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cutuphalfdead wrote:Only 50 deaths in Massachusetts today.

B wrote:Roberts joins liberals as Supreme Court rejects challenge to coronavirus limits on church services

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/suprem ... s-n1219336

verb_to_trust wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Only 50 deaths in Massachusetts today.

Does Mass report less on the weekend? That seems to be the case in Illinois. Tuesday and Wednesday are the big death and new case days. I'm sure there is a backlog/process aspect to the daily numbers.

LetMeSleep wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Only 50 deaths in Massachusetts today.

Does Mass report less on the weekend? That seems to be the case in Illinois. Tuesday and Wednesday are the big death and new case days. I'm sure there is a backlog/process aspect to the daily numbers.

That sir is confirmed. Tuesdays always have the spike due to backlog.

McParadigm wrote:As predictably stupid as it is petty

Higgs wrote:

McParadigm wrote:As predictably stupid as it is petty

That news story is incredible but, as you say, the Trump thought process is certainly predictable.

It seems Trump is clutching at any straws available after fucking up the Covid response so badly (not that he feels he did, but he's got to at least be aware of the chatter). It's like he needs the vaccine all to himself so he can hold it up as the reason to ensure he gets back in for another term.

I am really sick of watching this pompous, arrogant, stupid man continue to put his personal agenda and public perception above the safety and health of not only his own citizens (who clearly he neither cares about nor particularly values) but now the rest of the world's citizens too.

America going it alone across trade, health, alliances and everything else is just accelerating the shift of the true world power away from the US and directly to China and to a lesser (or perhaps a quieter) degree Russia. I guess that's not necessarily a terrible thing for me as a non-US citizen.

It's funny as I always thought the POTUS was the most powerful man in the world, but looking at how Trump is handling the role he's pretty much actively reducing its power and authority on the world stage. For a power-hungry twat like Trump I think that's a strange irony. But I guess if you surround yourself with sycophants and make people constantly in fear of their jobs and livelihood, there's no one there to tell him otherwise. When Trump is the smartest guy in the room that's when you are seriously fucked.

Higgs wrote: It's funny as I always thought the POTUS was the most powerful man in the world, but looking at how Trump is handling the role he's pretty much actively reducing its power and authority on the world stage. For a power-hungry twat like Trump I think that's a strange irony.

Rob wrote:Afternoon drinking is the best kind.

On Tuesday, Professor Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College London, whose bleak projections of future deaths from Covid-19 influenced governments around the world to institute massive lockdowns, admitted of Sweden, which did not institute harsh lockdowns, “It is interesting that adopting a policy which is short of a full lockdown – they have closed secondary schools and universities and there is a significant amount of social distancing, but it’s not a full lockdown – they have got quite a long way to the same effect.”

Speaking before a House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, the man who predicted half a million Britons could die from Covid-19 spoke of Sweden, whose 436 people per million mortality rate from the coronavirus is significantly lower than the UK’s 575 people per million. The Daily Mail noted, “As well as fewer deaths, Sweden’s GDP actually grew in the first quarter of 2020, suggesting it might avoid the worst of the economic fallout from the crisis.