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  1. 6 hours ago, VogueMusic said:

    They have got to be lying about his health right now. All his "pre-existing conditions", especially his age and weight and all the medications he's supposedly on... he can't be doing nearly as well as they present him.

    Have you seen this talk about him doing a video in front of a green screen. Everyone's obsessed about the green screen. I'm more suspicious - with deep fakes these days, he may well have died last week and they are putting out completely fake videos. Would they actually tell us if he died?

  2. 20 minutes ago, animalinstinct said:

    Hope this means the song will get a proper single release. Send to radio and remixes please!

    I doubt it. If she now has to give him a %, she will deliberately not release it. Wouldnt surprise me if she took it out of the tour DVD, or change the DVD to a doco with only selected songs.

  3. 7 hours ago, Narendra Sen said:

    CRAZY (unpopular opinion around here, it seems, but it's my least favourite song on the album; I tend to skip it every time I listen to MX)

     

    9 minutes ago, BeautifulBicycle said:

    Same. Never really warmed to Crazy as a stand alone song, though i enjoyed hearing it on Madame X tour, the way Madonna sings cr-cr-cr-aaaa-zzzyyyyy i find a bit simplistic and immature.

    Ive never liked Crazy at all. I just dont get why people like it. Its not terrible, but I cant hear anything good about it. The verses are Ok I guess, but the chorus is silly. I prefer Body Shop.

  4. 2 hours ago, elijah said:

    I am not black, but I find this decision ridiculous. What is racist with Gone With The Wind? It paints a picture of a certain time: when there was a slavery and the black people were indeed called the n word. Going by this logic should we forbid all medieval archives, books etc., because they are even worse? There are so many - perceived from todays viewpoint -  "racist" books like The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Should we forbid it too? Those works of arts represented certain period of time which had a certain values and we can not go back and erase that. We should have direct sources so that we could objectively study the past. The moral is changing and thats why we have gay marriage nowadays.

    For some years now many companies don't perform Merchant of Venice any more, or do it very carefully to better contextualise it.

    That said, I saw a version of Thoroughly Modern Millie last year, which I didn't know how racist it was. I was surprised they did it.

  5. 25 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:

    Agree. How can anyone make a movie set in the South in the civil war and not depict racism. It would be denying history and be completely false.  Showing life how it was at the time & location it was set in is important. It would be stupid to pretend that it was different. Some say that old movies should be banned due to the huge amount of people smoking in movies. Just stupid logic as people did smoke in those times without any knowledge of the health risks. Today it is different and everyone should realize it was what happened at that time.  Viewers have brains and can see that things are shown in movies as it once was, not how it should of been in hindsight which would be denying and erasing history and fact.

     

    I think the issue with GWTW is that it presents the slaves as happy and thankful to be oppressed. But yes, important to document how white people tried to represent slavery, which we can now compare to the truth.

  6. 6 hours ago, MadFan said:

    This is silly, and another example of the infantilization of people in our culture -- stop babying grown ass men & women. Let us see the work and trust that we can view it through the lens of 1939. :confused:

    It's different than taking down a statue, which I support because they commemorate a person. They're not neutral. A film is neutral.

    totally. to paraphrase someone, films (or art in general) do not endorse a way of life, but describe one. It is up to us to decide how we response to it, be it ignore it, or engage in discussion about it to bring about change.

    statues on the other hand ... public spaces should be used for the public good. Statues the propogate myths and represent a false history, or continue to be a symbol of pain for many, should go.

  7. 55 minutes ago, horn said:

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    But the lack of testing for mild cases, which are believed to be the vast majority, was also likely to distort the country's fatality statistics, pointed out Lindsay Broadbent, an expert on respiratory virus infections at the Centre for Experimental Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast.

    "Testing as many as possible is so important. South Korea are an excellent example of this," she tweeted. "With the U.K. gov announcing they will restrict testing to more severe patients this will make isolation of infected difficult and will look like we have a high fatality rate!"

    On Friday afternoon, the U.K. had 798 reported cases of coronavirus, a jump of more than 35% from the previous day, with 10 fatalities.

    https://fortune.com/2020/03/14/coronavirus-uk-cases-herd-immunity-covid-19/

    It sounds like UK will be like Italy within a week.

    Australia is also limiting testing to only specific cases of known close contact with other confirmed cases or symptomatic people only if they have been in certain countries. This means we don't really know how widespread community transmission already is, so our control measures are probably already behind what is needed. However, apparently they are limiting testing because there is a global shortage of the things (??) needed to do the tests.

  8. 1 hour ago, VogueMusic said:

     

     

    THIS.

    SO many I know, especially those over 60 with underlying health issues, are all not taking this seriously...thinking they can just go about as normal. I just think to myself...are fucking kidding me!!!??? 

    And don't get me started on young people. The amount of these social media personalities on all their insta stories getting on airplanes and taking their fancy trips right now like nothing is different... :ohmy: WTF?????!!!!!!   It's really a wake up call to how entitled we are in the US.

    I don't understand why it's so hard for so many to accept some sacrifice now so we can all be better/safer/healthier in the long run for the greater good...? 

    Why is it so hard to stay your ass home?

     

     

    1 hour ago, karbatal said:

    This is what I mean. Western society is very difficult to accept individual freedom to be conditioned. This is normally a virtue but now has become a problem.

    All true. I've cancelled my holiday (and probably lost about $4000) and going out of my way to stay at home as much as possible and being extra careful when i do go out. I'm not a high risk of significant adverse effects, but very aware that just going out will contribute to spreading it further. And then to see the idiots fighting over toilet paper (in crowded stores) and complaining about cancelled events, or recklessly just going on as normal, and all I can think: these are the people that our sacrifices are protecting.

