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by Octavious
Thu Mar 05, 2020 11:15 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

What makes you think Trump is just guessing? His statement is in perfect alignment with that of Chris Whitty (Chief Medical Officer for England, Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health and Social Care and head of the National Institute for Hea...
by Octavious
Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:48 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

Trump is, rather unexpectedly, quite right. 3.4 percent of reported cases dying is not a mortality rate. A mortality rate is the percentage of people who contract the virus who die, which is a very different thing and substantially lower. The simple truth of it is the Democrats are wrong and Trump i...
by Octavious
Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:42 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

So, some good news about the Coronavirus pandemic. It's looking like the mortality rate is somewhat lower than 1%. It's unfortunate that we have failed utterly to contain, but it could have been considerably worse.
by Octavious
Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:15 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Fear, Turkey, the EU and regufees...
Replies: 7
Views: 1686

Re: Fear, Turkey, the EU and regufees...

The military of an EU member state is shooting at refugee lifeboats and its Erdoğan that gets all your criticism? Greece should be being slated by the EU, not given unconditional support. Is the EU really so scared by the rise of the far right they are willing to countenance this kind of action?
by Octavious
Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:44 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who would be the best candidate to defeat Trump (for the Democrats)
Replies: 40
Views: 8258

Re: Who would be the best candidate to defeat Trump (for the Democrats)

Good God... Trump is the youngest male candidate left in the 2020 presidential contest.
by Octavious
Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:35 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Who would be the best candidate to defeat Trump (for the Democrats)
Replies: 40
Views: 8258

Re: Who would be the best candidate to defeat Trump (for the Democrats)

You do know the president's wife not only has a separate bedroom in the White House on a different floor, but for most of his term she slept in a different city. :) Surprisingly enough the sleeping habits of the President's family have not been of massive interest to me. Thinking about it, though, ...
by Octavious
Mon Mar 02, 2020 7:02 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

Really? I'm pretty sure we have confirmed cases, they must be testing something to confirm it... Yep, we have tests that can confirm that someone with a severe case does indeed have it. But we don't have any tests that can reliably confirm whether someone doesn't have it. Which, when preventing peo...
by Octavious
Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:42 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

Arizona they got sent inaccurate test kits in the county with a confirmed case. This means 2 week to send samples to Atlanta CDC for testing. https://www.abc15.com/news/state/lawmaker-says-defective-coronavirus-test-kits-sent-to-arizona-slowing-testing-process There are no accurate test kits. Surel...
by Octavious
Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:40 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1234121159983206402?s=19 US latest, Coronavirus costs ~3-4 thousand to test. https://twitter.com/soureh_design/status/1233461840715362305?s=19 With the current fear that many would prefer to take the tiny risk than be stuck with thousands of debt... As much as...
by Octavious
Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:01 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Myth
Replies: 14
Views: 4472

Re: Myth

My favourite local myth is of Dead Man's Acre. On the local common is a square fenced off plot of land that looks extremely out of place in the common. The story goes that an offer was made to the common folk that anyone who could enclose an acre or more of land in a single day would be recognised a...
by Octavious
Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:49 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

No signs of any craziness in the UK so far. I've had a cold for the last week and not so much as a funny look. It's in the news a lot, and is making its presence felt as a popular subject in jokes, but that's about it.
by Octavious
Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:14 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

Randomizer wrote:
Sun Mar 01, 2020 4:19 pm
For those that are too young to get the reference, Google King Canute and the sea.
Cnut hasn't been king for a thousand years. How old do you think some of us are?!?

But good to see you comparing Trump to a famously wise king. Nice to know you're not completely biased against him.
by Octavious
Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:16 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Do Roman records prove Jesus' existence was a hoax?
Replies: 56
Views: 12095

Re: Do Roman records prove Jesus' existence was a hoax?

The Roman's had great record keeping and, much like we do now, when the records no longer served a purpose they were destroyed. One of the finest sources of Roman writing in existence comes from a failed attempt at record destruction at Vindolanda.
by Octavious
Sat Feb 29, 2020 4:17 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

...how so? In what possible way could someone misunderstand Trump saying that there are 15 victims of the virus in the US as him saying the virus is a hoax? I can sort of understand someone hearing just the first bit getting confused over whether Trump means the virus himself is a hoax of the politi...
by Octavious
Sat Feb 29, 2020 2:33 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

Ora, before I waste any more time looking at random crap on Twitter. If you're going to post about Trump calling the coronavirus a hoax, could you link to something showing him actually doing it rather that some random hack claiming he did.
by Octavious
Sat Feb 29, 2020 2:04 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: WEBDIPLOMACY.NET : the comic
Replies: 61
Views: 17207

Re: WEBDIPLOMACY.NET : the comic

I am deeply shocked by this revelation, especially considering Maniac's status as Moderator-in-Preparation. You can't disguise the disappointment. It’s very, very hard to see how you can bind these wounds. It's led to probably one of the worst periods at webDiplomacy I’ve ever experienced. It’s like...
by Octavious
Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:50 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

Yawn. Ora, you should really stay off Twitter. It's messing with your sense of perspective. As for Pence, what's the issue? You don't want a doctor in charge of a hospital, you want someone good at running hospitals. Same principle is true here. Is the media getting overexcited and exaggerating the ...
by Octavious
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:29 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

True enough. The absolute worst beer from the Americas is Sol, which is genuinely undrinkable. Corona, if you add enough lime, at least has the decency to taste vaguely of lime. What it isn't, however, is good. On my list of drinks it ranks somewhat below tap water.
by Octavious
Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:28 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Coronavirus
Replies: 316
Views: 47680

Re: Coronavirus

38% of American beer drinkers are allegedly avoiding Corona beer due to the Coronavirus So at least some good has come from all this :-D I refuse to accept that 38 percent of American beer drinkers drank Corona in the first place. The only time anyone has an acceptable reason for ordering one is wh...
by Octavious
Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:50 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: How to appeal past forum infractions
Replies: 17
Views: 4128

Re: How to appeal past forum infractions

A_Tin_Can wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:16 pm
Remember that time bo_sox became a mod? I feel like the mods are pretty forgiving.
Who made bo a mod?!?