Also, if people actually do go to theaters this fall, then there are tons of blockbusters from April to September that haven’t come out yet and are just waiting
The ability to Normalize deaths is not limited to USA#178
This virus hits that perfect sweet spot:
- much deadlier than other mass contagions
- not deadly enough for society to care about the deaths
- long-term effects on some %
- less deadly in children so society cares even less about the deaths
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I don’t really get why people are getting so excited for a bio-pic about 9/11-era CIA director George Tenet. No thanks!
Yes. Don’t point the police at someone over this. At least yell at them first. You’re a giant rugby dude too, no excuse.
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I’ve literally expected NH to blow up multiple times and it just hasn’t happened.
What I see here in Southern NH is that even the Trumpy looking people have mostly been wearing masks and trying to take reasonable precautions.
We’ve also been doing a gradual reopening based on the numbers, so I’m not sure why you expected NH to explode.
Let the idiots die, who cares. Feel bad for the people that associate with the idiots that’ll get pozzed, but if you associate with idiots you have to be prepared to get it.
Echoing the article about teachers not being notified if their students are pozzed, my college will equivocally not be doing any kind of reporting or notifications of positives in the community. All notifications and tracing punted to county and state health officials, as well as any decisions to close.
Individuals won’t be notified unless they are in an enclosed space with no 6 foot distancing or mask wearing (which is required) for greater than 30 consecutive minutes, ergo, no notifications will be made. “If you aren’t notified by contact tracers this means you are safe.” Cool.
And this is a school doing almost all distance learning with <10% of sections in person with heavy motivations. Silly stuff.
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“This is a virus that is going to be with us forever in some form or another, and almost certainly will require repeated vaccinations,” he said.
“So, a bit like flu, people will need re-vaccination at regular intervals.”
I mean that was pretty much known. Vaccines have eradicated just two diseases: smallpox and rinderpest.
Hasn’t coronavirus already been with us forever? Or, well, since 8000 BCE anyway.
Yup. The exponential growth of one mistake means the math makes an outbreak inevitable
What’s everyone’s thoughts on Uber’s if you have no other way to get around? Request windows down and masks?
If 1) not going, and 2) drive yourself, and 3) have someone in your bubble drive you, and 4) walk aren’t viable, I guess so?
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Some people don’t have much of a choice when it comes to associating with idiots.
Looks like Santa Clara county, and by extension the whole state of CA, is finally getting its act together w.r.t. the missing data.
They can’t get their figure and their red text to agree on whether the data 7/25-7/30 are up to date or not. I’m inclined to believe the red text over the figure, as that dip around 7/30 doesn’t make a ton of sense. What seems likely, and what the hospitalization rates back up, is that we peaked at around 7/15, and then came down a bit, and have since stabilized at around 200ish cases/day. That’s not great, but it’s not exponential, and it’s not accelerating. Hospitalizations might even be dipping a bit, so perhaps there will be some confirmed drops as the grayed out most recent 5 days get resolved.
But, because we’re stabilizing and because our pozz rate is under 5%, the county wants to go full OFB again, which is what drove that 7/15 peak, but now starting with a higher case load than last time. Brilliant.
Many of the Uber’s in the Czech Republic have a plexiglass divider between you and the driver and sitting in the front seat isn’t a thing here unless there are four people getting in.
Personally, I have no issue going mask-free in an Uber. Different story if it’s a rideshare. If I know I’m gonna be out for a while, I wear a mask. Windows down if the weather allows (which it has lately).
The irony of my perspective is that the first community-spread cases in the Czech Republic started with an Uber driver.
It’s just a shame you continue to eat and put other people at risk.
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Great
His stupidity has an R of 5
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Why wouldn’t you wear a mask in an Uber?
If you share any air then the virus will spread