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uziq wrote:

Larssen wrote:

Thank you for your expert contribution. We should all go back into lockdown. I'll inform the ministers on your point of view

german ministers are urging new curbs immediately to avoid a third wave. are you even reading the news, dipshit?

Germany must bring down coronavirus infections in the next few weeks or risk new virus mutations that are resistant to vaccines, and should impose night-time curfews in regions with high caseloads, said a top aide to Chancellor Angela Merkel according to Reuters.

“We are in the most dangerous phase of the pandemic,” Merkel’s chief of staff Helge Braun told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. “The next few weeks will determine whether we can foreseeably get the pandemic under control.”

If the number of infections rises rapidly again there is a growing danger that the next virus mutation will become resistant to the vaccine, Braun said.

“Then we would need new vaccines, then we would have to start vaccinating all over again,” he added.

After a popular backlash and legal hurdles, Merkel was forced to ditch plans for an extended Easter holiday intended to try to break a third wave, but Braun said it remained imperative to reduce the number of infections.

In regions where the number of cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days is more than 100, he spoke out in favour of additional curbs. “That’s where regional curfews in the evening and at night can help, because we have the highest infection rates at meetings in people’s homes,” he said.

Coronavirus infections have risen sharply in Germany in recent weeks, driven by a more transmissible variant of the virus and moves to ease some restrictions.

amazing how suddenly you can't read a graph or table when it involves criticizing your beloved EU.

It's curious to me how any post I write passes through some sort of mental filter with you invariably interpreting it as saying 'lol u suk nerd' in any number of different ways. Always so touchy, doubling down on imagined arguments where you have to insist that in fact everyone else is just dumb as shit. Is this shtick of yours the result of a secondary school trauma you never lived down? The Nerd Strikes Back? A neverending quest for vengeance rooted in all the put downs you were subjected to as a young uziq?

I never disagreed that the situation is concerning, my dude. Can't you find some koreans to patronise?

Larssen wrote:

Thank you for your expert contribution. We should all go back into lockdown. I'll inform the ministers on your point of view

‘can’t you find someone else to patronise’?

news later that evening:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ … o-over-60s

Regional leaders of two German states badly hit by a third wave of coronavirus have urged the rest of the country to reimpose a tough lockdown to flatten infection rates, as a leading virologist said Germany was in a “serious and complicated” stage of the pandemic.

In a joint letter reported on by Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, Bavaria’s conservative premier, Markus Söder, and the Green head of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, said the situation was “more serious than many believe”.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles … -in-europe

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a nationwide four-week lockdown, closing schools and business, in the latest and alarming sign that Europe is yet again losing control of the pandemic.

“We did everything we could to make these decisions as late as possible, when they became strictly necessary. That is now,” Macron said in a televised address on Wednesday. New variants make the virus “more contagious and deadlier,” he said.

not too bright are you?

Last edited by uziq (2021-03-31 18:58:50)

uziq wrote:

secondary school trauma didn’t you use the term ‘reaching’ all of two posts ago?

you’ve been very ‘there there’ in your responses in this thread, minimising what’s happening in the EU and being dishonest about the situation. you can’t admit when you’re wrong. don’t talk to me about emotional involvement or deep-seated issues you’re attached to the EU like a little bleating lamb.

No uziq, I merely pointed out what I think the reasons were for the current situation. I also pointed out that I'm not happy with the vaccination program. I already told you the numbers are concerning. Funny thing is I even said to people in my social circle that I don't think vaccination speed will outpace the spread like 2 weeks ago.

Not enough for some reason. You insist I must be more gloomy and aware of our impending doom or something. Overbearingly telling me what the news from my country is or how really bad we suck at vaccinating (whilst exxagerating the situation, like wrt astrazeneca uptake). Apparently not being happy about this all isn't good enough or something.

That's you projecting your emotional state really. I imagine this pandemic has been particularly rough on you. Mentally you're running around like a decapitated chicken, hysterical tendencies in overdrive. You're in korea and safe now uziq. It's ok, we'll get through this. Thanks for your concern for my country I suppose.

