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- neverscared1
nz pretty top, we in austria also quite good
- allthethings2
some actual reassuring news about CV-19...
Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper?
We asked the experts to answer questions about all the places coronavirus lurks (or doesn’t). You’ll feel better after reading this.
- neverscared2
only in america
- shapesalad-2
Meanwhile in Spain:
“Catalan president Quim Torra's serious reticence over the relaxing of lockdown for non-essential workers to a protest from the region's interior minister, Miquel Buch, over Spain sending exactly 1,714,000 face masks to Catalonia - which he claimed could be a deliberate coincidence with the defeat of separatist forces in Barcelona back in 1714. "Don't play with our history," Buch snarled in a press conference on Monday.”
- imbecile6
Paycheck Protection Program billions went to large companies and missed virus hot spots
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pay…
The rush to distribute nearly $350 billion in federal aid from a popular — and now empty— small business relief fund resulted in the government sending billions to areas of the country with relatively few novel coronavirus cases, to companies in industries that have not been the hardest hit by the shutdown, and to companies that are not even small businesses.
- Yeah, as if we didn't all see this coming. The distribution of this bailout was almost entirely based on the honor system.nb
- Companies were not asked to even declare need. They became eligible by declaring only a concern for the future. As though there were any who were not concerned.nb
- Trump removes independent watchdog for coronavirus funds, upending oversight panel. What could go wrong?utopian
- https://www.politico…utopian
- "the honor system" how fucking beautiful that is. as a matter of fact while i'm watching how my home country is dealing with this economic meltdownsted
- where this idea is not just a concept.
Only a company close to government (or producing a critical products) is allowed to open its factories.sted - And the army took control over the companies who have so far supported the opposition.sted
- Good Oldé
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Capitalismutopian - The board of directors of a stock exchange listed company were deposed yesterday, and they make cardboard boxes...lolsted
- @utopian this one is called political capitalism.sted
- api0
This two interviews are eye opening and has so much useful information. We can learn from a Country who has gone trough the last Virus-Epidemics.
- Interesting: You start being infectious 2 days before you say, get a fever or other symptoms. Before we thought that people were infectious the whole incubationapi
- No, the pre-symptomatic infection capacity has been evident for months nowNairn
- Oh, sorry - re-reading your note this morning, I see what you meant. My bad.Nairn
- Akagiyama2
- Still waiting for the reaction of the CDs involved in these ads. Something bs. about a common denominator, and its made with collective effort would do.sted
- Fuuuuuuuu...robotron3k
- probably some hiped theme/template/freeM... phenomenauan
- And they will probably go on and win Cannes or some other advertising bs.Maaku
- "in these challenging times..."Gucci
- PhanLo2
I remember reading about a lot of Rabbi's dying a week or so ago, sad to see, but also the high death toll seems to come from ignorance of the threat.
- here in jerusalem most of the sick are haredi orthodox...renderedred
- they continued praying together and doing everything like before, 0 fucks givenrenderedred
- They seem to suffer from the same exceptionalism that the evangelical pastors seem to think they have. So dangerous for themselves and their community.PhanLo
- I've been to catholic funerals where we've sat wit the body of a relative for a day or so before the funeral in Ireland, with the whole community coming to payPhanLo
- their respects. But 2 elderly relatives died last week and one funeral was attended by 9 people, the other only by the other priests who worked alongside him.PhanLo
- It's a hard process to go about grieving without all the usual routine of doing so. But I like to think that afterwards people will be able to do so.PhanLo
- Some people would rather die than stop praying. I don't condone it, but there it is.nb
- one of the things i learned from all this is that if we didn't shake hands 30-40% less influenza overall. i can see a world where we bow instead :)renderedred
- ^like they do in Japan while also wearing masks, whoaa!grafician
- drgs1
Russia is warming up
- Putin said they didn't have any cases last month, why the sudden change of heart?utopian
- Could be true, they are one month behinddrgs
- He did say recently they had nothing to be proud of in regards to preparedness.PhanLo
- Amazing it took so long.monospaced
- meanwhile he is hiding in a bunkerzaq
- this is shutting up some more nutjob conspiracy theorists.fadein11
- It been called the Moscow cough for months now...robotron3k
- They are rapidly building a hospital, so they know its coming. https://youtu.be/ONA…Nutter
- BusterBoy0
I would really like to see all these MAGAts wanting to "open the country back up" to just go for it...do whatever the fuck you want. BUT in doing so, sign a waiver that ensures they receive no medical attention WHEN they are infected with the virus.
