Sars Cov 2 … the grinder continues to eat away at resources and humanity.

where would u like to go? the basement,attick,or camp in the front yard?

Can’t do any of those.

But I did install a breeze maker on my desk because that’s pretty worthless at this point.

I here the Kitchen is nice during this time of year.

Oh jazzz.... forgive me.... I forgot....

How did the weird family thing go?

Good point. However, the Cuban Missile Crisis was something that could LEAD to nuke war. Our actions took the Rookis by surprise.

In 1982, Andropov proposed a BOOB Attack (Bolt Out O tha Blue) to take us by surprise.

BTW, in a real nuke war game, you ALWAYS go for the other guy's nuke forces FIRST. You need to disarm them, making sure you do NOT kill the leader.

You hold the cities and their people as hostages, i.e., "We wish to negotiate. It would be a tragedy if we had to nuke your cities now".

OMG. let's see. i spoke with my half-bro from CA. dad can't climb stairs.so i didn't even have to think farther. guess bro is working with agencies there to find something like a assist. living apt.

but bro did not call dad. dad called me.and is still talking craziness.LOL

but then GF and i got thinking. if he was here he can't see my mom either. she is scheduled to get shot next week. i tried talk her out of it. doc told her to. so figure that is shot #1 add 2 weeks+ to shot #2 and time after before she would b officially immune and not contagious. that itself is at least a month longer than next week.

i don't see where we can b of help at all. i see him being there and has more options faster.

want more? GF's mom is set to get shot next fri. now these ppl all were running around all year like the virus was nothing,wehy they scared now? dumb dumbs

Not sure who said this as the quotes are messed up but I would appreciate an elaboration... "The major threat to the USA is from internal takeover."

Wise words sir...

On Friday, Alberta reported 1,100 new COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of eight per cent. It was the first time since early January the province reported over 1,000 cases in one day. Out of the 1,100 new cases identified, 300 were variants of concern.

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Hey if the South Africa variant is so scary, why are they doing better than pretty much any US state or European nation?

Because it an ass backwards country and you know damn well that most countries in that continent lack the ability to truly track this China Asshole Virus.

Less than 50%

South Africa has registered as many as 52,000 COVID-19 deaths since its first case in March 2020. However, its excess deaths, recorded since May 2020, stands at nearly 147,000.

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And their plateau has never gone below 500..... population 59 million.... yeah...their testing is shit.

That’s Iowa’s plateau with a population of 3 million.

No. Sorry dude. They just haven’t had their next wave yet.

Why are their cases lower than at any point since last May?

Lack of travel....mass transit.... too poor to test.... natural wave progression.....

Take your pick.

But whatever helps you keep going.... the ebbs and flows will be nice until they aren’t. When that happens depends on the country and it’s people.

But a plateau of anything AINT nothing to be excited about.

I had a dream where I was trying to stay safe yet everyone around me no matter who they were weren't taking any precautions, even with people dropping dead right next to them. I was trying to escape the city after zombies took over.

Hmmm......

Happy Easter everyone. Don't get infected at dinner!

Amen.

were u chased by tomatoes too?

They had enough money to find 20k cases per day in January.

Also, they lifted their lockdown a month ago.

I adore you. But you are looking for a unicorn.

As long as we have internet..... you are going to cycle through this line of reasoning.

Between your runners and Dyin’s zombies..... we don’t even need extra cases to fuck us over as much as we are already fucked.

Okay. Iowa is definitely fucking with the numbers.

I went to the dashboard this morning ....

381810

Now it’s

381807

Let’s face the fact that no one has a proper idea of how many positives there are walking around.

Minked.

Iowa catching up on death investigations. 68 reported today.

472 new 24 hour cases

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Darth, I thought you were referring to this--but this was in '83
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Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world

Thirty years ago, on 26 September 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster.

In the early hours of the morning, the Soviet Union's early-warning systems detected an incoming missile strike from the United States. Computer readouts suggested several missiles had been launched. The protocol for the Soviet military would have been to retaliate with a nuclear attack of its own.

But duty officer Stanislav Petrov - whose job it was to register apparent enemy missile launches - decided not to report them to his superiors, and instead dismissed them as a false alarm.

This was a breach of his instructions, a dereliction of duty. The safe thing to do would have been to pass the responsibility on, to refer up.

