from the long-long-road-to-not-quite-recovered dept.
Study shows a third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders :
One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of mental and neurological problems, scientists said.
Researchers who conducted the analysis said it was not clear how the virus was linked to psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression, but that these were the most common diagnoses among the 14 disorders they looked at.
[...] The new findings, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, analysed health records of 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States, and found 34 per cent had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric illnesses within six months.
The Lancet article includes this disclaimer:
Big-data studies of this kind have intrinsic limitations, even when drawing on 81 million people, 236 379 of whom had COVID-19. In this pandemic context, not all individuals who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 (particularly those with mild or asymptomatic illness) will be diagnosed, which could result in some contamination of the comparison groups.
The question: will severe, enduring, and less common conditions such as psychoses behave more like neurological disorders or common mental disorders? Among the COVID-19 cohort in this study, a first diagnosis of a psychotic disorder was substantially more common in patients hospitalised with COVID-19.
Lungs, hearts and brains..
Journal Reference:
Jonathan P Rogers. A longer look at COVID-19 and neuropsychiatric outcomes, The Lancet Psychiatry (DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00120-6)
Previously:
Experts Warn Coronavirus May Cause 'Wave' of Neurological Conditions Including Parkinson's Disease
2020-06-15 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories
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World-wide data as of: 20200615_140637 UTC:
| total_count | 8,028,325 |
| closed_count | 4,584,407 |
| closed_deaths_count | 436,277 |
| closed_deaths_percent | (10%) |
| closed_recovered_count | 4,148,130 |
| closed_recovered_percent | (90%) |
| active_count | 3,443,918 |
| active_mild_count | 3,389,380 |
| active_mild_percent | (98%) |
| active_serious_count | 54,538 |
| active_serious_percent | (2%) |
| total_deaths | 436,277 |
COVID-19 can cause worrying neurological symptoms like a loss of smell and taste, but Australian scientists are warning the damage the virus causes to the brain may also lead to more serious conditions such as Parkinson's disease.
[...] It has happened before.
Five years after the Spanish flu pandemic in the early 1900s, there was up to a three-fold increase in the incidence of Parkinson's disease.
Kevin Barnham from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health said he believed a similar "silent wave" of neurological illness would follow this pandemic.
"Parkinson's disease is a complex illness, but one of the causes is inflammation, and the virus helps to drive that inflammation," he said.
"Once the inflammation gets into the brain, it starts a cascade of events which can ultimately lead to Parkinson's disease.
Researchers outlined their concerns in a study published today in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @03:33PM (102 children)
One third of Americans claim to suffer from neurological or mental disorders from COVID but are actually looking for welfare handouts, one third of Americans are waddling lard-asses, and one third actually deserve to live.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @04:10PM (89 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @04:40PM (87 children)
At least Trump has actual, real-life supporters.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Thursday April 08 2021, @04:58PM (4 children)
Supporters?
You mean those [twimg.com] things [i.redd.it] in his shoes that make him appear almost as tall as other people?
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:34PM (1 child)
So we see that TDS causes more mental problems than the CCP virus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:42PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @10:42PM (1 child)
Those pictures show Trump sitting. He just relaxes, cooling his feet and unbending his ankles, by pulling his feet out of his shoes. Ladies do this all the time. Maybe he's the first tranny president.
Mike Dukakis, the democrat candidate for 1988, was so short that the democrats got a hydraulic lift for the stage so that shorty could see over the podium.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 09 2021, @02:26PM
There are many more pictures than what I showed. Google is your fiend. Some pictures show Trump standing up with his heels barely inside his shoes.
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:25PM (81 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:31PM (8 children)
At least Trump has actual, real-life supporters
(Score: 5, Informative) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:39PM (7 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:43PM (6 children)
You are only supposed to count actual living human beings, and only one time each.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:47PM (4 children)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:55PM (3 children)
Do you remember the part about how what Infowars was saying scared the Jews so bad, they got cancelled before cancel-culture was a thing? Alex Jones got listed as an "extremist" by the ADL because and only because he implied a government connection to 9/11, even though in the same blurb the ADL admits that Alex Jones is not on the record saying anything racist or anti-Semitic.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:32PM (2 children)
No, but I do remember that part where Alex Jones lied about the Sandy Hook shootings so he could sell more dietary supplements to stupid fat people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:02PM (1 child)
The pills clearly didn't work for you. You should've asked for your money back.
(Score: 4, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Friday April 09 2021, @01:24AM
Lol, good one!
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @06:20PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 08 2021, @06:57PM (69 children)
You bring up something I had not considered.
The very fact that Trump has a band of people who wrestle in the mud on a daily basis defending everything he does is quite interesting.
Trump is out of office. Gone. President-reject. Not in power. Not relevant.
Yet his supporters . . .
* stormed the capitol to murder (yes that's the right word) both Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi and possibly others, over something they have not power to change. In an act of insurrection to overthrow the majority and put the minority in power.
* . . . based on a lie, told by the president soon to be out of power
* after he was out of power, many predictions he would be back in power. (Most recent is Mike Lindell (My Pillow) guy predicting Trump will be back in power this August because "he has the evidence!" -- finally! And the Supreme Court will completely undo the 2020 election!)
* they made a golden statue of Trump
* some people were on video actually bowing down to it. (Maybe facetiously or maybe not)
* they continue to send him money
* continue to attend his rallies
* defend anything critical about him -- because he can do absolutely no wrong! (Hey, I'm happy to let people point out errors, mistakes etc about any politicians I may have voted for. I voted for them for policies, not as a religious icon.)
Which brings me to . . .
Basically Trump seems to actually be a religious icon to these people.
They might not admit it. But it is true in every observable way.
Every past politician, whether I voted for them or not, I've always had something I disagreed with them about, and even for ones I didn't vote for, sometimes had policies I agreed with them about. No such religious devotion from me.
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:02PM (3 children)
Now now wait a minute, man, that's FAKE NEWS! Trump Supporters aren't willingly handing him money, the Trump Campaign's auto-pay is just pulling from their accounts over and over again!
https://blog.truebill.com/recurring-campaign-contributions/ [truebill.com]
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:45PM (2 children)
From your link:
Do you think, anything's changed in the last... four and a half years?
(Score: 4, Touché) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:13PM (1 child)
p.s. How'd you NOT know about this, surely your preferred news sources covered it...?
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:28PM
Even if you can't figure out how to stop the auto-refill on those pills, nobody says you have to keep taking 'em.
$122 million in refunds to supporters in 2020...
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:30PM (59 children)
How? I mean ... what does it take to pull something like that off? Fascism as a religious concept? [wikipedia.org] Confidence? Arrogance? Height? Gold leaf on everything you own?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:33PM (6 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:53PM (2 children)
Words of wisdom, accidentally spoken.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:09PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:42AM
Lest we forget, Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:12PM (2 children)
N-no! N-not that somebody else! Oh look, here are some nice White Goys to beat up instead! Wouldn't you like to beat on Whitey a bit for all those years of oppression?
By the way, studies show that COVID-19 causes mental illness, so if you refuse the vaccine, you're just crazy. We could throw you in the nuthouse how, like how great grandfather Ivan Jablonsky did to Russian Goys long time ago, or perhaps you'd like to take the edge off the schizo by taking some nice Jewish medicine from trusted establishments!
Wear your mask! Take your meds schizo!
(Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:22PM (1 child)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:12PM
Your point was all in your head. Or thereabouts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:35PM (49 children)
Keep grasping. One day it won't be all straws, I promise!!!!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:48PM (47 children)
Says a Trump worshiper.
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:49PM (46 children)
I'll take the bait, this time.
See, it's not about Trump.
