No.57
India throwing rocks at doctors for government lockdowns.
The US is going to get a run for it's money on the scoreboard
No.58
I did my tax return to insure I would receive my neetbucks
it took about 15 minutes on turbotax irs free file and I didnt even have to pay any taxes!
No.59
>>58This, it's free for people under a certain income so even if you didn't work you have no excuse to miss out
No.60
Coronavirus experts!
Are masks effective? Do you guys think alcohol works as an anti-viral?
No.61
>>55i hope whoever makes this terrible
art gets corona
No.62
reminder to my NEET friends that
>if you made less than $4200 in 2019
AND
>you live with someone who pays more than half your living expenses
you can be claimed as a dependent and (whether you are claimed or not) are not legally eligible for Coronabux
the risk is probably pretty low, but I don't want my friends to get in trouble with the IRS
No.63
>>56Personally, I'm interested in seeing what happens with india. Since hat seems like the perfect country for disaster.
No.64
does one still classify as young people if they are 30 years old?
No.66
>>62only if you're 19 or younger or a full time student
No.69
Oh, I have something cool to share. Indycar and Nascar have been doing virtual races with real drivers, in essence this 'season' or whatever has gone virtual.
https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2020/04/04/entry-list-for-iracing-pro-invitational-series-at-bristol-motor-speedway/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA00Yj-7ftw Notice there's a prayer and national anthem like a regular real life race. It's definitely aimed at the usual audience and they're taking it serious
Some of the drivers have twitch streams for their perspective on things:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/584067407 Too bad I'm not actually interested in this stuff, but I imagine people are loving it
No.70
>>69My only question is how violent will these virtual races get, since none of them can really die
No.71
>>69it would be cool if you could get the same software and race against their ghosts
also if the times in the game would be faster or slower than in real life. because the drivers have less feedback and stuff
No.72
>>69Wonder if virtual racing catches kn and becomes a thing even after the pandemic is over
No.73
oh man, imagine once they realize all the outrageous things they can do woth virtual racing to make it more exciting
No.74
The Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson, is in ICU.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52192604It doesn't mean he's going to die, but it's about 50/50 now based on previous numbers.
No.75
>>74Well, that doesn't sound like it'll end well, especially if he dies
No.76
>>74calm down, it's just a flu
No.77
>>74It's 50/50 if you are put on a ventilator. He isn't on a ventilator yet, they have him in the ICU so they can put him on it as soon as he needs it if he needs it.
No.78
>>55>that softness>pussy contourNGHHHH corona chan come to me!
No.79
>>76Many a man's last words.
No.82
>>81Oh yeah, that sucks. Thinking about cutting mine since it's starting to get in my eyes
No.84
>>53This is the perfect time to pick up a skill like animating or making manga.
the aliasing function in photoshop is called threshhold
enjoy
No.85
was supposed to go to dentist a few weeks ago for regular cleaning sigh...
No.86
Brother got fiance pregnant. Like people are monkeys during disasters and all follow the same patterns
No.87
>>86How does a man get another man pregnant?
No.90
>>88didn't realize he died
No.93
>>89Whatever. The X.0 series sucks anyways. Besides, as a series itself, it's always been subject to absurdly long delays to release.
No.94
>>934.0 could really make or break the rebuilds, so it's still a bit early to say that the whole thing sucks
No.95
>>89my bet that this comes out in 25 still stands.
Even without covid the guy worked 30 years on a piece he won't stop until the ending is perfect
No.98
>>97very nice, glad the neets havent been forgotten
No.101
>>100On the topic of toei, The toei 100 projects are likely gonna get pushed real far as well.
No.104
>>36986
It was inevitable
No.105
>>100I hope Lala doesn't take it out on the human race...
No.106
Crude oil futures hit NEGATIVE 40 USD a barrel today lmaooooo
No.107
>>106how the heck does that even work
No.108
>>106That doesn't mean what you think it does; that represents the hypothetical net value of crude oil, framed from the perspective of US industry. In other words, domestic US oil producers are losing $40 per barrel compared to the relative price of Russian and Saudi oil to sell at the same price and remain competitive.
Yet again, this is something that has been stirring in the background for quite some time now that's only just been picked up on by the mainstream.
No.109
>>108it's literally the case that if you have storage and transportation ready you can get a barrel of oil for negative dollars right now
the fact is that storage is exhausted
No.110
here is a post i saw
So here is the deal... a futures contract is simply a contract to buy something in the future... like next month or next year.
Some futures contracts "settle to cash" which means we determine the price when I bought the contract and the actual real world price on the day of expiration, then one of us pays the other person on the contract the cash difference. Easy.
But oil and most commodity contracts actually settle for the actual product. If you don't close out your soybean contract, you get a call from the exchange telling you that your soybeans are waiting for you in Kansas City and what would you like to do with them?!
Same with oil. Tankers are showing up in houston with millions of gallons of oil and somebody needs to take delivery. Nobody can because all the storage facilities are already full. So people are literally paying you over $30 a barrel for you to take possession of oil. Crazy times.
Edit: This specific contract is for specific delivery to an oil pipeline in Oklahoma, tomorrow. That is the crux of the issue. There is a very localized supply vs demand kerfuffle at a major crude oil pipeline junction in middle America. This is insane. This is unprecedented. But, it is a localized phenomenon.
No.111
bleak future
No.112
hehe
i smell fear
No.113
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-restaurant-air-conditioning-gave-nine-people-covid-china-2020-4>A diagram shows how an air-conditioning unit at a restaurant in China helped infect nine diners with the coronavirus. Pretty neat, and kind of gross..
No.114
i wonder if air duct transmission is possible and if it could go through the ventilation system of a house
No.116
>>115oh wait kim may be dead...
No.117
>>116they're all named kim
kim cannot die
No.118
just realized that even if the curve is flattened people are still going to be dying at a rate of 2000 people a day until the 80% herd immunity is reached... we're only at 13% according to New York
No.119
if people keep getting reinfected how is herd immunity going to save us
No.120
what i mean to say is
is herd immunity even possible when people keep getting reinfected
No.121
>>119They don't get reinfected as far as is made known, the tests are just unreliable.
No.123
Why is everyone talking about a second wave when the first has barely begun to drop
it's insane
No.126
>>124That sucks hope some kind of solution can be found soon so that this doesn't become something which permanently lowers the average lifespan
No.127
>>123Here in the US it's because there's no federal leadership (with harmful misinfo from it) and states are left to make their own decisions and acquire their own supplies. Many of them are lead by extremely stupid (and/or bribed) governors that are eager to open things back up as if nothing happened.
In Tennessee the most deaths in a day coincided with the state allowing restaurants to fill back up. It usually takes about 10 days for the virus to progress to the fatal part so it's not related, but it the statistic shows that it's nowhere near controlling anything.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/27/845682973/tennessee-restaurants-reopen-as-state-sees-biggest-one-day-jump-in-covid-19-caseI'm quite certain there's going to be third world countries without actual budgets and medical resources that will come out of it better than us in America. Fuck.
No.129
ow my ears
No.130
update me googlel
No.132
>>128now's a great time to catch up on your backlog
No.136
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total.htmlAnd it just keeps going. I don't even know how I end up on these articles I just got on the internet and now I'm stressed again
No.137
But then in addition to the bad news there's good news too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpHyRjvlEzk No.138
>>136Statistically any one person that gets it is very very unlikely to die from it unless they're very old or have specific preconditions. Humanity has been overdue for a great plague and this one isn't as bad as it could have been, especially with how utterly incompetent if not outright evil the leadership of some countries have been.
This will also at least buy us a few decades of people taking these things seriously, at least if they hold their elected officials accountable in the voting booth
No.139
given /spg/ a 300 reply limit. Feel free to treat this board as a /b/ analog
[aka, rules:zomg none *none applies to moderators as well].
No.140
>>38304
>buzzkill
That’s ‘’your’’ subjective opinion. The usage of moderation powers is unwarranted.
It’s not causing any issues. Nearly all corona-related posts have been contained to thread. (heh) It’s mainly consisted of light discussion, media links, and shitposting. It hasn’t devolved into senseless arguments like other threads.
No.141
*sone other
No.142
**some
No.143
>>140its is causing stress in posters on the board. that's why I moved it. Discussion on it having outside effects. I guess I should say the reasons I do things in a non poetic way.
No.144
>>143true
but the thread would have gradually died off anyways as it stressed people out, especially on /qa/
they would simply stop posting in it by themselves or hide it
No.145
>>144The problem is that corona isn't really going anywhere anytime soon, and it's not going to stop appearing all over the web and pushing its way into people's lives. So eventually despite being stressed by it somebody's going to talk about it. Better that they do it here than on /qa/ where it'll just bring other people down.
