OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...tified-critical-medical-shortages/ar-BB13uLtH

 

Stay-at-home orders: Anti-quarantine protesters are a minority

Don’t be fooled by Fox News, Donald Trump, or the same type of groups that produced the Tea Party a decade ago: The protesters taking to the streets against social distancing are a small minority of Americans — and their attitudes represent a fraction of public opinion.

In fact, America has done something remarkable in this moment: It has united.

Last week, 81 percent of Americans told pollsters for a Politico/Morning Consult poll that the country “should continue to social distance for as long as is needed to curb the spread of coronavirus, even if it means continued damage to the economy.”

Let me repeat that: 81 percent of Americans agree. That’s an astounding figure.

An NBC poll found a lower rate at 60 percent, but still a solid majority. Large majorities of Democrats and independents are more concerned about the virus than the economy, as are about half of Republicans.

This consensus is striking given that Americans live in an era when they’re divided along party lines on everything from climate change to the NFL.

 

Looks to me like a hodgepodge of alcoholics and sports addicts who've seen every rerun on ESPN one too many times....that and some homeless bystanders trying to bum a smoke

 

sure...some of the damage is likely permanent. Many businesses operated on small margins with even smaller reserves. But that kind of damage happens whenever there is a recession or major economic disruption. And that means that many jobs have disappeared, probably for good...or for bad I guess

we are economically flat-lined now and I'm thinking that the return of the economy will be extremely slow, compared to where it was. It may be that the first 3 or 4 months will be close to flat-lined for most of the time. If that's true, then all the pushing for things to get back to normal quickly are pointless. If the restart is May 15 or June 25, it probably won't make much of a difference by Sept 1.

all I am suggesting is that it's better to set policy based upon data and best available science, rather than desperation, much of it at the federal level because of trump's re-election chances taking a beating

for instance, I keep seeing people say that the mortality rate will end up much lower than now....maybe well less that 1% because of all those who haven't been tested yet. But I made some notes: when we had performed 3.5M tests out mortality rate was 5.1%' when we hit 5M tests, our mortality rate was 5.4%. We've now nearly hit the 6.9M test mark and our mortality rate is 5.8%. Our mortality rate when we were at 11,000 tests per million was 5.2%. We are now at 20,765 tests/million and we are at that 5.8% mortality rate. We are testing at a much higher level than we were a couple of weeks ago and yet, the death rate is increasing when people have been predicting it would decrease dramatically. Maybe we should figure out what's going on with all that before opening the country up



* Spain is testing at a much higher rate than the US and their death rate is 10.2%
* Italy is testing at a much higher rate as well and their death rate is 13.7%
* Germany is held as a model for doing things right; they are testing at a much higher rate than the US. And yet their death rate is 4.1%

why aren't those number going down?

 

Right up there with Killer Mutant Virus

 

Has anyone really gotten to a point they are testing those who aren't showing symptoms? Cause I wouldn't expect those numbers to go down until more testing is done on people who aren't sick from it.

 

Is it me or does anyone else see a giant skeleton looking face staring down at them?

 

I don’t see it

 

And the unfortunate thing is, en mass, we follow suit to the marching orders given out by the media, whichever side we land on.

Who controls the people? Media.


Media says there will be a meat shortage soon.

People flock to the stores and stock up on meat.

A meat shortage ensues.....


hmmmmm.....

 

Look at the side of the house.

 

stay home? F that! lol.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...coronavirus-pandemic-05-02-20-intl/index.html

Social distancing restrictions ease globally as coronavirus spreads

 

LoL....

 

https://www.oregon.gov/gov/admin/Pages/eo_20-24.aspx

Lol until July 6th?! A bit excessive no?

 

It’s a great poll. Actually has him tied with Biden and 49% approval overall. Highest polling from independents since being tracked.