Maybe, in shorthand, it's about MAGA.
A little less short, it's about America and Freedom and Justice... a dream fought and died for, for generations. We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:57PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @10:29PM (1 child)
Sigh. See post above yours for rebuttal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @10:48PM
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 08 2021, @10:57PM (41 children)
The saddest part is, you believe this.
You actually believe a grifting wealthy (on paper) psychopath from New York City who literally shits in a golden toilet in a penthouse in Manhattan is a man of the people.
Un. Fucking. Believable. You deserve whatever suffering comes your way. Stupidity ought to be excruciatingly painful. That "cuck" thing your kind likes to throw around so much? Yeah, that's you and your boys.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @11:24PM (20 children)
It's all in the post.
Trashing Trump is sooooo 2020. How about Raving Robinette? List his wonderfulnesses.
Okay, ready? Go!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @11:46PM (1 child)
Must really grind you up inside that liberals don't fall all over themselves defending Biden. The dude is a Republican we didn't want, but still better than letting a literal fascist have 4 more years. Cry baby cry, nothing's changed except the temporary brakes on the US's fascist downfall. Go fuck yourself traitor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:18AM
Oh, we get it. If he were AOC, you'd be gushing about the glory of it all. But as it is, You can't wait for him to take that last stumble, and let Kommie Harris take over.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 08 2021, @11:57PM (8 children)
At this point, the fact that he's not Donald Motherfucking Trump is all he would need in his favor.
I find it very revealing that your kind insist that we have the same sort of blind, tribal loyalty to our leaders as you do. This is a fundamental disconnect in how "conservatives" (read: unthinking, reactionary cryptofascists like you) deal with the world versus how people like me do. Biden is a person, nothing more, and probably about as much of a figurehead as Dubya was last decade. We don't care WHO is doing the right things, we only care THAT the right things get done. We do not work like you. We are not stupid, tribal morons who value in-group loyalty over observable reality.
Trump is indeed a religious symbol, and you and your kind are idolators to perhaps the single most pathetic, ugly, weak false God there ever was.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:16AM
Yeah, Obama said that about us... each one of us is a typical white person.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:15AM (4 children)
I'm not looking for a figurehead, but a leader. I've never watched his primetime TV shows, and I've had minimal business with Trump companies. A friend to me is someone who would be fun to have lunch with. Trump would be tough at lunch. I think of him as a bright and cunning businessman who wants desperately to win but has a sense of ethics about it (but still wants to win). Basically, I'm glad he was and is on our side. I'm unimaginably relieved that he's not on your side.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @02:09AM (3 children)
And that is your weakness: you are looking for a leader, a single charismatic focus, when the world does not and cannot work this way. The real meat of politics is grinding drudgery. The "leader" is a shiny bobblehead distraction. It is a symbol, for the symbol-minded (that's you).
One reason I still voted Democrat despite a serious dislike of Biden bordering on hatred for his past record is because I knew Biden himself wasn't actually going to do much. It's the cabinet and administration that are, arguably, more important than the president, and while I'm none too thrilled with some of his picks there either, he's making it a point NOT to surround himself with crazies, incompetents, and incompetent crazies like Trump did.
You stupid goddamn tribals are so fixated on your father-figures, your objects of worship, that you can't even understand something as simple as this, and you insist that people who vote differently from you are just like you but oppositely-polarized. No, cupcake, we are dealing with *reality.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:27AM (2 children)
We're all alike, of course. My concern isn't about HbAiRdReInS- Administration figureheads, but the people behind the curtain. You're going to love the communist paradise they've scheduled, after they pass HR1 and ensure that no Patriotic American is ever elected again.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @05:07AM
If you actually think Trump was a patriot you are beyond the use of reason. Your mouth is moving and words are coming out, even complete coherent sentences, but they have no referent in reality. This means you are insane.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @12:59AM
If Biden and Harris were anything like communists, I would have voted for them. Too bad they're just Republicans that don't care about gays.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @04:12AM (1 child)
Anyone but Trump?
