Lazy8 wrote:
 
So THAT's what trolls look like...

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
...and Mr. Putin smiles...

The dope doesn't even know who he's really fighting with or for.  

Red_Dragon wrote:

Or more fairly "Nice cosplay!"

I didn't recognize the hardware so I zoomed the image. At first glance it appears to be an AT4 antitank missile, but if you zoom in it looks completely home-made.

If it were in fact real he would be violating about eleventy-billion federal laws, and would be announcing that fact on national news media. .

Couldn't get enough detail to identify the handguns but by the shiny brass I can see I'd guess they're civil war-era cap & ball revolvers. That cross-draw rig looks awkward as hell.

I think y'all just got trolled pretty hard

 R_P wrote:
 
Yes; the yellow strip around it identifies it as such. The irony is that by carrying the fucking thing the moron makes himself even more ridiculous.

 R_P wrote:
 

Yeah, I wasn't referring to that. And again, my question. What are you going to do with that? Oh, just try to intimidate me? Weak.

 BlueHeronDruid wrote:
 
The caption said it's inert (and probably not the only thing). I don't think you're allowed to walk around with a working rocket launcher. Inside the U.S.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
Question: what would have happened if anyone - ANYONE - discharged a weapon while carrying thusly? Especially in the statehouse the other day.

Seems to me these dodos are free to carry, but use? That might change some history.

A braver me would taunt them and laugh at them. What can they do? Shoot me?

 buddy wrote:
 
This guy would be in for a comment: "sorry about your dick, snowflake"

 steeler wrote:
 

That's going to fall into the "if you like your doc you can keep them" category.

In my case, when I tried to get tested in early March, the thing hinged on "have you been to China?" Well, no. Vegas - which seems worse.
Then, it came down to "fever?" which I never had, although I had the cough, myalgias, fatigue. But no fever - no test.
Finally, I manage to make headway since the medical group is allowing delays on loan repayment if you're positive. But no test, so I couldn't take advantage. That seemed to get me in the door.

Was the bottleneck due to Trump? It's possible that the medical group decided to throttle the testing and had plenty of tests. No way to really know. But, despite having a lot of street cred at my job, they wouldn't listen to me and delayed testing for ten weeks after I was sick.

haresfur wrote:

 
Thanks.  NJ retirement home to boot (down the Jersey Shore, far away from NYC) ...and to date 11 total positives on the staff and NONE for the residents.  The 4 to date were all caught with tracing before they spent any significant time in the home after infection.  The timeline suggests to me that their luck isn't likely to last beyond the 7 asymptomatic positives.  Time will tell...fingers crossed.

 rgio wrote:
 
Yikes! Hoping for the best for your parents. 

 cc_rider wrote:
 
His feeling bad in February doesn't mean he was infected then.  He could have been infected more recently, and been completely asymptomatic.  Nasty virus this COVID-19...won't let you logically solve anything.

Then you get to the problem of false positives and negatives....which are too high. 

We definitely need more testing and more speed.  My parents' retirement home is tested everyone last week...and it took 5 days to find out 7 of the staff were asymptomatic positives.

 steeler wrote:
 
That was a lie the first time he said it, and it still a lie. Testing supplies and infrastructure, like drive-through testing stations, are still very limited - at least here.

Our county judge recently received the results of an antibody test - positive - meaning he has already had the virus. He told the local paper he was sick for a few days in early February -  long before any known (i.e. tested) cases. Which means the virus has been here quite a while now, and realistically is already everywhere. It's possible nearly everyone has been exposed to it. Illness/symptoms may be related to the degree of exposure (?) Say you grabbed a grocery cart that'd just been used by a carrier: as long as you didn't, you know, lick the handle, your exposure would be small. But crowded into a subway or an airplane, your exposure could be enough to trigger symptoms.

The dearth of testing, and Trump's insistence it's not needed (because it makes him look bad), is going to make this crisis go on a lot longer.
c.

 Steely_D wrote:
 

That is inexplicable and extremely disconcerting. I am listening to Trump press briefing right now and they are saying anyone who needs a test can get one (Trump himself says that anyone who “wants” a test can get one).

Horribly sick in early March, now fully recovered. Finally got tested today after four of my messages to my doc/their coverage. Won’t know the answer for a day, but damn it shouldn’t have been so hard to get a 60+ person into the lab for a nose swab.

‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects on facing death from COVID-19

It turned out I had severe oxygen deficiency, although I still wasn’t short of breath. Lung images showed I had severe pneumonia, typical of COVID-19, as well as bacterial pneumonia. I constantly felt exhausted, while normally I’m always buzzing with energy. It wasn’t just fatigue, but complete exhaustion; I’ll never forget that feeling. I had to be hospitalized, although I tested negative for the virus in the meantime. This is also typical for COVID-19: The virus disappears, but its consequences linger for weeks.

One week after I was discharged, I became increasingly short of breath. I had to go to the hospital again, but fortunately, I could be treated on an outpatient basis. I turned out to have an organizing pneumonia-induced lung disease, caused by a so-called cytokine storm. It’s a result of your immune defense going into overdrive. Many people do not die from the tissue damage caused by the virus, but from the exaggerated response of their immune system, which doesn’t know what to do with the virus. I’m still under treatment for that, with high doses of corticosteroids that slow down the immune system. If I had had that storm along with the symptoms of the viral outbreak in my body, I wouldn’t have survived. I had atrial fibrillation, with my heart rate going up to 170 beats per minute; that also needs to be controlled with therapy, particularly to prevent blood clotting events, including stroke. This is an underestimated ability of the virus: It can probably affect all the organs in our body.

Many people think COVID-19 kills 1% of patients, and the rest get away with some flulike symptoms. But the story gets more complicated. Many people will be left with chronic kidney and heart problems. Even their neural system is disrupted. There will be hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, possibly more, who will need treatments such as renal dialysis for the rest of their lives. The more we learn about the coronavirus, the more questions arise. We are learning while we are sailing. That’s why I get so annoyed by the many commentators on the sidelines who, without much insight, criticize the scientists and policymakers trying hard to get the epidemic under control. That’s very unfair.

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 rhahl wrote:
 

No, that's good.

I wonder if the site was "reported" by conspiracy theorists. It was offline for a while on Sunday; I figured that was because it exceeded Wix' allowance.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Rather than using an anti-virus program, my computer repairman set me up with an admin account that is used for almost nothing, and another account without any privileges for surfing the web.  Makes sense to me and it's been fine so far.  Is there anything wrong with that approach?

 miamizsun wrote:
 
damn donkeys' balls.

 miamizsun wrote: 

what we need to hear is "happy hamsters"

or hamster like creatures

because genetic engineering

a lot of labs going the antibody route

on another note women clear the virus on average 2-3 days earlier than men

yes it involves testicles