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April is just going to suck, it's when we're going to see the largest outbreaks in america, after that we'll begin to see it climb down naturally. So if you're going to catch it it's probably going to be in April or early May. I do think that this will have a vaccine on the sooner side rather than later. Price of the vaccine will range between $30 on the low end to $80 on the high end. I presume that they are going to try and have the first batch out at the end of summer to see how it works pre-flu season in the fall. There will be mass shortages, but there will most likely be new batches out at the end of october to the middle of november that are upgraded. So if you can afford wait for the next batch I'd suggest to do so. Worst case for a vaccine I would say is at most 15 months; I think though that it'll be mostly figured out in 5 months. Stores though shouldn't be as bad in the coming weeks if hoarding can be curbed; I think my projection for that will still be correct as suppliers and orderforms are adjusted.
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I had to settle for rye bread instead of marble rye bread at the store. This will be a piss poor Ruben tonight will be the true tragedy of this that I'll tell people about years from now.
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There will be a spike in infected by the end of the month, then it will begin to curve downward towards the end of April beginning of May. June we shouldn't be seeing many new cases, and by mid July early August there will more than likely be an anti-virus. The problem will then just be having enough supply for everyone. I predict that stores will be adjusted within the next 2 weeks for keeping supplies on shelves, given that people look at their hoard of goods and realize that they don't need more toilet paper. Also if you have the money take advantage of the stock market crash and invest.
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Yeah I think the ER advice was more for me personally than advice for everyone from my doctor because of my auto immune and lung issues. Since I'm immune compromised having a 101 fever would mean going to the ER. If you're not in that old or immune compromised group though self quarantine is best bet. The hospital I was at though was just a mad house for the staff. I felt bad for one of my roommates at the hospital. Really old guy got his eye socket busted while trying to buy supplies at the store. I don't think he was all with it either, or if he was just out of it from getting hit in the head. He kept asking his family where his stuff was. Just felt like that would have been avoided if the news wasn't trying to create a panic. In the waiting room before I had surgery there was just some guy trying to talk with everyone about the virus for some reason. He had a backpack and briefcase full of papers and he was just showing people how the virus spread, and air travel paths it took, and projected outbreak dates for different countries and coverage. If felt like I was being held captive by a crazy person until the doctors called me back. As for boarder control and travel bans, even if they were done properly I doubt they would have been all that effective. We import far too many things, and had the ban been effectively timed and put in place over a month ago when things should have been done. It would have probably just sparked conflict as our country is already in heated debate over free moving boarders.
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More that it allows better screening for infection when you monitor boarders. Also just because an illness gets in doesn't mean it will infect a large number of people. Like if you have some infected people in Florida. It doesn't mean that people in Maine or North Dakota are really at a lot of risk. However leaving the boarders open for more infected to get in will just increase the odds. Really aside from the store and being in the hospital for a couple of days, I didn't even realize it was making people go this crazy. Really I'm still waiting for killer bees and fire ants to kill us like they said would happen in the 90s, any day now. I remember back when they'd have tv specials and movies about it. People were panic buying tape and things to keep insects out, because by the far off year of 2002 they'd make it all the way to canada and nobody would survive. Then 9/11 happened and everyone forgot about the bees and ants. The news forgot the real problems and began to focus on pointless things like wars and terrorists. I digress 90% of what was on TV in the hospital was virus coverage. The hospital was also getting overbooked by people who had normal colds and flu's but thought they were on deaths door and dying of this virus. I even talked to my doctor about what he thought of it. He was like it's a serious illness for elderly and immune compromised people, but other than that people are overreacting. I'm an immune compromised person myself and he even said that since I survived H1N1 and Swine Flu that I would more than likely survive cronovirus, but it would suck to have. Pretty much just said having a good sense of your own bodies functions is best bet. Pretty much getting sick just stay home and nurse yourself to health, any fevers 101 and up go to the ER.
