Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Really heartwarming and beautiful: Italians facing the quarantine are making music with each other, singing and playing tambourines from their balconies and windows!

Heh... There's traditional Italian classics, and then there's Italians singing "Bitch Better Have My Money" by Rihanna...

https://twitter.com/FENTYGEMlNl/stat...209098752?s=19

[tw]

The scumbag president suddenly (without any planning or warning) decided to separate immigrant kids from their parents. Without any means of reuniting them. And without any facilities to safely warehouse those kids.

The scumbag president suddenly (and without any planning or warning) decided to warehouse incoming airline passengers in tiny rooms awaiting medical checks. Without any means of protecting them from the one who might be Covid-19 contagious. In tiny rooms and hallways where all waiting arrivals are tightly together. Could not ask for a better way to spread a contagious virus.

That happens when 85% of all problems are traceable to a man with a 30 second attention span.

[Griff]

Please move this to politics

[sexobon]

The Corona Crooners release their debut album "Quarantine."

[Luce]

Spain follows Italy into national lockdown.

https://apnews.com/1dde718068517f188b3fa65a7edcbf86

[henry quirk]

222,000 flu cases and 22,000 flu deaths, in the US, so far.

1,864 carona cases and 41 deaths, in the US, so far.

🤔

[henry quirk]

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashb...23467b48e9ecf6

[Luce]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

222,000 flu cases and 22,000 flu deaths, in the US, so far.

1,864 carona cases and 41 deaths, in the US, so far.

🤔

Well, it's a good thing we're not at the bottom of the upward curve or anything.

So everything is fine, so long as we remember that "so far" it's not much.

[Griff]

It will be interesting to see how or if herd immunity works out in the UK.

RE: perspective
I'll be taking a law school grads perspective on science with a grain of salt. If I need someone to own college liberals she'll be high on my list. If I want an alternative angle on the science I'd prefer to read an article from a scientist with an opposing view.

[henry quirk]

meh

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

1,864 carona cases and 41 deaths, in the US, so far.

That was the Friday number, the Monday number is

3,487 cases and 68 deaths

Hopefully our stay-home efforts will keep this number from doubling about every four days like that, since at that rate it would take 36 days to match the flu total and 40 days to double it, and let's just end the speculation at that point so we don't all freak out

I think the doubling is every six days around here?

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

That was the Friday number, the Monday number is

3,487 cases and 68 deaths

End of Monday: 4100/72

I think the "cases" number rises faster due to public understanding and test availability

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by henry_quirk

222,000 flu cases and 22,000 flu deaths, in the US, so far.

1,864 carona cases and 41 deaths, in the US, so far.

22,000 flu deaths this season, which starts back in August/September. Meaning roughly 3,667 deaths per month.

Italy (which, by a number of expert estimations, is the situation we're headed for) just hit 250 coronavirus deaths per day, AKA roughly 7,500 deaths per month--assuming the rate doesn't go higher, which it is expected to do. That's on top of the 3,667 flu deaths per month that the hospital system is already dealing with.

It's not a question of how bad it is now, it's a question of how bad all the numbers indicate it's going to get. Once it gets bad, it's already too late.

[henry quirk]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

It's not a question of how bad it is now, it's a question of how bad all the numbers indicate it's going to get. Once it gets bad, it's already too late.

we shall see... 😐

[Griff]

Visual tracker of cases.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-us-cases.html

Schools are closed now. Some districts are feeding kids. I'm waiting for word from the county health departments on my gig.