John Prine Dead At 73

My state's premier announced changes to the school year yesterday. All our learning for the next term is going to be done from home, which'll be a challenge. Exams are being pushed back to December (so my holiday is now January 2021), but the assignments we have during the year are being produced.

Why'd it have to be this year?

We are all doomed. Jajaja :D

maybe lololol

Estimates of the predicted coronavirus death toll have little meaning

With all the unknowns about covid-19, any numbers you hear about death tolls or how long restrictions will last should be taken not just with a pinch of salt but with a sack of it

YOU will probably have read that there are going to be X thousand deaths from coronavirus in the country you live in. You may also have read that there are going to be an order of magnitude more or fewer deaths. You would be right to be unsure which is correct. It could be any of them, or none.

President Donald Trump has been talking about a possible 100,000 to 200,000 coronavirus deaths in the US if his administration “does well” at tackling the virus. In the UK, there has been talk of 20,000 deaths if measures work and 250,000 without restrictions. There has been no shortage of other estimates put forward by people with little experience of epidemiology, some of which come in very low indeed.

These calculations, approximations and guesstimates from expert modelling studies and back-of-the-envelope blogging build a confusing picture, not least because they suggest that it is possible to assign a numerical value to covid-19’s future death toll at this point.

We are living through a situation with few certainties. If someone calculates that 1 per cent of the global population is set to die in this pandemic, say, this could be wrong for at least six reasons.

“We can’t know yet whether we can slow the pandemic long enough to develop drugs and vaccines for it”

First, we can’t yet be sure of the covid-19 fatality rate, or to what extent this will be affected by local shortages of ventilators. Second, we don’t know what proportion of the world population is likely to catch the infection, with some estimates varying between about 60 and 80 per cent. Third, we don’t know to what extent national restrictions, which vary wildly across the globe, will prevent or delay infections and deaths.

Added to this, we can’t know yet whether we can slow the pandemic long enough to develop drugs and vaccines that can dramatically cut the number of covid-19 deaths. And finally, we don’t even know what kind of immunity – if any – is conferred by this virus, and whether it is possible to develop severe symptoms from a repeat infection.

With all of these unknowns, the numbers you are hearing about death tolls, or how long restrictions will be in place, or how many people will need intensive care, should be taken not just with a pinch of salt but with a sack of it.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article...ittle-meaning/

Ellis Marsalis died of this last week in New Orleans, I didn’t know.

hahahahahaaaaaa

https://thehill.com/policy/national-...irus-spreading

I'm just sayin.

so who wants to play chess? (and complain about sources?)

Fuck it. Game 4, you are white. Go. I will endeavour to move with care this time. My replies will take more time. I really am a better player than I have presented thus far.

In other news, Team Trump threatens to withold funding from WHO, because it was all their fault, apparently, and in no way did Trump ignore the experts/intelligence, and completely downplay the oncoming crisis, even though all evidence suggests he did, and Bytor echoed this philosophy in his early posts in this thread.

Of course, no apocalypse is worthy of its name without at least one of these:



Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine, old timer.

das racist!

e4 again then

I’ve never understood such sign holders???

Well, I understand the sentiment behind the effort, more importantly, I Believe. However, I’m not sure if such signs work??

The way I see it, people think enough about heaven-hell-eternity on their own. Here at SYG, members who insist such things don’t pertain to them sure enjoy taking the time to berate and mock believers while never passing an opportunity to share such thoughts and pictures.

By the way, this evening is the start of Three Days And Three Nights

Matthew 12:40 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

You and your imaginary friends can go fuck a goat. Fuck a GOAT.

where did skuj go

Dude, he's thinking the next move. It ain't speed chess, you know. That's the one you play on amphetamines.

no i mean he still has a sense of humor

no i mean he still has a sense of humor

...i mean regarding the laughables

PLAYING CHESS + QUESTIONING SOURCES!

lmfao

e5.

I'm trying not to look when they quote Bytor, but I see religion there. Eeeeeeww.

What percentage of Trumpists beieves in The Lord? 90? I imagine us atheists go for the commie pinko left? It fascinates me, religion and Trumpism, and how the Orange One so clumsily embraces it for his political needs and they can't even see that.

Wait....what thread is this!

Nf3?

CORONA

anyway i have a new mega tv this week and i can anesthetize my brain more effectively at the end of the day...

...but no!

CRITERION ON A GIANT SCREEN OH I LOVE THEE

(people watching criterion! questioning sources?)

so did i say Nf3? yeah...

Jesus Won’t Want You For A Sunbeam and won’t allow Kenneth Copeland To Blow You corono free if you keep making fun of him.