outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Crosby, Stills & Nash?

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.

Most paywalls will block you if you’re incognito but you can clear your cookies for the site instead

Re WaPo coronavirus coverage the news updates remain free, the "analysis" and opinion pieces less so.

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

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

Weird analogy imo. Suggests some big aggressive reaction.

probably alludes to martial law, considering that's the last time it was invoked

i thought they were trying to sprinkle on some asiany flavor.

yum asiany flavor. hope it's soy-garlic

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)

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.

Seems as likely to make that generation indignant at the comparison.

I will report back! I'm sure I will hear his opinion :)

Close thread, we good now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9E6xQ_ah2A

My pet theory for why some old people fail to take it seriously is pride. Like, if you've got that far in life there's a certain pride in thinking that you've seen things the younger generation hasn't and there's nothing new under the sun so anything that messes with that shape to your life is upsetting.

When I linked over to see that youtube, it also recommended for me a video about the "Science behind COVID-19", as explained by "Dr. Duc Vuong, World's #1 Weight Loss Surgeon".

So you deny it.

Xpost

Chicago’s black population is 29%. 70% of those who’ve died from covid in Chicago are African-American. https://t.co/KPi0JXWcmX

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) April 5, 2020

I am not looking forward to when COVID-19 hits the prisons. Given how poor prison medical care is, I expect the mortality will be much higher than average.

hasn't it already?

Hard to say when the media ignores prisons and prisoners so completely.

Timeline crossover: Tiger at NYC’s Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus

seems like a good use of testing resources

Didn't you hear? Tigers are on trend.

The city of San Francisco is not moving any unhoused people from the streets into shelters. Instead, they are CONSOLIDATING people currently living in shelters into larger shelters, forcing crowded conditions. In a pandemic like this, this is murderous https://t.co/PF7esaF4PD

— Butt Praxis (@buttpraxis) April 5, 2020

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/05/maga-cultist-who-downplayed-covid-19-dies-of-covid-19/

Hard to say when the media ignores prisons and prisoners so completely.

The final act of This American Life last week was about prisoners being released in order to be able to distance themselves.

PM Johnson admitted to hospital.

Given one would have to be a hero, out of one's mind, or unable to breathe to enter a hospital right now, that suggests he's on the O2.

the sacrificial lamb we've been demanding

(I’ve read stories for a few weeks about jails in the US and elsewhere doing early and pre-trial release, and also about infected prisoners and wardens - just poking into tt on zing so I can’t ctrl-h references)

Given one would have to be a hero, out of one's mind, or unable to breathe to enter a hospital right now, that suggests he's on the O2.

He's certainly not the first of those. And I doubt he's the other two tbh. Further tests, they're saying. Meanwhile the Russians are saying he's on a ventilator.

He probably does not face the same hurdles for medical attention as the rest of us.

You reckon?

https://wwmt.com/news/state/mdoc-first-michigan-prison-inmate-dies-from-covid-19

I've been keeping track of my own timeline through this--last day in a school, last movie in a theatre, last coffee in a public place--and I'm pretty sure all of that ended with me no later than March 16. I've been extremely careful since then: walks, grocery store, post office, scarf/gloves/never-close-to anybody. If the incubation period remains at two weeks maximum in almost all cases, than I feel like I can say, with a 90-95% confidence level, that if I were to contract it now, that'd be alarming with regards to the limits of what you can do to stay safe--basically, that never leaving the house is the only option.

Wrong thread, probably.

Didn't Johnson say just a couple of days ago that he was more or less better, but spiked a fever again (or continued to) and was just isolating out of a sense of caution? I wonder what changed?

He was lying.

The Guardian was told last week that Johnson was more seriously ill than either he or his officials were prepared to admit, and that he was being seen by doctors who were concerned about his breathing.

yeah he's a liar iirc

he'll Baghdad Bob it til he dies

"he did die, but it wasn't of COVID-19. it was of stress from the hysteria of COVID-19!"

The hashtag #FireFauci is trending on Twitter; one of the people promoting it is Celia Farber, who wrote Spin magazine's AIDS column in the 80s and 90s and was a noted proponent of the theory that HIV does not cause AIDS. Really great the way some folks just keep bubbling up.

i thought it wasn't uncommon for people w/covid to fall extremely ill after a few days of feeling better

I'll give Boris the benefit of the doubt when he's getting last rites and coughing the remnants of his lungs into a scarlet blood spattered handkerchief. But until then he's a ventilator thief!

yeah he's a liar iirc

Not half.

I hate Potterizing but this is literally the plot of Order of the Phoenix