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04-01-2020, 02:00 PM | #14806 |
Time Keeps On Slipping
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04-01-2020, 02:00 PM | #14807 |
"Think BOOM!"
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04-01-2020, 02:01 PM | #14808 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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I mean, I know in my heart of hearts that this is wildly simplistic and ultimately not a real answer for a variety of reasons. I mean, the major reason being that we had ostensibly told them to go **** themselves WELL before this. If China decided to call all their notes due, we'd have just told 'em "nah, you can come take it..." But still - it's a cathartic thought. Ultimately China had better tread real lightly for the foreseeable future. It wouldn't take much of a catalyst for the whole world to simultaneously decide that a regime change is in order. At this point even Russia wouldn't bother stepping in the middle. |
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04-01-2020, 02:01 PM | #14809 |
Hockey Town
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04-01-2020, 02:01 PM | #14810 | |
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Agreed. I don't fault officials for erring on the side of caution but yeah, when a model is pretty much failed 3 days after it is made then the model is bad or the numbers put into it, etc. were done to achieve a particular output. Let the data determine the facts not the other way around. |
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04-01-2020, 02:01 PM | #14811 |
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Getting a little political in here.
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04-01-2020, 02:02 PM | #14812 |
"Think BOOM!"
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04-01-2020, 02:02 PM | #14813 | |
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04-01-2020, 02:06 PM | #14814 |
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04-01-2020, 02:08 PM | #14815 |
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Rate of deaths is going the wrong way but some perspective, we've had almost 3 times as many recoveries in the last 24 hours as we have had deaths.
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04-01-2020, 02:08 PM | #14816 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
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Eh - you'd have just had the EU 80 years earlier and hubbed out of Berlin instead of Brussels.
The idea that Europe would've just become one giant "Greater Germany" is a complete fiction. They'd have instilled some sort of top-down imperial oversight with the respective world leaders maintaining their titles and most of their authority. FFS, they were all related. Wilhelm, George and Nicholas were cousins - you think they'd have been put on a wall and shot? The Nazi's never come to power, the Soviet Union never happens (Nicholas was bending more towards Democracy and had approached Wilson regarding democratization efforts) and the history of Britain and France probably doesn't change substantially. There's no argument in favor of the Germans winning WWII - but there are a bunch of REAL good arguments in favor of them winning WWI. There are plenty against it as well, but I don't think there's a clear answer here. Especially had they been able to effectuate a knockout blow early in the campaign rather than bleed Europe and Russia white for 4+ years. |
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04-01-2020, 02:09 PM | #14817 | |
SuperBowl or bust
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What do you think the death tolls and numbers would be if we didn’t put in all the restrictions that are currently in place? You’re a clown. |
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04-01-2020, 02:09 PM | #14818 |
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That's the lesson to take away from all of this shit. I think it's time to bring the manufacturing of our medical devices and pharmaceuticals back to this country as a concern over national security.
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04-01-2020, 02:12 PM | #14819 |
I love your mom
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04-01-2020, 02:12 PM | #14820 |
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Recovery numbers should really start taking off. We are seeing a lot of states just now starting to report their first recoveries.
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