I don’t know what your hard ons are like, but mine are nothing like this.
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Article from June 2018:
https://twitter.com/MikeGrunwald/status/1244642949524316160?s=20
The Villages is America’s largest retirement community, a carefully planned, meticulously groomed dreamscape of gated subdivisions, wall-to-wall golf courses, adult-only pools and old-fashioned town squares. It’s advertised as “Florida’s friendliest hometown,” and it’s supposed to evoke a bygone era of traditional values when Americans knew their neighbors, respected their elders and followed the rules. It has the highest concentration of military veterans of any metropolitan area without a military base. It has strict regulations enforcing the uniformity of homes (no second stories, no bright colors, no modern flourishes) as well as the people living in them (no families with children, except to visit). And it is Trump country, a reliably Republican, vocally patriotic, almost entirely white enclave that gave the president nearly 70 percent of the vote.
Older voters are America’s most reliable voters, which is why baby-boomer boomtowns like The Villages represent the most significant threat to a potential Democratic wave in Florida in 2018—and the most significant source of Republican optimism for many years to come. Because while the Villages may look like the past, with its retro architecture and gray-haired demographics, it sells like the future. This master-planned paradise an hour northwest of Disney World has been the fastest-growing metro area in the United States in four of the past five years. And as the baby boom generation continues to retire, The Villages is continuing to expand into nearby cattle pastures, luring more pensioners to this fantasyland in the sunshine, gradually swinging America’s largest swing state to the right.
I really really really really hope the outbreak doesn’t reach there.
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No clue but it can’t be better than being upwind.
3 confirmed cases now where I live. Not liking the outlook now that officials are describing one case as “more people involved” and that the other cases “story’s a bit simpler in terms of what they were doing and where they were at various points in time”. Apparently a 20 something travelled to USA two weeks ago by car and contracted the virus. Doesn’t sound like there was self isolation. 
I keep thinking about what would have happened wo the Positive test on Rudy Gobert. Another week of sports and concerts. How much worse would it be, how many different areas would be hitting the critical point?
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yea it’s a good thing the NBA pulled the plug fast too and other leagues followed.
My friend’s boss had his assistant message her this morning letting her know that he expects her to be in the office this week. He’s a lawyer, of course. Fucking asshole. There is no reason for her to be in the office, she can work from home just fine (she only does research and writing). On top of that she has a couple health issues that may put her at greater risk if she catches COVID. These fucking assholes that completely lack empathy or any sense of human decency need to catch this virus.
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It’s a rare thing for me to be ashamed of where I came from. And yet, here I am. Fuck you, AFA…no more alumni association donations, no more cheering for your teams, nada. I’ve watched that place go downhill over the past 20 years, and this is just the icing on the shit cake. Every other academy has sent everyone home, and let me tell you from experience, March on the front range of the Rockies at 7000 ft is a shitty place to be.
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Czech Republic is ranked 16th in the EU in number of cases per million and 7th in number of tests given.
That’s about as good the news gets here. Another person died, lockdown was extended to April 11th and for some reason, way fewer tests were processed yesterday than the day before. I guess labs close early on Sunday?
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Like I think we’ve discussed before, it’s possible for an intelligent person to deep dive some obscure area of medicine and get correct answers that individual doctors couldn’t come up with in a clinical setting. For people with no training in medicine, it almost certainly has to be a top-down empirical approach. On the other hand, this asshole is claiming to be a theoretician and is challenging the combined expertise of several fields collectively which is quite remarkable. Predictably like sailors, the great libertarian minds (lulz) always seem to get lured by the siren’s song of first principles and deductive reasoning.
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What could possibly go wrong??
https://twitter.com/balazscseko/status/1244612142831198209?s=20
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Where are you seeing the EU figures? I’d be interested to see where Ireland is. Our govt had promised 15000 tests a day but we’ve not managed it. Supposedly we’re doing 5000+ per day for population of 5 million.
Holy shit.
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I used idnes.cz which is a Czech news site. Let me see if I can find their source
I am sorry to hear that. A terrible loss.
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A few days ago there was a news article linked to a study of an Italian village that showed deaths where much higher than official numbers. Does anybody have a link to that? I can’t find it with my rudimentary searching skills.
Italy, Spain, France and UK have all come out and they will shortly add ‘those that didn’t die in hospital’ numbers to their stats - so there’s that! Added soon will include nursing homes and those that have died at home.
Not added yet as all need to be confirmed to have died from COVID-19 and that takes time - especially when the coroners are a little busy now.
Expect the US to add in these deaths sometime never (probably still awaiting the test results back ;) )
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