Now there is a good example of critical/logical thought!!
...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @11:34PM
Ok fair enough, there are undoubtedly some choices worse than trump. You are technically correct, which in this case is the stupidest kind of correct.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @12:05AM (8 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:13AM (7 children)
I've tripped and skinned my shin, just like Joe did. But I didn't take preemptive offense that people would interpret it as a sign of my diminished capacity. Completely ignoring his bumbling and stumbling while trying to read from a prompter or notes, is much more troubling.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @12:26AM (6 children)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:39AM (5 children)
Don't forget, we're still waiting for that State Of The Union Address we were promised.
Maybe they made a mistake, and Nancy tore it up before reading, instead of after. Either that, or Joe's attack dog ate it.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @01:57AM (4 children)
Not bad! I particularly like the dog eating the speech, nice dig!
Bet you're wishing Biden was fat or smelly or something right about now, huh.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:10AM (3 children)
No, I wish that of his handlers. And his son Hunter. And Barry O.
I wish Joe would go away quietly and with dignity and have a grand retirement. I was the primary caregiver when a family member slipped into dementia. It gets so amazingly sad toward the end, and that comes upon one so quickly, starting right about where Joe is now. [Insert "September Song" reference here.]
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @02:48AM (2 children)
You know... I hadn't looked at it that way... I had no idea! I'm so sorry you're having to relive these fears after four years ! ! ;)
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @03:35AM (1 child)
When Joe first promised to solve every major issue in his first 100-days, I was betting he wouldn't make it. Now, it seems he really isn't involved in much of it.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 09 2021, @04:15AM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:56AM (6 children)
Do you believe the country is better off now with the raspberry-faced man, than it was with the orange man and his gold toilet? Things like economy, education, security, international relations, border, race, debt, inflation, prospects, toilet paper availability are better?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:49AM (5 children)
Economy - virtually anything's better than an ill-timed tax-cut with no plan to deal with the revenue shortfall. Oh and an infrastructure plan is badly needed for the USA anyway. Education - You can't be fucking serious, pleassssse tell me how you're gonna defend Betsy Devos. Security - no new insurrections since Joe took over, definitely a win there. Our generals in the Pentagon are COVID-free as well, that's a plus this year. International Relations - Joe's big on gaffes but I'm having a hard time imaging he'll salute the general of an enemy dictator or send a half-tweet that puts the Pentagon on high alert for fifteen minutes. Border - most of your border problems are fictitious, and the wall was just a pork project. Biden's already gotten very public criticism over the kids in cages (why didnt you guys ever stand up to your candidate? HE WORKED FOR YOU!) so if he neglects that you could have a point with lefties standing shoulder to shoulder with you. Race - You can't be serious, even as VP Biden's track record was already better. Debt / Inflation - too early to tell, you could have a point here down the road. Trump faced this and never gave you a serious proposal about what he was going to do about it. Lotsa time for golf and campaigning, tho. Prospects - Yep, though the Potatohead Branding was pretty touch-and-go for a while there, we barely got through that.
Medical Care - What a rather telling omission from you. Yes I *definitely* feel a lot better about that.
Oh and the Inauguration was better, too. ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:16AM (3 children)
There's a whole world of news services out there to see. As Tex Ritter sings in current Disney TV commercials: There's a great big beautiful tomorrow, waiting at the end of every day. Of course they're advertising going to Florida, not California. The point is that there are known knowns, and unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns, and you're better off looking around.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:53AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @03:32AM (1 child)
Convolution is a specialty. It takes the ability to wander for a half hour and have the confidence that the reader trusts you to get back to where you... it's like trying to write a story, and have no idea where you're going, and hoping the reader thinks you do. Kind of like when you decide that you're supposed to talk about Trump and you really want to work in the topic of Biden sniffing hair, but then you get to comparing hair, and realize there's no clear winner between Trump and Biden. Except that Trump does an excellent job with hair spray. Trust me.
I'll tell you the truth of this whole matter, when the powers that be finish moderating this thread, you're all going to be +4 Insightful, and I'm going to be all -1 Troll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @06:11AM
A honest admission of a troll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @02:19AM
Ah hah! Medical Care! What about global warming and saving the Texas Prairie Chickens? Huh?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday April 09 2021, @02:05AM (3 children)
So does 40% of the US voting population. What made that possible? It sounds like a "My Fair Lady" or "Trading Places" bet run by psychologists.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @04:38AM (2 children)
What made it possible is people are goddamn stupid, that's what. It's on a bell curve, but the curve is massively right-skewed in more than one sense of the term and it's easy to manipulate stupid people. Just tell them everything wrong in their lives is someone else's fault and "if you elect me I'll make all the nig^W dar^W col^W Negr^W THOSE PEOPLE, dammit, pay, and put you back on top where you belong!"
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday April 09 2021, @07:21PM (1 child)
Then why did it take so long for someone to try this? Seems like it should have happened a long time ago if this is the case. Plus, the entire Republican party backed him every step of the way -- how difficult could this have been?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @11:39PM
Because it took a decades-long campaign of propaganda to radicalize Republicans far enough along with the political maneuvering through gerrymandering and voter suppression to make the move possible.
I disagree with Azuma that it was only because people are stupid, and it was more about the blatant propaganda and lies through Fox News and rightwing pundits. Also quite a few of them chose power of ethics because they are still in the cold war mindset. Not stupid, just choosing evil because they thought it was a secret plan for the good of the country.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @03:42AM (8 children)
No, the saddest part is that I was quoting The Declaration Of Independence, and one of you called me a traitor for it.
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:32PM
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 10 2021, @11:56AM (6 children)
^ What the AC said. If you believe someone quoting any given text means they believe in it or act in ways in accordance with it, you're too dumb to live. This is one of the oldest tropes in the book. "Even the Devil can cite Scripture for his own purposes," ever hear that one?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @04:42PM (5 children)
Don't you hate it when you come up with the perfect snappy reply on the way home from the party?
It's even worse when you think you have it, two days later. And then you call up the party guests, but they don't remember you being there.
Hogamous, Higamous...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @02:44AM (4 children)
I didn't even see that until just before posting the reply. Luckily SN notifies you when you get replies, so when someone replies to a topic of mine weeks later (yes this has happened) I can still see it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:22AM (3 children)
Yes, how fortunate for you.
The party's over. "Ditto" was hardly worth the phone call.
Defensive much?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:33AM (2 children)
Er, no? I try and give people who reply to my posts the courtesy of a reply back, is all. Seems that was wasted on you, AC :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:43AM (1 child)
On the other hand, sometimes it really is better to think about it for two days before replying.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @03:52AM
Indeed. You should try it. And maybe not limit yourself to two days...!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @12:25AM
I wonder who's waiting for me to drop the other shoe. Feel free to go ahead and hit 'em with the punchline.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:49PM
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-27-at-14.33.06.png [thepoke.co.uk] --- what he actually looks like.
If you wanna play coy then you should keep in mind that what you imagine you look like does not reflect reality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:25PM
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:28PM
Hello, Mr. President [Obama] we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!"
Hooray, Mr. President! You're number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!
Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country's economy number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!
So continue ---- Mr. President we know you'll do the trick
So here's a hearty hip-hooray ----
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:55PM
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @04:09AM (3 children)
I keep saying Democrook vs Republocrook.
They are all out to fuck YOU.
Trump is just one among many others that do not care about YOU.
I'd say the HATE for Trump from "liberals" is equally as bad as the adulation of him.
