Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

I still stand by my previous assertion that mass transit is making this far worse.

.@jessemckinley my friend is a healthcare worker and sent me this photo of the 4 train this AM. What is being done to prevent this sort of overcrowding by @NYGovCuomo @NYCMayor? pic.twitter.com/jBsDOMNBEx

— Blake Christy (@BlakeChristy2) March 27, 2020

I don’t know how to solve it.

[rufus]

He’s just letting his true self out before he sacrifices himself for the Dow.

He’s also a dick in the tv thread. I think joe is really coming alive and showing his truest colors with Donnie letting people die. He’s a Christian after all

Joe is not a young man. He's worried and maybe a bit scared that his few remaining years may end up being even fewer because of the raging incompetence and negligence of the guy he supported.

You can understand his need to lash out.

[dxmnkd316]

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Yeah I like following Andy for information. He’s doing more work than Seema.

Yeah, I wasn’t knocking him in the slightest. Even if this was premature, it won’t be soon. We need people to understand the consequences and Andy seems to be the only person doing anything who isn’t on a leash (**** you jared).

That he’s getting through to governors offices is great. We need this kind of leadership.

[rufus]

I expect it to get worse with NH having SIP

Not shelter in place. Just recommended to stay home. All non-essential businesses shuttered.

You can still go for walks and such, but recommended that trips out only be for essentials like food and medicines.

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

People confuse me. The number of people who want to just let everyone get this is still incredibly high- we even see many on this board.

But at the same time, the news from places where the healthcare system is totally overwhelmed is pretty stark. Do the people who want to spread it to everyone not see that or deny that it's true?? Or do they think that letting the system deal with it is ok? Or do they just accept that a large amount of people will die, and we should just accept that?

I just don't understand some people.

Because they are either incapable of understanding (they’re very stupid) or they’re deplorables (or whatever word is worse than that)

[rufus]

On the "dying" part of your post...people will die. A lot of people. I hate that this is a fact, but I have accepted it. Do I want that? Hell no. But I cannot really change that fact, and you can't either. It sucks.

Yep. Can't do nothing about it.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Joe is not a young man. He's worried and maybe a bit scared that his few remaining years may end up being even fewer because of the raging incompetence and negligence of the guy he supported.

You can understand his need to lash out.

Didn’t he say the other day he supports putting the olds back to work now?

[Kepler]

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US Deaths:

3/01      0
3/02      5
3/03      3
3/04      2
3/05      1
3/06      3
3/07      4
3/08      3
3/09      4
3/10      4
3/11      8
3/12      3
3/13      8
3/14      8
3/15     11
3/16     18
3/17     23
3/18     41
3/19     57
3/20     49
3/21     46
3/22    117
3/23    140
3/24    225
3/25    247
3/26    268

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Plenty of tickets still available! Republicans - come one, come all!

It’s a BUFFET??!?!? ���������� https://t.co/Qs3sIvJqQw

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 27, 2020

[mookie1995]

Plenty of tickets still available! Republicans - come one, come all!

It’s a BUFFET??!?!? ���������� https://t.co/Qs3sIvJqQw

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 27, 2020

Prepay required?
No cash refunds??

[SJHovey]

Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!

People confuse me. The number of people who want to just let everyone get this is still incredibly high- we even see many on this board.

But at the same time, the news from places where the healthcare system is totally overwhelmed is pretty stark. Do the people who want to spread it to everyone not see that or deny that it's true?? Or do they think that letting the system deal with it is ok? Or do they just accept that a large amount of people will die, and we should just accept that?

I just don't understand some people.

I can't speak for everyone, but I will speak for myself.

First, I tend to believe that the number of people who get this will be similar whether we undertake mitigation or not. Mitigation simply affects the timing of when they get it, and as has been pointed out, that may have a significant impact on healthcare for those people.

I don't think I'm alone in this regard. Even Governor Walz, with all of his charts that he used during Wednesday's speech, seemed to indicate that between 2 and 2.5 million people in Minnesota will get this disease whether we stay at home or not, and all he's trying to do is affect the timing.

Now, as many of you know, I tend to disagree with the estimates that 50-70% of us will get infected, either now or delayed due to mitigation. But that's simply my own personal skepticism. Right now we're all just guessing, and I'm guessing a lower number than people like Walz. I'm not even sure we'll ever find out who was right. But whatever that number is, I think it's going to occur with or without mitigation, the only question is how much can we slow it or spread it out.

I also think a number of people will die from it, and the number could be substantial. Does that mean I'm happy about it? Of course not. I think people will die of cancer, will die of heart disease, etc... Those are simple facts and I accept them. That doesn't mean I'm happy about them or that we should just "let them happen." But I acknowledge them as a fact of life.

I have also stated that if 50,000 or 100,000 or even, heaven forbid, a million people die from this virus, it is not end times. People die. We should try to prevent it if we can, but we're all ending up in the same place.

[Kepler]

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I can't speak for everyone, but I will speak for myself.

First, I tend to believe that the number of people who get this will be similar whether we undertake mitigation or not. Mitigation simply affects the timing of when they get it, and as has been pointed out, that may have a significant impact on healthcare for those people.

The timing is everything, that's the whole point.

The area of these two functions is the same, but with blue you get far fewer deaths:



That's why you bring the hammer. You stretch out the period of infection as far as you can so that the max burdening never overwhelms the system.

[ScoobyDoo]

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It's all about the curve. We did everything wrong up till now to flatten the curve. Thus, yes, more people are going to die.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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It's fine to accept there will be deaths, but it's wrong to say nothing could've been done. Many of those deaths may have been preventable with a quicker and broader federal response.

[ScoobyDoo]

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It's fine to accept there will be deaths, but it's wrong to deny that many of those deaths may have been preventable with a quicker and broader federal response.

Just imagine if we had had policies and procedures in place to deal with this AND we had kicked all the protocols in as soon as it was discovered in China. The impact would have been so much less.