outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

"Turns out Juliette Binoche subscribes to it as well."

Y do u break heart? :'-(

💔

So over her >:(

tbh the UK and France being full of heid-the-ba's doesn't really surprise me.

Isabelle Adjani has been peddling anti-vaxxer garbage since 2017, so Juliette Binoche is in good company.

Yeah I just watched a bus go by packed with people, like pressed up against the glass. These are certainly not commuters. wishing this crisis over does not make it so.

This belief in magical protection from harm seems to me like a fascinating manifestation of white/western privilege, a subconscious acceptance that the world is arranged to provide for your personal safety.

It kinda feels like the general attitude is rapidly shifting towards 'the weather's getting nicer so the pandemic is over, right?'. Can't wait to spend another several months in lockdown after cases spike again a few weeks from now.

it's just like how when hurricanes come and people say "it's not coming here" and think that saying "it's not coming here" will make it not come here.

(I'm one of those people that rails against hurricane hysteria but mostly at those civilians that misinterpret hurricane forecasts as being fixed in stone and don't know what a 'cone of uncertainty' is).

on the plus side, if we have one this year, we're already hunkered down.

Cone of Uncertainty is the name of my String Cheese Incident tribute band

This belief in magical protection from harm seems to me like a fascinating manifestation of white/western privilege, a subconscious acceptance that the world is arranged to provide for your personal safety.

Euler is in Paris which is a long way from being a 'white' city tbh.

Still definitely the West, though.

as I probably said a few days ago, people of African descent are largely wearing masks around here (& that's most people), whereas "whiter" looking people largely aren't. I think I'd say that older people tend to be wearing masks more than younger people as well, but I'm not as sure about that.

I can't really pin down demographics over here. the only group I see not wearing them more than others is high-school and college kids, but I've even seen them starting to.

last night, one of my friends said a pair of young adults behind her at a grocery store were audibly commenting on her mask and how uncomfortable it must be, making fun of her but intentionally loud enough for her to hear it.

yeah I am constantly seeing gaggles of teenagers without masks standing about everywhere. it’s surreal

No covid concerns at the lake of the ozarks😳 #loto pic.twitter.com/Yrb4UNM64u

— Scott Pasmore (@scottpasmoretv) May 24, 2020

p sure Lake of the Ozarks is already a rich soup of communicable pathogens. Maybe coronavirus will simply be outcompeted by gonorrhea and opioid abuse

Peru is really bad right now, we have numerous friends there and what we're hearing is cases through the roof everywhere and no hospital beds

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYjPDH2XgAA2C-N.png

“My fingernails are breaking, I’ve got hangnails, I’ve been getting my nails done for 14 years … I’m very much into yoga, I can’t go to my Bikram yoga studios, I can’t go get my eyelashes done, I can’t go and socialize with the people that are my friends,” said Mississippian Hillary Angel Barq. “It’s led me to depression, it’s made me not feel sexual — I mean it’s awful.”

...

Make America Feel Sexual Again

I wonder if she's related to the root beer family?

She's engaged to an A&W, it's a scandal

that masturbating inflatable bounce house fortune heir sounds like fun

people are gonna kill us in the end

I can't really pin down demographics over here. the only group I see not wearing them more than others is high-school and college kids, but I've even seen them starting to

I would agree that non-maskwearers in the grocery store are very rare and almost universally twentysomething/teens. Outside, almost everyone, including me, is unmasked (it's uncrowded enough here that people aren't close to each other for long.)

-10 y life expectancy:

This is a remarkable chart. Your risk of dying in the UK from coronavirus is the same as "normal annual risk". https://t.co/Hli7YPoARs

Worth noting, this risk profile will be different if the health system is overwhelmed and will be different for other countries. pic.twitter.com/nIRZqlIjgq

— Akshat Rathi (@AkshatRathi) May 24, 2020

not surprisingly, it's already been misinterpreted

One way to think about that is: if you get coronavirus then your risk of dying that year is twice what it would otherwise be. That’s not a huge deal for a 30 year old because it’s very rare for 30 year olds to die, but it’s not great if you’re 80.

yep. the chart puts it into a harrowing perspective. this is why I'm wearing a mask in the house around my dad.

i'm afraid to share the chart though because I know people will go "SEE, IT'S NO RISKIER THAN EVER!"

what kind of monsters use a log scale graph

lol Staten Island

Staten Islanders with masks drive out non-mask wearing person in grocery store. #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/iPQwk7lD9y

— McAuley (@McauleyHolmes) May 25, 2020

Have mixed feelings about that

well the yelling isn't good, makes more droplets

I know, right? Why must they be so mean to some stupid asshole who's putting all of their lives at risk? I mean, they used profanity in the presence of a child!

I'm not totally against it, but the raging mob is a bit worrisome. I could see this stuff turning violent very quickly, and that probably wouldn't be great.

It’s Staten Island

I could see this stuff turning violent very quickly, and that probably wouldn't be great.

This is sort of like "if you don't want to get punched in the face, don't march through downtown holding your Nazi flag" - if you don't want to get chased out of the supermarket, put a fucking mask on.

These two things are not equivalent, but ok, my mild disapproval was obviously a bridge too far.

Evening the score with moms in the guilt department.

http://www.blogto.com/city/2020/05/ontario-now-blaming-mothers-day-increase-cases-covid-19/

Cottonwood AZ (trashier, more conservative, less educated): almost nobood wears a mask now
Sedona AZ, 15 minutes away (wealthier, more liberal, more educated): almost everyone is still wearing masks

more like STALIN ISLAND am I right fellow freedom lovers

my takeaway from that video was information i already knew: do not go grocery shopping in staten island

here's a URL for you
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/orchestra-stranded-german-castle-haunted-wolves-coronavirus-bolivia-pandemic-1234615376/

IHME sucked and “curve fitting” is an example of the hubris of people without any domain expertise who can code and have total faith in “data”

ICYMI (because I did!) the IHME model is now a hybrid SEIR model. They switched to this method on May 04, look at the difference in accuracy so far

My key take away:

👩‍⚕️ Listen to disease modeling experts, there's a reason they utilize these compartment models! pic.twitter.com/Hi8uLVagVO

— Lucy D’Agostino McGowan (@LucyStats) May 25, 2020

I had noticed that their methodology had changed last log-in - was wondering about that. thanks!

here's a URL for you
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/orchestra-stranded-german-castle-haunted-wolves-coronavirus-bolivia-pandemic-1234615376🕸/

https://i.imgur.com/HJp6uAZ.jpg

ORCHESTRA STRANDED
GERMAN CASTLE HAUNTED
WOLVES
CORONAVIRUS
BOLIVA
PANDEMIC
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

How did we get to this url?

Of the 251 orchestra strandings over the last 187 years (orchestra stranding reporting only started in the 1830s), only 23 were in German castles. 18 of those castles were haunted, and of those 18, only 5 were surrounded with wolves. Of those 5, 3 were Bolivian. The first of those was in 1847. The second was in 1918, during the flu pandemic. And finally, there was this one, during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.