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- PonyBoy19
I could care less which news outlet this came from... I'm willing to bet just about any news outlet would look this dopey if we were really paying attention...
... although there is something satisfying watching the idiot delivering the story (and the dipshit in the newsroom) glaze right over their own hypocrisy w/out a fuck given. :)
- whatthefunk0
- It’s Florida. What’s not possible in FloridaGnash
- Floriderp has their own math.utopian
- https://www.sun-sent…zarkonite
- utopian0
Thank you Mr. President :)
- AQUTE4
Italy Says 96% of Virus Fatalities Suffered From Other Illnesses
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a…- Do fat and/or hairy qualify as other illnesses?BusterBoy
- AQUTE
- In USA average 2.5 illnesses.robotron3k
- what defines an illness? That dude on Joe Rogan was told that his migraines constituted an illness. Seasonal allergies? ADD? Anxiety? Cold?_niko
- Yupmoldero
- AQUTE0
Quarantine is when you restrict movement of sick people.
Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people.
-Interesting- “the boy who cried tyranny.”dorf
- welcome to MarchFax_Benson
- that's not what quarantine is tho, you simpletonscruffics
- No. You quarantine all people to limit the spread of a disease. Did I need to type that?jagara
- What about people who might be sick?
tit.Projectile - 5Gdeadsperm
- Who's movement is being restricted?nb
- Head down to Alabama for some freedimPhanLo
- Out of control tyranny is when u seperate children from their mothers. very tremendous beautiful sick people .neverscared
- just fyi... what tyranny actually means: cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control. sounds like trumpimbecile
- In mother Russia, @AQUTE troll you!ideaist
- Meshawn Maddock, an organizer of “Operation Gridlock” with the Michigan Conservative Coalition, told Fox News.jaylarson
- https://www.foxnews.…jaylarson
- Aqute don’t post dumb shit if you’re not willing to defend it or back it up comrade._niko
- Still not sure where exactly I'm not allowed to travel to...?nb
- Truth iz treason in an empire of lies
--Gandhiyuekit
- Gardener1
- lol...this might be the best one yetyuekit
- Oh wow, he's really losing it now.Continuity
- He's even numbering the panels! FLOLContinuity
- And even there he failed, #2 is on both lol_niko
- Should have added Bill Gates coming out of the alien's mouth.yuekit
- The right has never really figured out this whole “satire” thingFNP14
- ^ there's not enough room to add a "BILL GATES (MICROSOFT)" label. What a crap artist.garbage
- The labels make everything less confusing. Wait. Nope, I got that backwards.DRIFTMONKEY
- webazoot0
UK suffers highest death rate from coronavirus
The UK has suffered the highest rate of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic among countries that produce comparable data, according to excess mortality figures.
The UK has registered 59,537 more deaths than usual since the week ending March 20, indicating that the virus has directly or indirectly killed 891 people per million.
At this stage of the pandemic, that is a higher rate of death than in any country for which high-quality data exist. The absolute number of excess deaths in the UK is also the highest in Europe, and second only to the US in global terms, according to data collected by the Financial Times.
Other countries like China, Brazil and Russia have suffered large death tolls during the pandemic. However, their mortality rates are far below the UK as the number of deaths is smaller compared with their much larger populations.
The timing of lockdowns relative to the spread of the virus had a significant effect on the total level of excess deaths, the data show.
Countries such as Germany and Norway, which imposed restrictions when the spread of the virus was limited, suffered much lower levels of additional deaths than those in the UK where the government waited longer before ordering a lockdown.
A UK government spokesperson said it was “wrong and premature to be drawing conclusions at this stage” and that excess deaths should be adjusted for age.
“We will, of course, learn lessons from our response to this virus, but these must be drawn from an accurate international analysis in the future,” Number 10 added.
- Add Brexit to it, and UK (England at least) is quickly becoming #1 world idiot country.shapesalad
- utopian-3
Sweden has the highest coronavirus death rate in the world – and it’s getting even worse.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coron…
Well...there goes that right-wing looney tune "Herd immunity" theory out the window!
- C'mon, herd immunity is not a right-wing plot. It's a perfetly valid scientific theory. Just because the rednecks are using it as an excuse to act like assholeszarkonite
- doesn't invalidate it. The data will tell us if it's going to work or not, science takes time.zarkonite
- There data doesn't seem to check out with other sauces. https://www.statista…
https://ourworldinda…Chimp - Although I'm not sure I agree with their approach.Chimp
- I seem to recall stats showing Belgium had highestBustySaintClaire
- Herd immunity is a "theory." hahahahahahahahaMondoMorphic
- Herd immunity is valid. But looking at the current numbers, we're so far away from that it barely makes sense as a strategy.yuekit
- NYT has an article on this today
https://www.nytimes.…yuekit - Here's Why Herd Immunity Won't Save Us From The COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.sciencea…utopian - ^ Good article, utopian. Nobody should be thinking of herd immunity as a prevention strategy, but like the author suggested, an eventuality.MondoMorphic
- Comments are really uninformed. Someone wrote Turkey & Belarus as no-lockdown, low death rate countries.Turkey had strict lockdown and numbers are not reflectinBeeswax
- the truth bc they have a different system for labeling deaths. Everyone hereknows they are lying about numbers.Too bad if other countries take that as an examplBeeswax
- Sweden doesn't have a "Herd immunity strategy". And as long as countries doesn't count the deaths the same way, comparing numbers is pretty useless. Imo.haga
- if your strategy is to go on like normal hoping most people get the virus and nothing else, then it's a herd immunity strategymonospaced
- Mono, sure but that isn't the strategy. The strategy has been to focus on keeping the elderly safe, which pretty much failed initialy.haga
- Bennn14
I'am slightly starting to think we do way too much against the covid19 for some specific things. I know this is a very contagious virus, but sometimes it seems the logic is thrown out the window.
