Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Madrun Badrun]

Shoppers is rationing Coke Zero:  this is it for me boys, I'm lost. 

[Fifstar]

The US curves are weird. Normally deaths should be delayed by about 14-20 days, but both curves have been mostly linear for 3 weeks with the deaths only 3-4 days behind the infections curve.

Obviously there are many variables at play here like increased testing capabilities and numerous mostly independent outbreaks. Still most curves in european countries look kinda comparable, that's seems to be different here.

[Madrun Badrun]

Youtubers have been awesome though this thing

[Nintex]

 

[Madrun Badrun]

200K world wide deaths - US is a quarter of those. 

[bork]

https://twitter.com/xtemujin/status/1252772647517122561

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/1ofaQueen/status/1253721061071507458

https://twitter.com/RaiderACE562/status/1254115073011769345

[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1253995619921821698

Corona-Chan 2nD WaVe

Also means that a vaccine is pretty much useless as well as immunity passports 

keep in mind there's a difference between no evidence that people with antibodies can't get it again, and evidence that people with antibodies can get it again

[Madrun Badrun]

https://twitter.com/xtemujin/status/1252772647517122561

We thought 2020 was weird wait till 2021 when we are all injecting bleach diluted Tom Hanks while shining lights up our asses. 

[Bebpo]

Why.are.there.so.many.stupid.people.in.America


All those years of people pushing anti-intellectualism is gonna kill us all. You never know if your plumber or the person ringing you up at the market thinks like that.

[Bebpo]

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1253995619921821698

Corona-Chan 2nD WaVe

Also means that a vaccine is pretty much useless as well as immunity passports 

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/south-korean-studies-suggest-antibodies-protect-covid-19/story?id=70312111

Apparently people are beating up the WHO for that dumb post that has no basis.

[nachobro]

who would never make a dumbass post with no basis

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152

[Uncle]

 

[OnlyRegret]

Well, it is looking like Fauci needn't have slash those projections that lasted all of... well most of April.

[OnlyRegret]

(Image removed from quote.)

Most recent chart here, to compare with.

[OnlyRegret]

testing rate btw is almost the highest out of the provinces, so long as that persists this is shaping up to be among the best glimpses at the data

percents have dropped a bit as testing ramped up some more since last picture
mortality continues to ramp up significantly post 60, but that hospitalization number starts going up real fast real early

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1254184187529179142
https://twitter.com/adamclarkestes/status/1253375457141104642

[shosta]

https://imgur.com/a/27ACKV3

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1254134874929332224

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1254135595716272131

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1254135650296741890

[VomKriege]

Well, it is looking like Fauci needn't have slash those projections that lasted all of... well most of April.

That latest number might have been politely suggested for political reasons. I thought the 100k-200k one was generous because there was no time window attached but that's probably where it will end up (or be close to) by the end of May.

[toku]

glad this corona shit is over, that was wild

[Great Rumbler]

Well, it is looking like Fauci needn't have slash those projections that lasted all of... well most of April.

That latest number might have been politely suggested for political reasons. I thought the 100k-200k one was generous because there was no time window attached but that's probably where it will end up (or be close to) by the end of May.

We've been at an average of 2k deaths a day in April under shutdown, so yeah over 100k by the end of May is very possible.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1254221679397613575


We bank robbers now.

[Mandark]

At the beginning of the month I was anxious that people would be prone to thinking it was "fake news" after seeing the projections revised downwards several times and the final death toll being around 50k.

Turns out I didn't need to worry about that scenario. ha ha ha fuck

[Phoenix Dark]

At the beginning of the month I was anxious that people would be prone to thinking it was "fake news" after seeing the projections revised downwards several times and the final death toll being around 50k.

Turns out I didn't need to worry about that scenario. ha ha ha fuck

It's like we've seen a reverse from "yea this is serious and it's gonna be tough" to "actually this is just a PR issue now." I shouldn't be surprised but man, the fact that they still think they can "fake news" their way out of this is mind blowing. Every day, people get more scared. And while a lot of people are desperate and want to go back to work...our economy is based on consumerism, not businesses being open. If businesses are open and nobody is buying shit...the economy can't recover. If businesses aren't selling shit, they have to lay people off again. And worse yet, if we don't get this under control and get hit with a second wave, states will have to shut down again. There's a clear incentive here to get this right. Unless you're utterly incompetent and running scared...like the president and his supporters.

