In this episode we look at what might happen in The America in November, we hear more strange conspiracy theories, and we learn some bureaucratic language that you can use in your own life. Plus more Quarantimes dramas, obviously.
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Think of a mattress. A twin size mattress is 72 inches in length, which equates to 6 feet. Leave a mattress-sized space between you and the next person at all times. If you take the stairs, keep an eight-stair distance between you and others.
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And if you don't know how big a moose is, time to fine out.. NB these people are standing TOO CLOSE to it!
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the most ballymena sign i’ve seen through the whole pandemic
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Here’s another series of separation measures, this time from @NatlParkService. A picnic table plus an information wayside sign is a grizzly bear. Or a tapir. And remember, it’s 1.5 American beavers per picnic table.
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FYI - I’m moving to recognize ABL as an official rule of measurement: Average Beaver Length. #FlattenTheCurve #FurbearerConservation #NHWildlife
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Seriously 3 geese? Have you ever tried to get even one goose to walk between you and a stranger? #PhysicalDistancing #SocialDistancing
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My town's distance guidelines [Gary]
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - It turns out 6 feet of social distancing is equal to about 12 Slovenian smoked sausages at Raddell’s. Meat math is the best kind of math.
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REMINDER: Keep AT LEAST 1.05 Bon Jovis of space between yourself and others
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The standard Bon Jovi is kept in a vault in Paris. All other Bon Jovis are merely copies.
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Negative. The Bon Jovi is the metric for the success of the curve flattening. We're either halfway there or living on a prayer
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[On the Yorkshire Dales.]
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Get your boots on – Tidbinbilla Park is reopening tomorrow. Restrictions have eased, but your responsibility hasn’t. Keep 1.5m (or 4 platypuses) physical distance between yourself and others. Practise good hygiene and stay home if you’re sick.
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REMINDER: Keep AT LEAST 1.28 Snookis of space between yourself and others
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1 Kylie Minogue
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The exact calculation is left as an exercise for the reader.
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If some folks find this too tricky to calculate, just remember to stay ~6 light-nanoseconds apart and you'll be ok.
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If @DanielAndrewsMP (or his clone) resigns today, you'll know why.
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Allegations a security guard was responsible for the state’s devastating outbreak were thrown into question on Friday after it was revealed a Rydges Hotel employee came down with a fever on May 25.
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About 90 per cent of COVID-19 cases can likely be traced to a family who quarantined at Rydges, not leaving the hotel during their stay.
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All the kerfuffle about Northern NSW residents not being able to access Qld for important healthcare, CMO Dr Jeanette Young today said today she hasn't refused a single border exemption for healthcare access.
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They’re Pete Evans in better suits, David Icke with the stuff about Reptilian Overlords scrubbed by an overworked ever-more-desperate copy editor. They have more in common with Alex Jones and the Facebook groups spreading 5G Bill Gates memes than they do with real journalists, they’re just better at saying the loud part quietly, vieling the lunacy with neater hair.
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During the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic, there were approximately 50 million influenza-related deaths worldwide, including 675?000 in the US. Few persons in the US have a frame of reference for the historic levels of excess mortality currently being observed during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.1 In this study, excess deaths in New York City during the peak of the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic were compared with those during the initial period of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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35% of Americans say they would refuse a coronavirus vaccine, even if it was free, approved by the Food and Drug Administration and available immediately, according to a Gallup poll released Friday.
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Kristin Lunz Trujillo and Matt Motta conducted a survey on a nationally representative sample of adults in the U.S. in April on their views on vaccines for COVID-19. They found that a large portion of vaccine sceptics and anti-vaxxers say that they would not be willing to get vaccinated in the face of a global pandemic.
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Robert, 71, worked as a real estate developer and executive for the Trump Organization.
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President Trump on his late brother Robert: "He was my friend. I guess they say best friend, and that's true."
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Here's Trump ranting and raving and yelling about Amazon for more than a minute, uninterrupted. Listen to this while keeping in mind that this guy has the nuke codes.
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The President says the “1917 pandemic” ended the Second World War
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TRUMP: "We are going to win four more years. And then after that we'll go for another four years, because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years."
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Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!
