COVID-19 2020

hutch wrote:
We have been hearing how horrible men are for years..maybe this is the solution

Who knows maybe next we will hear it affects white men disproportionately

Looking at the percentage of deaths and critical cases compared to total cases, I want to know why it affects Italians so much more than Germans.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

And on a separate note, why is the CDC not releasing any statistics related to age, gender, and underlying conditions?

Space wrote:
And on a separate note, why is the CDC not releasing any statistics related to age, gender, and underlying conditions?

likely because trump told them not to.

my wife got tested this afternoon because she's had some low-grade symptoms.  she said the test hurt like hell.  they jammed the swab down her nose until it reaches the back of her throat. 



in other news:
- Spain has nationalized all of its private hospitals as the country goes into coronavirus lockdown (missed this bit of communist expansion when it happened 9 days ago)
- TV networks cut away from the White House coronavirus briefing as Trump contradicted his health experts (finally)

I heard trump and pence complaining about it…'a pinch' they said
that graphic is giving me nightmares

The wrote:
I heard trump and pence complaining about it…'a pinch' they said
that graphic is giving me nightmares

Yeah, I'll just die. It's fine.

Been almost two decades since I've been to Murphy's
this is oddly specific, but I guess that's a good thing

Probably going to put that great place out of business :(

The wrote:
Been almost two decades since I've been to Murphy's
this is oddly specific, but I guess that's a good thing

Probably going to put that great place out of business :(

I’ve always been an O'Connells man, myself.

If you want some light reading, here’s the text to the Senate stimulus bill

https://politico.com/f/?id=00000171-1429-d270-a773-777f92a00000


833 pages!

I hear the Kennedy Center gets $25mil
well they are government run and easily will lose that much durring this

It sounds like the bill is just spreading a lot of money around… a lot of it for pointless stuff…disappointing

The goal should not be to waste a ton of money

I guess you could argue give the Kennedy Center money and a lot of it will end up being paid to people but…they book shows so get kind of a subsidy

It’s all a clusterfuck I guess

Yeah, seems like their idea of compromise is
"Well, you 50mill for that, I should get $70 mil for my thing"
"wow that is a great compromise, let's get that in the bill"

this was good

the ads of late using his own words have been pretty brutal on this
if he did one or two pressers a week, he'd probably be in better shape

Those ads will be THE main attack ads in the Fall

yikes…
This morning the Department of Labor is expected to announce that as many as 3.4 million people filed for unemployment insurance last week.

    Not only would that be the highest level in history, it would be nearly five times the highest level of claims seen during the Great Recession.



This was good…

I am just not seeing the humor in these things today

Germany is classifying cause of death differently than Italy so that partially explains the difference in numbers/percentages. I learned this watching an Italian broadcast earlier this week.*

If a German has an underlying medical issue and COVID 19 then COVID 19 is not listed as cause of death. Whereas an Italian who has an underlying medical issue and COVID 19 then COVID 19 is listed as cause of death. I believe this is also presenting in the US as states are following different reporting protocols.

I will dig around and see if I can find the broadcast again as well as the article (either in the Post or Times).*

*Of course, I take neither source at face value as the situation changes hourly, just another way to consider things. These are just some other details to help form your own opinions on this.

Space wrote:

hutch wrote:
We have been hearing how horrible men are for years..maybe this is the solution

Who knows maybe next we will hear it affects white men disproportionately

Looking at the percentage of deaths and critical cases compared to total cases, I want to know why it affects Italians so much more than Germans.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

And on a separate note, why is the CDC not releasing any statistics related to age, gender, and underlying conditions?

^crap in crap out of data collection
Edit…it is Garbage in, garbage out.

so we'll never know actual numbers if everyone is reporting differently

3.28 million unemployment claims


Interesting to read economists think we will go into a recession and rebound later in year

That last part seems a highly optimistic reading of the situation to me

These are INITIAL claims so people just laid off…


Some kind of hoax this turned out to be

this chart…


What's scary is this was made last week and used a lower than actual number (1 mil lower)

In all seriousness and this could possibly merrit its own thread. How's everyone's current mental health status?

I'd say I'm at about a 4.125/10 today… Definitely the worst I've felt over the past few weeks.