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

LOL that would be weird. I don't know how I would act around one though. This shit makes my blood boil

 

I kind of brushed it off and was like "oh, cool". I was trying to get with one of the chicks he was with I think.

 

Yes, we usually finish off a case of Coors Light and unload 3k rounds at the range while doing it.

mags

 

when your kids get on your nerves:

 

a mom rants about home-schooling:

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html

Trump Administration model projects daily coronavirus death toll will increase to 3,000 by June

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-updates.html

The Trump administration projects about 3,000 daily deaths by early June.

As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of cases and deaths from the coronavirus over the next several weeks, reaching about 3,000 daily deaths on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, nearly double from the current level of about 1,750.

The projections, based on government modeling pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now.

The numbers underscore a sobering reality: While the United States has been hunkered down for the past seven weeks, significant risks remain. And the reopening to the economy will make matters worse.

“There remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow,” the Centers for Disease Control warned.

The projections confirm the primary fear of public health experts: that a reopening of the economy will put the nation back where it was in mid-March, when cases were rising so rapidly in some parts of the country that patients were dying on gurneys in hospital hallways as the health care system was overloaded.

“While mitigation didn’t fail, I think it’s fair to say that it didn’t work as well as we expected,” Scott Gottlieb, Mr. Trump’s former commissioner of food and drugs, said Sunday on the CBS program Face the Nation. “We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we’re just not seeing that.”

On Sunday, Mr. Trump said deaths in the United States could reach 100,000, twice as many as he had forecast just two weeks ago. But his new estimate still underestimates what his own administration is now predicting to be the total death toll by the end of May — much less in the months that follow. It follows a pattern for Mr. Trump, who has frequently understated the impact of the disease.

“We’re going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people,” he said in a virtual town hall on Fox News. “That’s a horrible thing. We shouldn’t lose one person over this.”

The White House responded that the new projections had not been vetted.

“This is not a White House document nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task Force or gone through interagency vetting,” said Judd Deere, a White House spokesman. “This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or data that the task force has analyzed.”

“The president’s phased guidelines to open up America again are a scientific driven approach that the top health and infectious disease experts in the federal government agreed with,” he said.

Mr. Gottlieb said Americans “may be facing the prospect that 20,000, 30,000 new cases a day diagnosed becomes the new normal.”

Some states that have partially reopened are still seeing an increase in cases, including Iowa, Minnesota, Tennessee and Texas, according to Times data. Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska also are seeing an increase in cases and reopened some businesses on Monday. Alaska has also reopened and is seeing a small number of increasing cases.

While the country has stabilized, it has not really improved, as shown by data collected by The Times. Case and death numbers remain stuck on a numbing, tragic plateau that is tilting only slightly downward.

At least 1,000 people with the virus, and sometimes more than 2,000, have died every day for the last month. On a near-daily basis, at least 25,000 new cases of the virus are being identified across the country. And even as New York City, New Orleans and Detroit have shown improvement, other urban centers, including Chicago and Los Angeles, are reporting steady growth in cases.

The situation has devolved most dramatically in parts of rural America that were largely spared in the early stages of the pandemic. As food processing facilities and prisons have emerged as some of the country’s largest case clusters, the counties that include Logansport, Ind., South Sioux City, Neb., and Marion, Ohio, have surpassed New York City in cases per capita.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/...avirus-answers.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes

Coronavirus Survivors Want Answers, and China Is Silencing Them
In Wuhan, where the pandemic started, the police have threatened and interrogated grieving relatives. Lawyers have been warned not to help them sue.

 

I have always told Lucia how glad I was she adopted me. Even more so now. It's a hard time although I recognize I have some level of relative privilege, and would be so much harder without her. While all other interactions are limited to voice on phone, picture on screen, or at most store clerk behind mask, she gives companionship. I'm tempted to say "up close and personal" except she's not a person. Is there an equivalent feline word? But also because she is innocent. She doesn't read newspapers. The country is going to hell run by people who are incompetent and malevolent but she has her simple needs and simple pleasures. A garden to play in, a place in the sun, a safe place to nap, a territory for hunting, her saucer of milk in the evening. She is happy. How many are happy these days? My only worry is she is friendly, she has neighbors she visits. We social distance from one another, but they pet her and she rubs their ankles. I don't really think a cat is the most efficient vector for carrying Corona virus between humans but I wish she would be less friendly.

Link to 20 Seconds (Sheed is about 1:30 mark): https://hhph.org/20secondsormore/

 

more on the white house's new projections of 3000 deaths/day by June

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-updates.html?referringSource=articleShare

here's a graph of the model they are using:



the red line is the model that gets to 3000 deaths/day. But notice how that same model has consistently under-counted deaths by a significant magnitude

if the blue-dot line continues to track the high end of the intermediate range, instead of 3000/day it could be 9000/day. That seems really extreme though and if we headed toward that states would shut down again

personally, I have no clue where this is headed but I do suspect there will be a spike in the next couple of weeks. I think warmer weather will allow people to naturally achieve social distancing and that will mitigate to some decent level. Again though, I think there's a real chance this will end up as a surge with significant mortality and that could bury the economy even more than it is

this could also be the white house trying to guess high on the death toll in order to justify their policy

 

My write in answer would have been:

Fuck you drunk, I'm not officer.