Ricofoley Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 47 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: Because Georgia is trending purple and one way to halt that is let the virus wipe out the black and brown people that are the cause of that. I mean, I dunno if that's a solid plan if it's only his mostly white supporters who are gonna listen to him if he says not to wear a mask Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricofoley Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/new-data-on-t-cells-and-the-coronavirus Some of this is really jargony, but it sounds like really good news. Basically, even though antibodies seem to fade pretty quickly, there seems to be good evidence now that you maintain some level of immunity through T-cells for a much longer period. It might be similar to SARS, which some people still have T-cell immunity from after being infected in the early 2000s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 5 hours ago, Ghost_MH said: I agree. I don't think Jesus as he's described in the Bible would have wanted anything to do with the government. He had no interest in any of that. However, since modern Evangelicals in this country insist that the country should be run as a Christian nation, I really do want then to explain what that when looks like. Nobody ever has answers for that outside of banning the gays and getting rid of abortion. They also want Christianity and prayer brought back to the public schools! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Religion is a cancer which has done nothing but hold back scientific and societal advances for the past 2+ millennia. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Signifyin(g)Monkey Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 10 hours ago, Emperor Diocletian II said: Few things get my eyes rolling harder than attempts by anyone to ascribe any part of the Bible within our modern political/economic/social context. The key factor that seems to be forgotten (especially by "liberals" who insist on using Christ's teachings to "own" conservative Christians) is that Christ was pretty much TOTALLY UNCONCERNED about what happens in this world. His focus was nearly exclusively on the next life, with this life merely being a "means to an end". As a result, it's pretty much a fool's errand to start categorizing his teachings within a political spectrum. Alright, I'll bite: if you want to give Christ a modern political leaning, he was clearly a libertarian. That "render unto Caesar" thing is pretty much a quasi-libertarian position, because at no point does Christ even remotely suggest that "doing good works" should be compulsory. He was also clearly in favor of debt forgiveness and leniency towards debtors. As reported in the book of Luke, During Jesus’s speech to the money changers in the temple, the scroll he unrolls and reads is Isaiah 61, in which Isaiah says he has come ‘to proclaim the year of the lord’s favor’, I.e. the jubilee year. In picking this particular scroll, Jesus is essentially scolding the kings of Jerusalem during his time, who had stopped the practice of the jubilee and allowed a creditor overclass to develop and take all the land via foreclosure. (in exchange for kickbacks, of course) Such massive inequality is also denounced by Isaiah in Isaiah 5:8: "Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no room and you dwell alone in the land". (it’s also worth noting that the word for ‘sin’ in Aramaic is the same as the word for ‘debt’, so Jesus’s injunction to ‘forgive the sinner’ or ‘forgive people their sins’ in the Lord's prayer is also an injunction to observe the jubilee law and forgive people their debts) It’s *also* worth noting that the phrase scrawled on the American liberty bell by our Christian founders, ‘Proclaim liberty throughout the land...’, comes from Leviticus 25:10, the Old Testament passage instructing the people of Israel to observe the jubilee—and liberty from debt bondage is the liberty it’s talking about. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Canadian government refuses to recognize American freedom, has now turned away 10,000 tourists at the border Vitriol against Americans has gotten so bad that in my province, police have had to issue a warning to the public to stop calling them to report seeing an American. People are literally just reporting American cars to police. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 16 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Canadian government refuses to recognize American freedom, has now turned away 10,000 tourists at the border Vitriol against Americans has gotten so bad that in my province, police have had to issue a warning to the public to stop calling them to report seeing an American. People are literally just reporting American cars to police. Karenadians. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 22 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Canadian government refuses to recognize American freedom, has now turned away 10,000 tourists at the border Vitriol against Americans has gotten so bad that in my province, police have had to issue a warning to the public to stop calling them to report seeing an American. People are literally just reporting American cars to police. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Russian state-sponsored hackers target Covid-19 vaccine researchers (The Guardian) Quote Russian state-sponsored hackers are targeting UK, US and Canadian organisations involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine development, according to British security officials. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre said drug companies and research groups were being targeted by a group known as APT29, which it said was “almost certainly” part of the Kremlin’s intelligence services. British officials would not say if any of the attacks had been successful in their goal of stealing medical secrets – although they stressed that none of the vaccine research had been compromised as a result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Oh no it would be terrible if research information regarding a covid vaccine were more accessable, and worse even if Russia came up with a vaccine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Half of republicans are dumb as fuck 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Spork3245 said: Religion is a cancer which has done nothing but hold back scientific and societal advances for the past 2+ millennia. there is nothing to change as this is one of the most accurate statements ever made Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 500 new hospitalizations, 150 new deaths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 3 hours ago, CitizenVectron said: Canadian government refuses to recognize American freedom, has now turned away 10,000 tourists at the border Vitriol against Americans has gotten so bad that in my province, police have had to issue a warning to the public to stop calling them to report seeing an American. People are literally just reporting American cars to police. I kind of wonder how this is affecting politics in alberta since they're usually pro US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, chakoo said: I kind of wonder how this is affecting politics in alberta since they're usually pro US. Alberta is so fucked right now. Government is going to run out of money, but is refusing to bring in a sales tax. They recently unilaterally tore up the collective agreement with doctors (in the middle of a pandemic!), and 150 rural doctors just put in their papers, saying they are leaving the province. The government's solution? They plan to pass legislation making it illegal for doctors to leave their practices if it means there is no replacement. The AB government is the worst example of far-right-wing nut jobs taking power. The kicker? They continue to blame all their woes in the single-term NDP government (the only non-conservative government in 50 years), and the pro-oil, conservative public eats it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 1 minute ago, CitizenVectron said: making it illegal for doctors to leave their practices if it means there is no replacement. Indentured servitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 This virus is potentially going to have a life-long impact on generations of people. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 The only way we're getting out of this is with a million+ dead this country is such fucking dog shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 I believe quite strongly that the ability to wear a mask is the modern version of the shopping cart theory: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 20 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: The only way we're getting out of this is with a million+ dead this country is such fucking dog shit That's my county. There is no higher concentration of Karens in all the U.S. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Utah: Home of America's most powerful weirdos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Well, at least that's being kind of honest about it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Former game show host Chuck Woolery announced Wednesday his son has tested positive for COVID-19, just days after Woolery accused medical professionals and Democrats of lying about the virus in an effort to hurt the economy and President Trump's reelection chances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 49 minutes ago, mclumber1 said: Former game show host Chuck Woolery announced Wednesday his son has tested positive for COVID-19, just days after Woolery accused medical professionals and Democrats of lying about the virus in an effort to hurt the economy and President Trump's reelection chances. and then he deleted his twitter account 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 8 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Oh no it would be terrible if research information regarding a covid vaccine were more accessable, and worse even if Russia came up with a vaccine! You're right, if they were just trying to steal it, who cares? But given Russia's completely disregard for human life, it would not surprise me if the Kremlin was willing to disrupt vaccine research just to cause more political chaos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 1 minute ago, Chris- said: You're right, if they were just trying to steal it, who cares? But given Russia's completely disregard for human life, it would not surprise me if the Kremlin was willing to disrupt vaccine research just to cause more political chaos. How does stealing the research cause a disruption in the research? It's not like they're going in and sabotaging the data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 2 minutes ago, Jason said: How does stealing the research cause a disruption in the research? It's not like they're going in and sabotaging the data. I would not automatically assume they are unwilling to sabotage the data, whether directly or indirectly (i.e. intentionally doing it sloppily, knowing the news itself will cause issues). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Headed back over 1k, and a new cases record! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadatog Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 remember when the end of this was hyperbolic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Jason said: and then he deleted his twitter account Fucking coward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 5 hours ago, CitizenVectron said: I believe quite strongly that the ability to wear a mask is the modern version of the shopping cart theory: What if one doesn't shop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 5 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: What if one doesn't shop? Can you even be said to exist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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