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cwerdna said:
My Google Home/Nest Hub when playing the news played back a summary of this story. Crazy!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/08/funeral-birthday-party-hugs-covid-19/
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Archive copy in case the paywall stops you: http://archive.is/oKCW7

This article highlights what I feared last month. My father passed away on March 14th, just shy of his 98th birthday. At the time my sister was adamant of having a memorial for him as soon as possible. It took several days to convince her gathering all his remaining elderly friends together at that time was a bad idea.
 
jlv said:
This article highlights what I feared last month. My father passed away on March 14th, just shy of his 98th birthday. At the time my sister was adamant of having a memorial for him as soon as possible. It took several days to convince her gathering all his remaining elderly friends together at that time was a bad idea.
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Condolences. My dad passed away on February 29th, just shy of his 78th birthday as it happens (March 9th). We decided as a family that I would not travel back to the UK for the funeral. I think they still had "a do" during the first week in March, but I didn't hear of anyone getting sick from attending it. Maybe still a bit too early? My step-mom had my father cremated, instead of giving him the burial he wished, just so that I can travel back for the graveside service some day. They were talking about summer this year, but I still can't imagine being able to travel that freely so soon, never mind wanting to.
 
danrjones said:
Speaking of which, I don't think the GOP has abandoned balanced budget. Their concern for it will come roaring back as soon as the GOP does not hold the white house.
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There, I fixed that for you.

That's their fucking pattern - run it up while they're in power and then leave a Democrat (I'm taking that slur back from them) administration holding a big bag of **** to clean up. Which we, suckers that we are, try our best to fix, pissing off the electorate at large and costing us the White House either after a single term or, if we're lucky, the end of the second term.

This same pattern repeated for Clinton, then Obama, and now for Joe Biden during my lifetime as a voter. Maybe for Carter too?
 
Certainly Carter and Kennedy before him- the curve is amazing: GOP the deficit rises, Dem it falls, etc. Makes you wonder which party really care about deficits? I will not speculate, let the numbers speak for themselves.
 
In the 21st century the US has adopted a policy of "privatize the profits and socialize the losses". Kind of the worst form of socialism there is in my opinion.
 
https://twitter.com/Craig_A_Spencer/status/1248837610979692544 has a thread of what's going on in NYC from someone who says he's an ER doctor in NYC.
 
Coronavirus News: 21 teachers among 50 NYC education employees dead of coronavirus
https://abc7ny.com/coronavirus-teacher-deaths-nyc-update-corona-virus/6100157/
 
cwerdna said:
Louisiana church holds services, defying coronavirus stay-at-home order
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-church/louisiana-church-holds-services-defying-coronavirus-stay-at-home-order-idUSKBN21N0UU

The above guy, Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church who'd already been arrested for violating orders was on CNN late last night in defiance and went ahead with services again today. Last night, he mentioned buses picking up people from up to 50 miles away and the whole affair lasting 8 hours. Argh!
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If you care, skip to 0:48 of https://youtu.be/0FSq8J8Ixek if you want to see the interview. Anyway, he held his Easter in-person service in defiance of the law. The below story mentions that gatherings of no more than 10 people are allowed in that state.

Controversial Louisiana pastor hosts Easter Sunday service for almost 1,500 people
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/controversial-louisiana-pastor-hosts-easter-sunday-mass-for-almost-1500-people
A revered, yet controversial Louisiana pastor followed through on a ‘vow’ to continue holding public services and hosted an in-person Easter Sunday service, attended by almost 2,000 people.

According to TMZ, Reverend Tony Spell, 42, claimed that 1,345 people attended his Sunday service at the Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The service was also streamed live on Facebook, although assistant ministers and worshippers barred reporters from coming inside.

“Satan and a virus will not stop us,” Spell previously told Reuters. “God will shield us from all harm and sickness. We are not afraid.”
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Right now, Louisana per https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ is at 190 deaths from COVID-19 per 1 million population. That ranks them #3 after NY and NJ. I wonder how much worse it's going to get there?
 
cwerdna said:
Right now, Louisana per https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ is at 190 deaths from COVID-19 per 1 million population. That ranks them #3 after NY and NJ. I wonder how much worse it's going to get there?
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But they also rank #2 in "Tests per 1M pop" -- maybe their numbers are closer to reality than many other places?
 
^^^
That's why I'm looking at deaths instead of confirmed positive cases. Many state (esp. mine, CA) are woefully behind in terms of testing per capita.

A Second Round of Coronavirus Layoffs Has Begun. Few Are Safe.
People who thought their jobs were secure, including white-collar professionals, increasingly face unemployment
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-second-round-of-coronavirus-layoffs-has-begun-no-one-is-safe-11586872387
 
Protests draw thousands over state stay-at-home orders during coronavirus pandemic
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/15/coronavirus-multiple-states-see-protests-over-stay-home-rules/5142499002/

Umm... many of these people weren't socially distancing.

Someone on another forum jokinly suggested that brain damage from COVID-19 (https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200402/in-some-cases-covid-19-may-harm-the-brain) might be the cause of the above.

From https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/, right now Michigan is #5 in COVID-19 deaths per million people at 193. I wonder if they'll pass CT and NJ due to behavior like this?
 
I recently relisted an electric bike I had for sale on craigslist last year, so that a friend of a friend could see the description and pictures. I wasn't really expecting other responses, but did get a couple. One, yesterday and this morning, was from a guy - probably a lowballer - who wanted to see it. I explained why the ad was up, and asked him what his needs were, how interested he was, and how much he was willing to pay if he liked the bike. Obviously I don't want to show it casually right now. His response?

"I understand that you have another friendly buyer
Perhaps I should yield to your friendly buyer
The assumption is that a listed item is open to Fair and equal access to all interested parties
Thankyou"

Some folks just don't seem to get that these are not normal times...
 
5 Tyson employees have died of COVID-19, as hundreds of slaughterhouse workers fall ill. Tyson still does not offer paid sick leave.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tyson-workers-die-ill-covid-19-without-paid-sick-leave-2020-4

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/smithfield-foods-in-south-dakota-is-now-largest-coronavirus-hot-spot-in-us/ar-BB12GmiE
Eighty of South Dakota's 180 new COVID-19 cases are employees of the meat-processing company, bringing the total to 518 Smithfield Foods employees who have tested positive. There are also now 126 total cases of non-employees that became infected when they came into contact with a Smithfield employee, according to the South Dakota Department of Health.

The 518 employees and 126 non-employees connected to Smithfield makes it the largest cluster in the country (644), according to tracking by The New York Times. The previous top cluster was 585 cases aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam.
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Factory "farming" has always taken a large toll on workers as well as animals. Any bets as to whether or not these workers will now get paid sick leave of more than a day?
 
Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-military-sympt-idUSKCN21Y2GB
The Navy’s testing of the entire 4,800-member crew of the aircraft carrier - which is about 94% complete - was an extraordinary move in a headline-grabbing case that has already led to the firing of the carrier’s captain and the resignation of the Navy’s top civilian official.

Roughly 60 percent of the over 600 sailors who tested positive so far have not shown symptoms of COVID-19, the potentially lethal respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, the Navy says. The service did not speculate about how many might later develop symptoms or remain asymptomatic.
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cwerdna said:
...Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free
The Navy’s testing of the entire 4,800-member crew of the aircraft carrier - which is about 94% complete - was an extraordinary move in a headline-grabbing case

Roughly 60 percent of the over 600 sailors who tested positive so far have not shown symptoms of COVID-19
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does that make them an asymptomatic carrier?
 

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