Study: Masks' Protection Against Catching Covid is "Statistically Insignificant"

Gee that's weird, Professor AllahPundit and Dr. Guy P. Benson, Ph.D., M.D., assured me that All Virtuous People Wear Masks Because Science.

I wonder how the professors of Twitter Science are taking this news.

I checked Hot Air. Professor AllahPundit loves grabbing up the grabbiest, easiest stories he finds on Twitter and claiming them. (And making his coworkers search harder for stories. I wonder how they feel about that.)

But strangely, he leaves this grabby, easy story alone. It falls to Jazz Shaw to write it up.

Gee, I wonder why Professor AllahPundit skips some kinds of stories, like that there was no Russian colluision.

octors in Denmark have just released the results of what’s being described as a first of its kind study on the effectiveness of wearing face masks. Their conclusions are going to cause a lot of people in the pro-mandate camp plenty of consternation. They determined that while a cloth mask can definitely reduce transmissions from infected people to others, any protection provided by them to the uninfected is "statistically insignificant."

No one tell Professor AllahPundit and Dr. Guy P. Benson, Ph.D., M.D., that there are zero controlled studies demonstrating that lockdowns reduced covid transmission significantly, either!

148 You ain't seen nothin', Ace.
New study: Lockdowns & masks are useless and might even increase COVID-19 spread
https://tinyurl.com/y2v36vvg
New England Journal of Medicine
https://tinyurl.com/y4afuv4q
Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can't Stop the Virus, Study Reveals
https://tinyurl.com/yywb4kd7
Nothing worked. They got the virus, more got the virus. They did everything and more to try to stop it from infiltrating. Nothing worked.
And in a recent piece I read, they have no idea, yet, how it spreads. 10% maybe airports, 5% elderly homes, 5% medical community... 80%? uknown
they are guessing
Posted by: artisanal 'ette

But keep in mind: Sometimes, if you Trust the Science (TM), you're actually Killing Grandma.

So sometimes you have to say "To Hell With This Whore "Science.""

Imagine the outrage if a state passed a law requiring gay dudes to wear condoms. https://t.co/g8KICtwlBq
— Jubal E. Harshaw (@alimhaider) November 18, 2020

Posted by: Ace at 01:40 PM

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1 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 18, 2020 01:41 PM (Do5/p)

2 This is applicable to this post now...

Omnipotent Moral Busybody
at_OBusybody

MASK PUBLICATION BIAS

STUDY A: Retracted when masks don't show CV19 prevention.
-->Authors interested in a study to prove masks DO work, not explain why they may not

STUDY B: Shows masks may not reduce spread of CV19.
-->Journal stresses this only reinforces the need for masks

12:09 PM - Nov 18, 2020 - Twitter Web App

https://bit.ly/3fbFUyS

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 18, 2020 01:41 PM (Do5/p)

3
Shut up and submit, peasant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2020 01:41 PM (mht8P)

4 Someone tell my stupid ass governor to shove his mask mandate up his saggy lily white ass

Posted by: IC - Call me Madam President-Elect at November 18, 2020 01:41 PM (a0IVu)

5 Top 10!

Posted by: Greyman27 at November 18, 2020 01:41 PM (RKLPC)

6 The Panic Porn will continue until morale is non-existent.

Posted by: Greyman27 at November 18, 2020 01:42 PM (RKLPC)

7

We are in charge

mask on kulak!

Posted by: will choose a nic later at November 18, 2020 01:42 PM (GIeIM)

8

Umm, can someone tell me why half of Florida is not dead?

Why isn't Florida in horrible health, right now??

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:42 PM (/rzvn)

9
Wearing masks rots your teeth, gums and causes all sorts of other bacteriological disease that''s worse than any lung rot, real or pimped.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2020 01:42 PM (s2VJv)

10 She blinded me with SCIENCE!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at November 18, 2020 01:42 PM (3lLYN)

11 I heard that dental problems are way up because of "mask mouth." Dental decay, foul breath, etc. Something about having your face covered all day is unhealthy. Who would've figured?

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (XSoJN)

12 Fuck them all.

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (8B6Ng)

13 You can't trust the Danes, shifty people, wooden shoes, live below sea level.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (1ISKN)

14 I've misplaced my shocked face.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (yQpMk)

15 No shit. This has been obvious to anyone with infection positivity rate data, the date of a mask mandate, and the ability to do arithmetic. You don't even need much if any statistics because there's no correlation in the first place as you include or localities. You can do fun stuff like controlling for population, density and temperature but you don't even really need to go that far. There's no there there.

Now do lockdowns (spoiler alert: it's the same).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (hYcqw)

16 It really was a 1984-esque landslide.
That's how the Dems type that same sentence.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (UDapT)

17 (fistbumps JJ)

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (XSoJN)

18 It's not about disease control, it's about population control.
Citizen! Know your place! Do as you're told!

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (4uSHG)

19 Just because I can blow out a candle while wearing a mask doesn't mean a mask can't stop a virus that you need an electron microscope to see. Wait, it does.

Posted by: josephistan at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (Izzlo)

20 I'm torn on masks, on one hand it allows me to be 50% more attractive by covering 50% of my face, on the other hand I'm constantly being fooled because I only see someone's eyes, and as we're know the eyes are the boobs of the face.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (XwTyM)

21 We need to do something!

This is something!

We need to do that, and you are a denier if you don't!

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Is A Cockeyed Optimist! at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (d4iUk)

22 This whole pandemic thing would be a LOT more effective if people actually knew someone who died because of it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (XSoJN)

23 What's funny about this story is that these Danish doctors were trying to get these results released for a while, but they couldn't find a scientific publication that was willing to publish them.

Now, after the election, this comes out.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (4tiP2)

24 Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving.

Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (+4D1M)

25 19Just because I can blow out a candle while wearing a mask doesn't mean a mask can't stop a virus that you need an electron microscope to see. Wait, it does.

Posted by: josephistan at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (Izzlo)

If you can see the virus, it's already too late!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (1ISKN)

26 The mask is just the outward sign of submission.

It's not medically very useful.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Trump WON, buy guns at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (ifmtJ)

27 Funny how we went right to ignoring the science thing. Where did I just read that some guy was measuring the oxygen count of nurses who'd been wearing the things for prolonged periods and they qualified for medicare oxygen?

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (8B6Ng)

28
Can somebody tell me how to get laid with a mask? How about hiring a masked hooker? Ok, I'll settle for a jar of vaseline with a wrag draped over it.

Posted by: Sphynx at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (rXie1)

29 Next do abortions and unwanted pregancies.

Gun laws and illegal gunplay.

Amnesty and illegal immigration.

School funds and student performance.

I could go on. And on.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (hku12)

30 Good afternoon. Can we at least agree it's afternoon? EST?

Oh forget it.

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (yEBFM)

31 "They determined that while a cloth mask can definitely reduce transmissions from infected people to others, any protection provided by them to the uninfected is "statistically insignificant."
"

The problem here is that these fucking retards use this as the way to force everyone behind a mask. "You don't know if you're infected so you must wear a mask!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

Posted by: Buzzion at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (+f/dc)

32 Don't give a shit if you're a scientist or not, anyone with common sense knew the masks were bullshit.

Masks made of thin material barely covering the nose and mouth, sure that will stop a "pandemic."

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (jUVms)

33 Ceci n'est pas un masque

Posted by: 496 at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (INPZ+)

34 Maybe if you quarantine infected people we get this under control?

Posted by: torabora at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (Sdowt)

35 When I am forced to wear a mask because some bitch is freaking out, I whip out my lace mask and put it on. I mean, you can basically see all of my face through it but these idiots have been so conditioned they don't even realize.

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (VqzW3)

36 9
Wearing masks rots your teeth, gums and causes all sorts of other bacteriological disease that''s worse than any lung rot, real or pimped.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2020 01:42 PM (s2VJv)

When I was a kid, they blamed the Halloween candy.

Posted by: Roy at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (Ti+Tv)

37 Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving.
Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (+4D1M)
+++++++++++++
How precisely do they plan on enforcing that? We don't go through passport control on interstate travel (yet). This is preposterous and they're counting on voluntary compliance. While I think that they will sadly *get* that compliance, I hope they don't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (hYcqw)

38 4

Someone tell my stupid ass governor to shove his mask mandate up his saggy lily white ass

Posted by: IC - Call me Madam President-Elect at November 18, 2020 01:41 PM

Last thing I saw from Wretched Whitmer was that she was basing her mandates on some German study showing masks decreased COVID-19 spread by 40%. No idea how they pulled that number out of their ass. But it sure sounds nice. Gives her cover in case anyone tells her "masks don't work".

"Well, they may not be 100% effective, but they decrease spread by 40%. The Germans said so! So that's at least something!"

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (Do5/p)

39 Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving.

Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (+4D1M)

It is to laugh.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (yQpMk)

40 You can't trust the Danes, shifty people, wooden shoes, live below sea level.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM

Are you trying to butter them up, you ham?

No pastries for you!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (DMUuz)

41 They have been constantly moving the goal posts on this. But this is what they were saying in the beginning of the mask nonsense. It will keep an infected persons droplets somewhat contained but obviously has no impact on the actual virus floating around in the air

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (UPoLF)

42 You can't trust the Danes, shifty people, wooden shoes, live below sea level.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01

you are off one country to the north

but nice try

Posted by: will choose a nic later at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (GIeIM)

43 "They determined that while a cloth mask can definitely reduce transmissions from infected people to others, any protection provided by them to the uninfected is "statistically insignificant."

-

Sorry, but nothing *I* do can keep you or your grandmother safe.

If you're scared to go outside, your job in that situation is to avoid going outside.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (XSoJN)

44 Masks = no.
Harem girl veils = yes!

Posted by: Greyman27 at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (RKLPC)

45 All the world's a stage.

The people are merely players.

Posted by: Bob Barr and the DOJ at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (V6GAy)

46 Just because I can blow out a candle while wearing a mask doesn't mean a mask can't stop a virus that you need an electron microscope to see

The prevailing theory is that it prevents water droplets from you getting on other people on the theory that you spew mist constantly that travels like 80 feet in a cloud, or something.

There is a reason that medical people wear masks, but I think its less about microscopic droplets and more about flying bits of gore, blood etc and a proximity of your mouth.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (KZzsI)

47 97% of particles the size of the virus can get through a cloth mask.
Masks are ridiculous. A talisman.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (r+sAi)

48 willowed

552 526 Holy crap. So up to 40% of (D)s and 65-70% of independents voted for Trump.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:39 PM (XSoJN)

+++

It really was a 1984-esque landslide.

It would be one thing if Biden was performing strongly, and Trump was performing strongly (or even underperforming slightly), to the point where they were neck and neck and the Dems just fudged it a bit to get their man over the top.

That's happened before, let's all be honest. It happened in 2012 probably, and probably for W. in 2004.

But that's not what happened here.

Biden was the worst-performing Democrat since at least Dukakis in 88, and probably Mondale in 84. He was a loser in every sense of the word. And he was going up against a landslide.

That's what was stolen, here. This wasn't just a fudging of the numbers; this was the biggest usurpation of democracy itself in American history.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (ZR7kf)

49 After 10 months of their hysterical bullshit and they're screaming about a new wave of cases.

Doesn't sound like their hysterical bullshit is working, does it?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (oVJmc)

50 Of misspelled sock.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (V6GAy)

51 The Mask Karen in my office is the only one who got the WuFlu. Wears it in the parking lot with no one around. No one else got it (so far).

Posted by: Bill in San Jose at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (x5Tpi)

52 Do not doubt the efficacy of our sacred talisman. Stay safe.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (EgshT)

53 NY has had that rule about negative tests or quarantining for a while now. I have been to ny many times. It is completely on the honor system.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (UPoLF)

54 22 This whole pandemic thing would be a LOT more effective if people actually knew someone who died because of it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (XSoJN)

--------

THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (jUVms)

55 But eye mascara sales are way up!

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (cJEnq)

56 and on the subject of masks:

@ConservativeRants
·41 minutes ago

Just a reminder to #America.

No government power, be it executive, judicial, or legislative, has the authority to force you to wear a piece of clothing, even under the guise of "protection."

Every year cities and states under hurricane threats impose "mandatory evacuations." Every year there are people who say "no." They are mocked and sometimes vilified, but at the end of the day, they are free to say no to that which is not constitutional.

#LOCKDOWNS are not constitutional

A #MASKMANDATE is not constitutional. These are suggestions, having only the power that we ascribe to them. Too many people are willing to walk around with diapers over their faces, and return home before curfew, and thus the officials who made those orders are emboldened to make them again, and step even more beyond the limits of liberty the next time.

At some point we have to be the crazy guy on his roof in Florida, standing against the winds, flipping off the rescue helicopter.

Eventually the helicopter will just fly away.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (ZR7kf)

57 Errrr... idiot sock

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (x5Tpi)

58 51 The Mask Karen in my office is the only one who got the WuFlu. Wears it in the parking lot with no one around. No one else got it (so far).
Posted by: Bill in San Jose at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (x5Tpi)

Everyone else is safe then.

Posted by: Roy at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (Ti+Tv)

59 ElectionElectionElectionElectionElectionElection.

TrumpWonTrumpWonTrumpWonTrumpWonTrumpWon.

Multiple heinous developments in the ongoing communist coup currently overthrowing the United States.

Video released of minor Democratic politician threatening the lives of the children of the Michigan functionary who originally voted to NOT certify the vote count for Detroit. So also received multiple death threats on Twitter, and threats against her kids. Terrified,she flipped her vote, and now Michigan's fraudulent vote is certified, and any hope of undoing the coup is lost.

Etc. etc. etc.

WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A FULL=FLEDGED COMMUNIST REVOLUTION, PEOPLE!

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (U/dtz)

60 Posted by: IC - Call me Madam President-Elect at November 18, 2020 01:41 PM (a0IVu)

Which stupid Governor with the lily white a** is this? There are so many of them. Newsome?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (WkPC9)

61 So there's nothing been discovered so far that makes a significant difference?
So maybe going ahead with life without fear might be alright.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (lgiXo)

62 42 You can't trust the Danes, shifty people, wooden shoes, live below sea level.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01

you are off one country to the north

but nice try

Posted by: will choose a nic later at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (GIeIM)

Oh, that true. The Danes are just really, really boring.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (1ISKN)

63 Good afternoon. Can we at least agree it's afternoon? EST?

Oh forget it.
Posted by: Rosasharn at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM

You can generally get Morons to agree it's five o'clock somewhere.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (DMUuz)

64 my favorite topic - NOT.

I long for a world wear my grandchildren only think of masks worn by combat pilots, surgeons and clowns and not by their psychotic germaphobic communists.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (3P/5p)

65 but the point of the mask is that we're all infected, but don't know it yet due to the incubation time. therefore, we all need to wear masks to protect each other from ourselves.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (sGtp+)

66 Dude, I said this shit back in Feb/March, masks cannot and will not stop the spread of a virus in a general population of two let alone 7 billion people.

This was already the accepted science before the Deep State decided they could weaponize masks.

Nice to know we are living a hell scape version of Groundhog Day.

Only 15 days... err, 35 weeks to bend that curve.

But what do I know, I'm a fucking retard.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (k0lFF)

67 F**k that A-hole Dave the Democrat on Rush.

Posted by: JROD at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (0jZnq)

68 24 Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving.
Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (+4D1M)

Chris Stigall, who has a morning show here in Philly (and in Kansas City), lost it this morning over this. He just told everyone to not obey this BS order, and made sure to call "Rachel" Levine, the tranny Health Nazi in Pennsylvania "he" not "she."

Posted by: josephistan at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (Izzlo)

69 The guy with the mask pulled down below his runny nose talking about cockroaches in the grocery store was special.

Posted by: torabora at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (Sdowt)

70 The latest Expose in the SURPRISING NONE series?

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (q+Ubr)

71 I will continue to use it for visiting convenience stores.

Posted by: Chicago Vota at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (ts6Zs)

72 *where

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (3P/5p)

73 So sometimes you have to say "To Hell With This Whore "Science.""

-
Ace used to love science sexually.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (+y/Ru)

74 If nothing else, the Trump era showed us the traitors in our midst.
Mostly it seems they just were in it for the wars. Allahpundit is in the same camp as Bill Kristol. I used to read Hot Air and had their tab up all day. I can't stand that shit between Allah constantly telling us how much we conservatives suck and the Capt Ed pissing his pants constantly.

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (7Z5/k)

75 I think if you look closely at 2012, they had a lot of fuckery there too.

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (x5Tpi)

76 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

77
Are Danes the same as Fins?

Finnish words are funny as heck.
Check out their silly insistence on double letters.

September = Syyskuu

Ocotber = Lokakuu

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (/rzvn)

78 I'll wear a mask when they force it into my cold, dead hands...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (BmPUd)

79 this is like gun control: even if it only saves one life, isn't it worth it?

ok, you prove it'll save one life and then talk to me.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (4a9Vv)

80 The mask is just the outward sign of submission.

It's not medically very useful.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Trump WON, buy guns at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (ifmtJ)

That's the way it's been since the start. Except it took the idiots a couple of months to figure out what it could really be used for.

I'd be interested to know what the crime statistics are now that everybody is wearing a fucking mask. Used to be, if you saw somebody wearing one (that wasn't a little Asian lady wearing white cotton gloves) some serious shit was about to go down. And remember when we wanted to make it illegal to wear masks for gatherings, so antifa couldn't hide their faces? Good times, good times.

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (8B6Ng)

81
Dutch: SS division

Danes: No SS division

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (mht8P)

82 Boulder Toilet Hobo hardest hit.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (H5knJ)

83 That's what was stolen, here. This wasn't just a fudging of the numbers; this was the biggest usurpation of democracy itself in American history.

That is exactly right. Trump won by a very large margin and the Dems printed off and dumped huge numbers of ballots to fix that. And they're almost certainly going to get away with it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (KZzsI)

84 Yesterday, I had to go to the doctor for a check-up - an insurance thing. they told me to call from the parking lot. The dipshit who answered the phone asked me, Are you wearing your mask? I replied, Not in my own car I'm not! (idiot)

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (yEBFM)

85 Masks and lockdowns.
Lockdowns and Masks.

Cover your face!
Stay in your homes!

Avert your eyes!
Obey!

Really want to know what this stuff is good for?

I think we know.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (z79tQ)

86 24

Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving.

Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM

Chicago updated their travel restrictions to the exact same thing effective this past Friday.

I asked my Chicago police officer brother about it and he said they're just scare tactics and bullshit. Have been in place for months and no one follows them and no one enforces them.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (Do5/p)

87 Masks Protection Against Catching Covid is "Statistically Insignificant"

It says it right on the box. "This is an ear loop mask and NOT a respirator. This will not protect the wearer from catching Covid-19"

What fucking more do people need? The manufacturer TELLS you it doesn't work.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (0mP7b)

88 but the point of the mask is that we're all infected, but don't know it
yet due to the incubation time. therefore, we all need to wear masks to
protect each other from ourselves.

COVER YOUR FILTHY BLOWHOLES, PROLES
Can't you see we're trying to win a Revolution here?

It's for your own good!

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (3P/5p)

89 They determined that while a cloth mask can definitely reduce transmissions from infected people to others, ...
++++++++++++++
This is likely a false conclusion, too. It makes sense on paper and laboratory/clinical studies show some efficacy here (there is plenty of disagreement in the scientific clinical studies, too, though mostly around degree of effect), laboratory and clinical studies have no relevance in the uncontrolled environments of the real world. For masks to work at *all* - even in the one direction that they seem to help in the first place - you need good habits. Good habits do not exist at scale.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (hYcqw)

90 Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving.
Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (+4D1M)
+++++++++++++
How precisely do they plan on enforcing that? We don't go through passport control on interstate travel (yet). This is preposterous and they're counting on voluntary compliance. While I think that they will sadly *get* that compliance, I hope they don't.
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From the article:
As far as enforcement goes, Levine said the expectation is people will comply.

"We're not looking to take people to court, but I do have that authority and so we cannot check every car driving into Pennsylvania and we have no plans to check everyone coming off every airplane," Levine said.

Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (+4D1M)

91 Wearing masks rots your teeth, gums and causes all sorts of other bacteriological disease that''s worse than any lung rot, real or pimped.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2020 01:42 PM (s2VJv)

When I was a kid, they blamed the Halloween candy.
Posted by: Roy at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (Ti+Tv)

That's why I put bleach in the Halloween candy.

For the dental hygiene!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (hku12)

92 This is a follow up on a comment at the end of the last thread:

If you stock up on food for your pets, I recommend Gamma2 Vittles Vaults. They are food grade containers for pet food, with gamma seal lids to make them air tight. They really do keep the food smelling fresher a lot longer. I have a large one for the dogs and a smaller one for cat food.

And you don't have to get crazy about it. Buy a bit extra like you would if a bad storm is coming in. Make sure you have lighting in case the power goes out, that kind of thing.

Posted by: notsothoreau at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (JKNZq)

93 77
Are Danes the same as Fins?

Finnish words are funny as heck.
Check out their silly insistence on double letters.