Both sides have major issues with critical/logical thought.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @11:59PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Saturday April 10 2021, @05:50PM (1 child)
The thing is this. You can say whatever bad things about Obama, Hillary, Biden that you want. I don't care.
But if anyone says even the slightest criticism of the Dear Leader Trump, heaven help them. You'll get modded into the infernal nether regions. Not that I care.
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @08:46PM
Strike that, reverse it.
There hasn't been a positive thing in the press, news, TV, social media or dopey places like this, from the moment Trump rode that golden
toiletelevator in Trump Tower, almost five years ago.(Score: 2) by Socrastotle on Thursday April 08 2021, @07:50PM (1 child)
Might I ask of you, your own question? Should the president be doing what want? Do we elect politicians to do what we want, or do we elect politicians because we think they're the best individuals to use their personal talents and skills to direct the country in a positive fashion? This is not a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely curious what you think. This, like many things in society today, reminds me of one of my ever more favorite passages in The Republic: [mit.edu]
Many of the changes in our society have felt so unprecedented. Yet here is a man writing words, 2400 years ago, that if written in contemporary language and reference would appear to be little more than a perfunctory recital of the changes in society over the past ~80 years. And these cannot be simply coincidences. The path described is so unnatural, so irrational, and so accurate that there indeed must be more to it.
So I suppose there is only one thing to do. Let us raise our glass to our own demise. It would seem we made poor rulers after all. Let us now exchange our crowns for whips and collars.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 08 2021, @10:37PM
Having said that, though, my personal opinion... if it's still interesting to you... is that it should be somewhere in-between. The Pres is privvy to stuff we're not, so he or she needs some leeway, but that's also why transparency is important. I'm still very unhappy about Obama's drone strikes, and if he was actually justified in doing so I'd never know it. Classified. But I also think approval rating matters... or should anyway. If we actually did things like recall elections then Obama's move would have been a lot riskier, and we would more likely have gotten some transparency about it.
I suppose a simpler version of what I'm saying is: We need to be more involved.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday April 08 2021, @08:31PM
Would't that tend to invalidate the study because such people already suffer from mental and neurological problems?
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @05:59PM
Symptoms of TDS.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by crafoo on Thursday April 08 2021, @06:16PM (4 children)
"one third of Americans are waddling lard-asses"
sadly, more like 70% of American's are obese. Not overweight, not fat, OBESE. I say that indicates a per-existing neurological disorder.
(Score: 2) by helel on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:24PM (3 children)
Let's be fair. Only 42% of the population is considered obese. [cdc.gov] That's not even half!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @01:00AM (1 child)
Some work to do ahead, yeah. The objective is not out of grasp though.
(Score: 2) by helel on Friday April 09 2021, @01:06AM
Aim for 2030. Everyone else is. :)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by krishnoid on Friday April 09 2021, @02:06AM
It's much more when you consider it as a weighted average :-P
(Score: 2) by Tokolosh on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:00PM (5 children)
Americans are the most weak-minded people I have ever had the misfortune to meet. There is no padding soft enough to protect them from reality. Since 9/11 the population has been suffering a collective nervous breakdown. Their motto should change to "Out of an abundance of caution!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 08 2021, @09:08PM
You mean just the white ones, of course? Otherwise your statement would be racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @04:21AM (3 children)
Thats what USA type people have become.
In my father's era and before it was different. Those people worked very
hard and built the infrastructure of this country. Now the lazy use and abuse
what was passed down to them. Pretty sad how fast a good thing can end
up in the toilet.
...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 09 2021, @05:10AM (2 children)
But you see, infrastructure spending is *Communism.* St. Reagan told us so, so it must be true. 40+ years of infrastructure rot sucks, yes, but let's not lose sight of when and why the country's focus shifted away from it.
Know who had some good ideas about infrastructure? A guy named Franklin Roosevelt... :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @05:46AM (1 child)
The kind she said to avoid in the locker room.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @09:04PM
That's what she said!