- i'm curious what you think is too much, like some specific things? I agree a bit when it came to closing parks and open spaces which you can social distance safcapn_ron
- Refer to the Japanese flu from the 50s for a alternative approach. The mortality rate, numbers of dead, etc seem similar to our current pandemic.MondoMorphic
- some people seems to think that virus is literally jumping from people to people. Lots of paranoia. And its normal i guess with all the news since months now.Bennn
- How strict is the lockdown where you're at? I feel like I see people on TV protesting, but then I talk to my family back in USA and their lives are basicallyyuekit
- So much of the problem early on was the lack of understandingMondoMorphic
- normal with a few minor restrictions.yuekit
- It's important not to let a non-elected person dictate the health policy of an entire country. Yes Bill Gates I'm talking about you and your hobbies.robotron3k
- Meanwhile in Spain people were literally trapped inside their homes. I don't think Americans or Canadians ever went through something like that.yuekit
- But all of this has been politicized. Look at party tits Cuomo, what a turd he is. I'd like him to step up and try Washington, they will eat his lunch.robotron3k
- Ask yourself if you want the virus. I personally don't want to risk it. Sure could be mild. Could also be permanent damage and weeks in an ICU.shapesalad
- For sure, the politicization has been awfulMondoMorphic
- So while tiring to have all these measures. I'd rather have them than the virus. Next you can ask yourself if you want to pass the virus onto your family...shapesalad
- I was just looking to see if I could have a bonfire on the bay here and there is no stopping, sitting, or laying down. only moving is allowed.capn_ron
- Once you think through those two questions you start to calm down and think yep, lockdown ok, at least we're in an industry where you can WFH anywhere.shapesalad
- we're preparing for another spanish flu of 1918, see if we can practice safe measures before the Tsunami hits in the fall, so far they're tracking the same._niko
- I'm guessing it'll be more like the 50s' Japanese flu, but you could be right, _niko. Who knows how covid will mutate.MondoMorphic
- Winter is Coming!utopian
- It's like complaining about seatbelts. Cos fatality rates are way lower than expected.inteliboy
- Well at least in most countries. Except USA with 100k+ deaths.inteliboy
- @yuekit Um, Seattle was a vector city and I have been on lockdown for almost 5 months now. It has completely changed virtually every aspect of my daily life.garbage
- And there is a political aspect because this dumbfuck administration completely bungled this in multifaceted ways.garbage
- Yeah fair point garbage, I'm sure it depends on your job, daily life, whether you have kids etc. However I do think that for all the protests and even with theyuekit
- highest number of deaths in the world, people in USA never saw a total lockdown like some countries did.yuekit
- isn't quebec getting hit pretty hard? maybe not enough is being done?pango
- 2013 new cases in the UK, even without adequate testing, 412 deaths yesterday and things are opening up next week...webazoot
- I would not be surprised if we hit 200k before year's end. Things are warming up, people are getting bored. Cases are ramping in CA and southern states..garbage
- ..and that outpaces older models for a second wave. Fall is going to suck in a big way.garbage
- 5 months!? woah, didn't know that, even Spain and Italy weren't under extreme lockdown anywhere near that long.fadein11
- That is hard.fadein11
- Pretty sure he meant five weeks? Five months ago would be before all this started.yuekit
- I know obviously...fadein11
- No, since late January. I know people that work in the medical community here, and they were worried about this in December.garbage
- But yeah, five months. I haven't seen any of my friends in five months. Neither have they. So when people spout ignorance on the topic, I tend to get irritated.garbage
- So if I've been coming in hot here lately, it's because it's been just me, my girlfriend, her loud-ass keyboard and the dogs since the beginning of the year.garbage
- utopian-4
Here is a prime example of how "Herd Immunity" really works.
