Who else had never even heard of the term “social distancing” until a few days ago?
Now we all use it as if it’s forever been in our lexicon.
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Sometimes I wonder, are they stupid, or are they evil?
There are plenty of 1%ers who just want this to run its course as quickly as possible so the economy can get moving again and the markets can soar again. They would make more money if it blew through the US quickly with minimal containment and USA#1 got to get back to normal with herd immunity and lead the world forward.
To a very large degree, yes he can. The internet has a physical infrastructure that is heavily US-centric, and a legal infrastructure that is mostly US based.
The silver lining in this is that its finally acceptable to stay home from work when sicker than monkey balls.
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Aren’t we drawing very live for it to die down for a bit then come back much stronger in the Fall, much like the 1918 flu?
We are drawing live for it to continue spreading during the summer. There isn’t enough info to do more than hope it slows down in warm weather.
This is what the crowd looked like from the host/guest perspective at Kimmel on Thursday. Add a few folks spread around the bottom 3 rows on the left, and you get the full picture. I cannot believe how stupidly lucky I was to have my last social outing for a while be this.
I don’t blame them going dark. Comedians, especially, really need audience feedback.
(this shot was taken before taping began, so several folks are in the bathroom or still backstage (Pete’s husband and a few of his friends)
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USA blank for 2017. Trump probably stopped letting them release the figures.
Mexico dead last. I fear there will be lots of devastation here in the coming months. At least today they finally stopped allowing crowds at their soccer matches (they went on as normal last night though).
He is a such a piece of shit that the Giants barred him from their world series reunion.
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I do, actually. We are going to need some non-news media content. They don’t have to be that funny, they just have to be human and take our minds off it for 60 minutes… Maybe make us laugh once or twice in there, that’s enough. If they work through this, and I suspect some will, in 30 years they’ll look back at it as the most important part of their careers in TV, and once we’re back to normal, they won’t go a week without people coming up to them on the street to thank them for a long time.
They should do guests by video conferencing, and just have one camera, one or two people in the control room, one producer and writers working from home. I’m genuinely stunned this isn’t happening. Maybe they’ll wait a week or so and then resume as we go full lockdown.
The work of people who can distract us for a minute here and there is going to be a public mental health service for a while.
Honestly, that’s why getting to do this was such a joy. It really took our minds off this whole thing for an afternoon, and watching all my volunteers and other supporters live tweet the show as it aired was really uplifting.
I don’t care what people here think of Pete, it was a wonderful hour away from all the shit going on and allowed us to smile again, even for a little bit.
And you know what? He wasn’t half bad, especially at the interviews.
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I’m struggling to understand what’s going on here in Japan.
In contrast to the widespread panic around the world right now, beyond having canceled schools and most public events, life appears to be carrying on largely as usual. There is no mass quarantining or even a large-scale shift to working remotely. Trains are still crowded. People are still in close contact with one another. In a city like Tokyo, “social distancing” is all but impossible.
There were 63 new cases reported on Saturday, the highest single-day increase thus far, but absurdly low compared to many other places. Just 773 total reported infections and 22 deaths excluding the cruise ship.
Either the virus is not that potent here or cases are being severely under-reported. I’m inclined to believe it’s the latter, yet there is no indication at all of hospitals being overwhelmed.
If Japan is being as lax in its preventive measures as it seems to be be, given its dense, aging population the country should be primed for a massive death toll, yet it’s not happening.
It doesn’t add up.
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I don’t think we know for sure, but a lot of the warm weather countries that had early infections seem to be doing pretty good.
Japan is basically #1 in hospital beds per capita, so you might not see such a problem. (4.7 times as many beds per capita as the US) South Korea is basically #2.
Are hospitals in WA and CA all totally overrun already? I don’t really see much about this, other than a few reports that Seattle area hospitals were strained. You would think we would see this in WA and CA first?
Got your WAAF fuel right here, friend of mine who lives in San Jose:
Personally, I have been telling people for a while now that this is a potential big problem because the speed of it could overwhelm the hospitals turning the serious cases into fatalities. [His wife] was more positive. Two weeks ago she was discussing with her two Doctor friends in her [hobby] group. They were telling her “Its nothing, just a little worse that the Flu, it’s not that bad”. This morning she talked to them. I kid you not, they have basically formed a Militia, brought land in the Santa Cruz mountains and are loading up with weapons.
They say it’s going to be a disaster, there simply aren’t enough ICUs and beds - and these are two senior doctors at the local hospitals. I know this sounds like a joke but it isn’t. These folks aren’t even the second amendment gun toting types
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Yes but that will still be better than what’s coming. At least we might have testing by then, and maybe some more treatments, and hopefully more respirators, etc.