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2020-04-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-26 01:12|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 IMO, one of the main benefits of Covid is that it exposed the fact many on the Conservative/Libertarian Right are just as stupidly dogmatic as their Left wing counterparts.
Plagues that killed 50% of urban population of Europe didn't stop urbanization - your piddly Covid with 2% - 10% mortality will?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-26 03:16|| 2020-04-26 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Nice thought, but since it's written by NR, I won't read it, ever. That and shit from Powerline - fuck Steve Hayward with a nine iron, fuckin' ban happy pansy.

Posted by Raj 2020-04-26 06:45|| 2020-04-26 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, g(r)om, its perspective.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-26 07:36|| 2020-04-26 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Another good thing about Xi's gift - people are toughening up.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-26 07:41|| 2020-04-26 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 ^^Learning they're not the center of Universe.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-26 07:54|| 2020-04-26 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 ...other than those who inhabit the expanse known as New York City.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-26 07:58|| 2020-04-26 07:58|| Front Page Top

#7 And sadly, they're moving here.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-26 10:25|| 2020-04-26 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 They are moving here. Learning them is a hoot. They are amazed the locals don't care what they think.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-26 10:33|| 2020-04-26 10:33|| Front Page Top

#9 piddly Covid with 2% - 10% mortality

You mean, 0.05% - 0.1%. fify

Posted by Lex 2020-04-26 10:49|| 2020-04-26 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Magic number worshipping asshole.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-26 11:03|| 2020-04-26 11:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Remember to adjust for noise introduced by the Imperial College Bullshit Factor -- accordingly, reduce official COVID fatality projections by two orders of magnitude

Posted by Lex 2020-04-26 11:08|| 2020-04-26 11:08|| Front Page Top

#12 No. I mean 2% - 10%. The 0.1% is based on wishful thinking Lex.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-26 11:27|| 2020-04-26 11:27|| Front Page Top

#13 0.05% = fatalities : population. Not CFR/case fatality rate or fatalities : diagnosed cases.

Will probably end up more like .025% or 0.03% nationwide i.e. 100,000 US deaths max.

Which doesn't offset the >100,000 needless deaths from diversion of resources from cancer etc patients and from tens of thousands of deaths of despair -- suicides, addiction, domestic violence, violent crime - caused by mass impoverishment + destruction of tens of millions of livelihoods

Posted by Lex 2020-04-26 15:35|| 2020-04-26 15:35|| Front Page Top

#14 They are amazed the locals don't care what they think.

That'll change, election time.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-26 17:00|| 2020-04-26 17:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Magic number worshipping asshole.

WTAF?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-04-26 17:43|| 2020-04-26 17:43|| Front Page Top

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