September = Syyskuu

Ocotber = Lokakuu

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (/rzvn)

Look up kamala in Finnish.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (1ISKN)

94 Umm, can someone tell me why half of Florida is not dead?

Why isn't Florida in horrible health, right now

Because most of us know it's all bs. But trust me. The usual whore media treasonous pieces of crap are at it non stop trying to stampede the Karens into abject panic to force the governor to shut down again. Luckily there are enough of us who refuse the lies, refuse to shut down businesses, and refuse to be miserable and alone for the holidays.

Posted by: FloridachickTrump WON at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (gU9Gm)

95 Nazi Pelosi felt fine going to a hair dresser with no mask.

Why would that be?

Everyone in the elite have known masks are useless since the beginning.

It is just another thing to lord over the proles. Next: PEASANTS! ONLY SKIPPING IN PUBLIC WILL SAVE YOU FROM THE DEATH VIRUS! WALKING WILL KILL GRANDMA!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (qlFIA)

96 "24 Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving."
********
I wish our GOP legislature would get off it's big collective ass and toss this election and impeach Wolf, the AG, and the S.O.S. for their corrupt handling of this election and the chinese virus.

Posted by: Cosda at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (fTOE8)

97 Guy Benson was on the radio the other day and had Jonah goldberg on, I coulnt stop laughing and thinking about all of aces sick burns on the pathetic sweaty cuck. Never listening to that show again.

Posted by: KarlHungus at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (YlyPd)

98 Good afternoon. Can we at least agree it's afternoon? EST?

Oh forget it.
Posted by: Rosasharn

If you like marching in lockstep, become a Democrat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (+y/Ru)

99 I forgot where I stole this from, but

"petri dish strapped to your face" > face diaper > facederpants

Though I've also seen "face panties" and I dunno how I feel about that one.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (l8gTz)

100

Brian Kemp is a humiliation.
Benny Brian Kemp is a humiliation.

Does
@GovKemp
know how much damage he is doing to his state right now? Irreparable.

If he does not right the ship NOW he will single handedly send America over a cliff.

A humiliation. Johnson
@bennyjohnson
@
Does
@GovKemp
know how much damage he is doing to his state right now? Irreparable.

If he does not right the ship NOW he will single handedly send America over a cliff.

A humiliation.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (NpAcC)

101 >>Ace used to love science sexually.

Remember how he and Twitter embarassed themselves when their love was young?

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (q+Ubr)

102 You can't trust the Danes, shifty people, wooden shoes, live below sea level.
But her cookies!

Sorry.

"Butter".

Posted by: andycanuck at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (UDapT)

103 @24

This does not affect construction projects, thankfully.

But again, much like the virus appears to be a night owl, it doesn't stalk construction sites either.

IT' SCIENCE!!!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (k0lFF)

104 So Chi nah cornered the mask market?

They could buy a lot of rice, fish heads , and bat wings with the profit.

Posted by: torabora at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (Sdowt)

105 We were so much better off before everything was based on what "science" and "experts" said.

Posted by: Brother Tim (@BrotherTimMTG on Parler) at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (OUMaO)

106 The Mask Karen in my office is the only one who got the WuFlu. Wears it in the parking lot with no one around. No one else got it (so far).

Posted by: Bill in San Jose at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (x5Tpi)

--

Research was released a month or so ago that showed that 90%+ of positive cases wore a mask religiously, while 3% of positive cases NEVER wore a mask.

There's some science in there about hand washing and face-touching if anyone wanted to look.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (XSoJN)

107 Throwing virgins into volcanoes may reduce the spread of Chinese Attack Virus! We should commence a regular volcano toss right away, for the children.

Posted by: Guy P. Allahpudenta at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (ZKXrk)

108 BREAKING: Dr. Fauci now dismisses masks and vaccines as not quite 100% effective; proposes enhanced and mandated Kool-Aid developed by one Jim Jones as 100% effective in preventing the spread of the virus. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (6YQQw)

109 25
19Just because I can blow out a candle while wearing a mask doesn't mean
a mask can't stop a virus that you need an electron microscope to see.
Wait, it does.

Posted by: josephistan at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (Izzlo)

If you can see the virus, it's already too late!

don't fire until you see the spikes on its hide!

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (v3pYe)

110 100% of those things growing inside a woman (that survive) "become" human beings. Think about that for a second. 100%. From a sample in the billions. They all come out human.

And yet what do the "science worshipers" say about that thing inside a woman again?

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (x5Tpi)

111 Supposedly, some of the guests at Newsom's Napa County party were from the California Medical Association, which advises him on the guidelines.

Posted by: Can't really be surprised at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (BBWrU)

112 If nothing else, the Trump era showed us the traitors in our midst. Mostly it seems they just were in it for the wars.

Seems that way, yeah. Their conservatism seems to be limited to lower taxes and young men dying in foreign lands.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (KZzsI)

113 I was driving with a friend. She saw a single person in a car, with the windows up, wearing a mask.

She said, "That's a Biden voter. Biden voters all wear their masks alone in their cars. They just want other people to see them wearing the masks."

Posted by: ace at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (C+F5p)

114 remember, only pull your mask down when you put food in your mouth, then pull the mask back up when you chew.

also, try to not touch the mask.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (4a9Vv)

115 I asked my Chicago police officer brother about it and he said they're just scare tactics and bullshit. Have been in place for months and no one follows them and no one enforces them.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM

Is Groot aware of this?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (DMUuz)

116 Nothing new to this study. See "mask pee meme".
None of your moral outrage is justified.

Posted by: T at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (qj3Ml)

117 Does
@GovKemp
know how much damage he is doing to his state right now? Irreparable.

If he does not right the ship NOW he will single handedly send America over a cliff.

A humiliation.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (NpAcC)

I bet he's into humiliation IYKWIMAITTYD

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (7Z5/k)

118 MASK UP WORLD!!!!!

It doesn't do dick, other than dick you.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (Zz0t1)

119 Why is Allahpundit still employed... why?

Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (NpAcC)

120 77
Are Danes the same as Fins?
-------------

Danes have a smooth curve at the top of the dorsal
whereas the top of the Fins dorsal is a right angle.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (CZm2G)

121 Those people who push and keep pushing for masks and lock downs owe an apology!

Those people owe an apology Senator!

Posted by: Tom Hagen at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (HF1g5)

122 Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (ZR7kf)
+++++++++++++
On the plus side, even without a mask mandate it will be enforced by friendly companies. There's no rule against a business having a dress code, and that's essentially what it is. It doesn't matter what the status of a mandate is, Kroger and Walmart and virtually all other big businesses and at least a majority of smaller businesses will mandate it anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (hYcqw)

123 I just can't see how reduced air intake is good for you.

Posted by: President Elect Decaf at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (nL4fk)

124 Unfortunately, science has been whored out.

It's a saggy, has been, stretched out, boozy, should be wearing more clothes at her age even for a whore, whore.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (jUVms)

125 Hey, brace yourselves for Covid-21, requiring you to wear a full gas-mask and hazmat suit, even in the bathtub.

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (U/dtz)

126 No one thinks wearing a mask helps you avoid catching COVID. It helps you not spread it.

Since none of use know we have COVID when we first become contagious, and many of us never know we have COVID as long as we are contagious, any of us may be a carrier.

I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.

Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (KcqqB)

127 That's just anecdotal ....

Posted by: Deval Patrick, candidate for President! at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (RzUqr)

128 Masks and lockdowns.
Lockdowns and Masks.

Cover your face!
Stay in your homes!

Avert your eyes!
Obey!

-
Kneel!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (+y/Ru)

129 You can't trust the Danes, shifty people, wooden shoes, live below sea level.

That's the Dutch.

Danes are the ones who used to go on viking raids and make great cheese now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (KZzsI)

130 My 23 year old daughter has the Vid right now.

Killing me cause she is out of state and I can't make it better.

Trying to keep her calm. My calmness will have to wait.

Posted by: nip at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (yoqcZ)

131
That old cunt Carly Failure Fiorina decided today was a good time to tweet this:

"Inadequate men in big jobs are always dangerous. President Trump has cemented his legacy as an inadequate man who lacks the mental faculties and strength of character necessary for the job.

How many others will prove, by saying and doing nothing, that they too are inadequate?"

It's a disjointed thought in which her first sentence has nothing to do with her second sentence.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (/rzvn)

132 110 100% of those things growing inside a woman (that survive) "become" human beings. Think about that for a second. 100%. From a sample in the billions. They all come out human.

And yet what do the "science worshipers" say about that thing inside a woman again?

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (x5Tpi)

I've seen episodes of "The Monster Inside Me" that say otherwise.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (1ISKN)

133 The Mask Karen in my office is the only one who got the WuFlu. Wears it
in the parking lot with no one around. No one else got it (so far).

Posted by: Bill in San Jose at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (x5Tpi)

=================
I bet lots of people carry antibodies, but just never exhibited serious symptoms. Of course, I'm no epidemiologist so what do I know....

Posted by: Dr. Anthony "the weasel" Fauci, mafia hitman at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (ZKXrk)

134 This whole pandemic thing would be a LOT more effective if people actually knew someone who died because of it.

I know someone.

My late father-in-law's old friend got it and died. He was late 70s with COPD. His wife bounced back in a few weeks.

His daughter got it along with her kids, and exposed us. We never got it.

Still, the numbers don't lie-- you're unlikely to get it, and far less likely than that to die.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (oVJmc)

135 My town in NH is trying to sneak in an emergency mandatory mask mandate ordinance tonight. College town nearby has a mandatory mask mandate and is currently the hotspot in our county. Go figure.But I'm in a blue town with "drunk on power" local elected officials.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (D3cJf)

136 If he does not right the ship NOW he will single handedly send America over a cliff.

A humiliation.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (NpAcC)

It's all about the Benjamins.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (CZm2G)

137 @113

Yep. My wife said the same thing. They self out, if the 30 bumper stickers talking about how much they love tolerance and science when it suits them wasn't enough

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (7Z5/k)

138 @126

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (k0lFF)

139 ok, you prove it'll save one life and then talk to me

Exactly.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (EgshT)

140 The study only addressed if you were wearing a clean mask. It did not address the effects of wearing the same mask day after day and touching and removing the mask multiple times throughout the day.

If they had they would have found that wearing a mask increases your chances of becoming ill and also making others ill.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (2DOZq)

141 I don't care if you wear a mask, although I think you're dumb (there are exceptions), I just don't want to HAVE to wear one to go into my grocery store.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (jUVms)

142 I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.

Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (KcqqB)

-

You should try covering your mouth when you sneeze.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (XSoJN)

143 Are Danes the same as Fins?

Mostly yes. Just not quite as drunk.

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (cJEnq)

144
There's no rule against a business having a dress code, and that's essentially what it is.

________

Before they make us wear masks, can they please tell obese women not to wear yoga pants?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (mht8P)

145 81

Dutch: SS division

Danes: No SS division

yeah, yeah, but no one warns you against paying the dutchgeld.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (sGtp+)

146 Math proving machine fraud in Georgia

https://tinyurl.com/y3pf45zz

Lin Wood's 189 page TRO includes 150 pages of evidence attached.

https://tinyurl.com/yyua984q

Ignore the shills, glowies, and liars. Read/skim for yourselves.

Posted by: bat nationalist at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (E9WGk)

147 hey, remember years ago when it was suggested that gay men, as likely carriers of the virus that causes AIDS, not be a loowe3d to donate blood?

what about our civil rights?!? they yelled.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (4a9Vv)

148 You ain't seen nothin', Ace.

New study: Lockdowns & masks are useless and might even increase COVID-19 spread
https://tinyurl.com/y2v36vvg

New England Journal of Medicine
https://tinyurl.com/y4afuv4q

Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can't Stop the Virus, Study Reveals
https://tinyurl.com/yywb4kd7

Nothing worked. They got the virus, more got the virus. They did everything and more to try to stop it from infiltrating. Nothing worked.

And in a recent piece I read, they have no idea, yet, how it spreads. 10% maybe airports, 5% elderly homes, 5% medical community... 80%? uknown

they are guessing

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (sfhL4)

149 Was at my doctors office this week. None of the practitioners/staff wearing masks, nor the doc.

First three patients in waiting room also unmasked.
My county has been having a running battle to mandate masks, so far no mandate.

the state is not mandating, but some cities and counties in the state have mandates.

Doc flat out stated it is a political virus, Fauci is a fool, and masks are ineffective. This doc's office mandate? Keep visits short, wash your hands.

Next month I have been summoned to jury duty. In a mask mandated city, in federal court where a mask mandate is in effect.

I'm gonna melt.

Posted by: Derak at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (k0WjC)

150 ONT 703: More sceptics speaking out, but likely they will be Silenced.

Dr. Roger Hodkinson, ex-Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Examination Committee in General Pathology in Ottawa, former Assistant Professor and now the CEO of a biotech company that manufactures Covid tests, tells Government officials in Alberta (on the Community and Public Services Committee) that the current coronavirus crisis is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public". These remarks were secretly recorded by one of the people present and uploaded to YouTube.

https://tinyurl.com/y68fqpau

Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever. Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue signalling. They're not even worn effectively most of the time. It's utterly ridiculous. Seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people -- I'm not saying that in a pejorative sense -- seeing these people walking around like lemmings obeying without any knowledge base to put the mask on their face.
Posted by: Low Information Citizens at November 18, 2020 02:18 AM

Posted by: Does wearing two make them twice as useless? at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (BBWrU)

151 Remember when NY State needed...

One Million Ventilators!

Yeah.

All of this is a horrible Improvistation Workshop.

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (q+Ubr)

152 The secret to avoid the Wuhan Flu is to sit down at a table. Its magical, as long as you are seated at a table, the flu floats over your head and you are immune.

Just sitting down doesn't work, churches are a stew of death and disease, sitting in a pew. Sitting on a couch by friends is deadly. But at a table eating, its magical and you're perfectly healthy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (KZzsI)

153 No one needs a gun, and everyone needs a mask. For the same reason.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (XSoJN)

154 I plan on going to PA for Christmas and I'm sure AF not getting a COVID test before I go. If I get pulled over, I'll just show them a piece of paper that has LOLGFY on it in big, bold letters.

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (VqzW3)

155 Ace, are you trying to actively spread this disease? Or is wearing a mask that fucking hard.

PS, ban me all you want. Your loser president lost. He's a fucking loser. Like you.

And don't ever bitch about a private platform like Twitter banning people. You banned me.

Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (KcqqB)

156 107 Throwing virgins into volcanoes may reduce the spread of Chinese Attack Virus! We should commence a regular volcano toss right away, for the children.

Posted by: Guy P. Allahpudenta at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (ZKXrk)

__________

I would like to volunteer for the "Vet the Virgins" committee please -- where do I sign up?

Posted by: ShainS at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (6YQQw)

157 Equities markets are starting to react to potential lockdowns and restrictions. It's taking the top off the vaccine announcement. Traders are trying to see what states are impacted and how large/diverse their economies are. Not good. Even though we are at a potential top and people are hedging, this is going to be a factor.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (VpIIl)

158 I travel between PA from VA all the time. The problem used to be having MD in the middle. Now all three states are cut from the same cloth.

Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (+4D1M)

159 That old cunt Carly Failure Fiorina decided today was a good time to tweet this:

I hope she didn't use that face for her avatar.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (yQpMk)

160
That old cunt Carly Failure Fiorina decided today was a good time to tweet this:

"Inadequate men in big jobs are always dangerous. President Trump has cemented his legacy as an inadequate man who lacks the mental faculties and strength of character necessary for the job.

How many others will prove, by saying and doing nothing, that they too are inadequate?"

In what way, exactly, horseface? Kicked ass diplomatically, economically, legally, socially.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (oVJmc)

161 This does not affect construction projects, thankfully.

But again, much like the virus appears to be a night owl, it doesn't stalk construction sites either.

IT' SCIENCE!!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender

That's because construction workers will kick it's ass!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (0mP7b)

162 @22

I've been working construction projects in NY, NJ, CT and PA since the beginning of this bullshit.

Next to literal garbage dumps and women's lavatories, a construction site is perhaps the most unhygienic/unsanitary place on earth.

Also the concept of social distancing is non-operative.

You ever seen tin knockers, pipe fitters, electricians, etc. working in the same room trying to meet a deadline?

I don't know a single con. worker who has had the bat flu.

This is all becoming absolutely absurd.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (k0lFF)

163 If you always have a water bottle you can't spread the cold virus.

It's science.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (XSoJN)

164 +++++++++++++
How precisely do they plan on enforcing that? We don't go through passport control on interstate travel (yet). This is preposterous and they're counting on voluntary compliance. While I think that they will sadly *get* that compliance, I hope they don't.
*********
Nothing will be done in and out of Philly on the I-95 corridor but you rubes coming in from Ohio on l-80 will be directed to the quarintine camps.

Posted by: Cosda at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (fTOE8)

165 24 Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving.

Yeah, that's not enforceable at all. I went to New Mexico a couple months ago and they had the same thing. I wandered around freely and it was a nothingburger.

Posted by: I Have Questions at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (RGRIY)

166 So sometimes you have to say "To Hell With This Whore "Science.""

-
Ace used to love science sexually.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (+y/Ru)

When you're young you fool around with science. It shows up at your door, usually uninvited, sometimes late at night. You let it in. You rub it all over yourself, and even though you feel tired and sore in the morning, you tell yourself it's true love.

Then science starts seeing other people, and the visits come more and more sporadically. You wonder what you did wrong. You get out your chemistry set, and try to figure it out.

What does it mean?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN??

And then one day, you realize what a whore science is, and you don't even think about opening that door when it comes knocking late at night. Your wife and kids wouldn't understand, so you say "No honey, that's just the wind. Go back to sleep."

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (hku12)

167 The democraps pulled the slickest reverse Jim Crow election since reconstruction, why should we not expect them to elevate the mask mandate to the same levels of WW II nazi protocol? They hate us. The want us dead.

Posted by: Eromero at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (XhWtx)

168 This whole pandemic thing would be a LOT more effective if people actually knew someone who died because of it.

***

Some people in my aunt's nursing home got it and died. A few of my co-workers got it, no serious illness among any of them or their families even though several of them spread it to the whole family.

This makes sense - the average age of death from it is 80.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (qlFIA)

169 I know someone.

My late father-in-law's old friend got it and died. He was late 70s with COPD. His wife bounced back in a few weeks.

------

Yeah, that's a friend of friend kind of deal. And he already had COPD.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (jUVms)

170 It's been floated here that the new round of lock downs are to give Potato Joe a big win should he steal the presidency. I think this is right. Then he'll follow up by opening the spigot and bailing out all the damaged blue states.

Posted by: Chunk Hunger at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (uhPTO)

171 Readers the HQ's comments section will have known about this study since September, when it was due out - and was not published, according to one of the authors, because of "fear".

Yes, *that* is the "scientific" environment in 2020. A solid study (though all studies like this that rely on behavioral factors in real-life situations tend to be "under-powered", scientifically), which merely confirms 7 decades of other studies and a century of observations, was suppressed, for months.

The New Dark Age.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (OTzUX)

172 They determined that while a cloth mask can definitely reduce transmissions from infected people to others, any protection provided by them to the uninfected is "statistically insignificant."

So masks protect others, but not oneself. Or, in other words, yeah they DO work, IF everyone wears them. Hence the frustration with folks that refuse to wear them.

People have been saying this since last spring. Why is this news to anyone?

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (B1eUX)

173
Another twat named Bill Pascell of New Jersey:

"Tonight I'm calling for the eventual prosecution of donald trump and his enablers for their many crimes against the United States."

Eventual prosecution. Only fascists talk like this.
Just like the "eventual biden election win" they spoke about all year.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (/rzvn)

174
"petri dish strapped to your face" > face diaper > facederpants

Though I've also seen "face panties" and I dunno how I feel about that one.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (l8gTz)

I prefer my formulation: safety gag

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (x5Tpi)

175 101 >>Ace used to love science sexually.

Remember how he and Twitter embarassed themselves when their love was young?
Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (q+Ubr)

That Twitter's a Whore!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Trump WON, buy guns at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (ifmtJ)

176 >>My 23 year old daughter has the Vid right now.

>>Killing me cause she is out of state and I can't make it better.

Is she hot?

(Does she have a fever?)

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (q+Ubr)

177 Oh my.. trolls are getting nasty

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (Zmnko)

178 I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.

Thank you for your service.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (EgshT)

179 Terlit Hobos hardest hit

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (L106N)

180 >>> Banned in the Cascadia

sorry about your cranky pussy, Pussy.

Posted by: ace at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (C+F5p)

181 So, infected need to wear masks.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (CjFDo)

182 That old cunt Carly Failure Fiorina decided today was a good time to tweet this:

"Inadequate men in big jobs are always dangerous. President Trump has cemented his legacy as an inadequate man who lacks the mental faculties and strength of character necessary for the job.

How many others will prove, by saying and doing nothing, that they too are inadequate?" ...
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (/rzvn)
++++++++
Bold words coming from a woman who managed wreck one major American industrial concern and permanently cripple another.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (hYcqw)

183
I hope she didn't use that face for her avatar.
Posted by: G'rump928(C)

She does, as a matter of fact.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (/rzvn)

184 "Their conclusions are going to cause a lot of people in the pro-mandate camp plenty of consternation."

