On 4/14/2020 at 9:19 PM, chenGOD said:

Man you guys - the corona bonds are a good idea in theory, but the problem is you insist on acting like a nation state but still allow members to set their own monetary and fiscal policies. This is obvious lunacy.

Signed,

An ignorant canadian.

We call it the 'original sin' of the Euro. It's nuts!

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Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus

https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/virginia-pastor-who-held-packed-church-service-dies-of-coronavirus/amp/

I thought that happened a couple weeks ago.  Or was that a different pastor?  There's just so many down there, all insane beyond comprehension.

  On 4/14/2020 at 9:19 PM, chenGOD said:

p.s. are we all dead yet?

  On 4/14/2020 at 10:31 PM, IDEM said:

Mmm, gyrobonds ...

I am Stephen and I approve of this concept.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/donald-trump-world-health-organization-funding-coronavirus/index.html

I can’t seem to post a link properly. Trump announces defunding of WHO

Why the solutions to Coronavirus and Climate Change are the Same

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The connections between COVID-19 and climate change are real. Evidence is already emerging that shows, for instance, that air pollution is increasing the odds that people will die from COVID. This is based on the United States. And this is truly mind-blowing to me: A 1 microgram per meter-cubed increase in particulate matter raised the chances of death from COVID by 15%. This is a very small change in air quality, leading to a substantial increase in risk of people dying.

  On 4/14/2020 at 9:57 PM, chenGOD said:

If you don't want to have the same fucking stupid discussion every two years (or whenever the shady southern europeans decide to slack off, or the dutch decide to be rude, or the germans arrogant) then yes, you should have European finance ministry that sets fiscal and monetary policy for the Eurozone.

(also better integration makes it easier to implement policies like the GDPR, or AML directives).

And we need Europol to solve the Mafia problem

Can you imagine if pangolins were scapegoated out of this as chief evil doer and the global bodies agreed to systematically exterminate them. A big surreal wtf.

  On 4/15/2020 at 6:34 AM, Roo said:

Can you imagine if pangolins were scapegoated out of this as chief evil doer and the global bodies agreed to systematically exterminate them. A big surreal wtf.

they're almost extinct already. if fuckers would've left them alone long ago mayhaps they'd not some kind of perceived virus hazard or whatever the fuck is going on. 

also (probably obvious to many people but):

Some social distancing may be needed until 2022, Harvard study finds

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/15/world/social-distancing-2022-harvard-study/#.XpaUWi2ZNTY

  On 4/15/2020 at 6:59 AM, ignatius said:

they're almost extinct already. if fuckers would've left them alone long ago mayhaps they'd not some kind of perceived virus hazard or whatever the fuck is going on. 

also (probably obvious to many people but):

Some social distancing may be needed until 2022, Harvard study finds

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/15/world/social-distancing-2022-harvard-study/#.XpaUWi2ZNTY

 

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The authors acknowledged a major drawback in their model is how little we currently know about how strong a previously infected person’s immunity is and how long it lasts.

At present, the best guesses based on closely-related coronaviruses are that it will confer some immunity, for up to about a year. There might also be some cross-protective immunity against COVID-19 if a person is infected by a common cold-causing betacoronavirus.

  On 4/15/2020 at 8:04 AM, chenGOD said:

 

it's the classic "no one really knows" 

  On 4/15/2020 at 8:10 AM, ignatius said:

it's the classic "no one really knows" 

Right but that headline sure didn't make it seem that way...and in this day and age of people reading only headlines...

  On 4/15/2020 at 8:12 AM, chenGOD said:

Right but that headline sure didn't make it seem that way...and in this day and age of people reading only headlines...

true. but most sources (fauci, other epidemiologists)  have said/implied that this isn't going to go away fast and we'll be dealing with social distancing for some time. vague but telling. 

  On 4/15/2020 at 3:41 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/donald-trump-world-health-organization-funding-coronavirus/index.html

 

I can’t seem to post a link properly. Trump announces defunding of WHO

Great news, that will help immensely in fighting this virus. Go Trump, you steady steady genius.

This is just Trump facing huge criticism for totally inept handling of it. It's all political now. Deflecting blame on anyone but himself because it's election year. He doesn't care about the virus (doesn't have the attention span or the intellect to deal with it) and he doesn't care about people too. At the press conference yesterday, he didn't once mention the new death figures, just started focusing totally on how well he is doing and then parading out a bunch of stooges who echoed how brilliant Trump is.

I don't know why anyone would watch this crap now. Every day is just basically an election campaign pitch - no humanity or sympathy for those Americans who have died.

As someone else has already mentioned, The fact that the country has managed to hold itself together to the degree it has, despite being led by possibly the stupidest and most ridiculous world leader of a major nation in the history of humanity, is a credit to the overall structure of the USA.

Well, if he's making existing problems worse because he wants to save his own skin, I think "we" need to be watchful. Especially when the "adults in the room" weren't able to talk the WHO defunding out of his head. That idiot wants to defund an agency right in the middle of a crisis. Fuckwit.

  On 4/15/2020 at 8:12 AM, chenGOD said:

Right but that headline sure didn't make it seem that way...and in this day and age of people reading only headlines...

if it kills people that only ever read headlines... I mean... is that a bad thing? 
 

The effect of a human lockdown has been profound, not only with the return of wildlife, but the dramatic reduction in pollution in just a few weeks:

  On 4/15/2020 at 6:34 AM, Roo said:

Can you imagine if pangolins were scapegoated out of this as chief evil doer and the global bodies agreed to systematically exterminate them. A big surreal wtf.

But bats be like

TLDR: WHO needs some different leadership. Current guy is in China's pocket.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/who-and-china-dereliction-duty

I know who the CFR is and their bias but still a good read.

  On 4/15/2020 at 3:53 PM, Rubin Farr said:

The effect of a human lockdown has been profound, not only with the return of wildlife, but the dramatic reduction in pollution in just a few weeks:

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Yeah but pigeons don't have much food anymore. Other birds can fall back on other sources of food but pigeons are dependent on food waste on the streets.