Covid-19

[DA SWO]

It's a somewhat increasing sentiment thrown around on facebook/twitter about all of these protests against the stay at home orders.

You should be free to go out and live a normal life if you think COVID is a hoax/you "aren't the demographic that gets it"/you feel your freedoms are being violated; you just shouldn't get to benefit from the healthcare system if you're actively flaunting the system.

But let's keep Narcaning junkies or flooding emergency rooms with non-emergency patients.
Let's deny seeds, but allow abortions.
Mom and pop stores need to close, but big box stores get to stay open.
Look at Iceland and Sweden to see how heard mentality worked.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I'm not sure Corona Stuntin is same as Shouting Fire in a crowded room. But I'm gonna guess that is their justification for the house call.

 

[Cookie_]

But let's keep Narcaning junkies or flooding emergency rooms with non-emergency patients.
Let's deny seeds, but allow abortions.
Mom and pop stores need to close, but big box stores get to stay open.
Look at Iceland and Sweden to see how heard mentality worked.

To clarify; that's not a sentiment I share personally, I was just sharing it in response to a question.

As for Sweden, it might be to early to use it as an example.

In Iceland, Aggressive, widespread testing replaced social distancing.

If there is anything we can start to extrapolate from the worldwide response to this, it is that social distancing does help (overall), but the strictness of it should be more due to the population density of an area and the infection rate.

NYC/metro may need to keep it's current level of social lockdown, but Watertown probably doesn't.

 

[ThunderHorse]

To clarify; that's not a sentiment I share personally, I was just sharing it in response to a question.

As for Sweden, it might be to early to use it as an example.

In Iceland, Aggressive, widespread testing replaced social distancing.

If there is anything we can start to extrapolate from the worldwide response to this, it is that social distancing does help (overall), but the strictness of it should be more due to the population density of an area and the infection rate.

NYC/metro may need to keep it's current level of social lockdown, but Watertown probably doesn't.

I'm still struggling to see how it's funny. Or should be taken as such given that we have governors telling their citizens that their rights are not "essential".

 

[Gordus]

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"...The sheriff, the school system and the teen would all be better off if the sheriff’s office apologized for the heavy-handed treatment—and admit that Amyiah Cohoon’s Instagram posts were free speech protected by the First Amendment."

That is the very least they should do for such mishandling.

 

[Marauder06]

Nurses on the Frontline of COVID-19: Read This Before You Call Us Heroes

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"I’m beginning to relate to war veterans who squirm uncomfortably when thanked for their service. Not only because I’m married to one, but because I’m getting a glimpse of what it’s like to be called a hero just for showing up to work."

 

[Cookie_]

I'm still struggling to see how it's funny. Or should be taken as such given that we have governors telling their citizens that their rights are not "essential".

Funny in a haha sense?

No.

Funny in a (broad strokes here) "the people currently protesting are the type of people who supported police crackdowns of Standing Rock/anything BLM for not following the rules" and "the people who think the protesters should be arrested now are the type of people who abhor police using dispersion tactics on crowds"?

It gets a chuckle from me for how many excuses people make to justify doing something if its "for the right cause", when that cause is always something they support.

ETA: I still dont support the people calling for the protesters to be arrested. They have every right to be out there

 

[ThunderHorse]

Recidivism...you don't say!

Inmates committing crimes after coronavirus release ‘unconscionable’: de Blasio

 

[Dame]

Recidivism...you don't say!

Inmates committing crimes after coronavirus release ‘unconscionable’: de Blasio

I swear I thought this was going to be an Onion story.

 

[CQB]

Interesting read.

Beijing still has a way to go in battle for power — United States Studies Centre

 

[Salt USMC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1251571068885585920

 

[R.Caerbannog]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1251571068885585920

Not trying to sound like a dick, but you gotta realize the majority of Americans (including the middle class) live foot to mouth. Lower and middle America were hit hard when manufacturing left for Chicom shores and the 'service sector' that replaced those jobs are now considered non-essential.

Debt driven economies are real... and it ain't just us. To quote POTUS, "The cure can't be worse than the disease.".

 

[CQB]

...I think you mean hand to mouth bro.

 

[AWP]

the majority of Americans (including the middle class) live foot to mouth.

"Hand to mouth," maybe? There's your foot in your mouth or hand, foot, and mouth disease, but foot to mouth?

 

[CQB]

A judan mawashi geri, that really is foot in mouth.

 

[R.Caerbannog]

"Hand to mouth," maybe? There's your foot in your mouth or hand, foot, and mouth disease, but foot to mouth?

...I think you mean hand to mouth bro. ✌

Whoops... awww well, you got me. I'll be honest, American/English idioms and colloquialisms aren't my forte. Figured the (non-existent) idiomatic 'foot to mouth' root had something to do with babies chewing on their feet. Now I'm curious as to where the hand thing fits in... off to google I go!

 

[Dame]

Whoops... awww well, you got me. I'll be honest, American/English idioms and colloquialisms aren't my forte. Figured the (non-existent) idiomatic 'foot to mouth' root had something to do with babies chewing on their feet. Now I'm curious as to where the hand thing fits in... off to google I go!

Living hand to mouth refers to having zero resources. The moment you are paid or given any usable goods (hand), it goes straight toward food to stay alive (mouth).

ETA: Why the hell does that baby have a gold hoop in its ear? Pirate parents?

 

[Blizzard]

Did someone say hand, foot, and mouth disease? There was an outbreak at a course I staffed several years ago. I never got it but that shit's nasty; highly contagious. No, thanks.

 

[ThunderHorse]

In regards to the Anne Frank Tweet/Meme. Sharing it. Same with that idiotic permission slip. Have some empathy. It's not even funny.

ETA: Coronavirus infections could be much more widespread than believed, California study suggests

Two papers on preliminary results from studies have been published. Neither studies have been completed, but they are churning out data. The Stanford Study on Santa Clara County and the USC Study on LA County. The article goes into why the Santa Clara study may have skewed data to one demographic. Yet both studies preliminary data are showing that this is significantly more contageous and that people are out there with anti-bodies walking around. This drives down the actual death rate of the virus significantly.

Then let's go back to why we're seeing all of the cases in certain urban areas.

NYC, and the Tri-State Area. Philadelphia. Boston? Cities that rely heavily on their subway systems and people live stacked upon each other. There are papers out there discussing how it is very difficult to contract the virus if you're outside. A lot of the community spread is definitely happening in the packed public transit areas in New York.

ETA2: Demographics Data on those dying from COVID-19 in Massachusetts Who is dying from the coronavirus in Massachusetts? State officials release new data.

ETA3: U.N. warns economic downturn could kill hundreds of thousands of children in 2020

More children will die because of the poverty caused by this virus. The poverty caused was voluntary btw, we didn't have to respond this way.

 

[Marauder06]

Everything I Needed to Know About COVID19, I Learned in Kindergarten



“Wisdom from the mouth of babes.” In trying to absorb all of the (mis)information being thrown my way about the Chinese coronavirus/novel coronavirus/COVID19/whatever we’re calling it these days, I’m reminded of Robert Fulghum’s seminal work, “All I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten.” In the spirit of that storied tome, here are a few things that any kindergartner could tell you, that might still apply to us today: