Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2020/09/05/in-a-crisis-you-want-someone-to-have-your-back.html

[Tripon]

"Only 1 out of 3 in the Dutch speaking portion of Belgium support the [social distancing] measures, that's down from 80% at one point."

Even the dutch diaspora has that dutch directness.

[VomKriege]

Not sure the Dutch are eager to claim the Vlamingen as their own.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1303055713053401089

This man basically blinks: "We're all going to die" 

We're now at an average of 700 new cases a day, used to be 500 a day.
Summer vacation is now over for most people.

[shosta]

India is consistently hitting 1000 deaths a day now.

[team filler]

we're saved 

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://mobile.twitter.com/FriedsonAndrew/status/1302591878957862912

https://m.

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/1302990107150938113

[team filler]

fucking black? 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/business/status/1303201416593453056

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/business/status/1303201416593453056

keep teeepo safe at all costs 

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1303005587949510665

[Nintex]

I would be more worried about people trusting the media less than Donald Trump 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/09/students-spend-first-day-back-decorating-body-bags-for-grandparents/

[Madrun Badrun]

Canada has 1600 new cases today.  It's most certainly due to the long weekend, but still oof.  We have only had one other day with over 1000 cases since the end of May and that was recently too. 

[EchoRin]

This is what happens when no Canadian team is left in the Stanley Cup playoffs again.

[team filler]

canada is a basketball country tho 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/church-leader-coronavirus-gay-marriage-a4542366.html

[james]

China cases all time total: 85,144

India cases today and only today: 89,852

 


(India is not on the US travel ban list, China is)

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1303484780965580801

[Transhuman]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/church-leader-coronavirus-gay-marriage-a4542366.html

The Catholic Church is petitioning the Australian government to boycott the Oxford vaccine because it uses cell lines developed with the aid of stem cell research. It's pretty funny that they think they have the will of the people on their side, especially in Australia which is one of the most atheistic countries in the world.

[team filler]

they killed off all the spiritual people 

[Madrun Badrun]

Sounds good when you put it like that.

[team filler]

they could have at least invented something cool like basketball to make up for it. the best the could do was luc longley 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://abc7.com/halloween-2020-coronavirus-covid-19-los-angeles/6414973/

Halloween banned!  What next Xmas? Xmas is already at war - it can't fight on two fronts.

[Madrun Badrun]

For Canada's 1600 number.  BC and Alberta reported 4 days worth of cases and Ontario 2. So it was actually 608, which still is not good.

[Madrun Badrun]

[Oblivion]

so we're not gonna talk about how trump admitted he knew the 'rona was a serious thing back in february but continued to  lie about it 

[Mandark]

And said this when he knew he was being recorded, to a guy famous for writing about behind-the-scenes political gossip.

I bet Woodward's surprised he's getting all this pushback for holding on to that info for over half a year. This is how he always does business and he never had to justify it before.

[Nintex]

The weirdest part is that Trump confirmed it and said it was to prevent panic and fear mongering

[stufte]

What could possibly possess Trump to think talking to Bob Woodward and letting him record it would be good for him

Narcissism.

[EchoRin]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/coronavirus-almost-20percent-of-cases-in-past-month-stem-from-controversial-motorcycle-rally-research-claims/ar-BB18QKMx

I don't really know what to make of this article. Is the study somewhat hokey? Or are South Dakota officials being defensive about Sturgis and potential Covid cases caused by it?

[VomKriege]

What could possibly possess Trump to think talking to Bob Woodward and letting him record it would be good for him

Narcissism.

Putting on an entertaining show. Trump seems the "all publicity is good publicity" type. Served him well enough during his mandate and the media doesn't know how not to play into it.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-noem-south-dakota-coronavirus-relief-funds-tourism/

[Madrun Badrun]

https://apnews.com/4ee025ba6c4c19c024ce384503f23ef3

South Carolina 3rd grade teacher, 28, dies from COVID-19

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.reddit.com/r/UofT/comments/iq73np/guess_ill_die_then/

lol

[stufte]

https://www.reddit.com/r/UofT/comments/iq73np/guess_ill_die_then/

lol

lol oops.

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1303829629904416769

 

[shosta]

Sometimes I read shit like that and I just have the irresistible urge to blow my fucking brains out

[james]

Sometimes I read shit like that and I just have the irresistible urge to blow my fucking brains out

Shosty are you getting my pms?

[Akala]

if anything at least these tapes should kill off the 'it's just a flu' talking point right? right?

[Oblivion]

[Nintex]

*and then played golf

[ToxicAdam]

The governors did and then Trump reluctantly gave it lip service for about 2 weeks.

[Mandark]

It's contained -> cases are going to go to zero -> not as bad as the flu and we don't shut down for that -> we'll open back up on Easter -> LIBERATE VIRGINIA!

Not sure if the early weeks of coronavirus feel really distant or like we never escaped them.

