How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Pamela]

No insurance, no savings, no support: what happens when LA's least privileged get Covid

Undocumented Filipino caregivers, South LA’s black neighborhoods and garment workers grapple with unequal toll of virus

www.theguardian.com

What do republicans think a large segment of the population with nothing left to lose and no way to survive is going to do?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

What do republicans think a large segment of the population with nothing left to lose and no way to survive is going to do?

"Are there no prisons?"
"Plenty of prisons..."
"And the Union workhouses." demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"
"Both very busy, sir..."
"Those who are badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

A Christmas Carol - Wikiquote

en.wikiquote.org

 

[Isabeau]

Would-be visitors to Disney Springs can't be having with any masks or social distancing, thank you very much!

What a great sacrifice they are being asked... a simple face mask. Imagine all the other things they wouldn’t do for the good of the collective unless it is mandatory. Some do it willingly, others need to be cajoled or “shamed” into changing habits, but for others, a minority I admit, they must be forced by laws/policies.

I think I heard this week (marketing study?) that the percentage of people needed to influence others is 20%.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Would-be visitors to Disney Springs can't be having with any masks or social distancing, thank you very much!

Shorter lines for the rest of us!

 

[Romana]

I don'tnt knew where they pulled that "99.85% survival rate" from. It's not like there were final totals yet. In my county there' are currently 37,152 confirmed cases, 2970 recovered, 1818 deaths.
That means 61% of the people who went through it, if the figures are actuate and I understand them correctly, are dead. And that doesn't even figure in if any of the survivors are left with permanent consequences. Those aren't odds I'd like to test.
These morons who complain, though, are welcome to try.
ETA: I realized after posting I'd done the math wrong. 1818 deaths is 37% of cases that went through the virus. Odds I wouldn't want to push, just the same.
Where TF did they get that 99.85% figure? Eh, probably Faux. Or "Q".

 

[Isabeau]

This from our 6pm news presenter (French CBC). I think he is also getting really tired about all the virus news... anyway, made me laugh. I think many of us feel the same way.

“Music, beer, and for one hour - fuck off Corona virus.”

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I don'tnt knew where they pulled that "99.85% survival rate" from. It's not like there were final totals yet. In my country there' are currently 37,152 confirmed cases, 2970 recovered, 1818 deaths.
That means 61% of the people who went through it, if the figures are actuate and I understand them correctly, are dead. And that doesn't even figure in if any of the survivors are left with permanent consequences. Those aren't odds I'd like to test.
These morons who complain, though, are welcome to try.
ETA: I realized after posting I'd done the math wrong. 1818 deaths is 37% of cases that went through the virus. Odds I world want to rush, just the same.
Where TF did they get that 99.85% figure? Eh, probably Faux. Or "Q".

I"ve gotten into arguments with people who believe a disease's mortality rate is the number dead divided by the entire population. When I correct them and say that it is the number dead divided by the number of confirmed cases, I get "well, the numbers are all fake anyways". I just can't even with them.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Mid-May... fast forward some 3-4 weeks for symptoms to take hold and deepen .... so mid-June should be interesting.

‘This feels great’
A preview from Georgia about how America might reemerge from the coronavirus: Eating, drinking, touching and throwing caution to the wind

 

[Kathryn Elisabeth]

Well when you (used to be able) to go shopping... and you are with someone who likes the Quarter Off Rack more than the 30% off Rack, because it is a 'WHOLE QUARTER'. 'Splains lot 'bout Stuff & Things.
Just because the Math Teacher's preferred form of address in the classroom is 'Coach', probably is just coincidence. Strange though... same coincidence seems to happen even more with classes like History and Government.

 

[Ghost Pepper]

The End Of French Kissing? How The Lockdown Changed France

France might be slowly emerging from confinement, but it isn’t bringing back all of its old habits. One of them, la bise–the subtle art of kissing everyone on the cheek–is definitely not returning as shops and schools reopen.

