outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

hmm

Cuomo tried to keep things business as usual much too long because capitalism, putting a lot of blood on his hands. That other governors have continued to punch themselves (and us) in the dick for much longer isn’t really a defense of him.

All governors fucked up the response, except for Inslee.

i appreciate the offer, but i'm good here with my high-class Pritzker

xp

Who I don’t like all that much but if Biden got the rona and had to step aside (God forbid), I’d be Team Inslee for the nomination.

The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, beginning on Wednesday, send all coronavirus patient information to a central database in Washington — a move that has alarmed public health experts who fear the data will be distorted for political gain.

"no new CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS IN THE LAST THREE WEEKS"

there is no bottom

How long before the dead come back to life

acc to the rambam the first stage of redemption is entirely within the natural realm and only the second supernatural stage of redemption features wonders like resurrection of the dead

All governors fucked up the response, except for Inslee

Oregon's Kate Brown did quite well at first, until the very success of her initial response coupled with the Trump/FOX national disinformation campaign amped up the political pressure on her to reopen. Even then, she tried hard to put in a framework that could cope with the inevitable acceleration of cases. Since then, new cases have accelerated, just as expected.

Tony Evers did a decent job too

acc to the rambam the first stage of redemption is entirely within the natural realm

whoa black betty

lol Mordy

xps Aimless as I'm sure you're aware Brown has been cracking down again as of yesterday (masks will be required in public where distancing is not possible as of tomorrow, no gatherings of more than 10 indoors I think?), which I'd imagine we both eagerly welcome. I agree that she's done the best she could under the circumstances.

Yes. Brown is tweaking and tightening. With the public mood as it is I don't think there is much hope for broad public cooperation with any truly strict lockdown measures.

However, in about a week I hope to be in a wilderness so remote that distancing will be measured in miles!

nice!

"Eat Your Neighbors!" should absolutely be the Trump 2020 slogan. https://t.co/mP55RhNtVE

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 14, 2020

you know, i think rush makes a lot of very good points in that video

especially the long comparison to the 1918 flu and how stoically everyone took it. what's the big deal? why can't we beat as tough as 1918 people? after all, isn't the rest of the world also finding it as impossible to deal with as we are? it's not like the rest of the world is in the year 2020 but we are still figuring out how to get 1918 tough, right?

$50M a year for that guy

why can't we beat as tough as 1918 people?

i'd like to issue a correction for this typo, as well as an apology

Why can't we beat it as tough as 1983 people?

1/ The investigation of Missouri hair stylists who cut hair while infected + masked published today

Of 139 exposed clients, 67 agreed to PCR testing- 0 positive.

Stylist A's husband, daughter, son-in-law, & roommate all became infected, PCR +#COVID19https://t.co/8Xey8BUebn

— Abraar Karan (@AbraarKaran) July 14, 2020

why can't we beat as tough as 1918 people?

they were so tough that they died by the millions worldwide. best estimates are that 1% of all humans died within about 20 months.

and no one talked about it!

it was on Drudge Report

back in those days, the drudge report was actually a handwritten pamphlet handed from one stoic non-complaining flu victim to another in the muddy trenches

Skinny Rush is even more terrifying than Not-skinny Rush

The Second Wave of COVID Hits Israel Like a Tsunami

in testimony to the Israeli parliament, Dr. Udi Kliner, Sadetzki’s deputy, reported that schools—not restaurants or gyms—turned out to be the country’s worst mega-infectors.

Eek

This is so embarrassing. Okinawa was COVID-free for months, then American USFJ soldiers held a big 4th of July party and spread it across the island. https://t.co/bXubOgH8jV

— REDACTED 和諧删剪 (@Comparativist) July 14, 2020

Just awful.

https://t.co/W8lOyvehlG

— 𝖗𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖓 ✞𖤐𝓝𝓢𝓕𝓦 (@ravennsheaa) July 13, 2020

Euro-Anglos, spreading plague for over 500 years

wtf at today uk daily new cases number ?!

Another 530 or so? That's up on yesterday but still down on a week or so ago.

Smh @ the asshole gov of Oklahoma getting it and still not considering a mask mandate. I hope it ruins him.

xp sorry, i was looking at the graph they show on the guardian which always seems to be a day ahead of the number they give. I saw 1,240 !

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c_JzDcG9Azs/Xw9TjfdUexI/AAAAAAAAA2I/zZY4STRhF6gZ0-tdx1I3QNF9WGE942hcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/COVIDJuly.png

please tell there's some valid techy stat gathering reason for such an increase

in general, it's not a good idea to look at daily totals. many jurisdictions have a different reporting schedule, and many/most have discrepancies related to weekend lags and weekday catching up. One large city may report very few cases on a particular day or weekend, only to release all of them at once later, on a weekday. there can also be delayed-case counts from weeks past - e.g., possible cases that were in definitional limbo but were suddenly categorized as cases, adding a big pile on one day.

in other words, there's a whole lot of crazy things that can happen on a single day that influences the count up and down.

that's why it's a good idea to look at 7-day averages, whenever possible.

look at those single days with nearly 0 new UK cases around the beginning of July, for example.

I've looked in four places including on the official gov.net coronavirus page and it's saying 538 new cases on all of them.

I've looked in four places including on the official gov.net coronavirus page and it's saying 538 new cases on all of them.

Nate Silver is getting sneaky with his viral marketing

anyone who said this was going away in march should volunteer imo

125 scholars, from epidemiologists to philosophers & incl'g 15 Nobelists, call for challenge trials of #Covid_19 vaccines (volunteers agree to intentional exposure to virus, making efficacy--or not--apparent faster). Many interesting names: https://t.co/5x6M7Qq1HQ

— sharon begley (@sxbegle) July 15, 2020

i would volunteer tbh

16. Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
99. Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

wait a second - are these two ever in the same room? i just assumed there was a clark kent thing going on with them, this could be big if they're actually different people

i actually submitted a request to be a part of the phase 3 trials of one vaccine candidate. but that wouldn't involve being intentionally infected.

i am 1000% pro-vaccination, but i have the luxury of isolating for a while yet and i am not getting any vaccination that was developed on this compressed timeline, inside the US, while trump is president and has a political interest in cutting corners, unless it is also recommended by the german and south korean equivalents of the FDA.

that reads like one of those tweets from kamala harris about tax credits for people who meet 18 conditions.

honestly thanatos drives my desire to volunteer

i'd be less eager if there was zero chance of dying