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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2020 General Election Thread
« on: July 14, 2020, 09:25:26 PM »
rot in hell, jeff sessions.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / si se vende!
« on: July 14, 2020, 09:24:21 PM »If it’s Goya, it has to be good.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 15, 2020
Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno. pic.twitter.com/9tjVrfmo9z
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: July 14, 2020, 07:45:19 PM »This is interesting... As I noted this past weekend, Trump's heading towards a very bad place in history if doesn't win a second term. https://t.co/0YIi52QRH9 pic.twitter.com/TjMH5UI7fS
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 14, 2020
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The riot to reform police thread
« on: July 14, 2020, 06:52:56 PM »These people are remarkably awful.Long reported profile of these people suggests they are completely nuts https://t.co/DjXPvd9k6R
— Annie Shields (@anastasiakeeley) July 11, 2020
Trump defended the St. Louis couple that pulled guns on marchers, claiming with no basis: "They were going to be beat up badly - if they were lucky, OK? If they were lucky. They were gonna be beat up badly and the house was going to be totally ransacked and probably burned down."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: July 14, 2020, 05:25:53 PM »
lounges are gonna offer tests and credit cards will refund the test fees within 3 months.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: July 14, 2020, 02:08:39 PM »
someone should start up a lab to just run expedited tests for travelers.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: COVID Classes (back-to-school related)
« on: July 14, 2020, 01:51:39 PM »if you are doing any sort of isolation or contract tracing for positive cases, then yeah. I don't know what you are going to do unless we get testing ramped up (which isn't happening).
yeah, if they're going to pretend they care about transmission, then it's just going to be constant starting and stopping as people pop up with positive tests.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: July 14, 2020, 01:31:22 PM »Croatia is begging Americans to come visit rn
given delays on testing and receiving test results, this seems like it might be difficult to schedule.
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“Persons arriving from a third-party country are not subject to a quarantine / self-isolation measure if they present a negative PCR result of a nasal and throat swab for SARS-Cov-2 at the border crossing point, which is not older than 48 hours (counting from the time of taking the swab to arriving at the border crossing point).
Persons who do not present a negative PCR result are subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine / self-isolation measure. As of July 13, 2020.”
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Cars.... How far have you went before getting a new one?
« on: July 14, 2020, 01:24:19 PM »My sled rolled past 250000 miles the other day. A rough ridin' quarter of a million miles. It developed a tiny oil leak about a month ago. Still no plans to get rid of it though.
i have an elantra at 274k and a 4runner at 260ishk. probably going to replace both before too long, but pretty up in the air about with what and when. seems like there are precious few deals on new cars now. hopefully the elantra can make it till fall.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Corona Bro/Corona Meltdown/Corona Model Guessers
« on: July 13, 2020, 09:38:08 PM »Numbers and stuff explaining what the data is showing so far.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/herd-immunity-coronavirus/614035/
good article. i've been frustrated by the heterogeneity proponents refusal to consider that you would see very clear herd immunity impacts at low level of infection when interventions reduce the transmission rate.
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Kansas State Football / Re: No 2020 College Football :-(
« on: July 13, 2020, 09:28:08 PM »
i think you have to sue to realize those benefits.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Corona Bro/Corona Meltdown/Corona Model Guessers
« on: July 13, 2020, 09:27:26 PM »I think airplanes have much more controlled airflow than most buildings so I question how much good a HEPA filter does at a place with poor circulation. Of course, we have some serious HVAC folks here so I'll defer to them...
yeah, my admittedly very layman's understand of airline filtration would suggest that it would take much more than just throwing a hepa filter somewhere along the air's path to replicate an airplane's turnover and lack of crossflow.
but i think it could help.
and if something like building a box around a teacher with their own personal portable hepa device or three to protect them from people's virus-ridden progeny could be the difference between having in-person instruction and not, it seems like it'd be worth exploring, even if it's no substitute for controlling population-level transmission.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2020 General Election Thread
« on: July 13, 2020, 09:15:47 PM »
never heard of them. i'll give them a try.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2020 General Election Thread
« on: July 13, 2020, 04:32:13 PM »
i should maybe put this in the predictit thread. there's probably going to be some opportunities for easy money in state bets in the time span between election day and the when the vote count is final.
