Coronavirus: COVID-19

~~Cuthbert~~ · 03-21-2020, 05:20 PM

Boris:

“We cannot disguise or sugar-coat the threat,” he said. “The numbers are very stark, and they are accelerating. We are only a matter of weeks – two or three – behind Italy. The Italians have a superb healthcare system. And yet their doctors and nurses have been completely overwhelmed by the demand. The Italian death toll is already in the thousands and climbing. Unless we act together – unless we make the heroic and collective national effort to slow the spread – then it is all too likely that our own NHS will be similarly overwhelmed.”

Too late. Should have locked us down at least a week ago.

**Frownland** · 03-21-2020, 06:06 PM

Wire magazine makes archives free for a week

OccultHawk · 03-21-2020, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Wire magazine makes archives free for a week

That’s huge. I used to pay quite a bit for that privilege when I had a higher income.

Best music publication in print by par.

The Batlord · 03-21-2020, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

hopefully the next pandemic only infects elderly people that play the lotto

something just angers me when I have to print those stupid tickets ...YOURE NOT GONNA WIN THIS IS A WASTE OF TIME

The lottery is low key the best argument against socialism tbh. If people actually thought and acted cooperatively the existence of a state gambling racket where you are statistically almost guaranteed to lose would be a losing idea that people would laugh off. But people do not think of themselves as a group, they think of themselves as singular individuals who must be magically immune to common sense because they are destined for better things than the dross they're surrounded by. People are simply too stupid and self-absorbed for a higher concept like socialism to work whereas capitalism feeds into this instinct for deluded, idiotic grandeur.

OccultHawk · 03-21-2020, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

That’s huge. I used to pay quite a bit for that privilege when I had a higher income.

Best music publication in print by par.

Meh. I already hit a paywall.

OccultHawk · 03-21-2020, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

The lottery is low key the best argument against socialism tbh. If people actually thought and acted cooperatively the existence of a state gambling racket where you are statistically almost guaranteed to lose would be a losing idea that people would laugh off. But people do not think of themselves as a group, they think of themselves as singular individuals who must be magically immune to common sense because they are destined for better things than the dross they're surrounded by. People are simply too stupid and self-absorbed for a higher concept like socialism to work whereas capitalism feeds into this instinct for deluded, idiotic grandeur.

Well of course most people will have to be re-educated or eliminated.

The Batlord · 03-21-2020, 07:24 PM

I don't know, man. Not only listening to co-workers argue with me over the effectiveness of psychics and astrology, but listening to their concepts of the logic of those ideas is destroying my belief that the human race has a capacity for meaningful re-education. We're ****ing monkeys, dude.

Tristan_Geoff · 03-21-2020, 07:52 PM

How longs this **** supposed to last anyways? I saw something that suggested July today.

WWWP · 03-21-2020, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

We never include ourselves when we make these sweeping statements about intelligence

most people don't play the lottery with any regularity, it's just a select portion of people

Who tf is we supposed to be

Don't include me in your juvenile idiocy

The Batlord · 03-22-2020, 04:23 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

We never include ourselves when we make these sweeping statements about intelligence

most people don't play the lottery with any regularity, it's just a select portion of people

I most definitely said "'we're' ****ing monkeys, dude". The lottery is just one form of it. All the way from anti-vaxxers fighting for the safety of babies all because THEY couldn't possibly have ruined their kids' brains through simple dumb genetic luck, must have been a conspiracy they get to fight as heroes; all the down to your prick boss who takes seriously the proclamation of some corporation that they now have power over you when they have no authority to grant power to anyone, not because they believe they are an integral part in a necessary machine, but because it rises them above others and gives them material gain. It's all humans acting in seemingly cooperative ways that boil down to de facto individualism masked by stupidity.

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~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Boris: “We cannot disguise or sugar-coat the threat,” he said. “The numbers are very stark, and they are accelerating. We are only a matter of weeks – two or three – behind Italy. The Italians have a superb healthcare system. And yet their doctors and nurses have been completely overwhelmed by the demand. The Italian death toll is already in the thousands and climbing. Unless we act together – unless we make the heroic and collective national effort to slow the spread – then it is all too likely that our own NHS will be similarly overwhelmed.” Too late. Should have locked us down at least a week ago.