Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Oblivion]

hey bluemax, what part of L.A. are you in?

[Madrun Badrun]

Man I wish I was in New Zealand now

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/24/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-issues-new-zealand-casting-call-for-funky-looking-people

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[Flannel Boy]

Mexico with a new high +6,288. Number somewhat meaningless as there's little testing.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/youyanggu/status/1275683113109250048


C19Pro Score: absolute new daily cases (sheer number of cases), rate of change in cases (how fast cases are changing), cases per capita (prevalence relative to population).

[Flannel Boy]

US positivity rate of tests rose to 6.7%, highest in more than a month.

[Flannel Boy]

These types of graphs have been posted before, but usually not using per capita figures:
https://twitter.com/euromaestro/status/1275754721979047938

Also:
https://twitter.com/euromaestro/status/1275735359612166145

[Great Rumbler]

The US has only had 3 days with more than 36k new cases:

April 24
May 1
June 23

So, yeah...

[Madrun Badrun]

US positivity rate of tests rose to 6.7%, highest in more than a month.

Arizona has 33%.

[Pissy F Benny]

The US has only had 3 days with more than 36k new cases:

April 24
May 1
June 23

So, yeah...

Maybe if america didn't do so much testing, the numbers would be tremendous

[Flannel Boy]

Apparently, it's 5,508 new cases. That's about 1,500 more than the previous high.

Who the fuck needs to go to a theme park during a pandemic?

[Mandark]

I assume he's using https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry

his point seems pretty clear and idk why you're fussing over the last two datapoints so much

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[Mandark]

https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry

business is consistently down YOY by a huge gap across the board, even in Florida, Arizona, etc.

that was the point of the tweet

[Flannel Boy]

I should have realized that the spike in the Houston opentable data was caused by Father's Day. As such my interpretation was wrong. If we ignore the spike, reservations plateaued around June 6th, at around -45% YOY and has since been going slowly down (on days not around Father's Day). I think the point that people won't participate in the economy if they don't feel safe is true. Many diners never came back (-45% YOY), and now more (ignoring Father's Day) are staying away. But some people won't give a fuck no matter what.

[CatsCatsCats]

Yeah but roughly half of people who went last year going out right now is still too many from a public health view, imo

[Mandark]

I assume he's using https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry

his point seems pretty clear and idk why you're fussing over the last two datapoints so much

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[CatsCatsCats]

Periodt

[ToxicAdam]

Florida:
667 June 1
1758 June 15
2610 June 17
4,410 June 20
2926 June 22
5058 Today

 

https://twitter.com/uninewstoday/status/1275789110708523010

Ugh. This is how the Midwestern/Eastern states are going to get bad again. People travelling south to hit up all the usual tourist spots and then bringing it back to their communities.

In Ohio, there was a story of an outbreak because of kids that went to Myrtle Beach a few weeks ago and they all had it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/us/ohio-students-myrtle-beach-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

[Mandark]

Las Vegas is almost perfectly designed to be a vector.

[Flannel Boy]

Except the weekend before Father's day, YOY was competing with.. last year's Father's day.

So the flatness is a bit misleading.  Reservations likely climbed week over week, but since it was a normal weekend competing with Father's day YOY appeared flat.

I've been searching for the actual data for Houston, but haven't found it. Here's Texas' YOY (the pattern looks similar to Houston's):


Here's Texas' with the removal of June 14, 15, 16 (last year's Father's Day Weekend) and June 20, 21, 22 (this year's Father's day):



Can't say it's the same for Houston, but (ignoring Father's Day) reservations plateaued on the weekend of the 6th and 7th.

[Tripon]

Pretty sure we are out of flu season.

[james]

Im growing concerned about my upcoming vacation

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm concerned about your vacation too. 

[BIONIC]

Im growing concerned about my upcoming vacation

There are more important things than Thailand right now.

[Madrun Badrun]

James needs to go to the third world so that Bis can treat him to good coffee. 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1275804489073786880

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/liora_/status/1275845114175221761

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1275847562625507329

 


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https://twitter.com/jimaley/status/1275785471545741315

[james]

Im growing concerned about my upcoming vacation

There are more important things than Thailand right now.

Laying in bed, sucking the milk out of a young tender thai coconut does sound nice.

But this is a trip to visit family

[Mandark]

The country: we need adequate testing and isolation measures.

Trump to the country:

https://youtu.be/gib7_FDD60Q

If I could be a guy in his 30's who compares everything to the same three or four formative experiences in his life, the virus response really reminds me of The Surge from the Iraq occupation: a huge temporary diversion of resources to temporarily mitigate a bad situation, so the authorities have time and space to implement some long term solutions. Only instead they pat themselves on the back for the short term metrics not looking as bad any more and never address any of the underlying problems that are gonna come roaring right back.

