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Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
https://youtu.be/FscIgtDJFXg

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

Oh, yes I can make it now the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

(Ooh...) Look all around, there's nothing but blue skies
Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's going to be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
Yeah, hey, it's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright)
Sunshiny day

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https://youtu.be/iM4LzEcaTK0
Billy Joel - New York State Of Mind
Old Grey Whistle Test Live


U.S.
March 25, 2020 / 11:56 AM / Updated 4 hours ago
New York density control measures apparently working: governor

2 Min Read

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state measures to control the coronavirus appear to working as the rate of hospitalizations has slowed in recent days, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.

Even so, new cases rose by more than 5,000 in the past 24 hours, giving the state more than 30,000 positive cases, roughly 10 times the number in the state
with the next highest total, New Jersey, Cuomo said.

Cuomo also announced new measures designed to halt the virus, agreeing with New
York City officials to begin a pilot program of closing streets to automobile traffic and banning close contact sports at city parks.

Hospitalizations were doubling every two days as of Sunday, but by Monday the trend showed hospitalizations were doubling every 3.4 days, and by Tuesday the rate was 4.7 days, Cuomo said.

“Now that is almost too good to be true... This is a very good sign and a positive sign, again not 100% sure it holds, or it’s accurate but the arrows are headed in the right direction,” Cuomo told a daily news conference.

Cuomo has emerged as a leading national voice on the coronavirus epidemic, which has now claimed 285 lives in the state. Positive cases rose by more than 5,000 in the past day to 30,811, Cuomo said.

He called the street closures a pilot program and said sports like basketball would be banned in city parks, first on a voluntary basis as long as people comply, in rules agreed with New York City officials, the governor said.

There are now 58,000 coronavirus cases in the United States, with New York amounting for roughly half of those.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-new-york/new-york-density-control-measures-apparently-working-governor-idUSKBN21C2M8

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From: slider@anashram.com

This thread is for good news articles.

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
https://youtu.be/FscIgtDJFXg

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

Oh, yes I can make it now the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

(Ooh...) Look all around, there's nothing but blue skies
Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's going to be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
Yeah, hey, it's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright)
Sunshiny day

### - beautiful! boss vibe :)

and right back atcha...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUlA8Hcv4s

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On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 10:38:17 PM UTC-4, slider wrote:

This thread is for good news articles.

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
https://youtu.be/FscIgtDJFXg

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

Oh, yes I can make it now the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day

(Ooh...) Look all around, there's nothing but blue skies
Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
It's going to be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day
Yeah, hey, it's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright)
Sunshiny day

### - beautiful! boss vibe :)

and right back atcha...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUlA8Hcv4s

Nice selection!

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Sunday at Noon shall be 7-weeks since I got sick and 9-weeks since infected.
I have never been sick for this long a period in my entire life experience.

This article speaks to my suspicions. https://www.theblaze.com/news/stanford_coronavirus_too_high_death


[]
Stanford medical professors: COVID-19 death toll estimates may be 'orders of magnitude' too high

They believe the projections are 'deeply flawed'
Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
Giancarlo Sopo

A pair of public health experts from Stanford, Drs. Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya, warn Americans in a Wall Street Journal editorial that the current estimates about the coronavirus' fatality rate may be too high by "orders of magnitude."
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According to Bendavid and Bhattacharya, both of whom are medical doctors, while
they are supportive of social distancing guidelines and efforts to contain the disease, they fear that orders to shut down the entire economy may be based on shoddy research
data.
Death toll projects may be 'orders of magnitude too high'

"If it's true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified," they
wrote. "But," and what a
big one it is, they add, "there's little evidence to confirm that premise — and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high."

The two submit that because the United States and other countries largely focus
their testing on symptomatic patients, the number of people who are infected with COVID-19 is likely much larger than the number of confirmed cases being reported by public
health agencies throughout the country, which means the virus' mortality rate is likely significantly lower.

