awesome
― Dan S, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
flag post... for greatness
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
Amazing.
― DJI, Friday, 3 April 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
jim just leaked the title of the next Boards of Canada LP.
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
balaclava arrived a day early. yay masks.
this revolution will not be televised
https://i.ibb.co/mcqSFG4/rsz-1rsz-screencapture-facebook-slayerrob-posts-10157443615707981-2020-04-03-20-12-12.png
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
i disagree w/ the "risk of their lives" argument. they're taking precautions and most essential workers are not at-risk groups. most wfh are staying home to protect vulnerable people, not to protect their own lives.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:42 (four years ago) link
most essential workers are not at-risk groups
This statement shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts. Everyone is at risk. What differs is degree of risk, not presence or absence of risk.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:51 (four years ago) link
Very sad about this:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/04/medics-in-brazil-fear-official-coronavirus-tally-ignores-a-mountain-of-deaths
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 4 April 2020 09:14 (four years ago) link
similarly: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-funerals/exclusive-jump-in-jakarta-funerals-raises-fears-of-unreported-coronavirus-deaths-idUSKBN21L2XU
― Roz, Saturday, 4 April 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link
I don't think this is true:
"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next."
https://amp.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca?
But it is a good piece.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 4 April 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
I found this one, by John Gray, interesting:
http://www.newstatesman.com/america/2020/04/why-crisis-turning-point-history
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
Much of that article seems well-grounded, as when he speaks in generalities, or about past pandemics or immediate necessities; he's ok when he makes short flights from these to nearby speculations. But when he turns full-bore futurist it falls flat, as with:
There will be celebrations as the pandemic recedes, but there may be no clear point when the threat of infection is over. Many people may migrate to online environments like those in Second Life, a virtual world where people meet, trade and interact in bodies and worlds of their choosing. Other adaptations may be uncomfortable for moralists. Online pornography will likely boom, and much internet dating may consist of erotic exchanges that never end in a meeting of bodies. Augmented reality technology may be used to simulate fleshly encounters and virtual sex could soon be normalised. Whether this is a move towards the good life may not be the most useful question to ask.
Fortunately, very little of the article suffers from this desire to be clairvoyant.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
narrator: people kept fucking
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
Many people may migrate to online environments like those in Second Life, a virtual world where people meet, trade and interact in bodies and worlds of their choosing.
i always lol whenever contemporary people think that Second Life is still the best example of this kind of thing. it's very telling that the last time they checked in on this whole thing was 10 years ago
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 4 April 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ is posting testing rates now for nations where the info is available. Not just raw volume of tests, but per million people.
so while Americans are feeling confident that we're testing enough people now since we've tested 1.5 million and are the world leaders in that category, when it comes to tests conducted per million people, we're in 40th place.
Some of those nations aren't real good examples because nations with few known cases/tests might cause an outlying result, but...there are some fairly big nations out performing us here. Not to mention - symptomatic people nationally are still complaining that they can't get tested.
Take this for instance:
NOrway is testing 19,528 people per million. Switzerland is testing 17,729 people per million. Australia is testing 11,203 people per million. Germany is testing 10,962 per million. Italy is testing 10,870 per mill. South Korea is testing 8,875 per mill. Canada is testing 8,021 per million citizens. Spain at 7,593.
The US is testing 4,648 per million.
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
My diabetic uncle has fever, dry cough and lost his sense of taste and smell and hasn't been tested. His doctor told him to stay home and call 911 if his fever spikes. It's possible there's not much point in testing if it's clear someone has it but it does make me think that the worldometer numbers are drastically below the number of people who have it and are symptomatic, even leaving aside the hordes of us who probably already have it and aren't being affected.
― Fetchboy, Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
I add a zero onto any figures, don't know how accurate that is
― threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
It's still important to test when someone appears to clearly have it.
Contact tracing and cluster detecting is more difficult when you're having to include every possible false positive. Obv you should treat a symptomatic unknown like they do have it but actually knowing which cases are legit through a test does help.
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
Trump has jokes: "The models show hundreds of thousands of people are going to die and you know what I want to do? I want to come way under the model. The professionals did the models and I was never involved in a model. At least this kind of a model." pic.twitter.com/vBeeWz1ayl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 3, 2020
― Publius Covidius Naso (pomenitul), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
You did models too bruh, Enquirer killed the stories
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
that guy inspires some brute loathing in me that still surprises
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 4 April 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
and the UK is doing 2,543 per million.
