outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

I suppose this might take care of generation labels; I nominate that those who become adults in the post pandemic world be known as ‘quarantinos’.

get him to post here again!

I’m reading all this!

I don’t actually know that I have it, I have just been told to assume that I have.

Richard D. James weighs in:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72357

wish he hadn't

dude sounds like he's grieving

Hi pophatte!

- Albert R. Broccoli

"However, McGhee argued that physical health is similarly as important as financial health."

I wonder what political affiliation McGhee has hmmmmmm
lol Karl

Hi pophatte

Haha I think I just randomly punched in this display name the last time I regularly came to ILX, probably about seven years ago. I’m just going to stick with it.

Hi.

Hi Adam!

Also good luck!

Thanks! I’m fine, really.

Just lurking ITT

hi adam!

Axios reports:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared with his cabinet a video he claimed was evidence of Iran concealing coronavirus deaths by dropping bodies in garbage dumps, two cabinet ministers tell me.

Several hours later, Netanyahu’s office realized the video had nothing to do with Iran, or with the coronavirus crisis. It was a clip from “Pandemic,” a 2007 Hallmark Channel mini-series.

https://wpln.org/post/racial-disparities-emerge-in-tennessees-testing-for-covid-19/

Sadly , no surprise that most of the testing facilities are in well-off white areas

xp omfg

sorry, probably already covered upthread, but:

do workers have legal standing to sue their employers for treating them inhumanely during this pandemic? thinking of this for my partner's dad, an auto engineer whose company keeps threatening to send everybody back to work, but of course it would also apply to millions of minimum wage workers who are being forced to put themselves at risk or resign. i guess, at a minimum, shouldn't the company be forced to give them proper PPE and/or enforce social distancing? if not, then they aren't providing a safe working environment, in my mind?

seems pretty clear in my book. predicting 9-0 supreme court blowout

Labor action will have better and faster impacts than lawsuits.

oh, for sure. just wondering about the lawsuits, though. you'd think all these companies would be weighing massive legal liability against getting cash flow for another couple weeks, but who knows

Welp the single day dip in deaths was indeed an anomaly as it almost doubled last night to 912 new deaths.

Given that 80+% of the cases are active, i think it's going to start exploding.

“Absent of quarantine of every single person and shutting everything down for 12 days,” McGhee said, “you can’t stop it."

12 days. Bless his heart.

I'm sure he'd be totally fine with a strict quarantine. He just wants results!

Afge, a federal government employees Union is suing the feds on behalf of federal government employees exposed to the virus

https://www.afge.org/publication/american-federation-of-government-employees-and-kalijarvi-chuzi-newman--fitch-sue-government-on-behalf-of-federal-employees-exposed-to-coronavirus/?link_id=0&can_id=4e730c41cf72734930a27d1a35b1a25c&source=email-afges-latest-coronavirus-updates-3&email_referrer=email_765963&email_subject=check-out-afges-latest-coronavirus-updates#.XoU_VKwMqB0.twitter

that's quite a url, it would be the same if truncated before the "?" like so many other urls. I've been wondering with these what all of the rest is about

sic to thread

referring info for tracking

https://thrivehive.com/what-is-a-tracking-link-or-url/

given the sheer amount of panic and anxiety that's come from this already imagine living through the black plague damn

The black death solved that problem for a lot of people.

Worldwide cases will pass one million tomorrow.

A million cases in 190 countries. Not bad for a plucky little virus that had never even met a humanoid until maybe late November of last year.

US deaths topped 5,000 today, 40% of which occurred in the last 48 hours.

I'm tired of mask discourse and it hasn't even really started yet

Spain registers 950 deaths in the last 24 hours, more than Italy ever registered in one day. Also surpasses 10,000 deaths now. They can not get the numbers down, it's grim.

How is the growth in number of reported cases doing in Spain? If that's slowing then presumably the death rate will as well a couple of weeks down the line.

It's not really slowing, yet, according to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/

Also, Spain today said that during the last two weeks of full lock down, 900,000 people have lost their job o_O

this, on where americans did and did not reduce their travel, is pretty interesting. and not least because cell phones might as well be rfid tags

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html

https://abc7.com/officials-engineer-tried-to-smash-train-into-usns-mercy/6069395/

ohhhhh...kkkaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy

who needs the letters 'O' or 'K' when you can have the letter 'Q'?

Wtf is that about

Look man, I know this might be news to some of you, but those aren't really hospital ships. It's where they're taking the kids who were in the basement of Comet Ping Pong. And from there they are headed out to Epstein's REAL private island. The only possible way to free them is by crashing a train.

i mean whey didn't he just say so?

At least there's no 5G waves causing covid on those islands.

Hey America, fuck you:

http://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20200402-china-coronavirus-face-mask-france-stolen-us

yeah, that story has France inflamed. fuck the usa & its shithead citizens who think "america first"

Similar shit is reportedly going down in Quebec right now.

the american way: plan poorly---> panic---> throw money at the problem:

I m sure prayer is somewhere in there.

And fuck other countries over in the process, don't forget that part.

They should ask for the Statue of Liberty back.