Yeah, I'm sure they'll get really worked up about it. Like it's not just about controlling the masses. Stupid Denmark. Stick to socialism and leave the science to the super-sciency government officials in the City, County, and State of New York.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (Ectld)

185 66 . . . Only 15 days... err, 35 weeks to bend that curve.

But what do I know, I'm a fucking retard.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
_________

#TwoMoreWeeks

Posted by: Furious George at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (9vQJW)

186 "They determined that while a cloth mask can definitely reduce transmissions from infected people to others, any protection provided by them to the uninfected is "statistically insignificant."
"

The problem here is that these fucking retards use this as the way to force everyone behind a mask. "You don't know if you're infected so you must wear a mask!!!!!! REEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

Posted by: Buzzion at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (+f/dc)

I noticed that too. Some will still say "wear the mask or you'll kill grandma!!1!"

Posted by: Hands at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (786Ro)

187 Preacher got it, 60yo, no co-morbidities, had to go to the hospital. OK now but still weak.
Friends priest got it. He went to the hospital also.

If you are over 60 and you get it, it won't be the flu.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (CZm2G)

188 119 Why is Allahpundit still employed... why?
Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (NpAcC)

There's a market for self flaggelation?

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (7Z5/k)

189 Banned in the Cascadia cries like a little bitch.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (1ISKN)

190 In what way, exactly, horseface? Kicked ass diplomatically, economically, legally, socially.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 18, 2020 01:54 PM (oVJmc)

---------

Best President in my lifetime. I'm 60.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (jUVms)

191 >>> Banned in the Cascadia

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE SCIENCE (TM)??!!

Posted by: ace at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (C+F5p)

192

and more

Dentist: 'Mask Mouth' Is Causing Tooth Decay, Bad Breath, Clenching and Grinding of Teeth

The coronavirus pandemic has produced a new adverse health impact that dentists have dubbed "Mask Mouth."

"Mask Mouth," the result of wearing a coronavirus mask, produces an unpleasant odor and promotes tooth decay, Raleigh, N.C. Dentist Justin Russo explained in an interview with local station ABC11...

...the following precautions to take to avoid Mask Mouth:

Brush your teeth at least twice a day.
Floss between your teeth every day.
Don't forget to brush your tongue too.
Swish your mouth with mouthwash before putting on a mask.
Drink lots of waters throughout the day. Stay hydrated.
Avoid alcohol, smoking, marijuana, and vaping because they can cause dry mouth, inflammation, enamel damage, teeth staining, and even oral cancer.
Avoid sugary foods and acidic drinks.
Chew sugar-free gum to increase saliva flow.
Regularly wash your reusable face mask or replace disposable masks.
Eat a balanced and nutritious diet.

https://tinyurl.com/yxnolqce

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (sfhL4)

193 >When I am forced to wear a mask because some bitch is freaking out, I whip out my lace mask and put it on. I mean, you can basically see all of my face through it but these idiots have been so conditioned they don't even realize.
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (VqzW3)

Yeah, but what about your lace wig?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (L106N)

194 I see your wearing mask in a car and will raise you wearing a mask on a bicycle, outside, all by yourself

Posted by: will choose a nic later at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (GIeIM)

195 How many others will prove, by saying and doing nothing, that they too are inadequate?"
***

Ok Carly, are you going to go visit the local Dem election officials and make them talk on video to get proof on what they did? Or do you mean Trump should have gotten more votes then they could fake?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (qlFIA)

196 The whole response to the China Virus has been a gigantic hoax. Lockdowns and wearing an ID10T mask are nothing but a psychological operation to test people's willingness to submit to outright bullshit lies.

The ChiComs are laughing their asses off at how weak we are.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #FightBack at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (HaL55)

197
My town in NH is trying to sneak in an emergency mandatory mask mandate
ordinance tonight. College town nearby has a mandatory mask mandate and
is currently the hotspot in our county. Go figure.But I'm in a blue town
with "drunk on power" local elected officials.

Next you'll get Covid "ambassadors" like in my town. Mask Enforcement Officers sounded too scary I guess. The "ambassadors" get $30/hour to roam the areas in town that mandate masks (which after Charlie Parker's ruling I guess is EVERYWHERE). They're supposed to be sure everyone is masked up.

I wonder if they get diplomatic immunity? Seeing as they're ambassadors so diplomats ???

Posted by: Deval Patrick, candidate for President! at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (RzUqr)

198 Fiorina is a goddamn hack. Someone needs to back hand her.

Posted by: Eli Cash at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (SScvq)

199 lol I literally only checked in to see if Boulder Hobo had anything to say!

Anyway - PA sucks

we have to move, hoping to wait a few years if possible but maybe we can't wait

but tbh honest no one is planning on paying any attention to the crap they spewed yesterday

the people who already drive with masks on alone in their cars excepted, of course

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (j9HX3)

200 "Before they make us wear masks, can they please tell obese women not to wear yoga pants?"
Spandex is a privilege, not a right.

Posted by: Greyman27 at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (RKLPC)

201 I saw that Miss Lindsey had said he'd spoken to a bunch of SOS's, including AZ. Hobbs fired back she hadn't spoken to him. He back peddled and said AZ wasn't one after all. Of course, both sides are sticking up for their guy. The idiots can't see the kayfabe. Hobbs is trying her best to steal the election for AZ, and Miss Lindsey is lying his scrawny over-used ass off to keep the nasty red-hats at bay.

Between this and the new lock-downs, I am so ready for fucking SMOD I can taste it.

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (8B6Ng)

202 I know this question is for the last thread but I missed it.
Are the numbers fox is losing going to CNN or MSNBC or just going away? (or in smaller numbers to OANN and Newsmax?)

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at November 18, 2020 01:57 PM (+2xjH)

203 Dragging this up from the previous thread...

https://tinyurl.com/yyua984q

Will similar lawsuits follow in other Dominion states? It's not hard having standing in other states if you voted.
Posted by: bat nationalist at November 18, 2020 12:45 PM (E9WGk)

Lin Wood's lawsuit.

Skip to pg 37 and read the affidavits from recount observers.

The recount in GA is a joke. Unreal.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at November 18, 2020 01:57 PM (DnZbI)

204 153 No one needs a gun, and everyone needs a mask. For the same reason.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (XSoJN)

__________

Submission and Control.

It's PsyOps all the way down ...

Posted by: ShainS at November 18, 2020 01:57 PM (extHF)

205 Well just wrote another 700+ words and broke the 20,000 word count barrier.

Progress nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 18, 2020 01:57 PM (jcugH)

206 So masks protect others, but not oneself. Or, in other words, yeah they DO work, IF everyone wears them. Hence the frustration with folks that refuse to wear them. ----

But they really don't based on how they are worn. They spread the virus more so because of the way people wear and handle the mask.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 18, 2020 01:57 PM (2DOZq)

207 Actually, don't even get me started on Taylor Mallard or whatever the fuck his name is. Has he ever written one thing that wasn't mindnumbingly dumb? Dude. You're a liberal. You aren't even libertarian. Quit with the hot takes on how Mao was actually conservative.

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 18, 2020 01:57 PM (7Z5/k)

208 Work day warm up, creative writing, stream of consciousness, 5 minutes, gp:

Remember that NCIS episode where the three big boobie Navy chicks bang that geeky physician, and he puts the video on the interwebs and wins all the AVN awards and makes a gazillion dollars and retires early? And it turns out all 6 of the boobies are ChiCom deep penetration agents, and every time you watch the video the boobies quantum hack your smart appliances and toilets and measure how much phlogiston is in your hamburger and how much classified engrams are in your poo and use that data to steal the blueprints for the fusion engine in the SR-72 Aurora dairy product delivery vehicle that totally doesn't cause lactose intolerance in hypersexed Antifa basement silverfish that infest Idi Amin's pants? Oh, don't these young men look handsome in their white uniforms; say Haldol tastes like Speyside single malt and unicorn dandruff...

Posted by: Cicatrix Jones at November 18, 2020 01:57 PM (Re9MM)

209 My uncle died of the Wuhan Flu. He was in his 80s with advanced Alzheimer's and his Nursing Home basically did nothing to help the man.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (KZzsI)

210 >>If you are over 60 and you get it, it won't be the flu.

Or, it will.

You just don't fucking know.

It's called life.

People die from simple infection.

Got a splinter. Now he's Dead.

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (q+Ubr)

211
Had a link yesterday that Listerine and other mouthwashes with certain ingredient I can't recall kills virtually 99% of all Chinese virus on contact.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (s2VJv)

212 I said honest twice (sort of)

masks are a talisman

everyone who knows anything about viruses knew they didn't work

I don't trust doctors now anymore. I never trusted nurses they are all a little tyrannical (sorry nurse)

public health is always BS, at least in my lifetime

this is Revenge of the Bureaucrats, this year

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (j9HX3)

213 On the bright side, no one needs flu shots anymore so long as pro-science people wear their masks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (XSoJN)

214 I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.

___

That's awesome, now take your mask off and kiss my pinky ring.

Posted by: Your masters at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (qlFIA)

215 "This is a traffic jam on the border of Slovenia and Croatia. Lockdown refugees. Visiting locked down, masked up Slovenia then free Croatia is surreal. COVID travel agency should become a thing. It became easy to become a digital nomad. They'll stop abuse when they lose tax base."

Posted by: Winter in Dubrovnik? at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (BBWrU)

216 Dentist: 'Mask Mouth' Is Causing Tooth Decay, Bad Breath, Clenching and Grinding of Teeth ...
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (sfhL4)
++++++++++++
Yeah. Frustration and anger correlate strongly with the clenching and grinding one's teeth. No wonder masks correlate, too...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (hYcqw)

217 >>>207 Actually, don't even get me started on Taylor Mallard or whatever the fuck his name is. Has he ever written one thing that wasn't mindnumbingly dumb? Dude. You're a liberal. You aren't even libertarian. Quit with the hot takes on how Mao was actually conservative.

he's terrible. It's just a trash site. John Sexton is good, and Karen Townsend is on the right side. Everything else is just pure progressive trash

Posted by: ace at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (C+F5p)

218 So masks protect others, but not oneself. Or, in other words, yeah they DO work, IF everyone wears them.

According to the study, not so much. Which is not surprising, these aren't exactly the most protective, effective masks made.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (KZzsI)

219 I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.
Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (KcqqB)

The only way out of this is with herd immunity. Those who have it, they have a RESPONSIBILITY to spread it to others in their community. The sooner the better.

Why do you hate your community? Why do you HATE SCIENCE??

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (hku12)

220 If you are over 60 and you get it, it won't be the flu.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (CZm2G)

-------

I've traveled across the country three times since March.
6 airports, of course several planes, spent 3 weeks with a 91 year old, people who traveled from WA state, and people who had spent time in Mexico. How hard is it to get COVID? I did my best.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (jUVms)

221 Preacher got it, 60yo, no co-morbidities, had to go to the hospital. OK now but still weak.
Friends priest got it. He went to the hospital also.

If you are over 60 and you get it, it won't be the flu.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (CZm2G)

You're still annoying and wrong.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (2DOZq)

222 107 Throwing virgins into volcanoes may reduce the spread of Chinese Attack Virus! We should commence a regular volcano toss right away, for the children.
Posted by: Guy P. Allahpudenta at November 18, 2020 01:50 PM (ZKXrk)

Every comic con this year has been canceled, where are you gonna find that many virgins?

/I kid, I kid

Posted by: josephistan at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (Izzlo)

223 Hey FUCKFACE - yes you - all the retards you worship at the Mask Altar are walking around without their mask when no one's looking. They're playing you, boy. And you looooove getting played. Maybe they'll have the courtesy to give you a towel when they're done spooging all over your melting brain. Keep that mask tight, boy. You're doing the Lord's work.

PS Not difficult to see why you were banned.

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (x5Tpi)

224 188 119 Why is Allahpundit still employed... why?
Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (NpAcC)

now that's easy, same reason Chris Wallace and Neil Cavuto are still employed. They're doing exactly what their bosses have hired them to do.

Your mistake is in thinking that their employers are on your side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (Kpl3J)

225 otoh 100% of the people who wear it as a chinstrap seem to avoid having their chins fall off.

Posted by: x at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (0tE/i)

226 If you are over 60 and you get it, it won't be the flu.

I got it and didn't even notice and I'm almost 29.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (yQpMk)

227 214 I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.

--------

Stay the fuck home and let us mask haters live our lives.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 02:00 PM (jUVms)

228 Next month I have been summoned to jury duty. In a mask mandated city, in federal court where a mask mandate is in effect.

I'm gonna melt.
Posted by: Derak

Wear the mask. After about an hour there, start having difficulty breathing. Fall out. Force them to call paramedics. Turn it into a fucking circus. Rip the mask off screaming, "I CAN'T BREATHE!"

Turn the courthouse into a superfund site from your very breath.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 02:00 PM (0mP7b)

229 Why is Allahpundit still employed... why?
Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (NpAcC)

To paraphrase Thoreau, if you can build a blog that appeals to peoples' unearned sense of superiority and that allows them to band together in smugness, they will beat a path to your door.

See also: NRO, Althouse, Kos, Ollie Willis.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2020 02:00 PM (2JVJo)

230 I have a buddy who hikes in the mountains a lot with his wife, he told me he has seen 20 somethings wearing masks while hiking in the forest.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 18, 2020 02:00 PM (r+sAi)

231 MASK PEE MEME
GOLDEN SHOWER
JIM ME

Posted by: the horta at November 18, 2020 02:00 PM (UDapT)

232 my guess is the youngens are giving to the oldies

partying on Sat night in a crowded apartment

seeing granny on Sun, hug and a kiss

Posted by: REDACTED at November 18, 2020 02:00 PM (R3uW8)

233 hey,

youth Rage Against the Machine are all in their 50s, so waaaaaaay younger than the shampoo sniffer

Posted by: will choose a nic later at November 18, 2020 02:00 PM (GIeIM)

234 I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.
Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (KcqqB)

I would bet that almost the entire population of this country has been exposed to the virus and/or are carrying it and don't even know it.

Many had it and are cured (over 99% survivable) many had it and never got sick.

The whole thing is a giant psyop mind fuck power grab.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2020 02:00 PM (s2VJv)

235
Why Aren't These People Calling For The NFL To Halt Its Season?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (/rzvn)

236 'Banned in the Cascadia' needs to worry more about Sandy Vagina than the 'rona.

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (cJEnq)

237
Isn't Carly Fiorina best known for taking charge of huge corporations and turning them into much smaller corporations?

And much smaller profit margins?

Yeah, that's it.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (sy5kK)

238 Biden was the worst-performing Democrat since at least Dukakis in 88, and probably Mondale in 84. He was a loser in every sense of the word. And he was going up against a landslide.

That's what was stolen, here. This wasn't just a fudging of the numbers; this was the biggest usurpation of democracy itself in American history.
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (ZR7kf)

---------------

Yes and that's why there is no coming back from this. There will never be another fair election or even a slightly fair election or even a whiff of a fair election.

Posted by: President Elect Decaf at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (nL4fk)

239 Forgot to ad hung out with someone who had been in the hospital for a couple of weeks.

This shit is hard to get.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (jUVms)

240 225 otoh 100% of the people who wear it as a chinstrap seem to avoid having their chins fall off.

it me

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (j9HX3)

241 On the plus side, even without a mask mandate it will be enforced by friendly companies. There's no rule against a business having a dress code, and that's essentially what it is. It doesn't matter what the status of a mandate is, Kroger and Walmart and virtually all other big businesses and at least a majority of smaller businesses will mandate it anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (hYcqw)

+++
Maybe where you live but where I'm at Wal-Mart and Kroger, et al, started out on the "must have mask" policy only to see business drop to the point where it quickly became "wear mask please."

Right now I think it's still a "mask please" policy but whenever I am forced to enter a Wal-Mart I do so without a mask, as do 90% of the men ad 30% of the women.

The 70% of the women wear fashionable masks because they are vain and unserious and should never have been given the franchise to vote.

But I digress

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (ZR7kf)

242 I will hearken back to months ago when I pointed this out :

If the masks are catching teh COVIDS in their magic fibers ?

WHERE ARE THE DAMN BIOHAZARD DISPOSAL CONTAINERS???

Most. Bullshit. Pandemic. Evar.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (3P/5p)

243 By the way, "masks protect others but not you" is the greasiest most embarrassing bit of faux science I've ever heard. Some fuckers will honestly believe anything.

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (x5Tpi)

244
it is impossible to stop the spread of a corona virus - every one that has arisen out of China goes all over the world in short order and runs until local populations hit herd immunity.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (qlFIA)

245 When I am forced to wear a mask because some bitch is freaking out, I whip out my lace mask and put it on. I mean, you can basically see all of my face through it but these idiots have been so conditioned they don't even realize.
Posted by: PAgirlinNC at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM (VqzW3)

I need a crochet mask. Maybe I can make one out of an old doily.

I had to wear a mask last night when the hospital let me in to see my mother before she went into OR. I foolishly grabbed a fabric one I'd gotten a while back out of the console (in a hurry) instead of grabbing a disposable blue out of the trunk. The fabric is like a double ply rayon or something.

I seriously thought I was going to keep over after an hour. I was in a completely empty wing in an empty waiting area, and stuck my finger between my mask and face so I could get some damn air. I don't see how people wear these things for a shift. I am certainly sticking with the crappy disposables, because at least they've got far too many gaps to keep the air out. And viruses. And sawdust and anything else.

What a fucking crock. Can we just eliminate NIOSH now? Might as well get rid of one bureaucracy if we're going to ignore them.

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (8B6Ng)

246 >That old cunt Carly Failure Fiorina decided today was a good time to tweet this:

"Inadequate men in big jobs are always dangerous. President Trump has cemented his legacy as an inadequate man who lacks the mental faculties and strength of character necessary for the job.

How many others will prove, by saying and doing nothing, that they too are inadequate?"

It's a disjointed thought in which her first sentence has nothing to do with her second sentence.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:52 PM (/rzvn)

Big talk from a wammen who has left a trail of flaming corporate destruction in her wake. The living embodiment of the Peter Principle.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (L106N)

247 Pennsylvania just introduced new rules requiring a negative COVID test within the last 72 hours if you enter the state or you must quarantine for 14 days. A week before Thanksgiving.
Posted by: zuke at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM (+4D1M)
+++++++++++++
How precisely do they plan on enforcing that? We don't go through passport control on interstate travel (yet). This is preposterous and they're counting on voluntary compliance. While I think that they will sadly *get* that compliance, I hope they don't.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:45 PM

They let you do that? Drive state to state with no papers?

Posted by: Cpt Borodin at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (ejd/p)

248 If you are over 60 and you get it, it won't be the flu.

It varies. Some are not bothered much, some get quite ill. The older you are, the more vulnerable you are to the flu of any sort. Any virus, any bacteria. Anyone over 80 is in danger from EVERY YEARLY CRUD. Not just this stuff.

I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.

What, exactly, are you doing to spew saliva everywhere???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (KZzsI)

249 he's terrible. It's just a trash site. John Sexton is good, and Karen Townsend is on the right side. Everything else is just pure progressive trash
Posted by: ace at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (C+F5p)

Damn right. It used to be a good site. Now its almost total trash. Oddly Redstate got better without Erickson as this one decreased in quality

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (7Z5/k)

250
NBA will begin its new season December 22nd.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (/rzvn)

251

Cleanup on aisle 155

he is begging to be banned

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (sfhL4)

252 There are 65 cases of commie lung cooties... in WHO headquarters in
Geneva. I would not have guessed there were so many science-denying
mask-rule flouting Trumpsters there.

Posted by: irright at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (SchQD)

253 Maybe where you live but where I'm at Wal-Mart and Kroger, et al, started out on the "must have mask" policy only to see business drop to the point where it quickly became "wear mask please."

Right now I think it's still a "mask please" policy but whenever I am forced to enter a Wal-Mart I do so without a mask, as do 90% of the men ad 30% of the women.

The 70% of the women wear fashionable masks because they are vain and unserious and should never have been given the franchise to vote.

But I digress
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (ZR7kf)

Yeah, I notice a lot of stores around here have quietly taken out their arrows telling us which way to walk and have stopped enforcing any kind of mask policy.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (UPoLF)

254 Are Danes the same as Fins?

Mostly yes. Just not quite as drunk.
Posted by: Roland THTG at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (cJEnq)

or depressed ? or is it Swedes ?

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (zr5Kq)

255 According to the study, not so much. Which is not surprising, these aren't exactly the most protective, effective masks made.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (KZzsI)
++++++++++++
Not to mention that mask quality is damn near immaterial if you don't have good handling and habits. How many people do you think actually follow the requirements for masks to even potentially be effective?
- Wash your hands and face before donning your mask
- Put on your mask in a clean environment
- Don't touch your mask once it is on
- Replace your mask when it becomes damp
- Remove your mask with clean hands
- Dispose of your mask properly
- Wash your hands and face immediately after removing your mask
- Don't have facial hair

I sure as shit don't, when I have to wear one of the damn things. I'll bet people here who do wear masks routinely don't do this either. I'll bet virtually no one does.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (hYcqw)

256 Jay Inslee promised me 2,000 dead bodies a week by Christmas if we don't shut down again.

Except no shutdown for Amazon or the Big Box stores.

