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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: MUTE BUTTON !
THAT WORKS ON YOUR WIFE?!? 
Tell me where you bought it, I beg you!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Brilliant!  And it takes a lot for me to be impressed by an advert. They usually only succeed in annoying me.
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I think I must have an internal ad blocker, I don't recall any of those ads, mind you I don't watch a lot of TV either.
We do have a guy here who does the voice overs for lots of long winded ads selling crap products - the "wait but we have more" rubbish.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Hilarious! Thanks for sharing. I don't watch TV so don't see commercials...
#SupportHeForShe
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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... that:
- telling everyone to get back to the office
- incentivising people to "eat out to help out"
- opening up travel corridors to encourage holidays
- re-opening pubs and restaurants
... would increase infection rates? Well, apparently, the UK Government didn't!
Still. We have a "world-beating app", a highly effective track and trace system, the highest testing capacity in Europe and clear instructions on how to stop the spread of the virus. So, it'll be fine....
Lockdown here we come!   
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Don't forget
- letting disease factories gather in large groups and calling it a "year bubble" in schools.
Another brilliant idea, given that said disease factories almost never show any symptoms of Covid then take it home with them ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Over here they opened the schools (instead of remote learning) for no good reason except to let students have parties - and now are closing them again for the consequences.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Not where I live. Schools are open and going strong.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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How many dead so far where you are?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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0.
I don't know. I'm not counting them. And quite frankly, no one is counting them accurately anyway.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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As long as the lockdown will be a joke like here, you have nothing to afraid... Maybe getting the virus...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I don't think it's that they didn't know, just more... what's the alternative?
Got to keep the economy going somehow.
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Plus, as Scrooge would say, "get rid of the surplus population".
In the US, the death toll is 200,000. Now consider this: the detected case count is about seven million. Seven million is about 2% of the population.
Now . . . . extrapolate ! Even if it's off by a damn order of magnitude in case count we're still looking at an additional 800,000 dead! I doubt the error's nearly that large and the horror all the greater for it.
It boggles my mind that any politician (let alone any human being) could allow this to be politicized as we hear the CDC change its story, on a daily basis it seems, so as not to offend! Another casualty of the unthinkably politicized pandemic is confidence in the CDC and similar (formerly) reputable institutions throughout the world.
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I really won't wast my time arguing with a fanatic who believes a compulsive bare-face liar and the organizations he stocked with his cronies to do his bidding.
So you go on believing your "Deity With the Little Hands" and I'll foolishly rely on science.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: I'll foolishly rely on science
So, I guess you don't believe Biden's number then. That must mean you believe the CDC's (since science and all that) so your number is still way too high, even by the CDC.
Regardless of numbers, just use your brain. It's that simple.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Where do Biden publish his numbers?
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I really don't envy the people of the US, having to vote for either of the two, (creepy old guys), in the presidential election. It was bad enough here in the UK, (with Bozo v Jezza), but you guys in the US have well and truly trumped us! 
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In the US, you're 76 more times to become a traffic fatality than a Wuhan Coronavirus fatality. Numbers are from the CDC.
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But if you see over your entire lifetime, or even from the day you were born until today, you will see that there are lots more traffic deaths than corona deaths.
We all know that corona will disappear by April (although I am not quite sure if we are talking about this year or next year). Traffic deaths will remain with us forever. Corona is a temporary thing. Do the statistics in a more suitable time frame, and then you will see that Corona deaths is like a short fad that we probably could easily ignore.
We did that with the Black Death, and it worked then. Why shouldn't it work as well this time?
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I really didn't know if I should reply to this or not - as I suspect you are just trying to wind me up!  But here goes. Let's just go back to the original claim:
Quote: In the US, you're 76 more times to become a traffic fatality than a Wuhan Coronavirus fatality.
Admittedly obermd hasn't given any timescales, but I think that omission, means we can assume he is talking about right now - in the middle of the pandemic, which has already killed 200,000 in the US. Based on the 2019 figures, there have probably been circa 20,000 traffic fatalities in the US during the period of the pandemic.
So, right now, (which is surely what we need to focus on), you are 10 times more likely to be killed by COVID-19, than you are by a vehicle. Yes, one day we won't need to worry about COVID-19, (just like, at some point in the future, we probably won't need to worry about getting hit by a vehicle), but that's irrelevant.
Here's another (pointless) statistic: 80 million people died in WW2 and about 1 million have so far died, world-wide, from CODID-19. Does that mean I am 80 times more likely to die in a World War, than I am from the virus?
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*glares at you from the United States*
Real programmers use butterflies
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5teveH wrote: re-opening pubs and restaurants
Maybe they expected british food would be enough to scare off the virus...
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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