[Uncle]

feel like trump has partly set himself up for failure

on the one hand he's astroturfing a nationwide campaign to reopen things, anyone actually protesting are the highly motivated crazies, a chunk of his voting base

so if he doesn't set the stage for things reopening those who are like muh constitewshun, muh rights are gonna be pissed

but if he does reopen, the economy won't recover and there will be a second wave anyway, hitting right around election time

[Tasty]

feel like trump has partly set himself up for failure

on the one hand he's astroturfing a nationwide campaign to reopen things, anyone actually protesting are the highly motivated crazies, a chunk of his voting base

so if he doesn't set the stage for things reopening those who are like muh constitewshun, muh rights are gonna be pissed

but if he does reopen, the economy won't recover and there will be a second wave anyway, hitting right around election time

Explaining it like that he does seem pretty fucked.

Maybe I don't have to vote for Biden after all.

[OnlyRegret]

Well, it is looking like Fauci needn't have slash those projections that lasted all of... well most of April.

That latest number might have been politely suggested for political reasons. I thought the 100k-200k one was generous because there was no time window attached but that's probably where it will end up (or be close to) by the end of May.

gonna be a depressing lookback for the future survivors when they look over the posts/articles a year in the past

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/jiyunaJP/status/1254261465214664706
https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/status/1254267152741343233
https://twitter.com/shiftsphere/status/1254233924395360258

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/ABCLiz/status/1254207698461061121

 

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1253374873474338817

 

[bluemax]

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/another-48-people-die-of-covid-19-in-l-a-county-as-residents-remain-under-stay-at-home-orders/

Things are still rough in LA County.

[Transhuman]

John McDaniel, 60, of Marion, Ohio, died “peacefully” at a hospital on April 15 after suffering complications from COVID-19, according to an obituary shared by the family's funeral home.

"Peacefully"? Some fucking journalism. Buzzfeed is just a blog.

[Bebpo]

https://twitter.com/ABCLiz/status/1254207698461061121

 

Yeah, doesn't make me feel great this is in my backyard. I hear a good % of these people are coming from other cities though, so sorta my backyard, sorta not.

But I dunno if people get how insanely fucking hot it got here yesterday. Like bad combination of So Cal heat & Shelter at Home = lots of people without AC who aren't going to be miserable and will go somewhere like the beach to cool down. The summer is going to be soon in So CA and it's going to be really really bad for minimizing virus spread unfortunautely.

Plus we're gonna start getting those So Cal fires on top of this all.

We literally had like the coldest week in years in So Cal a couple weeks ago and now it's summer 94F. So Cal has no spring/fall anymore, it's winter and then it's summer.

[bluemax]

With the heat wave, lack of AC across SoCal, and general exhaustion of being inside I really think it is going to be a losing battle to keep people from the beaches. Mind you they did a good job in Santa Monica and Venice where it is still not allowed, but with Ventura and OC reopening, you're just gonna get people from LA going there. And since LA hasn't had a single day without an increase... I expect numbers in those counties to start going up again.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/krone_at/status/1254383776181911552

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/HaraldDoornbos/status/1254330845164376064

Lefties in Amsterdam riding their bikes like nothing even matters
 

[Pissy F Benny]

lefties

[Pissy F Benny]

tfw when nintex's lefty minions demand he let them back in the office

[Raist]

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1253995619921821698

Corona-Chan 2nD WaVe

Also means that a vaccine is pretty much useless as well as immunity passports 

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/south-korean-studies-suggest-antibodies-protect-covid-19/story?id=70312111

Apparently people are beating up the WHO for that dumb post that has no basis.

The only way to really provide definitive evidence would be to willingly infect people who've tested positive for antibodies. Which obviously, is never going to fucking happen.

