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

This Idiot posts this on Twitter after endorsing Trump.

Oh the Irony of this!

 

I was a bit young for politics in the 80s, but the notion of Republicans protecting the environment for anything other than the utter depletion of its resources seems preposterous. But if you say so, dogman...

 

Ice-T endorsed Trump?

 

Yep.
Same with 50 cents.....

 

If you're getting tested for a STD then I can guess how you got that sore throat.

 

That's cold blooded, Lanny.

 

Hey, that's my middle name.

 

Wtf dude?!

 

Yeah, not sure what that was about.

 

That and the extra teaspoon of Geritol I took before the nap.

 

I'm not sure myself so I'm with you on this one.

 

Yeah, I was thinking the same. The voices tell me that guy is insane.

 

I wanted to show a couple of current graphs, for a reason I'll get to in a minute; a comparison between the US and the EU:





next, a little bookkeeping in that the EU has about 120 million more people in about 1/2 the land mass of the US, so it has much higher population density

now, looking at those two charts you might be tempted to say at least we are doing better here than they are in the EU. That's true mathematically to a degree, but it is missing some critical context that I just watched an epidemiologist on TV outline. That being that when looking at the underlying data and the trend-lines, a different, more disturbing narrative emerges. Underlying data are things like testing rates and more importantly, the positivity rates and which direction they are heading. All indications from that data are that the US is about 3 weeks behind the EU in those curves above, meaning we have not reached the steepest inclines in the curves like the EU has.

the epidemiologist (I'm sorry, I failed to get his name) said we will be entering the worst part of the pandemic for the US since it began; that we are probably headed for the darkest days of the pandemic between now and Thanksgiving. Ain't that a kick in the head

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.or...s-state-passes-40000-mark.html?outputType=amp

Coronavirus in Oregon: officials report 6 new deaths, 346 new cases as state passes 40,000 mark

 

My heart goes out to these fams:

New fatalities: The 628th fatality is a 91-year-old Washington County woman with underlying medical conditions. She tested positive Oct. 9 and died Oct. 17 at her residence.

The 629th fatality is an 84-year-old Josephine County man with underlying medical conditions. He tested positive Oct. 9 and died Oct. 15 at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center.

The 630th fatality is a 64-year-old Lane County woman with no underlying medical conditions. She tested positive Sept. 3 and died Oct. 14 in her residence.

The 631st fatality is a 56-year-old Marion County man with underlying medical conditions. He tested positive Aug. 29 and died Oct. 18 in his residence.

The 632nd fatality is an 83-year-old Washington County man with underlying medical conditions. He tested positive Oct. 10 and died Oct. 17 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.

The 633rd fatality is an 81-year-old Washington County man with underlying medical conditions. He tested positive Sept. 29 and died Oct. 17 at Providence Portland Medical Center.

Not yet included in the state’s official count is an inmate at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution who died Monday. The man, between the age of 50 and 60, is the 16th prisoner statewide to die after testing positive for coronavirus.