politico has very good testing tracking and visualizations. Michigan is scary.
That tracks perfectly with how Trump’s life has gone.
As before, if he opens up the whole country I’m hoping for a miracle that the virus burns itself out and Trump is hailed as a hero for his foresight and guidance through this.
I’m willing to accept that for less sickness and death.
It doesn’t matter what the body count is, if the media doesn’t force feed images of dying and dead people (instead of airing a 2 hour Trump rally every day), people won’t care even a little bit.
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Yea and it’s all Detroit. Detroit is fucked royally. And I can’t imagine they will be able to respond as well as NY.
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1243331459978493953?s=19
Yes, I posted the same thought earlier on another forum. People can mindlessly gloss over numbers of dead very easily.
Seeing pictures of old people (and young people) dying needless and horrible deaths is the only way this crisis will have significant societal impacts.
In addition to a general exponential growth curve, I have a feeling that the stats are going to look particularly bad over the next few days. We’re coming up on 14 days since the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day + the point where a number of cities started going into lockdown mode and I have a feeling that a bunch of people might have decided to go full YOLO right before the lockdowns began simply because they wanted to have a last hurrah before their favorite bar closed or they wanted to go to one last concert…
I feel like that’s true within certain limits. I couldn’t put numbers on those limits, or guess whether covid is deadly enough to breach them. But assuming a sufficiently deadly virus/whatever, I don’t think the hegemonic Dem-Rep consensus is all-encompassing enough to prevent real outcry and organised opposition.
Holy fuck those numbers. Like 10 states at 500+ a day
Had the same trend in the Czech Republic post-lockdown. It’s bumping up here due to increased testing now.
“We have been actively transferring COVID-19 patients within our system to other Beaumont hospitals, as appropriate, if one hospital has more capacity than another. However, across our system, we are facing limitations and nearing capacity with our staffing, personal protective equipment and mechanical ventilators,” Beaumont Health Chief Operating Officer Carolyn Wilson said. “We are taking steps to increase our capacity, such as converting some of our operating rooms into intensive care units.”
It is really hard to overstate how irresponsible it is for the media to continue airing the propaganda rallies. Media executives are complicit in the carnage.
Send cameras to hospitals. Find the relatives of dead people and tell their stories. Nah, that’s too hard and requires actual work. May as well just air 2 hours of propaganda. God forbid you ask a real fucking question.
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Looks like it’s time to get back to work to me!
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Dallas Country asking for the national guard to set up mobile hospitals and refrigerated trailers (for you know what)
What a time to be a funeral home director. Geez.
Just a nightmare in America.
TIL small nostrils do not stop C19
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The testing rate has increased significantly in a bunch of states over the past several days. I’m curious to see what happens over the next 5 to 7 days.
Pretty much the same here in the good 'ol USA. No news is good news amirite?
News from my little corner of LA, we went from 12 cases yesterday to 23 today: