Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Tripon]

Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that he does not believe the coronavirus pandemic in the United States will ease over the summer or in the fall.

Driving the news: The country on Saturday reported more than 33,000 new cases of the coronavirus — the highest total since May 1 — despite claims from Trump administration officials that concerns over a second wave of the virus are "overblown." Osterholm countered that he believes a second or third wave of coronavirus is unlikely because the first wave has yet to slow down.

What he's saying: "I'm actually of the mind right now — I think this is more like a forest fire. I don't think that this is going to slow down," he said. "Wherever there's wood to burn, this fire is going to burn, and right now we have a lot of susceptible people."

Osterholm added that he does not think the influenza model of multiple waves applies to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.
"Right now, I don't see this slowing down through the summer or into the fall. I don't think we're going to see one, two and three waves. I think we're just going to see one very, very difficult forest fire of cases."
The big picture: As of Sunday afternoon, the country has reported more than 2.2 million coronavirus cases — the highest caseload in the world — and has suffered at least 119,744 deaths from the virus.

The European Union, which has a population of around 446 million, is seeing average new confirmed case numbers of around 4,000 per day, compared to about 24,000 for the U.S.
This is at least in part attributable to increased testing by the U.S., but there are surges in infections in several states that outpace the growth in testing. The U.S., which has a total population of around 328 million, has conducted around 26 million coronavirus tests since the beginning of the pandemic.

https://www.axios.com/michael-osterholm-coronavirus-spread-da28f4a3-baad-4566-9340-9de480f5f3e7.html

[Raist]

The UK accounts for about 1/3rd of those EU cases too. Unless they're not counted because taking back control etc.

[team filler]

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880958665/the-latest-pandemic-shortage-coins-are-the-new-toilet-paper

 

[Madrun Badrun]

I wipe my ass with loonies and toonies when I want to treat myself. 

[Madrun Badrun]

I accidentally lost a quarter once and a gumball came out of my mouth.   

[Madrun Badrun]

US +26,079 on a sunday, jesus

[Mandark]

So much for hopes of a strong heat effect on the virus.

[Joe Molotov]

Just think how high the numbers would be if we hadn't beaten the coronavirus.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/rcmp-americans-banff-alaska-1.5621452

[OnlyRegret]

And we will totally take your word for it Nintex since it's all we ever need from you!

 

He's literally citing a Daily Mail article about some Italian claiming shit solely through anecdotes. That it now is a paper tiger.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8444151/Coronavirus-withered-aggressive-tiger-wild-cat-Italian-scientist-claims.html

[CatsCatsCats]

Oregon is definitely on the upswing in cases, and continuing to open up and give less and less of a fuck

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/liora_/status/1274942937722269696

[Cauliflower Of Love]

The uptick in cases seems to primarily be in the 18-65 age group.

 

[Madrun Badrun]

Not, one, but two, corona deniers were in line in front of me at the grocery store.  The dude in front of me was not standing 2 meters from the guy in front of him, and he came up to me and was like 'This social distancing thing.  You tell a 20-year-old man to stand in a red circle but not a 40-year-old man.  Right?'  I just stared and said no.  Then when the guy in front of him was leaving he agreed and said 'Ya this social distancing thing is just a social experiment' to the guy that was talking to me.   Like what the fuck. 

I also did not like the implication that he might have assumed I was in the superior 40-year-old group.

[Madrun Badrun]

This actually got me pretty angry. 

[Madrun Badrun]

I just ordered hair dye on Amazon.  My world is collapsing. 

[CatsCatsCats]

Don’t be a fool, you’re a man! Age is refinement

But fuck those geeks at the store

[Madrun Badrun]

TBH, I'm 99% fine with my age.  I wish my hairline wasn't receding, but it's going pretty slowly and only at the corners though.  I did buy dye but that's because my white hairs are all curly and so they stand out when I have long hair and look messy.  With shorter hair, it just looks a bit highlighted. 

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1274804100484431872
Mexico just isn't testing. This can also be seen in its ratio of confirmed cases to confirmed deaths today: +5,343 cases and +1,044 deaths.    

[Nintex]

And we will totally take your word for it Nintex since it's all we ever need from you!

 

He's literally citing a Daily Mail article about some Italian claiming shit solely through anecdotes. That it now is a paper tiger.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8444151/Coronavirus-withered-aggressive-tiger-wild-cat-Italian-scientist-claims.html

I read it at the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) which is in general a news source with a good reputation 

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1274804100484431872
Mexico just isn't testing. This can also be seen in its ratio of confirmed cases to confirmed deaths today: +5,343 cases and +1,044 deaths.    

Brazil's ratio of total tests to positives is really bad, too. And with far more cases in total.