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I still don't think the virus is worth the hype, but at best it'll get people to start thinking more about sanitation and good hygiene habits. Really I'm thinking now is probably a good time for vacation, since travel and hotel prices are at all time lows. Only problem is that any large things worth going to have shut down; also that my lungs are still recovering from that biopsy and I can't do air travel or long motionless trips for another week to avoid clots. Though it's funny how all these big vacation places are practically empty, but stores are like prison riots. People trying to buy supplies is actually putting them at more risk of contracting an illness from someone than simply waiting it out or buying things ahead of time. I didn't know there was even store riots until I went to pick up corned beef for st patricks day. I usually buy bulk soap and toilet paper only a couple of times a year, and stocked up back in december. So having like 70 rolls of tp, and some gallons of soap and sanitizes, and freezers full of wild game and deer meat; I guess makes me the king of barter town. Either way if there's anything still open and worth going to I'd say go for it. Nobody will be there and you have good chances of not running into anybody who is sick.
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They did have him wear old age makeup for the first film that pic is from the cover of the 2nd film though. As for him looking younger I don't see it, I think he looks younger when he was actually younger in the back to the future films.
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Isn't vodka already technically mashed potatoes.
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The image is broken, but I can see that it says pegging. I can only assume what it was about and what I'm assuming is probably better in my mind than the image itself.
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Happy Birthday
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It's a counter-attack! Female Hawtness Thread MK. IV NSFW
HardcoreHunter replied to Satou Kazuma's topic in Anime & Manga
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I feel like I'd fare better in Silent Hill. It would suck, but Raccoon City you're just fucked. Even if you can survive the zombies and avoid the Tyrants, Hunters, Lickers, Cerberus, plant b.o.w's, and umbrella agents, you're still getting hit with a Nuke.
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Probably 5 years ago since I had a high school dream. Nothing ever seems to happen though in my school dreams, possibly because I viewed school as just repetitive and mundane. My brother though peaked in High School so he loves his rose tinted school dream. I'd guess the dreams are either random, or are triggered by a similar feeling that you are having now in life that you may have had when you were in school. I can see mine being in times when I feel life has become mundane and repetitive, while my brothers are when he feels good about himself. My guess for yours it has to do with scheduling, stress, and deadlines if anything. Pretty much anything in life that is making you feel like you may have felt back in school. So your mind just uses memories from school to fill in the blanks when You're asleep.
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Toonami Off-Topic Thread 1.5
HardcoreHunter replied to PokeNirvash's topic in Toonami & [adult swim]
Got bored so I went out and saw the MHA movie. Holy fuck have movies gotten expensive, ticket drink and popcorn were $30. As anime movies go it was good just not $30. I don't know if it was an ADR issue or just my theater, but the dialogue was kinda fucked. Like everyone sounded like they were speaking in a near whisper for the first half of the film. I don't know if I just got used to it, or if they fixed the audio midway through. It never sounded like voices were much above a low hush; and if things were happening in the background you couldn't hear anything. The whole theater was dead silent though the whole film, which was very different compared to the DBZ movie which had a lively "urban" audience who would give goku a lot of helpful advice during the movie. The only annoying thing about the audience in this film was the one guy and girl in my row had to alternate getting up and walking past me like 8x throughout the film. It was actually surprising after a while. To be fair though the film had a lot of dead moments that were good times to go to the bathroom or get a drink. I feel like what was happening was that they had a spare cup and were stealing free refills. One person bought the drink goes into the theater dumps the drink into their partners cup, then the partner goes out and refills the cup again to not raise suspicion, The perfect crime! First part of the film felt extra slow. It felt like 20mins of the film were montages or establishing shots. The fights were okay, the shield thing got repetitive after a while though they were still good. The movie is kinda spoilers if you haven't read the manga. I think Bakugo may have had the most lines in the film. Never really said anything important, but he did talk. I swear that 95% of everything deku says was an inner monologue or telling the kids, Bakugo or Uraraka to do something. I felt like the other bad guys were kinda more interesting than the main bad guy. We really didn't get to focus on their fights much because we had to watch a guy use a yellow shield for 40mins. The plan also felt too elementary as evil plans go. To create a Darwinist society just seemed dumb by this point. It at least tried harder than the broly movie did, but the last MHA film had a much better plot going on. Then again the last film kinda stole it's plot from Die Hard, so hard to go wrong when you're copying a beloved christmas classic. Some of the cast got shafted to the side hard. Toru the invisible girl may have been the only one in the whole class who was 100% useless. Her shining moment in the film is to try and call for help from her cell, but she couldn't get a call out. Everyone else had at least some hand in the battles. -
I did back when I had my own pool. I don't think I'd want to do that in a public pool. Either way I would usually use goggles because I know that those chems aren't really good to get in your eyes.
