swanpride
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This is still my favourite instruction video:
The fun part starts around the 0:30 mark
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I am working from home anyway...but the people who life with me don't, and they have a lot of contact during the day. Hence we are practicing "social distancing" in our own home, as much as possible.
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Not a spoiler, but good thing that AoS has already been filmed...currently movie and TV show productions are shut down left and right.
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Well, the numbers look maybe better than elsewhere because we test more people, hence we have more of the light cases in the statistic. We will know more in a month or so, when we might reach Italians level. In the area I live, there was never a chance to escape, because it is the most densely populated area in already densely populated Germany, and a logistic hotspot, with a lot of Autobahn meeting in the area. Plus, multiple airports.
The upside is that there are a lot of hospitals and doctors, too.
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CNBC has less credibility than Fox news?
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I am not overly worried. I am not part of the risk group and being in Germany, I can trust our healthcare system. So far we had only three deaths, and those were all people who had already really bad health (one of them was over 90. I just don't want to accidentally infect my mother.
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Well, in my area there are more and more cases. I guess it is only a matter of time until I get infected, if I haven't already.
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So I guess people didn't manage to avoid the "full" subway waggons didn't they? WHAT a surprise!
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The BAD version of the lion king, not even the good one!
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Weather Disney cares or not, they are not stupid. A picture of Donald with a cork screw penis is a one minute laugh which is fast forgotten, but the moment you censor it is the moment everyone pays attention to it.
Honestly, I am always surprised that I am still surprised how inept the organisation of law enforcement in the US is. The Steven Seagal bit was maybe the cherry on top...how they hell did we end up with an actor telling law enforcement officers to not hesitate and shoot when confronted with a potential school shooter? That is wrong on so many levels! It is only a matter of time before an officer who went through this training ends up shooting an innocent kid for the crime of having a "dangerous looking" skin colour at the wrong time at the wrong place.
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Just because he attended one of the conferences it doesn't mean that Trump or his staff er infected.
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Btw, I don't think that Sheriffs should be elected in the first place, especially not considering how much power is given to them. The part about them being able to draw money out of prisons is especially worrisome. Yes, technically both police and prisons are part of the executive, but they are still two areas which shouldn't be interconnected with each other.
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The tests are the smallest problem...I bet that a lot of people who are ill don't go to the doctor, but still go to work, because they have no choice. But Trump is mostly concerned about testing as few people as possible, because in his mind the lower the number of the infected look, the better for him, never mind how many people are actually ill. There is no way that the numbers are coming from the US are correct, since there are already infections in people who had no contact whatsoever to people from the "hot spots", it means that the virus is out in the wild, so to speak. Hell, I am sitting in the middle of the German hotspot, and I would rather be here than anywhere in the US. Because I can at least trust that whatever happens, there will be care extended to me, and that my government does its very best to slow down the spread as much as possible.
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Well, third season dropped and I binge watched it...wow...they really wanted to deliver some gut punches.
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Oh, I am not worried about Sebastian Stan. I am looking forward to him getting more to do, considering how much he made so far out of the little he has been given.
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Macie has charisma to spades. I am not sure of his acting range, but whatever it is, Sam Wilson certain is within it.
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Sure, but let's be real, most people don't. And I don't use the last step anyway, the kind of faucet we have can be closed by lightly pressing down on it with your wrist.
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I admit that I have a hard time keeping my hands out of the face. I do a lot of "thinking" in front of the computer, and I have now noticed that every time I do, I put my hand under my chin, often with my pinkie finger right over the corner of my mouth, or with my whole hand in front of my mouth, so that the tips of my fingers are touching it.
Strange what you notice once you pay attention to it.
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I wonder if the song actually helped to stop the virus....
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I don't think that it is really about containing anymore. It's about slowing it down, if for no other reason than preventing an overload at our health services. The equipment needed in the worst cases of the virus, to help people keep breathing isn't limitless. They don't want to get into a situation in which they have to leave people for dead just because other people have a better survival chance then them (or in case of the US, because they happen to be poorer).
Plus, while the whole "april" thing is idiotic, there is a kernel of truth in it that it spreads slower in hotter climate, so it can maybe be contained in the summer. Hence the slowdown might safe a lot of lives in the long run.
Not to mention that every day more is another day they can look for treatments.
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One shouldn't forget that face masks were invented for doctors who were operating to prevent gems reaching the patient and creating post-operational complications, NOT to protect doctors from getting ill. That's another kind of face mask, the one which the CDC uses. So before you stand in a queue in order to get one, you might consider that the very act of standing in said queue puts you at more risk than going without a face mask. Not to mention that those face masks need to get handled properly, too.
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I don't think that they have a chance to really keep it at bay, also because people are just incredible egoistic. We had a case of a pair which celebrated carnival...most people who celebrated with them readily accepted two weeks of quarantine, which turned one of our smaller towns into a ghost town. Ironically none of them showed any signs of infection. Who did was one women who celebrated there but apparently just decided to ignore the fact that she might have gotten ill, so she run around the last two weeks, happily spreading the virus around. In the city I am living in.
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Honestly, out of the "developed" countries, the US is the one which worries me the most. Not just because of Trump, but also because of the sh... health care system. Over here, when someone feels bad, we seek help (currently we are advised though to NOT go to the doctor if we show symptoms of the virus but instead call in). But in the US? Most people will only go if there is really no other choice, which leaves who knows how many people running around with what they maybe think is just a light cold, and they might even go to work with a light fever because that's the culture the US is encouraging.
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Why not? If they sell it, there must be enough people who like it....
S07.E05: Coronavirus (Covid-19)
in Last Week Tonight
That the whole thing with the lock-down is mostly to "flatten the curve" to use a phrase I heard very often in the last month is something I am very aware off...over here, our politicians mostly stock to announcements regarding the measures they take to help people to survive the crisis economical speaking. But the medical messaging, that is done by the Robert Koch Institute. They do daily briefing by experts and explain every development.
Over here, we should know in ten days if the current measures have helped to "flatten the curve".
What a LOT of people forget is that this is not just about Corona patients. They think "well, I am not in the risk group, so I will most likely survive it". Which is correct, but that doesn't prevent you from having a heart attack, or an accident or getting in another situation in which you need an intensive care unit, fast. If they are all filled up with Corona patients, you won't get the help needed. That is the current situation in Italy, while the current count of Corona victims is 2.158, the number of people who died because of the situation is most likely higher.
Trump btw REALLY managed to p... Germans off this week. There is a company which developing special kind of vaccines and is naturally working (along with a number of other companies and institutes) on Corona. Trump (or his people, but let's be honest, those are roughly the same thing) tried to secure the exclusive rights for the potential vaccine for the US market. Now, the company basically showed him the middle finger, since the main shareholders are actually investing in those kind of companies in order to improve society, and they have been very clear that should they find the solution, they would share it with the world equally. But our government has also been very clear in the wake of this incident that there are options to prevent something like this, and that they would use them if necessary.
Let's hope that if a solution is found it will be by people who are not just in it for as much profit as possible.