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The GFS is doing the same wonky stuff that the Euro did. If I may venture a humble guess, I'd say that someone could stand to cash in pretty hard, and by someone I mean probably a large number of us.

There's a couple of people in this thread who are straight up Olympians... All of them participate in the Mental Gymnastics event.

Fr. This is the verbatim start of "meteorological winter"

I, for one, have actually not given up quite yet on this baby moving back west

Surprised that none of the OV posters have mentioned that actually all three big models (GFS, EURO, CMC) have at least something that could end up as a storm for the eastern half of the sub forum.

Since this has turned into health class, might I suggest that for this week's Fun Friday we all bring our yoga mats and relax?* *I'm just trying to lighten the mood a little.

There is really no point in discussing weight loss as a remedy for Covid, because there is simply no chance that people would actually start losing weight for Covid. We might as well suggest that someone build a time machine and exterminate all bats back in 2019. Stebo is right. The types of people who are fat enough to be at greater risk from Covid are definitely not going to be losing that weight fast enough for it to make a difference before the vaccine. Weight loss is a remedy for a lot of much more serious illnesses than Covid. If imminent heart failure isn't gonna make you try and become healthier, then your "1%" chance of dying from Covid certainly won't.

I feel like the exact people who could benefit the most from exercise (both mentally and physically) are exactly those who have much more important day-to-day tasks to worry about. I can't imagine pretty much anyone working in a Walmart, McDonald's, Amazon warehouse, etc. to have any desire to exercise after working 40+ hours a week when they have a family to care for and a house to keep running. Sure, they could certainly get a couple minutes of walking or jogging in there if they absolutely prioritized it, but who in their right mind would want to prioritize exercise after standing around all day and having a billion things to take care of at home too? That's probably another reason why it would be a total shit show if someone were to get up and tell everyone that they need to exercise to improve their chances with Covid; it's definitely gonna rub people the wrong way (especially those for whom it would be very difficult to remain physically active) for the government to get up their and go "haha go for a run lol fatass" when they can't even provide us with masks to keep us from projectile-drooling on each other.

I wonder what 280-lb Susanne at Walmart is gonna say about Fauci's mandated Weight-Watcher's program when she couldn't be fucked to wear a mask.

Looks like the ol' CMC is gonna be the model to nail every system this year then

You go, Alek. I have full confidence that if we just let you take charge of this one, that it'll be roped in for sure.

I actually just realized you're right about TT being slow to load. Idk how I never noticed.

I dunno, it seems pretty obvious what his response means to me lol

I stand corrected. Whoops.

For sure. Which is why it's funny when people try to say that urban areas are worse because they're numbers are higher, because as always, it's the percent that counts.

LA county alone has easily over double the population of both Houston and Dallas combined.

That's sort of what I meant, you just wrote it way better. I think it's bogus to compare cali to most other areas simply due to population density. On paper, states with big cities are simply at a huge disadvantage.

This is where population density also plays a roll. Just saying. Please nobody call me fourteen or off my rocker again. My poor heart can't take it.

Look. I'm really not going to waste my time here because clearly neither of you have the foggiest clue about how this shit works, but basically, the idea is that it would be painfully obvious if Covid were a humanly modified disease because there would be a clear backbone genome, and plenty of obvious changes to the backbone. Instead, what we have is a relatively benign disease in comparison to things such as Ebola or Marburg (as you guys love to point out) that is incredibly similar to several other viruses that exist naturally. Maybe Covid was in a lab in Wuhan at some point after its discovery, but it certainly wasn't made in one. Please stop projecting your slowly-loosening grip on reality onto me. Kiss my ass.

If you actually believe this, then you are a spit in the face of every person who has ever had -or will have- this virus. Shame on you and your voodoo bullshit.

Covid is already an F on the report card. Best case scenario, I'm hoping that America realizes that this shit is not a one-time fluke; rather, novel outbreaks are a permanent consequence of a globalized world with nearly ten billion humans on it. I am willing to bet my life that it will be less than a decade before the next major disease outbreak; and next time, the virus may not be as forgiving as Covid.

Let me preface this post by saying that I am no stranger to suicide. However, anyone who tries to use increasing suicide rates to argue against lockdowns is a dunce. If that's you, then you're forgetting a couple of things such as: 1. Suicidal tendencies are not contagious. 2. As grotesque as this sentence is, until deaths from suicide even approach deaths from Covid, the two cannot be equated. The gap in your logic is vast. You're telling me that you're worried by the few people that might commit suicide while quarantined but you're not worried about the thousands of lives that could be saved by preventing the spread of Covid? Give me a break.

Maybe if we didn't gargle the balls of every rich company and individual we could be paying small businesses to stay closed