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12:28 AM

> A 102-year-old woman has recovered from coronavirus in the northern Italian city of Genoa after spending more than 20 days in hospital, doctors who treated her and her nephew told CNN.

"She only had some mild coronavirus symptoms, so we tested her and she was positive, but we did very little, she recovered on her own," Sicbaldi added.

Doctors say her case impressed them so much that they decided to study it deeper.

"We got serological samples, she is the first patient we know that might have gone through the ‘Spanish flu’ since she was born in 1917," Sicbaldi explained, referring to th…

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Cerberus

2:01 AM

@Mitch I'll leave those to you, then!

@tchrist Hmm but the Spanish flu was influenza, was it not?

So a completely different virus.

skullpatrol

This virus was discovered in 1968.

skullpatrol

2:39 AM

Mar 12 at 9:13, by Færd

You might want to take this Coronavirus quiz from Harvard Medical School. Pass it and you get enrolled.

@Færd thanks for sharing

Færd

8:43 AM

@skullpatrol You're welcome! I hope it's not outdated by now. :)

@Cerberus Apparently he's exempted religious congregations from the emergency ban on gatherings because they are "essential to Brazil" or something.

Even in the fucking Islamic Republic of Iran all religious ceremonies have been cancelled.

To the dismay of many a zealot.

Apparently there's no rock bottom when it comes to stupidity.

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9:06 AM

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CowperKettle

9:54 AM

> The design and implementation of Quality Systems and Procedures are governed by Quality Assurance function at site.

Does it mean there's a QA deparment at this pharma production site?

Or does it mean there are workers whose positions include the mention of "Quality Assurance"?

Or does it mean there's a single worker/manager for this purpose?

RegDwigнt

10:13 AM

@CowperKettle that's wonky English to begin with. There's an article missing, and I would say "on site", not "at".

At any rate, all it's saying is that some kind of QA at least occasionally exists, and when it does, it takes place on site rather than elsewhere.

Whether there's a permanent department at the company proper, or just a bloke with a wrench visiting every other year, is anybody's guess.

Anyway.

Here's for a brainfuck I watched last night.

First, a quote from Twitter that went viral.

> Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads.
The US population is 327 million.
He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over.
I feel like a $1 million cheque would be life-changing for most people.
Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST.

Now, if you're not seeing what's wrong with it, or not seeing it immediately at first glance, you're not alone. Millions of people fell for it.