    Finally Australia has taken some serious steps to limit the spread, but we should do more. They keep saying "we're not at the Italy/France/Spain stage yet" .. well, if we dont do more now, we will be there very soon. The number of new cases is growing each day.

  9. 6 hours ago, dcbyebyebaby said:

    My mom went to the Casino today and said it was packed. I swear if she brings that shit home I will be pissed. 

     

    4 hours ago, dcbyebyebaby said:

    My mom sent me this. Shes a hardcore right wing conspiracy nutjob that belongs to Qanon.  They are predicting that Madonna will be arrested and the coronavirus will be used as an excuse. They are also predicting JFK Jr is alive and will be Trumps new VP. These people are so stupid.
     

     

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    No offence to you, but your mother is an idiot.

  10. 43 minutes ago, rebelvvv said:

    Nobody who's responded has missed your point at all.  This is highly infectious, 1000x more so than SARS was.  It's the young and asymptomatic carriers who infect those at risk  At risk doesn't mean simply the elderly either.  If you have asthma, diabetes, any heart condition, your risk is much greater.  Many of the "non-severe" cases require hospitalization for pneumonia.  You CAN become reinfected even after testing negative, as multiple cases in Asia and elsewhere have proven.  Finally, the severe cases cause permanent lung damage that reduces your oxygen intake forever even if you recover.  None of this is good or something you should deliberately go out of your way to get.  It's also airborne and can linger in the air for 3 hours if someone coughs and you walk through it.  So you could VERY easily pass it to a number of other people who are at risk without even knowing.

    The world has not basically shut down for nothing.  Anyone who knows anything about exponential growth can also see where this is going.  Italy had only a few cases 2 weeks ago.

    Thanks! I was only referring to people who were healthy and could isolate, and did not mean other measures should be stopped. But this is the info that I didn't fully understand. I'm more worried now. Luckily I work from home so can mostly stay away from people. Australia is cancelling some public events, but not others saying there is no need, which is very inconsistent. A friend of mine attended a cricket match last week where there was a case found in the section he was sitting, so he is now self-isolating, but they are not testing. I guess we are all just going to have to get used to a different way of life for a while.

  11. Can someone who knows something about something explain something ....

    they say that all these measures like travel bans, no large gatherings, washing hands like OCD, etc, will only delay the spread by 1 up to maybe 4 weeks. 
     

    for most people who contract it, the symptoms are mild and people recover within about a week.  Once you’ve had it, you don’t get it again. 
     

    so doesn’t it make sense for young and healthy people who are able to stay home For a week to get the virus, get better, and then they will no longer be able to spread the virus, and we can stop all this. 

  12. 5 hours ago, XXL said:

    Fans think Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’ predicted the coronavirus outbreak

     

    Contagion-Gwyneth-Paltrow.jpg

     

    https://www.nme.com/news/film/contagion-predicted-coronavirus-outbreak-2619269

     

    Amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, many people are noting similarities between what is unfolding and the 2011 movie Contagion.

    The Steven Soderbergh film, which stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law, depicts the outbreak of an epidemic as the scientific community races to contain a fictional virus, called MEV-1.

    Fans have been comparing Contagion to the current coronavirus outbreak, with many plot elements mirroring what is going on in real life.

    Among them is the spread of false information and how it exacerbates fear in the public, which is shown in the movie by Law’s conspiracy theorist Alan Krumwiede. His character spreads misinformation about the government having a cure, creating increased panic.

    How dare you bring Goop and her terrible acting into this. My biggest fear about coronavirus is that we all start acting like gwenyth.

  13. 6 hours ago, MadFan said:

    I shouldn't make light, but really, maybe 14 days in quarantine is JUST what the world NEEDS to reflect about what it's done. :fag:

    I was thinking the same. Rather than have this go on and on for months and months, lets just make everyone stay home for 2 weeks. We already have the toilet paper ready.

  14. 10 hours ago, Intervention_78 said:

    I'm still trying to determine if I should cancel my vacation to Spain in May. I'm hoping that by then this whole thing would calm down or at least a vaccine is available for everyone. 

    It wont have calmed down by then, and we wont have a vaccine for 12 months. But there's no reason to cancel a trip to Spain. I'm still going to Japan, Singapore and South Korea in April. Just be careful about getting too close to people, wash hands like you have OCD. The best defence is common sense.

  15. 25 minutes ago, LSD said:

     

    Lovely.

    Flights are being cancelled. Attractions are being closed. Travel advices are being raised. But I don't care ... I'm going to Japan and South Korea in April. You can't stop me, Mr corona-man!

  16. On 2/25/2020 at 4:31 AM, KalamazooJay said:

    Yeah Bernie has it in the bag. Unless something cataclysmic occurs between now and Super Tuesday, he’s gonna be the nominee. 
     

    Bernie vs. Donald.
     

    This is truly going to be an election for the ages. Both men command an unshakable, almost cult like level of support. I just can’t imagine how heated this is going be. It’s going to make 2016 look Sesame Street. But I will say, perhaps this is what the Democrats need. Someone who inspires unbridled passion the way Bernie does. 
     

    I can only imagine what the debates will be like between those two. Jesus Christ. 

    He has the most delegates in the bag, but won’t be enough for nomination. Convention will see everyone else get behind either Biden or (because he’ll give money to people) Bloomberg. I’d be happy with a Biden presidency - in the SC debate he’s the only one that seemed like an adult. 

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