"Fear of Covid-19 is based on its high estimated case fatality rate — 2% to 4% of people with confirmed Covid-19 have died, according to the World Health Organization and others," wrote Bendavid and Bhattacharya. "So if 100 million Americans ultimately
get the disease, 2 million to 4 million could die. We believe that estimate is deeply flawed. The true fatality rate is the portion of those infected who die,
not the deaths from identified positive cases."
How did they predict this?

The two professors argue that the best evidence of the coronavirus death rate being significantly lower than what is being reported may lie in the Italian town of Vò. On March 6, the town's 3,300 residents were tested. Of these, 90 tests came back
positive, indicating a prevalence of 2.7% of the population having the virus.

If one were to apply this to the entire province where the town is located, which has a population of 955,000, it would mean there were actually 26,000 infections at the time, and not just the 198 that were officially confirmed. This would be 130 times
greater than the number of reported cases. Since Italy's case fatality rate of 8% is estimated using the confirmed cases, Bendavid and Bhattacharya write, "the real fatality rate [of the virus] could in fact be closer to 0.06%."
A 'cause for optimism'?

The two Stanford Health Policy experts even said the virus' mortality rate might be on par with that of the seasonal flu:

Existing evidence suggests that the virus is highly transmissible and that the number of infections doubles roughly every three days. An epidemic seed on Jan. 1 implies that by March 9 about six million people in the U.S. would have been infected. As
of March 23, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there
were 499 Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. If our surmise of six million cases is accurate, that's a mortality rate of 0.01%, assuming a two week lag between infection and death.
This is one-tenth of the flu mortality rate of 0.1%. Such a low death rate would be cause for optimism.

A universal lockdown 'may not be worth the costs'

Bendavid and Bhattacharya say that if they are right about the lower lethality of the epidemic, public policy experts should focus their measures on protecting the elderly and expanding medical capacity.

"Hospital resources will need to be reallocated to care for the critically ill patients. Triage will need to improve. And policy makers will need to focus on reducing risks for older adults and people with underlying medical conditions."

The pair conclude that if their estimates are right, then the universal quarantine measures "may not be worth the costs it imposes on the economy, community, and individual mental and physical health."

"We should undertake immediate steps to evaluate the empirical basis of the current lockdowns," they added.

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How a Hedge Funder Scored a 10,000% Return Amid Coronavirus Market Meltdown
By Sissi Cao • 03/26/20 12:04pm

Bill Ackman reaped a nearly 10,000 percent return on his hedging positions amid
the coronavirus market rout. Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

In the past few weeks, the coronavirus-triggered market meltdown has cost America’s top one percent dearly. Per Bloomberg‘s count, the world’s 500 richest people lost a combined $1.3 trillion since the beginning of 2020, after
recent stock selloffs
obliterated all of earlier months’ gains. But one smart anomaly, hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, manages to profit handsomely in a time when everyone is losing money.

At the beginning of March, Ackman revealed that his investment firm, Pershing Square Capital Management, had bought $27 million worth of credit protection on
global investment-grade and high-yield credit indexes in late February to limit
portfolio loss
amid coronavirus-spurred market volatility.

SEE ALSO: Bill Gates On Coronavirus vs. Economy: ‘There Is Really No Middle Ground’

The timing of those investments couldn’t have been better. Major stock indexes began their free fall on March 6 and hit the rocket bottom on Monday. The same day, Ackman finished unwinding those hedges and reaped $2.6 billion in
proceeds.

“The proceeds of the hedges have enabled us to become a substantially larger shareholder of a number of our portfolio companies, and to add some new investments, all at deeply discounted prices,” Ackman wrote in a letter to shareholders on Wednesday.
Pershing Square’s major stakes include Agilent Technologies, Berkshire Hathaway, Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Lowe’s and Restaurant Brands International.

Despite winnings on the investment front, Ackman is deeply concerned with the government’s response (or the lack thereof) to the COVID-19 pandemic. A vocal
supporter for extreme quarantine measures, Ackman has repeatedly advocated for a 30-day
nationwide lockdown to combat the deadly virus.