― stet, Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
Birds of a feather
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
The virus has been sonified
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/scientists-have-turned-structure-coronavirus-music#
― cat, Saturday, 4 April 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
Australia’s capacity for casual and careless cruelty never ceases to amaze me.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/hotel-quarantine-a-disaster-and-vulnerable-people-should-be-allowed-home-doctor-says
Why they picked the intercontinental and Hilton as quarantine hotels bemuses me. I’ve stayed in both on business trips No opening windows, small rooms. They may be 5 star but Sydney is full of extended stay type places with separate living and bedrooms, balconies, kichenettes etc. no doubt the franchise holders for the Hilton and intercontinental are liberal party donors. (A lot of the extended stay places are owned by Chinese real estate investment groups, so good old Australian racism is probably at play here as well)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 4 April 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
See also the immigration detainees in cramped unsanitary conditions in motels in Brisbane.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 4 April 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
USA fatalities:3/01-3/31: 4,0504/01-4/04: 4,399
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 5 April 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
the dude from Trapt tried to argue that nobody complained when 12k died under Obama, and it was easy to reply with "we'll probablybe there in 3-4 days" :(
and that's just a little over two months
― narcissistic sleighride (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 April 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
xp if the implication there is that we've had a similar number of deaths in the past few days to the entire month of march then yes that's the defintion of exponential growth. it's not a US thing. it's true everywhere except places where the rate of transmission is falling.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 5 April 2020 06:55 (four years ago) link
#mathsplaining
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 5 April 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
The WaPo month-long investigation is worthy of some attention here:
Washington Post 2020-04-04: The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus ragedFrom the Oval Office to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded through the system and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
how does one get past WaPo paywall?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
I thought all they'd lifted it for all their coronavirus coverage.
― Alba, Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
NYT has, but I am unable to read WP w/out subscribing
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
(xpost) If you're using Chrome, control-shift-n. Learned that here.
― clemenza, Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
open it in incognito mode Morbs
― Number None, Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
ty
I understand c s n, not incognito
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
Crosby, Stills & Nash?
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
I'd cut and paste, but the article is huge. It's basically a "they saw it coming and did nothing" summary a la post 9/11, but a la 9/11 this is going to cost virtually no one in charge their jobs. Possibly not even the Incompetent/Incontinent-in-Chief.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
Most paywalls will block you if you’re incognito but you can clear your cookies for the site instead
― crüt, Sunday, 5 April 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
Re WaPo coronavirus coverage the news updates remain free, the "analysis" and opinion pieces less so.
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
still an asshole, bruh - you had tons of people downplaying this as a nothingburger thanks to your daily rants:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/dr-drew-apologizes-was-wrong-about-coronavirus-threat/ar-BB12cbT1
― no feeble christ (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
The US surgeon general warned the country on Sunday that it will face a “Pearl Harbor moment” in the next week, with an unprecedented numbers of coronavirus deaths expected coast to coast.
“The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment. It’s going to be our 9/11 moment,” Jerome Adams told NBC News’ Meet the Press.
“It’s going to be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives, and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten that curve and get through to the other side, everyone needs to do their part.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/pearl-harbor-us-surgeon-general-coronavirus-deaths-donald-trump-white-house-briefing
― sleeve, Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
Weird analogy imo. Suggests some big aggressive reaction.
― Alba, Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
probably alludes to martial law, considering that's the last time it was invoked
― no feeble christ (Neanderthal), Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
i thought they were trying to sprinkle on some asiany flavor.
― Yerac, Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
yum asiany flavor. hope it's soy-garlic
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
or maybe five spice!
the U.S. surgeon general referred to next week as both a 9/11 moment and a pearl harbor moment, in two separate interviews today. also threw in rosie the riveter. i like him! he doesn't get to speak much during the trump rally coronavirus updates. but i like that he's using those kinds of old school metaphors - maybe those resonate with the older folks a little more (aka, those most at risk if they get it, and also a group of people that are prone to complaining and stubborn refusals to do things)
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
yeah I can see how that would be directed at my father-in-law, who was almost 10 when Pearl Harbor happened and is still going out daily without a mask.
― sleeve, Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link