No.158
Gotta love how China completely screwed itself with its handling of the virus. One can only hope that sometime in the near future this cripples them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/world/europe/backlash-china-coronavirus.html No.160
>>159Inexcusable act of terror against this free country. China will pay with blood sacrifices for each American belly that goes without burger
No.161
hitting america where it hurts
No.167
gass
No.170
parents go back to work soon
No.172
>>170Hope they stay safe seeing as it hardly looks like the pandemic's course has come to an end yet.
>You're doing it wrong. Like this: (◍•ᴗ•◍)
No.174
>>173Comments there are the most embarrassing normalfag opinions I've read in a while.
No.175
>>174Calm down, it's just a flu
No.187
>>186USA NUMBER 1!
USA NUMBER 1!
No.188
I used to think bioweapons were limited given proper containment procedures. But this entire fiasco has proven otherwise......
No.206
Can anybody post the old /qa/ thread about the virus? I saved it as a PDF but accidentally deleted it in Firefox for Android, where "Clear private data" / "Downloads" actually means the files and not the download history.
No.207
>>206wasn't it in the op
>>>/trans/110 No.208
>>207Didn't see this thread, thank you. However, the thread I'm looking for was older. I remember research on SARS and/or MERS viruses. Viruses were put directly into the noses of genetically engineered mice.
No.209
>>207If I think about it, the thread I mean could have been created after the one in your post. The mice were there. There was a discussion about something written by
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis No.210
>>209there was a thread in between the one I linked to and this one.
The inbetween thread linked to the /trans/ thread.
No.218
>>217save as html and open it for the archive.is thing without the welcome message
No.219
people protesting in the streets:
corona virus: Its free real estate
No.227
>>218>>217>>216Thank you! I added it to my virus internet discussion diary.
No.429
So with the protests and everyone going out gathering in large groups, is corona basically just dead now?
No.430
>>429seemingly, case numbers about the same, but deaths down. There was a prototype treatment that came out which probably stopped it.. `experts` say resurgence in fall.
Though looking it up it seems as if supply and demand can't keep up
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/health/remdesivir-donation-runs-out-coronavirus/index.html No.488
>>430Hm, will it not be possible for more places to manufacture the drug to spring up in light of this new profit opportunity?
No.489
>>488That's a bit of an optimistic outlook... You're forgetting all of the global trade politics that go into this, especially because most of the western world has outsourced it's pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity as well. In other words, because China and India control the global stock of pharmaceuticals, they have the leverage to stop their exports for the sake of their own population whereas net importers don't have that luxury.
No.490
>>489I agree it's a bit optimistic, but it'd make one hell of an opportunity to promote local manufacturing, would it not? The demand is there, but the supply can't keep up.
No.491
>>490I would like that to be the case, but the problem is that to bring back domestic manufacturing, you cannot just build a new factory. You need to also rebuild the entire supply chain. For instance, assuming you can build said new factory, for it to actually produce things domestically
properly you also require the auxillary chemical processing plants that such a factory would source from. In other words, the only way for corporations to quickly begin domestic manufacturing would be to setup a vertically integrated supy chain rather than waiting on local industry to repopulate again. Not only would that cost a lot, but it would take a considerable amount of time as well.
No.492
>>491Of course it wouldn't be easy, but with people in government seeing keeping all manufacturing in China as a bigger threat I don't think it's all too unlikely to see a push for reinstating such supply chains. I don't expect it to come back overnight, but I don't think that it's an impossibility. It'd be even more likely if the government were to supply them with funds to rebuild the supply chain, but maybe that would be what makes it impossible since it would require sorting through all sorts of political garbage before they actually would get something done.
No.530
Florida...
No.531
>>529Two hundred thousand? Of what?
No.558
its not as bad as i thought it was going to be, but it does still suck. for example i can't taste the cheese on pizza at all, i can pretty much only taste the tomato sauce, and my toothpaste tastes like black licorice now instead of mint. also, when i try to sleep i wake up every few hours feeling like my lungs are tiny and like i have to catch my breath. it's more annoying than anything else but i guess every case is different though. it feels more like a cold with weirder side effects rather than a flu, at least for me. reading this
>>124scares the shit out of me and makes me realize how lucky i am. sorry for your loss anon.
No.562
>>558I wouldn't say you're all that lucky, if you're not old or have a pre-existing condition that is. Most I've known with it were asymptomatic, only knew a couple people that actually had symptoms like what you're describing (Although both curiously had asthma as well before contracting it, so that's possibly a trigger).
