Maybe this is true but I’m skeptical.
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I skim through this thread pretty quickly whenever I get a couple of minutes to catch up on the 200 unread posts I haven’t yet seen, but remarkably I always run into your updates from CR and I want you to know one regular reader of this thread appreciates your efforts to keep us in the know and also finds it oddly comforting. Thank you
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Hey you’re welcome.
I suppose it’s comforting because it’s good to see some competence in dealing with the virus somewhere in the world.
I mean it’s not perfect. The announcement for drastic changes came this afternoon because the politicians likely knew that the announcement of a 50% increase in cases was coming tonight.
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Or as we call it the “Trolly-Keeeeeeed” plan. Nice.
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Just pulled the coronavirus card on my kid, as she has located sub-$100 Billie Eilish tickets on Stub Hub.
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This is all pretty sound, but it doesn’t account for the fact that our public response is being directed by people who don’t care about protecting Americans, don’t know what they’re doing and are solely focused on buttressing Trump’s chances of reelection. There’s a huge difference between taking smart, targeted steps, even if they seem “extreme,” if they can get you in front of a general epidemic, and taking drastic steps after they have no chance of preventing widespread infection. The meme about softening the peak has taken over everyone’s brains, but the benefit of doing that is much less than the benefit of everyone not getting sick in the first place. ESPECIALLY when the drastic steps are going to be taken by the Trump administration. The fact is that the administration blew whatever chance we had of avoiding this outbreak, so it’s on people to take reasonable self-quarantine/hygiene/etc steps and accept that there’s not going to be any useful action from the federal government and probably not much from local government either.
In that vein, it’s appropriate to hammer the Trump admin for bungling testing to identify the early stages of the outbreak, when it might have been contained, but I’m not sure why people are so excited about testing now. As a poker player, you know well that information is only as valuable as the decisions it lets you make. Right now, testing or no, everyone should be keeping to themselves when feeling at all ill, avoiding travel and large gatherings, washing hands as much as possible, etc. The virus could be anywhere.
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Looks like Trump won’t have to build death chambers at his concentration camps now! I’m sure he’s psyched about saving money!
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Fucking hell. This is going to massacre these people and the rest of our country is going to stand by and watch.
Wow we really have straight-up death camps now.
7 fucking days ago… 
You ever hear thing song written decades before Katrina?
And a good chunk will celebrate.
So disgusting.
There are studies released in Euroland that state the longest ‘delay’ period (i.e lockdown) to be effective is 4 weeks. 2 weeks better than nothing but 4 weeks optimal.
The virus will definately return after lockdown but ‘only’ in approx 40% of the no. of cases pre-lockdown. Unless you lockdown for longer than 4 weeks, in which case the infection rate is way higher.
China now testing every incoming nationality and ensuring (forcibly arranging) quarantine for infected visitors.
Apparently each day they’ll teach for ~an hour to a different year, and be available the rest of the day to that year for individual students to get in touch. They’ve had Zoom for teacher to teacher conferencing for a year or so. I don’t teach but do do software and this seems like the sort of rollout I’d refuse to support, but then I’m sure they have to do something during the shutdown or parents would be upset with the fees etc. Just another shitty situation, I guess.
Who knows, but it’s from a study published in Lancet. I think at the very least it’s safe to say that economic crisis cause A LOT of bad stuff like people dying.
We can’t be too far away from images of hazmat-suited ICE officials hosing down cages full of migrants.