How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

30 year old uses same tone telling toddler not to eat lego as she does telling parents not to go on cruise

Kincardine, ON - Mona Lee has found herself repeatedly using the same patient but exasperated tone explaining why her toddler shouldn't eat things that will kill him as she does when explaining to her 70 something parents why they shouldn't go on a cruise in the middle of a pandemic.

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[Beebo Brink]

Just saw this live on MSNBC and it was quite moving.

SEE IT: Rachel Maddow’s emotional return to program includes tear-inducing tribute to COVID-stricken partner

Innumerable Rachel Maddow fans weren’t expecting to be brought to tears Thursday night. In her emotional return to her MSNBC program, the 47-year-old political pundit shockingly revealed that the close contact who had tested…

www.nydailynews.com

 

[Isabeau]

Here’s a snippet if the video doesn’t play

 

[Essence Lumin]

Judge halts federal execution after lawyers contract virus

A federal judge is temporarily blocking the federal government’s plan to execute the first female death row inmate in almost six decades after her attorneys contracted coronavirus visiting her in

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[Innula Zenovka]

South Australia to end Covid lockdown early as premier 'fuming' over pizza lie

Steven Marshall says state would not have gone into six-day lockdown if it had been known man had worked at Woodville Pizza Bar

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

I was tempted to post this in the Florida Man thread.

 

[Rose Karuna]

I was tempted to post this in the Florida Man thread.

We need a little tiny violin emoji.

 

[Free]

Trump Continues To Falsely Downplay COVID After US Death Toll Reaches 250k

In the middle of pretending he didn’t lose the election, President Donald Trump resumed his attempts to put a rosy...

talkingpointsmemo.com

In the middle of pretending he didn’t lose the election, President Donald Trump resumed his attempts to put a rosy spin on his disastrous response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than a quarter of a million Americans, on Friday morning.

Plop plop fizz fizz...

Trump retweeted a chart from a Twitter account named “Hydroxychloroquine News” showing that the U.S. had a smaller “case fatality rate” on October 9 than six other countries.

“I have seen the claim that the United States has a higher fatality rate from Covid-19 than other wealthy nations. This claim appears to be entirely false and perhaps politically motivated,” the account, named after the antimalarial drug Trump falsely touted as a miracle cure for COVID-19, tweeted.

However, the U.S. indisputably has the highest COVID-19 death toll in the world, and even the description of the chart Trump retweeted notes that its data is a “poor measure of the mortality risk of the disease.”

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

I'm grateful we have the U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY on top of this horrible pandemic.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The cost of Christmas: Boris Johnson faces dilemma on Covid rules

PM must decide whether to listen to Tory MPs or his scientific advisers on relaxing restrictions

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Didn't he already have it after going to Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore, or was that the other moron?

 

[Free]

Point being, what goes around comes around, and eventually...ass bite.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Dunno if this will help, but I posted this to people I love and care about.

Stay home! Many of these are being driven by small gatherings. Folks have been out in the public, are asymptomatic and are bringing it home to family and friends where they would not want to wear a mask because humans are social and think we're safe among the people with which we are closest, even if they do not live in our household.

Protect your elders and others that are vulnerable. Stay home and let them have more Happy Thanksgivings. This one isn't worth the risk. Vaccines are on the way. Next year will be better.

ETA: This was in response to this:

US passes 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a day for first time since May

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This is a weird kind of irony, because from the Kingdom days all the way up until the 1960's the place that Kalawao County occupies was used as a leper colony.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Covid rampages across US, unifying a splintered nation as cases surge

The virus is on the rise so uniformly across the vast landmass of the US, that records are being shattered daily

www.theguardian.com

The Disunited States of America are united once more. After a brutal election that exacerbated bitter partisan divisions and left the country feeling as though it had been torn in two, it has at last been thrown back together.

For all the wrong reasons.

The great leveler is coronavirus. Covid-19 is rampaging across the US as though it were on a personal mission to unify the splintered nation in an unfolding catastrophe. Of the 50 states of the Union, all but one – isolated Hawaii – is seeing alarming surges in new cases. The virus is on the rise so uniformly across the vast landmass of the US, that records are being shattered daily.

Almost 12m cases have been recorded. In just one day the US notched up 184,000 new cases – six times the total number of infections in South Korea since the pandemic began.

 

[detrius]

In other news, the coronavirus has tested positive for Donald Trump - again.