Aint No Right

Even I couldn't have predicted how terribly the United States has done. Out of the three million counted infections, fully a third of them are in the United States. That's absolutely ridiculous.

It's not real populism though. At least, it's not real in its origins. Yes, of course Trump wasn't the hand-picked puppet of the American ultrawealthy. But Putin is by some estimates the wealthiest person on the planet (of course unofficially, since we have no idea how much money he actually has). T...

I will say that I suppose it's good that the world shutting down has held the total (tested) infections to about 3-3.25 million by the end of April. Without any mitigation, it would easily have hit the 10 million I predicted (and who knows what the actual number should have been in China if they had...

Also: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/ ... FvpBW5rzzY

That is a good map you have to demonstrate the dichotomy of represention in the US. It may actually also represent the extreme balance we have going.... We don't think of the consequences of completely getting rid of the electoral college. How long do you think it would be until there would be real...

I encounter a lot of people who voted (will definitely again) for Trump. It is like a prophet thing to them. The coasts and the foreign are the enemy, who orchestrate their misery (and in reality they are very miserable). Trump has all the right words. :nod: It's unfortunate that we associate them ...

Who voted for this man? Is democracy that flawed? Are a percentage of the population that stupid? What is going on America? 30 million+ fundamentalist Christians... A shitton of gerrymandered voting districts... Whole states with absolutely fucked economies and education / health and a huge opioid ...

I haven't been wearing one and they don't seem to be requiring it at any stores here. People seem to be basically pretty good about staying distanced. I haven't been either but I just ordered some on Sunday, hope to get them by Friday. I shop for my mother and I still use public transit. I walk whe...

Today I was forbidden from entering a supermarket because I wasn't wearing a mask :conf: Weren't they supposed to be (almost) pointless and basically a placebo? Anyway, I just crossed the street and went to another supermarket :noclue: It's not a placebo for protecting *other people* if *you* are c...

It's interesting how confusing this is. Canadian health officials have tried to clarify it, because people were asking questions like: "Can I have a beer with my neighbour if we stay six feet apart?" It seems that everyone is trying to figure out what the maximal extent of socializing is that is "pe...

Tyler Durden wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:11 pm

Hype wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:56 pm

Yeah but then how would they have made that sweet sweet HBO theme song money?

Oh, you mean for "Sex and the City: Male Edition"?

I don't know. I also doubt it was much money.

Yeah but then how would they have made that sweet sweet HBO theme song money?

It's like prison. According to some sources, it takes about a year to acclimatize to the institutionalized lifestyle, after which point, for quite a few it's less punishment and more the new normal. That's also why prisoners tend to create their own culture. It's a real problem for retribution-based...

okay...... i've had about enough of this.......corona can go FUCK OFF!!!! :waits: :ax: :jasper: :jasper: :jasper: :jasper: :jasper: :jasper: :balls: :balls: :drink: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :noclue: :mediate: They just renewed the emergency powers in Ontario, Canada for another m...

Bernie Sanders model of socialism yet we're now going to get a firsthand look at how it works You can't seriously believe that. A largely state-driven (NOT federal) authoritarian response to a worldwide pandemic that happens to involve trying to stave off a depression is absolutely not even close t...

List of incorporated cities in the United States with over 75,000 residents 1. Rank 2. Incorporated place 3. Metropolitan area 4. State 5. Population (2010 census) 6. Land area (mi2) 7. Land area (approximate km2) 8. Population density (people per mi2) 9. Population density (approximate people per ...

I def see articles saying we had it in dec..but every doctor I find on the subject is saying where are the dead then? where is the pneumonia caseload? Just gonna have to wait... The death rate thing is weird, right? You'd expect to see a strange spike in deaths in nursing homes back then. But, mayb...

https://www.ksbw.com/article/new-study-investigates-californias-possible-herd-immunity-to-covid-19/32073873 Soooo what the hell is happening in California? Around 500 deaths compared to nearly 8,000 in New York. California is twice as populated. California is the largest hub for Chinese travel. Wha...

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/1727839/ A good visualization for why hospitals are so concerned. They're deferring all non-emergency surgery and trying to avoid bringing existing patients anywhere near the hospitals unless absolutely necessary. Why? Because holy shit... COVID-19 just o...

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article The R0 values we estimated have important implications for predicting the effects of pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical interventions. For example, the threshold for combined vaccine efficacy and herd immunity needed for disease extinction is ...

"opening the country", not really the right way to put it, is it? Anyway, you seem to get what I mean. Some will have their freedom very soon, in about a week, kids from the age 0 to 7 or something will start going to school and kindergarten and such if the school e.g is able to live up to certain ...

I researched a bit and it turns out that we normally have relatively few ICU's but that we're able to turn regular beds into ICU's fast if need be so i.e. we'll have plenty as long as we can control the curve when we start opening the country. No crisis right now that's for sure Well, that’s good. ...

If I understand things correctly they're saying that Denmark is going to have an ICU bed shortage tomorrow. Not true at all, unless something fucks up completely during the next 24 hours Are you sure? Denmark appears to have had an issue with this for quite a while, before COVID-19. E.g., back in 2...

Ditto. Cheers, and let's hope you're right and everything goes back to something like normal sooner rather than later, and with as little death as possible (though there has already been too much).

I saw a headline the other day that was comparing coronavirus deaths to wartime deaths. Why don't we do this with every virus? Because the US President declared himself a "Wartime President" because of this event. And because this coronavirus is not like every virus. It is a *novel* virus that spre...