No.585
>>562i dont like u very much
No.745
>Will NEETs ever see their deserved coronabux?
You know over this entire year of lockdown I don't think the American NEET ever saw a single cent of corona money. What a ripoff
No.750
Got the All-in-one vaccine today. Glad it's out of the way, but gotta say it's a pretty painful shot. Not sure whether it's more or less painful than Tetanus
No.759
>>750Tetanus sucks, feels like someone punched your arm real hard.
Worst I ever got was yellow fever though, felt like ass for two weeks.
No.760
My yellow fever never cured.
No.761
does yellow fever include SHABs?
No.797
Everyone should be yellow
No.799
>>798It's a simpsons joke, you wouldn't understand.
No.800
hypothetically, how would you forge one of the many vaccine passports (that are likely never to be used and just a way for companies to soak up more tax dollars)?
No.802
So I figured I'd install it anyways so I downloaded .apk files for the scanner and wallet app.
I'm not certain because I have no real experience with app development or an example of a valid pass, but it seems like it scans and decodes a code without making any internet requests. So decoding it is as trivial as making a valid code and perhaps decompiling the app to find the key code.
No.803
Bleh. Well, someone will fix it eventually, maybe.
No.804
I'm not convinced it's a real thing. More like an honor system.
No.975
Seems like after over a year lockdown is nearly over. In my state the governor recently lifted the mask requirement while outdoors and going to the konbini things look like they did before the pandemic started. Also what's up with India? It seems like they're on the path to becoming the No.1 covid hotspot of all time.
No.976
India has a new variant that seems like it's the worst yet. From what I read the projected time that the country can complete enough vaccinations at current rate is three years. It's going to be a complete nightmare and it needs significant outside help not just for Indians themselves but so they don't incubate something far worse that can't be treated with current vaccines.
No.977
india mingles livestock with human population and when that happens viruses start to go crazy
No.978
What are the chances the new variant travels across the border to hit China again? Also India seemed like a terrible place for the virus in the first place due to how overcrowded it is and poor sanitation/living conditions.
No.984
It appears the Wuhan lab leak theory is holding more weight now I guess lobbying and media suppression has its limit before it starts to crumble down.
No.987
>>984As is ever the pattern, the previous administration really made it worse when it removed a group from China that was there to study diseases and monitor things as a part of the US's pandemic team which itself was wholly disbanded.
It still doesn't have any weight to it without investigation and evidence, but if senators want it investigated now it makes sense since we're slowly entering a time when the country is recovering.
No.994
>>984Having read a bit into this resurgence for the theory, it seems the most likely cause for why it was so attacked was a combination of bad and reactionary journalism mixed with social media bringing out the worst in humanity. Hopefully it servers as a wake-up call to journalists to be less sensational and sure of themselves, but who knows.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/the-sudden-rise-of-the-coronavirus-lab-leak-theory No.1023
got moderna vaccine. am i going to get adult onset autism?
No.1025
>>1023>>1024vaccines are shown to cause permanent damage to neural connections if applied at infant stage, due to needle pain.
so it's already too late to think about that, whether you have it or not.
No.1026
>>1023you're now pregnant!
No.1027
>>1025Sounds fishy. Needles are not that painful.
No.1029
>>1025crazy. I got a ton of vaccines for traveling to a third world country and coincidentally I post on imageboards.
I'm thinking this is too convinient to explain by anything other than vaccine autism.
No.1034
Thought:
The prevalent association between autism and vaccination, if anything, could be a result of the fact that autistic people have a much greater incidence of childhood mortality. Therefore, because vaccines prevent severe illness and death, an increasing number of autistic people survive childhood that would have otherwise died had they not been vaccinated, not because the vaccines themselves cause autism.
Likewise, the increased prevalence of autism may be a result of Western women on average having children later in life, and may further be affected by the falling fertility rates in industrialized countries due to Phthalate (plastic chemical) contamination in drinking water and food. Another factor may be the widespread use of insecticide products such as Roundup which are known carcinogens and are extremely toxic. Of course, there is a myriad of chemical contamination, so to single out any one chemical as being a definitive cause is quite difficult to say the least, and may in fact be related to the interaction between multiple chemical contamination not just a single one.
These are important questions, so its a shame that the entire topic has been tarnished by conspiracy-minded people thinking vaccines cause autism.