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

[JF_Gophers]

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We should send all cases to Florida.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Too bad GPL thread was locked because this won’t go along with the right wing narrative re brix and numbers. Hopefully most who read that junk know it’s junk

“ White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Monday warned that up to 200,000 people in the U.S. could die from the coronavirus outbreak if "we do things almost perfectly." Birx stressed that the Trump administration remains "very worried" about every city in the United States and the possibility that the virus could get "out of control."

"If we do things together well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 fatalities. We don’t even want to see that."

 

[Handyman]

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It is reopened...

 

[Kepler]

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So I’m starting to see the memes on Facebook feeds that Cuomo is sending prisoners with the virus upstate to areas that don’t have a lot of reported cases, thus accusing him of knowingly spreading the disease

I assume he is using Hillary's pedophile underground pizza railroad?

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Actually, if done correctly, this would sound more like those Emergency Broadcast System beeps. <a href="https://t.co/zGpKlmH0vF">https://t.co/zGpKlmH0vF</a></p>— George Conway (@gtconway3d) <a href="https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1244660175119802368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Handyman]

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Worldmeter updates: (JH is behind)

152k cases in the US.
2817 deaths.

JHU has over 63k cases in New York.

 

[Kepler]

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I'm even hearing complaints up here, where winter lasts until mid May, about the summer people from Chicago & Detroit jamming up the lake roads and grocery stores.

There was a story on the Beeb this morning like this. Putin declared a "week without work" in a national address last week. He meant it as a way of saying "stay inside." Instead, the resorts in the Black Sea are packed as everybody took it as a vacation. The national press keeps reporting coronavirus is a foreign disease with no presence in Russia so the government got caught by its own lie. They had interviews with restaurant owners in Moscow who are using the week to build out their patios preparing for a big Summer. When the interviewer asked them if they were afraid of closings due to the disease they told him that was crazy because there was no disease in Russia.

The Moscow mayor instituted SIP because their own propaganda was going to get everybody in the city killed. It's like watching a country run by Fox.

 

[Kepler]

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This really was China's Chernobyl.

Scarred by the SARS epidemic that erupted in 2002, China had created an infectious disease reporting system that officials said was world-class: fast, thorough and, just as important, immune from meddling.

Hospitals could input patients’ details into a computer and instantly notify government health authorities in Beijing, where officers are trained to spot and smother contagious outbreaks before they spread.

It didn’t work.

After doctors in Wuhan began treating clusters of patients stricken with a mysterious pneumonia in December, the reporting was supposed to have been automatic. Instead, hospitals deferred to local health officials who, over a political aversion to sharing bad news, withheld information about cases from the national reporting system — keeping Beijing in the dark and delaying the response.

The central health authorities first learned about the outbreak not from the reporting system but after unknown whistle-blowers leaked two internal documents online.

Even after Beijing got involved, local officials set narrow criteria for confirming cases, leaving out information that could have provided clues that the virus was spreading among humans.

Hospitals were ordered to count only patients with a known connection to the source of the outbreak, the seafood market. Doctors also had to have their cases confirmed by bureaucrats before they were reported to higher-ups.

This is what happens when science is beholden to authoritarian political structures. Exactly the problem Dump and the GOP brought here.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I'm sure God will get right on that.

In all seriousness, it would not surprise me if infection/death rates and religiosity directly correlate by the end of this. How many dense, large clusters of people are still forming besides religious observance? Hospitalization itself. Mass transit. Anything else?

I posted about this earlier

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

This really was China's Chernobyl.



This is what happens when science is beholden to authoritarian political structures. Exactly the problem Dump and the GOP brought here.

My city posted a nice, sensible post about social distancing and how group sports need to stop in the park.

Cue the libertarian brigade. One guy commented “thanks hitler” and then another follows with #killallgovernment

 

[aparch]

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Saw a fun meme circling Facebook today:

If the GOP are so concerned with fetuses being people, why do pregnant women not get an extra $500 on their stimulus check?

