Today's death toll keeps going up. 1800+ so far and it's only 2:45 PM in CA. We will probably pass Spain in a day or two, and move past Italy by the end of the week.
4/7/2020 5:47:36 PM
4/7/2020 6:09:43 PM
HO LEE FOOK. :sad:https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/04/07/report-wuhan-funeral-homes-burned-people-alive/
4/7/2020 7:21:39 PM
4/7/2020 7:44:56 PM
4/7/2020 7:56:56 PM
Obviously, every death is heartbreaking up close, but keep in mind that a death is a resolved case and resolved cases represent relieved pressure on the healthcare system. The national peak should occur on April 15th, according to the Murray model which would indicated we saw peak cases last week. It was supposed to be this week which is why this realization also coincides with with a lowering of the total death estimates from 100k to ~80k. This also coincides with fever data which has been on the decline nationwide and is probably correlated with the amount of people who are contagious even though most are asymptomatic. All of these indicators have been on the decline together.
4/7/2020 8:55:31 PM
Vanity Fair: Meet the Ignorant Cranks Behind Trump’s Big Hydroxychloroquine Push.https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/donald-trump-hydroxychloroquine-push
4/7/2020 9:20:34 PM
Only 12 new wake county cases today
4/7/2020 9:30:01 PM
Ya I was making fun of our prez. It's going to be a horrific week. I feel so bad for the South and their failed leadership
4/7/2020 10:32:00 PM
4/7/2020 11:41:07 PM
4/8/2020 1:49:52 AM
^Yep. A coworker used that as his Zoom background yesterday and then after reading that terrible (although somewhat questionable) news I just put them both together.
4/8/2020 9:31:54 AM
^ I hope that news is true. CCP is truly evil, but that's just too much, and I don't think they would do that.I haven't been to HO LEE FOOK yet... I should go eat there and take a selfie with the restaurant sign in the background
4/8/2020 11:52:11 AM
That article is from Breitbart and its source is a literal propaganda outlethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
4/8/2020 12:24:53 PM
^^ whoops, messed up really bad:
4/8/2020 12:40:52 PM
I'm rather skeptical but thought I'd share. That is just fucking tragic if true.
4/8/2020 2:19:52 PM
Italy 17,669Spain 14,673USA 14,240France 10,869UK 7,097Iran 3,993China 3,333Netherlands 2,248Belgium 2,240Germany 2,192
4/8/2020 2:43:42 PM
4/8/2020 3:12:41 PM
Comparing total US numbers to individual states is nonsense because we have more than 5 times as many people as those countries. The EU has ~50,000 deaths. OK some will argue its not fair either so how about we just take the hot spots and combine them to a European sized country?New York + New Jersey + Washington + California = ~70+ million people and ~7500 deathsThats a subset of the earliest hot spots in the US with a more comparable but still higher population than all four of these European countries. France ~11,000 deathsItaly ~17,000 deathsSpain ~15,000 deathsUK ~7,000 deaths
4/8/2020 3:18:28 PM
Is there any context to which you’d accept a critique of the federal governments response without defaulting to death count comparisons? This is the huge disconnect. The fatalities-per-capita will almost assuredly be lower in the US than in Italy and/or Spain. No one is really arguing against that.But it’s completely besides the point when critiquing leaders. Personally, I think Newsom, DeWine and Inslee have been the standard bearers. Cuomo has been wonderfully transparent but he gave too much leeway to NYC early on.Trump, de Blasio and Kemp have been absolutely abysmal. From flouting misinformation and straight up lying to giving the public assurances that they knew were not safe. Just brutally bad.The death-ped-capita numbers will be useful two years from now when we are confident in our estimates but the reality is lives almost definitively could and would have been saved if we made better decisions at the federal level in particular but also meaningfully are the state and local levels.[Edited on April 8, 2020 at 3:44 PM. Reason : X]
4/8/2020 3:43:21 PM
^^ Germany ~2,000 deaths (pop 84M)S. Korea ~200 deaths (pop 51M)Australia ~50 deaths (pop 25M)Obviously the per capita death rates for the countries above are far far less than the rate for the group of US states you presented.[Edited on April 8, 2020 at 3:48 PM. Reason : ]
4/8/2020 3:47:51 PM
^,^^ thats all completely true. My problem is with whats being implied. Sure, there are leaders who handle it well and leaders who blunder but this notion that if we had any other leader, that our results would be like South Korea, Germany or Australia and not like the UK and France or worse is pretty ridiculous. Look at any other situation. With many different leaders, our government has mishandled healthcare, mass shootings, natural disasters, and public safety in general much worse than all of the countries on the list so the idea that any other particular leader would have singlehandedly allowed us stand out amongst the shining stars of the world is preposterous. Its pure american exceptionalismHow can you assume our response to COVID-19 would have suddenly been the outlier?