[Nintex]

Trump wasn't praised, nor could he make a lot of money.

So Trump doesn't about the Kung Flu
But everyone likes it when he says Kung Flu, so that will stick. 

[Akala]

I am kind of glad that for the most part people have been unable to really pin case increases on BLM protests thus far.

the death numbers would have to be staggering here in the US, well over the 20% excess death metric for some of these people to start believing it. there are more people than you would think down south that don't believe in it at all. it's going to also take a regional disaster I am thinking, hopefully Florida isn't our Italy.

[Great Rumbler]

The country: we need adequate testing and isolation measures.

Trump to the country:

https://youtu.be/gib7_FDD60Q

If I could be a guy in his 30's who compares everything to the same three or four formative experiences in his life, the virus response really reminds me of The Surge from the Iraq occupation: a huge temporary diversion of resources to temporarily mitigate a bad situation, so the authorities have time and space to implement some long term solutions. Only instead they pat themselves on the back for the short term metrics not looking as bad any more and never address any of the underlying problems that are gonna come roaring right back.

And like The Surge, once the short-term gains are inevitably reversed they will attempt to pin the blame on Democrats.

[Madrun Badrun]

US positivity rate of tests rose to 6.7%, highest in more than a month.

Arizona has 33%.

Flordia at 18%

Also,


https://twitter.com/newday/status/1275774337321230338

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ryansatin/status/1275875343459512321

[BisMarckie]

I haven’t watched wrestling for more than two decades, but the Vince McMahon of yore would 100% have a storyline about someone infecting others with Covid resulting in a feud.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1275854598146871296

it was nice knowing some of you

[Akala]

 

I have also heard the "I will not hide my face from god" route.

[Madrun Badrun]

North Carolina highest ever. 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/06/24/n-y-n-j-conn-announce-joint-travel-advisory-all-visitors-from-states-with-high-coronavirus-infection-rates-must-quarantine/

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-atlantic-bubble-covid19-1.5625133

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1275854598146871296

it was nice knowing some of you

 

[Great Rumbler]

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1275854598146871296

it was nice knowing some of you

What is wrong with people?

[Madrun Badrun]

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1275857627474526211

and California is suppose to be 7000+ today.  This might be US' worst day. 

[Flannel Boy]

This might be US' worst day.

Difficult to top November 8, 2016.

[BisMarckie]

It’s certainly strange looking at the US and Sweden seeing that every other developed nation has more or less defeared the first wave

[Madrun Badrun]

It's very strange that serious people are proposing the federal government pay every American 4000$ to go to Disney World and kill someone's grandma. 

[BisMarckie]

When a failed state like Italy outperforms you

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/article-several-players-on-the-toronto-blue-jays-test-positive-for-covid-1/

spoilers, they were in Flordia. 

[Flannel Boy]

Texas 5,551
Cali 7,149

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Europe minus Russia and Ukraine: 4,858

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[Madrun Badrun]

Wish Ukraine was doing better.  There is a conference in Kiev next year that I'd like to go to.

[Flannel Boy]

Wish Ukraine was doing better.  There is a conference in Kiev next year that I'd like to go to.

I thought Poland was a goner, but they've been at 300 cases a day for a week (Poland is roughly the size of California). And I don't think it's due to lack of testing as only 2% of tests have come back as positive.

edit: if other Poles are like me, they're champs at social distancing.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1275901454104948736

[Akala]

but I drink all the time there 

[Madrun Badrun]

AKA buy more drinks rule

[Tripon]

I told Shosta to get a job on the strip when he asked how to make more money. I wondered if he listened. 

[Flannel Boy]

Who needs a job when you can make bets with suckers on the Internet.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1275636069682331659

Tokyo recorded 55 new cases of novel coronavirus infection on Wednesday, an alarmingly high number following a brief stretch in which daily figures fluctuated following the lifting of the state of emergency declaration in late May and subsequent reopening of the capital.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/liveblogs/news/coronavirus-outbreak-updates/

[Madrun Badrun]

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1275857627474526211

and California is suppose to be 7000+ today.  This might be US' worst day. 

Already second-highest day.  It should be highest once the rest of California and the 2 remaining states come into worldmeters.   Absolutely insane.   

[Nintex]

Dutch government announced a further easing of restrictions no longer are bars and restaurants capped at 30 people and pretty much all facilities are now open again.
Not sure how I feel about it. They keep talking about 'personal responsibility' but very few people are still social distancing and masks are still not recommended except for public transport.

Outside the risk is less so during these hot summer days the risk is low but when the temperatures start to drop again by early september... 

[Flannel Boy]

Walked along King West—Toronto is screwed. Expect a spike in two to three weeks.

[Madrun Badrun]

I think I'm going to try to get tested tomorrow or Friday - I have a sore thoat.  99% sure I don't have it, but would like to confirm.