I mean, in some senses it’s “fair” but there are real reasons why people react differently to events like 9/11 and deadly diseases.
A big part of the reaction for most people is if the event happened because of someone doing it on purpose (like 9/11). If it’s a “natural” event (like COVID) people aren’t as outraged.
See Peter Sandman’s work (and website if you want to see a really quaint early-2000’s style website alive and well in 2020) for more on this.
(I know, Trump and co. did and are continuing to do a lot of things “on purpose” to make COVID worse but it’s harder for people to make that connection emotionally.)
Seems like a lock. May 1 was about 2 weeks into a 15-20% decay pattern we saw unyil the last week in May. It seems like the trend has changed to slightly upwards.
@Watevs tell the landlord to buy the sealer and you’ll do it yourself. The job is literally just wiping or spraying sealer on the counter and letting it dry. A five year old could do it correctly with minimal instruction.
i did just let him have it a little bit, ok lets be real i was a lot nicer than i could have been. it’s bullshit that he knew about this issue the day before i moved in and waited till I was in to let me know. It’s amazing how many times he can say he’s “sensitive to my needs” while not making any sort of meaningful statement about the risk i’m taking with a person in the house.
Really I just don’t know my rights and I would be in a sticky spot if I just got kicked out randomly. Not trying to have some giant fight with the landlord the first week in if I can help it. The guy will come tomorrow and I’ll stay out for a day and that’ll be that.
A neighbor of ours, about a 16 year old, tested positive for antibodies. She was pretty sick back in February at the same time my youngest was fairly sick (prolonged cough) and right after my oldest was sick (pretty bad - we took her to urgent care for breathing problems) and my kids and their kids are close friends.
I read 40% asymptomatic to 60% symptomatic. Glad to hear another study that’s in the same ballpark. It’s a lot better than hearing 90% asymptomatic spread or something.
In either case it means massive testing removes a lot of people from the spreading pool. We don’t have great testing, but it’s pretty good in a lot of places - especially compared to March when you had to be an NBA player or a member of congress to get tested. Should help lower the R # somewhat at least.
This is what I’ve been saying for a long time. But I don’t think you can fudge a hospital crunch. It’s too juicy a story for the media. My working theory is they know they can fudge up to that point - but the specter of an Italy-level hospital crunch puts a cap on how much they can fudge.
Weirdly it’s looking AZ might be the first state to have to re-shut-down. I guess right-wing olds who refuse to even implement the most basic common sense preventative measures might not be the best situation.
We need boots on the ground in an AZ hospital. Anyone know anyone?
Anyone still talk to Tuq? He was in Phoenix I think. Slacker McFly is in Tucson I think.
My stepdad’s right-wing brother lives in Tucson. Nicest guy in the world, most gracious host for Thanksgiving at his house every year, really fucking bothers me that he’s a RWNJ who boycotted the NFL after Kaep. But I guess if the Cardinals are your local team that’s a lot easier. But they have no kids in town and I doubt know any nurses.
Thanks. Guess AZ may be first on the list. Shame the dipshits all think masks = tyranny.
And there was this on May 15:
I went to a buddy’s bday party at Underground in Hermosa the weekend before all CA bars shut down. Early in the night were in trying to social distance, not eat after each other etc. By the end of the night we were sharing nachos, girls sitting on laps playing kissy face, yelling loudly over the music. Like 3-4 hours of prolonged contact, with inhibitions completely lowered as the alcohol flowed.
Crowded bars are probably up there with sporting events/concerts, church + singing, long crowded subway car rides, live poker, strip clubs and some other stuff I’m forgetting as the worst of the worst.
I guess the big question now is if AZ is going to push this to Italy-level hospital overload, or implement new social distancing measures? (which they pretty much have to do right now if it’s not already too late)
I wonder if they can ship people to CA, UT, NV, or NM?
I guess also this could be the first place Trump ships some of those shiny new ventilators we had the automakers build. But that means building a field hospital in an air-conditioned warehouse or similar - and all the major bad press that goes along with that. So I’m sure they want to avoid it, but that might be the next step.