Where's the petri dish thread?

[Shirley]

Hard to decide whether to put this here or on Japhy's Challenge thread.

[DCHawk1]

Hard to decide whether to put this here or on Japhy's Challenge thread.

Fucking chaps my ass that we're gonna bail out Boeing and the airlines.

Boeing especially.

[Deleted User 89]

the link i posted earlier to the study from the imperial college of london is worth a read, particularly given the continued sluggishness of the US response

[DCHawk1]

the link i posted earlier to the study from the imperial college of london is worth a read, particularly given the continued sluggishness of the US response

It is absolutely worth a read -- especially given that it is the report that scared the shit out of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.

Also worth a read is the rejoinder on models and near-term forecasts from The New England Complex Systems Institute (and co-authored by Nassim Taleb): https://necsi.edu/review-of-ferguson-et ... erventions

[TDub]

Hard to decide whether to put this here or on Japhy's Challenge thread.

Fucking chaps my ass that we're gonna bail out Boeing and the airlines.

Boeing especially.

Yes

[TDub]

Lockdown is imminent in London it seems

[defixione]

Lord, I hope we don’t need the brandy.

Is the brandy phase before or after the guns start to surface or, are guns not a conditional expression of this pandemic equation?

[chiknbut]

This first guy is probably going to get laid in the next 24 hours.

[ousdahl]

does Brady Sluder know that if he gets corona, there might be greater consequences than just a stinging when he pees?

[chiknbut]

does Brady Sluder know that if he gets corona, there might be greater consequences than just a stinging when he pees?

He's gonna take his chances. Brave young man. Very brave.

[Shirley]

[ousdahl]

Kinda surprised it was only 8

[Shirley]

The video speaks for itself.

And I think we know what that says about us.

[Shirley]

Not surprised:

[zsn]

Maybe that would give some respite from the free fall for Boeing stock! Love the planes, though!!!!

[Shirley]

Today In: Really Not Good!

Fact or fiction: Is COVID-19 really airborne?

The World Health Organization (WHO) had previously estimated that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)—the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)—can survive on surfaces anywhere from “a few hours to up to several days.” Now, scientists have narrowed down this timeframe, noting that SARS-CoV-2 may be stable for up to 3 days on surfaces and—importantly—hours in the air, according to a correspondence to the editor recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Their findings are based on a study out in preprint form that is expected to be published soon.

“Although the [WHO] had previously estimated the survival time on surfaces to be a ‘few hours to a few days’ based on research on other coronaviruses, this is the first study by scientists at a federal laboratory to test the actual virus causing the current pandemic, SARS-CoV-2,” according to an article in NPR.

“This virus has the capability for remaining viable for days,” says study author, James Lloyd-Smith, PhD, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, who researches how pathogens emerge.

Dr. Lloyd-Smith—along with scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Princeton University, University of California-Los Angeles, and the CDC—detected SARS-Cov-2 for up to 3 hours in aerosols, up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard, and up to 2-3 days on plastic and stainless steel. They suggested that people may contract the virus through exposure to particles in the air and after touching contaminated objects.

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[DCHawk1]

[ChalkRocker]

Hard to decide whether to put this here or on Japhy's Challenge thread.

Fucking chaps my ass that we're gonna bail out Boeing and the airlines.

Boeing especially.

I respect the heck outta you, and your intellect, DC, but there're a lot of angles on that.

One bro works for Boeing. Of course, he's a good guy. NU and CU, tho'.

He and his cohorts have a LOT of complex views abt how that firm came to be where it is.

They work hard, pay dues (not union), and fret the bills like the rest of us.

Drop kick 'em, and who builds the the helos, tankers, etc. that we take for granted?

and, flip, yes. I get it. They fu*ked a LOT of stuff up. They get it, too. They are no shot-callers, tho'.

If all of them, and their fams, hit the UIB line, while we wrestle w/ everything else, and we kiss goodbye, likely FOREVER, an entire high, high, high-tech industry (decimated at most other levels), does that make us better when this is over? I can 't see how.

It'll be over at some point.

[ChalkRocker]

nm

[Soklous]

Following the toilet paper mindset.

Ammo officially sold out in Kansas. Stores wiped out of every kinda gun.

“What ammo do you have?”

“10mm is all we have left”

“I’ll take it, and whatever gun you have that will fire it”.


Thought it could be the Biden effect, but that was going to happen in the Fall.