I’m not sure there have been enough countries that have done so to draw conclusions yet.
Baby steps in Europe but at least 20 countries are partially lifting lockdowns in some minor form or another far from OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
Would anyone be so kind as to repost the study that the Koreans did that showed air circulation is critical for reducing risk of spreading indoors?
Nah you can always rely on the UK to blindly follow America down whatever dumb rabbit hole they throw themselves into.
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I realize now the anxiety driving a lot of you about climate change.
The rage at the GOP for outright lies and denial of basic facts.
The impotence at an inability to compensate for nearly everyone else doing nothing.
The despair of thousands dying every day directly from this while most people say nah it’s the same as automobile accidents.
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If masks are to protect people from the wearer they might be heroes.
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This is so fucking infuriating.
I mean, the smallest fucking thing we can’t even get right. If Trump and Pence and the rest of this fucking administration and GOP fucktards just started wearing masks and set the example for their imbecile followers, we’d have a much better outcome. I mean, just that ONE tiny fucking thing would improve things greatly.
It’s so fucking ridiculous. I know, I know, it’s America, and we’re the stupidest fucking country to ever have existed, but jesus christ. I just can’t fathom that WEARING A FUCKING MASK has become the literal hill that magatards are literally going to die on. And unfortunately, take a good amount of nonmagatards with them.
It’s just fucking ridiculous. I would hope that if this happened during the Obama administration he would have been wearing a mask and having his entire administration wearing a mask early on. It wouldn’t have mattered, of course, and Hannity would be running specials on tan suits, dijon mustard, and mask wearing, but at least Obama would have set an example.
It just seems so easy. Half the country are willing to wear masks now. If Trump would just fucking start wearing one, a lot of the other half would too.
I’m really, really, really hoping that the majority of the 2 million people that die from this are magatards. Its hard to say this but if it it’s like 1,900,000 of the 2 million magatards dying, it’d be worth it.
Fuck 'em. I usually don’t wish death upon people but I’m pretty much at my breaking point. All the fuckers on my facebook feed that are bitching about being closed down and wearing masks. fuck 'em, I hope they get it. I don’t hope they die, I hope they survive, but have to live with fucked up lungs for the rest of their lives.
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Even though the R0 has been rising for Germany it is based on a prediction, or more precisely a “Nowcast” of assumed infections as opposed to the ones that are officially registered, which lag a little as you usually need to show symptoms before you get tested.
Registered numbers are still declinging (667 new cases today vs. 793 last Sunday// 7-day-average of 960 as opposed to 1189 a week ago), even though restrictions have been loosening since April 20 (step by step).
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Because new confirmed cases lag by 15-20 days (time from infections to symptoms+testing results mostly not being instant) you would expect a pretty long lag from relaxing standards and seeing any meaningful increases. Even longer still for deaths. Not to mention a R0 of 1.1 is hardly going to show much of an increase for a long time.
The R0 was at 0.6
I’m commenting on the earlier article saying Germany is now at 1.1. You would still expect to see the numbers decline for a while if you had been slowly increasing R0 from .6 up to 1.1 even at the point you are at 1.1. Mostly because the new case/death numbers lag todays infection rate by several weeks.
Yeah, Mother’s Day was busiest day of the year when I waited tables a few decades ago.
Pretty good article on Trump’s fuckwit lackeys at the top of the pandemic response. I had no idea that the CDC guy had such a history
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Yeah combined with proning (patient on stomach). But it’s super dangerous for the healthcare workers so apparently your whole ICU has to be set up like a virology lab or something if you’re going to do it.
My internet was down last night and my family was having a zoom meeting. So I drove down to the McDonald’s to use their WiFi in the parking lot. The drive thru was open but the restaurant was closed. Every couple minutes, a car would pull up and park. People would get out and try to go in. Entire families in some cases. Every single one of them were either perplexed or angry the doors were locked. And none were wearing a mask. People are just ready for America to open up for business. It’s insanity.
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