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maskless: yesterday, today, tomorrow
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everybody loves a map!
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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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. |
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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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The period might well get extended, but we can't all stay indoors for ever until it disappears completely/sufficiently/we have a reliable vaccine...... Some of us are unemployed right now so don't have an employer who will pay them to stay at home. Some work in jobs where their employer will go out of business if forced to pay them when they are not working. Those people will not be able to buy food, pay pills, might lose their houses and cars, AND THEIR HEALTHCARE (if they have any) There is a limit to the extent to which even the most community-minded can "take one for the team".
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maskless: yesterday, today, tomorrow
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mole hills & mountains
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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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.
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
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The UK now goes the opposite direction, and keeps the schools open, in order to make sure that a good number of people are infected.
The theory is that they can manage the rate of infection this way, and quarantine once needed; get their health system to 95% capacity for a long while; as opposed to having a quarantine period now, only to have the infection rate rise quickly again once the period is over, or if it's seasonal. This way, they'll get to herd immunity faster, once (someone figured) 60% of the population is immune. It's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them. |
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Read? I only know how to write.
Join Date: Jan 2001
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We learn from our mistakes. Each nation is currently performing an experiment. And we are the monkeys. Ironically, even the Cellar monkey has better protection. But does he wash his hands? In a virtual world, does he care? |
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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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She's washing them right now. Hence the weird expression -mentally singing the chorus to Toto's Africa. And wondering why in the fuck everyone assumes she's male.
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#204 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Quarantine, isolation, no human contact, barbed wire(electrified), and a moat.
But what comes into your home every day? Air, light, water, and Mail. Election year pumps the junk mail numbers, plus I'll bet the mail order catalogs will bump some too.
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It's like, there's no point in repossessing a car that you can't sell because all the car auctions have been shut down, you know? The debt will rack up, and I doubt very many creditors will be outright forgiving anything, but putting people out on the street is exactly what they won't want to do. |
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
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But how will we pay for it?
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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#207 |
The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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"Just went to Seattle’s UW Medical Center to ask how much patients are being charged for a coronavirus test. $100-$500 if they have insurance. $1,600 if they don’t."
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Japan has had their first reinfection.
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Read? I only know how to write.
Join Date: Jan 2001
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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. |
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