People are arguing over masks because for four months, we’ve been receiving conflicting information about them from the CDC, the media, and you.

Mad funny.

Bah, when I was a kid I got to the point where I could not only ride no-handed, but kick my feet up on the head-stock and lean back like I was in a recliner.

Yeah, calling your PCP and stating you have chest pain will invariably lead to the advice “call 911 or go to the ER.” The PCP call is an unnecessary waste of time, which as you point out is “brain/heart.” Your PCP doesn’t have the capacity to order stat labs/imaging and activate a cath lab. Get it together.  

That was three different outlets - across the street, 40 miles away and at my destination. And it wasn’t even the first problems I’ve had with them (although the others weren’t quite so egregious or piled up). Google “problems with UHaul” - I did - afterwards. It was horrifying - and ultimately hilarious it was so…

You know they mention that car in the bible-- God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden of eden in a Fury.

The big point was trying to drive home that authoritarian dictators are often total buffoons who tell lies so craven, so stupid they are basically incomprehensible to most people. Ceaușescu in particular was known for being a total fucking idiot every time he opened his mouth. The system was so corrupt it didn’t…

You can have mine.  I ate a potato chip three days ago and I’m good.

Pest control is a wonderful argument for why shipping containers should be air tight and pumped down to near vacuum for shipment. Invasive species are no joke.....

From what I’ve heard of modern pop music I choose to remain blissfully ignorant of it. 

They should do this with fictional, historical, and mythological horses too. Who wouldn’t want to see Silver, Scout, Shadowfax, Sleipner, Bucephalus, Incitatus, Black Beauty, and Mister Ed go for the finish line.

Luckily like 80% of porn is step siblings that live in the same home already so the impact to production should be minimal, right? /s

We have been told on this site that a vaccine is years away and herd immunity is impossible. Oh and this, “Well we’re not really quarantining” thing is about 2 days old now. So shut the fuck up.

It’s based on basic logic: To start with, a hypothetical race of ETs noticing us in the universe or even the galaxy would be next to impossible. We didn’t even start sending out radio waves that wouldn’t dissipate after ~4 light years until WW2, so nobody further than 80 or so light years out would be hearing us on…

I don’t want to wonder; I have a daily liquor limit and wondering would make me break that...

So why isn’t everyone in China dead?

Unfortunately, they didn’t correct for population density—for a disease that spreads person-to-person via direct or close contact—and they accepted reports of “no” deaths from rural counties without the resources to spare for public health issues. So their deaths-per-million map looks like a population density map…

The problem here is that there are a couple different strains floating around, one more serious than the other, and given that South Korea has been reporting that people who already got sick and recovered have become infected again, in the span of a couple of months, that could mean a few different things.

Immunity…

But are we? If this virus is has an R0 as high as 5 or 6 (isn’t that the range for measles?), then shouldn’t a whole lot of people be infected? In the largely and relatively densely populated county where I live (Tarrant County, Texas. Where Fort Worth is. We’re in the same metroplex as Dallas.). We have about 1250…

The R0 is still being determined, but I think I saw a figure as high as 5 or 6 being suggested (https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/04/07/the-covid19-coronavirus-disease-may-be-twice-as-contagious-as-we-thought/#240f848729a6). If that’s the case then nearly everyone needs to be immune/vaccinated.

In the…