Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Leadbelly]

What the hell is going on with Shosta?

[Madrun Badrun]

Madness.  It will come to us all.

[Pissy F Benny]

Spooky shosta

[toku]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

it's troubling but also feel kinda crazy because the only ppl worried are super nerds and tech heads like us =/

I think it's awesome and not troubling.

 

[BisMarckie]

The German state that got hit the hardest during the pandemic wants to open up its schools on Monday. I can’t help but think that it’s a political move by their PM who is tanking in approval ratings, but desperately wants to take Merkel‘s throne.

[Nintex]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/

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Ok. Not sure why this needs an article, but this coming across my Facebook feed from feminist democrats is such an "Eva Green popping her eyes out" reaction image.

So basically women have put a halt to the entire world economy and caused a massive spike in unemployment and government debt to save 0.1% of the 80 year olds? 

[Madrun Badrun]

[thisismyusername]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/

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Ok. Not sure why this needs an article, but this coming across my Facebook feed from feminist democrats is such an "Eva Green popping her eyes out" reaction image.

So basically women have put a halt to the entire world economy and caused a massive spike in unemployment and government debt to save 0.1% of the 80 year olds? 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/

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Ok. Not sure why this needs an article, but this coming across my Facebook feed from feminist democrats is such an "Eva Green popping her eyes out" reaction image.

That's great and all, but do you notice that we are expected to hold two contradictory ideas in our head?

- Men and women are exactly the same.
- Men and women are different.

It usually goes something like this: Men and women are exactly the same, except when women are portrayed as somehow better. In that case we're different.

It's Navel Gazing bullshit made for "who run the world? women!!!" folks.

it's troubling but also feel kinda crazy because the only ppl worried are super nerds and tech heads like us =/

I guess I'd fit into the super nerd segment, but I'm not too worried about it. Folks will still encrypt (or not). The privacy invasion battle was already lost years ago (Me telling Occam or whoever that Chrome/Android/etc. mines already</aside>) so folks getting paranoid that their "local encrypted" or whatever shit may be criminalized just need to take a breather. Same with location data: That could always be turned off (but Google still mined via the phone telephony).

The major issue is that the governments never regulated the tech companies from getting all this sort of data (Facebook, notable with the Cambridge scandal) to where the Government is now "hmm, maybe mining this data is good/useful" which is the truly WTF moment because the tech companies shouldn't have been getting this sort of shit in the first place to where the NSA/etc. is the ones that should've been doing the leg work/mining instead of the companies themselves.

(But this totally off topic from the virus only than being tangentially related. Could be it's own thread)

As far as the countries reporting their stats: I wouldn't trust ANY countries stats, but that's being tin-foil conspiracy nuttery paranoid.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jc_bradbury/status/1250094421766479873

[Uncle]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

same, but if you actually read google's disclosure on the data they are more clear about what it is and it's a little less alarming than it first sounds

it only tracks people who have turned location data on, which is off by default (but IIRC they try to get you to turn it on by extolling the benefits)

and the data is also seeded with some noise so no individual can be tracked or exposed, it's for demonstrating broad travel data only

but yes it's not very far to the slippery slope of "well this would be way more useful if we forced location data on for everyone"

[OnlyRegret]

Stats trend down for two days, you again think things have peaked and bam, things shoot back up.
Looking to be a real bad day for the States.

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1250075795701334019

Real death cult hours

I'm still surprised Florida hasn't fallen to shit.

[Lonewulfeus]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1250075795701334019

Real death cult hours

I'm still surprised Florida hasn't fallen to shit.

It already had.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1250145350490427397

[Madrun Badrun]

Massively bad day for Canada.  Going to be bad for the US too. 

[Rufus]

The German state that got hit the hardest during the pandemic wants to open up its schools on Monday. I can’t help but think that it’s a political move by their PM who is tanking in approval ratings, but desperately wants to take Merkel‘s throne.

Laschet can get fuuucked. Hope it blows up in his face.

[VomKriege]

Massively bad day for Canada.  Going to be bad for the US too.

Weekend backlog always hits hard. Has been fairly consistent for most countries. UK daily deaths not as bad as I feared but it's been documented there's a fierce administrative lag there, moreso than elsewhere ?

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1250145350490427397

Excuse me, that’s 25,000 recovered from coronavirus 

https://mobile.twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1250121883409940482

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1250145350490427397

Excuse me, that’s 25,000 recovered from coronavirus 

100% cured of Corona for sure, not catching it twice.

Massively bad day for Canada.  Going to be bad for the US too.

Think previous 1-day max is already broken for the USA as well at this moment.

[Madrun Badrun]

[bluemax]

Really don't feel good about the location history tracking Google opened up to gov'ts and the public, and also not a fan of this Apple/Google collaboration to strip more digital rights away.

Scary shit.

