At least it didn’t call anyone “retarded.” 
Teenage boy whose death was linked to COVID-19 turned away from urgent care for not having insurance
Lancaster is in the Antelope Valley, at the western end of the Mojave Desert. It is in Los Angeles County. I used to live there.
I got linked to this University of Washington institution’s projection site for hospital resources: COVID-19
Their home state actually doesn’t fare TOO badly on a relative scale, which surprised me a bit considering how they were an early hot spot.
New York, on the other hand… man, they need help.
I know from the recent large bush fires in Aus, that expired masks have perished elastic bands. If they are carefully stored, and are only just past their expiry date, they may be OK. If they are old, they are worthless.
NPR Station Stops Airing Trump Coronavirus Briefings For ‘False Information’
Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
The other MSM need to get on board with this. But they shouldn’t stop running them all together. They should tape them, then run them edited down to snippets or sound bites with a fact check immediately provided. Or even better, run a recording of the briefing, then pause the screen while someone appears in another window with facts, video, charts, whatever is necessary to show what was fact and what was a lie. Then proceed, bite by bite, until the whole buffet of lies is consumed, chewed up, and spit out. Then let nature take its course. We have the technology.
Trump just signed the $2 trillion stimulus/relief bill into law.
Trying to keep up; this might’ve already posted somewhere.
From Canada:
John Strupat, a retired respiratory therapist, designed a pandemic ventilator that he’s open sourced online.
Today in Austria:
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[li] Der Standard reports on a Viennese professor who, in the middle of February, set sail on his own craft from France, bound for Turkey. Once the coronavirus crisis hit, he tried to cut his trip short, but no European country would let him dock in their ports, nor even drop anchor in sight of land. Now he and his small crew are stranded in the Mediterranean. They’re not yet worried as they still have four weeks of provisions, and say that they have the best quarantine in the world. But if they’re not able to make landfall in four weeks, they will get in touch with the Austrian authorities to arrange a rescue. (I’m not exactly sure how the Austrian government will manage this as the country’s saltwater navy was disbanded a hundred years ago.)[/li]
[li] The interior minister has announced that Austria is shutting its borders to all asylum seekers who do not possess a health certificate showing that they are free of the virus. Of course, even non-refugees in neighbouring countries can’t get tested on demand, so this new measure de facto excludes all refugees from Austria for the time being.[/li]
[li] Austria has some rather strict blue laws. In general, this means that all retail stores, including supermarkets, must remain closed on Sunday. However, since the self-isolation measures were enacted, supermarkets’ home delivery services have been overloaded; anyone who tries to order food online will find delivery slots fully booked for over a week in advance. So today the government has relaxed the rules, allowing supermarkets to work on Sundays, but only for the purposes of home delivery.[/li]
[li] Today there’s yet another massive (17 km) traffic jam at the Austrian–Hungarian border, this time for trucks carrying goods eastwards. This is because Romania has recently imposed health checks at the Hungarian–Romanian border, leading to a huge backup of traffic on the Hungarian side. In order to prevent it from getting any longer, the Hungarian authorities are slowing the entry of further vehicles from Austria.[/li]
[li] Staying on the topic of the Austrian–Hungarian border, which until now had remained open only for the transport of goods and for cross-border workers, the Austrian government has now imposed a mandatory 14-day quarantine on incoming cross-border workers, making cross-border work impractical. This has effectively cut by 20% the entire state of Burgendland’s workforce, who cross over each day from neighbouring Hungary. Burgenland’s prime minister has called on the federal governments of Austria and Hungary to urgently revisit this issue.[/li]
[li] As of today at 17:00, self-employed people could apply for government aid (up to €6000 within a three-month period) via the Chamber of Commerce website. 130 people have been enlisted to process an expected 100,000 applications over the weekend.[/li]
[li] In an effort to stop the spread of the virus via debit card terminals, the payment limit for using your contactless debit card without entering your PIN has been raised from €25 to €50.[/li]
[li] Current statistics: 7688 confirmed infections, 58 dead, 9 recovered. 170,800 people have registered as unemployed since 15 March. This represents a spike in the unemployment rate from 4.6% to 6.5%.[/li]
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psychonaut, your posts are excellent. Difficult and sometimes heartbreaking news, but I’m very grateful for how succinctly you manage to convey so much information.
I feel as if I have a very good tho condensed view of what’s going on in Austria because of your posts; thank you.
Yes but he’s overriding an important part of it.
JUST IN: Trump signing statement on coronavirus bill says he’ll override a provision requiring the newly created inspector general to report to Congress any time agencies refuse to give him/her requested info.
From here: x.com
I’m not sure he has the power to do that.
Who’s going to stop him?
Certainly not the Democrats.
Right now, the “hot spots” in my city, Toorak, Prahran, Malvern, are the wealthy suburbs containing people who had money and opportunity to take winter holidays (skiing) in northern-hemisphere countries like the USA and Switzerland.
I feel guilty about saying it. but HA I say. HA.
(Melb.vic.au. Compared to other countries, ‘warmish spots’)
Fox business news canned the woman who said the virus was a hoax to bring down Trump
We’re seeing something like that in the USA, too, with the ‘spring breakers’—young people financially secure enough to buy air travel and hotels and meals and so on. The working-poor youth really weren’t a part of it.
(But everyone is going to have a fairly equal chance to get infected by the returning spring breakers.)
ABC News tonight said that 500 NYPD officers have tested positive, and 3000 others are self-quarantined.
Public health information is decentralized here, and there’s a free press - sucks for him.
The bodies are going to start piling up. Not even midnight and we’re at 430 deaths today and climbing - rapidly. We’re headed for 1000 COVID-19 deaths nightly. Cities like New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Atlanta or going to look like Milan and Wuhan. We’ve not seen the worst of it. It’ll be quite the sight to see Trump goofing off in front of a camera with juvenile pot shots at Mitt Romney and Jay Inslee while convoys are carting off truck loads of coffins that will be taken to funerals without mourners. It’s going to be a shock event.
That being said I’m hardly rubbing my hands with glee. This is a defining moment in American history. The first major pandemic in 100 years, and the first one to be monitored by mass media live in real-time. This will be as shocking as Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and images of hundreds of dead servicemen coming into the living room each night in 1968, and it could be all of these rolled up into one. It’s not just dead Americans; it’s dead Americans by the hundreds - at home. It’s not just one part of the country; it’s everywhere. If you’re an optimist, it’s an event that could either give us a newfound moment of clarity and perhaps some unity. If you’re a pessimist, then it’s the beginning of a national unraveling. If you’re a realist: you accept either outcome.
597,267 confirmed infections
27,365 dead
133,363 recovered
In the US:
104,205 confirmed infections
1,701 dead
2,525 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
On 24 March, the US lost 225 people. On 25 March we lost 247. Yesterday we lost 268. Today the US lost 401 people. Tomorrow may see 500 deaths.