Covid-19: We don’t talk about 1-18

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  1. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Put 100 kids in a room - Put all of their parents in another room, let those parents decide which 2-3 kids die...

     
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  2. Boandlkramer

    Boandlkramer Member+

    Apr 9, 2009
    Samma Weltmeister!
    Club:
    FC Bayern München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    That’s pretty sobering.....assuming every parent has an ounce of humanity
     
  3. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This nugget from the Rolling Stone article.

    Why is the administration not taking over the supply chain?

    “It’s because they’re getting pressure from the Chamber of Commerce to stay out of the marketplace so that the profiteering can continue,” Murphy says. The chamber, which represents some of the nation’s biggest corporations, has lobbied against the Defense Production Act because it claims it would unreasonably disrupt the supply chain during the crisis. (The chamber did not respond to a request for comment.) “The administration has decided to put the profits of these companies ahead of saving lives,” he says.


     
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  4. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Murphy's law.....or perhaps the glitch is the Trump hideous signature.

    Glitches prevent $1,200 stimulus checks from reaching millions of Americans
    Several million people who filed their taxes via H&R Block, TurboTax and other popular services were unable to get their payments. Some parents reported they didn’t get the $500 promised for their dependent children.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/coronavirus-cares-stimulus-check/
     
  5. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Can a doctor's license be pulled for spreading disease via BS propaganda?
     
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  6. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    Are you sure the novel coronavirus doesn't attack the brain first?
     
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  7. Boandlkramer

    Boandlkramer Member+

    Apr 9, 2009
    Samma Weltmeister!
    Club:
    FC Bayern München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    #57 Boandlkramer, Apr 16, 2020
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    I’ve used H&R Block since at least 2004. I still had to go to the IRS site and input my bank routing/acct numbers. *no dependents
     
  8. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
    The American Steppe
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Let me tell you, from my kids school, they do not.

    And I know which kids would get offered up
     
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  9. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    What brains?

    [​IMG]
     
  10. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    It's fascinating... watching from Italy I see everything happened here replayed with some weeks of delay. Everything.

    At the end of March our national system crashed when hundreds of thousands (or maybe millions) of people tried to access it to get their "bonus Covid-19 emergency" money. The agency (and the minister) called a non-existent "hacker-attack" to justify the crash. :x3:

    The truth is that few systems so far were designed to support this amount of accesses (and many systems are even obsolete: it was here that the fact that COBOL programmers were searched was mentioned?).

    But what strikes me the most is that everything that happened in Italy is happening the same way (or worse) with some weeks of delay in USA. Maybe part of this is basically an unavoidable script of this outbreak (what can you really do in a few days to upgrade a system to support hundreds of thousands more accesses than it was designed for?), but maybe there were some areas where something better could have been done, based on the example of the countries that were ahead of the timeline, couldn't it? :cautious:
     
  11. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    This is the part of the video game where you pray you've got sufficient ammo
     
  12. chad

    chad Member+

    Jun 24, 1999
    Manhattan Beach
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Night of the Living Rednecks by DK

     
  13. Boandlkramer

    Boandlkramer Member+

    Apr 9, 2009
    Samma Weltmeister!
    Club:
    FC Bayern München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Wow...

     
  14. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He didn't say the 2-3% would be the kids.

    That's the 2nd tweet you've posted that didn't say what it said it said.

    :whistling:

    I don't like being "well, actually" guy. I hate "well, actually" guys.

    But...well, actually.
     
  15. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The kids would be disease vectors. 2-3% of the American population is about 8 million people. Ain't no ********ing way society functions if 8,000,000 people die from this virus over the next, say, 18 months.
     
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  16. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    The Paycheck Protection Program is as broke as a Trump casino. Just 2 weeks after it opened.
     
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  17. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Germany has the leadership we wish we could have.

    But good thing we are winning!

    https://qz.com/1839030/angela-merke...transmission-works/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo
     
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  18. JohnR

    JohnR Member+

    Jun 23, 2000
    Chicago, IL
    This dude is a better doctor than Dr. Oz.

    [​IMG]
     
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  19. celito

    celito Moderator
    Staff Member

    Palmeiras
    Brazil
    Feb 28, 2005
    USA
    Club:
    Palmeiras Sao Paulo
    Nat'l Team:
    Brazil
    Think before you post. Or at least watch/read what you're posting.
     
  20. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    If Dr. Bornstein says nothing at all about pandemics he's better than Dr. Oz

    harold-bornstein-thumb-700xauto-196489.jpg
     
  21. Boandlkramer

    Boandlkramer Member+

    Apr 9, 2009
    Samma Weltmeister!
    Club:
    FC Bayern München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
  22. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Well that is bacause Ken Jeong was an actual doctor before becoming a comedian.
     
  23. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    There was also the issue of stagnation - Threads with huge reply counts also tended to stay at the top and not allow other threads to get notice.
     
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  24. JamesA

    JamesA Member+

    Dec 7, 2004
    Victoria
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Holy ********ing shit. I cant believe what Steve Moore just said.

    He said America needs to re open their businesses tomorrow. I think hes on the re open America task force too.

    The chaos and carnage that would inflict on hospitals is beyond imagination.

    I know the economic devastation is horrendous but seriously?
     
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  25. Smurfquake

    Smurfquake Moderator
    Staff Member

    Aug 8, 2000
    San Carlos, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Someone had a list of doctors that were better than Dr. Oz. It included Dr Dre, Dr Strange, Dr Doom, Dr Who, Dr Quinn, Dr Detroit, Dr Teeth, etc.
     
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