How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Free]

So people who visit *gambling" casinos tend to fail at understanding risk. I think I got it.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

I saw only a handful, a very small handful, of people wearing masks in that video. I would bet that a pretty high majority of those folks are not from Vegas, and they will be going home.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

From drug dealers to loan sharks: how coronavirus empowers organised crime | Misha Glenny

Disruption to supplies, diversion of police resources and collapsing businesses all create opportunities, says the McMafia author Misha Glenny

www.theguardian.com

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Organized crime is still a thing?

I thought they all pretty much gave up and switched to running the country instead.

 

[Roxanne Blue]

The good news?

We are "Free at Last" (actual Florida Keys Billboard advertising re-opening before blowback made them reconsider its tone-deafness), the Keys are open for business again.

The bad news?

The Keys are open for business again. All the bars are rocking again.

Businesses requiring all customers to wear masks? 50/50 at best.

Businesses limiting capacity to 50%? They're not so good at maths.

Businesses making people/parties inside sit six feet apart? Have you been to the Keys? That would be less than 10 people, and we said we're bad at maths.

Bars requiring any of the above? Yeah, sure.

Florida's numbers are climbing again; pretty sure it won't be a short-term trend.

 

[Clara D.]

The good news?

We are "Free at Last" (actual Florida Keys Billboard advertising re-opening before blowback made them reconsider its tone-deafness), the Keys are open for business again.

The bad news?

The Keys are open for business again. All the bars are rocking again.

Businesses requiring all customers to wear masks? 50/50 at best.

Businesses limiting capacity to 50%? They're not so good at maths.

Businesses making people/parties inside sit six feet apart? Have you been to the Keys? That would be less than 10 people, and we said we're bad at maths.

Bars requiring any of the above? Yeah, sure.

Florida's numbers are climbing again; pretty sure it won't be a short-term trend.

We'll be joining in here in Arizona. Go us?

Shoppers are 50% utterly oblivious.

Our stay-at-home was half-assed and only lasted a month anyways.

We're a retirement state.

Our biggest hospital chain is at capacity for lung machines already.

Arizona's largest health system reaches capacity on ECMO lung machines as COVID-19 cases in the state continue to climb

Arizona's total identified cases rose to 25,451 Saturday according to state figures. The state's death toll was 1,042, with 30 new deaths reported.

www.azcentral.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

'Evil forces': how Covid-19 paranoia united the wellness industry and rightwing conspiracy theorists | Brigid Delaney

Amid the Covid-19 lockdown, the connection between rightwing conspiracy theories and wellness have strengthened

www.theguardian.com

Not really a surprise, I suppose, since the wellness industry is a grift that that sells woo, bad science and fake mysticism, and which depends on a myth of natural mystical healing which conventional science and big pharma are deliberately hiding, as part of self-interested conspiracy.

 

[Romana]

'Evil forces': how Covid-19 paranoia united the wellness industry and rightwing conspiracy theorists | Brigid Delaney

Amid the Covid-19 lockdown, the connection between rightwing conspiracy theories and wellness have strengthened

www.theguardian.com

Not really a surprise, I suppose, since the wellness industry is a grift that that sells woo, bad science and fake mysticism, and which depends on a myth of natural mystical healing which conventional science and big pharma are deliberately hiding, as part of self-interested conspiracy.

Well, damn. If I take a yoga class when things eventually get back to normal I'll definitely ask some questions first.
I never did trust "life coaches", though.

 

[Clara D.]

'Evil forces': how Covid-19 paranoia united the wellness industry and rightwing conspiracy theorists | Brigid Delaney

Amid the Covid-19 lockdown, the connection between rightwing conspiracy theories and wellness have strengthened

www.theguardian.com

Not really a surprise, I suppose, since the wellness industry is a grift that that sells woo, bad science and fake mysticism, and which depends on a myth of natural mystical healing which conventional science and big pharma are deliberately hiding, as part of self-interested conspiracy.

Reagan had an astrologer, so the right-wing woo-woo tie in isn't new.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

It's amazing we haven't killed off a third of us by now.

Americans are drinking bleach and dunking food in it to prevent COVID-19

Thirty-nine percent of surveyed people admitted to at least one risky practice.

arstechnica.com

I honestly didn't know you shouldn't mix bleach in hot water. I do it all the time in the washing machine when washing my whites!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I honestly didn't know you shouldn't mix bleach in hot water. I do it all the time in the washing machine when washing my whites!

White linens matter.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I honestly didn't know you shouldn't mix bleach in hot water. I do it all the time in the washing machine when washing my whites!

If you’ve ever heard (or believed) that you shouldn’t mix bleach with hot water when cleaning or doing laundry, then we have news for you. Turns out that the widespread belief that hot water can render the active ingredients in bleach ineffective is nothing more than modern-day housekeeping folklore.
We did a little digging and discovered that the myth might actually stem from the fact that bleach is actually very sensitive to high heat storage conditions—and that it should always be stored at a normal room temperature to prolong its shelf life. But if you want to mix it with hot water to boost the cleaning potential? Totally cool.
We reached out to Mary Begovic Johnson, Tide & Downy Principal Scientist to help us better understand.

This is a PSA: That Bleach and Hot Water Thing is Actually a Myth

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

Holy crap. Worse than the U.S.

WE'RE NUMBER flippedyfabble *cough*!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Organized crime is still a thing?

I thought they all pretty much gave up and switched to running the country instead.

Someone's banking all the money from selling those drugs and running those scams.

The "county lines" networks are, I think, their own separate local organisations, but they're certainly distributing drugs at a level where organised crime must be the suppliers, or very close to that level, anyway.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Sadly, water flows downhill and the sun rises in the east every day.

Coronavirus: more than a dozen US states see record high of new cases

Fourteen states and Puerto Rico see highest seven-day average of new infections, as restrictions to slow the spread are being relaxed

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kara Spengler]

So people who visit *gambling" casinos tend to fail at understanding risk. I think I got it.

What other kind of casinos are there?

 

[Kara Spengler]

Hey Sweden, why are you not up with the other nordic countries?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Hey Sweden, why are you not up with the other nordic countries?

Because they followed a policy too similar to that of the UK, I think

We should have done more, admits architect of Sweden's Covid-19 strategy

Anders Tegnell says there was ‘potential for improvement’ in country’s strategy to fight pandemic

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Because they followed a policy too similar to that of the UK, I think

We should have done more, admits architect of Sweden's Covid-19 strategy

Anders Tegnell says there was ‘potential for improvement’ in country’s strategy to fight pandemic

www.theguardian.com

One of the advantages of slowing down the incidence of new cases is not just to spread the load on medical services; the delay also provides more time to develop treatments (and a vaccine, but that's more long-term). By allowing so many cases to spread now, Sweden and the UK have increased the number of fatalities -- all those people who died because doctors and medical support were still learning how to treat COVID-19 patients.

Just within the last week or two, new treatments are emerging and old drugs are being repurposed, resulting in better outcomes for patients who develop the more aggressive forms of the disease. Fatalities in all age categories will continue dropping due to those advances and that hard-won knowledge.

So the "we might as well get sick now as later" approach is fundamentally flawed, if not downright criminal.