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I read it wrong, it was young, those with existing health issues, and elderly are 10% while the rest are 0.1% to 3%.
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I think the virus was as deadly as it was in China just because of the poor state run medical facilities, and poor air quality from all the industry smog. Other countries infected are having death counts at around 2% of those infected. In comparison seasonal flu's have about a 10% mortality rating. In china though the Corona Virus was something like 25%. So I'm thinking it could be environment quality and medical availability. As well Asian work environments aren't really the best; you're pretty much expected to work yourself to death when you're healthy, so working while you're sick isn't going to help things. As for the Olympics, it's been shown have been worse for the economy of the host country. The last time it was considered a benefit was the 92 Barcelona games. This is because in the past rather than building a single use high capacity stadium, they would focus on rebuilding better roads and houses; that would be of benefit in the future. It's kinda from that where the days of it being great for tourism ect rumors came from. It's kinda like the bs excuse people have saying that artists doing free commissions is great because they're getting paid in exposure etc. Then the trend of super high capacity stadiums and extravagant entrance ceremonies became more the norm. Also Bids for becoming a host nation keeps rising to unreasonable levels. Los Angeles won the bid for the 2028 games all the way back in 2004 (yes they bid these things decades in advance not knowing what their economic state will be in the future). They bid almost 7 billion dollars at the time. I don't know what Japan bid for their but it is probably around that number. However the games comity feels that LA should have to pay even more money because of inflation, that is bullshit and pretty much reminds me of how colleges will ask for more money after you finish paying them.
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Been going to the YMCA to swim, was going good till last week. I swear to god last week they had so many chemicals in the pool that I should have gotten super powers. The chlorine burned the shit out of my skin so bad that after I got home I was just raw and my skin has been peeling as if I had a sunburn for a week now. Today I'd say it's fully healed now, but I've never had chem burns that bad from swimming.
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Toonami Off-Topic Thread 1.5
HardcoreHunter replied to PokeNirvash's topic in Toonami & [adult swim]
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Toonami Off-Topic Thread 1.5
HardcoreHunter replied to PokeNirvash's topic in Toonami & [adult swim]
Hero rankings don't make the most sense. Like Fat Gum despite being chosen for the Yakuza mission and being in the inner circle for a lot of undercover missions is ranked I think 55. The pussycats I think are in the 400's. Really I don't know how Best Jeanist is ranked so high. It's weird because they keep changing the criteria for ranks. Like Mt. Lady, Midnight, and Deku have have brought up that a lot of it is popularity votes, and Deku brought up that the pussycats were mostly popular with children because sentai. Though then there are Heroes like Endevor who everyone seems to at best indifferent towards if not dislike. So that would show that it isn't as much popularity and heroic acts themselves are graded separately from public exposure. -
Toonami Off-Topic Thread 1.5
HardcoreHunter replied to PokeNirvash's topic in Toonami & [adult swim]
I thought about seeing it last night, but I looked at seating availability and the theater was packed aside from the 10:30 show. Was tired though by 8 and didn't really feel like I could pay attention for that long so I passed. Today they have it showing in standard seating which will at least be cheaper. Last night it was only shown in the luxury seating which is an extra $6 for a slightly better chair. -
Toonami Off-Topic Thread 1.5
HardcoreHunter replied to PokeNirvash's topic in Toonami & [adult swim]
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Shame season 2 never and the manga stopped with the anime. The only way to get more story is to read the LN.