Coronavirus - are we all doomed?

[pbaldy]

Yuck, NV is not doing well. We may get locked down again.

 

[Isaac]

AZ is doing really bad too. But they seem to be forging ahead nonetheless.

 

[moke123]

I was glad to see Ma. doing the best.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Louisiana has deferred implementation of stage III by 28 days, so we are stuck in stage II. Which means no buffets just yet.

 

[Isaac]

Which means no buffets just yet.

Might not be the worst thing. The other day AZ reported 3,500 new cases in a single day. I keep wondering how long my luck will hold out.

(Then again, I probably shouldn't assume anything about my current or past status. Much is made of "testing" these days, but the one I'm really interested in is the antibodies test!)

 

[AccessBlaster]

Might not be the worst thing. The other day AZ reported 3,500 new cases in a single day. I keep wondering how long my luck will hold out.

(Then again, I probably shouldn't assume anything about my current or past status. Much is made of "testing" these days, but the one I'm really interested in is the antibodies test!)

Right? Either i'm real lucky or I have already had it. I live in a fairly dense population 3.176 million.

 

[Jon]

Have the riots increased Covid in the US? I mean can you look at when the riots took place and estimate when you would expect a spike infections from that? Symptoms show approximately 5 days after infection I think, so did infections start to go up 5 days after George Floyd? I am curious if the two are correlated.

 

[AccessBlaster]

One thing I know for sure, if Biden is elected in November the severity of the pandemic will shift. Just his appearance alone will have a miraculous effect on the way bad news is reported in general.

If I had to guess statues of Lincoln will be instantly replaced with Biden, he's that good!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Supposedly, there is a federal statute for U.S. monuments that requires the person must be dead to be eligible for commissioning of a statue. Doesn't, however, apply to cases of burning in effigy.

 

[Jon]

Why do they want to tear down statues of Lincoln? What did he do?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Past a certain point, it is about revisionist history. To which I say "Tough if you don't like reality."

 

[AccessBlaster]

Why do they want to tear down statues of Lincoln? What did he do?

The emancipation statue depicts Lincoln freeing slaves. It is considered offensive to some.

 

[moke123]

The emancipation statue depicts Lincoln freeing slaves. It is considered offensive to some.

Yes, trump doesn't like it because its a black man taking a knee.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Yes, trump doesn't like it because its a black man taking a knee

So Trump wants it torn down?

 

[AccessBlaster]

This is not Photoshop, North America and Europe have the same numbers https://www.yahoo.com/news/immersive/coronavirus-3d-globe.html

 

[pbaldy]

This is not Photoshop, North America and Europe have the same numbers https://www.yahoo.com/news/immersive/coronavirus-3d-globe.html

I'm guessing somebody copied a subreport and forgot to change the criteria.

 

[pbaldy]

The emancipation statue depicts Lincoln freeing slaves.

It's always bothered me that Lincoln gets credit for freeing the slaves, but the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the Confederate states. Why didn't he free them all?

 

[Isaac]

Some of what they are doing makes no sense, and is just roving restless young people without enough to do.
Tearing down the statue of Ulysses Grant? Really. Seems they are forgetting to check Google on a particular statue's identity before roping it down..

 

[AccessBlaster]

Some of what they are doing makes no sense, and is just roving restless young people without enough to do.
Tearing down the statue of Ulysses Grant? Really. Seems they are forgetting to check Google on a particular statue's identity before roping it down..

I think they are well aware, it's western civilization they are railing against. That's in part why you see it in Europe. Has little to do with Mr. Floyd more to do with capitalism and alike.

 

[Isaac]

Ok yeah ... that might be the case. I'm convinced that there are also occasions where people just jump on the bandwagon and frankly don't even think about who they are tearing down. Like burning a random building.

In other news, it sounds like the Seattle leadership finally got weary of anarchy, so much for a "summer of love". The city leadership deserves to go bankrupt from lawsuits of people affected by their allowing it .. would be a good lesson for other cities deciding how to respond.