How are you guys doin?

[NAD]

Seriously.

I cannot believe what is happening to this country I love right now.

US military deployed against US citizens in the fucking US capital.

What. The. Fuck.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Dude, I have no words...

 

[NAD]

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists in Sweden are hoping an alpaca named Tyson can help deliver a knockout blow in the fight to develop a treatment or vaccine against the novel coronavirus that has killed nearly 400,000 people worldwide.

After immunizing Tyson, a 12 year-old alpaca in Germany, with virus proteins, the team at the Karolinska Institute have isolated tiny antibodies - known as nanobodies - from his blood that bind to the same part of the virus as human antibodies and could block the infection.

They hope this can form the basis of a treatment for COVID 19 or eventually a vaccine against it, though the work is at an early stage

Majestik Møøse v. Antibödy Alpåca

 

[J.]

Wasnt the military deployed in LA in '92?

 

[Krilons Resa]

Yes.

 

[Ellestin]

Interesting times to be sure

 

[NAD]

CDC: Americans Are Misting Their Bodies With Disinfectant Spray and Gargling Bleach to Prevent Coronavirus

The CDC conducted the online survey [and] found that 39 percent of respondents had engaged in at least one high-risk practice not recommended by the CDC to prevent SARS-CoV-2, the official name of the novel coronavirus that causes the disease covid-19.

The CDC carried out the survey after a spike in calls to poison centers about exposures to cleaners and disinfectants during the pandemic. It sought to obtain “contextual and behavioral insight” into this increase in calls and to inform timely and relevant prevention strategies.

The most common alarming practices included applying bleach to food items and using household cleaning and disinfectant products on the skin. The CDC found that survey respondents were also misting their body with cleaning or disinfectant spray, inhaling vapors from household cleaners or disinfectants, and drinking or gargling bleach solutions, soapy water, and other cleaning and disinfectant solutions.

There has to be some supervillain with a pointy mustache rubbing their hands together right now. "It's all going according to plan MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

 

[einride]

There has to be some supervillain with a pointy mustache rubbing their hands together right now. "It's all going according to plan MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

putin doesn’t have a mustache actually, you must be confusing him with lenin

 

[J.]

i gave up trying to figure this shit out. It's just one thing after another.

One group is doing armed protests to open shit up then telling everyone to obey the law. The other group wants the economy shut down and for everyone to stay home and then protesting in massive crowds the next day.

We've got a major election in 5 months between a cheeto and a guy that cant remember if he put on underwear.

Its hurricane season and shit is already looking bad.

"It's the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine"

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

i gave up trying to figure this shit out. It's just one thing after another.

Yep. It's nutballs around here. There are people on every side of every issue doing incredibly stupid and hateful shit, making any progress that much harder to achieve. I can't even stay in my apartment tonight due to threats of violence in my immediate area, yay.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Stay safe, Cara.

 

[theoden236]

Pretty much sums it all up:

 

[NAD]

Crowds gather, cases spike, layoffs continue, riots burn.

Hopefully a monster invasion is next. Wait a second...!



Glaciers formate upon the ice age siege.
Walk the icebergs toward cities.

[/slow headbang of literal doom]

 

[NAD]

Welp looks like California is on our way to become pretty fucked by covid these days. We were doing so well, alas. I drive by bars downtown and they are all packed now. When I (rarely) go to grocery stores people are all masked so that's good, but nobody seems to give a fuck anywhere else. All the various protests have replaced arena concerts and movie theaters. Same shit, same death.

Cities in ruins, bodies packed in hospitals
Neurotic game of mask and death
Now I can feel the end, premonition about my final 2 weeks
A sad image of everything, everything's fake news

WHO
HAS WON? (coronavirus)
WHO
HAS DIED? (humanity)

BENEATH THE VENTILATOR!

 

[J.]

Houston Protesters Begin to Fall Ill With Coronavirus After Marching for George Floyd
https://www.newsweek.com/houston-pr...ronavirus-after-marching-george-floyd-1511066

The hell you say! I didn't see this one coming. Fucking idiots

Texas shutting down again. Thanks, guys!

 

[Krilons Resa]

I'm pretty sure you can't pin this one on the protesters as they have literally been marching everywhere and it's not surging like it is in some of them states down there.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

If marching shoulder to shoulder, shouting, many with no masks, won't spread it, then what will? That's not to say that other behaviors and actions by others aren't to blame, as well. But come on, now. It would be foolish to say that the behavior of the protestors (at least in Houston and Dallas) wasn't risky.

 

[J.]

They are literally blaming and closing the bars down here. Give me a break. How is going to a bar more risky than walking around with 59,999 other people shoulder to shoulder? Also, funny how the stay-home crowd suddenly marched to the streets en masse.

Of course they aren't gonna blame the protesters because, you know, PC and all that crap.

 

[MFJ]

Sorry J, Texas was fucked with or without the protests. At the same time, no one can deny that the protests have spread this around like crazy. Our current situation is the cumulative result of idiots from both sides running amok.

 

[Papa Josh]

I just had my oldest graduate high school and she is now entering this world. It was surreal going to the ceremony.