It’s interesting but of course malaria is correlated with hot, humid climates too.
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In Ireland, at then end of 2019, there was about 2.4 million people working. Over the last weekend 140,000 lost their jobs (6% of the workforce). Another 200,000 are expected to go by this weekend. The numbers are just astonishing.
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The people who’s jobs are gone already and not coming back don’t even realize this. Some of coworker’s think they’re on a two week vacation and restaurants will be packed next month when they open up again! I guess Punxsutawney Phil is going to emerge on April 1st a declare the outbreak over and everyone who just bought a 3 months supply of food is going come in and give the servers super fat tips because everyone loves supporting their local community.
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The shutdowns will probably kill more people than the virus. Maybe many multiples more.
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I realize that $1000 is more meaningful in some places and to some people than others, but it really seems like a temporary band-aid, and a small one. Suspending all commercial and residential leases and mortgages for six months would be a good start. Would also be great if health care were available and affordable to everyone, but I know that’s a crazy socialist pipedream.
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What percentage of people in these countries are on chloroquine at any given point? 1%?
Also, chloroquine isn’t widely used in Africa AFAIK. The malaria strains there are highly resistant.
Map seems bunk.
I dunno - if we do nothing killing 2 million people in the US (many dying because there is no hospital care) is a lot. Not to mention what it would do to our front-line healthcare workers. You’d basically have to wall off hospitals and let people in by lottery or something. Everyone else goes to the dying hotel.
We didn’t believe the initial bullshit Trump and we don’t believe the “nobody knew about it” bullshit.
Yeah it could just be hot weather. Or maybe there’s something there with bug bites or treatment or who knows. Or not.
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Morgan Freeman: When it was all over, the captains of industry did not, in fact, rethink global supply chains.
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Can someone ask if he’s missed any tanning bed sessions due to the pandemic. Meh. Looks like we know the answer.
Fuck them all. If I was a district attorney somewhere, I’d be charging a lot of these motherfuckers. Like full stop I don’t even care if it’s legal to charge them, I don’t care if I can make it stick, I don’t care if I win the case, I don’t care if I lose my job over it, I don’t care if I get disbarred. If you can indict a ham sandwich, you can indict these motherfuckers. Indictment = major news headlines. Republican Senator Indicted for Manslaughter and Reckless Endangerment in Coronavirus Coverup!
Surely just a coincidence and incompetence though, right @anon10396289? The GOP would never risk American lives by covering up the severity of the novel coronavirus!
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Things like this sound good, but also crazy extreme unless you’re only talking about leases/mortgages held by government entities. Can the federal government just unilaterally cancel contracts between two private entities? I’m now officially in “this is worse than 2008” mode, because it’s roughly the same magnitude financial crisis, now strapped to a huge public health issue.
Not that it resolves the question of the government’s authority, but I’m not advocating the cancelation of these contracts. I’m saying pause them for six months and we’ll pick up later where we left off.
Although things may be as bad or worse in six months, so I dunno.
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Sorry, I was just extrapolating the idea of pausing to cancelling. It seems like if the government can come up with a reason to pause those contracts, that same reason could likely be applied to cancel any contract.
I bet if you sneak in his house and read his financial statements he can.
I want to kick that guy in the balls from six feet away. That letter is gobbledygook nonsense.
That french contraption still too far?
I hope Morgan Freeman stocked up and locked down to avoid coronavirus. He’s 82 and there’s going to be a lot of narrating to be done over the next 12-18 months.
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Holy cow. He’s stuck on “there’s never been anything like this” today.