Or high tech software companies.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (sy5kK)

257 Why Aren't These People Calling For The NFL To Halt Its Season?

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We like to see men in tight pants? Those, um, Tight Ends are....amazing.

Posted by: Your betters at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (qlFIA)

258 You should try covering your mouth when you sneeze.
Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (XSoJN)

And get all that shit over me? No way!

Wanna see something funny? Watch mechanics sneeze.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (z79tQ)

259 The Leftists know if they can fear monger people into wearing masks and social distance then they can likely get them to accept much more tyranny in the name of public health. They are likely surprised at how easy it was.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (r+sAi)

260 I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.
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Try mittens and you'll protect this place from your shit too.

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 02:03 PM (x5Tpi)

261 I got kicked out of Trader Joes today

its been that kind of day

now I feel like I can never go back there

not for not wearing a mask, for not being over 60 when they suddenly (today, due to our new restrictions) made it so only the elderly could shop between 8 and 9am

idiots - I have to go to work! so eff em

I would have made a big stink but they were tossing other "kids" too and we ended up bonding over it. the one in Delaware isn't doing it, and doesn't have a massive line outside constantly either

PA SUCKS

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at November 18, 2020 02:03 PM (j9HX3)

262 126 No one thinks wearing a mask helps you avoid catching COVID. It helps you not spread it.

Since none of use know we have COVID when we first become contagious, and many of us never know we have COVID as long as we are contagious, any of us may be a carrier.

I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.
Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (KcqqB)

Oh so you wear it every flu season as well? Any time you might have a cold which could be at any point? Because you see the flu or the common cold could pose just as much as a risk to the high risk people that can die from COVID.

Fuck off Seattle Slough.

Posted by: Seattle Slough at May 22, 2020 06:37 PM (KcqqB)

Posted by: Buzzion at November 18, 2020 02:03 PM (+f/dc)

263
Was HP and Compaq total chinese junk before Carly Purina, or after?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 02:03 PM (/rzvn)

264 @234

Viruses of all kinds are constantly circulating in human populations.

People apparently think viruses just go to Boca and just come back for a quick visit now and then.

This monstrosity that is being perpetrated is as antithetical to science is can be imagined.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2020 02:03 PM (k0lFF)

265 You know, if enough people didn't buy Christmas presents this year, they'd change their tune in a heartbeat.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (1ISKN)

266 To this day they do not know (or know and won't tell) how COVID19 is transmitted.

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (zr5Kq)

267 Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (KcqqB)

I'm guessing this is good ol' Seattle Slut, who used to post long weepy pieces about how we never took the WuFlu seriously enough.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (Kpl3J)

268 "Banned in Cascadia" you're an idiot, and completely misinformed about all of this - but that seems pretty much SOP for someone like you.

Folks, behold this, it is a pretty typical example of the dumbed-down, unthinking, misinformed creature that is ruining the country and much of the world.

Even the marginally effective respirators have benefit only for the wearer, and have zero source control impact, you fucking airhead. And every other stupid version of a "mask" has zero efficacy either direction, and in fact in the rare symptomatic cases are likely to worsen things through nebulization of any exhaled droplets and virions.

And America has allowed this idiotic non-science to wreak massive damage and vaporize the constitution.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (OTzUX)

269 Your study is from Denmark. It is from May and it is a study of adults outside?

This study was done in Michigan by the Beaumont Health Foundation,IOW Americans and it is more current published Nov 5th. It is of hospital workers in Michigan working indoors. Viral load is a very important factor in COVID. Have not read this thing all the way through but I suspect that masks have a significant impact on reducing the viral load that you are exposed to.

https://tinyurl.com/y2q94ep8

Direct contact with COVID-19 patients increased the likelihood of seropositivity among employees but study participants who wore a mask during COVID-19 exposures were less likely to be seropositive. Additionally, a large proportion of seropositive employees self-reported as asymptomatic. (Funded by Beaumont Health and by major donors through the Beaumont Health Foundation)

Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (6e3q5)

270 I always ask the Karen's whether they would rather contract the H1N1 flu or Covid 19 .

If they say they don't know anything about H1N1 , I say ' Exactly'.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (2DOZq)

271 Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (L106N)
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Ha! See my @182

#greatMinds

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (hYcqw)

272 Banned, did you see the article from the WSJ a couple of days ago where scientists all over the world are openly admitting that they have no idea how 75% of positive cases caught the cold virus?

Hint: It's oral-fecal

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (XSoJN)

273 The fabric is like a double ply rayon or something.

I seriously thought I was going to keep over after an hour. I was in a completely empty wing in an empty waiting area, and stuck my finger between my mask and face so I could get some damn air. I don't see how people wear these things for a shift. I am certainly sticking with the crappy disposables, because at least they've got far too many gaps to keep the air out. And viruses. And sawdust and anything else.

What a fucking crock. Can we just eliminate NIOSH now? Might as well get rid of one bureaucracy if we're going to ignore them.
Posted by: clutch cargo

I have one with the vent. I cut out the inner pocket. I cut out the rubber "bladder" in the vent.

Perfectly legal as it's still a face covering. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (0mP7b)

274 152
The secret to avoid the Wuhan Flu is to sit down at a table. Its
magical, as long as you are seated at a table, the flu floats over your
head and you are immune.

Just sitting down doesn't work, churches are a stew of death and
disease, sitting in a pew. Sitting on a couch by friends is deadly.
But at a table eating, its magical and you're perfectly healthy.

you're doubly protected if it's a table in a strip club.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (v3pYe)

275 The whole response to the China Virus has been a gigantic hoax. Lockdowns and wearing an ID10T mask are nothing but a psychological operation to test people's willingness to submit to outright bullshit lies.

The ChiComs are laughing their asses off at how weak we are.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #FightBack at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (HaL55)

And notice China is never mentioned.

My mother went into a doctor's office and called it China Virus and she was scolded "we call it COVID-19." She won't back down.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (sfhL4)

276 Umm, can someone tell me why half of Florida is not dead?
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well, it being God's waiting room, half are walking/driving dead.

Posted by: BluesFish at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (WQZ1O)

277 btw, just occurred to me that Boulder t'hobo or whatever has been gone for a while now too. He was another covid fear fanatic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (Kpl3J)

278
anyone remember DIGITAL?

Their stock symbol was DEC. Or Dek. I dunno.

But it was American. And then Hewlett Packard bought Digital. Or did Compaq buy Digital? I dunno.

But it all turned into chinese junk.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (/rzvn)

279 saw a lady alone in her car yesterday with a mask on and a plastic face shield. I guess that's easier than dropping a few pounds.

Posted by: x at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (0tE/i)

280 How many people do you think actually follow the requirements for masks to even potentially be effective?

Nobody.

Literally nobody.

No one thinks wearing a mask helps you avoid catching COVID.

This is a flat out stupid, obvious, deliberate lie. Most people who wear these things think it keeps them safe. The only reason to even say this is in response to the study in order to move the goalposts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (KZzsI)

281 If you are over 60 and you get it, it won't be the flu.
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I got it and didn't even notice and I'm almost 29.
Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (yQpMk)

Last week I had a pinched nerve in my neck.

Anyone who's had a pinched nerve knows you'd gladly trade almost anything for it.

I couldn't sleep, couldn't think, couldn't do anything other than tell myself "Self, how I wish this was the Covids. The Covids are nothing compared to this."

And then I got better.

Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, someone give me the Covids.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (hku12)

282 Seattle Slough.

Our provincial rube is heard from.

I assumed he died.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (yQpMk)

283 Whoa! Heather Childers is on Newsmax now too. I like her and she's actually a good interviewer

Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (sGotD)

284 China pockets a $Billion for masks. Into pocket of Mao Jacket.

Posted by: klaftern at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (RuIsu)

285 So a Judge in San Diego County ruled that strip clubs re-open but churches remained closed and/or restricted.

Priorities. Probably the Judge's weekend activities at the club.

Posted by: Cheri at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (oiNtH)

286 WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A FULL=FLEDGED COMMUNIST REVOLUTION, PEOPLE!
Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (U/dtz)

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Because there is no shooting in the street people cannot comprehend it, they will just wake up one day and find that they will do as they are told if they want to keep their jobs, their families somewhat safe and some if their possessions.

Posted by: President Elect Decaf at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (nL4fk)

287 Whoops. Fecal oral.

Nobody's judging you if that's your thing, though. Love is love.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (XSoJN)

288 Cascadia has always been at war with Peruvia.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (dfRN6)

289 I sure as shit don't, when I have to wear one of the damn things. I'll bet people here who do wear masks routinely don't do this either. I'll bet virtually no one does.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (hYcqw)

I keep the same folded up disposable mask in my back pocket and take it out and put it on when I have to, then put it back in my pocket.

Every like week or two I throw it out and grab a new one, because they start to get nasty.

Which is about the same as every single person I know. Even the virtue signalers wearing their cute fashionable masks are doing the same.

How can you not? You have to put on a mask to walk in the front door of a restaurant, then take it off when seated, then put it on to go to the bathroom, then take it back off, then put it back on to leave.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (UPoLF)

290 Study: Masks' Protection Against Catching Covid is "Statistically Insignificant"

This just means we need to go around in plastic bubbles. It's SCIENCE(TM), SCIENCE(TM) deniers!!!

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Queen of Greenland (get your Trunalimunumaprzure here!) at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (ipE7H)

291 PS, ban me all you want. Your loser president lost. He's a fucking loser. Like you.

And don't ever bitch about a private platform like Twitter banning people. You banned me.
Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (KcqqB)

Dumb muthafukkin dope.

Ace makes no bones about it, he's a publisher.
The social media sites claim to be forums for free speech. After censoring and banning certain POVs, they've effectively become publishers.
See the difference, ya big dope?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (z79tQ)

292 One of the putatively dumbest things I've heard was when I was flying out to the TxMoMe. We landed at DFW and taxied to the gate, having spent 3.5 hours sitting cheek by jowl on a completely packed flight. The stewardess then announced, "We're going to be practicing social distancing as we deplane."

I don't know if she was doing deadpan sarcasm or not.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Sea Chump at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (Uhu8A)

293 I swear I am the only one in my office who is not all-in on the face diapers. I am working at home most of the time now because it pisses me off that these intelligent people, engineers and surveyors, are so fucking docile about all the rules regarding working in the office.

Last May when our office re-opened, I asked our HR person if I had to wear a mask. She got a little pissy and said, "Of course you do. It's part of The Protocol." Then she lovingly stroked the rule book, and kissed her hand.

I may have made up that last sentence.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All In at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (x8Wzq)

294 Wear a mask if it saves even one life!

How many people have died because they got AIDS spread from a bathhouse?

How many people have died from a drunk illegal alien?

How many people have died from defective Chinese products?

How many have died from sudden onset Jihad syndrome?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (qlFIA)

295 Yeah. Frustration and anger correlate strongly with the clenching and grinding one's teeth. No wonder masks correlate, too...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (hYcqw)

I get a sore throat no matter how long it is on. And eventually a cough.

I end up holding it away from my mouth a lot. screw them

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (sfhL4)

296 Umm, can someone tell me why half of Florida is not dead?

Can someone explain why there aren't people out picking up dead homeless every day? They are often older, always in terrible health, with zero hygiene or sanitation, living in squalor, without masks or medical care.

They are quite literally some of the most vulnerable and at-risk people on earth for the crud.

But there's no homeless crisis, no huge wave of deaths or illness among them.

Why is that, exactly?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (KZzsI)

297 you're doubly protected if it's a table in a strip club.

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Wearing an old ratty t-shirt over your mouth is the only way to be sure.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (XSoJN)

298 I need a crochet mask. Maybe I can make one out of an old doily.

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Now that you mention it, my mom does have a crochet face mask! A friend of hers knitted it for her years ago as a kind of face warmer ( I guess she didn't have enough yarn to make a scarf?). I gotta find that and start wearing it just to show how absurd this all is.

Posted by: josephistan at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (Izzlo)

299 Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (6e3q5)

Idiot. It's of hospital workers who change their masks constantly and are in an environment where surfaces are cleaned constantly. Choke on that mask. I'm no longer being polite.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (2DOZq)

300 >>Hint: It's oral-fecal

~~Rimshot~~!

Rimjob!

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (q+Ubr)

301 That's what was stolen, here. This wasn't just a fudging of the numbers; this was the biggest usurpation of democracy itself in American history.
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 01:46 PM (ZR7kf)
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Yes and that's why there is no coming back from this. There will never be another fair election or even a slightly fair election or even a whiff of a fair election.
Posted by: President Elect Decaf at November 18, 2020 02:01 PM (nL4fk)

And they went far past the point of even attempting to hide it. They're downright flaunting it. And far too large a percentage of the population is cheering it on. Then they're going to whinge and sob when suddenly, their own votes don't make a shit bit of difference. If they're even allowed to vote.

It either stops here, and we completely change the system, or we go full commie. I just never thought I'd live to see it. This isn't a turn of the ratchet. This is a fucking jackhammer.

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (8B6Ng)

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Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (J70i0)

303 My mother went into a doctor's office and called it China Virus and she was scolded "we call it COVID-19." She won't back down.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (sfhL4)

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I would seriously say, "I don't give a fuck what you call it, it came from China, historically we name pandemics where they come from. Also fuck you."

But maybe in a nice way.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (jUVms)

304 No one thinks wearing a mask helps you avoid catching COVID. It helps you not spread it.

So if I DON'T have it, I can't spread it.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (0mP7b)

305 Between this and the new lock-downs, I am so ready for fucking SMOD I can taste it.
Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (8B6Ng)

We are all SMOD now.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Si Vis Pacem, Pac Bellum) at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (N3El/)

306 Direct contact with COVID-19 patients increased the likelihood of seropositivity among employees but study participants who wore a mask during COVID-19 exposures were less likely to be seropositive. Additionally, a large proportion of seropositive employees self-reported as asymptomatic. (Funded by Beaumont Health and by major donors through the Beaumont Health Foundation)

Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (6e3q5)

Does everyone remember that this is very first disease, ever, where we all freaked out about people not passing the magic test even though they have no symptoms whatsoever and WILL NEVER HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (Kpl3J)

307 Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (J70i0)

He did the thing!

Posted by: ... at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (x5Tpi)

308 I love that people don't understand the complaint against Twitter bannings.

Now do guns!

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (XSoJN)

309 Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (KcqqB)

Bless your heart

Posted by: Hands at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (786Ro)

310
For anyone under retirement age, over 99% of people survive, over 99.9% if you are under 40. Over 90% of Covid deaths have co-morbidities.

Also, 480,000 people died last year of smoking. Yet, no talk about making smoking illegal. That's more than double the Covid total, even mixed with co-morbidites.

But yeah, having the Democrats do the work of Communist China to shut down our country is just fine.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (sy5kK)

311 oooo WOPR

don't forget your mask in the barrel

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (j9HX3)

312 I got here just in time for the embarrelling.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (sWM8x)

313 Normal o strikes again.

Posted by: Bacon Sandwich of Scumbag College at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (uizIZ)

314
In old America, with the supposed REICHWING RELIGIOUS FANATICS running things somehow we had the freedom to have strip clubs AND churches.

In our new tolerant and progressive utopia though there sure are a lot of things the government needs to ban

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (qlFIA)

315
This is a flat out stupid, obvious, deliberate lie. Most people who wear these things think it keeps them safe. The only reason to even say this is in response to the study in order to move the goalposts.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (KZzsI)

Right. This kind of gas lighting needs to stop. The clips are out there. You have everyone saying "don't buy masks, they're useless. Only doctors need them." followed by "you need to wear masks, not for yourself, but to keep others safe if you're an asymptomatic carrier." followed by "we lied about masks not working. They work great, they'll slow the transmission of this virus so that the r is below 1! If everyone wears a mask, this will be over soon"

etc. etc. etc.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (UPoLF)

316 The Barrel calls. I must go.

Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (J70i0)

317 Barrel time

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (Zmnko)

318 My mom died of Covid.

However...

She was 80 years old in advanced stage of Alzheimer's.

She was also living in a nursing home that had been locked down with all staff wearing massive amounts of PPE. I'd barely seen her (window and long distance visits only) and not allowed to touch her since March.

So, that worked, didn't it?

At least, when she was in hospice I was allowed to hug her.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (6wv4p)

319 thassa nice, you WOPR.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (Kpl3J)

320 >Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (hYcqw)

I know! Threads move so fast now that everything I post just ends up being the same thing someone else already posted in between the time I read the thread to the current point and post my reply then refresh. Le sigh.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (L106N)

321 I got the old stinkeye glare the other night when the gf and I went to Kickback Jack's. Sitting there waiting for a table. A couple come in, masked up of course. The woman glares at me, mutters something - which I can't hear because of the mask.

I smiled, asked if there was a problem. Gf pokes me. The masked wench says "You ought to be wearing a mask!" I laughed, said "This is America. I ain't sick. You do what you want but the mask ain't going to save you."

Then went back to watching college football on the big screens. Screw this mask crap. And yes, NOW I am sick with walking pneumonia - not COVID. Still ain't gonna wear a mask. Then again, I work from home and am not going out unless I really, really have to.

Posted by: turambar at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (Gylu/)

322 Cutting and pasting from MS Word is the only proven vector for Chinese Lung Aids. I hate fucking Bill Gates.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (l6b3d)

323 remember when it was the patriotic duty of every american who had masks to box them up and mail them to the closest hospital, because they were the only ones who actually needed them, and they were ineffective for the rest of us?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (UPoLF)

324

NEJM has a superbly done study of Marine recruits that did or did not mask/isolate/etc.

Allowing for the limits of PCR testing, those that DID all the things had a slightly HIGHER incidence of COVID infection. Routine scheduled testing to find asymptomatic carriers and having them isolate for 10+ days was the ONLY thing that showed any efficacy at control at all - masks, distancing, surprise anal etc. NO use.

And of course we don't know how many of those asymptomatic persons are CONTAGIOUS or just had meaningless fragments detected by the test - we don't have a test for Contagion state!

Posted by: Just Sayin at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (Re9MM)

325 How can you not? You have to put on a mask to walk in the front door of a restaurant, then take it off when seated, then put it on to go to the bathroom, then take it back off, then put it back on to leave.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (UPoLF)
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Yeah. The rules for restaurants in particular *guarantee* poor behavior from a sanitation and cross-contamination standpoint. It's even worse if they make the waitstaff wear gloves. I won't eat in a restaurant where they wear plastic gloves. Unless you're rigorously following cross-contamination procedures, plastic gloves make cross-contamination meaningfully worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (hYcqw)

326 @269 Greange

You can't use hospital workers as a correlation to the public. Hospital workers may or may not be hit or miss on their controls, but they're going to be significantly better than the people who are buying a mask and wearing it day after day because they have to if they want to buy groceries or go to work. Within 30 minutes of wearing a cloth mask, it's going to be saturated and wet, which means you're going to be pushing out viruses all day long through your mask. No one is going to be changing their mask out all day because it's expensive and tedious. They either work to protect the individual wearing them or they are useless. That's the only factor that matters.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (Ectld)

327 Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (J70i0)

In communist Amerika only I won't go hungry.

Posted by: The Barrel at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (kOpft)

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Study with Marines that masks do nothing. Farewell friends.

https://tinyurl.com/y2v36vvg

Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (J70i0)

329 Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (J70i0)

Even The Paolo, he salutes the length of that, my friend

Posted by: The Paolo at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (Izzlo)

330 Barrel time

Can't touch this..

Posted by: The Barrel at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (yQpMk)

331 WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A FULL=FLEDGED COMMUNIST REVOLUTION, PEOPLE!
Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (U/dtz)

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Because there is no shooting in the street people cannot comprehend it, they will just wake up one day and find that they will do as they are told if they want to keep their jobs, their families somewhat safe and some if their possessions.
Posted by: President Elect Decaf at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (nL4fk)

And don't talk about taking up arms. That only gets you categorized as an intermet tough guy.

I swear, some days I think this country wants to "polite" itself to death.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (2JVJo)

332 Calling it the China Virus or Wuhan Flu is rayciss!

Also, Ebola, Marburg. Lyme, etc, etc are all perfectly fine names for a disease.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (qlFIA)

333 The other thing that is nuts is the idea of "contact tracing" a contagious respiratory disease. Millions (maybe tens of millions) have been exposed already in the USA.

Posted by: Baldy at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (OLCH5)

334 The sheep will go Baaaah.

Posted by: tubal at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (bCLt0)

335 Cleanup on aisle 155

he is begging to be banned
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 18, 2020 02:02 PM (sfhL4)

No one needs to be banned for saying dumb things. If people were banned for saying stupid stuff, we'd all be banned. Eventually.

Some of us would have been banned a long time ago. Many times over.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (hku12)

336 Oh Noes!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (xfb67)

337 Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (KcqqB)

You're a fucking idiot that cannot make a logical comparison. It's common in all of you half tard Leftists.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (2DOZq)

338 I would bet that almost the entire population of this country has been exposed to the virus and/or are carrying it and don't even know it.

