outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

hey guys good news, on 7 july there were only *checks notes* 50,000 new cases in the united states

fuckin yikes

I think 50,000+ cases a day was a milestone passed on July 1st. we're over 55,000+ today according to the worldometer website and 60,000 according to CBS and CNN

xps i don't think that's quite right about how athletic depts are funded, silby

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ccap/2014/12/12/who-actually-funds-intercollegiate-athletic-programs/#7767399217af

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess I really only know my employer, I guess as it says here the intercollegiate athletics dept is "the only school in the Pac-12 conference that doesn’t benefit from a student fee for athletics (at other schools, revenue from student fees range from $2.5-10M annually)."

they probably pay a lot of their revenue back to campus in taxes and recharge fees and so forth.

Not that college football is good; actually it's bad

but yeah there's no tax or student money going to our particular football coach, at least I can be happy about that.

hey guys good news, on 7 july there were only *checks notes* 50,000 new cases in the united states

fuckin yikes

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, July 8, 2020 6:12 PM (one hour ago)bookmarkflaglink

I think 50,000+ cases a day was a milestone passed on July 1st. we're over 55,000+ today according to the worldometer website and 60,000 according to CBS and CNN

― Dan S, Wednesday, July 8, 2020 6:27 PM (one hour ago)

actually, we crossed 60,000+ today for the first time and went straight on up to 62,751.

2020 continues: Unknown pneumonia deadlier than COVID-19 hits Kazakhstan: Chinese Embassy

HAPPENING NOW: FDA agents raiding a house affiliated with a Bradenton online church accused of selling bleach as a “miracle #COVID19 cure.” Wheeling out lots of big blue barrels. @wfla pic.twitter.com/OAh8AP2ShI

— victoria price (@WFLAVictoria) July 8, 2020

american discourse, 2020

Patriarch Mark Grenon sent me this statement called the FDA a “criminal organization.” Jail records show at least two of his sons are currently in federal custody. @wfla pic.twitter.com/qU0uykZASM

— victoria price (@WFLAVictoria) July 8, 2020

doing self care by injecting bleach

the true 2020 ending for that reporter would be for her to just quit the day job and immediately promoting www.quantumleap.is for profit and spiritual bonuses

2020 continues

not saying you're doing this but it would be great if ppl didn't obsess over every possible potential future pandemic long before they're actually pandemics, that shit is all over FB

One pandemic not good enough for ya?

he's right though, we all should watch Quantum Leap, that show holds up!

friends of mine are freaking out about the bubonic plague nothingburger and the G4 pig flu thing. the latter is a much more concerning thing obv, as they say it has markers of a future pandemic, but it's not imminent or anything and they're monitoring it for a reason. kind of pointless to stay up sweating at night over something that hasn't infected a human yet.

re: plague, I just think my average friend doesn't know how to read a Wikipedia article.

"weird, people in the 14th century die of things that we have medication for nowadays, how bout that'

there are always stories like these going around but ppl rarely notice them. now that we're in the middle of a pandemic they're attuned to notice them more.

yeah, too much time to read basically

This refusing to get testing thing is spreading in concerning ways. Do people think if they don't get tested they aren't a danger to others? I realise in some cases that its people fearing testing positive and having to leave their precarious job and maybe never getting it back or (in the case of Victoria) the justified fear engendered when cops in masks turn up on your doorstep asking to stick something up your nose

This is just one example that's maybe a bit more egregious:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-airlines-hong-kong-cancel-testing-coronavirus-2020-7

it's actually pretty hard to get a test around here (2 hours wait if you're in line at 6am) and, except for one weekly shopping trip, i'm totally homebound. at the moment, i don't see the point in taking a test that is being rationed to people needier than me.

i've been tested twice and i'm going to keep doing it anytime someone who knows a friend who has an uncle who has a sister who has a roommate with COVID even so much as farts in the same zip code as me

mostly because I am susceptible to the psychosomatic so I will always be convinced I have any symptom if suggested enough

yikes
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/profundo-ravel-covid-test-rooftop-pandemic-pool-parties-rage-lic

In a phone interview, Ravel co-owner Levine stressed that Ravel has "never guaranteed that what we're doing is a 100% effective thing." He said they have received "hundreds, if not thousands" of emails from other hospitality and catering companies "congratulating us on our forward thinking...who are begging us for our services of what we did. Las Vegas, Miami, LA, multiple giant organizations who have come to us and said, 'Wow, what you're doing is helping our industry not fail.'"

lots of ppl

fucking idiots are gonna be fucking idiots but the city needs to shut these guys down

we were talking about airplanes and airports the other day.

apparently 1000 TSA employees have tested positive. (i think that’s total)

To Simon: Epidemics & plagues are the most important events in demographic history, and likely the most important evolutionary pressure of the Neolithic shaping our species. I'm only living where I am now because smallpox eradicated the Chitimacha, as it did many other Native American groups. I'm very interested in the history of disease, and think its worth putting down spikes of when groups were aware of a threat. It may aid future historians.

yeah but everyone of them has started a band

COVID Update July 10: The most disturbing thing right now is not the growth in new COVID cases.

