Maybe there is some sort of GTO politics that a leftist can do that requires an attitude similar to having no regard for the value of money and chasing EV, subject to bankroll considerations, that helps in playing poker.
Thanks. I’m sure Johns Hopkins is collecting the best information they can. I just don’t think anywhere in the U.S. is doing a good job of tracking recovered cases, especially for non-hospitalized cases.
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I really don’t understand what people think a dem president would have done differently. The dems in power now still don’t seem to grasp how serious of a problem this is.
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This is dumb and ignorant.
The medical supply issue would be much different.
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I agree but non-hospitalized ‘recoveries’ aren’t really top of the required stats to deal with this. No other country is reporting non-hospitalized recoveries.
If you use 1 in 7 tested positive ends up in hospital, that will give you your non-hospitalized recoveries. Sure they’ll be more untested to add to those numbers.
How many non-hospitalized recoveries were recorded during Vietnam War for example? I suspect they were too busy to count / care.
this is fine
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Fish on a heater? End of downswong?
Jerome Powell, the head of America’s central bank said in a rare TV appearance that the US “may well be in recession” and warned that the virus would dictate when it was safe to reopen the economy.
And this number – as big as it is - doesn’t reflect the full picture. Many people, from the self employed to gig workers to independent contractors, don’t qualify.
Plus given the scale of the jobs crisis, there are reports of people having problems making a claim due to websites that keep crashing from too much traffic and phone lines that are jammed.
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Variance: variance
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A dem president wouldn’t have fired the whole CDC staff and would have actually listened to their recommendations. Of course you’d be way better off, look to Canada which is in turmoil too, but nowhere near the US despite having had earlier cases of it than the US did. I mean we had it contained from travelers that came from China in Ontario until a bunch of people returned from the US with it.
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In optimistic news, we had another grocery pickup today and did manage to get chicken, apples, milk, bananas, and tortillas. Still no flour. I remain cautiously optimistic that the underlying supply chains are still working for now.
The ER stories that I’m reading about are fucking terrifying, though.
Superbob?
Appeal launched to ‘save’ beer in Czech Republic
Some coronavirus news from the land that gave you lager.
An appeal has been launched in the Czech Republic to “save” the equivalent of 1,305,552 pints of craft beer that will go off “within weeks” if it is not drunk.
The beer is languishing undrunk in barrels in 32 craft breweries across the country. All pubs and restaurants are closed to the public (they can serve through hatches) but customers can buy direct from breweries.
Pale lager as we know it was invented in the Czech city of Pilsen in 1842. The Czech Republic has the highest per capita beer consumption in the world.
If you’re in the Czech Republic and think you can help, see: https://zachranpivo.cz/
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The NY Times has created a 5 1/2 minute video documenting a 72 hour period inside a NYC emergency room.
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Kinda sorta the same situation the CR is (was?) in. Right now, we have prisoners sewing masks and the government permitted habadasheries to open in order to do the same.
Most of our excess medical supplies have been imported from China. A massive amount came in just recently but who knows how long they’ll last? Obviously, China’s making a killing due to basically producing everything needed to protect oneself from a pandemic.
It should be kept in mind that countries like Denmark and Sweden have changed their testing policies to only test health care workers and people who are showing two or more symptoms of CV rather than just anybody who asks which explains the curve. Czech Republic will probably start jumping up as their testing capacity has doubled over the last two days.
Also that curve for the US, if you can call it that, looks horrifying.
From the video: Elmhurst hospital was out of ventilators. They got a shipment of five additional ventilators, which the nurse interviewed estimated would be fully occupied within a day or two.
The head of the NY Public Hospitals denies that Elmhurst was ever close to being short on ventilators.
Literally every public official, from the top down, is lying about this. This is soviet level shit.
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https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1242896385269100544
https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1242904136275951617
so, nesting squarely in the overlap of the “very cool” and “horrifying” circles
Fauci’s basking in his new found fame.
Also probably using this since Trump isn’t allowing him to talk as much.
yeah, see my edit