But his decision may have saved the world.

Less than 50%

That was also around the time of the movie "War Games;" etc.

BTW Riff that movie was the one with the cool special effects of the moon breaking up...it was so-so overall, tbh.


it came up and started playing after I had watched something else on the big tv so we just let it play...surprised that YT has added so many free movies lately....

Here's the some FL numbers from yesterday:
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State's deaths rise by 66 one day after 92; cases' increase 6,017, third day in row above 6,000
Daily first-time positivity rates rise: Florida from 6.09% to 6.31, Palm Beach County from, 4.98% to 6.57%

Ik there's a whole other thread about vaccine passports, but not for FL

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Florida governor signs executive order banning vaccine passport use at businesses
‘We will not have COVID vaccines mandated in Florida,’ Gov. Ron DeSantis says

Another "breakthrough" case in a 23 year old in Virginia
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However, nearly seven weeks after her second shot, Rayhill started to feel ill. At first, she brushed it off as a cold or exhaustion, but later received a shocking diagnosis: She tested positive for COVID-19.

And just because it's a holiday---

https://imgur.com/a/mpCzbeb

One of the few times I had my phone handy when he was doing something...
TB--So what's Missy doing?
And to all those who celebrate it, Happy Easter!

Bastetcat loves your words! As do the rest of us!

At the risk of opening myself to a bit of flaming I'd like to add a "joker" to the deck related to age.

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago we were all taught that there were these pesky things called facts. Facts were data points that, for the most part, we agreed helped us decide what reality was. We didn't always agree on interpretation but, in the final analysis, we worked our way back to the facts of a matter.

Somewhere along the line that changed.

More and more, and we see it here as well, there's been a subtle mutation which now suggests we must "respect and honor" what people think and how they feel. While from the standpoint of emotional intelligence that has some value, there as many instances where what someone "thinks and feels", to the extent it runs counter to the facts, is at best useless and at worst very, very dangerous.

The most obvious examples can be seen in what passes for the thought processes of some of our more clown car eligible politicians.

They either believe or pretend to believe that whatever they "think" somehow magically becomes reality. And if they write it or broadcast it, "voila", that thought or emotion now becomes a "fact".

It's one thing when an eight year old engages in this sort of magical transformation, it's quite another when it's done by people who are, at least chronologically, considered to be adults.

In my best Rod Serling voice...: "Consider if you will the following scenario. A group of "leaders" are engaged in a battle of opinions, separated from reality, about what to do about a foreign countries actions toward a putative ally..."

Bastetcat, thanks for asking. She seems to be ok. I'm going to get the name of my bil's vet and try to make an appt. It may be a tooth problem that I can't see. I give her canned and dry food. She eats from both. She LOVES gravy! LOL I used to give her the canned as a treat, but I give it to her every day now. She doesn't eat as much of the kibble anymore.

Turns out, getting vet appt.'s are pretty hard to get still. Covid protocols. They don't make as many as they used to. I've called a couple in town and one isn't taking new patients. The other didn't have any openings for several months.

I think I'm going to go ahead and give her a wormer. Can't remember when she had one last. It's been awhile.

Lago, the reply was from me ref Ukraine.

Ref the "major threat", let me tell you what I personally experienced.

Back in 1984 I was an aerospace engineer working on Star Wars projects. The Air Force Association asked me if I would debate a college professor at Whittier College. I accepted.

My opponent, a Dr. Dillman, IIRC, of UC Riverside, made some outlandish claims during our debate. I was certain that he could not possibly believe what he had claimed.

Afterwards, I went over, shook his hand, and asked him, "So, you understand that the stated reason for the SDI program is to stop nuclear weapons from hitting the USA, right?"

He said yes.

I continued, "If there is a nuclear war with the USSR, do you want their nuclear weapons to hit our cities?"

He said emphatically, "YES!"

I was flabbergasted, "So, if there is a war, you want the USSR to win?"

He again replied loudly, "YES!"

I did not understand. I asked why.

He looked at me like I was stupid and yelled, "BECAUSE I AM A COMMUNIST!"

Lago, we have millions of people in the USA who HATE us and want the downfall of our country. That is what I am referring to.

u must have the Phillipinio version. those are known to come back to life. happened over a year ago there.

timeline added.

better make more popcorn. goina b ruff month.