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If you’re in the mood, the very dark mood, for some end of the world anxiety—and who isn’t! Amirite!—these three pieces should have you in a fine lather by the time you’re done.
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“All of our scenarios ended in both street-level violence and political impasse,” said Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor and former Defense Department official who co-organized the group known as the Transition Integrity Project. She described what they found in bleak terms: “The law is essentially ... it’s almost helpless against a president who’s willing to ignore it.”
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In an unpublished paper submitted for peer review, Professor Goldstone, who is a sociologist, and Peter Turchin, an expert on the mathematical modelling of historical societies, have concluded that the US is "headed for another civil war". The conditions for civil violence, they say, are the worst since the 19th century — in particular the years leading up to the start of the American Civil War in 1861.
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Security analysts today warn that domestic extremism in the United States poses as much risk today as it did in 1995, when the bombing of Federal government offices in Oklahoma City produced the most deadly domestic terrorist attack in US history. To discuss these issues, USSC hosted a webinar featuring Dr David Kilcullen, author of the new book "The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West". (Linked to where Kilcullen starts speaking.)
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The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
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The US state of Mississippi currently does not have an official state flag following the retirement of the most recent version on 30 June 2020.
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Mississippi resident Thomas Rosete told the Clarion Ledger that he designed and submitted the mosquito flag as a joke on a coworker who didn't want the flag changed. Rosete works as a deckhand on the Yazoo River and said he is familiar with the state's large mosquito population and thought they are fitting to represent the state.
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From WJTV 12 News.
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Sameer Anwar’s parents thought the lost piece of Lego was long gone – until their son took a great big sniff of a plate of cupcakes
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Researchers from Australia and UK swallow Lego heads in the ‘noble tradition of self-experimentation’
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(3 June 2020) Government Services Minister Stuart Robert had just announced Centrelink would be refunding $721 million to 373,000 people who had been given unlawful debts as part of its disastrous robodebt scheme.
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Department of Social Services secretary Kathryn Campbell once again recognised the scheme had caused hurt and harm, and stated it was "legally insufficient", before the Senate committee on Monday.
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The federal opposition is still calling for a Royal Commission.
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On 31 July 2019, the Senate referred an inquiry into Centrelink's compliance program to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee.
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Department secretary Kathryn Campbell acknowledged the scheme caused hurt and harm, and that it was “legally insufficient”.
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The widely-accepted idea that a loss of control leads people to believe conspiracy theories is challenged by new research from the University of Otago. The researchers ran a range of psychology experiments online to test the link between people's feelings of control and their inclination to believe in conspiracy theories. While their findings suggest that there is a correlation between feelings of being in control and likelihood of believing conspiracies, the authors say this does not prove causation, and that there is no “one size fits all” explanation for why the two are linked.
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It is widely believed that conspiracy theory beliefs are the product of perceived lack of control. However, to date there is mixed evidence, at best, to support this claim. We consider the reasons why conspiracy theory beliefs do not appear to be based in any straightforward way on control beliefs, interrogating existing findings and presenting new data that call the relationship into question. Across six studies conducted online using MTurk samples, we observed no effect of control manipulations on conspiracy theory beliefs, while replicating previously reported correlational evidence of their association. The results suggest that conspiracy beliefs are not suitable for compensating for threats to control. We discuss possible reasons for the discrepancy between experimental and correlational effects and examine the limitations of the studies.
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Woke up to find this note about Covid being a hoax on my car and every car on my street. Its just beyond a joke now.
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do not emanate at 500mhz or below at me or my son
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“The library is often a hub for the community, and we identified the most vulnerable cohort of our community would be the elderly.” So the library staff pulled from their database the phone number of every library member over the age of 70 – a total of 8,000 records. Then the librarians started calling those members. All of them.
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The primary reason nursing homes are horrible is that they are targeted on life prolongment rather than life quality, so keep people in the most abject misery possible as long as they aren't dead. You should get an unlimited drugs buffet the second you go through the door.
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The year is 2055, and in the Tina Arena Memorial Performance Space at the Autumn of Love Nursing Home, Jessica Mauboy (now 66yo) hands around bowls of eccies before performing covers of Guru Josh’s “Infinity” and selected works of Black Box, Snap!, and Lisa Stansfield.
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