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Could have been worse, Trump could have phoned Derek Jeter, who would have counseled him to trade 10,000 respirators for the 12th-best minor league relief prospect in South Korea

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Could have been worse, Trump could have phoned Derek Jeter, who would have counseled him to trade 10,000 respirators for the 12th-best minor league relief prospect in South Korea
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Shit!!! Why did you have to remind me of Jeter. The Redlegs coulda drafted him before Zhem Damned Yankees did.




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Unless you can explain....that is just plain, stup...
Just saying Baby Jesus was pissed at the Rev. If you're going to be religious then one's supreme deity is one hundred percent in charge of everything. If you're on the good side of Jesus ,Allah, Buddha or the Great Pumpkin then no problem about CV 19 because your deity has your back. If not that means by definition you pissed of the deity and got to pay the Piper.
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Just saying Baby Jesus was pissed at the Rev. If you're going to be religious then one's supreme deity is one hundred percent in charge of everything. If you're on the good side of Jesus ,Allah, Buddha or the Great Pumpkin then no problem about CV 19 because your deity has your back. If not that means by definition you pissed of the deity and got to pay the Piper.
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there's also the possibility that your deity is kinda made up and as such not a deity at all
 

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there's also the possibility that your deity is kinda made up and as such not a deity at all
Be careful who you say that to i.e. say rural Afganhistan or even certain areas of the US like rural West Virginia. Anyone who doesn't believe in Jesus,Allah,Budda , Vishnu or the Great Pumpkin can be in a world of hurt if they speak to true believers I.e. cook bacon in certain neighborhood's in Jerusalem and one better have really good health and or life insurance. Same thing in certain neighborhood's in any large West European city.
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Perhaps making a B-29 is more complex then a ventilator. Maybe its an apples vs orange comparison.
Maybe if we have a poster with a background in industrial engineering they can shed some light this.
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It had an internal oxygen system, btw.

And I don't think the Lt. Col. (retired) is hangin' about anymore.
 

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Be careful who you say that to i.e. say rural Afganhistan or even certain areas of the US like rural West Virginia. Anyone who doesn't believe in Jesus,Allah,Budda , Vishnu or the Great Pumpkin can be in a world of hurt if they speak to true believers I.e. cook bacon in certain neighborhood's in Jerusalem and one better have really good health and or life insurance. Same thing in certain neighborhood's in any large West European city.
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guess what, last time i was in (not so) rural afghanistan i kept my trap shut about that sort of thing
 

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It had an internal oxygen system, btw.

And I don't think the Lt. Col. (retired) is hangin' about anymore.
Just saying maybe a ventilator is easier to manufacture then a B-29. I would think it takes a whole lot of skilled folks to manufacture a B-29.
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Just saying maybe a ventilator is easier to manufacture then a B-29. I would think it takes a whole lot of skilled folks to manufacture a B-29.
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do dudes working on a b-29 wear cleanromm gear? it's just not comparable. the skills needed are mostly at hand in a car factury - and those that aren't can easily be seconded from boeing. sure, the workforce will need training for the b-29 but it's roughly the same area of expertice - a welder is a welder no matter what he welds together. special stuff can be trained in days, weeks at most.

... and now for something completely different:
 

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Unless the tide is holding her back--the U.S.S. Comfort-- why is Trump bloviating?

Engage, damn it.
 

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@O' Be Joyful, your turn
Why cain't you figger this crap out?


What researchers know about the origin of the pandemic
Because exotic wild animals are eaten in China, researchers warned years ago of another corona outbreak. But European habits also increase the danger.
By Julia Köppe
28.03.2020, 1:11 p.m.

The sentence sounds like a corona oracle: "The presence of a large reservoir of Sars-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the tradition of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb," says a study from the Journal "Clinical Microbiology Reviews", which was published in 2007 and is currently haunting social networks. The year of publication is encircled in many posts.

In the study, researchers from Hong Kong analyzed the Sars pandemic in 2002 and 2003. The pathogen at the time is closely related to the current circulating corona virus, which is why it is called Sars-CoV-2, and the disease apparently also originated from a market in China.

The researchers' warning is now fueling a debate shaped by racist and pseudo-scientific fallacies. "I would like certain ethnic groups to stop eating bats, armadillos, monkey skulls and other shit," wrote a CDU local politician on Twitter, and he posted the picture of chopsticks. The tweet has now been deleted, racism remains.

Pandemic risk

A look at the latest pandemic history reveals that it is not just Chinese eating habits that have unleashed pandemics. Even those who only eat animals on European menus are not safe from diseases. On the contrary: One of the most devastating viruses probably jumped from the most popular food animal in Germany to humans, the pig.

In early 1918, a doctor in the US state of Kansas documented a disease that caused high fever and cough and would spread worldwide in the coming years. 50 million people died of the plague known as the Spanish flu. In the meantime, researchers have been able to locate the probable origin in the US Midwest, where the swine virus has spread to humans. (Read more about this here.)

In the decades that followed, the H1N1 virus continued to sleep in pigs and triggered another pandemic in 2009: swine flu.

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...h-sind-a-bcfe8de8-3e04-49e8-9955-6f00e382d309
 
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