Republicans want immunity for companies that negligently spread COVID-19
- that blob of chicken filet is the antichristtank02
- save the sea turtles!moldero
- https://www.youtube.…tank02
- MAGA!omahadesigns
- But wouldn't it be hard to sue? Surely any lawyer would say you caught the virus anywhere else but work.omahadesigns
- This saves a lot of companies from everyone who gets sick and tries to make a buck.omahadesigns
- He's anti-MAGA tho...robotron3k
- Capitalism!i_monk
- Turkey Neck! wobble gobble wobble.shapesalad
- I read "neck immunity"...nbq
- robo: he does everything to enable MAGAMAN. This proves my point on you. You blind man.tank02
- Christ. This guy really is uglier than a jar of pickled arseholes.Continuity
- Nairn0
I was joking about just this the other night when we had a friend around (she's been self-isolating for months now and was going mad, living as she is on her own).
Google AR social distancing software...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/scie…
(I was thinking more in terms of Google Glass-a-likes)
- Well thats useful for people who aren't capable of judging 6 feet with their eyesight, I guess.webazoot
- Hmmm, either no designers on that team or one designer who was told to STFUnb
- yeah ,this is borderline pointless. I was imaginging some sort of Gibsonesque meat/metaspace overlays with viral load and temperature indicators, etc...Nairn
- surely a cheap version of Google glasses which has limited function would have be the way to go?Bluejam
- completely missed the last line of the post
< facepalm >Bluejam - To be fair, a lot of people are in a position at work with nothing to do and are inventing make-work projects so they don't get laid-off during the slowdownnb
- What they were working on disappeared, so they were like "oh wait we have some ideas to pivot our team, let me get back to you in a few weeks" to buy some time.nb
- nb0
https://www.foxnews.com/world/so…
South Korea restores coronavirus lockdown restrictions after new spike in cases
South Korea has reimplemented lockdown restrictions after seeing its biggest spike in coronavirus cases in more than 50 days.
Meanwhile in America.....
- ... the Gov of Florida is fast-tracking the re-opening despite massive undercounting of COVID cases and a "mysterious" spike in pneumonia!nb
- Not great news although if you read the article, it was just some minor restrictions that were reimposed.yuekit
- I don't think Korea ever did a 'stay at home' lockdown. They are relying heavily on technology and tracing contacts of the infected using apps.yuekit
- ^ Well it is a Fox News article, they like to leave out some of the detailsnb
- In NYC there's basically no one on the subway, no schools, daycares, no offices open... for months! What happens when we re-open?nb
- Rumoured JP Morgan Chase selling their Park Avenue location outside Grand Central. DeBasio wants to penthouse affordable housing called social distance housingrobotron3k
- It's hard to understand how you can be such an idiot.nb
- neverscared1
Coronavirus: Monkeys 'escape with COVID-19 samples' after attacking lab assistant
- LOL
Is this kind of like, 'My dog ate my homework'?Continuity - Ah, so we're in Planet of Apes and not The Walking Dead. Got it!MondoMorphic
- Pretty sure this was the opening sequence of 28 Days Lateryuekit
- Yes and that movie ended happy so stop worrying.nb
- LOL
- mg331
Disgusted with some extended family. They needed a night out at a restaurant so badly that they drove to another state they live close to so they could eat indoors at a restaurant, no masks, no masks on most of the staff.
Their rationale? "I don't want to live in fear, I want normalcy."
I don't understand this prevailing attitude some have that caution for yourself and others in the form of a mask or social distancing is an act of fear.
Sad thing is, had we known they were doing everything by the book and not putting themselves at risk, we would have had them over to celebrate our son's third birthday at the end of June. Since they're not, and it's obvious they won't, forget about it.
I'm sure my wife and I will be the bad guys for being cautious and staying safe.
- evolution will work it all out.moldero
- stressing on what others will do will only lower your own immune system, hunker down and let thew idiots die off.moldero
- The irony, of course, being that the sooner *everyone* applied the kind of caution you are, mg33, the sooner 'normalcy' would come back.Continuity
- Their sheer pigheadedness and irresponsibility is simply drawing the pain out.Continuity
- With the biggest contributor to immune system strength being exposure to viruses, they're basically exercising. :)MondoMorphic
- Getting the guilt trip from the older folks in my family, of all people.fattymcgrizzle
- acting like spoilt little kids. which really, is exactly what most coddled well fed Walmart loven' westerners are.inteliboy
- monospaced2
It's been 2 weeks since Wisconsin reopened.
- And they saw a record number of cases and deaths this weekyuekit
- https://news.yahoo.c…yuekit
- Although, overall numbers not really that high. The question is whether they would keep increasing with no lockdown, distancing, etcyuekit
- And also how much of the population continued to distance and shelter regardless of the ruling.monospaced
- MoNO! The coroner's had a backlog of paperwork they just got caught up with that's why the increase of deaths. Jeezez.robotron3k
- We have a lake house in Wisconsin. Coming from Chicago, it is a different world.wordssssss
- what the fuck are you talking about bobo?monospaced
- dbloc2
The Future is Now
- moldero1
Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples from lab worker
- oops link:
https://nypost.com/2…moldero - https://www.nytimes.…moldero
- I found this to be truly unreal given the circumstances of it all LOLgrafician
- Planet of the Apes & Robots
#soonBennn - Thanks, India!Gnash
- oops link:
