outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

xp oops, i misunderstood the question! on who is handling it worse, i'd assume the US is near the bottom, but i would also assume that there are places with even more authoritarian leaders who are actively suppressing the bad news. for example, north korea miraculously has "zero" cases right now

I worry about Egypt.

(for people who find relief in tracking things, NYT has launched a new county-level

https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-county-data-us.html

No single agency has provided the public with an accurate, up-to-date record of coronavirus cases, tracked to the county level. To fill the gap, The New York Times has launched a round-the-clock effort to tally every known coronavirus case in the United States. The data, which The Times will continue to track, is being made available to the public on Friday.

...

In late January, not long after the first known case was reported in Washington State, The Times began tracking each known U.S. case as counties and states began reporting results of testing. Such testing, which had been delayed, gradually became more widely available. For the last eight weeks, a team of Times journalists has recorded an array of details — locations, dates, ages and conditions, when possible — about newly confirmed cases reported by state and local officials.

By Friday morning, The Times had tracked more than 85,000 cases in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories. There have been more known cases in the United States than in China, Italy or any other country, and more than 1,200 people have died in the United States. Researchers, scientists, government officials and business executives have requested access to the information. The Times is releasing its data publicly in an effort to broaden understanding of the virus’s toll.

they're posting this county-level data on GitHub

The Greatest Nation on Earth. https://t.co/HhyDm0ZHxe

— Nuha Serrac 💙 Bernie Sanders (@NuhaSerrac) March 27, 2020

'Literally why it's so great' — Republicans, probably.

well, you heard the man, let's get this thing back up and running

https://i.redd.it/xsn79wrgw6p41.png

jesus christ thats grim

it really is

all the older women are probably like "speak for yourself, old man."

I don't need to see the rest of his body to know he doesn't do a lot of stepping up, period.

i feel like someone's kids stopped calling him.

I volunteered for DC's Medical Reserve Corps last week (apparently social workers are considered healthcare providers these days, and tbf I did train in an ICU). Got a text this morning summoning me to a 4-hour training to do screening and testing. Which obv I am OK with or I wouldn't have volunteered, but really does it have to start at 8am?

lol that would totally be my reaction. "I am totally happy to put my life on the line to help people, but does it have to be at 8am?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8ZChHuelyg

it's ok if I pass away
cut myself into pieces
this is my last resort
it's ok if I pass away

Matt DC's question wasn't whether the virus is currently hitting any countries worse than the USA at present (answer to *that* question: it is) but rather, whether any country is handling the crisis worse than the USA (answer seems no).

scottyfrommarketing.jpg

just wondering, for people outside of the US and GB, do you also have prominent media people who actively try to make the situation worse, every single day?

Rush Limbaugh: Health experts are part of the the "Deep State"

“We didn't elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we don't know. And how do we know they're even health experts?"https://t.co/LG0hBNwRr8 pic.twitter.com/LOW5mCdILw

— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 27, 2020

i wonder if anyone in the administration has -- from a purely utilitarian viewpoint -- considered the value of (redacted) the president in order to potentially save more lives with a brief pence presidency

who has a history of solving problems

...by declaring bankruptcy.

are prominent media voices in other countries advocating for coming up with some sort of "job assessment" for public health experts in the government, right now?

just fucking die, rush limbaugh

As a fairly old person I know it would be okay if I passed away, if only because I know that is part of the deal with being alive in the first place. But I'll be damned if I think it's okay for me to die so the fucking stock market won't tank. It's called getting your priorities straight, you meme guy. Get your head out of your ass.

get your head out of your ass, meme guy, and get it straight into rush limbaugh's ass. then start twisting, biting, and pushing your way up through his body as far as you can

"it's ok if I pass away" but maybe not ok to ask him not to go out and do all the people-adjacent things he likes to do regularly and infect other people too

just wondering, for people outside of the US and GB, do you also have prominent media people who actively try to make the situation worse, every single day?

Why are you including GB there? What's Rush Limbaugh got to do with us?

You belong to the other country most inflicted by dumbass blowhards, afaict

uh, no offense. i think the USA is #1 by a longshot on that

Aussies may have something to say here.

this is the real olympics

try to give away your medals!

*USA, draped in the glory of gold, enters the ring*

anyway, i'm just wondering if, for example, the most popular radio host in italy is telling everybody that it's an overblown hoax and not to trust public health officials

India? Brazil?

Aimless I'm not going to let your comment pass without telling you off. Don't die or I'll FP you

It’s different for GB but the same, on reflection. Both our blowhards are defending the government, so for us it was first a defence of herd immunity and now a defence of shaky lockdown, which is at least an attempt to do something.

The US lot seem to be defending however the fuck you characterise Trump’s approach, which is not.

Oh I am absolutely certain Italy has its fair share of obnoxious blowhards.

I've seen rational, mathematical explanations of why this is so, here and elsewhere, but I still keep noticing the global death rate for closed cases keeps climbing--up to 17% now.

In France the main controversy over the virus concerns the “study” by Didier Raoult, an infectious disease doctor and professor in Marseille, “showing” that hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for the virus. He is a climate change sceptic.

come over to the USA, Raoult. your fake "study" will have to compete with our extensive manufactured bullshit industry, and your hydroxycloroquine findings will have to first compete in our tournament bracket of "climate change deniers who also dabble in epidemiology", which has over 60 contestants already signed up

if someone can manage to publish a list of the secret ingredients needed to make a coronavirus treatment that's made out of common cleaning materials, it'll immediately be worshiped on Hannity and retweeted to several dozen million people by the president

bleach and vinegar, briskly gargled

I don't know what it means, but that is some kind of headline.

http://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/business/walmart-tops-bottoms-sales-trnd/index.html

every day's a new day for the emperor

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-ventilators-gm-ventec.html

not looking forward to the numbers in the US in the next couple of weeks...

why worry about tomorrow when you can...

what was the phrase, again? anyway, the point is, don't think about the future and what might happen, or prepare for it.

For those curious how well their locality is practicing physical distancing, Unacast is grading states and counties using mobile phone data. covid19 social distancing scoreboard

Irish government just announced a full lockdown

"for a two-week period everybody must stay at home in all circumstances, except in exceptional circumstances such as work and to get essential goods"

my county got an A rating!

In France the main controversy over the virus concerns the “study” by Didier Raoult, an infectious disease doctor and professor in Marseille, “showing” that hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for the virus. He is a climate change sceptic.

Speaking of which, this is really le pompon:

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2020/03/27/de-yorarien-a-yakekchose-didier-raoult-figure-des-forums-de-jeuxvideo-com_6034716_4408996.html

that's a really neat link, mordy!

(chicago/cook county gets a B)

amazing to see the rural/urban divide

rural areas get a big fucking F in general, which i believe stands for FUCK YOU