How COVID-19 is affecting society

[danielravennest]

Federal agencies, hazmat crews respond to Florida church selling COVID-19 ‘miracle solution’

Multiple agencies were called to the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing in Bradenton in connection with search warrants.

www.mysuncoast.com

The "cure" is as recommended by the President, it seems.

In the spirit of Gilbert & Sullivan, they should make the punishment fit the crime, and have the sellers take their own "medicine", then distribute the video to their customers.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Once again Donnie tries to fool us. He can't *force* schools to open. It's a state and local decision. Whatever federal education funding there is, was passed by Congress in the budget. He can't just withhold it. And even places that open their schools, the parents will decide if they want to risk their kids going. Lastly, what kind of idiot want's to risk his election on angry parents shouting "you're trying to kill my kids"?

The problem comes in when you have murderous GOP stooges willing to do whatever gropenfurher demands.... which is why Florida schools might not even have the option of online teaching AT ALL. And this could also affect colleges; a friend might be losing his job because of this BS.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Lastly, what kind of idiot want's to risk his election on angry parents shouting "you're trying to kill my kids"?

Really? You've got to ask that?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Taking Mask Protests To Their Inevitable Conclusion, Millions Of Americans Stop Wearing Pants

“You can’t make me!” Debra Pauntliss of Oakland, California screams at the top of her lungs as a preternaturally patient CVS employee firmly reminds the half-naked woman that she …

outabouter.com

 

[Free]

*sigh*

'I Trust Hydroxychloroquine.' Brazil's President Says He's Taking Controversial Anti-Malaria Drug

"I’m one more person for whom this is working. So I trust hydroxychloroquine," said Brazil's president who has COVID-19

time.com

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he is confident that he will swiftly recover from the new coronavirus thanks to treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven effective against COVID-19.

Bolsonaro said he tested positive for the new coronavirus on Tuesday after months of downplaying its severity while deaths mounted rapidly inside the country. The president told reporters he underwent a lung X-ray on Monday after experiencing fever, muscle aches and malaise. As of Tuesday, his fever had subsided, he said, and he attributed the improvement to hydroxychloroquine.

 

[Free]

Yup, that's what the Dems fear most about that!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

'It's like night and day': Trudeau's and Trump's Covid-19 responses fuel wildly different outcomes

The US president stokes division as the virus rages, while the prime minister of Canada – where the outbreak appears to be stabilizing – has fostered a shared sense of duty

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

*raises hand* That shared sense of duty thing? Aside from rural rednecks and weirdos who watched too much American TV, that’s normal Canada.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

*raises hand* That shared sense of duty thing? Aside from rural rednecks and weirdos who watched too much American TV, that’s normal Canada.

Perhaps not-unrelated

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This is how civilizations fall. A crisis in one area triggers a cascade of failures that continue to ripple outward.

And another example

'Opioid overdoses are skyrocketing': as Covid-19 sweeps across US an old epidemic returns

The pandemic is creating the social conditions – no jobs, isolation, despair – that helped enable the opioid crisis to emerge in the first place. Now it’s back

www.theguardian.com

Dr Raeford Brown, a former chair of the Food and Drug Administration’s opioid advisory committee, is a longstanding critic of drug industry influence over opioid medical policy and the government’s response to the epidemic. He sees a parallel with coronavirus with US states lifting strong social distancing orders too early under corporate pressure.

“The United States is not good at doing public health,” he said. “It failed the test with opioids and it failed the test with viral pandemics. But coronavirus and pandemics, and the things like the opioid crisis, are much more likely to get us than the Russians or the Chinese are.”

 

[Isabeau]

Animation showing world deaths timeline.

“Just a flu...”

Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19 (borrowed and reproduced from Tony Nickonchuk)

A Flourish data visualisation by Gavin Wood

public.flourish.studio

 

[Essence Lumin]

Animation showing world deaths timeline.

“Just a flu...”

Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19 (borrowed and reproduced from Tony Nickonchuk)

A Flourish data visualisation by Gavin Wood

public.flourish.studio

Interesting comparison, but note that for instance, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease accounts for about 1.5 million deaths in that time period but is not displayed on the chart. It also probably maintains a steady rate unlike covid. That is 4x the number of deaths from the virus.

The top 10 causes of death

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Coronavirus: Things US has got wrong - and right

Many states reopened too quickly, but the damage to the US economy may not be as bad as first feared.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Grandma Bates]

Coronavirus: Things US has got wrong - and right

Many states reopened too quickly, but the damage to the US economy may not be as bad as first feared.

www.bbc.co.uk

It is too early to decide on whether or not this will be an economic success story. Employment rates increased over the last month, but with the current increase in cases there are indicators that it might start moving downward again.


There are still a large number of people filing for unemployment benefits:

This latest round of cuts is more worrisome as some are warning that these cuts are not just in response to a slowdown but part of a broader plan by companies to cut back for a longer term:

The stock market, though, is doing much better. Good thing all those companies in the US could receive stimulus benefits without the clumsy burden of helping anybody but stockholders. So nice that we have a President out there working for the little people and cleaning up that whole swampy messy thing.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Maybe stop dropping your hat? It's bad for the brim and crown.

Ohio State is getting rid of as much in person instruction as possible. Studio and lab classes will have staggered meetings. We were offered a choice of in-person, on-line, or hybrid, and only one person in my unit is teaching a hybrid class. Mass lecture classes did not have a choice, there will be no auditorium classes.

But ICE is fucking around with rules for international students. I know some of mine will stay in China for now, but anyone in or coming to campus from abroad has to be careful not to take too many on-line classes or risk their student visa.

The BBC on what it's like for international students in the US right now.

US student visas: 'A lot of people I know are scared for the future'

The US said some visas could be revoked because of coronavirus, leaving students confused and uncertain.

www.bbc.co.uk

Aeons ago, I was on a J-something visa as part of a postgraduate exchange programme with the University of California for a couple of years, and I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like for me had something like this happened at the time.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Yup, that's what the Dems fear most about that!

Projection, as always.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Romana]

Florida governor DeSantis (or DeSatan, as some would have it, and I can see why) compares going to or teaching school with going to Home Depot:

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[Aribeth Zelin]

Florida governor DeSantis (or DeSatan, as some would have it, and I can see why) compares going to or teaching school with going to Home Depot:

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I do neither of those.