Yikes -- just finished a statewide survey in a swing state. The quarter of the voters who plan to vote by mail or absentee break 15% Trump/75% Biden on the Pres. ballot. Republicans are skeptical about voting by mail, and that's a problem up and down ballot.
— Glen Bolger (@posglen) July 13, 2020
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Corona Bro/Corona Meltdown/Corona Model Guessers
« on: July 13, 2020, 03:24:21 PM »
yeah, me throwing ventilation in was a red herring.
masks allow much larger particles through and the evidence still indicates that they are effective in reducing transmission. the virus is (mostly? entirely?) traveling along inside or on larger particles, not free floating, and filtration doesn't need to be 100% effective to reduce the risk of transmission.
masks allow much larger particles through and the evidence still indicates that they are effective in reducing transmission. the virus is (mostly? entirely?) traveling along inside or on larger particles, not free floating, and filtration doesn't need to be 100% effective to reduce the risk of transmission.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency
« on: July 13, 2020, 02:41:37 PM »man that chyron pic.twitter.com/WVx3NBNIfY
— Peter Wade 🤦♂️ (@brooklynmutt) July 13, 2020
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: 2020 General Election Thread
« on: July 13, 2020, 02:23:36 PM »
another devastating attack. date the comeback to 7-13-2020.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: COVID Classes (back-to-school related)
« on: July 13, 2020, 02:19:15 PM »1. BREAKING: Los Angeles and San Diego announce they will not reopen physical schools this August. It's a major rollback for San Diego, which as recently as over the weekend was preparing for 5 days per week in classrooms. With @ShawnHubler https://t.co/LtI2uumS2h
— Dana Goldstein (@DanaGoldstein) July 13, 2020
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Kansas State Football / Re: No 2020 College Football :-(
« on: July 13, 2020, 01:42:18 PM »Are there already practices in place in which universities would pay for all medical bills if an athlete got COVID-19?
yeah, student athletes get medical insurance. at least scholarship athletes do.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Corona Bro/Corona Meltdown/Corona Model Guessers
« on: July 13, 2020, 01:38:06 PM »There is zero way we can HEPA filter our way out of this. Seems like an HVAC moneygrab to be honest.
i'm not sure if anyone in the industry is saying HEPA is the answer. I mean HEPA can capture particles as small as 0.3 microns and covid is ~0.12 microns. It will inevitably capture SOME covid, but i think everyone knew from the onset that mechanical filtration was not ever going to be a solution.
At best its a placebo
that makes absolutely no sense. i have no idea on the cost efficiency or the extent solutions can be added in to existing systems or anything like that, but when you have 1) very few infections traced to airplanes and 2) and estimated 20x reduction in infection risk outside compared to inside, the idea that improving circulation and filtration in building would have no effect on infection risk just doesn't match up with really anything we know.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: COVID Classes (back-to-school related)
« on: July 13, 2020, 01:28:16 PM »
i'd like to hear from anyone working in education in any capacity, but my initial expectation is that widespread teacher shortages will force distance learning on a lot of the school systems now planning on in-person education.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: death poll 7.0 (the deaths of july)
« on: July 13, 2020, 01:20:48 PM »I'd like to change my vote please.
you voted 145-155k, iirc. that still has a decent shot of coming in.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Corona Bro/Corona Meltdown/Corona Model Guessers
« on: July 12, 2020, 05:55:58 PM »
i hadn't looked at the models for a bit. surprised that this (historically pretty good) model is saying infections are now matching spring numbers.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Ask Steve Dave Farm And Cow And Ranch And Tractor And Truck Related Questions
« on: July 12, 2020, 03:00:39 PM »You can grow dry land corn now because of the incredible GMO.
i didn't know that. thanks, monsanto!
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« on: July 12, 2020, 02:56:38 PM »Aruba or Barbados for a month remote working? Aruba seemed more expensive but outside of any hurricane zone.
aruba has an indigenous rattlesnake.