Many had it and are cured (over 99% survivable) many had it and never got sick.

The whole thing is a giant psyop mind fuck power grab.

***
Plutoxin 7.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (NTAz9)

339 Double barrel time....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (Zmnko)

340 Woah!

Glad that wasn't me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (2JVJo)

341 Isn't Denmark where they're locking down more because they've discovered a mutated covid strain?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

342
Posted by: WOPR

Are you on fucking dope?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (/rzvn)

343 I know a 95 year old that got it and was fine, I know an other that is mid fifty's and got it real bad and even 6 months later has immune system complications to the point that the hospital is still pulling blood every couple weeks to help study why.
There are many, many variables as to why this hits some people hard and other not.
I happen to think at first they didn't know what they were dealing with and needed to buy time, but now it's out of control. (not the virus, but the reaction)

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (+2xjH)

344 307 Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (J70i0)

Is this an example of cut and paste from a Word document?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (sy5kK)

345 Uh-oh.

Why is it always Microsoft Explorer 4?

Never 3 or 5.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (DnZbI)

346 The mask virtue signal has just captured the public, even hard line conservatives I know get really upset at any pushback on this, and it seems to get very personal if you have a different opinion. Like you want people to die.

I have in-laws that want to do Thanksgiving and there's a chance they will insist we wear masks. I told my wife we just shouldn't do Thanksgiving with her in-laws if those are the terms. It didn't go over well.

It's almost like the "victory gardens" in WW2 where people grew food for the war effort that didn't really do anything, but people were super proud of.

Posted by: Blago at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (gkdnV)

347 And remember when we wanted to make it illegal to wear masks for gatherings, so antifa couldn't hide their faces? Good times, good times.
Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (8B6Ng)

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I wouldn't be surprised if the whole mask wearing things is simply a cover, pun intended, for the deep state's storm troopers.

Posted by: President Elect Decaf at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (nL4fk)

348 Anyone who's worked with scientists or researchers know that they themselves can be some of stupidest mutherfuckers on the planet.

One track minds.

Chasing down a pet theory for years.

Knowing in advance what the results SHOULD BE.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (3H9h1)

349 Double Barreled

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (l6b3d)

350 Two in a row! #Winning!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (hYcqw)

351 Wow.

Must be way under 29 to get round 2 in so quickly.

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (q+Ubr)

352 WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (J70i0)

Interpretive dancing in the barrel will be your theatrical performance.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (WkPC9)

353 Can someone explain why there aren't people out picking up dead homeless every day? They are often older, always in terrible health, with zero hygiene or sanitation, living in squalor, without masks or medical care.

They are quite literally some of the most vulnerable and at-risk people on earth for the crud.

But there's no homeless crisis, no huge wave of deaths or illness among them.

Why is that, exactly?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Because Covid is scared shitless of homeless encampments.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (0mP7b)

354 To this day they do not know (or know and won't tell) how COVID19 is transmitted.

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2020 02:04 PM (zr5Kq)

It's Eyeball Rays!

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (cJEnq)

355 Once is happenstance, twice coincidence ..

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (yQpMk)

356 You can't use hospital workers as a correlation to the public.

Yeah they regularly use hand sanitizer and most importantly on the whole are people who are much less likely to get ill than the average public. In other words, they aren't just less likely to get this stuff, they're less likely to get ANYTHING, mask or not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (KZzsI)

357 >>Double Barreled

Over and Under, even!

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (q+Ubr)

358 Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (J70i0)

No matter how many times people are told not to copy/paste from Word.......

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

359 She was also living in a nursing home that had been locked down with all staff wearing massive amounts of PPE.

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Sorry.

That's part of how it's so clear that it's fecal-oral. The nursing home staff weren't changing gloves between the incontinent patients.

Remember the cruise ship and naval vessel at the beginning of all of this? So much actual science there, but there was an election to steal and kids to f*ck up by taking them out of school for a year so they could flunk the grad they're in.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (XSoJN)

360 ****** ARRGGG!!!!!! *****

Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (J70i0)

361 Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020

You don't come here for the posting, do you?

Posted by: The Barrel at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (Izzlo)

362 OK guys, I'm full, seriously no more!

Posted by: The Barrel at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (qlFIA)

363 >oooo WOPR

don't forget your mask in the barrel

don't touch anything

Posted by: DB- just DB. at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (iTXRQ)

364 A puppy dies every time someone links to Jazz Shaw.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (3AD8C)

365 It would be nice to eliminate those long barrel mistakes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (r+sAi)

366 Its the fucking Flu. That NY, NJ, CT, MA, and Philly went out of their way to kill as many elderly possible does not make this the plague. Its the fucking Flu. We get them every fucking year and they all come from fucking CHY NA.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (anrTJ)

367 #302 BARREL YOU

LOOK OUT
SURPRISE ORAL-FECAL
OTTERS

Posted by: the horta at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (UDapT)

368 For whatever it is worth, the Danes protested massively when their overlords tried to make vaccines mandatory.

Posted by: FloridachickTrump WON at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (gU9Gm)

369 It's like one of those Russian Dolls, but a lot grosser.

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (q+Ubr)

370 See the difference, ya big dope?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 18, 2020 02:06 PM (z79tQ)

Of course not. Both sites have threads with words and thoughts on them.

But the fire department doesn't go to Ace to post fire hazards. The police don't go to Ace to ask the public's help with a fugitive. Politicians don't use Ace to talk about policy. Reporters don't use Ace to report on things. These things alone are what make places like Twatter a platform, not a publisher. But, they've taken the roll of a publisher by banning those they disagree with.

We need all government entities to move to a government run platform. They never should have been on twatter. But, in the beginning, that's what twatter was. Until they realized their power. Sadly, "we" gave it to them. And those protections WILL be removed under a Trump. Under a Biden, they'll only increase, and any alternatives will be shuttered.

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (8B6Ng)

371 Iblis out.

WOPR in.

Posted by: The Barrel at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (Uhu8A)

372 Yeah. The rules for restaurants in particular *guarantee* poor behavior from a sanitation and cross-contamination standpoint. It's even worse if they make the waitstaff wear gloves. I won't eat in a restaurant where they wear plastic gloves. Unless you're rigorously following cross-contamination procedures, plastic gloves make cross-contamination meaningfully worse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (hYcqw)

Gloves on waitstaff in general kind of gross me out.

Really, the whole way waitstaff handles everything grosses me out.

I'd really rather you not pick up everyones used napkins, put them all on a plate, then run back to the kitchen and grab my plate, napkin, etc. with your same grubby dirty hands then put that in front of me. Then walk to the next table, grab their check, put their cash in a register and bring change back.

That said, I feel like people are even more careless abotu what they touch and how often they wash their hands when they're wearing gloves. So if anything, yeah, I'd prefer you not wear gloves, be careful what you touch, and wash your hands often.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (UPoLF)

373 If someone wants to wear a mask because they're sick and don't want to spread germs, I have no problem with that. They've been doing that in Asian countries for years.

But the hysteria around wearing masks and the forcing of people to wear them and shaming those who don't has nothing to do with not spreading germs. It's more about the government saying "if you don't wear a mask you will get sick." It's nanny-statism, and it's revolting.

If you're sick, stay home and recover.
If you're sick and you must go out, sure wear a mask. It won't 100% prevent you from spreading your illness, but it does mitigate it.

That's not an unreasonable position to take. It's also a voluntary position to take: The individual has liberty to wear his mask or not. The individual has liberty to be courteous or not.

But stop telling healthy people they must comply.

That is not protection.
That is tyranny.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (ZR7kf)

374 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4? 4?

What fresh new Copy + Paste hell is this?

Posted by: Hands at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (786Ro)

375 The mask virtue signal has just captured the public, even hard line conservatives I know get really upset at any pushback on this, and it seems to get very personal if you have a different opinion.

Like you want people to die.

.
Posted by: Blago

I do. After Nov 3rd, that list grows exponentially.
And I'm not real particular how.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (0mP7b)

376 Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (J70i0)

Embrace the horrors within

Posted by: The Barrel Inside The Barrel at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (kOpft)

377 364 A puppy dies every time someone links to Jazz Shaw.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (3AD8C)

Mirror Universe Zuzu's Petals?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (s2VJv)

378 Nursing Home Workers are the warehouse security of medical care. They're generally untrained, unskilled, and usually uncaring people who work there because they cannot get any other jobs. They either start out or grow rapidly to not care for or even hate the people they work with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (KZzsI)

379 Umm, can someone tell me why half of Florida is not dead?

Why isn't Florida in horrible health, right now??
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 18, 2020 01:42 PM (/rzvn)
++++++++++++++
Because Ron DeSantis refused to shove actively sick COVID patients into nursing homes when he was presented with an EO equivalent to those that many of his northern colleagues happily signed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (hYcqw)

380 Does
@GovKemp
know how much damage he is doing to his state right now? Irreparable.

If he does not right the ship NOW he will single handedly send America over a cliff.

A humiliation.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (NpAcC)

Go look at the financial transactions of his family and friends.
The $109 million Dominion software purchase he authorized is where to look.
And after Trump went to bat for him during the election, what a backstabbing sleaze.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (sy5kK)

381 the only winning move is to get in the barrel

Posted by: x at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (0tE/i)

382 >I swear, some days I think this country wants to "polite" itself to death.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (2JVJo)

Just read a pretty good blog post in this vein, and not from a traditional conservative type:

https://solana.substack.com/p/paging-john-spartan

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (L106N)

383 Been sick three times since the lockdown. Not with COVID19. So....how's that work? I mean, I've followed all the rules. Shouldn't I be 100% protected?

Or...is there really very little I can do?

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (I262G)

384 Matryoshka-style embarelling. A barrel inside the barrel.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (H5knJ)

385 Please no!!!!

Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (J70i0)

386
Can someone explain why there aren't people out picking up dead homeless every day?
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My memory, before the media shadow banned this topic, was that someone did look into it. The homeless were getting it at a relatively high rate, but since for more people under 60 it is a pretty minor illness it wasn't killing them - most 60+ homeless people don't last long...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (qlFIA)

387 Bold words coming from a woman who managed wreck one major American industrial concern and permanently cripple another.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (hYcqw)

Carly Fiorina has been very active on Bloomberg lately. She's been the go-to apostate Republican to be interviewed on the Balance of Power afternoon TV/radio show on a regular basis. Frank Luntz has also been showing up there, rationalizing how Trump really did lose the election.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (raowU)

388 My mom died of Covid.

However...

She was 80 years old in advanced stage of Alzheimer's.

She was also living in a nursing home that had been locked down with all staff wearing massive amounts of PPE. I'd barely seen her (window and long distance visits only) and not allowed to touch her since March.

So, that worked, didn't it?

At least, when she was in hospice I was allowed to hug her.
Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 18, 2020 02:08 PM (6wv4p)

I'm sorry.

I hate this shit. You sound like you are at peace with it, but I hate that very idea, that you were ALLOWED to hug her.

I don't like letting hate into my own heart, but these people and their fascist control, I am hating them more and more each day.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (hku12)

389 A bizarre case in Australia has stunned medical researchers, after children of Covid-19-positive parents developed extremely effective antibodies without ever testing positive for the virus themselves.

In a study published last week in the medical journal Nature Communications, researchers discuss a family of five in which both parents contracted Covid-19 after attending a wedding without their children in March.

Approximately one week after returning, the mother and father developed symptoms such as a cough, congested nose, fever and headache.

The entire family was then tested for the virus, but only the parents tested positive, despite ongoing close proximity to their children, all of whom tested negative.

https://tinyurl.com/y5maf2ek

Posted by: Almost like Science is tricky or something at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (BBWrU)

390 And remember when we wanted to make it illegal to wear masks for gatherings, so antifa couldn't hide their faces? Good times, good times.

Posted by: clutch cargo at November 18, 2020 01:48 PM (8B6Ng)

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It's always been illegal to wear a mask in public in Southern states because of the Democrat KKK history of lynching black people. Actual written down black-letter law.

(wave hands in a magical way)

"Not this kind of mask! That's not what the law means, even though it clearly says it."
- Southern mayors

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:14 PM (XSoJN)

391 @318

Just curious, on her death certificate did they note the presence of pneumonia as contributing or direct cause?

Because the same thing happened to a co-worker.

His mother was in a nursing home in NY state, with Alzs. and recovering from a stroke, they said she died from COVID. and that was it, no other contributing or direct causes.

Not complications from a stroke or advanced alzsh., Chinese Bat flu killed her and without even causing a pneumonia.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 18, 2020 02:14 PM (k0lFF)

392 >>> 346 The mask virtue signal has just captured the public, even hard line conservatives I know get really upset at any pushback on this, and it seems to get very personal if you have a different opinion. Like you want people to die.

I have in-laws that want to do Thanksgiving and there's a chance they will insist we wear masks. I told my wife we just shouldn't do Thanksgiving with her in-laws if those are the terms. It didn't go over well.

It's almost like the "victory gardens" in WW2 where people grew food for the war effort that didn't really do anything, but people were super proud of.
Posted by: Blago at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (gkdnV)

The dumber and more obviously wrong something is that you've accepted then the harder you will fight for it. Because that wrong thing is now a part of you, you are wrong. This is one of the mechanisms of cults. So, you will fight for the dumb wrong thing until you've been completely defeated and have your nose thrust into the stinking pile of your failure.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2020 02:14 PM (l6b3d)

393 Unless you're rigorously following cross-contamination procedures, plastic gloves make cross-contamination meaningfully worse.

Yeah, CSI workers double-glove and after handling anything, anywhere, each time, change gloves. These people just wear the same set all day long and why wash them, they have gloves on!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:14 PM (KZzsI)

394 If someone wants to wear a mask because they're sick and don't want to spread germs, I have no problem with that. They've been doing that in Asian countries for years.
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Asians where masks cuz there is chunks of shit in the air. Its a very fiflthy place. Their food is nasty too.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:14 PM (anrTJ)

395 384 Matryoshka-style embarelling. A barrel inside the barrel.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (H5knJ)

Sort of like a William Faulkner novel with the flashbacks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2020 02:14 PM (s2VJv)

396 Remember those military hospitals set up in NYC and Seattle? And then remember how they ended up being empty and then taken apart? Yeah that was a good use of tax dollars.

Posted by: Asshoes at November 18, 2020 02:14 PM (22mNy)

397 I forgot where I stole this from, but

"petri dish strapped to your face" > face diaper > facederpants

Though I've also seen "face panties" and I dunno how I feel about that one.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at November 18, 2020 01:49 PM (l8gTz)

idk, i enjoy putting my face in some panties once in a while...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 18, 2020 02:14 PM (8D42x)

398 147
hey, remember years ago when it was suggested that gay men, as likely
carriers of the virus that causes AIDS, not be a loowe3d to donate
blood?
what about our civil rights?!? they yelled.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at November 18, 2020 01:53 PM (4a9Vv)

________

I can't donate because I lived in Germany in the 80's. Do I have a civil rights case too? I could use some sweeeeeet settlement cash.

Posted by: sharksauce at November 18, 2020 02:15 PM (DFZnL)

399 Masks are security theatre. Two options, get the virus. (Enough get it and herd immunity protection extends to people that did not get the virus), vaccination at a high enough rate provides herd immunity.

We all either get and recover from the virus (or not recover) or the vaccines work. No other options.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at November 18, 2020 02:15 PM (0OmEj)

400 If someone wants to wear a mask because they're sick and don't want to spread germs, I have no problem with that. They've been doing that in Asian countries for years. ...
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (ZR7kf)
++++++++++++
Hell, I do this and will continue to do so. If I am sick and I *have* to go out (usually to work, back when I had an office and couldn't really take sick time due to the busy season), I wear a medicated antibacterial face mask. If I am sick, I take steps to limit people's exposure to me if I have to venture out for some reason. That strikes me as sensible and courteous.

That ain't a damn mask mandate, though, as you rightly point out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:15 PM (hYcqw)

401 219 The only way out of this is with herd immunity. Those who have it,
they have a RESPONSIBILITY to spread it to others in their community.
The sooner the better.

for the children. think of the children. big herds of them.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2020 02:15 PM (v3pYe)

402 Unless you're rigorously following cross-contamination procedures, plastic gloves make cross-contamination meaningfully worse.

-

I aint need to wash my hands after I handled that chicken, dog. I'm wearing these gloves, yo.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (XSoJN)

403 Hey, brace yourselves for Covid-21, requiring you to wear a full gas-mask and hazmat suit, even in the bathtub.
Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (U/dtz)

IF they start really enforcing mask mandates around me, i'm getting a Mandalorian style helmet and wearing it when i go in somewhere.

let them complain about that...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (8D42x)

404 No one really knows how Chinavirus spreads?

I don't want to say it's the orgone--but it's the orgone.

Posted by: Wilhelm Reich at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (sWM8x)

405 If someone wants to wear a mask because they're sick and don't want to spread germs, I have no problem with that. They've been doing that in Asian countries for years.

They were masks in Asian countries because you can literally chew the air.
Watched some James Bond movies from the late 80's & early 90's. They were wearing them then.

And yes, you could see the air.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (0mP7b)

406 177 Oh my.. trolls are getting nasty
Posted by: It's me donna at November 18, 2020 01:55 PM (Zmnko)

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Yes, the Pathfinders are over the target.

Flare Status = DROPPED

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (MkuC5)

407 We all either get and recover from the virus (or not recover) or the vaccines work. No other options.

There's a third, you don't get it at all. Small percentage, but it happens.

But yeah. There's no magical process to prevent people from getting sick, no shutdowns, no masks, no social distancing, nothing. The best you can hope to do is what the original call was: slow down the rate of infection slightly so it doesn't spike badly all at once.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (KZzsI)

408 I quit reading HotAir on election day, haven't looked back, even if John and Karen are the only things worth saving over there.
In any of the Townhall Gold Pass phonecalls or podcasts or whatever they do, does anyone ever call up and tell them Allahpundit is terrible, or why is HotAir terrible?

Their traffic has probably fallen like Drudge and Fox's in the past month.

Posted by: Ken B. at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (P6fAf)

409 >>We all either get and recover from the virus (or not recover) or the vaccines work. No other options.

I listened to some idiot claim that if we all just isolated for 4-6 weeks, the virus would die completely and never be seen again.

Another Science lover, obviously.

Posted by: garrett at November 18, 2020 02:17 PM (q+Ubr)

410 Yeah, CSI workers double-glove and after handling anything, anywhere, each time, change gloves.

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They got that detail right on an episode of Bosch I just watched.

Posted by: The Barrel at November 18, 2020 02:17 PM (Izzlo)

411 Dems: Fuck you deplorables, science!!

Also Dems: Why of course a man can have a baby, why do you ask?

Posted by: Asshoes at November 18, 2020 02:17 PM (22mNy)

412 They are quite literally some of the most vulnerable and at-risk people on earth for the crud.

But there's no homeless crisis, no huge wave of deaths or illness among them.

Why is that, exactly?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Because Covid is scared shitless of homeless encampments.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (0mP7b)

We all know the real answer to this.

Because virtually no one has died from covid.

People have died WITH covid, but very few otherwise healthy people have become seriously ill or died from covid.

In the beginning of this, hospitals were actively killing people by sedating them and putting them on ventilators, which is a pretty risky thing to do to anyone, much less someone in their 70's or 80's that's already not in the best of health. Many of those people got bacterial pneumonia from the ventilators and died. And everyone KNEW that this was happening, but they were too scared of "aerosolizing" covid by putting people on CPAP machines, which could potentially infect hospital staff.

Now that hospitals aren't doing that anymore, the death rate is dropping like crazy.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:17 PM (UPoLF)

413 We all either get and recover from the virus (or not recover) or the vaccines work. No other options.

-

It's my understanding that the vaccine will lower the death rate to a mere 0.04% of the population.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:17 PM (XSoJN)

414 Anyone who's worked with scientists or researchers know that they themselves can be some of stupidest mutherfuckers on the planet.

One track minds.

Chasing down a pet theory for years.

Knowing in advance what the results SHOULD BE.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (3H9h1)

It's part of the illusion. Experts have been expertin' forever. When it was medicine men, spiritual leaders, titans of industry... yes, even religious leaders who are of the Book.

Too much reliance on experts has been a bad thing. All throughout human history, and here we are, pretending the science is going to be our salvation.

Finally, the science will lead us to the promised land.

Eh.... no.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:17 PM (hku12)

415 If someone wants to wear a mask because they're sick and don't want to spread germs, I have no problem with that.

Exactly. I don't condemn someone else wearing a mask, that's up to them (even if they are kind of hard to understand sometimes). I condemn anyone ordering me and everyone ELSE to wear one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (KZzsI)

416 But what if I really, really, really want masks to be effective? Doesn't that mean I don't have to prove it using your "science," which is anyways white supremacist. I mean, Denmark? Might as well just list old Adolf as a co-author on this paper.

Posted by: All Just Part of the Plan at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (dYe5S)

417 Been sick three times since the lockdown. Not with COVID19.
So....how's that work? I mean, I've followed all the rules. Shouldn't I
be 100% protected?

