Red Mosquito

B wrote:This is how the Lt. Gov in our state is playing it.

The Republicans sued so that the Governor can't limit attendance at religious gatherings.

Now their claiming unequal enforcement of safety measures because churches can have as big of a group as they want for weddings, but banquet halls are limited for the receptions.

When it comes to politics and legalese, you Americans really play the game hard.

Our county went more than two weeks without any new cases before phase 1 reopening started two weeks ago. In the last five days we’ve had 10 new cases, a 20% rise. Let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet gentlemen.

B wrote:This is how the Lt. Gov in our state is playing it.

The Republicans sued so that the Governor can't limit attendance at religious gatherings.

Now their claiming unequal enforcement of safety measures because churches can have as big of a group as they want for weddings, but banquet halls are limited for the receptions.

I feel bad for Cooper. He's doing a great job but NC is ultimately going to go back to being a Red state and all the rural dumbfucks are villainizing him for freedoms getting taken away during COVID.

Superblood Wolfmoon wrote:Our county went more than two weeks without any new cases before phase 1 reopening started two weeks ago. In the last five days we’ve had 10 new cases, a 20% rise. Let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks just yet gentlemen.

Oh, I agree. The new cases in Aus absolutely concern me too. I've noticed. Corona don't care.

I'm just saying, the US way of playing politics always surprises me. In fairness, I'm currently reading "A Very Stable Genius" so I'm a bit triggered to this sort of stuff.

Interesting take from the Premier of Alberta.
“In Canada, 95 per cent of fatalities from COVID are from those over the age of 60, 80 per cent are in care facilities, and the risk of death from COVID for people under 65 is 0.006 per cent.

“What we are learning is that younger people, although not completely immune, have a rate of mortality related to COVID that is no higher than their general mortality rate from other illnesses.

“For most Albertans, the risk of death from other pathogens, accidents and traffic fatalities is actually higher than it is for COVID.”

surfndestroy wrote:Interesting take from the Premier of Alberta.
“In Canada, 95 per cent of fatalities from COVID are from those over the age of 60, 80 per cent are in care facilities, and the risk of death from COVID for people under 65 is 0.006 per cent.

“What we are learning is that younger people, although not completely immune, have a rate of mortality related to COVID that is no higher than their general mortality rate from other illnesses.

“For most Albertans, the risk of death from other pathogens, accidents and traffic fatalities is actually higher than it is for COVID.”

Well, everyone staying the fuck home and away from others kinda helped in the whole thing.

Bars and nightclubs can open here on June 1 but live entertainment and amusement parks will remain closed through June 12.
Kemp also acknowledged a jump in cases over the weekend, explaining it as a release of backlogged cases from one particular testing company and that otherwise the counts have been steady. Believe that what you will.

Check this out....

The 15 countries above are the 15 most populous countries in the world, in order.



Look at the total #of corona cases in each country.

This kind of puts it in perspective how shit-ass a job the United States is doing in comparison. Somebody show this to Trump so that he can declare it as "fake news" and people will believe him.

China is lying tho

verb_to_trust wrote:China is lying tho

Well, yeah, but besides them

I do feel there is a case to be made that positive test numbers aren't that relevant. I doubt the USA has 1/4-1/3 of all cases. But that death count... man. That's a big fail. It's not as bad as it seems when matched with western Euro countries like UK, Italy or France, but it's still f'n awful. And I bet 'murica is most likely for a 2nd killer wave. Mindsets are cruising back to normal.

(also, Sweden's experiment still isn't looking great)

Sweden still needs 10 times the amount of exposure to reach herd immunity. Extrapolating from current deaths totals vs. population, a similar strategy in the US could be expected to kill 1.3 million people. Great work Sweden!

Here's the top countries in order of deaths per capita.

(Those smallish countries are annoying)

Mickey wrote:Sweden still needs 10 times the amount of exposure to reach herd immunity. Extrapolating from current deaths totals vs. population, a similar strategy in the US could be expected to kill 1.3 million people. Great work Sweden!

None of the seroprevalency numbers I've seen come out have given any credence at all to a herd immunity strategy. Nobody has this. It would just be a wave of death for nothing.

A week of no new cases and we now only have one active case in the country

Donald wrote:A week of no new cases and we now only have one active case in the country

And now there's talk of September Aust - NZ travel.

We should all meet up for some of these:



And lots of this:

Higgs wrote:We should all meet up for some of these:



And lots of this:

Can I come too?

Stickman wrote:

surfndestroy wrote:Interesting take from the Premier of Alberta.
“In Canada, 95 per cent of fatalities from COVID are from those over the age of 60, 80 per cent are in care facilities, and the risk of death from COVID for people under 65 is 0.006 per cent.

“What we are learning is that younger people, although not completely immune, have a rate of mortality related to COVID that is no higher than their general mortality rate from other illnesses.

“For most Albertans, the risk of death from other pathogens, accidents and traffic fatalities is actually higher than it is for COVID.”

Well, everyone staying the fuck home and away from others kinda helped in the whole thing.

yes and except for calgary everyone lives 10 km away from the next nearest person

Rangi Guy wrote:

Higgs wrote:We should all meet up for some of these:



And lots of this:

Can I come too?

Its at your house, Rangi!