It’s not the first time that airborne disease has stopped la bise

People stopped la bise in the 14th century because of the plague. According to The Local, it was only after World War One that the custom began again.

 

[Kara Spengler]

They'll probably use the same excuse there that they are here.
"Thousands of people die from the flu and they don't quarantine"
or even more absurd comparisons like car accidents.

I was thinking they would try to argue inflation should apply.

 

[Kara Spengler]

The US has a more decentralized system than Brazil. So we are doing better despite a similar level of idiocy at the top. Their case rate is still growing exponentially.

Decentralized but some governors do exactly what donnie wants.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Would-be visitors to Disney Springs can't be having with any masks or social distancing, thank you very much!

I could not quite grasp that. Springs is not the park and it is only 3rd party places. Do ppl need an expensive mall that bad?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Burglar who hid under bed to avoid getting caught has been waiting two months for woman to leave apartment

“If only she'd take a shower, I’d finally have enough time to escape.”

www.thebeaverton.com

 

[Essence Lumin]

I don'tnt knew where they pulled that "99.85% survival rate" from. It's not like there were final totals yet. In my country there' are currently 37,152 confirmed cases, 2970 recovered, 1818 deaths.
That means 61% of the people who went through it, if the figures are actuate and I understand them correctly, are dead. And that doesn't even figure in if any of the survivors are left with permanent consequences. Those aren't odds I'd like to test.
These morons who complain, though, are welcome to try.
ETA: I realized after posting I'd done the math wrong. 1818 deaths is 37% of cases that went through the virus. Odds I wouldn't want to push, just the same.
Where TF did they get that 99.85% figure? Eh, probably Faux. Or "Q".

You must mean county, not country. The wikipedia article you presumably got those numbers from says the source for the information in the table is https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/ . However that site doesn't list any 'recovery' numbers that I can see. That site now says 39,136 confirmed cases for your county and 2517 deaths. Either way, 2517 / 39136 * 100 = 6.4% mortality rate or 1818 / 37152 * 100 = 4.9% mortality rate.

The number of people infected is much higher than those tested though. This article explains the math better.

Coronavirus Death Rate (COVID-19) - Worldometer

 

[Anya Ristow]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

People stopped la bise in the 14th century because of the plague. According to The Local, it was only after World War One that the custom began again.
The End Of French Kissing? How The Lockdown Changed France

So, if The Local is to be believed, the French gave up kissing each other during the plague and started over again some five or six hundred years later during an influenza epidemic because reasons.

Ils sont fous, ces Français.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests

Devices associated with protesters travelled up to hundreds of miles after rallies where few precautions were taken

www.theguardian.com

 

[detrius]

I don'tnt knew where they pulled that "99.85% survival rate" from. It's not like there were final totals yet. In my country there' are currently 37,152 confirmed cases, 2970 recovered, 1818 deaths.
That means 61% of the people who went through it, if the figures are actuate and I understand them correctly, are dead. And that doesn't even figure in if any of the survivors are left with permanent consequences. Those aren't odds I'd like to test.
These morons who complain, though, are welcome to try.
ETA: I realized after posting I'd done the math wrong. 1818 deaths is 37% of cases that went through the virus. Odds I wouldn't want to push, just the same.
Where TF did they get that 99.85% figure? Eh, probably Faux. Or "Q".

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.

www.worldometers.info

According to this site, there there are over 346,000 people in America who have recovered from the Virus and over 90,000 people who died.

There are multiple ways that ratio can be interpreted, and none of them are good.

 

[Romana]

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.

www.worldometers.info

According to this site, there there are over 346,000 people in America who have recovered from the Virus and over 90,000 people who died.

There are multiple ways that ratio can be interpreted, and none of them are good.

The way I was figuring (eventually) was just by the number of cases where people either recovered or died. (locally). And the proportion of people who died to that total was way over .15%.
And yes, Essence, I did mean county (now corrected, thanks.) My iPad hates me.