If you're gonna go via corona, you'll most likely be heavily sedated hooked up to a machine for days or weeks before it happens.  No pain or stress.

But imagine having the person you're closest to put on a ventilator and quarantined.  Almost no updates.  You can't see them.  Could you still function while waiting for the phone to ring?

One of my neighbors is going through that right now while self quarantined by herself.  Sometimes demoralization just can't be rejected - at least temporarily.

The people who didn't lose any income would receive the most assistance.
The people who lost their jobs would receive none.

Do you understand the motivation for the stimulus package?

The highly esteemed doctors and scientists that are increasingly vocal calling bull on the pandemic....I'm just asking if you know their names.  I'm honestly not interested in what any media outlet has to say about the situation.  I look for the the most reputable scientists and doctors that have dedicated at least a few decades to infectious diseases and listen to them.

I'm not watching some anti vax youtube channel.
What are the names of the highly esteemed doctors and scientists that are vocally calling bull on the pandemic?

What are their names?

- Scientists all over the world are in on or aware of 'the hoax' and are intentionally misleading the world.
- There's a very simple yet critical step that scientists around the world have overlooked.  tvbcof caught it, but none of the scientists working on it did.
- tvbcof is wrong, not the scientists.

Am I missing any scenarios?

Sure, I'll send you a link in 2 or 3 years after the research is finished, reviewed and published.

Wait...was that a trick question?  You would just say the scientists did their research wrong and try to make it seem like you are the expert, not them....wouldn't you?

So, are you saying the US government is stopping the scientists from learning more about the virus?  What about all the scientists in all the other scientists around the world?  That would be one very big conspiracy.

Or do you think they are just bad scientists that could learn a thing or two from you when it comes to analyzing viruses?

You think Italy is faking it and shut down their entire country so they could get hand outs from banks?

What resource do you recommend for the most accurate data?

That's because nobody knows which is what makes it such a threat.
We know what



Except we know what to expect with seasonal unremarkable corona viruses - so we plan for them every year.
We know how to best prevent it, treat it, when it will peak, when the season will be over, how many hospital beds we'll need, all with pretty high confidence.


Covid-19 cases are spreading in both hemispheres. At the same time.
People are spending weeks on ventilators instead of days like the flu.
We don't have a vaccine, we are still guessing on the best way to treat it, we don't know who's immune or why, we don't know if it will peak in 2 weeks or 2 months. 
We do know that if it keeps spreading exponentially, it won't be long before we run out of hospital beds, staff and equipment.
In other words - no, it's not a seasonal unremarkable virus.  It's a pandemic. 

If you knew a little more about genetics you'd realize how little you actually know.

Ah yeah, that makes sense.  I thought you meant it would be deducted from 2020 tax credits.

I heard that when they calculate it they will use your 2018 return if you haven't filed yet, and you get to keep it even if your eventual 2019 return would lower your payment or disqualify you.

Conversely, I think if you didn't qualify in 18 or 19 (made over $100k), but you do in 2020 (made under $100k), you would also be able to claim it when you file in 2021.

I guess they really want people to not worry about having to give it back.

I don't think so.  I think it's pretty much no strings attached cash, but I'm not sure.  Where did you read that?

One of the most entertaining threads I've ever read: Leroy Fodor has gone Full-Delusional!

Yes, I am.

I've tried to wrap my head around what kind of effects it will have and I'm having a hard time.  It will get millions of people out of a really tough spot and there will be millions that receive it who don't need it or will just blow it.

I guess my strongest opinion on the whole thing is that the $75k/year cut off seems too high and the $500 per kid seems too low, that doesn't even cover a month of child care while schools are closed.  

Giving people that make $95k/year a hundred bucks also seems silly - that $100 would go a lot further to a family of 4 making a combined $55k/year.

In the end, we'll never really know whether it actually made things better or worse overall.

It really won't look good if you continue to list your games as provably fair when they're not.

Why not just remove the claims from your site while you work on developing a system that's actually provably fair?

Only post in your own threads and l̾͋̈̅͝ock immediately after.

Eh, I don't think it's going to make anyone take the pandemic any more or less seriously and I'm guessing theymos came up with some clever way that it spreads, which sounds fun.

They're doing something similiar on r/memes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/fky5cz/rmemes_memonavirus_community_event/

If you comment under someone that's infected there's a 1% chance you'll get infected.  If you get infected there's a 3% chance you get banned.

I don't feel good.