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Same here all over Vancouver, I had asked some one i knew why and they indicated it is worn as a courtesy when they or some one in there family has a air born virus. is actually a good idea and should be implemented by the Gwai lo, may save a few lives. but whites generally employ the if I'm sick or miserable i wasn't every one to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCR
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Originally Posted by Baron Von StruckerSame here all over Vancouver, I had asked some one i knew why and they indicated it is worn as a courtesy when they or some one in there family has a air born virus. is actually a good idea and should be implemented by the Gwai lo, may save a few lives. but whites generally employ the if I'm sick or miserable i wasn't every one to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCR
Its actually a fashion statement now, boomer.
TBH, it sounds like much ado about very little. The death rate appears to be about 2% versus the much higher 10% rate for SARS, which is also a coronavirus. And the people who are dying from it are doing so because they overwhelmingly have an underlying health problem or weakened immune system, with most dying due to also contracting pneumonia.
https://youtu.be/aerq4byr7ps
So, I guess we’re not gonna see a realignment of real wages in China from this disease after all.
oh my god are you fucking kidding meQuote:
Originally Posted by MumblesBadly
80 dead in china.
Dude, I’ve sometimes been spookily accurate at the projected death rates of catastrophic events. But that perception may be biased by my memory of a bet I offered a colleague of mine a few days after the 9/11 attacks. He had seen one of the towers fall that morning from a south-facing conference room in a Midtown skyscraper he happened to be in that day, and was still in a bit of a shock about it. He was sure that over 5000 people died in those attacks. I thought that was a way too high and said I’d take 3000 for $20 bucks. Sadly, he declined, because I think the count came out to be just shy of 3000. Oh, well. Would have been an easy 20 bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by dwaioh my god are you fucking kidding meQuote:
Originally Posted by MumblesBadly
the genome ends with 33 "a"s. this is statistically... unlikely.. to occur in something that isnt man made.
I'm pumped repQuote:
Originally Posted by Sanlmar
Fuck why did I go to Commerce?
Comps and lesbians?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
I wish on both countsQuote:
Originally Posted by WiganerComps and lesbians?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Just saw the movie Contagion for the first time a couple of weeks ago and subsequently read some scary shot about pandemics. Yikes.
Great Movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g
counterpoint: As far as I've read, statistics have nothing to do with this functional part of the sequence. it is a very common type of ending for this kind of rna virus, which happen in nature all the time. It appears to signal the end of the strand, is involved in replication processes, or some such things or other. Can be 5 a's, can be 20, can be 33 as it is in this one. It's called polyadenylation.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
Shit I have 2 six packs , I bought 2 months ago? should I toss them?
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Originally Posted by Crowe Diddlycounterpoint: As far as I've read, statistics have nothing to do with this functional part of the sequence. it is a very common type of ending for this kind of rna virus, which happen in nature all the time. It appears to signal the end of the strand, is involved in replication processes, or some such things or other. Can be 5 a's, can be 20, can be 33 as it is in this one. It's called polyadenylation.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
you're 100% right, a biochemist chimed in on that thread and explained how its basically necessary for replication. mea culpa.
first case in germany.
also US CDC traced it to contaminated bat meat from a bat breeder near by.
also lets take a deep breath and consider that there are bat breeders in china who sell their wares as food.
really savor that.