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Looks like discussions have begun to delay the Olympics. I imagine this is primarily down to what the sponsors say.
We have some spitters at work that do so any time they use the urinal. I guess I’m hoping their nasty habit stays in the urinal, but flying spittle during the coronavirus outbreak is as bad as the guy next to you sneezing.
I’m looking forward to what the sponsers say “Coka Cola and cornoa, perfect together!”
Sponsors might be glad to save the money at this point.
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I highly doubt there’s any money savings to be had. The money is gone. This is just about moving the Olympics to later this year.
If it’s cancelled, you can bet the sponsors will be reclaiming the money from the IOC to the extent they’ve paid out.
This is literally his entire life.
And yet he is never, ever, ever held to account for it.
Yep, and it’s always worked out for him.
I honestly think this might be the first time in Trump’s life he’s scared. He can’t sue a virus. He can’t threaten or bribe Senators to make it go away. He’s entirely helpless in the face of this because this is a problem you can’t solve with bullying and that’s all he knows how to do. It’s in the air, anyone he interacts with might have it, and if he gets it he might die because he’s old and that scares the shit out of him.
Everyone was laughing in Portugal that our good weather was stopping the flu while tabloids ran everywhere waiting for a positive case. Well, we’re up to 35 now, so that was the end of that, (soft) panic mode engaged.
Flu sick leave is being complemented by the state (on top of the usual ~75% wage paid by the employer), though, which is nice.
So it turns out he is privately worried about Corona:
This vanity fair article claims that he’s been worried as of last week that reporters will get into Air force one and infect him on purpose.
As someone mentioned above, we have about half a heartbeat before quarantine becomes a way for him to push his opponents out of the picture with force.
I was doing some rough scribbles based on some of the infection modelling. That suggests between 5% to 20% of the population will be infected at once.
Now, I don’t know what the mortality rate is - I’m still leaning towards less than a percent of infections. But in terms of utterly overwhelming our health systems, if even 0.1% of infected patients need intensive care due to respiratory complications, I’m not sure we have the capacity to handle that.
It doesn’t take a high death rate, or even complication rate, to overwhelm our healthcare systems - the infection rate is so damn high.
So you’re saying about a fifth of us should fret.
I was at my daughter’s volleyball tournament in Louisville, KY this weekend. Thousands of people from over a dozen states in the Kentucky EXPO Center over 3 days. On Friday evening, the local news had Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announcing the states first confirmed cases of Coronavirus, including two in the suburban Louisville area (Harrison County). Fantastic.
On a more positive note, I saw people everywhere taking precautions. Sinks in the restrooms were always busy with folks washing hands, and the Kentucky EXPO Center itself was front and center with dozens of hand sanitizer dispensers in every open area and extra staff walking around spraying disinfectant and wiping down door handles, push bars, counter tops and every available surface people would normally come into contact with. I mean, it may not prevent someone who was there and already sick from infecting others, but it was certainly a visible enough effort at basic sanitation and prevention that it made me feel better and served as a constant reminder to wash my own hands and be careful what I touched.
It’s only halfway through the travel volleyball season, we still have smaller tournaments in Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Pigeon Forge, and very large tournaments in Louisville (again), Columbus and Orlando between now and June. AAU youth basketball, soccer and soon baseball/softball will all be in full swing this spring as well, which means millions of people and their kids traveling all over the U.S. to converge on convention centers, fields, hotels and restaurants every weekend from now through July. Scary.
Not sure if these two examples are actually similar in law, but SCOTUS has clearly repudiated WWII internment of Japanese-Americans, in Trump v Hawaii.
With respect to quarantine, there isn’t any racial component to the decision about who to quarantine, so not sure what the constitutional challenge would be.
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Playing devil’s advocate, I’d say the challenge would be that the people quarantined have not committed any crime, so are unable to be held by the government for any reason.
I mean it is a slippery slope, even in a national emergency.
Very good!
But yes, at any one time. I see no reason we all won’t get it at some point.