The WHO might want to get someone else to handle their twitter account, cause the current one is a moron

[toku]

https://twitter.com/saletan/status/1254484231654342657

[Nintex]

The good news just keeps coming

[Bebpo]

https://twitter.com/HaraldDoornbos/status/1254330845164376064

Lefties in Amsterdam riding their bikes like nothing even matters
 

I'm just at the point where about 50% of the world isn't going to care anymore and 50% is.
So it's gonna be a long ride unfortunately.

[EchoRin]

Went for a run today. Alone mind you. I'm the dude that will shift from the sidewalk to the road (we talking side streets here, not busy streets) if I see I'll be passing someone. Keeping it classy. 6 feet and all that jazz.

Well I make it to a 4 way stop and I decide I'm going to rest for like 30 seconds. I'm heaving a little, catching my breath. Some white performative nitwit rolls down his window and barks at me, "you're not a professional runner. Go fuck yourself!"

 

Nobody even close to me. Shit the car was like 20 feet away too. Probably a Bernie bro flexing his wimpy muscles from the safety of his car. Doubt he was a professional driver too 

[Nintex]

Went for a run today. Alone mind you. I'm the dude that will shift from the sidewalk to the road (we talking side streets here, not busy streets) if I see I'll be passing someone. Keeping it classy. 6 feet and all that jazz.

Well I make it to a 4 way stop and I decide I'm going to rest for like 30 seconds. I'm heaving a little, catching my breath. Some white performative nitwit rolls down his window and barks at me, "you're not a professional runner. Go fuck yourself!"

 

Nobody even close to me. Shit the car was like 20 feet away too. Probably a Bernie bro flexing his wimpy muscles from the safety of his car. Doubt he was a professional driver too 

You should've invited him over to this place.   

[Madrun Badrun]

I always wondered how you found this place Nin.

[Nintex]

I always wondered how you found this place Nin.

From what I remember I was chatting with a friend about the good ol' days of NeoGAF and that got me in a nostalgic mood to Google.
I remembered Opa Ages and The Bore and the likes from back in the day and thought, whatever I'll just sign up to whatever still seems active.
Although I admitted the place looked a bit dead it was more alive than other GAF offshoots known to me.
After all most of us moved on to Twitter only to disappear in the sands of time.

Then suddenly my account was approved weeks later (I had completely forgot about signing up) and I recognized some peeps from the 'old site'.
Just about 10 days later the goblin shower incident happened and the rest as they say is history.

Although I signed up on ResetEra I found this place much more to my liking so I posted here more frequently.
Got in just in time to watch Etoilet and Optimus destroy themselves. 

I've also been unbanned from NeoGAF after years but I don't feel the need to go back.

[Occam]

Excellent interview:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/virologist-christian-drosten-germany-coronavirus-expert-interview

[Occam]

I think there'll be a terrible second wave. Because people are dumb.

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1254461123753054209

I'm at little at the language of the tweet, several national offices of statistics have started releasing numbers and their assessment within the express framing of the pandemic weeks before the Financial Times "looked into" the "highly suspect" stats. All the more eye rolling the FT was explicit in their decision to use the "deaths in hospitals" for a number of countries even when other tallies were added by official authorities so they're obviously well aware of the difficulties of having real time, perfect statistics.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Love my hometown.

[Madrun Badrun]

This whole thing has made me reflect on my position on reeducation camps. 

[shosta]

I think everyone's voice should be heard and I'm happy All Gas No Breaks went to my hometown to see some of the wonderful and spirited people who live there

[Nintex]

Stroopwafels are essential 

[StealthFan]

we're fucked brehs

[EchoRin]

*Sacra-fucking-mento vid*
Love my hometown.

the guy at 2:00 

"Every conspiracy you've pretty much heard of is all... pretty much true." 

[Tasty]

You'd go crazy too if you had to root for the Kings.

Um they're in LA bro.

[Tasty]

You'd go crazy too if you had to root for the Kings.

Um they're in LA bro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Kings

I just watch hockey lol.

[Tasty]

Which makes it even funnier cause the LA Kings are a hockey team.

Yeah that's what I was referencing lol

[Tasty]

Also RIP Glenda