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Correct BrettW.
Ya can’t say GZeeee.
Xi.
Db you need to account for untested carriers no symptoms
I will find the story from insta
I don’t understand what we are doing?
Surely the only strategy is making it mandatory for everyone over 70 to be in strict quarantine forever and the rest of us to get on with it.
Instead we are doing the exact opposite! The only people out and about are old and everyone else is locked up losing their future.
It makes no sense. This is bizarre world!
Highlight of the post-footy roundup:
Animated discussion on where the designated footy go-getterer should stand while someone’s having a shot at goal.
In what is the only instance of this type I will applaud, Plagiarism Bob appears to have self-isolated.
At least we don’t have the penis wizard banner anymore.
linked article says .1% my bad
Seems fair
There is a movie on SBS world movies channel at the moment about a kiddie fiddling teacher at Toowoomba.
Ftb you want penis in the 5,000th post don’t you?
rickw wrote:
I ordered it online and it turned up.
1. How can you be sure it’s legit?
2. Er… where from?
1. I can’t be sure it’s legit. But if it got to that point you might decide to roll the dice on it.
2. It was made in India which is a legitimate manufacturer of Chloroquine, the packaging related to a legitimate drug manufacturer. The tablets also came in the correct anti-UV packaging.
Note:
Plaquenil is a brand name of a Chloroquine based anti-malarial, it is available in Australia, it’s stocked by Chemist Warehouse. It is however a prescription drug so you need a friendly doctor. Treat rate I have been able to find is 400mg on first day and then 200mg on subsequent days. After 6 days 75% of people will be fully recovered.
Yep. Get the hell out of commercial real estate folks.
It’s over. Bullshit jobs have given the game away.
There’s a fair wing of freshly sacked employees who’d also be ripe to join in mob justice.
“Winnie the Flu” = acceptable alias to use.
What is your family business industry IT? What s your real job?
As for us, Bill and I are at home, following the guidelines set by the governor and the CDC — and taking the opportunity to catch up on some reading. I’ve particularly enjoyed The Dutch House by the wonderful Ann Patchett.
The Clintons batten down. Home sweet home. Being stuck in the house with her, will see Bill getting the wanders in very short order.
He told me. He’s a male prostitute who bags older women.
I’m the business coach for a social influencer.
I also have a side hustle as a green awareness consultant to a lesbian outreach non profit.
Penis. Wizard.
Penis. Wizard. 2.0
Penis, Wizard.
5000
Yep, it’s me.
Bern, you selfish bastard.
Yep. Get the hell out of commercial real estate folks.
It’s over. Bullshit jobs have given the game away.
I had a meeting with a boss a couple of weeks ago, he asked about ways to reduce opex:
“Finish the endless shitstream of poorly thought out ideas and programs, and deal with those that have been responsible for them.”
LOL.
I tried.
Anyone want UK death toll lotto tonight?
Or let Matrix Transform be carry over champ.
The result from last night is still under protest.
Put me in for 52 tonight. The Poms are obviously blind as bats.
Sure, but two weeks ago we had under 100K confirmed cases and sub 3.5K deaths. So if you exclude the Chinese confirmed cases, say 75K, we see 25K cases have resolved themselves in 5K deaths and 20K recoveries. Lets say the number of actual cases is five times the confirmed cases, that still gives 4%. We could say the number of cases is 10 fold the confirmed cases and get 2%.
Whatever floats your boat.
It’s not from the Bee, it’s real.
I was trying to get the 5000th comment.
Watchmen is on Netflix.
The Snyder cut.
Imagine how much better our world would be if every social media strategist was instead a classics teacher?
When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
Global economic collapse v Tokyo Olympics.
Without doing the form
189 mh
196 Armadillo
Exit
It’s definitely better sticking with total deaths, as UK new deaths came in dribs and drabs last night.
I don’t need any more protests.
Johanna:
I remember the young couple in Warsaw who got married in the Ghetto just before the final assault on the remnants of the Joooish insurrection. The question the writer asked was “Were they mad, or the most sane couple there?”
Life wasn’t especially fair for them.
A different yardstick perhaps.
I’m only going in so low because I reckon the Pommy Ambos are hopeless at finding corpses.
The general populations body odour probably masks the smell. The lads are doing the best they can.
Fuck this, I’m watching Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
WHAT?
I won?
I’d like to thank the academy and Numtard and to formally use this title for good instead of ebil
What century is the movie from , Cronkite?
Looked about the same crowd size as those they pull at the wymens AFL games.
Equality! Finally! Took the panda flu to do it though.
From The Australian:
42 Australian military personnel were killed and 261 wounded in Afghanistan in the past twenty years, all male.
In that period the Victoria Cross was awarded to Daniel Keighran (posthumously), Cameron Baird, Mark Donaldson and Ben Roberts-Smith. (It is a mystery why the forces’ females and their spruikers haven’t agitated against the disproportionate, unfair and sexist representation of white males in this category.)
Was their sacrifice worth it? Certainly not.
World War II took 61,443 Australian battle casualties, including 11,323 killed in action; Vietnam claimed 426 killed and 3,129 wounded. The World War II blokes’ brave efforts lasted just twenty five years. The Vietnam fellows had barely taken their boots off before the fifth column and the commos advanced unopposed.
Salt is retired now and, as you can see, the traitorous bastard is spending his time setting up the tables and chairs on the foredeck of the Manly ferry MV Freshwater, in preparation for the surrender formalities.
Yes, results are about ten pages back.
It’s based on real events head prefect. Something for everyone.
And while I think of it, all the ladies should have one of these:
https://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2015/12/gun-review-smith-wesson-mp22-compact-suppressor/
P0rnhub sees massive BULGE in traffic as coronavirus crisis continues
Disputed results.
Personally, I would have ripped up his ticket and feinted ignorance.
Australia’s four Super Rugby teams and the Western Force are set to be part of a new domestic competition beginning next month. (Rugby.com.au)
Zero interest from this dyed-in-the-wool supporter. Too many variables.
This part in particular is unfathomable – Super Rugby teams are currently the only teams cleared to train or play games, with all club and community rugby halted until the beginning of May.
So broadcast revenue trumps all other elements of the Chinese Flu panic.
Only 44 total deaths in Deutschland.
Surprisingly low.
Suspiciously low.
🤔
UK deathlotto:
192 pls
We’ll find out why. Maybe more ventilators. Maybe they’re using those drugs.
Johanna:
Should have used the term “Eleven” instead of ex ists.
Coronavirus: Monaco Grand Prix cancelled, Dutch and Spanish races postponed
The Italian death toll is suspiciously high.
It’s the sort of numbers one would put out if one wanted an international bail out of ones completely rooted economy.
Sounds like Spain got the memo too.
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Heard it here first cockheads.
Trump to win, economy to surge.
The two PIIGS members are above the average trajectory, only China is higher and Iran (was) equal to Spain.
189 mh
196 Armadillo
192 Egg
Yes, you can’t trust the Euroweenies.
That’s why I chose the Poms. Fair play, etc.
Bruce in WA:
Time to bury the weapons, lads.
The pricks will be around any day, I reckon.
Arky i work through things by taking extremes and then seeing where I sit.
He can win but he MUST be seen as the leader to get the nation out of this. The US is now in a deep depression after being in the best economy in it’s history 2 months ago.
That is a black swan event.
I read the average age was 81.
Nothing is as it seems.
Wouldn’t surprise me if there was shit loads of “euthanasia” taking place in Italy and Spain too.
That greedy kid who never did much is sick of waiting.
It’s a terrible time for a suspicious mind.
UK Cough Lotto … 201
A tremendous backfire will occur soon.
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He is and will.
Recession was coming this year anyway, a huge externality that let him go into presidential mode was the only way he was going to get over hitching his star to the markets in that loud mouthed and jokey way he has.
189 mh
196 Armadillo
192 Egg
201 MT carry-over champion
Field closes at top of the hour, when we should have a new thread.
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Given your record you would do better to write some random outcomes in chalk on the sidewalk and let an epileptic chicken walk around there and pick the one it shits on.
200 for Winston…
Pooh works if X-i doesn’t
Chicken reckons your car is looking great. Build a Kitty Hawk next.
Pooh Flu.
Love it, IT
Vaccine testing started in the US last week. Vaccine won’t be ready until about 18 months from now. For a disease spreading rapidly and wit relatively low mortality, it requires extremely long testing (unlike say Ebola where mortality is so high that some harm from vaccine is ok).
Vaccine may never be found. Coronaviruses are known for a long time, they are one of the leading causes of common cold. Most are mild but some (like SARS and Covid19) are nasty. Yet no vaccine has even been found for ANY Coronavirus.
The stories of all that inhabited this thread will be told over campfires and beer for centuries.
They will be used to discipline disobedient children, and a bard somewhere will use their contents to weave a new national anthem into our collective psyche.
Arky makes a great point.
The Pooh Flu crisis doesn’t sink Trump; it is a narrative for downturn that no voter will seriously question.
I’m just putting a few of these old tweets up as a bookmark in case CCP shills try to sneak on here and lie about the Chinese Virus. Numbers had a good go a couple days back and failed, but there will be more.
‘Most are mild but some (like SARS and Covid19) are nasty. Yet no vaccine has even been found for ANY Coronavirus.’
To summarise the entire contents of the March 2020 Megathred – good one China, you thieving bat and other assorted vermin munching Third World mouth breathers. Because it’s all your fault. All of it.