***

I read a story that one year the Antarctic research team all came down with a bad cold. They were all disease free when they left and about 3 weeks later - and remember they have NO outside exposure - came down with a cold and shortly there after spread it to everyone else.

How did that one guy get it?

I also had a co-worker who is somewhat Kareny - that got a regular cold a couple of weeks ago. She didn't go anywhere, she didn't mingle with other people. How'd she get it?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (qlFIA)

418 408 I quit reading HotAir on election day, haven't looked back, even if John and Karen are the only things worth saving over there.
In any of the Townhall Gold Pass phonecalls or podcasts or whatever they do, does anyone ever call up and tell them Allahpundit is terrible, or why is HotAir terrible?

Their traffic has probably fallen like Drudge and Fox's in the past month.
Posted by: Ken B. at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (P6fAf)

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Why were you there up until election day? It's been nothing but Trump is the mostest baddest bad person ever for 5 years.

Posted by: Asshoes at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (22mNy)

419 If someone wants to wear a mask because they're sick and don't want to spread germs, I have no problem with that.

-

Freedom.

How do it work?

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (XSoJN)

420 So when I was in high school, I went to a catholic all boys school. We had to wear ties.

We didn't want to wear them, but we couldn't just stop. We had to convince them that it was better that we stopped.

So we started wearing ugly ties. Ridiculously ugly ties. Then they told us the ties all had to be blue or black. So we made the knots ridiculously fat and left only a skinny stub sticking out. It took two years, but by the time of my senior class. No more ties.

Creative disobedience is required when you live under a fascist dictatorship. Make them think its their idea to stop.

We aren't a fascist state yet -- yet.

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (buhfA)

421 Oh, that true. The Danes are just really, really boring.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:47 PM (1ISKN)

Just don't geld them. They hate that.

Posted by: not Rudyard Kipling at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (9Xp6e)

422 384
Matryoshka-style embarelling. A barrel inside the barrel.

you can't fool me. it's barrels all the way down.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (sGtp+)

423 You can't use hospital workers as a correlation to the public. Hospital workers may or may not be hit or miss on their controls, but they're going to be significantly better than the people who are buying a mask and wearing it day after day because they have to if they want to buy groceries or go to work. Within 30 minutes of wearing a cloth mask, it's going to be saturated and wet, which means you're going to be pushing out viruses all day long through your mask. No one is going to be changing their mask out all day because it's expensive and tedious. They either work to protect the individual wearing them or they are useless. That's the only factor that matters.
Posted by: squid_hunt at November 18, 2020 02:09 PM (Ectld)

...................

The thing Ace links to is people outside in Denmark back in May.

What was the level of COVID in Denmark back in May, outside, compared to say Wisconsin now?

Is pretty damn sure without even trying to hunt it down that the level of COVID in Denmark back in May is no where near what it is now in states like Wisconsin.

Ace pumping this right now before the high traffic holiday of Thanksgiving running right into Christmas is weird.

I will take the American study done in Michigan and presented on Nov 5th over his puff pastry Danish thing of people outside in Denmark in May as more valid.

Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (6e3q5)

424 Masks are ineffective and we don't have to wear them anymore?...

Joe Biden has saved us from a future of mask wearing!!

There's your headline.

Posted by: InCali at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (MBmq2)

425 Keep in mind that a goodly portion of the people in the Lowland Countries are inherently phlegmish.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (m45I2)

426 25
19Just because I can blow out a candle while wearing a mask doesn't mean
a mask can't stop a virus that you need an electron microscope to see.
Wait, it does.

Posted by: josephistan at November 18, 2020 01:43 PM (Izzlo)

If you can see the virus, it's already too late!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 01:44 PM
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The virus is coming from inside the mask!

Posted by: TheHoser at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (IDjUx)

427 126 No one thinks wearing a mask helps you avoid catching COVID. It helps you not spread it.

Since none of use know we have COVID when we first become contagious, and many of us never know we have COVID as long as we are contagious, any of us may be a carrier.

I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.
Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (KcqqB)
===============

You are a sheep. BAAAAAAAAA BAAAAAAAAAA. Bleet Bleet said the sheep as it was led to slaughter. Your words of weak submission disgust me.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (JNTt1)

428 411 Dems: Fuck you deplorables, science!!

Also Dems: Why of course a man can have a baby, why do you ask?
Posted by: Asshoes at November 18, 2020 02:17 PM (22mNy)

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"You don't have a womb!"
-John Cleese in The Life of Brian, about to be cancelled

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going back...to the Future! at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (NWM+b)

429 They were masks in Asian countries because you can literally chew the air.
Watched some James Bond movies from the late 80's & early 90's. They were wearing them then.

And yes, you could see the air.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 18, 2020 02:16 PM (0mP7b)

Yeah, last time I was in Beijing, I was asking some people about the masks. They said it's because the air quality is so bad (it really is indescribably bad) and that hopefully their masks were filtering some of that out.

Which makes sense. I saw very few people wearing masks inside, but a lot of people wearing masks outside.

You can taste the industrial chemicals and coal dust in the air outside. It really is a disgusting place.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (UPoLF)

430 The mask virtue signal has just captured the public, even hard line conservatives I know get really upset at any pushback on this, and it seems to get very personal if you have a different opinion. Like you want people to die.

For some - its a talisman against a danger they can't see and don't understand. For others - a proud symbol of conformity with which they can show their willing obedience for all to see. For yet more - the perfect pretext to scold, since hats indoors doesn't give them the mileage that it used to. For the political class - nothing more than an expression of authority.

The Victory Garden mention upthread is perfect. American Society has always been filled to the brim with fucking scolds. More Karens and other busy-bodies than you could count. During the Big One - many towns made service in those useless gardens mandatory with absence punishable by fine.

Posted by: Always Be Lurking at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (8QnUe)

431 Hey, brace yourselves for Covid-21, requiring you to wear a full gas-mask and hazmat suit, even in the bathtub.

***

Yep, on the average China sends another notable virus around the world every two years...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (qlFIA)

432 The only way out of this is with herd immunity. Those who have it,
they have a RESPONSIBILITY to spread it to others in their community.
The sooner the better.
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for the children. think of the children. big herds of them.
Posted by: Anachronda at November 18, 2020 02:15 PM (v3pYe)

Yes indeed. I'm always thinking of the children.

If we can't save 'em, we can always eat 'em. A nice rump roast. Yum!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (hku12)

433 A bizarre case in Australia has stunned medical researchers, after children of Covid-19-positive parents developed extremely effective antibodies without ever testing positive for the virus themselves.

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They will be the progenitors of a new human race: Homo sapiens covidius. Bow to your new overlords.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Sea Chump at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (Uhu8A)

434 I've thought of wearing my mask on my head to see if anyone will say anything.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (anrTJ)

435 Here in CO Polis the Penis is taking us to Code Red with more restrictions. He also came up with a new level called purple. God know what that is. Point is they are just making shit up as they go along to control the rubes, ruin the Holidays for everyone and be complete dictatorial dicks.

Read an article this morning that Newsome was seen at a birthday dinner with 10 other people at a restaurant in NorCal called the French Laundry (Can't get in the door for under $200) inside a private dining room - no one wearing masks and no social distancing. Our betters!

Posted by: Cheri at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (oiNtH)

436

What if Don Lemond would have to wear finger cots the next time he nose rapes a young white twink waiter with his taint juice.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (lg/F7)

437 Freedom.

How do it work?
Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:18 PM (XSoJN)

+++

That is freedom. There's no law against wearing a mask. There's no one making you NOT wear a mask.

(not counting the aforementioned KKK laws)

Making me wear one, however, is an affront to liberty.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (ZR7kf)

438 All US military bases mandate masks and enforce it to gain entry at the gates

They are not buying this puff pastry shit either.

Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (6e3q5)

439 Been sick three times since the lockdown. Not with COVID19.
So....how's that work? I mean, I've followed all the rules. Shouldn't I
be 100% protected?

***

I read a story that one year the Antarctic research team all came down with a bad cold. They were all disease free when they left and about 3 weeks later - and remember they have NO outside exposure - came down with a cold and shortly there after spread it to everyone else.

How did that one guy get it?

I also had a co-worker who is somewhat Kareny - that got a regular cold a couple of weeks ago. She didn't go anywhere, she didn't mingle with other people. How'd she get it?
====
the atmosphere is full of viri.

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (/7y2G)

440 The Victory Garden mention upthread is perfect. American Society has always been filled to the brim with fucking scolds. More Karens and other busy-bodies than you could count. During the Big One - many towns made service in those useless gardens mandatory with absence punishable by fine.
Posted by: Always Be Lurking at November 18, 2020 02:19 PM (8QnUe)
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I thought that Victory Gardens were for *you* to consume, to reduce consumption from grocery stores, etc. so more foodstuffs could be directed to the overseas campaigns.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (hYcqw)

441 Had Trump early on been a "mask" guy, the dynamic on this would be completely different with every science journal coming out with weekly articles about it makes things worse. Or gives people a false sense of security, etc

I'm really not being facetious here.

I'm not even 100% against masks, early on I was sort of in Ace's camp that if this is the "wubbie" that let's people get back outside and comfortable, fine. My guess is it does help on a really marginal level only in that contagious phase where someone should be home, the effects though for the general pop are greatly overstated.

Posted by: Blago at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (gkdnV)

442 It's almost like the "victory gardens" in WW2 where people grew food for the war effort that didn't really do anything, but people were super proud of.
Posted by: Blago at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM (gkdnV)

Not entirely true. Those little gardens with their tomatoes and peppers and others greens freed up hundreds of thousands of acres for growing things more necessary for the war effort.
Got that from the Woodpile Report a while back, but have no link

Gonna hafta go with the "just trust me".

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (z79tQ)

443 "Imagine the outrage if a state passed a law requiring gay dudes to wear condoms."

Don't give the left any ideas; they'll have everyone (including women) walking around wearing condoms all the time, you know, to protect against COVID.

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (ynpvh)

444

I volunteer to spread my antibodies to big boobie East European hotties and Asian cosplay cam girls...

Posted by: Dirty Frank at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (Re9MM)

445 They will be the progenitors of a new human race: Homo sapiens covidius. Bow to your new overlords.

One vampire, one werewolf..

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (yQpMk)

446 Can Boulder Terlit Hobo be reached for comment, or is he self-quarantining from the blog?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (7Fj9P)

447 435 Here in CO Polis the Penis is taking us to Code Red with more restrictions. He also came up with a new level called purple. God know what that is. Point is they are just making shit up as they go along to control the rubes, ruin the Holidays for everyone and be complete dictatorial dicks.

Read an article this morning that Newsome was seen at a birthday dinner with 10 other people at a restaurant in NorCal called the French Laundry (Can't get in the door for under $200) inside a private dining room - no one wearing masks and no social distancing. Our betters!
Posted by: Cheri at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (oiNtH)

++++

Rest assured these elites will demand you cancel fun. No Thanksgiving, no Christmas, no New Years celebrations.

And what will they be doing?

Enjoying all those things and making all the excuses for themselves that they will not tolerate of you.

The French had it right in 1789.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 02:22 PM (ZR7kf)

448 I volunteer to spread my antibodies to big boobie East European hotties and Asian cosplay cam girls...
___

You want to help the big boobie East European hotties and Asian cosplay cam girls.

You'll settle for a non-landwhale American woman.

You'll get Alexandra. Who used to be Alex.

Posted by: Obligatory at November 18, 2020 02:22 PM (qlFIA)

449 420 So when I was in high school, I went to a catholic all boys school. We had to wear ties.

We didn't want to wear them, but we couldn't just stop. We had to convince them that it was better that we stopped.

So we started wearing ugly ties. Ridiculously ugly ties. Then they told us the ties all had to be blue or black. So we made the knots ridiculously fat and left only a skinny stub sticking out. It took two years, but by the time of my senior class. No more ties.

___

Heh. I went to a private school and we have a uniform, that included a tie. A specific tie. This one smart ass decided one day he would wear his tie around his head since nowhere in the rules did it specifically say the tie must be worn around the neck.

The headmaster to his credit did the one thing to a teenager that he hates the most. He received praise from an authority figure. He said well played, or something like that. Un-did the rebellious nature since the powers that be approved.

The next day the dude had the tie around his neck again.

Posted by: Asshoes at November 18, 2020 02:22 PM (22mNy)

450 Here in CO Polis the Penis is taking us to Code Red with more restrictions. He also came up with a new level called purple. God know what that is. Point is they are just making shit up as they go along to control the rubes, ruin the Holidays for everyone and be complete dictatorial dicks. ...
Posted by: Cheri at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (oiNtH)
+++++++++++
It's because Pole-ass is an execrable combination of tyrant and pussy. He loves all of these things, but he is afraid to go first. It has become *very* easy to predict what Pole-ass will do with regard to the 'Rona:
- Look at what other tyrants do, particularly CA and IL.
- Wait 7-10 days
- Watch the CO tyrant do the same thing

Like fucking clockwork. CA has a "purple alert" and various measures. A week or so later, so do we.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:23 PM (hYcqw)

451 400 If someone wants to wear a mask because they're sick and don't want to spread germs, I have no problem with that. They've been doing that in Asian countries for years. ...
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 02:12 PM (ZR7kf)
++++++++++++
Hell, I do this and will continue to do so. If I am sick and I *have* to go out (usually to work, back when I had an office and couldn't really take sick time due to the busy season), I wear a medicated antibacterial face mask. If I am sick, I take steps to limit people's exposure to me if I have to venture out for some reason. That strikes me as sensible and courteous.

That ain't a damn mask mandate, though, as you rightly point out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:15 PM (hYcqw)

Yes, me too. I also have allergies, so when it's dry and windy, I prefer to wear a mask. I hate getting grit in my mouth and up my nose, but I love hiking and just being outdoors.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at November 18, 2020 02:23 PM (YkawN)

452 448
I volunteer to spread my antibodies to big boobie East European hotties and Asian cosplay cam girls...
___

You want to help the big boobie East European hotties and Asian cosplay cam girls.

You'll settle for a non-landwhale American woman.

You'll get Alexandra. Who used to be Alex.

Posted by: Obligatory at November 18, 2020 02:22 PM (qlFIA)

Who IDENTIFIES as a non-landwhale, but really IS a landwhale...

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:23 PM (ynpvh)

453 My one friend is a chemist, PhD, pretty bright. Refuses to get together around a table and play DD. No way, no how because "COVID!!@@!!!$$"

Science. How does it work? Apparently this virus is magically delicious and deadly and will strike everyone down unless you wear a mask!

My doc buddy and I laugh at the chemist and shake our heads. Making plans to game anyway and I will run a new group. We ain't scaret. Keep in mind my doc buddy has had heart surgery twice and a heart attack recently. Had the ol' Widowmaker problem first off. He ain't scaret of some virus.

Posted by: turambar at November 18, 2020 02:23 PM (Gylu/)

454 The mask virtue signal has just captured the public, even hard line conservatives I know get really upset at any pushback on this, and it seems to get very personal if you have a different opinion. Like you want people to die.
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Its the rules.

Personalize everything. Freeze Polarize etc etc.

That's the racisms, homophobia, islamophobia, fascist thing too.

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:23 PM (ePwW3)

455 What if I wear a mask and take the covid vaccine, does that help? Where is my vaccine?

Posted by: I can see the communism in your eyes at November 18, 2020 02:23 PM (VoKVv)

456 so I think I'll go shopping in a mask and vape through it the whole time.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (7Y5nA)

457 341 Isn't Denmark where they're locking down more because they've discovered a mutated covid strain?
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the President Elect at November 18, 2020 02:10 PM

a week ago: Danish PM apologizes after illegal cull order of entire mink population over Covid outbreaks

today: Danish agriculture minister resigns over illegal order to cull 17m mink over mutated Covid-19 strain

Posted by: Completing my 2020 B-I-N-G-O card at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (BBWrU)

458 NBA draft tonight @ 7:30 on ESPN. Must watch TV.

Posted by: mr tmz at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (m/Gc2)

459 Posted by: Braenyard at November 18, 2020 01:56 PM (CZm2G)

Preacher got it. Priest got it. Dear me Maybe I should claim my profession is an exotic dancer?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (WkPC9)

460 I don't like letting hate into my own heart, but
these people and their fascist control, I am hating them more and more
each day.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:13 PM (hku12)>>>
Exactly. Playing nice has gotten us to where we are presently at.

Posted by: Old Dude at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (LGXGf)

461 A Dolphin nose mask might be cool. Or I could wear my old Hog's nose mask to celebrate the NoNameSkins. Evidently the Redskins causing all sorts of pandemonium.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (anrTJ)

462 438 All US military bases mandate masks and enforce it to gain entry at the gates

They are not buying this puff pastry shit either.
Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (6e3q5)

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Yeah, they're *always* right. Even when they lie to the president about troop levels in Syria.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (MkuC5)

463 Fuck this shit.

Posted by: mpfs, I choose the light, I choose Trump! at November 18, 2020 02:25 PM (79p/O)

464 But Pennsylvania thinks they have the right to enforce a mask mandate inside citizens' homes? Are they begging SCOTUS to just skip the formalities and give Trump his 4 more years right now?

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at November 18, 2020 02:25 PM (YkawN)

465 -
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Can Boulder Terlit Hobo be reached for comment, or is he self-quarantining from the blog?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM

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I think he put a mask over his screen, and a condom over the keyboard.

Posted by: irright at November 18, 2020 02:25 PM (SchQD)

466 I thought that Victory Gardens were for *you* to consume, to reduce consumption from grocery stores, etc. so more foodstuffs could be directed to the overseas campaigns.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (hYcqw)

They were.

But it was always kind of a silly thing.

The US had no problem producing enough food (then or now) to feed the entire population, plus our military, plus exporting food to countries all over the world.

So Ms. Karen down the street growing 4 or 5 tomato plants really doesn't make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.

That said, as someone who enjoys doing a bit of gardening, I don't really have a problem with it. It was just the over the top "DO YOUR PART IN THE WAR EFFORT BY GROWING FOOD" propaganda posters that made people roll their eyes.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:25 PM (UPoLF)

467 I think AZ is at rainbow code. Its so gay.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:25 PM (7Y5nA)

468 UH OH everybody buy Peruvian Ginger Root....Not CHYNA..Boycott Chyna Ginger Root

Posted by: Corky Muldoon at November 18, 2020 02:25 PM (LPu4X)

469 458 NBA draft tonight @ 7:30 on ESPN. Must watch TV.
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So who will the ChiComs pick first?

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (anrTJ)

470 "There's too many People, people!"

Posted by: garrett loves the classics at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (Z8SC6)

471 Must reads, on topic

How the UK's Scientific Advisory Group fucked up everything
lockdownsceptics.org/what-sage-got-wrong/

Covid as a Religion
preview.tinyurl.com/yxhkgfvl

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (VsHYs)

472 NBA draft tonight @ 7:30 on ESPN. Must watch TV.
Posted by: mr tmz at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (m/Gc2)

NO DRAFT!

You'll catch cold.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (hku12)

473 So I just looked at Denmark.

Back on May 17 they reported 69 new COVID cases.

Yesterday Wisconsin has 7,090 new COVID cases.

Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (6e3q5)

474 Interesting story coming out of Houston. The powers that be are sending out workers to ask if you will voluntarily consent to a blood test to check for antibody levels.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (Gz0CT)

475 the neck.

The headmaster to his credit did the one thing to a teenager that he hates the most. He received praise from an authority figure. He said well played, or something like that. Un-did the rebellious nature since the powers that be approved.

The next day the dude had the tie around his neck again.
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We organized it. Literally every kid showed up one morning with the same game plan. They switched the rules. We adapted as one.

They waited until the senior class that started graduated before they admitted defeat. But they were beaten and they knew it. And. So did we.

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (hXF7w)

476 Just remembered...

CrowdStrike has been advertising on Fox for the past couple of months.

I mentioned it a couple of times, but got shrugs. It was a sign of where they were/were going.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 18, 2020 02:27 PM (sGotD)

477 "Hell is other people" - Sartre.

More and more that is becoming true, true, true.

Posted by: turambar at November 18, 2020 02:27 PM (Gylu/)

478 *** ha, ha, ha, there are five lights, THERE ARE FIVE LIGHTS ****

Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:27 PM (J70i0)

479 NBA draft tonight @ 7:30 on ESPN. Must watch TV.
----------------------
So who will the ChiComs pick first?
Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (anrTJ)

Eh.....

... all of them?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:27 PM (hku12)

480 473
So I just looked at Denmark.

Back on May 17 they reported 69 new COVID cases.

Yesterday Wisconsin has 7,090 new COVID cases.

Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (6e3q5)

STOP EATING CHEESE!!!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:27 PM (7Y5nA)

481 I think China is tailor made for nuking. Let's nip this annual killer flu thing once and all.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (anrTJ)

482 Why are we testing asymptomatic people?

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (yQpMk)

483 Oh my.. trolls are getting nasty
Posted by: It's me donna

Sign of confidence in the president-elect.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (+y/Ru)

484 So who will the ChiComs pick first?
====================
Are of the tall, dark one berong to us!!

Posted by: Xi Ping-Pong at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (7Fj9P)

485 Like fucking clockwork. CA has a "purple alert" and various measures. A week or so later, so do we.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:23 PM (hYcqw)

The Polesmoker has issued at least 230 EO's this year. What I have to say about him would get me banned.

