Funny how he tried grifting magats after his plea which cost him another year.

@klaus

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@doctor-phibes said in Time?:

I would have thought that the time to relax regarding Covid isn't when everybody gets sick of it, but when the infection rates come down. Everybody getting sick it was always going to happen, but I rather suspect the virus doesn't care what we think about it.

No, hospitalization and death rates. At least if/as the virus becomes less lethal, which seems like has happened.

By the way, that's how the Spanish flu went away, it got far less lethal and people just sort of moved on.

@horace said in American Thinker du jour - NATO edition:

He has the freedom to be wise in practice as a leader, rather than being constricted by the populist ideas of people whose votes he is beholden to.

Yet Putin espouses the populism of the Russian nation. In fact, he is very much beholden to it. That’s how he is simultaneously a bewildering autocrat to Western conservatives and a frightening tyrant to the progressive left.

@lufins-dad said in The Outbreak:

I am thinking that the Xi variant of the Wuflu is a very different beast altogether from WuFlu Alpha- Wuflu Delta. It makes me wonder if it’s so different that it ultimately doesn’t crowd out Delta, but instead exist simultaneously?

Its a good question, I saw some talk in epidemiological twitter the other day about co-infections, delta and omicron. Apparently its possible, but quite rare.

@jolly said in Screw You:

They're declassified. Any congress critter should be able to access them.

Of course, duh.

If declassified, why couldn't any private citizen file a FOIA request?

Judicial Watch in 3...2...1...

@rich said in What kinds of deals often involve under the table money in your place?:

actually have a stack of cash themselves they are looking to use up...so there's really no benefit to discount at all for cash.

Can't you scrape off the cocaine?

I couldn't seem to get onto their site.

I've never tried before now, so I couldn't tell you for sure if that's a new feature or not.

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@aqua-letifer said in Fighting an unwinnable war.:

@jolly said in Fighting an unwinnable war.:

Joe needs to bow to the inevitable...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/face-it-everyone-is-going-to-get-covid-19/ar-AART0Wn?ocid=msedgntp

Not yet. Let's get our treatment up to a level so as to render infection as dangerous by % population as the flu.

That's my personal "throw up our hands" benchmark, and I think we can get there within a year.

We started out with a goal of keeping the death rate below that of heart disease. We passed that one waaay back...

Officers should especially assume that in Midland.

@copper said in Meanwhile, in Florida...:

@axtremus said in Meanwhile, in Florida...:

Cloth masks should be made with two or more layers of a breathable fabric that is tightly woven (i.e., fabrics that do not let light pass through when held up to a light source).

Mr. Jenne's mask probably didn't have the required two or more layers.

Lock him up.

Au contraire. Women's panties have two layers in the crotch, one end unsewn.

I think it is a cool million degrees. There isn't much there to conduct the heat.

Pooled testing is standard here.

In fact as far as I remember, the technology was first done here in Haifa at the Technion.

This is from March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.

https://www.technion.ac.il/en/2020/03/pooling-method-for-accelerated-testing-of-covid-19/