Coronavirus 2019

[RichVR]

@jsnell

The bodies rotting in people’s homes part presumably refers to things like the Italian man whose sister died at home and it took the coroner 36 hours to arrive.

Not just one guy. It’s now 48 hours before anyone comes to pick up a body.

[Tman]

@Strollen

Lowering the US GDP from a 2% growth to -2% recession for one quarter alone is $100 billion.

pshwaw, we’ve been running a deficit of a $100B for over year. Why care now? (insert hyperbole on my part because it’s a hot button for me, just reinforcing that I can’t stand fiscal arguments with the wealthy socialism we’ve done with that fucking tax break)

[Mr.GRIM]

@RichVR

It’s now 48 hours before anyone comes to pick up a body.

I’m trying to picture what that is like, and… fuck.

[RichVR]

They are swamped. And yeah, I can’t imagine. Steven King levels of horror.

[Quaro]

In early February I was posting on forums and Twitter absolutely apopopletic that the US (or even Apple or any big company!) wasn’t immediately dropping billions into emergency development of tests, antivirals, and vaccines. Bill Gates had dropped a hundred million and from what I can tell that was almost half the world wide funding at that point outside of China. Later Singapore and Taiwan made additional investment.

At the time I was arguing that it was the best possible hedge you can make against a risk of a hundred trillion dollars loss. I was saying that you will never be able to make up those six weeks with 10 times the money later. The companies themselves couldnt justify the investment they lost money on Ebola vaccines. Zbut the world itself saving trillions an economic damage doesn’t get represented on a truck company’s balance sheet. So frustrating and thank God that Bill Gates was actually putting his money where it really counted. CEPI is a great project.

[Noman]

@Strollen

Health care being overwhelmed, yes . Bodies being piling and rotting in people’s homes, that’s extreme hyperbole 7,700 people die in the U.S. each day about 1,800 in Italy. Like the victims of Covid19, these are primarily elder. Even today, when 345 folks died in Italy, that’s still only 20% of all deaths in Italy.

The deaths are concentrated in particular areas. For instance, there’s an Italian town where 120 people died in past one year, and then 80 people died in 12 hours. Parts of Italy are utterly devastated. You can’t simply extend the numbers over the whole country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/in-an-italian-city-obituaries-fill-the-newspaper-but-survivors-mourn-alone/ar-BB11gQm4

[Ephraim]

Dammit. Now I can’t get the guitar riff out of my head.

[Woolen_Horde]

@Noman

@Strollen

Health care being overwhelmed, yes . Bodies being piling and rotting in people’s homes, that’s extreme hyperbole 7,700 people die in the U.S. each day about 1,800 in Italy. Like the victims of Covid19, these are primarily elder. Even today, when 345 folks died in Italy, that’s still only 20% of all deaths in Italy.

The deaths are concentrated in particular areas. For instance, there’s an Italian town where 120 people died in past one year, and then 80 people died in 12 hours. Parts of Italy are utterly devastated. You can’t simply extend the numbers over the whole country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/in-an-italian-city-obituaries-fill-the-newspaper-but-survivors-mourn-alone/ar-BB11gQm4

It’s cause they slammed the SCRAM button on the reactor. If they didn’t, the rest of Italy would be catching up really quickly. They still could.

[Perky_Goth]

@charmtrap

not that it’s necessarily an over-reaction, but we might end up doing more harm than good.

With 2%+ of lives at stake, I’ll take the safest way, thank you very much, especially if it keeps most doctors healthy to fix everything else.

@Mr.GRIM

It’s not like some great depression scenario where all the topsoil got blown away in the wind.

With a spiraling devastation of demand and jobs, it could be. But that’s much easier to fix with enough will than just letting people die. Unless you’re hanging on to “but inflation!”, then I can’t help you.

[Scrax]

And West Virginia finally goes down.

[strummer]

@Scrax

And West Virginia finally goes down.

/em crosses fingers and hopes it was a Bob Evans employee

[Teiman]

The most important thing to remember once people is on lock-downs is to not make exceptions. Most infections are familiar. Your cousin, mother, grandad… don’t get visits and don’t visit others.

[ShivaX]

Jason Leopold (JasonLeopold)

[vyshka]

I imagine that is more to control volume than anything.

[Nesrie]

warning, this is kind of depressing, and by kind of, i mean really a lot.

‘It’s inconceivable’: 5 family members in critical condition from COVID-19...

And I’ll probably stop reading about this stuff for awhile now as a result.

[John_Doyle]

That’s my wife’s maiden name and she’s from NY. She’s reading the article now to see these folks are family.

[TranquilityBase]

And down goes the rest of the Strip/Downtown

Sisolak orders statewide shutdown of casinos, other nonessential businesses

I had a feeling this was coming by the end of the week. Too many fucking hardheads out there.

I wonder if I’ll get laid off via email.

[Mr.GRIM]

[KevinC]

@Nesrie

warning, this is kind of depressing, and by kind of, i mean really a lot.

That’s some Saving Private Ryan level shit if more if the family doesn’t pull through.

[rei]

Shit, they’re closing USA-Canada border bilaterally except for trade. Amazon is suspending cross-border shipments.