189 mh
196 Armadillo
192 Egg
201 MT carry-over champion
200 Winston
Final field
No way! Let me assure you that that there is an insane, hard core rabble, many with a university education, slavering and trembling in anticipation of November.
i have a sister in Canada and a neice’s husband in Seattle who will travel to Florida (put up there by another kool aid sated sister and her TDS afflicted husband) all of whom will work for the dimocrims.
How will I live with the shame.
That was a little more incoherrent than usual. It is a response a post upthread which I interpreted as implying a moderaftion in TDS.
No way! Let me assure you that that there is an insane, hard core rabble, many with a university education, slavering and trembling in anticipation of November.
i have a sister in Canada and a neice’s husband in Seattle who will travel to Florida (put up there by another kool aid sated sister and her TDS afflicted husband) all of whom will work for the dimocrims.
How will I live with the shame.
Big C gnawing abit more than usual tonight.
Quiet down there in the back rows:
JC, been out assessing the market and I am calling it. We have hit bottom. Giveaway was those kids at South Beach Miami yesterday. So. yeah now is the time to buy. Cruise ship companies are a bargain.
If anyone can be called an American Poet, it is this bloke:
Rex
I wouldn’t so quick to call a bottom on this one. We just don’t know as we’ve never experienced this shit in a 100 years. I’m only trading short-term and take each day as it comes. I say this though. If that drug or drug cocktail works, this market is going up 25-30% in a session.
The thing that gets me about it is that we’ve good great reports about it, but those reports are pretty scant. There’s no headline in any of the MSM about it at all.
Too lazy to check the price but Carnival Cruises must be a bargain.
Here is John Cougar, John Cougar Mellancamp, Johhny Cougar or whatever you call him’s best song:
Market may lose another 25% when the next unemployment numbers come through.
They are going to be mindblowingly bad.
Talking out my hat, the stock exchange can lose 70% in a downturn. What are we up to currently? Asking for a friend.
1.5 million is baked in. That’s what all the ruckus was about this week. Shit is serious, but it’s nowhere near as bad as the financial crisis at least for the US. That’s because the health of the banks at this stage isn’t looking like it will become a financial crisis. Yet!
Europe is different though.
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Did you watch the vid?
JC, can you explain negative interest rates?
It got to as low as 7 bucks Wednesday.
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DJIA down 32% off high.
Arky, just got home and missed the vid.Where do I find it?
From 17 minutes on talking about chloroquine.
Ok, watched enough of that video to conclude that get all your spare cash & put into Qantas/big ship cruising companies & Flight Centre.
You mean how is it possible or what it actually means?
How is it possible. Flight to safety means people will buy German or Swiss bonds on which the buyer pays more money than what the coupon and the face value of the bond will return on maturity.
Say you buy a bond with one year remaining and the price you pay means you’re out of pocket.
Here:
You buy a bond for $102 dollars, which has a coupon of 1% and matures one year out. At the end of the year what happens.
You get interest of $1 and the face value of the bond $100. You paid $102 for it, so you lose $1 or 1%.
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I neither endorse nor reject that video.
I just post it as something to watch.
Do your own research.
I neither endorse nor reject the video below, I just post it as something to watch. The whole thing is lip sinch’d (but the guy is a song writing genius) , do your own research:
JC, BUY, BUY, BUY!!!! Do I need to say it an louder.
It’s no Caribbean Queen, Rex.
What was yesterday’s death lotto numbers anyway?
Ok, going to bed, but here you go you can have a classic:
Evil E, take my advice or leave it. The share market is at bottom & if you have spare cash, now is the time to invest.
Gotta put this classic out there, recorded Jan69:
We can’t go on together, Rex.
That is Elvis wall of sound. He does sound good, but really it is the backup session muses that carry the track.
Lot of that is not what was written.
The drug/s the Japs were using was not new, nothing worked so they tried something it might have been the malaria drug and my question was is that why the death rates were relatively low.
I see OZ story that 30-39 year olds are hit badly. Most hospitalisation. Mutation vs Spanish flu?
new thread folks
In Heartwarming news:
China exonerates doctor who died after trying to warn of the coronavirus outbreak
So, a sharp slap in the face for xenophobes who think Pooh is running an Orwellian state.
The guilty, correctly bayoneted.
While potentially millions of Australians lose their livelihoods politicians and bullying parasite public servants cruise on with their massive salaries. The only pain these putrid creatures experience is the closing of their corner coffee shop.
The failure of the polliies to even contemplate sharing the hurt is a national scandel.
Mendicant journos will never lead a campaign against this outrage.
Nothing better describes the class system that now defines Australia.
UK firms down tools and design Ventilators that keep Caroona patients alive Australia makes masks . We are better than that.
In Faark news:
[UK] Government to pay 80 per cent of wages for employees not working due to coronavirus, Rishi Sunak says
Bozza pulling the lever marked REALLY?
This precedent will never, ever leave the Isle of Benefits.
A fitting send off to the Mega-Thread of 2020.