 

[Kepler]

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Saw a fun meme circling Facebook today:

If the GOP are so concerned with fetuses being people, why do pregnant women not get an extra $500 on their stimulus check?

Christ don't give them any ideas.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Catching a deadly virus to own the libs. <a href="https://t.co/1BfkuKC9kb">https://t.co/1BfkuKC9kb</a></p>— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1244686550564311042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[St. Clown]

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My buddy's wife went to the clinic to get tested, here's her story [I added a couple bits for clarity, otherwise [sic]]:

So last Tuesday night I started feeling really fatigued and noticed a slight sore throat and a tickle in my throat. My chest felt tight and heavy. I had been experiencing a sick stomach for a few days and had a headache that just didn’t want to go away. I developed a cough in the night that only seemed to get worse. By morning my cough was persistent. A very annoying dry cough. I started wheezing as well. I called in to my doctors office and scheduled a 10:30 phone screen. At which time they scheduled a 2:30 appointment appointment with respiratory clinic in Plymouth [MN]. We arrived at the appointment to medical staff in full protective gear where I was handed a mask. My hubby was told he could not come in. Temp check, BP check and respiratory screen. Less than 15 minutes and I was told I had symptoms consistent with COVID-19 but that testing was not available to confirm. I was prescribed steroids and inhaler every 4 hours and tylenol every 4 hours for fever. I’ve also been instructed to stop taking my immune suppressant therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis - my shots to keep my body from attacking my joints. I have no energy, constant headache, I hurt, my cough comes and goes as my inhaler wears off as does my fever. I feel worse today than last week! My [younger] son and hubby have started showing symptoms as well as my daughter and older son. My daughter stayed at my house last weekend. She lives with my oldest son and his family! To constantly feel this way almost brings me to tears. I am trying to distract myself. I have binge watched so much tv. It works for a while and then it hits me a bit harder. I feel horrible! This is no joke! I have no idea where I came into contact. I’ve been to the grocery store! Stay inside. Keep you and your family safe! The #’s being reported are NO where accurate!

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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My buddy's wife went to the clinic to get tested, here's her story [I added a couple bits for clarity, otherwise [sic]]:

So, we still can't test people even if they have it. Fan****ingtastic.

 

[St. Clown]

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So, we still can't test people even if they have it. Fan****ingtastic.

Not until we have the supplies.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Not until we have the supplies.

Be nice if they stopped lying to people.

 

[rufus]

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Not until we have the supplies.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-pence-coronavirus-tests

Pence, who leads the administration’s coronavirus task force, said on March 10 that “over a million tests have been distributed,” with another 4 million to be distributed by that week’s end.

Three days later, President Donald Trump promised from the Rose Garden that 1.4 million tests would be distributed early in the week of March 16, and that a full 5 million tests will be available before the end of the month.

“I cannot explain the gap,” Trump said, referring to the discrepancy between tests distributed and those conducted, during another briefing a week later. “I’m hearing very good things on the ground.”

The White House, when reached Monday, also did not offer an explanation. Neither a spokesperson for Pence nor the HHS responded to requests for comment.

 

[mookie1995]

Be nice if they stopped lying to people.

Lie back. Tell them you play in the nba

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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There was a story on the Beeb this morning like this. Putin declared a "week without work" in a national address last week. He meant it as a way of saying "stay inside." Instead, the resorts in the Black Sea are packed as everybody took it as a vacation. The national press keeps reporting coronavirus is a foreign disease with no presence in Russia so the government got caught by its own lie. They had interviews with restaurant owners in Moscow who are using the week to build out their patios preparing for a big Summer. When the interviewer asked them if they were afraid of closings due to the disease they told him that was crazy because there was no disease in Russia.

The Moscow mayor instituted SIP because their own propaganda was going to get everybody in the city killed. It's like watching a country run by Fox.

And none of it will matter, because the recent changes to Russia's constitution will ensure Poots remains in power for the rest of his life.