Posted by: Infidel at werk at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (/oG9s)

486 Positive coefficients that are statistically insignificant can be assumed to be zero.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (946rW)

487 Bill Pascrell used to be a nice guy. My father worked at a supermarket with him when they were teenagers. My mother went to school with him.
I myself bought a case of beer for his twin teenage sons when they were underage back in the '80's so they could party.

He's always been a raging liberal, but it appears he went of the deep end.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (HrMC1)

488 Meanwhile, there was a science-fiction-level event over the SF Bay Area yesterday just at dawn -- hundreds (possibly thousands) of shooting stars suddenly filled the sky, all in under 30 seconds -- very short, but bright (hence visible even as daylight dawned) burning up meteorites streaking just briefly before burning up. It was like the whole sky for a brief time was "twinkling" with micro-shooting stars. Not a lot of people saw it, but enough did for it to make the local news. Speculation is that the earth passed through a "wall of space dust" in under a minute. I didn't personally see it, but know someone who did, and said it was one of the eeriest and most amazing things she'd ever seen.

Of course, those of us who have seen too many sci-fi films can imagine it wasn't just a bunch of sand grains burning up in the atmosphere, but some sort of invasion....

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (U/dtz)

489 The same people that scream SCIENCE! are the same ones that believe that a biological male can become a female and vice versa.

They are silly, dumb as rocks, and ruled by the screaming voices in their heads. Unfortunately many of them get elected.

Posted by: Cheri at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (oiNtH)

490 461
A Dolphin nose mask might be cool. Or I could wear my old Hog's nose
mask to celebrate the NoNameSkins. Evidently the Redskins causing all
sorts of pandemonium.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (anrTJ)

I prefer "plague doctor".

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (ynpvh)

491 -
--

"Hell is other people" - Sartre.

More and more that is becoming true, true, true.

Posted by: turambar at November 18, 2020 02:27 PM

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I've always thought last-man-on-earth scenarios sound like heaven, unless there are zombies.

Posted by: irright at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (SchQD)

492 I think AZ is at rainbow code. Its so gay.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:25 PM (7Y5nA)

Have any idea what Douchey is going to announce today?

Someone needs to tell the illegals that we are Covid Maximus. We are getting fvcking flooded with them since the election. Its almost like some candidate promised amnesty or something.

I'm serious. It hasn't been this bad since GW Bush first got into office.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Si Vis Pacem, Pac Bellum) at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (N3El/)

493 462 438 All US military bases mandate masks and enforce it to gain entry at the gates

They are not buying this puff pastry shit either.
Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:20 PM (6e3q5)

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Yeah, they're *always* right. Even when they lie to the president about troop levels in Syria.
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (MkuC5)

............

Masks on US military bases is part of force protection that is federally mandated pretty sure you will find Trumps signature on it. Also Trump said he was for masks to Lesley Stahl during the CBS interview.

Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (uC74t)

494 Positive coefficients that are statistically insignificant can be assumed to be zero.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner

And......Maff rears its ugly head !

Posted by: JT at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (arJlL)

495 Again I say

Trust The Science...

The Political Science!

After all, no scummy politician would use a theoretical pandemic as an excuse to increase their raw power, now would they?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (2C38g)

496 486
Positive coefficients that are statistically insignificant can be assumed to be zero.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (946rW)

Please don't get them started on Standard Deviation.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (7Y5nA)

497 So I just looked at Denmark.

Back on May 17 they reported 69 new COVID cases.

Yesterday Wisconsin has 7,090 new COVID cases.
Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (6e3q5)

Oh. Seems entirely unrelated to a scientific study about the efficacy of masks, but okay.

Question -- is this latest science science I'm supposed to believe, or science I'm supposed to pretend doesn't exist?

It's hard to keep track. I'm really just trying to follow the science, but it's hard to know which science sometimes.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (UPoLF)

498 So who will the ChiComs pick first?
Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (anrTJ)

The already picked Biden.

Posted by: Bete at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (Ojki1)

499 Interesting story coming out of Houston. The powers that be are sending out workers to ask if you will voluntarily consent to a blood test to check for antibody levels.

I want to do my part. So I'll meet them half way and voluntarily provide a stool or semen sample.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (H5knJ)

500 488 That would have been awesome and scary to see. Signs and wonders, right? I wonder if anyone got video? I am sure someone had to, right?

Posted by: turambar at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (Gylu/)

501 Yes, CO has a purple level threat now
IT'S PURPLE DAMMIT

seriously, just an insanely high risk situation!

from a governor who practices sodomy with other men

Posted by: DB- just DB. at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (iTXRQ)

502 My doc buddy and I laugh at the chemist and shake our heads. Making plans to game anyway and I will run a new group. We ain't scaret. Keep in mind my doc buddy has had heart surgery twice and a heart attack recently. Had the ol' Widowmaker problem first off. He ain't scaret of some virus.
Posted by: turambar at November 18, 2020 02:23 PM (Gylu/)

My mom plays bridge at a big club a couple of times a week. They wear masks, use hand sanitizer, and nobody has gotten sick. They do the temp scan at the door walking in, and since it's mostly old people they just trust players to not come in sick. Basic hygiene works to slow the spread of disease. I'd guess the folks who are driving these spikes live piled up on each other and can't, or won't follow easy precautions.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (YkawN)

503 Also Trump said he was for masks to Lesley Stahl during the CBS interview.

Nobody's perfect, Joe.

Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (yQpMk)

504 Greetings:

Fauci learned his lessons back in the '80s. So there will be no public service ads about not practicing male homosex at all. Just lovey-dovey practitioners enjoy their "good" lives with taxpayer and insurance buyer drug subsidies.

Posted by: 11B40 at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (evgyj)

505 "Hell is other people" - Sartre.

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Specifically, Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, Schiff . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (+y/Ru)

506 >>I've always thought last-man-on-earth scenarios sound like heaven

Yep - those Twilight Zones were not scary at all.

Posted by: garrett loves the classics at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (lSBnQ)

507 472
NO DRAFT!

You'll catch ~~cold~~ COVID.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (hku12)

FIFY

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (ynpvh)

508 Positive coefficients that are statistically insignificant can be assumed to be zero.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (946rW)

That sounds suspiciously like science talk.

BURN THE WITCH!!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (hku12)

509 The Polesmoker has issued at least 230 EO's this year. What I have to say about him would get me banned.
Posted by: Infidel

Just do it from a VPN, some extremely creative vitriol is always welcome!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (ND961)

510 Of course, those of us who have seen too many sci-fi films can imagine it wasn't just a bunch of sand grains burning up in the atmosphere, but some sort of invasion....

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (U/dtz)

Taurid was a few days ago.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (xfb67)

511 An influenza-like-illness with a fatality rate that is nowhere near as high as first feared, a fatality rate that isn't much different than the rate of other viruses.

In the end, regardless of the mitigation effort -- whether we wear a mask or don't, self-quarantine or don't, lockdown or don't -- we're going insanely overboard to protect ourselves from... just another seasonal flu-like sickness. WTAF?

Posted by: Hands at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (786Ro)

512 I've always thought last-man-on-earth scenarios sound like heaven, unless there are zombies.

Posted by: irright at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (SchQD)>>>
If you're an avid reader do not break your glasses.

Posted by: Old Dude at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (LGXGf)

513 shooting stars. Not a lot of people saw it, but enough did for it to make the local news. Speculation is that the earth passed through a "wall of space dust" in under a minute. I didn't personally see it, but know someone who did, and said it was one of the eeriest and most amazing things she'd ever seen
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Leonids peaked Nov 16-Nov 17 early am. so - okay then.

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (D9z+d)

514 473 So I just looked at Denmark.

Back on May 17 they reported 69 new COVID cases.

Yesterday Wisconsin has 7,090 new COVID cases.
Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (6e3q5)

Whoa, I wonder if Danes no how to normalize variables to account for differences in COVID prevalence? Ah, wait they don't even have to do that since the comparison between mask wearing and not mask wearing does that automatically when both groups are run at the same time.

Posted by: All Just Part of the Plan at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (dYe5S)

515 I'm going to crochet a Mask of Malicious Compliance - just a super open granny square and defy anybody to crab at me about it. Everybody should do something like that.

Posted by: I Have Questions at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (RGRIY)

516 Is it a big deal that the Trump administration is placing civilian special ops directly under his administration?

Posted by: FloridachickTrump WON at November 18, 2020 02:31 PM (gU9Gm)

517 The Professor ain't got time for mask efficacy studies, he's busy DESTROYing vote fraud conspiracy theories.

Posted by: motionview (Prepped. Trained. Disorganized.) at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (pYQR/)

518 482 Why are we testing asymptomatic people?
Posted by: G'rump928(C) at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (yQpMk)

Because testing cures coronavirus.

WE NEED MORE TESTS!

Or something.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (UPoLF)

519 My 2 cents opinion is that they are making a full, last-ditch effort at the mask mandate madness sweepstakes so that they can say--just as Biden is wheezing his way through his Inauguration (ugh) -- that "we finally have the virus on the run!"
This way Biden gets credit when Trump's paused economy revs up again.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (HrMC1)

520

You gotta see Deblasies Christmas tree.

Holy fuck.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (lg/F7)

521 Please don't get them started on Standard Deviation.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (7Y5nA)
++++++++++++
I'll have you know, sir, that I am a decidedly non-standard deviant!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (hYcqw)

522 NO DRAFT!

You'll catch cold COVID.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (hku12)

FIFY
Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (ynpvh)

Meh. Same thing, as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (hku12)

523 Biden: Trump Refusing To Concede Is "More Embarrassing For The Country Than Debilitating For Me"

Gore: Is Trump trying to beat my record for longest refusal to concede?

Posted by: I can see the communism in your eyes at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (VoKVv)

524 And remember, YOU wearing a mask only protects others on the off chance you are actively symptomatic and sneezing, couging, gooing all over. We've ALWAYS known that it doesn't protect you from the virus.

So if you're actively worried about contracting the virus - STAY HOME and leave me the fuck out of your equation.

Posted by: deadrody at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (/jrmI)

525 Masks on US military bases is part of force protection that is federally mandated pretty sure you will find Trumps signature on it. Also Trump said he was for masks to Lesley Stahl during the CBS interview.
Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (uC74t)

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They are on Ft. Hood.

Sad.

Posted by: SMH at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (RU4sa)

526 Had Trump early on been a "mask" guy, the dynamic on this would be completely different with every science journal coming out with weekly articles about it makes things worse. Or gives people a false sense of security, etc

I'm really not being facetious here.

Posted by: Blago at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (gkdnV)

Completely agree. If he had said masks were the best way to go back in March, all of these studies that have come out saying they don't do anything for the uninfected would have been treated as "settled science" and we wouldn't be forced to wear them today.

Hell, if he wasn't president, this would have been treated like the swine flu under Obama, with most people oblivious it even existed.

Posted by: cheetahs at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (qwTxQ)

527 Can Boulder Terlit Hobo be reached for comment, or is he self-quarantining from the blog?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (7Fj9P)

B. and that's a good thing.

Posted by: WeBoned! at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (8k7U7)

528 Of course, those of us who have seen too many sci-fi films can imagine it wasn't just a bunch of sand grains burning up in the atmosphere, but some sort of invasion....

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (U/dtz)

At this point I would welcome an alien invasion.

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (5FCda)

529 but know someone who did, and said it was one of the eeriest and most amazing things she'd ever seen.
=======================
The Leonid meteor shower peaked last night.
Damn, wish I could have seen it.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (7Fj9P)

530 >>> Of course, those of us who have seen too many sci-fi films can imagine it wasn't just a bunch of sand grains burning up in the atmosphere, but some sort of invasion....
Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (U/dtz)

Night of the Comet turned out pretty well for the one surviving guy.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (l6b3d)

531 And since Trump is a known germaphobe...duh.

Posted by: SMH at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (RU4sa)

532 Someone needs to tell the illegals that we are Covid Maximus. We are getting fvcking flooded with them since the election. Its almost like some candidate promised amnesty or something.

I'm serious. It hasn't been this bad since GW Bush first got into office.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Si Vis Pacem, Pac Bellum) at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (N3El/)

Really sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (YkawN)

533 496
486

Please don't get them started on Standard Deviation.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (7Y5nA)

Plenty of non-standard deviants with their deviations.

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (ynpvh)

534 Making me wear one, however, is an affront to liberty.

Posted by: Shenanigans

--

+1.

My apologies if I came across in any other way.

Always, ALWAYS lean towards the side of personal freedom.

Posted by: Moron Robbie's - Keep praying, keep fighting, keep your head up, and keep your flag flying at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (XSoJN)

535 1 Yes, CO has a purple level threat now
IT'S PURPLE DAMMIT

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Moon man invasion?!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (+y/Ru)

536
Of course, those of us who have seen too many sci-fi films can imagine it wasn't just a bunch of sand grains burning up in the atmosphere, but some sort of invasion....
Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (U/dtz)

Given the option between unknown alien overlord and Tyrannical leftist leadership I am willing to give the space creatures a chance.

Posted by: Bete at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (Ojki1)

537 Infected = DEAD.
Testing positive = DEATH SENTENCE.
SHUT UP SERFS!

Those have been their mantras since they could test for it.

Screw the reality.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (TYUJ+)

538 >>>I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.
Posted by: Banned in the Cascadia at November 18, 2020 01:51 PM (KcqqB)

=======

And you have every right to do that if you choose.

I have the same right to choose NOT to.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (240Sf)

539 They are on Ft. Hood.

Sad.
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Glad Ft Hood has solved their terrorist and gang banger problems.

Posted by: SH at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (sX1BW)

540 I'm going to crochet a Mask of Malicious Compliance - just a super open granny square and defy anybody to crab at me about it. Everybody should do something like that.
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Other way to go would be the hose/stocking mask, you know the one bankrobbers use? Sends a message...

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (N0DgF)

541 Shenanigans, almost no masks being used provide source control. Only actual properly fitted and used N95-level masks provide some protection to the user. So no, the commonly heard thing about "protecting others" is precisely and spectacularly erroneous.

In fact, for symptomatic cases, good chance masks *exacerbate* the situation (potentially - again, all of this is non-material angels-on-pinheads silliness) by aerosolizing/nebulizing droplets, meaning any pathogen in both sediments more slowly (stays suspended in air longer) and is more likely to be breathed more deeply into the lungs, also a bad thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (OTzUX)

542 Night of the Comet turned out pretty well for the one surviving guy.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (l6b3d)

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Love that movie.

Posted by: SMH at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (RU4sa)

543 Plenty of non-standard deviants with their deviations.

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (ynpvh)

Quick look at nics.
*nods sagely*

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (7Y5nA)

544 My 2 cents opinion is that they are making a full, last-ditch effort at the mask mandate madness sweepstakes so that they can say--just as Biden is wheezing his way through his Inauguration (ugh) -- that "we finally have the virus on the run!"
This way Biden gets credit when Trump's paused economy revs up again.
Posted by: JoeF. at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (HrMC1)
++++++++++++
Yes, I agree, but not about masks. This is why Biden is going to his "4-6 week national lockdown" if he pulls off his theft. They'll do an illegal national lockdown, learn how to restrict travel and impose interstate martial law, declare victory, reopen over the subsequent 6-8 weeks, declare victory again, and then Biden rides the coattails of Trump's economic gains into 2022, whereupon they consolidate power and finish corrupting elections where they didn't get around to it last time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (hYcqw)

545 Fish net stockings worn over you face work?
Who knew!

Posted by: DamnedYankee at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (TYUJ+)

546 513 shooting stars. Not a lot of people saw it, but enough did for it to make the local news. Speculation is that the earth passed through a "wall of space dust" in under a minute. I didn't personally see it, but know someone who did, and said it was one of the eeriest and most amazing things she'd ever seen
==
Leonids peaked Nov 16-Nov 17 early am. so - okay then.
Posted by: simplemind

Yep, probably related to the Leonids - -apparently, according to historical records, once every few decades the Leonids produced brief "storms: of shooting stars, with hundreds visible every minute. This likely was once of those storms, but it happened just at dawn just on the edge of the continent, so was only visible to a few.

Posted by: zombie at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (U/dtz)

547 I'm pretty sure berets protect you from Wuhan flu. The downside is they attract fags.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (anrTJ)

548 Good story this morning on your tax dollars going to buy Biden votes in Arizona at The Federalist.

Posted by: motionview (Prepped. Trained. Disorganized.) at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (pYQR/)

549 >>> Plenty of non-standard deviants with their deviations.
Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (ynpvh)

And some kinds of deviated preverts.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (l6b3d)

550 Glad Ft Hood has solved their terrorist and gang banger problems.
Posted by: SH at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (sX1BW)

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My daughter cuts hair there.

She tells me a lot.

And the crap going on there has soldiers spooked.

Posted by: SMH at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (RU4sa)

551 I just looked it up and this is a busy month for meteor showers.

Crossing fingers for SMOD!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (xfb67)

552 490 461
A Dolphin nose mask might be cool. Or I could wear my old Hog's nose
mask to celebrate the NoNameSkins. Evidently the Redskins causing all
sorts of pandemonium.
Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:24 PM (anrTJ)
I prefer "plague doctor".
Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:29 PM (ynpvh)

I knew there was a reason that I bought "Vendetta" masks.

I also have the normal el cheapo mask, but with the
logo

"This mask is almost as useless as Governor Coonman!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (2C38g)

553 We don't need no stinking masks.

Posted by: The Angry Horde at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (jI02I)

554 547 I'm pretty sure berets protect you from Wuhan flu. The downside is they attract fags.
Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (anrTJ)

So does Harry Styles.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (TYUJ+)

555 -
--

Yes, CO has a purple level threat now

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At purple level, everyone must hold their breath until they pass out.

Posted by: irright at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (SchQD)

556 Other way to go would be the hose/stocking mask, you know the one bankrobbers use? Sends a message...
Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (N0DgF)
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Son...you've got a panty on your head.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Sea Chump at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (Uhu8A)

557 Hey everybody.

A tiny bit of good news: Apple TV has relented.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas are scheduled to have special, free public airings on PBS, per Deadline.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (L2ZTs)

558 Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection

...

I'm late to the thread but holy crap.

They jump from "hey it's not statistically significant" to "th very bleeding edge of the 95% confidence interval in the direction we like sounds really really good to us. We'll go with that."

Posted by: TexasDan at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (yL25O)

559 I will never be able to get a good seat in the comment section. Always showing up at like comment 450. Seeing as we need two separate economies anyway, one for CancelFraudORama and one for people who think we should be permitted to have diverse opinions and still work in and for organizations that people on Twitter have heard of, can some of you all retain me to do tons of your work so that I can refresh the page here on the reg during the work week?

No? Drat. I still plan to build my own global economy with a non-woke Internetwork and one-day Omozan shipping etc.

What I came here to say is to point out what a joke the mask science has been all along. We now have public and private institutions not only requiring masks but specifying types of masks that will not be permitted, ie, gaiters. Why? Well because they are "shown to be less effective." Have they, though?

Well, friend, let's look back to where this came from. As far as I can tell, the only basis for the conclusion that gaiters are less effective is from a low-end meme article in Science Advances call "Low-cost measurement of face mask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech." If you look at Fig. 2, you see they tested one gaiter. They do not identify who wore it or how they wore it, whether it stretched, how much it stretched. They do not identify the material the gaiter was made of, or whether they tested other materials. They do not identify the construction of the gaiter, such as whether it's a summerweight vented gaiter intended to prevent sunburn or a winterweight warming gaiter intended to prevent heat loss.

Simply, it's a grossly unscientific study that could've been put together by your kid for their grade school science fair. It's trash. But because it's from DUKE UNIVERSITY students, it was somehow ingested by our media propagandists as credible and has now been used as the basis for declaring tubular structures disposed around a wearer's head as totally ineffective for purposes of inhibiting the travel of aerosolized pathogens.

A later Duke Chronicle article admitted the flaws in this article and underlying study. It was rushed, it had a uselessly small sample size, the sensitivity of measurements was coarse, and so forth. But we still have high-level decisionmakers informing the requirements they're imposing on the general public based on the trash meme.

This microcosm seems representative of the larger body of #ScIeNCe around masks. But as we've discussed earlier this week, this is a matter of faith to the faithful, not a sober, rational study on the world as experienced in common by all humans regardless of their religion. Tony Fauci is the new Joel Osteen and the mask is his Christmas tree, the conspicuous and commercialized object having little to do with the underlying scripture.

Posted by: Turnout Man at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (7CyhL)

560 Love that movie.
Posted by: SMH at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (RU4sa)

Heh, me too.

"Daddy would've gotten us Uzis."

Posted by: Jordan61 - TRUMP WON at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (Ez6QX)

561 Masks on US military bases is part of force protection that is federally
mandated pretty sure you will find Trumps signature on it. Also Trump
said he was for masks to Lesley Stahl during the CBS interview.