“A coordinated federal-led shutdown for 30 days and then a gradual reopening with testing testing testing so we can kill the virus when it reappears,” the
investor tweeted on Monday in reply to a controversial post by former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd
Blankfein calling on Americans to return to work in a few weeks.

A coordinated Federal-led shutdown for 30 days and then a gradual reopening
with testing testing testing so we can kill the virus when it reappears https://t.co/ytJGlAiG1d

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) March 23, 2020

“The virus can’t survive without a host,” Ackman explained in a separate tweet the same day. “With a coordinated national shutdown for all but essential services, manufacturing, retail, etc. for 30 days, the virus is largely obliterated. When the
economy reopens, we test widely so that we can quarantine outbreaks when they reappear.”

His suggestion was echoed by Bill Gates, who proposed a six-week “extreme shutdown” in an interview on Tuesday.
Filed Under: Business, Personal Finance, Bill Gates, Coronavirus, Lloyd Blankfein, Covid-19, berkshire hathaway, Hedge fund, Pershing Square

SEE ALSO: A Virtual Reality App for Galleries and Collectors Opens Up a New
Art Buying Experience

https://observer.com/2020/03/hedge-fund-bill-ackman-profit-coronavirus-market-crash/

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From: slider@anashram.com

This article speaks to my suspicions. https://www.theblaze.com/news/stanford_coronavirus_too_high_death

[]
Stanford medical professors: COVID-19 death toll estimates may be
'orders of magnitude' too high

They believe the projections are 'deeply flawed'

### - one can only live in hope?

meanwhile, there's this by comparison + with roughly-dated predictions
given so i guess we'll get to see how it pans-out here before it reaches
you guys, this from people on the front line:

London scrambles to avert ‘armageddon’ as half of nation’s covid-19 patients are in capital

A coronavirus surge is already hitting London – where more than half of England’s infected patients are being treated.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-london-nhs-hospitals-intensive-care-a9427121.html

The NHS is scrambling to avert the worst-case scenario, described as “armageddon”, when the virus reaches its expected peak in seven to 10 days.

It’s hoped that the newly assembled temporary hospital at east London’s ExCel centre will be able to bear the brunt of the surge, with NHS leaders ruling out shipping patients elsewhere in the country, so that Covid-19
can be better contained.

The capital is at the epicentre of the UK epidemic — with Chris Hopson,
chief executive of NHS Providers, warning of a tsunami of cases. But
analysis seen by The Independent shows the majority of London patients are
in the outer suburbs.

The analysis, by company Edge Health, shows there is a doughnut-type shape
of cases forming around central London hospitals where the population is younger than in the outer boroughs.

NHS England on Thursday confirmed there were 2,000 Covid-19 patients in
London hospitals, out of a total of 4,300 in hospital across the whole of England. Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Social Care said there
were now 11,658 cases and 578 confirmed deaths.

Doctors working in hospitals across the capital told The Independent
differing accounts of what was happening in their units, with some already
at risk of being overstretched while others are putting together their
final plans for when the surge hits them.

There are around 800 intensive care beds in London with a surge capacity
of up to 3,000 beds, but bosses at NHS England believe they will need up
to seven times more, which is why the ExCel centre, dubbed the NHS
Nightingale, is so crucial.

The Independent has also learned tonight that NHS bosses are in advanced discussions to create up to five field hospitals across England, in
addition to the ExCel centre.

The military was understood to be at Birmingham’s NEC conference centre
today as part of plans to create a hospital there, as well as at the
Manchester Central conference venue.

A senior NHS England source said some London hospitals were under “huge pressure” while others were still able to cope.

They added: “All the modelling suggests that unless the ExCel opens on top
of surge [beds] in trusts then in seven to 10 days we would be looking at armageddon across London.”

They said there would be no regional mutual assistance for London as “everyone needs to consume their own smoke” – it’s feared that transporting patients would spread the disease.

They said Downing Street had taken special interest in the preparations
across the city, but they added most big cities will need an ExCel-type
field hospital as the virus spreads.

Edge Health told The Independent the peak for the city would hit in the
coming weeks.

