Red Mosquito

Or just, ya know, the coronavirus thread.

1 out of 108 New Yorkers (state) has or had the corona.

Self wrote:http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=640

96583UP wrote:NIH is doing a 10,000 person antibody test

you can do an at-home blood sample

guess it must be a finger prick

could be promising

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-re ... -infection

Why promising?

knee tunes wrote:

96583UP wrote:NIH is doing a 10,000 person antibody test

you can do an at-home blood sample

guess it must be a finger prick

could be promising

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-re ... -infection

Why promising?

imagine if you test positive for the antibody while everyone else is on lockdown

the world is your oyster

96583UP wrote:NIH is doing a 10,000 person antibody test

you can do an at-home blood sample

guess it must be a finger prick

could be promising

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-re ... -infection

“This is very important!” - Dr. Acula

Turns out someone in NYC did anticipate this and he had plan....

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... uenza.html

Bi_3 wrote:Turns out someone in NYC did anticipate this and he had plan....

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... uenza.html

tl;dr

Jammer XCI wrote:https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0

Fucking truth.

spike wrote:

Jammer XCI wrote: https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-th ... 8ce3f0a0e0

Fucking truth.

That story was actually pretty good jammer

Jammer XCI wrote:https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0

Fucking truth.

Nothing against that piece but it's sparked a counter-idea for me:
That piece has a really strong emotional appeal but doesn't highlight any meaningful actions underway, and pure emotional appeal doesn't overcome my pessimism for U.S. society's appetite to quickly get back to its pre-covid, resource intensive lifestyle.

This is the time to reflect, and an opportunity to take action that can shape new social norms and public policy.
But who's leading the efforts to take action?
And are there sufficient pressures on society to cause lasting positive individual and societal behavioral and lifestyle changes?

It's going to take collective action to shape American society to have less sever inequality, to increase human rights, to be more humane, to increase individual privacy, and so many other things.

Lately I've been down thinking about the downsides to our individualistic society in the U.S. How Americans value the environment for the resources that can be extracted (we're plugged into the resource intensive system) and are so shortsighted about exploring and preserving the other aspects (the other true values) of the natural world.

edit: for clarity.

The other really awful outcome of this is brexit is still ongoing and the current UK government now get to blame the disasterous outcomes of that on this crisis and hide their incompetence and insanity

Birds in Hell wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:980 people have died in the UK in the last 24 hours and they are not counting outside of hospitals, meaning nursing homes etc

The British press? Boris is on the mend and the country can breathe a sigh of relief.

No mention of the deaths.

The Sun: DARKEST DAY UK coronavirus death toll jumps 980 in 24 hours in biggest rise yet – more deadly than Spain’s worst day of crisis

The Guardian: Coronavirus: 980 dead in UK hospitals in deadliest day of pandemic yet

The Telegraph: Coronavirus: UK death toll jumps 980 in 24 hours in biggest rise yet – more deadly than Spain’s worst day of crisis

That aside, the Prime Minister being seriously ill in intensive care as a result the virus is genuinely a hugely important news story; it would be the leading story in any country's media.

Thread worth a read Spenno


Also important to remember the tiny cabal of billionaires that own all British media, how they brought about brexit destroyed Corbyn and now this

This is totally normal. Not propaganda at all.

knee tunes wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Turns out someone in NYC did anticipate this and he had plan....

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... uenza.html

tl;dr

Bloomy tried a decade ago to prevent this

Bi_3 wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Turns out someone in NYC did anticipate this and he had plan....

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... uenza.html

tl;dr

Bloomy tried a decade ago to prevent this

Rebranding “drafted an H5N1 flu response plan at the height of H5N1 panic” to “tried to prevent ‘this’ (?)” seems pretty generous. Anyways, everybody was drafting plans. Here’s a link to a study that compares 49 state plans.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294751/

McParadigm wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Turns out someone in NYC did anticipate this and he had plan....

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... uenza.html

tl;dr

Bloomy tried a decade ago to prevent this

Rebranding “drafted an H5N1 flu response plan at the height of H5N1 panic” to “tried to prevent ‘this’ (?)” seems pretty generous. Anyways, everybody was drafting plans. Here’s a link to a study that compares 49 state plans.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294751/

Drafted and began acquisition, then:

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... aintenance#