It’s that even after 4 months, we have no visibility into what’s happening. Or what has happened.

And that makes for a tough Fall. 1/

— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) July 10, 2020

Did a test in the UK for the first time this week (came back negative) and it really was surprisingly easy. Everything gets delivered a day after you request it and the result came back by text after maybe 36hrs.

The whole process appears to have been outsourced to AstraZeneca and Amazon but I can't deny that it worked. From now on if I'm feeling even slightly under the weather I'm doing one.

I've got a home one to do today. the Zoe app invited me to after i reported symptoms that are (99% sure) cold/ hayfever symptoms - no covid symptoms apart from i coughed 3 times yesterday... kids back at school are spreading sniffles imo, other parents have also entered symptoms on app and been asked to test and it was super efficient (one went to the test centre within the half-hour)

Nothing against Andy Slavitt personally or his message, but if you have to make a 31-post thread wouldn't it just be more prudent to slap that up on a blog or something?

lol nobody reads blogs

My sister shared a fb post from a friend of hers who had it in March and is currently on oxygen in a covid ward:

Hey pals. Let’s talk covid a second. I know, I know. I feel like I keep banging on about it. Humour me though. Especially now things are starting to reopen and we’re starting to find our ‘new normal’. Please, please be safe. I’m writing this from the covid ward of the QE. I’m not an ‘extreme’ case, but I’m sick enough to warrant being in hospital. I’ll be here for a few more days, too. I tested positive on 12th March. 120 days later, and I am still ill. This isn’t just ‘a bad cold’. This isn’t just an illness that will last for a couple of weeks. I’ve been told this morning that I am likely going to live with the effects of coronavirus for the rest of my life. I’m 29, and I was otherwise fit and healthy. My lungs are operating at half capacity at best right now, and my o2 levels drop around 10% every time I walk any distance. I’m sleeping anything from 10 hours a day and the exhaustion is like nothing I’ve experienced before. My hands tremble pretty much all the time, and I have constant pins and needles in my feet. I’ve not even started on the dizziness and the headaches and the random, inexplicable aches and pains that I get on and off. I am fed up now.

I know it’s exciting to start going back to normal, but please take this virus seriously. Please take precautions and do the right thing. I know it’s boring and I know it’s rubbish that you can’t see people - believe me, I know - but try and keep healthy and well 💖💗💕

Ps anyone who has seen me at any socially distanced social events, please don’t worry. I’m not contagious - I am no longer covid positive. I’m now just suffering with the after effects ❤️

Shit like this (and suggestions people with my blood type are more likely to develop symptoms) kind of make me want to hide in my flat forever tbh

just hide until there’s a vaccine. there’s never been a better time to be a shut-in. delivery, the internet, it fucking works.

Well I have to go to work but yeah apart from that

Is there anywhere in the US where asymptomatic people can get tests?

you can in chicago, at least. but it wasn't that way for a long time, and we're a blue state with a blue governor. i imagine for much of the country it's dismal. :(

Call your doctor and ask imo. That’s the guidance in my locality in general for those wanting to be tested. If you aren’t ill and have no particular reason to believe you were exposed you might get discouraged from bothering I guess.

In SF you can just check the box that says you feel fatigue.

Do I ever

Do I ever

It's not consistent. In Houston there are some places that will test anyone. Other spots you have to fill out an online reservation that includes a screening to determine if you are eligible.

I am asymptomatic and got tested here in Michigan - active swab and antibody blood draw - on Thursday but haven’t gotten results yet. You technically need a doctor authorization but there was a doctor there authorizing so extremely easy.

It was drive through at an abandoned Sears automotive center and hot as shit and the governor was on NPR giving a press conference about Covid stuff and it all felt extremely surreal and dystopian.

Nice, editorial board of PNAS:

Xie et al, 2020. Working memory capacity predicts individual differences in social-distancing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. PNAS.

Is there anywhere in the US where asymptomatic people can get tests?

― Boring, Maryland, Saturday, July 11, 2020 4:08 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

LA County, but there's currently a long wait.

I've gotten two.

Second wave well and truly up and running in Victoria, deaths just starting to come in. So much complacency* after the first wave and once again not enough done to support the most vulnerable.

Third day in a row of nearly 300 cases and it public housing, hospitals and starting to be aged care facilities as well.

*I’m certainly not excluding myself from complacency