George Batchelor, director and co-founder of Edge Health said: “The peak
in London based on our modelling will be around 5 April, with the numbers
in hospital peaking around 8 April and critical care around 15 April. It
will get worse before it gets better.”

He said areas with older populations around the centre of London appeared
to be the worst hit, explaining: “It’s within the doughnut around London, the Hillingdon, Croydon areas where there are district general hospitals
that are also less well equipped than hospitals in central London.

“London, and even outer London, are younger than other areas in England, which is a worry as the virus spreads to other parts of the UK.”

He added: “We are tracking Italy almost exactly but it does depend really
on how well the NHS is going to cope. It had some advanced warning
compared with Italy, which was really caught out.”

Earlier on Thursday, Mr Hopson of NHS Providers said the capital had seen
“an explosion in demand” in recent days but hospitals had been able to increase their capacity “between five and seven-fold”.

However, he warned that hospital bosses were describing “a continuous tsunami” in seriously ill patients.

Northwick Park Hospital in northwest London reported a critical incident
last week, and earlier this week reported 21 deaths of patients with coronavirus in a single day.

At the Royal London hospital, in Whitechapel, bosses have sought to create
200 extra intensive care beds. But on Wednesday, the hospital ran out of capacity and used beds in operating theatre recovery areas.

At St George’s Hospital in south London, doctors reported an increasing number of intensive care admissions with one patient an hour being
admitted on Wednesday, although this slowed overnight. One source said
many of the patients were younger than 70 and many younger than that,
although most had underlying issues such as obesity.

They said the hospital still had spare beds on Thursday and escalation
plans were ready.

A doctor at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington said the hospital was busy
but still had intensive care capacity. They said there was an expectation
the situation would worsen in coming days.

### - lol am startin' to feel like the proverbial canary down the coalmine
here now boss haha, so i guess we'll see how it all unfolds over the next
2 to 3 weeks then huh, the uk "tracking italy almost exactly" doesn't
sound too good does it, they're in a lot of trouble over there!

meanwhile, am still merrily singing & chirping away hehe...

cheap! cheap! going cheap here boss! :D now with an extra 20% off haha!


(quick laff...) old spanish whore's motto:

Never-let-a-day-go-by! :)))

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‘Models don’t match reality’: White House coronavirus chief rejects doomsday predictions
By Pamela Geller - on March 27, 2020
Wuhan Virus: Coronavirus



British scientist Neil Ferguson ignited the world’s drastic response to the novel Wuhan coronavirus when he published the bombshell report predicting 2.2 million Americans and more than half a million Brits would be killed. After both the U.S. and U.K.
governments effectively shut down their citizens and economies, Ferguson is walking back his doomsday scenarios.

The Federalist: Ferguson’s report from Imperial College, which White House and other officials took seriously, said that if the U.S. and U.K. did not shut down for 18 months, and isolation measures were not taken, “we would
expect a peak in
mortality (daily deaths) to occur after approximately 3 months.” His “models” showed overflowing hospitals and ICU beds.

“For an uncontrolled epidemic, we predict critical care bed capacity would be exceeded as early as the second week in April, with an eventual peak in ICU or critical care bed demand that is over 30 times greater than the maximum supply in both
countries,” the report reads.

[…[ But after tens of thousands of restaurants, bars, and businesses closed, Ferguson is now retracting his modeling, saying he feels “reasonably confident” our health care system can cope when the predicted peak of the epidemic arrives in a
few weeks. Testifying before the U.K.’s parliamentary select committee on science and technology on Wednesday, Ferguson said he now predicts U.K. deaths from the disease will not exceed 20,000, and could be much lower.

