StrangeSox

This is the normal way things are counted, and even then experts believe we are already undercounting.

Why is deliberately undercounting a good thing?

It appears that the strategy now is to suppress accurate counts as much as possible to make the numbers look better

Can you quarantine him to a single thread

Remember when they called a special session of Congress over a single vegetative person and now that same crowd is like "100k dead grandmas nbd"

We can thank Republican Matt Gaetz's fabricated propaganda for this Looks like you're getting tested again, caulfield

DPH has a good website, you can see daily testing towards the bottom. It's pretty lumpy overall with a weekly pattern in tests done per day. I don't think % positive has varied like that, though. https://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19/covid19-statistics This low weekend/Mondays with Tuesday spikes is being seen globally not just Illinois fwiw

They will ship you out of state if you break the strict 14 day quarantine

Tuesdays have consistently been the "catch up" days for lower weekend numbers, so we'll probably see total tests jump back up tomorrow. If the positive rate stays low, that'll be a great sign.

please tell me the pencil sharpener 'went missing' from your classroom

nice table! going to stain it or leave it raw? refinishing my basement in 30 minute stretches when both kids' naps overlap has been the only way I've made in progress since starting with demo after a flood last october

Ok I didn't post anything about that.

This is good to see, though: no more relief for tens of millions of people and thousands of businesses for at least a month Seems like the obvious end game is that if any states show even a modest decline in new UI filings, they'll use that as an excuse to not provide any more relief especially to states that are wisely staying more locked down.

Meanwhile stocks are still climbing

Yep, this is the latest thing making the rounds after those two urgent care doctors. She has a great history of being fired for theft, of having papers retracted over fraud, and of taking lots of money over the years from the anti-vaxx movement. But she's saying what lots of people want to hear, which is that this big scary pandemic isn't really so scary at all. People want to feel agency and security. They're not really being given that right now.

The federal courts are increasingly packed with judges who want to return to Lochner-era jurisprudence. We have a SCOTUS justice who's most famous prior ruling was that it was perfectly acceptable for a trucking company to fire an employee who chose to abandon his broken-down truck rather than freeze to death. I wouldn't be so sure about any pro-labor legal outcomes.

Leadership across the country is pretty much just shrugging their shoulders at this point. We're going into an "NBA hell" response where we do basically nothing to contain the health damage, which will just lead to further economic damage. We won't make people feel safe and secure by staying home, instead forcing them back to work if they want food and shelter, further exacerbating the health crisis. Which will then only deepen the economic damage, which will be accelerated by massive state and local layoffs. I know this is a deeply pessimistic outlook, but from what we're seeing from the Federal government (Congress and WH) and from many states across the country, I don't see much to indicate we're on any other path. And this lack of vision or leadership is only going to drive people to drop their support of mitigation efforts and instead turn to more conspiratorial viewpoints.

Something my wife pointed out and that we're already seeing in other states like Ohio--in the phased reopening approaches, schools and daycares are still closed until we reach Phase 4, which has pretty high hurdles. But businesses are opening back up in Phase 3. How are all of these people supposed to go back to work with no childcare options available? I'm not sure about Illinois, but in Ohio and other states not being able to go to work because you don't have anyone to watch your kids would count as quitting your job, meaning you'd be ineligible for UI. You'd go to $0 income. We still seem to be making the absolute worst policy decisions that punish the working class.

The social cohesion aspect is important! There was an interesting On The Media segment on this back in March: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/masks-symbols-on-the-media

There's a very powerful and well funded political media enterprise that has conditioned a lot of people over the years that experts are not to be trusted, and now they see it politically advantageous to claim this is all still "just the flu" Death cult.