- Doesn't work like that. Old and vulnerable people die first.nb
- Yeah. Getting the virus isn’t really a death sentence.monospaced
- ^ That's an understatement when you consider most people are asymptomatic.MondoMorphic
- Satire & sarcasm obviously not translating particularly well today.BusterBoy
- https://i.kym-cdn.co…nb
- Sign the waiver on the behalf of their parents, voiding any inheritence in the event of a covid-related death.i_monk
- Obesity is also a risk factor: https://www.worldobe…dmay
- It’s a factor. It’s not at all a contributor. It’s just an increased chance of having conditions that would be a factor.monospaced
- utopian-3
Elon Musk is tech Covidiot No. 1 during coronavirus pandemic
The guy behind Tesla, The Boring Company and Space X — the one who is convinced he can make Mars inhabitable — has been showing off his arrogance to dangerous effect during the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
- Hmmm...who's smarter, Musk or this NY Post journalist?MondoMorphic
- ^gonzalle
- The sleepy sheep fanboys alive and wellutopian
- He’s a fucking dickheadMrT
- As much as I respect him he does have brain outages at times.NBQ00
- utopian0
Shake Shack Gets $10M Federal Loan For Small Businesses Affected by COVID-19
While a few big chains have reported getting federal loans for small businesses, some small restaurants in NYC are still waiting on their funds
Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, which has a location in Midtown, was another big national chain that recently announced that it received $20 million through the PPP.
- Yes, no one can go without Shake Shack.********
- https://www.cnn.com/…GM278
- Yes, no one can go without Shake Shack.
- yuekit2
Leaked documents from an internal briefing by the US government based on their own lab tests. This seems to confirm what a lot of people have suspected -- the virus prefers cold, dry climates and is killed by heat, humidity and sunlight.
This doesn't mean hot countries are immune or that the pandemic will end in the summer. Virus can still spread less effectively in a hot climate and more rapidly indoors via air conditioned environments. But it does explain why many parts of the world have seen a more muted impact.
- NBQ00-3
So what about Sweden?
They had no lockdown or quarantine measures in place at all. Business as usual.
Their numbers aren’t really any different (or even lower) than most countries.
Does this prove that in the end all the lockdown was useless and people will get infected anyway (but show no symptoms)?
- not true, they have a similar population to Greece who took cautious measures:
Sweden-14,435 cases, 1540 fatal
Greece- 2,235 cases, 113 fatal_niko - sweden: top 30 in infections and top 10 in deaths per capita.
https://www.worldome…_niko - more deaths per capita than the US and the US is a shitshow. So not sure why they're holding up Sweden as some kind of model_niko
- and according to that article, they DO have measures in place, people ARE staying home and higher grades in Schools ARE closed, so it's not a free for all._niko
- also -https://www.theguar...Fax_Benson
- https://www.theguard…Fax_Benson
- population density very different from say HK...shapesalad
- Seems that places with less restrictions serve as an experiment, like the protests and the beaches.ayport
- what @_niko said !Krassy
- Sweden is messed up, do not go that route. Their chief health worker is constantly saying stuff as "people have died, but they were going to do that anyway"Nutter
- https://www.informat…Nutter
- also see https://www.project-…Nutter
- not true, they have a similar population to Greece who took cautious measures:
- Bluejam0
Up-to-date values for Rt, a key measure of how fast the virus is growing.
- elahon0
So thankful that Dr. Shah is our CDC Director. He brings so much calm intelligence and compassion to this situation.
- Thanks CCP for says residents of Wuhan can’t go to other places in China but are ok to board international flights. And for your lack lab procedures....shapesalad
- ^ That's some deathboy-style gibberish right there.Continuity
- Rowan Atkinson?BusterBoy
- i_monk1
"So what about Sweden?"
Let the numbers answer that:
https://ourworldindata.org/graph…- Spain went into lockdown pretty quickly and have a much higher deaths per million. Perhaps it's because Sweden is not as densely populated.Chimp
- Swede is effedKrassy
- Spain loosened its lockdown after just a few weeks, around the time it overtook Italy for more deaths per million.i_monk
- They only let a few workers go back. Here in Madrid the lockdown is still very strict. Thankfully it looks like the lockdown has taken effect.Chimp
- whatthefunk12
- He's already eaten all his food and needs more snackerjacks.PhanLo
- ^ I went through my “snack” category within the first 3 days.Gnash
- We just ran out of chocolate here today, my wife is already on the streets with her AR 15.PhanLo
- LOLOLOLOLnb
- AR-15? Pfft. *Real* Americans haul out that fine, Soviet-made AK-47, friend.
https://www.amazon.c…Continuity - AK FTW!renderedred
- Too right, renderedred. Because nothing screams 'I'M A PATRIOT' quite like proudly waving around a gun made by your mortal ideological enemy.Continuity
- Socialist snowflakesmonospaced
- inbred conservative mongoloid retardsutopian
- they just blindly follow the leader... #trumpBennn
- chill out guys, go home, throw on some Infowars, run a hot bath, open a nice bottle of red, light a scented candle.fadein11
- "prolife"jaylarson
- @Continuity, I'd buy one of those mugs, not that it relates to me, just for a laugh.PhanLo
- i would like to light a pack if blackcats and see what happens thereBattleAxe
