Dr. Gonzo

I tried to get into it last year with a few friends who applied some pretty heavy peer pressure onto me... but sorry mate, just couldn't get into it at all.

That's understandable. I think some promising news is there have been no deaths of anyone younger than 9 with the disease (so far).

SARS and MERS have ridiculously high mortality rates though - so you'd think if they thought it was either of those, they'd be pretty fucking panicked.

Sadly, a lot of people in the Middle East think this is how diseases spread; that the germs occupy one body and if you pass it onto other people the germs are no longer in your body. Which is pretty mental and doesn't explain things like "flu season" or "the plague."

I'd rather be dead than willingly watch baseball tbh.

If it happens, I'm 100% killing myself.

Yeah, I noticed the graphics looked a bit dated - but that doesn't mean a whole lot to me. I still enjoy playing some really old games with really shit (well by modern day standards) graphics. I've heard enough good things about the game to give it a fair shake and be patient with it being a slow burner. It may turn out to not be for me, but I think it'll be pretty good.

Got stuck in Shadow Tactics, don't feel like looking up what I need to do. Seems like the difficulty has just ramped up tremendously and the tactics they teach you in the earlier levels don't really apply - so I'm gonna fuck that one off until I'm ready to come back to it with a different state of mind. Gonna start Yakuza 0 tonight.

Tbf Al Arabiya isn't the greatest source of news for Iran - they've been caught just making shit up before and they're about the only source I've seen reporting on this quarantine fire. Although, also tbf, Iran does have a load of uneducated and reactionary people - so it might have happened. But it's not the best source. I think something even more stupid, though, is verifiably true. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51706021 - I saw the video of this on Persian twitter yesterday; idiots licking a holy shrine to demonstrate that they wouldn't get coronavirus because the shrine would protect them. This is the danger of having an authoritarian theocracy - having a bunch of idiots that do stupid things that are dangerous. Two of the shrine lickers have been arrested... but still... that's just profoundly stupid on their part.

Maybe if he hadn't acted like this every day since he started campaigning for president. I don't think the "Trump being a moron is an act" argument flies when he goes and repeatedly does stuff that demonstrates pretty clearly he's a moron. Maybe it'll take a public health crisis for Americans to learn that you shouldn't let just any idiot be president. Doubt it though, Pence was instrumental in creating an AIDS epidemic in Indiana and Indiana was ecstatic that he was the VP nominee.

I think it’s a good thing overall for us though, even though we’ve lost a well respected and highly rated youth coach. It makes being our youth team manager look like it’ll qualify you to be the first team manager of at least a League One side & I suspect we’ll be loaning him a few kids for their development while he’s with them. So I think it makes working with our youth team a bit more attractive and in the immediate future let’s us have a place we know and trust they’ll be getting good time on the pitch to develop.

Yeah, but not the TV news

The Taliban have ended the peace deal they signed with the US last week. Apparently Afghanistan wasn't a part to the talks and the US made a commitment that Afghanistan would be doing a prisoner swap of 5,000 people they're holding. The Afghan government said they absolutely wouldn't be doing that. Gotta be one of the shortest peace deals in history. And one demonstrating woeful incompetence.

Chelsea fans laughed when they lost the European Cup? Southerners are weird.

Tbh Terry slipping just gave United a European trophy and made me hate him and Chelsea even more. I’m so glad he’s fucking retired. That man is dogshit personified.

John Terry, the cunt, did the original embarrassing slip. If United didn’t profit, it’d have been much funnier

I was going to let this go, but no it fucking can. 700+ Americans who are just beer drinkers is still a big enough sample size to get a fairly accurate survey. Is it as accurate as it should be? Fuck no it’s not. But in less argumentative news, I’m feeling pretty ill and I hope I don’t have this fucking disease

BBC are saying there are far more deaths in Iran than being reported, according to hospital sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51673053 At least 210 according to the beeb! Hope that's not true, but I certainly trust the BBC more than the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Do you have any info about the new deaths & the ages of the victims, or no?

I just want a beer now

Around 2/3 of Americans drink, 41% of them say they primarily drink beer; a sample size of only beer drinkers doesn't mean that it doesn't reflect a sample size of all Americans. It might indicate flawed sampling, but it can still be used to say "38% of Americans. But there's flaws in literally every sort of sampling like this. It's more inaccurate to dismiss it as just false statistics you can't take seriously. Considering some of the crazy shit that so many people out there believe, it's not that outlandish that over 1/3 of Americans think coronavirus is caused by a Mexican beer.

@DeadLinesman

I don't think there's anything misleading about it, other than the fact they don't mention the survey's confidence level, confidence intervals, or standard deviation. But I suspect most people aren't going to give a shit about statistics terms, let alone understand them. Here they took a sample of "beer drinking Americans" - which is the target demographic for Corona beer, as that article indicates that Corona is heavily dependent on the US market. There's a lot of different characteristics that are encompassed in Americans who drink beer - so there's no reason to really ask the respondents their age, gender, IQ, etc... because they don't really care about these sub-demographics. They're looking to take a sample of beer drinking Americans, it's done by a PR firm that's probably been hired by Corona to ask this question to see if the virus has anything to do with their drop-off in sales. I don't think it's a poor attempt, it's just how you conduct a survey. Obviously a higher sample size would make things better. They probably should mention the confidence levels and all of that stuff that lets you really interpret the data from these surveys in the news - and more people should probably learn about what these things are and what they mean.

Oh good it's fucking spreading in California