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Dezzy

@roy130390

Thanks.

I try and look at the silver lining. She was 85 and probably quite near to the end of her life anyway.

It is kinda shocking though because the last time I saw her (about 4 months ago), she was in pretty much perfect health (for an 85 year old)

It's dangerous to go alone! Stay at home.

ThanosReXXX

@Dezzy Ah, I'm sorry to hear about that. My condolences as well. I can understand you having difficulties with this. No matter how old grandparents get, or any loved ones for that matter, we'll always miss them anyway.

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

HobbitGamer

@Dezzy Condolences

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ogo79

Dezzy wrote:

@roy130390

Thanks.

I try and look at the silver lining. She was 85 and probably quite near to the end of her life anyway.

It is kinda shocking though because the last time I saw her (about 4 months ago), she was in pretty much perfect health (for an 85 year old)

my condolences.
i try to find a silver lining in everything in life, i tell that to my dad often.
it has got me very far.

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As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)

Zeldafan79

Have you guys noticed the discrepancies in alot of these rules at restaurants? Like for example i noticed burger king flat out doesn't allow people to use the touch screen coke machines but wendy's does. I went to one pizza hut in my town and they'll let you sit right in the lobby and wait for your pizza for take out but another one was completely locked up not letting anyone inside. If you're gonna be so mixed up on the rules what is the bloody point?

Speaking of making no sense why are people so worried about wearing masks when they aren't also wearing gloves? Everything you touch could have the virus on it! How is covering only your face gonna save you? It's no wonder this crap seems to have no end in sight!

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Dezzy

@Zeldafan79

It can't infect you through your fingers. It can only go in your eyes, nose or mouth. So a mask is more important, because you can always just wash your hands as soon as you get home, before touching your face.

It's dangerous to go alone! Stay at home.

HobbitGamer

@Dezzy Then there's the folks that are continually touching their cloth mask, the kind that doesn't protect them in the first place. Or the folks that don't cover their nose with it.

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Eel

People in my country are consistently going more and more stupid over this.

Like, invading a hospital to 'rescue' infectious dead bodies, people gathering by the hundreds to buy pizza on discount, narcos claiming they'll kill ten doctors for every death in their family, and getting violent towards doctors and sanitizing staff because they don't want them to go infect their community levels of stupid.

Like seriously, there's people who genuinely think the doctors and/or government are actively killing or infecting people because "the disease is fake, and they need the numbers'. That silly.

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ThanosReXXX

@Dezzy You've got that backwards: masks are the LEAST important. Most important are social distancing and washing your hands. Masks are ONLY useful for keeping your infected breath to yourself, in places where social distancing is difficult or impossible, such as in stores or public transport.

There's SO many things that can go wrong with these masks, such as people not wearing them the right way, not having masks of the right material, wearing it for too long before cleaning it or replacing it with a new one, and then touching their dirty mask with their hands, and subsequently touching surfaces which other people can touch, who might then touch their own face and so on, and so on...

So, in that respect, you definitely CAN get infected through your fingers, just by being in contact with an infected surface and then touching your face.

@HobbitGamer

Here's the entire video of that woman, now known as the Kentucky "Covidiot":
https://v16.muscdn.com/1d2e22e2cb8b7f643e00408c5d47e965/5eb75...

@Eel After having read your comment, I am now wondering what THEY think doctors would "need" the numbers for...

Stay safe, you all.

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'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

ThanosReXXX

@Eel Seriously? That's always one of the possible answers of people who don't think things through.
With how things are standing now, sadly enough, the death toll is actually COSTING countries instead of it earning them money...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

Octane

@Eel Sounds lovely. Stay safe!

Octane

WoomyNNYes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nobel-laureate-tasuku-honjo...

Jesus. There seems to be nothing I can do. I can tell my parents that email forwards are horses**t till I'm blue in the face, and days weeks later, they send me another bulls**t email. Like today, my mom forwarded me an email saying Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo says covid has to be man made because natural viruses can't spread or be that bad.

It's just insane. I just can't believe these are my parents.

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WoomyNNYes

@Dezzy Yeah, dezzy, they've been saying for a while a vaccine can take 12-18 months in a best case scenario, but that bit seems to get burried by other noise. So maybe February, at the earliest for a vaccine. We officially don't have medication to treat the deadly symptoms. The virus is already here all over our country, and spreads at an exponential rate. Unless there is a miracle discovery, distancing is all we have, and it's probably going to be like this through next winter.

Definitely can't put kids on a school bus...

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Dezzy

@WoomyNNYes

It's probably not "spreading" at an exponential rate in most of the country at this point though.

An exponential only "spreads" when the base is greater than 1. If it's less than 1, it shrinks rather spreads. In which case you probably can put kids on a school bus, as long as you check to make sure it doesn't cause the base to grow above 1.

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HobbitGamer

@WoomyNNYes Now just imagine if the CEO of your employment believed those emails... Welcome to the world of Hobbit.

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Dezzy

@HobbitGamer

Is your CEO Gandalf?

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WoomyNNYes

@Dezzy When we carry on normal lives without distancing, and other precautions, it does spread at an exponential rate. That's what the infection rate curve does. It doubles and triples, compounds. But you're right, shelter in place, washing hands, distancing, and masks prevents that.

@HobbitGamer Is exponential rate spreading inaccurate?

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Dezzy

@WoomyNNYes

Yes, although even with none of that stuff, viruses do tend to pass naturally anyway. Because they kill everyone who is vulnerable, and everyone else becomes immune.

We obviously don't want that to happen. But it's just to say that in principle, they don't spread exponentially forever (that'd be impossible, obviously. There aren't an infinite number of people)

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