I’m a little late here, but feel free to put stuff along this line in the “Things to do while on lockdown for coronavirus” thread.
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Outbreak across US in graphics
As we told you earlier, infections have risen rapidly in about 40 of America’s 50 states over the last two weeks, according to an analysis by Reuters news agency.
Southern states like Florida and Texas in particular have become the new epicentres of the outbreak - as the graphic below shows.
The US has the world’s highest numbers of confirmed cases and deaths - there are currently more than 3.3 million reported infections and over 135,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Next 5 days death stats won’t be pretty…
The key is to die or GTFO before some brutal Stasi-dictator gets a hold of all this information.
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Yeah but it’s just a bunch of dumbasses in the Missouri boot heel. Seriously those people are the basket case of Missouri.
Ok well that might be a problem.
That’s basically Ark Kansas.
I’m from the bootheel. I’m not joking when I say it’s the worst place in the US and gets worse and worse each yearly visit I make.
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https://twitter.com/SteveHiltonx/status/1283054614795948039
I read tweets like these and can’t help but think of how easy it is to sell anyone any belief they have now. Thanks Mark Zuckerberg. Oh you happen to watch something on television that raises doubt about vaccines, so you google it and the first thing you find is like a conspiracy youtube channel that is a front for advertising crushed deer antler pills to prevent autism and you roll with it and then reject all evidence to the contrary because reasons.
Oh you think masks are stupid? Well we got a TV show for that brought to you by the mypillow guy and his from crack addict to CEO book coming up next!
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That just looked at who was the first case for a household in a small sample size in Switzerland.
Of course the adults are usually the first case when kids are home and don’t go out nearly as much as adults.
But when kids are in school, they are the index case for every other contagious disease like flu and cold etc every school year.
Example number 1883838383828282966 of a conservative not giving a shit about anything until it directly impacts them.
Mick said back in February the virus was a hoax. But now all of a sudden the virus is a problem when his daughter can’t get tested. Go fuck yourself Mick.
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I think the joke was that many of the people worried about a cashless society already DGAF about privacy in any other aspect of their lives. The same libertarian bros who claim to be about small government but want Trump to drone strike antifa and BLM protestors. Their only concern with a cashless society is that they won’t be able to hide income from the tax man.
I don’t want a cashless society either, but I actually value privacy, and to the extent that I don’t, I at least value the option of it.
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That doesn’t work either.
If the total is $27.27 then either the customer pays $27, in which case Kroger is giving the cash customer 27 cents, or they pay $28, in which case the customer is overpaying.
If the customer overpays, you either give them change (right away but lolcoinshortage or via a credit for next time) or you donate it to charity.
We don’t do delays to buy time for preparation in America. We do them to just kick the can down the road a few weeks.
Yeah the slow testing is really really really bad. They are making people live with the anxiety of ‘do I have it or not’ for 5-7 days. And of course during those 5-7 days they suddenly have all sorts of interest and focus for what’s going on… yeah it’s really dumb politically. It’s a really unpleasant experience waiting for results. I’ve never had a colonoscopy but I’m 100% certain I’d rather get one than wait for 5 days for my wife’s COVID results (which were functionally mine) again. Like I’d snap take the trade now without ever having gotten a colonoscopy.
That’s what’s gone and cracked Mick lol. That’s happening all over the place. Look at the testing numbers, that’s a LOT of people having a first hand COVID experience.
I took a test on Thursday July 2nd and still do not have results. It was through CVS. I called to figure out what the deal was and got put on endless hold and eventually gave up. What is the point now anyways?
They actually do.
Was listing to planet money. Some ad guy says the billboard in the mall that you see when the elevator opens. It prepares for you while you are in the elevator.
Pretty crazy
Predict we will fall far short of 70k cases today but rocket well past 1k deaths
In a small bit of good news, DC is now at 5 straight days without a Covid death and our ICUs are running at ~75% capacity. Still not out of the woods (R is creeping up, we can’t really shut off travel from hotspots), but we have made genuine progress from the days when the Convention Center was being staged as a field hospital.
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I think my three live predictions form the last few weeks are:
- 100k positives one day in July
- 1k deaths 7DMA sometime in July
- 2k deaths 7DMA sometime in August
They seemed semi-fanciful when they were made (ie “we’re drawing live to”), but now they each seem even money plus.
The Trump administration ordered hospitals to bypass the C.D.C. and send key virus data to a Washington database, alarming health officials.
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