This is 9/11 and the Patriot Act all over again. COVID panic might be the tool gov'ts need to finally ban encryption and be applauded for that decision by the electorate.

same, but if you actually read google's disclosure on the data they are more clear about what it is and it's a little less alarming than it first sounds

it only tracks people who have turned location data on, which is off by default (but IIRC they try to get you to turn it on by extolling the benefits)

and the data is also seeded with some noise so no individual can be tracked or exposed, it's for demonstrating broad travel data only

but yes it's not very far to the slippery slope of "well this would be way more useful if we forced location data on for everyone"

They're also pushing this out in such a way at it doesn't even require an OS update or an opt in download.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/CFIB/status/1250128513195290629
SME = small and medium enterprise
CFIB = Canadian Federation Of Independent Business
22% have have lost all revenue
33% have lost 51% to 99%

[Flannel Boy]

Royal LePage is delusional:



Six million (out of a workforce of 16ish million) have applied for EI or CERB (which requires zero income at the moment), but don't worry home prices will be basically flat.

[Nintex]

The G9 or G7 or G8 of whatever it is now basically dropped a Czar bomba on their economies.

You need a lot of optimism, booze and brrrrrrr for this one but unemployment is already skyrocketing.

[Pennywise]

The German state that got hit the hardest during the pandemic wants to open up its schools on Monday. I can’t help but think that it’s a political move by their PM who is tanking in approval ratings, but desperately wants to take Merkel‘s throne.

Laschet can get fuuucked. Hope it blows up in his face.

Honestly think it would be great if we could let those people write their finals. But considering the numbers, it just seems like a bad idea to open it for everyone, even if it's gonna be in waves.

Only thing worse than Laschet is Söder gaining traction. The good thing is that Merz had rona and basically cant do shit while others like Söder, Spahn and Laschet are able to present themselves.

[Coffee Dog]

Left the house as little as possible the past few weeks. Had to run to the convenience store to grab something to make dinner (groceries arent showing up till tomorrow).

On the entire drive there and back, despite there being plenty of people out and about, i saw a single (1) other person even bothering wearing a mask. Grim shit.. people are really living in a bubble out here.

[Akala]

pending buxxx 

[CatsCatsCats]

Still ain’t got my buxx

[tiesto]

Went out today food shopping, I only had a scarf to wrap my face in... but thankfully the stores were pretty empty (immediately after work seems like a good time to go) and most of the people there were wearing masks. Still a bit freaked out since my latex glove ripped 

[ToxicAdam]

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1250222429047324672?


This is in spite of unprecedented WW effort to slow it down and poor testing capabilities.

[bluemax]

Went out today food shopping, I only had a scarf to wrap my face in... but thankfully the stores were pretty empty (immediately after work seems like a good time to go) and most of the people there were wearing masks. Still a bit freaked out since my latex glove ripped 

You can't go into stores here without a face covering. A friend of mine told me last night she was at the store and a guy with NUNCHUCKS tried to get in with no face cover and the lady at the door wouldn't let him until he covered his face. He ended up taking off his shirt and using that, so then there was an angry, shirtless guy with NUNCHUCKS in the grocery store.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1250235664668467200

[Tripon]

Washington (CNN)An Indiana congressman said Tuesday that letting more Americans die from the novel coronavirus is the "lesser of two evils" compared with the economy cratering due to social distancing measures.

Speaking with radio station WIBC in Indiana, Republican Rep. Trey Hollingsworth asserted that, while he appreciated the science behind the virus' spread, "it is always the American government's position to say, in the choice between the loss of our way of life as Americans and the loss of life, of American lives, we have to always choose the latter."
"The social scientists are telling us about the economic disaster that is going on. Our (Gross Domestic Product) is supposed to be down 20% alone this quarter," Hollingsworth said. "It is policymakers' decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say it is the lesser of these two evils. It is not zero evil, but it is the lesser of these two evils and we intend to move forward that direction. That is our responsibility and to abdicate that is to insult the Americans that voted us into office."
Hollingsworth told CNN, in a statement provided by his office later Tuesday, that "It's hyperbolic to say that the only choices before us are the two corner solutions: no economy or widespread casualties."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/trey-hollingsworth-coronavirus/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-04-14T23%3A21%3A03&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image

[Uncle]

bunch of people in this thread saying the same thing but I'm betting as someone in public office you're not really supposed to say that out loud

you just quietly implement the policy changes and let people figure it out on their own

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm really enjoying comedy bang bang going to zoom. 

[EightBitNate]

I kinda wish I could get it and get it over with. If there was a pill I could take which would give me it for 2 weeks, I would stock up on groceries and just take the damn thing.

[Tripon]

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Los Angeles County health officials on Tuesday confirmed 40 more deaths linked to the coronavirus, the highest number reported in a single day.

The county’s death toll now stands at 360, Public Health Department Director Barbara Ferrer said, noting that the mortality rate has increased to 3.6%.

Ferrer confirmed 670 additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the county’s total to more than 10,000. Officials have previously said the case count includes people who have recovered, but there is currently no way to track those numbers.

Of more than 63,000 people who have been tested in the county, 11% were positive. Ferrer said that percentage could indicate that of Los Angeles County’s 10 million residents, “we could have as many as 1 million people at some point in time” who are infected. Of course, not every individual will obtain testing for COVID-19.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-14/california-coronavirus-cases-approach-25-000-state-eyes-plans-return-normal

[bluemax]

I forget if the 14th or the 24th was supposed to be the peak in LA. Probably the 24th.

