and more effective antibiotics is not.

**Exo** · 01-19-2021, 08:06 PM

Anybody else getting the feeling that we're in for a LONG ass pandemic? Like 3-4 more years? I just don't see how numbers get down enough to start forming en masse again.

The Batlord · 01-19-2021, 08:29 PM

Can I start advocating for a certain person's death tomorrow?

**Exo** · 01-19-2021, 08:45 PM

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Can I start advocating for a certain person's death tomorrow?

Be specific.

01-19-2021, 04:51 PM	#3583 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	On the way to Saudi, the plane develops difficulties, ends up forced landing in Afghanistan. After surviving three weeks in the mountains by subsisting off of Rudy and Don Jnr., he is rescued by Afghan warlords. They hold him for ransom, threaten to behead him but when nobody cares, an angry Trump rises to power in the war clan, overthrowing the local warlord, Abu bin Biden by having his own followers storm the mountain. He then leads a revitalised Al Quada/ISIS against the USA in a true war, (only pussies indulge in namby-pamby civil war!) and finally establishes the worldwide caliphate, under the Trump brand. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

01-19-2021, 07:56 PM	#3587 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,033	To get this straight it’s not that the variants are any more lethal or otherwise harmful after they’re contracted it’s just that the increase in their contagiousness means we can expect the spread to almost certainly outpace the vaccine? Obviously that’s a huge concern but I can’t help but worry with the virus having had and apparently will continue to have so many opportunities to mutate something is going to come along that beats the vaccine and/or becomes more dangerous once contracted. Along those lines, it’s still a battle to keep up antibiotic resistant superbug bacteria. Ultimately, that may not even be a long term winnable war because the ability to mutate is endless but the variations on more and more effective antibiotics is not. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

01-19-2021, 08:06 PM	#3588 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,359	Anybody else getting the feeling that we're in for a LONG ass pandemic? Like 3-4 more years? I just don't see how numbers get down enough to start forming en masse again. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

01-19-2021, 07:37 PM	#3586 (permalink)
ando here Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2020 Location: NY, NY Posts: 1,803	Saw this interview on CNN earlier today. Was hoping to see a YT clip but nothing surfaced so here's an extended quotation of the brief segment: Michael Osterholm, a coronavirus adviser to President-elect Joe Biden and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said on CNN’s New Day Tuesday, that he worries that in the coming weeks, the coronavirus pandemic will turn into something unlike anything seen before, and most people don’t realize that yet. “We’re going to suddenly see these variants come to play that based on the experience we’ve seen in Europe, in particular, South Africa, these variants can substantially increase the number of cases,” Osterholm said. “I worry desperately in the next six to 12 weeks we’re going to see a situation with this pandemic unlike anything we’ve seen yet to date,” Osterholm said. “And that is really a challenge that I don’t think most people realize yet.” When asked by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota if there was anything that the Biden administration could do to prevent this, Osterholm said the first step is “to get people to understand: This will happen, we are going to see a major increase in cases, the challenge is how many.” Secondly, he said “we can’t make the vaccine go much faster than it is right now,” adding that while he knows the Biden administration will do everything it can to move vaccine out, other actions are needed now. “The difference is going to be, are we going to react now or later,” Osterholm said. Like other places, he said that the US will take “dramatic steps” to deal with the variants, but “the question is how soon will we do it? Do we put the brakes on after the cars wrapped around the tree, or we try to put the brakes on before we leave the intersection?” “That’s the challenge,” he said. “I just don’t know if we’re really prepared to even have that discussion yet.” This guy was talking about the world's failure to deal with the cytokine storm in the 1918 epidemic and predicted an upcoming crisis looming from the failure back in 2019 (the ebola days) -