4/8/2020 5:46:47 PM
SadCoronavirus crisis could plunge half a billion people into poverty: Oxfamhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-poverty/coronavirus-crisis-could-plunge-half-a-billion-people-into-poverty-oxfam-idUSKCN21R0E7
4/9/2020 8:15:27 AM
4/9/2020 8:37:50 AM
We are really lucky Easter is as late as it is and not 2-3 weeks ago, churches would have been packed, and we wouldn’t have done the right thing across the nation.[Edited on April 9, 2020 at 1:37 PM. Reason : .]
4/9/2020 1:36:45 PM
Kansan Republicans would like to have a word with you.-]
4/9/2020 2:15:52 PM
Latest model has us at 60,000 total deaths with peak deaths in 3 days.
4/9/2020 4:40:27 PM
https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/executive-order-puts-new-regulations-in-place-for-grocery-stores-other-businesses/19049858/
4/9/2020 6:15:58 PM
4/9/2020 7:44:33 PM
https://www.facebook.com/Rapzilla/videos/251507015891564/?vh=e&d=n
4/10/2020 1:08:58 AM
4/10/2020 1:15:09 PM
So, basically, assholes. The world would be better off without assholes.
4/10/2020 3:07:30 PM
If you got rid of hardcore christian Trump supporters, the nation would still be mostly assholes.
4/10/2020 3:11:11 PM
Latest conspiracy theory I saw posted somewhere:Elites fighting desperately against Global Slave Revolthttps://benjaminfulford.net/2020/04/13/elites-fighting-desperately-against-global-slave-revoltDamn, HTF do people come up with this?
4/14/2020 12:54:12 AM
4/14/2020 1:57:06 AM
Lol, what is even happening?
4/14/2020 7:55:57 AM
^ there is no way that dude believes anything he is writing, right???did you see the pic of Hitler with his granddaughter Angela Merkel?
4/14/2020 8:10:09 AM
Why would you spread that shit? What possible value is gained by sharing?
4/14/2020 9:31:15 AM
^ this
4/14/2020 9:59:19 AM
Love me some adrenochrome. Shit's delicious.
4/14/2020 10:22:51 AM
fuckin opie
4/14/2020 11:31:42 AM
UK PM is the biggest victim survivor of this pandemic so far.
4/14/2020 11:33:13 AM
nah, it's Kip Wilson.
4/14/2020 12:17:44 PM
Good write-up by BBC WH correspondent on Trump's meltdown and shit-show from today:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-52276004
4/14/2020 12:18:16 PM
Today?? Maybe that's why you're always so late, you're living 20 hours in the past. Is it 8 pm yesterday where you are?
4/14/2020 12:29:51 PM
Treetwista got me looking up shit on Kenneth Copeland now. Damn that guy is STRAIGHT UP EVIL
4/14/2020 1:19:57 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
4/14/2020 2:57:04 PM
^^ Did you see the video of him telling people to keep on tithing, by email, text, whatever, even if they lose their jobs?His looks evil. He is evil personified.
4/14/2020 3:09:18 PM
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1250150112602406912?s=21Thoughts? You can argue Newsom has been as good as any governor wrt response to COVID-19. This is a laundry list of items we aren’t anywhere close to being able to implement.Reads more like a wishlist than checklist.
4/14/2020 4:39:52 PM
the list keeps getting longer and longer. They conveniently didn't mention most of this in March. Distancing in childcare is damn near impossible. Sounds like an excuse to keep us locked up indefinitely.
4/14/2020 4:55:53 PM