The Coronavirus Thread

[JimC]

The US now has pretty well the same number of cases in total as Spain, Italy, France and Germany combined...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yes, and moving up the cases per capita list. From 10th in late March up to 3rd as of today. May even take the prize.

[JimC]

But don't worry! Trump will do a fantastic job of fixing everything, the best job ever!

[Hermit]

Yes, and moving up the cases per capita list. From 10th in late March up to 3rd as of today. May even take the prize.

The USA is in 20th place when you sort by cases per million, 15th in deaths per million and first in total cases.

[Sean Hayden]

The number of new cases continues to trend down in the US. With some luck last week really will have been our peak.

[NineBerry]

Yes, and moving up the cases per capita list. From 10th in late March up to 3rd as of today. May even take the prize.

???

I still see the us at place 20 sorted by cases per capita. ???

[Brian Peacock]

Over 25% of the Michigan workforce have applied for unemployment benefits: https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economic ... jlV8uQt85w

A quarter of the workforce just wiped out in a month!

[NineBerry]

Interesting read with ideas on why the number of deaths is so low in Germany (Early detailed contact-tracing won time and so the shutdown happened in a relatively early stage)

https://www.euractiv.com/section/corona ... as-traced/

[pErvinalia]

Germany's death rate is 21x that of Australia. You only look good because you are surrounded by fuckups in Europe.

[NineBerry]

Germany's death rate is 21x that of Australia. You only look good because you are surrounded by fuckups in Europe.

Well, in Australia, you are having all those venomous spiders that eat the virus before it can infect people.

[Scot Dutchy]

Australia's population is not concentrated like Europe. Nobody here has to drive hours to reach a shop or doctor.

[Hermit]

Australia's population is not concentrated like Europe.

Uhm, yes it is. 64% of Australians live in five cities with a population of 1.26 to 4.39 million inhabitants. Most of the rest are crammed into the narrow coastal strip east of the Great Dividing Range.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yes, and moving up the cases per capita list. From 10th in late March up to 3rd as of today. May even take the prize.

The USA is in 20th place when you sort by cases per million, 15th in deaths per million and first in total cases.

Yes, and moving up the cases per capita list. From 10th in late March up to 3rd as of today. May even take the prize.

???

I still see the us at place 20 sorted by cases per capita. ???

You are both correct, of course. I don't know how I managed to bungle that so badly.

[Hermit]

Yes, and moving up the cases per capita list. From 10th in late March up to 3rd as of today. May even take the prize.

The USA is in 20th place when you sort by cases per million, 15th in deaths per million and first in total cases.

Yes, and moving up the cases per capita list. From 10th in late March up to 3rd as of today. May even take the prize.

???

I still see the us at place 20 sorted by cases per capita. ???

You are both correct, of course. I don't know how I managed to bungle that so badly.

No worries. We all have our brain fades. At least i know that I do.

Anyway, 'tis better to state wrong facts and be corrected than to refuse to state any and reveal yourself to be an incorrigible moron.

[Cunt]

I like laughing at your blind spots, lemmy, but this isn't one, really.

This crisis has news, anti-news and dis-news being sprayed like a firehose.

Trying to sort out which data are meaningful is tough as fuck for aspie researchers, nevermind a lay person exposed to a mix of authoritative media lies, and authoritative media facts.

I've noticed though, that when asking about 'how we exercise our civil liberties during this kind of crisis', I invariably get a lot of pushback insisting that lives are precious.

As if civil liberties are not.

Much of the world cannot meet, cannot go talk with strangers. I don't have anything to compare it to, historically, but I do think it is historic.