Last edited by Larssen (2021-04-01 00:42:59)

Well and the planning is still that by the end of july 100% of the population will be vaccinated. We'll have a normal summer too. I might even go on vacation.

I'll take your advice to heart and will stop being nice: the fuck is wrong with your reading comprehension? You edit books and articles for a living. If our arguments are in any way reflective of your ability I wouldn't let you touch anything I may write with a 10 meter pole.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Dr Dilbert_X MD PHD Oksferd LMAO STFU

ahahahaha you sad, sad little man.

i don't recognise a single thing in your post?

when did i say engineers were inferior to anyone? i argued against your constant 'engineering master race' reddit-level attitudes. i respect engineers as much as i respect any profession, which is to say i don't put them on a pedestal as the masters-of-the-universe and don't think them especially capable of solving all societies' problems (as you do).

where did i ever express approval for dominic cummings? his politics, outlook and social world are all completely inimical to my own. all we have in common is, er, a humanities degree. wow! i must have a sympathy with him (and 40% of all university leavers in the world, i guess).

now i was 'bullied at school', after you've just spent 5 years making out i was some shallow party-going hipster. so which is it? enraged incel with a grudge against the world or wastrel partying hipster? throw the dart at the board again! third time lucky!

i had to go abroad as a 'last throw of the dice' to find a woman ... hahahaha. i recently left a relationship, of my own volition, in the UK. should a man who has to solicit prostitutes really be so loose with phrases like 'last throw of the dice'? you're the flotsam here as far as women are concerned. what's wrong, aren't they all super-impressed with your engineering job and target pistols?

it's honestly pathetic to see a man of your years and maturity spout such rubbish all the time. it's like playground-level argument. methinks it's the only stimulation and excitement in your otherwise drab day. i can't see any other reason for doing it and being so incessantly, knowingly inane.

i just don't understand why your life is the way it is, if you've got it all so figured out, dilbert? from the outside it is not exactly a picture of success. and yet you pontificate about politics, declaim against half the people on the planet, insult entire academic disciplines, imprecate other people's romantic lives ... what exactly do you have going on? you're single, you live at home, you don't seem especially to enjoy your job ... for all that you act upset i used to flame people, your posts here are seriously, thoroughgoingly negative, as in borderline misanthropic. your outlook of the world is far more fearful, suspicious and hateful than my own. you seem like a sad and lonely specimen.

Last edited by uziq (2021-04-01 01:49:01)

yes ... but you’re nowhere near the 70% vaccination threshold that is commonly touted, and your summer supply exists on paper only. good luck.

of course, i hope that too, but the tone of your responses yesterday suggested i was being hysterical and europe has it under control. it does not. german ministers are calling for lockdowns; france just entered a lockdown; the WHO has today censured the EU for its mishandling of the vaccine roll-out. the picture is seriously bad. even the USA will have climbed out of covid restrictions before europe. at this point there's still every chance of a third-wave, with new mutant variations, engulfing europe and taking it to the worst levels yet.

Yikes at that last.

The Soros nanomachine network was hijacked by Bill Gates long ago. You'll just feel an urge to pay for subscription model Microsoft services and dress like a banker.

Don't you read Newsmax?

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Larssen wrote:

I think I would kill myself if I ever had to write 32 pages on the dimensions of pipes.

You don't understand, it wasn't just the dimensions, it was also the tolerances on those dimensions.

One of our products is pipe coating inspection systems which fit to the pipes, the range of pipes on the market is complex, the tolerances are complex and there are multiple complex tolerance standards.
Then there are the available coatings to think about.
Add in that everyone is confused about the nomenclature - which is itself confusing and nonsensical - and use definitions interchangeably when they shouldn't be makes everything more confusing still.
And the icing on the cake is the previous owners of the company put their mentally ill son in charge of that product line for several years and all the documentation and marketing material is now word salad and the maths side worse.

So anyway, I've finished my magnum derpus. No-one actually asked me to do it but then no-one has actually asked me to do anything for the last six months. This is what happens if you let Dilbert frolic free.