Florida is FUBAR. Jesus Christ.
Meanwhile:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243584042.html
BB podcast is great. It has no real format but it is entertaining.
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This guy is begging for a Darwin Award
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guess that helmet he wore for all those years was just an optical illusion
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The issue is not that we shut down everywhere, itās that we really didnāt shut down anywhere.
At best we did a semi-shutdown, which was ok to slow the spread, but not contain it at all. This was good for places like NYC that were already in the midst of an outbreak, but just delayed when the big outbreak occurred in other places.
We never even stopped people from travelling from hot spots to the rest of the US - all we did is ask people to self quarantine if they did.
I also think people would accept quarantine measures for a longer period if we didnāt have Trump and the derposphere telling people that itās ok to re-open and we never should have shut-down. People didnāt really start turning against the quarantine until Trump started supporting the protesters. Not saying full-shutdown would have worked for a long time, but I think many people would be ok with staying in phase 1 and banning most indoor meetings for an extended period of time (which while not perfect would be much better than where we are).
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Look at his Twitter account. He makes Curt Schilling seem like Mother Theresa.
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I think Rogan is mirroring the trajectory of a lot of uber-wealthy morons by growing addicted to progressively higher levels of (perceived) comfort. The dude used to be a huge proponent of mental/physical toughness and now heās regularly getting $1k vitamin IV infusions and just straight up whining about wearing a mask.
I say this as someone who used to appreciate some elements of Joeās curiosity and commentary, but I propose that we start calling male Karens āRogansā for obvious reasons. Hard to imagine a better example of out-of-touch, peevish privilege-protection.
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It is actually hard to get people to wear safety equipment on a construction site. At SolarCity if one person was working on the roof without a harness they could fire the entire crew and that happened in one case I heard about.
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I thought about doing an ETA on seatbelts. Iām old enough to remember when people didnāt wear them. It took quite a while for them to be widely used, but now pretty much everyone happily complies. But, yeah, I think social pressure is a huge and probably the primary factor in compliance.
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the problem of the deposphere not wearing them is compounded by the suggestion that masks help OTHERS more than they may even help the wearer. lol at protecting myself from the invisible, yuge lol at protecting anyone else from it.
At least theyāre consistent with the protests over the tyranny of Stop signs and red lights, amirite.
High Pitch Ron:
āYou have to have society function. You have to be able to have a cohesive society. Thatās the best way to be able to deal with the impacts of the virus,ā DeSantis said. āTo suppress a lot of working-age people at this point I donāt think would be very effective.ā
DeSantis also said he was focusing on the financial effects of COVID-19. He said he plans to veto large portions of the stateās $93.2 billion budget for the next fiscal year, which was passed by lawmakers as the coronavirus was starting to shut down parts of the state.
āThereās going to be a lot of red. Itās kind of the veto equivalent of the Red Wedding from āGame of Thrones,āā he joked, referring to a dramatic scene from the hit HBO show and George R.R. Martinās third book in the series in which (spoiler alert) some of the main characters were betrayed and killed by their allies on an occasion typically filled with mirth.
HARVARD GRADUATES
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Did your dad daydream a lot about martyrdom too? My dad would have absolutely loved to have died from covid contracted in these protests.
Where are you getting that? No way their hospitalization rate from covid is 5%. Could be that itās the lag in the last week of cases hitting the hospital, which Iāve adjusted for in the days left but not the capacity. (I just added 4-7 days to the range.)
The hospitalization data shows only a handful of states with any clear upward trend. I got AZ GA SC SD. Deaths also not trending up really anywhere with any confidence. (7DRA)
Reporting absent in several states, inconsistent in others.
But cases are. So the calm before the storm. Even if the first OFB wave is among a less vulnerable population it will get to the sick and olds with maybe an extra couple of week delay. People that donāt give a shit visit grandma wo protection.
WHO has time from infection to symptoms as 3-14 days whereas I think you were using 3-7 days
The average is like 5.7 though, so thatās why Iām using 6.
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Great name that totally wonāt set off the conspiracy nuts!
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Gee who could have seen that coming. They guy who doesnāt believe we landed on the moon winds up on the same side as the other nutjobs.
NewsRadio is my favorite TV show. Rogan was apparently just playing himself on that show - a conspiracy-minded electrician with no real education or respect for science, who had his own theories about everything. I donāt hate Rogan, I still think heās a decent guy with at least a reasonable amount of human empathy and at least curiosity about the world. I hate that heās apparently one of the top 5 most influential people in America right now. That truly truly sucks.
Also I love that you can never pin Bill Burr down. Guy is that rarest of pubic figures who seems to truly think for himself and DGAF which way the wind is blowing. Most of the guys who claim to be that are really just lock-step third way bros who worship at Roganās altar.
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