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What makes you say this?
He's been speaking daily in the afternoon since last week.
I think Kay Ivey took far too long to shut things down. Beaches were still open up through Thursday last week. The shutdown order needed to happen much sooner, although I'm not entirely convinced that people would've listened to the state. I've seen far too much parroting of what Trump has been saying, so I'm sure that's going to continue.
I do think rural areas will have far less communal spread, so the hot spots are going to be the coast and large cities like Birmingham and Huntsville. The big concern for areas not "Birmingham" will be hospitals are already in a dire state, so if there's any measurable outbreak I do think those hospitals will not be able to handle it.
Trump can't open up shit. It's purely for narrative so at Easter or whenever he can start claiming it's the evil Democrat governors' fault and the economy would be perfect otherwise. He'll repeat it, his supplicants will repeat it, and the media will show it 500 times and eventually give equal weight to a notion that is 100% false. It's the same shit everytime.
In Austria here we have this live map from the gov. of confirmed cases.
Impfdashboard | Corona-Schutzimpfung in Österreich
Dashboard mit Zahlen und Fakten zu der Corona-Schutzimpfunginfo.gesundheitsministerium.at
Last days has growth has been increasing :(
No worries. We increased testing and will continue to do so. What we will also get is a lot of dark numbers that will start to show, that already had it for quite some time. I imagine we have a lot of dark numbers to begin with, as the whole Tirol thing was kinda fucked up and we also have other popular skiing regions so people sometimes go from one to the next and probably imported the virus from region to region. But with already more than 4000 fines, you get an idea that some people just can't care less it seems. I hope we fine the shit out of all those people that still need to act against the rules.
The US electorate continue to surprise and shock me so I'm not betting on anything, but I don't see how the hell Trump is re-elected in November after all of this
So many people are going to die because of these fools and they don't care and no one will hold them to account.
Absolutely fucking insane.
It's become a tired cliche for this to be shared every time Trump opens his mouth, but I saw this '95 quote by Carl Sagan shared again today and it remains ever prescient
So many people are going to die because of these fools and they don't care and no one will hold them to account.
Absolutely fucking insane.
It's become a tired cliche for this to be shared every time Trump opens his mouth, but I saw this '95 quote by Carl Sagan shared again today and it remains ever prescient
CT just announced their daily confirmed cases doubled. So the curve is still escalating.
US is going to have a really messed curve due to all the states doing their own thing.
Given how our state is politically I'm surprised we even shut down. I'm glad we did though because it allowed local municipalities the freedom to shut things down based on the order.
That's brutal. But if the quarentine just started, it makes sense that most people do not comply yet. It usually takes 3-4 days to start sinking in.
Bogota. First day of 19 day quarantine and isolation. City of 8 million people
Here, the country just jumped to Phase 2, which means that the remaining states that have not implemented it yet, will ask the population for social isolation.
Just mere hours, after the spokeman said (that) there were no plans for it yet. And even though WHO directly asked us to increase testing, there does not seem to be a hurry to do so.
That video has been making the rounds in the last hours.
For some reason, this is making people actually start to worry about the situation.
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I still have to pay for parking at the office that I'm not allowed to go into.
I'm sceptical of the testings working, especially for the dark numbers the fast tests will do nothing.
He can force Federal workers to go back to work, which is the largest workforce in America.
Aren't most of them still working? Post Office is, at the very least.
That's honestly the right way to go. There are so many variations in terms of lock down status, amount of testing, etc. Some states have been really on the ball, others....not so much.
Would be badass if he dressed up like Judge Dredd while he did it.
"That certainly would complicate things,"
NO FUCKING SHIT.
Not to mention illness will spike during the reopening. They are so bad at everything.
I'm in Central IL in a county with only a few confirmed cases. I've got at least 5 people in my social circle who are showing some or all of the Covid symptoms and every single one of them has been told by the major regional hospital "Stay home, we don't have tests unless you are over 70 or literally dying already".
"That certainly would complicate things."
Now there's an understatement.
They need to get those people helicoptered off that ship yesterday, and probably need to pull that ship into a port and stay there until they can verify no one else on it caught the virus. Otherwise that shit is going to spread like wildfire extremely fast. I've been on a deployed ship when regular colds break out, they hit everyone and in no time.
This is incredibly good news, and it addresses many of the topics we've been discussing here:
• One vaccine will probably provide long-term immunity, like the Chicken Pox vaccine, with no need for yearly variations.
• The virus is not mutating into deadlier forms and is unlikely to do so.
• Theories that different countries have strains that are more or less lethal is likely untrue; differences in death rate are due to local circumstances only.
I mean yeah, that's what we've all been freaking out a out for weeks. Why do you think you only have a few confirmed cases? There are definitely thousands of cases in your county.
Seems like there's a good amount to be optimistic about regarding keeping the virus down. I hope we can get there without too much more stress on the healthcare system in the meantime.
Most are working from home right now. I would imagine that if he says "go back to work" that means going back to the office. They're currently in a Continuity of Operations (COOP) capacity which is unsustainable for the long term as it dips into an emergency fund. They did this during the furlough last year during the government shut down.
PS: Government agencies encompass much much more than just the Post Office
Love it
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That implies there are large numbers of federal workers currently at home. I'm not sure that is the case, or at least at the percentages you are suggesting. There's been no guidance from the administration to WFH.
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/23/mi...me-order-during-coronavirus-pandemic_partner/
The sad part is we won't even need to see the effects of reopening to see a spike. it's not like the current measures in place in the majority of the US are enough right now. Cases are going to keep going up quite a bit each day for a while.
Yep. I'm in Champaign. Know three people (and one of their roommates) who have had symptoms. All were told to just stay home and call back if shit gets bad.
Hmmm...a giant social gathering. Like churches on Easter would be. :|
Yep. I've said it before, but I don't know if I've said it on this site, so: if I'm somehow wrong about all this shit, and the bible is divinely inerrant, american protestant evangelicals are gonna have literal hell to pay in the near future. Cause that means Trump is almost certainly the anti-christ, and when the real Jesus comes back to whoop ass on a pale horse in the near future, these hypocritical fucks are first in line, going by what Jesus taught in the gospels. You know, about how people who claim to do good works in his name but haven't cared for the people around them are not his children.
(I'm not wrong that the bible is not inerrant, and I'm pretty sure everyone here agrees, so please don't take this as an endorsement of heavenly sanctioned violence, especially not in these trying times. I'm just pointing out the irony that the people in this country who claim to respect the bible's inerrancy the most, tend to be the ones that follow the commands of the biblical Jesus Christ the least. I'm an ex-christian who actually read his damn bible, so I would know. And in case you don't, go look up Mathew 25:34-46. and you'll understand why I'm not worried about my eternal fate, but Trump-supporting evangelicals should be. In the meantime, I'll do everything necessary to protect my own current life and the lives of those around me, cause I'm fairly certain that's the only life we're getting.)
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Thats the best news so far. With some report coming out that some people getting COVID losing smell and taste capacity , i was a bit worried it was a form of mutation.
except if churches were open on Easter it would be tens of millions of people in church and not just 40,000
We in the Netherlands we maybe got "lucky" difficult to say. Because the most cases here or where it mostly started was in the south where Carnival is big. That created a big spread also.
The lucky part comes in. Is that we had for weeks alot of storms arround that time. So alot of Carnival parades and gatherings were cancelled. Maybe we "lucked out" with that.