3.3 M jobless claims in US as scientist walks back hysterical model warning between 2-4 M dead. https://t.co/e9KpeK0lLP

— Lee Smith (@LeeSmithDC) March 26, 2020

3.3 M jobless claims in US as scientist walks back hysterical model warning between 2-4 M dead. https://t.co/e9KpeK0lLP

— Lee Smith (@LeeSmithDC) March 26, 2020

‘Models don’t match reality’: White House coronavirus chief rejects doomsday predictions as US tops Covid-19 case count

By: RT, 26 Mar, 2020:
Even as the US overtook China in the official number of Covid-19 cases, the
top physician leading the White House effort urged Americans not to panic, as models predicting the death of millions keep being proven wrong everywhere.

“The predictions of the models don’t match the reality on the ground in
neither China, South Korea nor Italy,” Dr. Deborah Birx told reporters on Thursday. She noted that the alarmist statistics about the spread of the virus said Italy would
reach 400,000 deaths by now, but the actual death toll was nowhere near that.

Italy, which has been the hardest-hit in terms of deaths from Covid-19, has
reported over 80,000 cases with 8,215 fatalities and counting, just as the US surged to first place in the number of confirmed cases (over 83,000), but with far lower
mortality of 1,200 deaths attributed to the virus so far.

There is “no reality on the ground where we can see that 60-70 percent of
Americans are going to get infected in the next 8-12 weeks,” Birx said.

Nineteen out of 50 US states have had a “persistently low” level of infection, with fewer than 200 registered cases, according to Birx, with 55 percent of new cases coming from the New York City metropolitan area. Several other urban centers –
Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois – are also a matter of concern to the
health officials.

However, of the 550,000 tests run in the US so far, only 14 percent came back positive – and 86 percent of those tested, who had to have symptoms in the first place, did not have Covid-19.

Birx pointed out that either there is a significant number of people out there not showing symptoms but carrying the virus – which the authorities are
now trying to find, using new antibody tests – “or we have the transmission
completely wrong.�
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(quick laff...) old spanish whore's motto:

(lord knows we all could use a laugh or two)

Never-let-a-day-go-by! :)))

punch line fucked but i'll try anyways
(roll with the punch here) something about
a hor mone and making a whore cry.
oh yeah here's the punch line: don't pay her.
this qualified for the best cheesy joke ever.

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(quick laff...) old spanish whore's motto:

(lord knows we all could use a laugh or two)

Never-let-a-day-go-by! :)))

punch line fucked but i'll try anyways
(roll with the punch here) something about
a hor mone and making a whore cry.
oh yeah here's the punch line: don't pay her.
this qualified for the best cheesy joke ever.

### - fucked my punchine up as well heh, should've been: never let a dego
by :)


and yours: how do ya make a hormone?

don't pay her haha :))

***

ok, what do you call a guy who’s had far too much to drink?

a cab :)

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‘Models don’t match reality’: White House coronavirus chief rejects doomsday predictions
By Pamela Geller - on March 27, 2020
Wuhan Virus: Coronavirus

British scientist Neil Ferguson ignited the world’s drastic response to
the novel Wuhan coronavirus when he published the bombshell report
predicting 2.2 million Americans and more than half a million Brits
would be killed. After both the U.S. and U.K. governments effectively
shut down their citizens and economies, Ferguson is walking back his
doomsday scenarios.

The Federalist: Ferguson’s report from Imperial College, which White House and other officials took seriously, said that if the U.S. and U.K.
did not shut down for 18 months, and isolation measures were not taken,
“we would expect a peak in mortality (daily deaths) to occur after approximately 3 months.” His “models” showed overflowing hospitals and ICU beds.

“For an uncontrolled epidemic, we predict critical care bed capacity would be exceeded as early as the second week in April, with an eventual
peak in ICU or critical care bed demand that is over 30 times greater
than the maximum supply in both countries,” the report reads.

[…[ But after tens of thousands of restaurants, bars, and businesses closed, Ferguson is now retracting his modeling, saying he feels “reasonably confident” our health care system can cope when the
predicted peak of the epidemic arrives in a few weeks. Testifying before
the U.K.’s parliamentary select committee on science and technology on Wednesday, Ferguson said he now predicts U.K. deaths from the disease
will not exceed 20,000, and could be much lower.

