It was me. I was dying and couldn't talk for a few days while having a silly argument with JORR.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Ok I guess I sorta recalled correctly. Hope you’re feeling better now! We need your snark around here.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I've read that the 19/20 flu season was more moderate overall than recent years. Although it was worse for young kids and the 40-49ers.

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He should have got every award in the world for that movie

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Needed more cocaine.

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You should cite the Vox article where you read that .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

There's a good theory on why South Korea has been able to effectively tackle the problem. Being under a constant WMD threat from North Korea that extends to not just nuclear, but also bio and chemical, the South Koreans have developed some very stringent and well practiced doctrines on how to handle a biological warfare attack. While this isn't a bio attack from the North, the same doctrines and practices can be applied to a naturally occurring pandemic so the South Koreans simply put those plans into action.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I was listening to a stand-in for Rush the other day and the guy talked about how Taiwan dealt with the virus. As you all know, China and its one China policy poses a huge threat to Taiwan. What the guy basically said was that Taiwanese intelligence got very early information that the Chinese had a virus problem and also that they were going to try and cover it up so the Taiwanese stopped all travel whatsoever from China. They also know how the Chinese would try and used the pandemic to their advantage. .

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

That is entirely possible and may be the same kind of thing that Taiwan did based on its fear of China.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

It's time to take it to China, Hawk! I'd gladly share a foxhole with you.

That sounds like my daughter - she tested positive for Flu A. It was a mild fever and sluggishness initially but the cough persists.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

I had a cough that wouldn't go away for the better part of a month. Figured it was some kind of bronchitis and as such, very little I could do about it. The symptoms slowly degraded until I could convince myself I had the 'Rona (persistent cough, shortness of breath, "sluggish" feeling), so I talked to a doctor and they suggested it was a lingering bacterial infection. After 5 days of prednisone and just finishing my course of doxycycline, I'm back to about 85% operational strength.

A cough that at one point had me scared to try to take a deep breath is now a passing nuisance.

That's what one of my coworkers and her husband have had since Christmas. They are both 90% over it but can't clear the last 10%.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

I don't think people not wanting to get coughed on is a recent development, bills.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I wonder if I had it? We came back from the Dominican Republic on Feb 13. At the airport there I was fine but by the time we got home I was not feeling well at all. Spent at least the next 16 days coughing and hacking up gallons of green goo.

During all that I had a few bouts of chills but little fever. Normally I get very few colds and when I do they are mild and last just a few days. So who knows?

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

You’re right.

It’s a threat that could be met with violence now.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

That's a real problem that a lot of us have faced. Namely a flu of some sort with symptoms that we are used to. My wife went through and is still encountering the same kind of thing. I know that they say that there shouldn't be a lot of testing for the China virus but I think that they are saying this because they don't have enough test kits or whatever to do it. This frustrates the shit out of my wife and I also. But going forward I think that they should be doing more testing if only to reassure the public on whether or not they had this shit. And there are also some questions that haven't been answered such as can you get this stuff more than once and if so how soon and will if be more or less serious? Will those who have had had have an immunity against it in later round?

I know whatever my wife had really knocked her down for a couple of weeks and that is not like her. I think that she had the virus but the American health system was not prepared to deal with it when she got it. I think that we were lucky that she got through it but even now, she is weakened by the experience.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Violence? Against who? Its no ones fault except China. Who are you going to take it out on? Yeah, some people are scared but scared of what? Just stay away from people for awhile longer and this shit will work its way out. Worry about what some of the dip shit things that public officials want to do in crises. This thing has exposed the strength of some people and the weakness of others and the stupidity of others. Some of these dipshits early on stoked fear in the minds of the public like this shit was the end of the world was at hand. Then you had idiots on the other side saying that this was just a big lie. And on both sides of this were opportunists who sought political advantage both ways.

This will pass. In the meantime, I'm enjoying my work at home and making money on the stock market's reaction to all of the shit. Got a target point in mind where I sell out and send the checks to my kids. And with the mortgage rates going down, the kids could really use that money to help buy a bigger home in one case and repay and refinance in another. I think that I'll refinance also next month. Good stuff.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

You amuse me man

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

He’s probably not wrong on this one. There are a lot of irrationally stupid people showing their true colors.

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Well, if you coughed on someone a year ago you were probably risking a violent confrontation. I don't think that's changed.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Agreed, but the percentage went up.

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