Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[james]

Shosta: What Hitler really needed was a mental health specialist to help him work through his problems. Celebrating his death is bad, it's not his fault he was misguided.

[james]

Some good clean fun over at Typhoon Texas in Houston!

https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/hp30dj/typhoon_texas_water_park_crowds_an_hour_ago/

[Oblivion]

is this guy "misguided" too?

https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1281598453622222851

[Nintex]

Pneumonia is a very horrible way to go I would not wish it on my biggest enemy.
Hopefully his death will make others more aware of the dangers though.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1281792062862405633

[chronovore]

is this guy "misguided" too?

https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1281598453622222851

Hope he’s signed up at the front of the fucking list.

[Rufus]

It's not ok when bad things happen to bad people. I'm pretty sure that's the point of preventing more coronavirus cases. Anyway I'm just asking for people here to demonstrate a little humanity.

Ackshually, It's very human to wish ill on people you despise.

[thisismyusername]

Check the suicide rates for white males in this country. They are only 30 percent of the country, but represent 70 percent of the suicides.

...Which has nothing to do with COVID stupidity.

White women kill themselves more often than PoC as well. Are you going to conflate that with COVID as well?

Yeah it's because conservative Americans are fucking arrogant morons.

Exactly.

tbh, this whole suicide discussion is all kind of moot because that particular dude that just died regretted his decision almost immediately, according to his FB page

Good. Maybe he'll be a lesson to the "fake news!" folks.

Anyway I'm just asking for people here to demonstrate a little humanity.

You know that adage, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes?"

Dude played a stupid game (not wearing a mask, taking precautions) and won a stupid prize (death).

It's not ok when bad things happen to bad people. I'm pretty sure that's the point of preventing more coronavirus cases. Anyway I'm just asking for people here to demonstrate a little humanity.

Ackshually, It's very human to wish ill on people you despise.

Maybe the "die on the 4th to own the libs #FAKENEWS" crowd will actually learn something from this.

Don't count on me expecting that to happen though, so I'll laugh at the schadenfreude of it.

[Himu]

Ordered a pizza for pick up yesterday.

Went inside and there was a a whole ass family of like 10 eating inside, multiple people eating in there, just sitting and talking as if we don't live in a Covid hot spot. None of them wearing masks of course.

I was in there only a few minutes on the edge of the restaurant waiting for my shit. I swear to God I hope I don't catch this just picking up a pizza. I hate this state.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://globalnews.ca/news/7164325/grocery-store-coronavirus-pay/

Executives from three of Canada’s largest grocery chains were in communication before launching and ending temporary wage increases for grocery store workers during COVID-19, but maintain their decisions were not co-ordinated.

Metro Inc. was aware of Loblaw Companies Ltd.’s decision to stop its so-called pandemic pay program before it made a similar decision, chief executive Eric La Fleche told the House of Commons standing committee on industry, science and technology Friday.

Loblaw president Sarah Davis echoed the sentiment, but noted she sent a “courtesy email” to both competitors, as well as Walmart and Save-On-Foods, on June 11. The latter two did not appear at the hearing.

[EchoRin]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lou-holtz-condemns-big-tens-decision-adjust-schedules-for-all-sports-due-to-coronavirus-064124690.html

Lol. Give me a brake Lou. Though pretty predictable coming from him.

[Nintex]

I don't know what stage of capitalism this is, but this is fucking stupid 
https://twitter.com/disneyparksjobs/status/1281930571048988673

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1281974418370105345

[Positive Touch]

are we ever going to hit a point where people say enough is enough? sure doesn't feel like it right now

[Nintex]

You'd need an Italy style lock-down of the worst hit areas with military and police patrolling the streets to prevent this from spreading further at this point.
Which is not something that will be accepted for various reasons.

[Madrun Badrun]

It's going to get worse before it gets better.  My worry is that we won't see significant organized countermeasures until Biden is in, which is way too far away.

Just to continue the down-fall-of-the-American-empire show, I'd like to see state militia be used to prevent interstate travel or quarantine.

[BisMarckie]

It‘s easy to think Biden will change anything seeing how Trump completely bungled this, but only blaming Trump kinda overlooks the fact that the response on a state level was also just mindblowingly awful

[Madrun Badrun]

Yes but it's a lot easier to fuck up at the state level if the federal message is the same.  Also, think post-election will give a lot of opportunity for them to change their opinions without the backlash that would happen right now. 