3.3 M jobless claims in US as scientist walks back hysterical
model warning between 2-4 M dead. https://t.co/e9KpeK0lLP

— Lee Smith (@LeeSmithDC) March 26, 2020

3.3 M jobless claims in US as scientist walks back hysterical
model warning between 2-4 M dead. https://t.co/e9KpeK0lLP

— Lee Smith (@LeeSmithDC) March 26, 2020

‘Models don’t match reality’: White House coronavirus chief rejects doomsday predictions as US tops Covid-19 case count

By: RT, 26 Mar, 2020:
Even as the US overtook China in the official number of Covid-19
cases, the top physician leading the White House effort urged Americans
not to panic, as models predicting the death of millions keep being
proven wrong everywhere.

“The predictions of the models don’t match the reality on the ground in neither China, South Korea nor Italy,” Dr. Deborah Birx told
reporters on Thursday. She noted that the alarmist statistics about the spread of the virus said Italy would reach 400,000 deaths by now, but
the actual death toll was nowhere near that.

Italy, which has been the hardest-hit in terms of deaths from
Covid-19, has reported over 80,000 cases with 8,215 fatalities and
counting, just as the US surged to first place in the number of
confirmed cases (over 83,000), but with far lower mortality of 1,200
deaths attributed to the virus so far.

There is “no reality on the ground where we can see that 60-70
percent of Americans are going to get infected in the next 8-12 weeks,” Birx said.

Nineteen out of 50 US states have had a “persistently low” level of infection, with fewer than 200 registered cases, according to Birx, with
55 percent of new cases coming from the New York City metropolitan area. Several other urban centers – Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois – are also a matter of concern to the health officials.

However, of the 550,000 tests run in the US so far, only 14 percent
came back positive – and 86 percent of those tested, who had to have symptoms in the first place, did not have Covid-19.

Birx pointed out that either there is a significant number of people
out there not showing symptoms but carrying the virus – which the authorities are now trying to find, using new antibody tests – “or we have the transmission completely wrong.”

### - hopefully! but would then be worrying in another way, in that a low transmission rate equates with a higher fatality rate amongst those that
have it no? that what we want/need is for every fucker to have it but only
very few dying from it...

i dunno, it seems to be as (if not more so) contagious than sars by dint
of remaining on surfaces for a very long time indeed rather than being
spread via coughing/sneezing etc? (they were still finding viable samples
of it on surfaces 17 days after everyone left that cruise-ship for example)

in which case everyone's prolly gonna get it at some point albeit quite a
lot of peeps are only getting very mild symptoms for whatever reasons, it
seems to prefer men over woman in terminal & critical terms (70% men
versus only 30% women have died so far) and anyone with other on-going
problems only really getting any of the more severe/critical symptoms...

boris will make a good guinea pig in that sense, as here's someone who's
only 55 and in great health/shape, has always eaten well and basically
been well looked after all his life + is unlikely to have ever been
exposed to too many toxins etc (has never had to work down the mines or whatever i mean)

there's also some chatter now doin' the rounds re maybe 2 'strains' of
this shit; one yielding only mild symptoms and the other being a killer... (just normal flu and this one maybe?)

just don't fancy getting it myself, damn i even wear gloves & a mask just
to go on the internet!

hahaha :)))

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what's up with Iran?
they gave their peeps Methanol?
they get the golden bozo award
of the week for being flat out stupid.
Killing your own people eh?
How's that working for ya Iran?
strange brew of karma there douchebags.
oh well down under you go again.
have fun playing last man standing.

### - that's a horrible story, fake news/scammers suggesting it's a cure?

geez what uneducated peeps will resort to when they's in a panic huh?

whomever started that lie certainly has a lot to answer to!

(mad-arsed cunt to do that to 'anyone'; kids going blind and everything
sheesh)

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From: slider@anashram.com

### - oh and this one from fb haha:

To the guy who stole my antidepressants:

I hope you’re happy now! :D lol

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From: allreadydun@gmail.com

what's up with Iran?
they gave their peeps Methanol?
they get the golden bozo award
of the week for being flat out stupid.
Killing your own people eh?
How's that working for ya Iran?
strange brew of karma there douchebags.
oh well down under you go again.
have fun playing last man standing.

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From: intraphase@gmail.com

The Boss With No Ears

John, who was born without ears, needed to hire a new Bank Manager.
He set up three interviews. The first guy was great. He knew everything he needed to know and was very interesting But at the end of the interview,
John asked him, "Do you notice anything different about me?"
"Why, yes, I couldn't help but notice that you have no ears," came the
reply. John did not appreciate his candor and threw him out of the
office
The second interview was with a woman, who had been with the bank a long
time She was even better than the first guy.
But he asked her the same question: "Do you notice anything different
about me?" "Well," she said, "you have no ears" John again got upset and
tossed her out.
The third and final interviewee was the best of the bunch.
He was a young man who had recently earned his MBA. He was smart. He
was handsome. And he seemed to be a better businessman that the first two
put together. John was anxious, but went ahead and asked the young man:
"Do you notice anything different about me?" And much to his surprise,
the young man answered, "Yes You wear contact lenses." John was shocked and realized this was an incredibly observant person
"How in the world did you know that?", he asked.
The young man fell off his chair laughing hysterically and replied,
"Well, it's pretty hard to wear glasses with no friggin ears!"

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From: intraphase@gmail.com

Nude woman ignores coronavirus warnings to straddle ‘Charging Bull’

By Tamar Lapin March 26, 2020 | 10:10pm


https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/charging-bull-84.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/charging-bull-80.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/charging-bull-81.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/charging-bull-82.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/charging-bull-83.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024


Where are her gloves?!

This blond bombshell straddled the “Charging Bull” statue in the nude Thursday — brazenly ignoring all coronavirus protection measures.

With quarantine in effect and the streets empty, no one was there to stop the carefree cowgirl from straddling the Financial District’s bronze icon.

When she eyed a Post photographer, the bull rider took off with a pal who’d been snapping iPhone photos.

The unsanitary stunt came as US stocks rallied for a third straight day, with the Dow finishing up 1,352 points.


https://nypost.com/2020/03/26/nude-woman-ignores-coronavirus-warnings-to-straddle-charging-bull/

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From: intraphase@gmail.com

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34 Things To Really Annoy People

1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%
extra dark 17-inch paper 99 copies.

2. Sit in your yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they
slow down.

3. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."

4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it with your pen while talking to
others.

5. Sing along at the opera.

6. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."

7. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."

8. Practice making fax and modem noises.

9. Highlight irrelevant material in scientific papers and "cc" them to your boss.

10. Say "Gesundheit" to people who don't sneeze. When they question you
tell them that you foresaw a sneeze coming.

11. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy."

12. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your
ears.
13. Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the cartridge across the
room.

14. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.

15. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green and insist
to others that you "like it that way."

16. Staple papers in the middle of the page.

17. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a croaking noise.

18. Honk and wave to strangers.

19. Decline to be seated at a restaurant and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.

20. TYPE ONLY IN UPPERCASE.

21. type only in lowercase.

22. don t use any punctuation either

23. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.

24. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times:
"Do you hear that?""What?" "Never mind it's gone now."

25. As much as possible skip rather than walk.

26. Try playing the William Tell Overture announce "No wait, I messed it
up"and repeat.

27. Ask people what gender they are.

28. While making presentations occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.

29. While people are talking to you, make a big display of looking up their nose.

30. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.

31. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.

32. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble the answers
in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."

33. Tell your friends four days prior that you can't go to their party
because you're not in the mood.

34. Send this list to everyone in your email address book even if they sent
it to you or ask you not to send things like this.

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From: intraphase@gmail.com

Young Prodigy - Isolation Waltz
https://youtu.be/DZovpz8SpSE

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From: intraphase@gmail.com

Private Pilot - Buzzes Are 51 - Great Pictures https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32919/pilot-takes-amazing-images-of-area-51-and-tonopah-air-base-while-skirting-restricted-airspace

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