Official live update of spread of COVID19

[The Valkyrie]

We just topped 20,000 fatalities overnight. This falls within projections I've seen of 20-22000 by the end of the week.

Idiots are still panic buying or trying to profiteer from the panic. Also, idiots are still ignoring warnings not to gather or avoid certain areas.

The latest I've read about is fucking morons in Sydney still going to the beach ("It's my beach!" Some idiot shouted at a photographer).

Meanwhile, NZ started a 4 week shut down today.

[Fireball]

I’m surprised Trump agreed to this bit in the US stimulus bill:

Businesses that are owned or partly owned by "the President, the Vice President, the head of an Executive department, or a Member of Congress; and the spouse, child, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law" will be barred. The provision applies to anyone with 20% or greater stake in a business.

Boru

Any bets on whether he actually read it? Not Boru- edit fail, if anyone saw the original post.

We just topped 20,000 fatalities overnight. This falls within projections I've seen of 20-22000 by the end of the week.

Idiots are still panic buying or trying to profiteer from the panic.  Also, idiots are still ignoring warnings not to gather or avoid certain areas.

The latest I've read about is fucking morons in Sydney still going to the beach ("It's my beach!" Some idiot shouted at a photographer).

Meanwhile, NZ started a 4 week shut down today.

Let the wretch run out and find a blue-ringed octopus all by himself (if they actually live there, I'm not all that certain of their range).

[Rev. Rye]

Is your president really actually demented or something? He wants to open up America by easter. Wow! I'm speechless.
They need to certify him unfit for duty asap.

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Just heard a migrant worker in China has been diagnosed with Hantavirus (rats).
Let's pray it has a low transmission rate! Because it has a mortality rate of 30%

According to the CDC:

The hantaviruses that cause human illness in the United States cannot be transmitted from one person to another. For example, you cannot get these viruses from touching or kissing a person who has HPS or from a health care worker who has treated someone with the disease.

Is the president really demented?



Literally the only thing he's shown any competence in doing since he entered the White House is fucking over minorities. He's fucked up his response, and he absolutely refuses to acknowledge when he's fucked up. Literally the only ways his behaviour can be explained are by his being totally divorced from reality, or his being actively malicious. And either one is extremely plausible.





Also, Jackson Browne has apparently tested positive. I really hope he doesn't die, if only because I saw him at Ravinia in 2018 and he didn't play my favourite of his songs:

[The Valkyrie]

It's interesting that you should mention the incompetence of Trump.

Right now Land of Confusion is playing on the radio in my office.

Might be time for it to be re-released with Trump in the video instead of Reagan.

[Mr Greene]

Anyone else notice that Iran's number of cases seems to be increasing on a linear track rather than the logarithmic (exponential) track every other country is experiencing?

[Fireball]

Is your president really actually demented or something? He wants to open up America by easter. Wow! I'm speechless.
They need to certify him unfit for duty asap.

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Just heard a migrant worker in China has been diagnosed with Hantavirus (rats).
Let's pray it has a low transmission rate! Because it has a mortality rate of 30%

According to the CDC:

The hantaviruses that cause human illness in the United States cannot be transmitted from one person to another. For example, you cannot get these viruses from touching or kissing a person who has HPS or from a health care worker who has treated someone with the disease.

Is the president really demented?



Literally the only thing he's shown any competence in doing since he entered the White House is fucking over minorities. He's fucked up his response, and he absolutely refuses to acknowledge when he's fucked up. Literally the only ways his behaviour can be explained are by his being totally divorced from reality, or his being actively malicious. And either one is extremely plausible.





Also, Jackson Browne has apparently tested positive. I really hope he doesn't die, if only because I saw him at Ravinia in 2018 and he didn't play my favourite of his songs:

Beautiful! I don't have a lot of Jackson Browne's music. It would appear that I need to rectify that situation.

[Rev. Rye]

Start with The Very Best of Jackson Browne (a two-disc compilation of his best work) or his first five albums (between his eponymous self-titled debut and Running on Empty.) His later material is far more hit and miss.

[The Valkyrie]

An ad on the radio asks "is it time to bring thousands of doctors and nurses out of retirement to help deal with the greatest health crisis NZ has ever faced?"

You mean apart from Spanish flu, surely.

And, no.

I had sensationalism.

[ignoramus]

S&P is starting to downgrade big corp shares.
Ford shares are now BBB (junk status). Many to follow …………...and there goes the stockmarket.
The roads will be littered with fallen angels and zombies …

we need moar toilet paper!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Meanwhile, NZ started a 4 week shut down today.

That will delay filming of "Hobbit 9: Mt. Doom Drift"?