[benjipwns]

Basing on my scientific measure of "what the news is covering" it seems the peak here has already happened as they're starting to go back to accidents and crime instead of reporting on new cases since there hasn't been any.

Plus everyone mad at the governor for banning the purchasing of seeds or paint.

I don't know what Detroit's arc looks like though, the one hospital said they weren't really getting new patients so much as people who already had it getting worse like contracting pneumonia or whatever. Which to me as a layman regarding sicknesses sounds like good news, not for those people obviously, but for everyone else.

Also from the e-mails I get from places, they seem like they want to re-open somewhat or at least start testing the waters. The credit union especially has been spamming about "SETTING UP AN APPOINTMENT IF YOU NEED TO" and "EXPANDED DRIVE-THRU HOURS" when a few weeks ago they were like "GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF THE ATM OR SHUT THE FUCK UP" with like two hours of being open for the drive-thru.

My parents have been going to the store during the "Senior Hours" in the morning and said that there really wasn't anybody yesterday, when there had been lines in the weeks before.

[demi]

Got my coronabux, time to spend it on dragon dildos and oreos

[nudemacusers]

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2020/04/esper-stop-move-order-will-extend-past-may-11/

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/nippon_en/status/1250298486169325574

Human brrrr project

[VomKriege]

ASO really, really wants to have the Tour de France at the usual dates. The rest of the cycling schedule is being shifted around, with the Giro and Vuelta taking places after the Tour.

Edit : Actually, I'm wrong, they delayed it to August's end.

[nachobro]

bank status: stimulated

[VomKriege]

[bork]

Corona bucks got deposited this morning. 

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1250404873797058563

Nearly 59% of companies reported fewer employees against just 3.3% saying they had more. About 77% said new orders had fallen, while 76% reported a decline in shipments.

[EightBitNate]

1200 NEETBUX

[VomKriege]

A court in Nanterre, France slapped Amazon with a legal order to only fulfill food and health related orders for the time being, so as to limit risks to their own workforce.

Amazon is appealing and an economic & social council for the company is about to be convened, with union leaks suggesting they might discuss closing all Amazon centers for five days to review their COVID safety measures as ordered.

[Tasty]

I've been unemployed or doing contract stuff for the past year+, didn't expect any cornabux, I've been concentrating on Animal Crossing and not following any of this haha, checked my account cause of this thread, holy shit

holy shiiiiit

[Tasty]

Voting Trump in November

#UBI #YangGang

[nachobro]

as long as you filed taxes in 2018 or 2019 you get dough from my understanding (or if you are on disability/social security). also on the plus side i'm now out of credit card debt

[CatsCatsCats]

Got that fat cash injection, thanks, Obama

[Tasty]

as long as you filed taxes in 2018 or 2019 you get dough from my understanding (or if you are on disability/social security). also on the plus side i'm now out of credit card debt

Yeah like I said I've been keeping my head in the comforting sands of Animal Crossing for north of three weeks straight now. And honestly reality's shit on me so much in the last year I really just wrote off the whole thing. This is a really incredible surprise to wake up to.

[Coffee Dog]

Got my brrr. Paying bills, but hey, I'm not complaining 

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/1250411195284283393

Note: Ontario, for example, didn't order closures until March 17. And even then, Ontario kept open manufacturing facilities, construction sites, and office buildings. A week later, the province ordered the closure of non-essential businesses, with a ton of businesses deemed essential. Finally, in April, Ontario reduced the number of businesses deemed "essential."

In other words, if the GDP fell by 9% in March, it will fall 30% (from Feb's numbers) in April.

[CatsCatsCats]

as long as you filed taxes in 2018 or 2019 you get dough from my understanding (or if you are on disability/social security). also on the plus side i'm now out of credit card debt

Yeah like I said I've been keeping my head in the comforting sands of Animal Crossing for north of three weeks straight now. And honestly reality's shit on me so much in the last year I really just wrote off the whole thing. This is a really incredible surprise to wake up to.

Buy yourself a nice vape cart and ... get back to animal crossing *laughs in animalese*

[Tasty]

Gonna buy at least two so I can really rip through 'em while I play.

[BisMarckie]

The German state that got hit the hardest during the pandemic wants to open up its schools on Monday. I can’t help but think that it’s a political move by their PM who is tanking in approval ratings, but desperately wants to take Merkel‘s throne.

Laschet can get fuuucked. Hope it blows up in his face.

Looks like they are already backpedaling, I am all for it blowing up in his face if it didn't mean millions of kids, teachers and parents being potentially exposed to the virus. 

I think Söder is handling this crisis the best and emerged from the crisis as the politician with a clear and stringent vision. We live in a weird timeline 

[Rufus]

I think Söder is handling this crisis the best and emerged from the crisis as the politician with a clear and stringent vision. We live in a weird timeline 

That was an odd turn. I wrote it off as self-promotion initially.