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Did anybody just hear the POTUS reference packed churches on Easter. Seems like he's aiming for Easter Sunday so that congregations can occur. Not tele-congregations, but packed churches... :koko:
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2,400 NYC officers, or 7%, called out sick yesterday.
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My AZ street. Not a human in sight. I stood in the driveway and watched for a few minutes. No one appeared (sometimes there's a dog walker). One car drove by.
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Some people think that having faith is stupid, but I find it necessary. But it's easy for me to say that. For the millions of paycheck-to-paycheckers out there who will also be joining me in the unemployment lines, their fear is orders of magnitude more real. |
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But I have to say to everyone here, whether you loathe or love the President, or whether you loathe or love that Lt. Governor guy in Texas who talked about the elderly sacrificing for the economy—real people are getting utterly throttled by this quarantine right now. There is nothing wrong with having the discussion about at what point it is worth it. Whole industries are about to collapse and millions of small businesses are weeks away (or sooner) from being completely wiped out of existence. Yes. This matters—a lot. I was irritated by Illinois Gov Pritzker today—who is otherwise doing a great job—who brushed it aside as an economy that is “slowing down” but otherwise dismissed those concerns to adopt a tone of “We must stay the course till the end because that is what public health experts are telling me”. Fine, we don’t want people to die. Nobody does. But he is personally sitting on a $2.5 billion family fortune so he seemed just a wee bit out of touch when he said that. This is only going to get worse economically. I’m sure there are at least a sizable number of people out there who’d rather just plain die than go bankrupt. Another question is, if this stay at home order drags on for weeks and months, whether an increasingly agitated public decides to flagrantly disobey such orders en masse. At this point we have no idea what can happen, this is such uncharted territory for America today in 2020. |
Pence is saying New York metro area has 60% of all new cases in the whole country and that people are leaving en masse. This is insane.
It was just some days ago I think somebody was posting on here that street activity and life was normal. It made me think maybe they were bypassing the crisis. How wrong I was. |
First COVID-19 death of someone under 18 in Los Angeles County...
From Yahoo News: L.A. County reports first death of a coronavirus patient under 18 as cases top 660 Link: https://news.yahoo.com/california-co...141504592.html |
NYC related;
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Usually you get a feel of what cars tend to be common in ones neighborhood, and I've been seeing an increasing amount of NY plates. And this was before Saturday nights lock down. Even just riding the bike for exercise, some of those NY plates are popping up. Good thing Florida is requiring self-quarantined for certain state visitors. |
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Which sucks, because this means that the NY Metro pretty much is in for the long-run, unless this can be curtailed. IDK how the heck they are going to prioritize who gets to reopen and who remains in lock down and how they are going to keep the spread at bay with domestic travel, but we shall see. I think we will probally see state to state restrictions (some open, some closed) which is going to make the whole thing confusing. |
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Do we ever get to a point where a state closes its borders? Would a state actually set up police and shut down an Interstate and check to see where drivers are going and why they are entering a state? |
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Some leaders don't have the brains to grasp this, but until every stat is WAY down, any reduced effort will bring a big wave of new infections. I mean way fewer known infecteds, which is a vague indicator of unknown infecteds. Another point: The death rate will rise substantially if patient beds, ventilators, etc., run out, and we have to start picking who gets saved. We can't let this get much bigger. I suspect the responsible states will get flattening or declining curves soon. But anyone without a decent governor is heading for a disaster. And the responsible states will suffer along with them. |
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A little too late, Upstate has almost a thousand cases already. |
Working age people are getting slammed here.
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I think part of the reason the percentage of infected youth seems to be higher here in the US is that, along with many young people simply being flippant and careless and not taking this seriously enough, many more of them in this country still have to work to make ends meet due to the lack of adequate social safety nets in this country.
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At what point do we stop staying home? 2 weeks? 2 months? When?
At some point we have to realize we are doing more damage destroying people's lives than we are doing good. And don't give me the "we have to save lives!" line. Of course, we do, but we also have over 30,000 people die a year from car wrecks. Are we doing everything possible to limit those deaths? NO. We are not. We still have fast roads. Why? Because the economy would be so fucked if the speed limit nationwide went to like 10 mph. We need some hard data from South Korea to find out who exactly is the most at risk(we can guess, but yeah we need facts) and then after two weeks of lockdown the rest of us go back to our lives and the at-risk population stays inside. EDIT: No, I don't think what we are doing now is stupid or unwarranted. I just want some hope. I have no heard one word from a credible source on when we can go back to normal. Just estimates...from people I don't trust(Trump or my friend on Facebook). |
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