[BisMarckie]

I am just saying the US are a lost cause, we should probably keep our borders closed and watch it turn into a Mad Max world in real time.

[Madrun Badrun]

Maybe the Supreme Court will give it back to the natives before it gets that bad.  Put all the Republicans in a reserve in Florida. 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.businessinsider.com/angela-merkel-coronavirus-exposes-leaders-fact-denying-populism-trump-2020-7?r=DE&IR=T&utm_source=reddit.com

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/Feinsand/status/1281993577854308362

[BisMarckie]

It‘s doubly weird when you consider that the German soccer league resumed play like two months ago with absolutely no issues and other leagues have started as well and it has gone smoothly.

[BIONIC]

It‘s doubly weird when you consider that the German soccer league resumed play like two months ago with absolutely no issues and other leagues have started as well and it has gone smoothly.

It’s almost like Americans are fucking dumb, and don’t like being told what to do even if it’s objectively good for them 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/lapublichealth/status/1282042901392879616

If L.A. was its own state, it'll be 6th behind Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, and Arizona.

[james]

It‘s doubly weird when you consider that the German soccer league resumed play like two months ago with absolutely no issues and other leagues have started as well and it has gone smoothly.

It’s almost like Americans are fucking dumb, and don’t like being told what to do even if it’s objectively good for them 

What's the only thing dumber than an American?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

two Americans

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[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1281786741029052418

[BisMarckie]

No big deal though, catchers always wear masks

[shosta]

twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1281786741029052418

apparently the death rate should be much lower now that they're intubating at the earliest opportunity, right?

[Mandark]

Just intuitively I'd expect care to be more effective after four months of dealing directly with the virus. I saw somewhere that the survival rate in Britain for COVID patients in the ICU had gone from 50% to over 70%.

That's why I'm "optimistic" about not hitting New York-in-April levels, but it's still going to be real bad.

[shosta]

I think overall the mortality rate per case will be much lower but the area of impact is so much larger. We could have a repeat of 2k+ every day.

[shosta]

My heart goes out to anyone working in these emergency rooms. I can't imagine being in one of the few hospitals servicing an impacted area and seeing tens of thousands of (excess) deaths over only three or four months.

[Steve Contra]

Just intuitively I'd expect care to be more effective after four months of dealing directly with the virus. I saw somewhere that the survival rate in Britain for COVID patients in the ICU had gone from 50% to over 70%.

That's why I'm "optimistic" about not hitting New York-in-April levels, but it's still going to be real bad.

i said this earlier in the thread but I have a friend who’s uncle had it. He’s overweight, in his sixties and has diabetes. He survived and that’s because they were more aggressive in treating him early than they would have at the beginning. They threw him on a ventilator at the first sign of trouble.

[Madrun Badrun]

I think overall the mortality rate per case will be much lower but the area of impact is so much larger. We could have a repeat of 2k+ every day.

Yep, my main concern is about the death rate is that deaths are not going to be just concentrated in NY and NJ, but most of the south and west, so by the time they individually realize they need to shut down we will be seeing 10 states all with smaller deaths than NY individually but combined they could be very large. 

[Nintex]

The death rate is one thing but there's also lasting effects on the health of many people who had severe Covid-19.
Their lungs are ruined, some have lost their sense of smell and taste and most get tired very quickly.

[Madrun Badrun]

Yes but glass-lung isn't a statistic on Worldmeters.

[james]

My aunt is reporting her sense of taste is returning

[Madrun Badrun]

And to go with the above argument, even if deaths stay at 700 deaths a day, that is still 121800 more dead this year, for about a quarter-million deaths this year. 

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/JasonHoffman93/status/1282066158422720513


....huh.

[Mandark]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-apparently-relenting-bit-wearing-masks-says-they-make-him-look-like-the-lone-ranger/

From about a week and a half ago.

As shambolic as the white house is, glad someone figured that going to a veterans' hospital with no PPE would be a bad look.

[Madrun Badrun]

Going to be a lot of True Patriotic American Individualists suddenly not thinking masks are actually an encroachment on Freedom. 

[Mandark]

Hopefully!

Probably a lot of "well of course wear them in a hospital, but why should I wear one everywhere?" too.