[james]

It's contained -> cases are going to go to zero -> not as bad as the flu and we don't shut down for that -> we'll open back up on Easter -> LIBERATE VIRGINIA!

Not sure if the early weeks of coronavirus feel really distant or like we never escaped them.

If it makes you feel better, India is at +96,760 today

[Cauliflower Of Love]

he probably told them behind closed doors at that meeting with all the governors bet!

and now he's all "i knew it all along"

[Madrun Badrun]

My Indian friends are all pretty worried about family they have back home. 

[VomKriege]

What could possibly possess Trump to think talking to Bob Woodward and letting him record it would be good for him

Narcissism.

Putting on an entertaining show. Trump seems the "all publicity is good publicity" type. Served him well enough during his mandate and the media doesn't know how not to play into it.

The reason appears to be that he was so mad about Woodward's first book that he swore to be directly involved if Woodward were to do another book, believing he would be able to shape the narrative into a far more positive book. Despite EVERYONE on his team telling him this was a bad idea and multiple staff members and aides publicly saying so at the time and since.

But the ratings. The ratings were great, the best you'd ever see.
And in a way, he's not wrong.

I'm hopeful it's counterproductive for the general election, but on the other hand it probably plays into his irreductible support among his base and it may have irremediably have damaged any political discussion that needs more than a day to be conducted.

[Leadbelly]

Coronavirus: France sets daily record with almost 10,000 new cases

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54111209

[VomKriege]

Coronavirus: France sets daily record with almost 10,000 new cases

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54111209

Not to go all Trump but part of it is probably because the testing is getting a lot more intense. Purely anecdotal but from my own direct experience, there's a lot more demand for it (during lockdown tests were allocated, you couldn't get one because you felt like it so to speak) and the capacity ramped up. There's lines at 7am to get tested at a lab I pass in front of to work.

As I imagined, the number of detected cases booming back up but without the same casualties is maybe a result of :
- More asymptomatic people being tested.
- Less vulnerable demographics affected.
- Better hospital and medical protocols and triage even without a medication to help.
But no definitive certainties.

Entries in hospitals and ICUs trending up again is bad though, no way around that.

Crowds in public transport are back to almost normal levels in Paris. There's people in bars and restaurants, even if more sparse. A lot of workers are back in the office. Masks and some half assed distancing guidelines probably help, but not to the extent of keeping that curve flat.

[Mandark]

https://www.gouvernement.fr/info-coronavirus/carte-et-donnees

Positivity rate has gone up as well, from about 1% to 5%. Looks like it's real, but not yet close to what happened in Florida, Arizona, etc.

[Madrun Badrun]

[Nintex]

What could possibly possess Trump to think talking to Bob Woodward and letting him record it would be good for him

Narcissism.

Putting on an entertaining show. Trump seems the "all publicity is good publicity" type. Served him well enough during his mandate and the media doesn't know how not to play into it.

The reason appears to be that he was so mad about Woodward's first book that he swore to be directly involved if Woodward were to do another book, believing he would be able to shape the narrative into a far more positive book. Despite EVERYONE on his team telling him this was a bad idea and multiple staff members and aides publicly saying so at the time and since.

But the ratings. The ratings were great, the best you'd ever see.
And in a way, he's not wrong.

I'm hopeful it's counterproductive for the general election, but on the other hand it probably plays into his irreductible support among his base and it may have irremediably have damaged any political discussion that needs more than a day to be conducted.

What Trump does better than any other politician is to guide the narrative.
This is one of those things, where he just flat-out admits something any other politician would deny, throwing the media in a tailspin and shifting the focus to Woodward for not warning everyone the President is a lunatic and west wing gossip.

Biden is losing grip on this, while before he successfully distanced himself from the circus.
All recent Biden interviews have basically started and ended with him responding to Trump's policies or Trump's actions.

If ~200k COVID-19 deaths (whether or not you agree if Trump is solely to blame) isn't enough to frame the race, I don't know what is 

[VomKriege]

The absurdity that this country is going to spend all day talking about and mourning the deaths of 3000 people 19 years ago while this country has been experiencing a 9/11 death scale event basically every 2-3 days for the past 6 months straight and there has been no national mourning and the president's response is "it is what it is"

That's what the viruses want, you can't let them win

[ToxicAdam]

The absurdity that this country is going to spend all day talking about and mourning the deaths of 3000 people 19 years ago while this country has been experiencing a 9/11 death scale event basically every 2-3 days for the past 6 months straight and there has been no national mourning and the president's response is "it is what it is"

Yea, but 9/11 killed a bunch of wealthy New Yorkers. Real Americans. Covid is mostly killing old people and minorities.

[Madrun Badrun]

Ontario numbers 

2% test positivity rate for people under 30 is not good.

[Madrun Badrun]

Going to start hoarding food and toilet paper again

[BIONIC]

Hoard Switch games instead.

[Great Rumbler]

Going to start hoarding food and toilet paper again