[bertwert]

Hmm... what thread have I been most active in this morning?

[Parallax]

I think I'll take a break for a bit

Hmm... what thread have I been most active in this morning?

Well, you lasted 34 minutes.
I didn't win the pool. I had 12 minutes.

[photoptimist]

Coronavirus Cases Are Still Growing In Many U.S. States | FiveThirtyEight

And apparently those states that have turned the corner off of COVID Avenue now want to pull a U-turn to get back on to it!

[aslyfox]

And apparently those states that have turned the corner off of COVID Avenue now want to pull a U-turn to get back on to it!

You Tube

You Tube

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[bertwert]

Well, you lasted 34 minutes.
I didn't win the pool. I had 12 minutes.

Yeah... I'm not very good at that whole 'taking a break' thing

[normhead]

Watching my internet graph....

Some milestones this week...

The U.S. passes 50,000 deaths, 150% more than any other country on earth.
Belgium of all places tops the deaths per million (from countries of any size) population at 576. 5 times the U.S. rate.
Total number of cases per million, the U.S. leads with 15,000.
Yet the U.S. has only done 14,000 tests per million. Iceland in first place has done 134,000 tests per million.

It looks like the U.S. will pass one million cases soon.

Points of interest on the daily data stream..

[Wheatfield]

I read the Upsidedown Adventure in Mad Magazine (or was it Poopsidedown Adventure?) No cruises for me either. I want to get where I'm going, not spend extra time traveling...

It was the Poopsidedown Adventure.
Mad Magazine #161 from September 1973

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Has the right Idea ,none of this lock down stuff just let it run its coarse and be done with it. Gain herd immunity fast ,none of this effin DRAMA . BY the way i really dont know anyone personally that has died from this first hand that is and neither does anyone I ASK. The way we are going more people will die from starvation that the fake Pandemic. I mean SWEDEN

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You might want to edit this to get some factual content.
Just sayin....

[aslyfox]

at times I feel that we are living in a combination of Serling's " The Twilight Zone " and Orwell's " 1984 "

[beholder3]

Lets wait what happens after wave 2 hits. Then we'll see more and bigger waves as they'll be starting off of much higher starting grounds. 193,000 dead worldwide is just the intro, I fear.

Not even mentioning that with 2,7 million breeding bodies the virus is more and more likely to create mutations.

[Wheatfield]

yea well i live in NY ,and guess what no one is dying like they say. This is no Pandemic Total nonsense to see if they can scare people into getting a vaccine along with a chip

Please tell me that you are trying to be funny.

[slartibartfast01]

Now the White House has claimed Trump's comments about disinfectant and UV light were taken out of context.

[aslyfox]

Now the White House has claimed Trump's comments about disinfectant and UV light were taken out of context.

the newest claim is trump was just being sarcastic when he made the comments

this is no way to run a railroad

[Wheatfield]

you know I believe in the face masks approach, not the lockdown

It's been shown that the approach you believe in is the wrong one. The science is there if you care to look.
About face masks: They only help for a while and then they don't help any more. The while they work for can be as short as 15 minutes. Once the filter saturates with moisture from exhaling, the mask is transmitting in both directions. If you are using a mask with a breather valve, it is transmitting outwards from the moment you put it on.
Oh, and masks tend to cause people touch their face more often to adjust them for comfort, so if you have a virus load on the mask, odds are you will transfer it to your face where there are 5 points of potential ingestion.
I've seen people with N95 masks pulled down around their chin(s) walk up to the entrance to my store, pull the mask up when they walk in and then pull the mask down again when they leave. Depending on what they have touched in the store, they have transferred virus loading to the mask, and when next time they adjust it, they will transfer that load to their face (see the part about the 5 points of entry). Also, if a person happens to have a beard, N95 type masks are worse than useless as they are wasing the resource for someone who doesn't have facial hair.

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What do you need the masks for if "it's not that bad" and "no one is dying"...?

And there is no pandemic? These are important questions.

[Serkevan]

Now the White House has claimed Trump's comments about disinfectant and UV light were taken out of context.

There is not a single context where "injecting disinfectant could work" is acceptable, unless you're a stand up comedian...

[timb64]

There is not a single context where "injecting disinfectant could work" is acceptable, unless you're a stand up comedian...

.... it would be laughable, if it wasn’t so serious!