outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

IMO cockiness is exactly what's called for here. You gotta show COVID who's boss. I mean, are we gonna let ourselves be pushed around and barred from eating in restaurants by something as small as a virus? Like fun we are.

I'm guessing New York is the bellwether here, given the severity of the outbreak there? It looks like the peak has past there but if it starts to climb rapidly again it means we're basically all fucked, it's either keep everything in stasis for an indefinite amount of time or risk losing control of the virus altogether.

Also apparently parts of Italy have reopened clubs again? That seems insane.

It looks like the peak has past there but if it starts to climb rapidly again it means we're basically all fucked

if it starts to climb rapidly again it will be largely due to the containment strategies NY puts in place (or doesn't put in place). rapid rises aren't inevitable - they're the result of public policy decisions and people deciding to get serious and wear a mask and be safe, or not.

plenty of governments could be doing much better, but i don't think there's a ton of evidence yet for that last sentence

I don't get the impression that New York is a closed ecosystem - it would have to bubble with parts of New Jersey for a start.

let's just kill everybody within 24 hours of a positive COVID test, that should get rid of it

actually delete that post, GOP politicians might see it and adopt it

more evidence of virus involvement in circulatory-related effects, specifically the coagulation process:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-07-complications-covid-von-willebrand-factor.html

Serbs storm parliament after virus lockdown announced

Guess what? Another asshole head of state is implicated.

BREAKING: Dozens of Florida hospitals have no available intensive care units, according according to data released Tuesday afternoon by the state. ICU beds are at capacity at 54 hospitals across 25 counties and 30 hospitals reported that their units were more than 90% full.

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) July 7, 2020

really would like to know which ones, esp with my father....

ahh great, that includes Orlando. well, hopefully nobody I know catches a disease, gets in a car wreck, or gets shot

https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/HospitalBedsHospital

I am livid over this, not that I didn't know the hospital shortage was getting worse, but there are literally TWO fucking ICU beds in the county my fucking parents live in right now. and while this is happening, smug assholes are telling my teacher friends that if they don't want to return to work, they should find new jobs.

Every news bulletin has a public health expert on saying masks are a good idea. Can we get a mask order for Victoria? can we fuck.

Our second wave may be approaching, if the turds speak truly.

Faut-il s’alarmer ? Près de deux mois après la levée des principales mesures de confinement, la quantité de virus détectée dans les eaux usées parisiennes semble indiquer une légère reprise de l’épidémie depuis une quinzaine de jours, indiquent des sources concordantes.

Quand un malade va aux toilettes, le virus présent dans ses selles contamine les eaux qui les évacuent. Il est présent quelques jours après l’infection, avant l’apparition des premiers symptômes de la maladie. Les eaux usées « reflètent en partie l’état de santé de la population », souligne-t-on chez Eau de Paris, et représentent un indicateur épidémique « avancé » par rapport aux indicateurs « tardifs », comme les hospitalisations.

https://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/review/primary_image/reviews/great-movie-the-phantom-of-the-opera-1925/EB20041219REVIEWS08412190303AR.jpg

^^^gnarled and turbid sinuses IIRC

Activity power rankings!

Want to know which activities are safest or highest risk? Follow doctors’ advice and check out this chart from @texmed. pic.twitter.com/YDzzC1dRJV

— Erin Zwiener (@ErinForYall) July 6, 2020

Is eating bats OK now or not?

10 / 10 making out with coronavirus

I don't see "licking hospital medical-waste bins" on there. My freedom is being impinged by this liberal hoax.

this is pretty fucked up

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/warning-of-serious-brain-disorders-in-people-with-mild-covid-symptoms

One coronavirus patient described in the paper, a 55-year-old woman with no history of psychiatric illness, began to behave oddly the day after she was discharged from hospital.

She repeatedly put her coat on and took it off again and began to hallucinate, reporting that she saw monkeys and lions in her house. She was readmitted to hospital and gradually improved on antipsychotic medication.

this seems like a...baaaaaaad idea?

British finance minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a sweeping plan to reinvigorate the U.K. economy Wednesday, amid widespread economic fallout and an ongoing unemployment crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The $37.7 billion plan will hand out bonuses worth around $1,250 to employers for each furloughed worker they get back to work after October and includes a government-funded discount on restaurant meals in August to encourage Britons to support local businesses. To further encourage spending, value added tax in hospitality and tourism, which is typically 20 percent, will be reduced to five percent for the next six months. The tax discount will be applied to “eat-in or hot takeaway food from restaurants, cafes and pubs; accommodation in hotels, B & Bs, campsites and caravan sites [and] attractions like cinemas, theme parks and zoos,” Sunak said.

The restaurant discount, which Sunak coined “eat out to help out,” will offer British restaurant patrons who dine at restaurants between Mondays and Wednesdays next month 50 percent off — up to around $12.60 per person. Alcohol will not be covered, and restaurants interested in participating in the program will need to register by mid-July.

“I know people are cautious about going out,” Sunak said. “But we wouldn’t have lifted the restrictions if we didn’t think we could do so, safely.”

"alcohol will not be covered" - listen, we'll use your taxes to give incentives to people to go die a little faster, but you can be sure that they won't be able to get a free drink out of it

Why you so mean, they only want to be loved.

is anyone doing PR for coronavirus?

Coronavirus - get out there and spread it around

COVID19 - because you might indirectly kill someone you never even met

here's a tip you can leave for your bartender - i just singlehandedly raised the case incidence in this zip code by 0.04%

People who can afford to go to restaurants: here's some money, now spread the virus

People who get delivery and stay home: no soup for you

eating at a restaurant (inside) is only 7/10, chill out KM

*leans in to bartender*

and i only make up 0.002% of the population

going to a bar is 9/10, so it's good the pubs haven't reopened

|||||||| 7/10 activities are what the pros use to warm up for their morning workout

FWIW we don't tip our bar staff here so they'll have to catch the rona without that sage advice.

The pubs will have been open for a month by the time that restaurant scheme kicks in, so if it's causing the second spike we'll know by then. The real problem in the UK in August is likely to be people deciding to travel halfway across the country for a holiday, and that's going to be particularly hard on areas like the SW, which has so far got off pretty lightly all things considered.

*leans in close enough to smell the bartender's ear wax*

do you wanna have a conversation about tipping while the government subsidizes me to spread coronavirus to your patrons

haha, sorry. got really into that scenario. honestly, 2020 should be the year for ttrpgs, roleplaying in real life, LARPing, and incredibly long single-player adventures.

FWIW we don't tip our bar staff here

Thank God or I'd have been bankrupt several times over by now.

Jim Harbaugh, on moving forward with plans for fall football season: "COVID is part of our society. It wasn’t caused by football or caused by sports. There’s no expert view right now that I’m aware of that sports is going to make that worse."

— Austin Meek (@byAustinMeek) July 8, 2020

I heard the first case of COVID happened when someone ate a football

a level of willful ignorance that only makes sense within the context of these past five years

you skipped harbaugh's next paragraph

“We talk about the sanctity of life, yet we live in a society that aborts babies. There can’t be anything more horrendous.”

We talk about the sanctity of life, but you know what? Fuck it.

some say that conservatives stop caring about human lives at the moment of birth. but not jim harbaugh, because he suffered over 900 violent head injuries while attempting to tossing an oblong slab of dead animal at post-birth humans

oy vey, jimmy

Oy vey indeed. Is there anyone involved in football that isn't terrible?

Kaepernick