Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

One guy sneezed. The whole room bailed, including me.

Trump, describing a meeting in WH in the spring

 

I couldn't find the humor thread, so I'll just put this here (1:40 news clip):

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1305164076562231300/pu/vid/1280x720/pp5Ul21pMf3mkFny.mp4?tag=10

I say it came from the Onion or some other parody site, but it looks pretty real.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

That isn't correct. 1.8 million Swedes live alone. The population of Sweden is 10 million people. More like 18% live alone.

Swedes prefer to live alone because of the high cost of housing and their sanctification of independence | tellerreport.com

 

Finally, Stanford scientists and doctors (and others) stand up to the science denying and pandering of the President's and Fox New's Expert Radiologist who is somehow now the President's Corona Virus advisor:

 

fake news...now that is out of the way

Coronavirus updates: NYC lockdown led to 70% drop in COVID spread; experts predict more deaths if rich countries hoard vaccine

NYC lockdown led to 70% drop in COVID-19 spread, study finds
Mandated stay-at-home measures contributed to a roughly 70% reduction in the transmission of COVID-19 in New York City during the spring pandemic wave from March to June, according to scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the city’s public health department.

Widespread use of face coverings contributed to an additional 7% reduction in transmission and a 20% reduction among those aged 65 and older during the first month face covering was mandated in public places.

“Overall, our study supports the need for multiple interventions,” said lead author Dr. Wan Yang, assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School. “We need to implement all of those simultaneously in order to effectively mitigate the spread of COVID-19.”

The study appears ahead of peer review in the preprint server medRxiv, however, researchers said it falls in line with previous modeling studies estimating lockdowns reduced transmission in Wuhan, China, Italy and France.

 

update on that Maine wedding. 5 dead, 175 + cases

5 deaths and over 175 coronavirus cases now linked to Maine wedding

and for all those that keep parroting the stay home if you don't want to get infected mantra

None of the five people who have died attended the wedding or the reception.

 

Oh it's probably legit. Didn't some folks in Palm Beach Co. claim their commissioners would be going to hell for imposing a mask mandate? I'm tempted to believe that Americans have grown dumber during recent decades, but the more I think about it, the less I believe it. The masses have probably always been dumb. The media, be it social or TV news, are just making the idiocy more apparent.
It's like the movie Blazing Saddles, where the town is filled with idiots who were saved by two brave and intelligent characters.

 

you mean like trump and pence?

 

the ignorance is rampant. sadly it will likely take someone close to them dying or suffering to convince them otherwise

 

Seven dead now, still none that attended the wedding.
Coronavirus death toll linked to wedding in Maine grows to 7

 

Trump...let them eat cake..or ...I'm safe, who cares about them...he knows that he is putting people at great risk and just doesn't care

Trump Defends Indoor Rally, but Aides Express Concern

WASHINGTON — President Trump and his campaign are defending his right to rally indoors, despite the private unease of aides who called it a game of political Russian roulette and growing concern that such gatherings could prolong the coronavirus pandemic.

“I’m on a stage, and it’s very far away,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Monday, after thousands of his supporters gathered on Sunday night inside a manufacturing plant in a Las Vegas suburb, flouting a state directive limiting indoor gatherings to fewer than 50 people.

The president did not address health concerns about the rally attendees, a vast majority of whom did not wear masks or practice any social distancing. When it came to his own safety, he said, “I’m not at all concerned.”

 

He pisses on his people and they are over joyed for the “rain”.

 

Well we crossed 200k dead today on worldometer.
So there’s that.

 

roughly 3M of 4.7M are single or 2 person households. I was surprised too.

The number of households in Sweden has been growing constantly and amounted to approximately 4.7 million in 2019, housing 10.33 million inhabitants. Most of the households in Sweden in 2018 were single-person households without children This category amounted to around 1.8 million.

Sweden: number of households by type 2019 | Statista

 

and some people actually believe that we did about as good as we could because Trump said so

 

not being crass but less people means less global emissions. don’t have a good solution for balance in that regard.

 

HHS chief overrode FDA officials to ease testing rules

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar led an escalating pressure campaign against his own Food and Drug Administration this spring and summer, urging the agency to abandon its responsibility for ensuring the safety and accuracy of a range of coronavirus tests as the pandemic raged.

Then in late August, Azar took matters into his own hands. Overriding objections from FDA chief Stephen Hahn, Azar revoked the agency’s ability to check the quality of tests developed by individual labs for their own use, according to seven current and former administration officials with knowledge of the decision.

The unilateral policy change — which applies to “lab-developed” tests for a wide range of diseases, including Covid-19 — had been long sought by commercial, university and public health labs in the name of greater flexibility. But Hahn viewed the move as inappropriate and ill-timed because it removed safeguards designed to prevent inaccurate tests from flooding the market during a public health crisis.

That could have disastrous consequences as the country struggles to bring its coronavirus outbreak under control. False negative results could mislead some people with Covid-19 into thinking they’re free of the virus and can’t infect others. False positive results could spark unnecessary contact tracing efforts that sap already stretched resources.

 

change our fuel supplies where practical, reduce cattle methane emissions via different feed sources, implement regulations that reduce emissions from ocean going ships..will drive prices up for everything but maybe it is time we spend more on preserving our planet and less on buying more junk to be stored in a never ending supply of new miniwarehouses or the next streaming service

 

thats what it will take but how to change the consumer mindset is a tough nut to crack.