NON_POLITICAL China Coronavirus THREAD

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OccamsToothbrush

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And solar panels, at this time of year? lol. I would say yes in spite, and I want them installed now. "Here's a shovel". Then change my mind when he's done shoveling the roof. Speaking of snow I don't know if the snow we got yesterday is bonded by the strenght of covid-19, but I swear it was like trying to take spray foam off my truck.

There's no snow down here in the civilized world. My normal daytime high this time of year is 55*F. Today we hit 70*. Have not used a shovel since January.
 

Red Squirrel

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Welp.


Damn. As much as I took everything with a grain of salt when I heard they were doing well, was hoping there was some truth to it. Honestly it must be hell there right now. Being forced to work, and shut up basically, and I would not be surprised if they are even killing off people who have worse cases or who try to speak out.
 

CZroe

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to be fair, the question wasnt answered. its a yes or no question really. if anything it supports amused's stance.
Somehow it supports my stance even more, since I also said we need to ration them for healthcare workers now that we lost the bulk of our excess supply back in January. He denied there was any benefit which was something even the CDC did not actually say while discouraging people from buying them.
 
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CZroe

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ok so i cant read the article, but it says 46 infected from having saltwater sprayed into their mouth.. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/heal...irus-salt-water-spray-infects-46-church-goers

i guess the spray infected the air they breathed in? surely it wasnt from the water itself since we just all read the article how food cant infect us through our mouth. maybe someone else can read it. blocked for me.

South China Morning Post is Chinese CCP state-run propaganda mouthpiece. There's almost no way they can confirm those people were infected from the spray and I find the claim extremely dubious. The very notion that the spray was supposed to "kill the virus" implies they already had it.
 

CZroe

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There's no snow down here in the civilized world. My normal daytime high this time of year is 55*F. Today we hit 70*. Have not used a shovel since January.
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Yeah, spring is definitely here. That's pollen on my car... after I was forced to go pick up my brother from the city's public charger.
 

highland145

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I get Jehovah's witness's from time to time, usually women, I just shout through the door I'm in my underware then watch then scurry away!.
If I'm feeling boomer onry, I open with a pistol in hand.
😀
Also as far as door to door solicitors.... This is what's on my front door lol. I've had plenty times where I see on my Ring camera people coming up to the door, reading the sign, then walking away.

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Need one that says, "If you ring, you'd better give head."

But that's just my money side.

😀
 

CZroe

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Ugh. Saw this getting shared on FB with morons saying "Agree!"

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First of all, that's only 8 bullets per rifle... and why would the US government buy obsolete Russian rifles anyway?! At 600 rounds per minute, "2 million bullets" is less than one second of continuous firing for each of those 250,000 AK-47s. ;)
 
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highland145

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Ugh. Saw this getting shared on FB with morons saying "Agree!"

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First of all, that's only 8 bullets per rifle... and why would the US government buy obsolete Russian rifles anyway?! At 600 rounds per minute, "2 million bullets" is less than one second of continuous firing for each of those 250,000 AK-47s. ;)
The most redneck city council a county over just "passed" no transport of guns/ammo.



Bwahahhahhaaa
 
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Roger Wilco

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Welp.

Damn. As much as I took everything with a grain of salt when I heard they were doing well, was hoping there was some truth to it. Honestly it must be hell there right now. Being forced to work, and shut up basically, and I would not be surprised if they are even killing off people who have worse cases or who try to speak out.

That article is two weeks old now. It currently seems that China is actually starting to legitimately recover, but they are going to have to worry about the rest of the world reinfecting them.
 
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Svnla

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Not sure if anyone already post this or not but the Federal tax deadline will be several months later, July 15, 2020 - https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/payment-deadline-extended-to-july-15-2020

Note this is for Federal tax only. Check your state deadline unless you live in states that do not have income tax such as Texas, Florida, Alaska, etc.

In other news, Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the US, is suspending (almost) all returns until further notice. Very much everything, not just the items that are in high demand currently. It is also limiting high demand items such as cleaning supplies, bleach, water, etc. to 3 items per family, down from 5.
 
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Red Squirrel

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Spacehead

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Not sure if anyone already post this or not but the Federal tax deadline will be several months later, July 15, 2020 - https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/payment-deadline-extended-to-july-15-2020

Note this is for Federal tax only. Check your state deadline unless you live in states that do not have income tax such as Texas, Florida, Alaska, etc.
This is confusing people. Several people i know have repeated this to me.
From the above link:
The filing deadline for tax returns remains April 15, 2020.

Income tax payment deadlines for individual returns, with a due date of April 15, 2020, are being automatically extended until July 15, 2020
 

Svnla

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This is confusing people. Several people i know have repeated this to me.
From the above link:

I think the filing date is still the same but the payment date (if you owe $ to the IRS) will be pushing back 3 months..ie. you don't have to pay until July 15, 2020.
 

CZroe

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Saw this tone-deaf ad in my YouTube app just now (markups are my own):
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It seems Halls hasn't gotten the message: If you have a cough or sore throat, don't just soothe it with a cough drop and go on exposing everyone. Definitely no social distancing going on there despite the implication that his discomfort without Halls cough drops would have kept him away.
 
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Spacehead

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I think the filing date is still the same but the payment date (if you owe $ to the IRS) will be pushing back 3 months..ie. you don't have to pay until July 15, 2020.
Correct.

I've been told by several people that the filing date had been moved back, which is not true. I thought that's what you were saying in your above post.
 

Muse

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Oh wow, interesting. I wonder how many the U.S. has...
The numbers I saw on network news tonight were the same I heard maybe a week ago in terms of respirators:

160,000 is what we have (but the government can chip in another 10,000)
960,000 is what they figure could be needed

That's quite a shortfall and the reason they're trying to flatten the curve. Absent that, the doctors have to make those decisions, who to try to save, who to have to tell they can't treat them, which they're doing now in Italy.
 

CZroe

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Was watching the livestream updates and the number of cases in the US just passed Iran. :(

 

Muse

Lifer
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Take it to PM if you want to continue - I’m done with your idiocy in this thread but I’ll be more than happy to put you in your place there.
Why didn't you just STFU already with this? You're just an insult machine. I have better things to do than have a one on one shit fight with a mental midget.

Obviously you don't have better things to do. Knock it off. Both of you.
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Wreckem

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Correct.

I've been told by several people that the filing date had been moved back, which is not true. I thought that's what you were saying in your above post.

Actually that was the case but they did announce today they intend to push the filing deadline to July 15.