Top Gun

I think there's a pretty clear delineation between the more classic "travel to another word" series and the modern definition of "isekai." For one, the former usually involved female protagonists, which I'm sure was inspired in no small part by Alice in Wonderland, and the worlds they traveled to usually took their cues from classic high fantasy. Think Escaflowne, or Inuyasha, or Twelve Kingdoms, among others. Series called "isekai" today usually involve a male protagonist (almost always a milquetoast loser in his former life), almost always have the the protagonist dying and getting reincarnated instead of just traveling somewhere, and tend to have worlds that are (inexplicably) based on video game mechanics. I know it's just personal taste speaking, but I need Toonami to pick up an isekai series like I need another hole in the head. The whole phenomenon seems immensely unappealing and creatively bankrupt to me.

...you know what, fuck it. I have better things to do than try to explain this to idiots. Like get rip-roaring drunk.

I'm going to explain this and use small words so you can understand it. No one, anywhere, is suggesting that lockdowns will have to last more than a year straight. The infection curves will flatten. It may be after a great deal of suffering (because our leadership are short-sighted colossal idiots), but it will flatten, probably far closer to June than April. We'll probably be okay to lift most social restrictions then, provided we finally get actual widespread testing and can monitor for flare-ups. There may need to be more localized quarantines put in place during these flare-ups, but so long as we're doing our job and rigorously testing people, they can be confined locally. ...okay, I had to use some bigger words in there. My apologies.

Way back in the Before Times of our ancient One Piece chats, the most we used to do in one night was 5 in a row, and that was an absolute chore. I have no earthly idea how people string together a dozen 45-minute episodes of just sitting there vapidly staring at a screen.

While that's certainly true, I fully agree with him in principle. Bingeing seems like such an unappealing way to consume media.

FFS people, "we may not have a vaccine for 12-18 months" does not translate to "everyone has to stay socially isolated for 12-18 months." Do some goddamn research.

Those people tend to have five years' worth of shit already stashed away in their nuke-proof bunker. It's the average morons I'm more concerned about.

Uh-huh.

We're already beyond that point. We should have been on full lockdown at least a week ago.

He should absolutely be putting those measures in place, and so should the entire country. They work. Instead you have fuckwits like Florida just figuring out in the last day or two that, oh, hey, maybe we should think about closing our beaches.

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Real talk though, Kyousougiga is a heartwarming (and batshit crazy) story about the importance of family, so that'd be a feel-good pick.

Boku no Pico.

You heard it here folks, hurricanes follow the same exact tracks every year. Who needs sophisticated modeling being run on massive computer clusters to determine cones of uncertainty when you can just stick your head outside and see if it's windy?

Are you being deliberately obtuse, or does it just come naturally to you? The start of the very first small-scale clinical trials does not mean we're going to get this thing in just a couple of months. These things take substantially more time, as the efficacy and possible side-effects of any vaccine have to be thoroughly understood before approval, and then the actual production has to start (which even for the seasonal flu vaccine, something we understand very well, starts months in advance of each flu season). Even if your random guesses happened to be correct, it wouldn't make them any more based on actual comprehensive understanding. No, I don't need a meteorologist to tell me it's raining now, but I sure as fuck need one to tell me the most likely path a hurricane will take, or the probability that a given frontal system will produce severe weather tomorrow. But hey, novel vaccine development is just as simple as sticking your head out the window and looking up at the sky, right?

Get ready for FOUR WEEKS OF GIANT HAND-FIGHTING ACTION!!! (Also the fact that Kubo's going right back to Jump to serialize something else finally murders the "oh no his editors ruined Bleach's ending" excuse.)

Subtitle: "...because I didn't socially isolate and avoid crowded places."

If you're not a virology expert, you don't really have any place speculating about timelines. Let the people who know what they're talking about do the talking.

...literally every single consulted expert is saying that a vaccine will take AT LEAST 12 to 18 months to be ready for mass distribution. Where are you getting this incorrect info?

Pretty much every epidemiologist consulted has said that blanket travel bans accomplish very little at this point. The virus is already widespread across the country. The concern isn't spread via someone from Europe, it's spread via close social interactions, hence social distancing. As you said, it's comparatively easy to screen people at airports; the real challenge is finding out who has it in a community (which is made exponentially harder when the asshole-in-chief royally fucks up the initial response). The only real chance a travel ban would have is if you went all President Madagascar and locked down every single border before the virus started to spread, but that would have been impossible. And no, you should ABSOLUTELY NOT automatically go to the ER if you have a fever. That is a fantastic way to either expose yourself to illness or expose someone else. Stay at home, call your primary doctor, and follow their advice. If they recommend some sort of testing be done, they'll let you know how it should be accomplished. There's a reason hospitals and cities are trying to set up drive-through testing stations: they don't want infected individuals putting others at unnecessary risk. Obviously if you're in any sort of immediate respiratory distress, then go the ER or call 911.

Someday I will stop laughing at these. It is not today.

If the virus is already endemic in the country, shutting the borders accomplishes little. It's too late at that point.

Pence should be an expert at epidemics. I mean he directly caused an HIV one in Indiana.

Jman is literally the only person who cares about that show either way.

Nothing about what they've said is an over-exaggeration.