outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

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.

speaking of animals getting bolder

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/25/cdc-warns-of-unusual-or-aggressive-rodents-hunting-for-food-amid-covid-19/

Lol for DJI

regarding the ethics of yelling at these stupid fucking death cult morons whenever necessary:

These social dynamics aren’t worth keeping. It’s gross to expect people with less power to tolerate living with less safety. It’s gross that we let a certain sector of society run unchecked, spreading the virus and their gun-rage.

If you have the social privilege of safety, now is the time to be rude. Use your rudeness to protect yourself, your family, and everyone else in this world.

https://smartwomenwrite.com/2020/05/23/now-is-the-time-to-be-rude/

fuck yes

https://i.imgur.com/s6ERFUA.jpg

yelling means you’re forcefully ejecting microscopic droplets from your mouth so seems a bit counterproductive, unless you think the satisfaction of being vindictive and sanctimonious is worth it

yelling means you’re forcefully ejecting microscopic droplets from your mouth

*into your mask*

But keep talking about how other people are being sanctimonious. A very good look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXGgWf2lacM

I’m not going to yell at some dick who’ll probably just hit me

Or shoot me.

I'm very much not a person who is going to create the possibility for violence where alternatives exist, but if I'm yelling at someone in a supermarket, I've probably already mentally prepared for my bout with Glass Joe

I wouldn’t be so sure about a standard mask capturing all the aerosol droplets from someone yelling/screaming as shown in the video

I regret using "yelling" as shorthand for "clearly enunciated contempt"

can we use "public shaming" instead?

ty, carry on

Are they screaming like Blackie Lawless or just raising their voice

Xpost