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm just writing off any place below Canada. 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/JoeStGeorge/status/1275095209240604673

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/CLONEKID_/status/1275079599261548548

[Madrun Badrun]

Sask cases are blowing up because some Hutterites traveled to Alberta for a massive funeral and now two Hutterite communities are infected.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-stops-mandatory-temperature-checks-symptom-screening-n1231708

[team filler]

Don’t be a fool, you’re a man! Age is refinement

Buttfuck those geeks at the store

[james]

Im getting on a plane on Friday boys, enjoy my company while you still have it

[Madrun Badrun]

The US is at 127 times more new cases than Canada and 87 times more deaths.

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we had a particularly good day for deaths with only 4, usually more like 10-20 times

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[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/albamonica/status/1275154554267602945

 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-23/coronavirus-australia-excess-deaths-data-analysis/12321162

[Madrun Badrun]

Honestly, the best thing that could happen to America right now would be for Trump to catch it.  It worked for the UK.

[Bebpo]

People keep saying this, but it's pretty clear Trump got it early on and was just one of the majority % of people that catch it (even elderly people that catch it!) and have minimal to no symptoms like a cold. There's no fairness to the universe. There was one press conference early on where he seemed like he had a cold and that was probably it.

Just rolling the die with statistics it was always unlikely he'd end up getting on an ICU or anything if he caught Covid and the way he took like no precautions and met with tons of sick people and the white house was full of covid positive people at times, it's more likely that he caught it in the first month or so.

[Madrun Badrun]

[Madrun Badrun]

Too late

[Great Rumbler]

5,112 new cases in Texas today. That's a new daily record.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.todocanada.ca/canada-ranked-in-top-twenty-in-worlds-safest-countries-in-the-covid-19-era/

[team filler]

heard canada had long wait times for the sick, guess it was true 

[Tripon]

[CatsCatsCats]

Listen, braggart, I’ve been trying to be your live in heterosexual life partner for years, we can’t all just be born in Canada

[CatsCatsCats]

heard canada had long wait times for the sick, guess it was true 

[BisMarckie]

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Sweden in some pretty good company 

[Flannel Boy]

California with more new cases today than all of Europe (not including Russia).

[Bebpo]

California with more new cases today than all of Europe (not including Russia).

To quote my California friend

"I'm so glad things are finally getting back to normal again" (NOT BEING SARCASTIC)
/other friends like/love his comment

[Madrun Badrun]

Canada is like a Maybelline commercial.  We are just born with it. 

[EightBitNate]

Illinois is doing well but I have a feeling numbers are being fudged. I don’t trust my state not to fuck something up.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1274782260756185088

[bluemax]

Canada is like a Maybelline commercial.  We are just born with it.

So is Canada just not counting its native population among the numbers, much like the US seems to be doing?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1275143848818327552

Time to rally in Texas 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://globalnews.ca/news/7075024/mask-wearing-fewer-coronavirus-deaths/

[Cauliflower Of Love]

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link?

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1272696115197067264

Over 85% of infected people don't have a fever.

[Flannel Boy]

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link?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Cauliflower Of Love]

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link?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Thanks.

[Madrun Badrun]

Live to June 2020 and not know worldometers.  Sheltered life must be nice. 

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1275407424967622657

[Clockwork5]

Took a road trip to visit my fam and had to drive through the south. I currently live in an educated pocket in North Carolina, so everyone is masked up, but driving across the country made me realize how few areas are taking this seriously.

Walked into one of those mega gas stations along the highway, it was packed, zero masks. It felt unreal.

[Tripon]

Germany has ordered a district of almost 400,000 people back into lockdown amid a widening coronavirus outbreak. This after Germany's top health experts warned that the new cluster of cases had the potential to spread quickly.
Word of the new restrictions came from Armin Laschet, premier of the country's most populous state, North Rhine Westphalia. The new outbreak is centered on a massive meat processing plant Tönnies near the city of Gütersloh. More than 1,500 workers there have tested positive for coronavirus.
Laschet says police deployments will be used to ensure the home quarantines of thousands of Toennies employees, with force if necessary.

[Nintex]

And just after the German tourists started vacationing in The Netherlands and outer European countries too.
 

[Leadbelly]

And just after the German tourists started vacationing in The Netherlands and outer European countries too.
 

I don't think there is a lot you can do about it. We're at a point now where the public are hoping to live life with a degree of normality, the economy seriously needs to start going again, and we're having to juggle that with a virus that isn't going away any time soon. And if people didn't get it before, they're starting to get it now. The lockdown hasn't got rid of the virus, it never was going to get rid of the virus. It hasn't gone anywhere.

And it seems clear to me that the reason many people thought we should be in lockdown was to avoid getting the virus. Remember people were saying the lockdown was to relieve stress on the hospitals. No, many thought they would avoid getting the virus, and eventually it would go away. It still could happen that way, but not without a vaccine.