This nauseates me.

I am supposed to fight for him and against the Commies while he cheerleads being forced to wear the Fauxist Harness of Submission??

Thin ice.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (3P/5p)

562 Yo WOPR, I heard you like the Barrel, so there's a Barrel in the Barrel so you can be in the Barrel while you're in the Barrel...

Posted by: Brother Tim (can't let go of 10 year old memes) at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (OUMaO)

563 It's probably been said but the masks and lockdowns have fuck all to do with stopping the Whu Flu.

It's all about testing the waters of authoritarian control.

What will the serfs put up with? How will the serfs react?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (i9ZF7)

564 Leftists: BELIEVE THE SCIENCE!

Also Leftists: BUT NOT THAT SCIENCE!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (KZzsI)

565 On Friday the 13th a previously undetected asteroid passed very close to the earth, I have read today.
We dodged a bullet.

Posted by: navybrat, at large at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (w7KSn)

566 Does anyone have a good reason why the fuck the GA gov would enter into any kind of agreement with Abrams?

I think I underestimated her. Its not often someone beats you in an election, and then you cow them to do what you want.

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (7Z5/k)

567 I don't mind if you're sick and wear a mask. That is if you also tie your hands behind your back and don't touch anything.

Posted by: Alabaster Jones at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (WUuhi)

568 At this point I would welcome an alien invasion.
Posted by: Gaelic Girl at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (5FCda)

Definitely gonna' hear them out. I'm open to collaboration.

Posted by: Always Be Lurking at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (8QnUe)

569 when we had to fly yo the NOVAMOME Heidi made black masks out of gauze.
Mine had LOLGF on it.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (7Y5nA)

570 553
We don't need no stinking masks.

Posted by: The Angry Horde at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (jI02I)

As often as most people wash theirs, I take that literally.

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (ynpvh)

571 At purple level, everyone must hold their breath until they pass out.

Posted by: irright at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (SchQD)

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lol

Posted by: SMH at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (RU4sa)

572 And the crap going on there has soldiers spooked.
Posted by: SMH at November 18, 2020 02:35 PM (RU4sa)

{{{SMH}}}
Any specifics? If this was covered above, I apologize for asking!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (2C38g)

573 Remember when it was the height of irresponsibility for Trump to talk about HCQ since there were no double blind studies as to the efficacy of it as a treatment for covid?

But at the same time, we implemented world wide lock downs and mask mandates without any double blind studies whatsoever?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (UPoLF)

574 Monmouth Poll: 77% of Trump voters think Biden "won" because of Fraud.

Posted by: 77% of 70+ million = at November 18, 2020 02:38 PM (BBWrU)

575 565 On Friday the 13th a previously undetected asteroid passed very close to the earth, I have read today.
We dodged a bullet.
Posted by: navybrat, at large at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (w7KSn)

Did we though?

Posted by: Jollyroger at November 18, 2020 02:38 PM (7Z5/k)

576 At this point I would welcome an alien invasion.
___

You want a visit from Xev or Zev Bellringer

You'll settle for competent overlords a la the British.

You'll get a mix of the V and They Live aliens. And they'll all look like Lena Dunham

Posted by: Obligatory at November 18, 2020 02:38 PM (qlFIA)

577 They jump from "hey it's not statistically significant" to "th very bleeding edge of the 95% confidence interval in the direction we like sounds really really good to us. We'll go with that."

Posted by: TexasDan at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (yL25O)

Damn it, Jim! I'm a Scientist, not a statistician!

Posted by: Karen at November 18, 2020 02:38 PM (yQpMk)

578 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas are scheduled to have special, free public airings on PBS, per Deadline.
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I pretty much hated that shit when I was a kid. I did like the soundtrack.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 18, 2020 02:38 PM (anrTJ)

579 I've traveled across the country three times since March.

6 airports, of course several planes, spent 3 weeks with a 91 year
old, people who traveled from WA state, and people who had spent time in
Mexico. How hard is it to get COVID? I did my best.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 18, 2020 01:59 PM (jUVms)

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Amateur. I work full-time in a convenience store (more than 12 years). I have close contact with 100s of people every shift. Traveled to Texas a couple of months ago. Survived the experience. So far, so good.

Posted by: mrp at November 18, 2020 02:38 PM (Pqytn)

580 On Friday the 13th a previously undetected asteroid passed very close to the earth, I have read today.
We dodged a bullet.
Posted by: navybrat, at large at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (w7KSn)

The Universe is just toying with us!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at November 18, 2020 02:39 PM (2C38g)

581 519 My 2 cents opinion is that they are making a full, last-ditch effort at the mask mandate madness sweepstakes so that they can say--just as Biden is wheezing his way through his Inauguration (ugh) -- that "we finally have the virus on the run!"
This way Biden gets credit when Trump's paused economy revs up again.
Posted by: JoeF. at November 18, 2020 02:32 PM (HrMC1)

PA doing this when their election is going to come under scrutiny at SCOTUS just seems...ill advised? The state is really threatening to break down doors and arrest people who don't wear masks inside their own homes? Honestly, congrats to John Roberts. What a champion of the Constitution.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at November 18, 2020 02:39 PM (YkawN)

582 556
Other way to go would be the hose/stocking mask, you know the one bankrobbers use? Sends a message...

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (N0DgF)

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Son...you've got a panty on your head.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Sea Chump at November 18, 2020 02:36 PM (Uhu8A)

SPANKS for those with big fatty heads!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:39 PM (7Y5nA)

583 569 when we had to fly yo the NOVAMOME Heidi made black masks out of gauze.
Mine had LOLGF on it.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (7Y5nA)

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Bebe has a pic of me sporting my 'Front Toward Enemy' mask at the TxMoMee.

Pretty sure FTE masks were door prizes also.

Posted by: SMH at November 18, 2020 02:39 PM (RU4sa)

584 Had a link yesterday that Listerine and other mouthwashes with certain ingredient I can't recall kills virtually 99% of all Chinese virus on contact.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 18, 2020 01:58 PM (s2VJv)

(Martha Stewart voice)

"Great! Today's project: we all take our bodies apart, bathe each cell in Listerine, and then re-assemble them, and become disease-free!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2020 02:39 PM (y8Y7/)

585 nood

Gavin Antoinette

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 18, 2020 02:39 PM (ZR7kf)

586 NOOD NEWSOM

Posted by: runner at November 18, 2020 02:39 PM (zr5Kq)

587 I assume I am a carrier at all times and wear a mask to avoid spraying my saliva all over town.
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Do you fart?

Seriously.

I assume you wear underwear and pants around town.

When you fart can you smell it? Can other people smell it? Yes. Yes they can. And your underwear and pants no more block the volatiles that smell than does your little paper mask block your aerosolized germs. Sure they stop the chunks of stool from a patulous sphincter, but everyone is still treated to the smell. And that smell is aerosolized shit. That's right baby. You are walking around in all kinds of garbage all day long. Get. Over. It. It could be worse. You could be a fish in the ocean.

Posted by: Poet Laureate Material at November 18, 2020 02:39 PM (hXF7w)

588 568
At this point I would welcome an alien invasion.

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (5FCda)

Definitely gonna' hear them out. I'm open to collaboration.

Posted by: Always Be Lurking at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (8QnUe)

Look to the southern border if Biden get in...

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:40 PM (ynpvh)

589 They are on Ft. Hood.

Sad.
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Glad Ft Hood has solved their terrorist and gang banger problems.
Posted by: SH at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (sX1BW)

How many soldiers have been killed by the Covids?

0? Is the number 0? I bet it's zero.

And leaving aside all the Ft. Hood soldiers who've been sent over the Middle East and picked off there for no good damn reason, how many terrorist kills?

But everyone wears a mask. No one is allowed to carry a weapon for personal protection.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 18, 2020 02:40 PM (hku12)

590 527 Can Boulder Terlit Hobo be reached for comment, or is he self-quarantining from the blog?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 18, 2020 02:21 PM (7Fj9P)

B. and that's a good thing.
Posted by: WeBoned! at November 18, 2020 02:33 PM (8k7U7)

Not totally B. A COB gave him a time out a bit back, and Karen may just have forgotten how to return. Maybe discovered it's PC wasn't wearing a mask and was too afraid to touch it.

Posted by: Bete at November 18, 2020 02:40 PM (Ojki1)

591 I love Trump and I believe in him. He'll fight this til the end.

But tweets like "I WON THIS ELECTION!!" --his caps--just don't sound convincing.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 18, 2020 02:40 PM (HrMC1)

592 I suspect that the masks were simply intended to protect the population from infected persons coughing and sneezing the virus all over everyone else.

In the mind of the Karens, masks have somehow become humanity's only hope - an impenetrable shield of viral disinfectant.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at November 18, 2020 02:40 PM (uWF4x)

593 Meanwhile, there was a science-fiction-level event over the SF Bay Area yesterday just at dawn -- hundreds (possibly thousands) of shooting stars suddenly filled the sky, all in under 30 seconds -- very short, but bright (hence visible even as daylight dawned) burning up meteorites streaking just briefly before burning up.
Posted by: zombie

The Leonid meteor peaked tuesday.

Their results from debris left by Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle that passed by in '98.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 18, 2020 02:41 PM (VsHYs)

594 But at the same time, we implemented world wide lock downs and mask mandates without any double blind studies whatsoever?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes, actively looking for a job rigging elections at November 18, 2020 02:37 PM (UPoLF)

A good narrative is more significant than the result so of any conceivable double blind study!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Rulers Have Earned, And Deserve, Different Rules! at November 18, 2020 02:41 PM (2C38g)

595 it not a real crisis until Mayor Beetlejuice shows up in a superhero costume

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:41 PM (KZzsI)

596 Other way to go would be the hose/stocking mask, you know the one bankrobbers use? Sends a message...

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:34 PM (N0DgF)

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Son...you've got a panty on your head.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Sea Chump at

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Personally I'd go old school and use a stocking hose not the panty hose. tie a knot in the toe end so it isn't flooping around. Old school bank robber style.

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:42 PM (/7y2G)

597 Senator Chuck Grassley quarantines after returning positive COVID-19 result

Posted by: Allen at November 18, 2020 02:42 PM (+d5ne)

598 These were supposedly temporary "emergency" measures.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 18, 2020 02:42 PM (EZebt)

599 Positive coefficients that are statistically insignificant can be assumed to be zero.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 18, 2020 02:28 PM (946rW)

Please don't get them started on Standard Deviation.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:30 PM (7Y5nA)

I am just saying no one with a lick of statistical sense would claim that masks "definitely reduce transmission" while at the same time claim that the effects are statistically insignificant.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 18, 2020 02:43 PM (946rW)

600 596
Personally I'd go old school and use a stocking hose not the panty
hose. tie a knot in the toe end so it isn't flooping around. Old
school bank robber style.

Posted by: simplemind at November 18, 2020 02:42 PM (/7y2G)

There was a time not too long ago, that I would be arrested if I put on a mask before entering a bank. Now, if I DON'T put one on before I enter, I might get arrested. Welcome to Bizzaro World.

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:43 PM (ynpvh)

601 Masks for Industry! Masks for the Dead!

Posted by: ProfShade tending the Pale Fire at November 18, 2020 02:43 PM (BdDfF)

602 Meanwhile, there was a science-fiction-level event over the SF Bay Area yesterday just at dawn -- hundreds (possibly thousands) of shooting stars suddenly filled the sky, all in under 30 seconds

Plagues, famines, fires, flooding, earthquakes, signs in the sky, how many more classic signs from God have to show up in a short time period before people start to repent?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:43 PM (KZzsI)

603 Senator Chuck Grassley quarantines after returning positive COVID-19 result
Posted by: Allen at November 18, 2020 02:42 PM (+d5ne)

Ethanol Chuck should be quarantined as a private citizen. Old fuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 18, 2020 02:43 PM (6xjxI)

604 ... the wearer of a face mask may change to a less cautious behavior because of a false sense of security, as pointed out by WHO (17); accordingly, our face mask group seemed less worried (Supplement Table 4), which may explain their increased willingness to wear face masks in the future (Supplement Table 5).

https://tinyurl.com/y428orj4

Posted by: Two masks would then double the false sense at November 18, 2020 02:43 PM (BBWrU)

605 599
I
am just saying no one with a lick of statistical sense would claim that
masks "definitely reduce transmission" while at the same time claim
that the effects are statistically insignificant.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 18, 2020 02:43 PM (946rW)

Significantly Insignificant.

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:44 PM (ynpvh)

606 Its still federal law that you cannot wear a mask in a bank... except when the local authorities say you must do so, which trumps all law and code.

Governors and Mayors are loving this, they can totally ignore the legislature and existing laws for as long as they can keep the people terrified.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:45 PM (KZzsI)

607 605
599

I

am just saying no one with a lick of statistical sense would claim that

masks "definitely reduce transmission" while at the same time claim

that the effects are statistically insignificant.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 18, 2020 02:43 PM (946rW)

Significantly Insignificant.

Posted by: jim at November 18, 2020 02:44 PM (ynpvh)
Thats Mean.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at November 18, 2020 02:47 PM (7Y5nA)

608 Experts have called this election. Kudos CNN!

Posted by: Erik Errorickson at November 18, 2020 02:47 PM (+y8uL)

609 The Angel of Death is closing the schools starting tomorrow. So parents have, perhaps, 18 hours to arrange child care.

Eliza Shapiro
@elizashapiro
BREAKING: NYC school system will temporarily close tomorrow. Chancellor Carranza just announced in email to principals.

https://bit.ly/2ITIEVu

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at November 18, 2020 02:48 PM (+y/Ru)

610 Don't get the hee-hawing about this. The study is in line with other literature on mask wearing that was available as the pandemic started (ie, effectiveness of surgical masks on the spread of viral respiratory infections).

Masks are effective in arresting the spread of a virus throughout a population when the vast majority of folks use them. They aren't some kind of silver bullet on the individual level when mask use is haphazard across the population (what this study looked at).

Kind of like, you should cough into your elbow and wash your hands regularly. Doing those two things does not guarantee that you'll never get (or spread) a viral infection, but if 95% of people do those two things, you end up with *a lot* less people infected across a population.

Not rocket science, am puzzled where the confusion is coming from.

Posted by: Doug at November 18, 2020 02:49 PM (J2UyQ)

611 btw, just occurred to me that Boulder t'hobo or whatever has been gone for a while now too. He was another covid fear fanatic.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 18, 2020 02:05 PM (Kpl3J)

Maybe the China cooties got him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2020 02:49 PM (y8Y7/)

612 Thomas,

No pneumonia. She didn't even have a fever during the entire thing. But she was very weak, had no appetite and low oxygen. After a week of treatment at the NH, she was transferred to the hospital. She was there for about 4 days, receiving more and more oxygen (she wouldn't keep the mask on) and the next step was a ventilator. She had a long-standing DNR which emphasized NO VENTILATOR NO MATTER WHAT. So the only option was hospice, which, by this time was up to my brother and I (advanced Alzheimer's) and we respected her wishes. So they took her off oxygen, put her on morphine and 2 days later, she peacefully slipped away. Covid is a much kinder death than alzhemer's.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 18, 2020 02:52 PM (6wv4p)

613 As someone who has had 25 years experience in liquid particle science as well as 10 years airborne particle science as well as a owning a company that builds equipment for disinfecting, sanitizing, and sterilizing rooms and equipment. I can tell you that masks are not efficient at anything other than filling the pocket book of the mask maker.
The PM2.5 is a 2.5 micron size whereas the Xi-Ping virus is 25 time smaller than the pore size of the mask.
N95 are 5 times larger in pore size; however, need to be frequently changed due to the porosity of the mask with respect to the wicking of the water vapor exhaled during each breath; you are literally clogging the mask with your breath.
If you can smell a fart with a mask on (which you should try), it does not work.
If anything, wash both your hands AND face when taking off your face-diaper petri dish of "DO WHAT WE FUCKING TELL YOU TO DO, PLEBE!!!"

Posted by: jdubya_mesa_AZ at November 18, 2020 02:55 PM (FQ2t6)

614 Yeah they regularly use hand sanitizer and most importantly on the whole are people who are much less likely to get ill than the average public. In other words, they aren't just less likely to get this stuff, they're less likely to get ANYTHING, mask or not.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 18, 2020 02:11 PM (KZzsI)

They are also likely to be changing their masks as often as they see fir, because they are there for the taking. Clean fresh masks, not old soggy ones.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2020 02:58 PM (y8Y7/)

615 #302 Posted by: WOPR - Election Theater Participant at November 18, 2020 02:07 PM (J70i0)
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I've been waiting for you.

Posted by: The Barrel at November 18, 2020 03:11 PM (JNTt1)

616 But Pennsylvania thinks they have the right to enforce a mask mandate inside citizens' homes? Are they begging SCOTUS to just skip the formalities and give Trump his 4 more years right now?
Posted by: Eric Schmidt at November 18, 2020 02:25 PM (YkawN)

Is "Eric Schmidt" a sticky sock? You are the lady in northern Nevada, right?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2020 03:12 PM (y8Y7/)

617 Back on May 17 they reported 69 new COVID cases.

Yesterday Wisconsin has 7,090 new COVID cases.
Posted by: Greange at November 18, 2020 02:26 PM (6e3q5)

Cases? Or positive tests? It isn't a "case" unless the individual seeks medical help.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2020 03:15 PM (y8Y7/)

618 Thus, the wisdom of the Hodge Twins is verified:

If you can smell a fart through your pants, a mask isn't gonna stop a virus.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at November 18, 2020 03:56 PM (iXK+X)

619 So we spend bazzilions on contract tracing and such and we have no damn idea how covid spreads? Glad Cuomo and everybody else is on the job.

Posted by: Jimmy at November 18, 2020 04:55 PM (aDCvS)

620 Silly Soothsayer, Finland isn't real! ,:-p

Posted by: funsize at November 18, 2020 04:58 PM (gbEV2)

621 I cannot stand AllahPundit anymore. He went from being my favorite writer on HotAir to being the written equivalent nails on chalkboard. Interestingly, Jazz went into the opposite direction for me. I appreciated Ed's take on religious freedom matters, but he's pretty disappointing too.

When Trump was first elected, I could not stand him (but I was thrilled to see Hillary sad) and was not fond of Ace's material anymore. I wasn't quite a Never Trumper, but I refused to vote for him in 2016. However, I kept an open mind and allowed myself to be persuaded of his policies and style. AP and his ilk refuse to see the shifting winds.

Posted by: Chris Valentine at November 18, 2020 05:41 PM (lexNk)

622 You can have the virus, be asymptomatic, and pass it along to people without ever knowing you had it. At least 20% of the people with the virus don't know it.

You can kill someone, and you'll never know it.
This isn't about politics, it's about simply doing what's right.

Posted by: Sam at November 18, 2020 06:19 PM (Vtlun)

623 Why do people call the pox that is among us "COVID"?

Why don't they call it what it really is: the CHINESE GERM WARFARE EXPERIMENT?
You know--part of UNRESTRICTED WAR AGAINST THE WEST.

Posted by: Kurtz at November 18, 2020 08:20 PM (0YZ6P)

624 .
Wear your Covid veil, infidel!

Posted by: Mongo at November 18, 2020 09:26 PM (PxT1v)

625 "there are zero controlled studies demonstrating that lockdowns reduced covid transmission significantly, either!"

This is a blatant lie.

Go back to last March. The worldometers.info charts will do for a data source. Set up a spreadsheet, entering the number of reported cases in the USA in one column, call it column A. In column B, set up the formula A2 minus A1 and copy/paste that on down the column for a while, so each cell measures the difference between the next two A cells. That's your new cases per day. In column C, set up the formula B2/A1 and paste that on down; that's your percentage increase per day. In column D, set up the formula log(2)/log(1+c2) and copy/paste that on down; that's your doubling time.l

You will see - it is blatantly obvious, it's in black and white numbers right there in your spreadsheet - that the percentage growth rate in the early stages of the epidemic was around 30% per day and stayed there, giving a doubling time of total cases of 2-3 days, and stayed there.

Until a week AFTER the lockdowns started getting implemented. That is to say, precisely the lag time one would expect in terms of seeing a change in symptoms after the incubation period.

Then all of a sudden the percentage growth rate and doubling time start dropping like rocks, settling in at 2% and 25 or so days, and eventually converging toward a six-week doubling time through the summer.

The lockdowns did that. It is right there in the data. It happened exactly at the time lag point it should have happened given the lag from symptomless incubation.

Everyone saying the lockdowns did nothing is lying like a Democrat.

Posted by: Rollory at November 19, 2020 08:19 AM (o4JeY)

626 Those 138,000 identical names in Michigan and Pennsylvania with identical birth dates. I am willing to wager 100 Quatloos that nobody is going to be able to find all of those people in either of those two states. I'll also wager an additional 100 Quatloos that those people can be found in California. When the democrats needed extra voters in those states I'll bet they just went to the most convenient list they had.
Somebody might want to check if those same voters are in Wisconsin, Georgia, and Virginia also.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 21, 2020 11:32 PM (Wf/fS)

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