Been busy today, so a little late with the Cuomo update
The decline in NY has been strong enough to fade the typical Monday bump.
Daily confirmed COVID hospital and nursing home deaths since peak
April 8: 799
April 9: 777
April 10: 783
April 11: 758
April 12: 671
April 13: 778
April 14: 758
April 15: 606
April 16: 630
April 17: 540
April 18: 507
April 19: 478
April 20: 481
April 21: 474
April 22: 438
April 23: 422
April 24: 437
April 25: 367
April 26: 337
April 27: 335
Nice. 60% drop in roughly two weeks. 120 range May 10 then 50 May 24
(Edited cause Iâm stupid)
I saw this clip a few days ago
(assuming not fake etc - and what I saw was longer so another clip somewhere with more view no doubt)
So much misplaced angerâŚ
I see people constantly referring to how âpeopleâ are impatient or unwilling to tolerate restrictions, but it needs to be emphasized that the lockdowns are overwhelmingly popular, and âreopeningâ is extremely unpopular. Trump and Kemp and their lemmings are just making up political cover for themselves, and no one should play along with it. Keeping businesses closed for a longer period of time is crushingly popular:
Death, I would assume.
From my understanding it only takes a certain number of people ignoring lockdowns to fuck up the whole thing for everyone else and 20% is well above that number.
WE HAVE THE COVID ER MEATS!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/28/trump-meat-plants-dpa/
Some states that are reopening parts of their economies have warned employees that theyâll lose their unemployment benefits if they refuse to go back to work for their employers, even if theyâre worried about contracting the coronavirus.
âIf youâre an employer and you offer to bring your employee back to work and they decide not to, thatâs a voluntary quit,â Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said Friday. âTherefore, they would not be eligible for the unemployment money.â
Reynolds also said employers who have workers that refuse to return should file a report with Iowa Workforce Development.
No exceptions for at risk workers or workers who live with at risk people apparently.
Thatâs the theory here in Georgia as to why Kemp was so quick to let businesses re-open. Donât have to pay unemployment.
Yeah thatâs also why FL wants to reopen so bad⌠Except you probably couldnât get unemployment in the first place there.
Obviously super shitty, but honestly those people were kind of lucky in the first place. Lots of high risk people or those who live with high risk people who happened to work at places who decided to claim they were essential, lots of them clearly not actually essential, who have been forced to work or starve since the beginning.
Theyâre just coming back into the fold with everyone else now. If youâre poor you work or starve, if youâre middle class you can usually WFH
This all is very concerning as it can spiral in multiple directions very quickly.
And now that people will be bringing it up Trump Iâll respond with âWhat about ventilators?â
I just donât know, given the design of these processing plants, how they can function at any effective level without treatment or vaccine.
Best case scenario is probably fractional output which causes the price of food to skyrocket. Plus as that thread notes, if the processing slows down it causes the people who raise the animals to completely crash. This is all so horribly precarious.
Lol at the Bernie supporter.
Donât do drugs, kids, or you might end up a freedom loving libertarian.
The lady at the end almost came off worse than the conspiracy nuts.
Or they can just feed bodies into the machine like they are in ERâs. Iâm here to tell you now they arenât going to let the meat companies shut down. The damage down the supply chain would be catastrophic.
Like the price of commodity crops would fall faster like oil already has⌠and the meat supply would probably never recover. A few thousand dead poor mostly immigrants isnât a price they wonât pay.
Yes this. Also most people who can work are dragging themselves in sick or otherwise out of sheer terror at this point.
You can open the fucking economy all you want and people are still gonna file for unemployment if theyâve been laid off.
Republicans are so fucking stupid.
Update on the work on the house. The people cut everything out and are done. Luckily there was no mold somehow. Now the contractor is here checking shit out and getting an estimate which the insurance company will review.
Finding a quality contractor willing to work right now was actually pretty hard. Smartly lots of people didnât want their guys working in home during Covid-19.
So far the plan to just have an ice chest in each room with snacks and left overs in each room has been clutch. Basically Iâd BBQ tons of food etc and weâd use it the next couple of days to eat for breakfast/lunch along with sandwiches and cereal/oat meal.
Positive trump told him he canât wear a mask. I so hope Pence gets the virus.
He canât force people to go to death camps for minimum wage. At $100 an hour you would still run out of workers quickly.
Things are going to get really, really bad.
The powers that be kind of pulled back on pushing everyone to die, but it is clear that is still their plan.