No: everyone is free to decide how useful a conversation is to themselves. “Useful” in this context is entirely subjective. If someone doesn’t feel a conversation is useful, they are free to not participate in it.
It’s relevant when people say that 150k dead is not a big deal, per capita. If this were a war, this death rate would be shocking
They always are/were.
18,444,642 total cases
697,189 dead
11,675,539 recovered
In the US:
4,862,174 total cases
158,929 dead
2,446,798 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I admit that I’m having a hard time believing that the numbers from the US and from Brazil are at all accurate these past few days.
You sure you’re not forgetting about the weekend effect?
I noticed yesterday that there were only 467 more U.S. deaths than the day before, and there were only 564 more deaths today than yesterday. If those numbers are to be believed, the death rate has slowed significantly, right?
That’s the weekend effect I mentioned in the post above yours. Go look at the graph of US daily deaths at Worldometers.com. Notice that 2 days out of every 7 (or 3 out of 7 when it’s a 3-day weekend) are lower than the other 5 (or 4). Those two days are Sundays and Mondays (and Tuesdays). Some people involved in reporting deaths in various jurisdictions are off weekends and no one else does the job then. The decrease shows up a day later because it takes a bit of time for the numbers to get to web pages that are harvested by Worldometers. The same effect happens in Brazil and probably other countries.
Yes, I made my statement accounting for the so-called weekend effect.
Here’s some news:
That article has some descriptions of outbreaks that did not need to happen.
And also expressions of selfishness:
No; that is your decision, Miss Fritz. It’s a selfish, myopic, uncaring decision, too. You’re an asshole.
And because of you and people like you, the US will have over 5,000,000 confirmed cases in the next two days.
Because of you and people like you, over 160,000 of your fellow Americans are dead.
Asshole.
Cats, dogs and minks are all susceptible to the coronavirus:
There were some stories about using dogs to sniff out coronavirus. I guess that’s not going to work out if the dogs are susceptible to infection. But even if dogs couldn’t get infected, it seems like a bad idea to introduce lots of virus to a new animal since there’s always a chance the virus will mutate in the animal’s body.
We’ll all send her the appropriate thoughts and prayers.
There are four coronaviruses that cause colds. Apparently the spikes on those are close enough to SARS-CoV-2 that the human immune system (specifically memory T-cells) reacts to the latter if it’s been exposed to the former. This seems to explain why many people get mild or no symptoms. They’ve probably had a cold caused by a coronavirus in the past few years.
Personally, I rarely get colds. I never thought there’d be a disadvantage to that.
This quote is great:
“The bride has said that when she shows her children her wedding video, she doesn’t want it to be a documentary of the 2020 pandemic.”
And when the kids say they wish they had known grandma and grandpa, she can just tell them that they don’t talk about that.
18,702,737 total cases
704,365 dead
11,917,247 recovered
In the US:
4,918,420 total cases
160,290 dead
2,481,680 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
This just grinds me down even further about religion.
"…As recently as Monday morning, the website of Calvary Chapel of Honolulu had a link to a document that appeared to serve as a waiver form for mask wearing, saying individuals can be exempt from donning a face covering because ‘wearing a face mask is far more hazardous than the threat of coronavirus.’
The document was meant to appear like an official government message, complete with a seal from the Department of Justice."
“It also cited the Americans with Disabilities Act, saying masks are dangerous because they impede breathing and collect bacteria ― claims which experts say are just not true.”
This group is a branch from a larger organization in California.
Using official seals on bogus documents is a Federal offense. Same as those individual cards claiming exemption from masks.
This doesn’t seem like good development:
Why no interest?
IIRC the wait to get a test done was even longer in Arizona recently , like 8-10 hours. And now they’re waiting up to 26 days for test results.
It’s sad and messed up to think that many of those people didn’t change their minds about getting tested just because they had better things to do on a Saturday morning. Most people are sick as a dog when they try to get tested. If you are sick as a dog, you’re aren’t going to feel like doing anything, let alone sitting in a parking lot for two hours.
My parents were sick as a dog when they stood in line (not in a car, but literally standing in a line) for almost an hour in the Georgia heat. My father’s primary COVID symptom was diarrhea. So yeah, I’m not surprised that people are noping out of getting tested. (I’m relieved my parents were infected with COVID before they stood in that line. Because they would have surely been infected standing out there with all those sick people.)
There is no denying the coolness factor of fully regaled ‘plague doctors’ but they didn’t really show up until after the worst of it. Cite
That doesn’t seem too outrageous. Why would I wait two hours to get tested if I have no symptoms?