[Oblivion]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-apparently-relenting-bit-wearing-masks-says-they-make-him-look-like-the-lone-ranger/

From about a week and a half ago.

As shambolic as the white house is, glad someone figured that going to a veterans' hospital with no PPE would be a bad look.

well in that case, it makes these tweets all the more awkward then:

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1282086956915142656

[Nintex]

Same energy

[Madrun Badrun]

Only in your mind.

[Nintex]

Only in your mind.

Not really, in this particular scene Snake leaves a quarantine zone where he could not save anyone getting infected with a deadly virus.

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1281992949434392578

[thisismyusername]

🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵 IT'S A COVID-19 WORLD, AFTER ALL~~~~~~!!!!!!!™🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

https://twitter.com/Whatapityonyou/status/1282051524823117824

Can't wait for the spike in cases because Disney can't properly scrub and are at "capacity" for their distancing/cleaning supplies on the first day.

Why are people so dumb and not waiting for a vaccine?

Oh well, their deaths will fuel me.

[Himu]

When are these sports leagues going to just say fuck it and officially call everything off for the year? These leagues spending millions to keep their athletes in protective bubbles and testing daily can't stop outbreaks. How sick does someone have to get before they just cancel everything?

Sports around the world has been going fine. Currently watching a baseball game in south Korea

[Himu]

Americans are stupid.

They're probably partying and calling up side action every day

[james]

🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵 IT'S A COVID-19 WORLD, AFTER ALL~~~~~~!!!!!!!™🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

https://twitter.com/Whatapityonyou/status/1282051524823117824

Can't wait for the spike in cases because Disney can't properly scrub and are at "capacity" for their distancing/cleaning supplies on the first day.

Why are people so dumb and not waiting for a vaccine?

Oh well, their deaths will fuel me.

It will be impossible to see the spike because those people will get infected and then board a plane back to every other state

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadian-universities-scramble-to-maintain-flow-of-international/

Chauffeur service to a quarantined room, catered meals, daily health checks with a thermometer for every student, even the possibility of chartered flights to get students to Canada – all are on the table as institutions prepare for the fall term.

With international students typically paying tuition fees two to five times higher than Canadian students, they now contribute roughly $6-billion a year to Canadian postsecondary institutions – half of all tuition revenue at domestic institutions. As provincial government funding to universities stagnated over the past decade, those fees have paid for rising institutional and labour costs.


The University of Toronto also relies heavily on international fees – one in four of its students come from abroad – and detailed plans have been drawn up to get them from the airport into university dorms or even hotel rooms so they can quarantine for the mandatory two weeks. The university is willing to book hundreds of hotel rooms, if need be. But it will also prepare special quarantine kits for every incoming student, including a thermometer for daily temperature checks. All their meals and other amenities would be delivered, with students required to speak via video once daily with a health professional. The university said it’s still examining how to provide testing for the virus or its antibodies at the start and end of quarantine.

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald/status/1281967527518773249

Click through for the thread.

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald/status/1281967527518773249

Click through for the thread.

I feel like people think that the small crowd size make it the ideal time to visit, but to me it just looks depressing as all hell.

[Mandark]

It's more confirmation that if you open things back up enough people will show up to undermine the public health response but not enough to save the economy.

Almost as if getting the virus under control should have been the first priority all along!

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald/status/1281967527518773249

Click through for the thread.

at first i was like 'oh well, at least some people are wearing masks, and then the camera panned around and it was only like those initial two people" 

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1282117207728836608

[james]

Shortest horror movie ever

[Oblivion]

man, it's been a pretty productive few days on the 'chuds getting owned by covid' front:

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1281959760078737408

https://abc3340.com/news/coronavirus/tuscaloosa-man-dies-of-covid-19-family-says-he-refused-to-wear-mask

Amy and Tyler Hinton say their father, Joe Hinton, thought COVID-19 was a hoax and didn't believe in wearing masks.

"He did not want to wear a mask, he did not think that it was a very big deal. He thought, like a lot of people, that it was being blown out of proportion," Amy said about her father.

Joe Hinton was 78-years-old and a diabetic, so his family urged him to take care of himself during the pandemic.

"He was like I'm not going to stop living my life, no matter what we did or said or begged him," Amy said.

[shosta]

the political crisis is making you lose your humanity. go to church

[Oblivion]

for every chud death shosta doesn't laugh at, i'll laugh twice as hard