COVID-19 2020

'Heartbreaking Statistic': Thanks to Pandemic, Last Month Was First March Since 2002 Without a US School Shooting
"All it took was a pandemic and closing all the schools."


(i can't help but arrive at the conclusion that shootings are a feature, not a bug, of schools in this country…  :'( )

hutch wrote:
You have got to be kidding me…2022?!? 2024??

I won’t make it


https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/health/social-distancing-research-coronavirus-2022-trnd/index.html

I don't think people will accept that.

Today's DC COVID-19 deaths. Sucks to be a male. Wonder if any of them were at the fish market?

WASHINGTON, DC — The D.C. Department of Health confirmed 15 new deaths Tuesday related to the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, bringing the total number of District deaths caused by the virus to 67. D.C. Health also confirmed 103 new positive coronavirus cases, which brings the District's overall positive case total to 2,058.

The new deaths were described as:

31-year-old male
37-year-old male
51-year-old male
51-year-old male
58-year-old male
62-year-old male
67-year-old male
77-year-old male
79-year-old male
81-year-old female
81-year-old female
82-year-old male
83-year-old female
87-year-old female
93-year-old female.

https://patch.com/district-columbia/washingtondc/19-new-coronavirus-deaths-dc-positive-cases-now-exceed-2-000

We’re outdoing each other Space with the good news

Jules hasn't mentioned BMI since Obama was president….is there a connection?


Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963
"When assessing the risk of various nations is that 3% of Japanese are obese, while 40% of Americans are obese."

BMI < 30: reference risk
BMI 30-40: 4x risk
BMI > 40: 6x risk

Phewww. I'm overweight, but not obese.

Are Italians obese? I thought they ate the healthy Mediterranean diet?

these are some shocking stats
From 1999–2000 through 2017–2018, the prevalence of obesity increased from 30.5% to 42.4%,

hutch wrote:
Are Italians obese? I thought they ate the healthy Mediterranean diet?

Cigarettes add to your BMI as well.

One time the year after my dad died, I took my mom to Italy. It was her first time out of the country. We were at a street market in Florence, and she was dickering with a local over the price of a scarf. She offered him about half the price he was charging.

He replied, "Do you know how much I pay for your American cigarettes?"

And she retorted, "Well then kweeeeee-ut."

I don't think she got the scarf.

hutch wrote:
Are Italians obese? I thought they ate the healthy Mediterranean diet?

Italy boasts one of the lowest adulthood obesity rates in Europe [approximately 10% of the population]
not sure how smoking can add to BMI…where does smoke increase mass in your body…tumor cells in your lungs don't get calculated
now smoking and covid are bad bedfellows since it's a pulmonary disease

but extra credit awarded for very #onbrand post that included a wonderfully crafted vignette that had snark, but a touch of sentimentality

Well the first day of online school is cancelled because kids started spamming the site with porn and racist garbage and dick pics in their avatars. What a great country we live in. Instead of making the day up tomorrow (they have half their classes on Wed and half on Fri, so one 45 min session per week), they're just skipping it and starting Friday.

I attended an online seminar (from a third party) a couple weeks ago for work where the same kind of thing happened.

My employer banned the use of Zoom for these reasons (school not using Zoom, though the online seminar was.)

Exactly right Sidehatch

Mutiny wrote:

hutch wrote:
Are Italians obese? I thought they ate the healthy Mediterranean diet?

Italy boasts one of the lowest adulthood obesity rates in Europe [approximately 10% of the population]
not sure how smoking can add to BMI…where does smoke increase mass in your body…tumor cells in your lungs don't get calculated
now smoking and covid are bad bedfellows since it's a pulmonary disease

I was just joking. The real story:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6042712/

Smokers tend to weigh less than never smokers, while successful quitting leads to an increase in body weight. Because smokers and non-smokers may differ in genetic and environmental family background, we analysed data from twin pairs in which the co-twins differed by their smoking behaviour to evaluate if the association between smoking and body mass index (BMI) remains after controlling for family background.

Maryland hits 10,000 cases of COVID-19
Montgomery County just shy of 2,000

hutch wrote:
Exactly right Sidehatch

Might get this post framed ;)

recap of the trump administration's response to the pandemic: incompetence, malice, profiteering & price-gouging 
https://twitter.com/RomancingNope/status/1247189603607629825
FB version (same content) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2661827024141148&set=pcb.2661827960807721&type=3&theater

Mutiny wrote:

hutch wrote:
Exactly right Sidehatch

Might get this post framed ;)

I know! I felt weird posting it…but decided “what the heck…”

Jules, here is your chance
https://www.fanatics.com/bieber-sings-one-less-lonely-girl-at-your-house/p-14643216580026+z-9567-484348021
get this guy to sing at your house

Mutiny wrote:

apparently Mayor Bowser thought all the complaining was worthy of another month
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/492928-dc-extends-stay-at-home-order-through-may-15