StrangeSox

@Texsox

Another model:

This is what I'm doing, wore one today to home Depot

My boss caught Covid back in mid-March. It was never enough to be hospitalized, but he was self-quarantined at home for a few weeks and in rough shape. He finally felt well enough/had been asymptomatic long enough to go for a run on Sunday. He told me today his lungs still felt like they were on fire from that. He's an otherwise healthy mid-30's guy who eats fairly healthy and exercises pretty regularly. He still doesn't have his sense of smell back either. This thing can mess you up. I had to run to Home Depot to pick up some parts for an emergency plumbing repair just now and drove through Orland. Normally packed restaurant, movie theater and store parking lots were pretty much empty. Got a pretty strong feeling of sadness that came over me from that.

I think rates in some of the other global hotspots are slowing down? Which is a sign at least that the clamp down measures are working to mitigate against the worst estimates. Doesn't mean we'll be back to "normal" any time soon, but it means there is at least improvement in that fewer people are dying.

I'm trying to picture Paulie's WS GS in an empty stadium. Doesn't have quite the same feel to it.

It wasn't until 4-5 years later that we understood the full impact of H1N1.

I've been wondering lately, "when will it feel like normal again?" Let's say everything goes really well and things start opening back up in May. When will you feel comfortable going back out to restaurants, seeing elderly or vulnerable friends and family, etc.?

Illinois went ahead with their primary, which was really dumb, but it wasn't the same as this. Because the Illinois primary occurred before things got bad enough for everyone to understand and before there was a shelter in place order, there wasn't a big surge in absentee requests that the state failed to fulfill on time. There wasn't an equivalent situation here with ballot access, and there weren't really important partisan elections like the WI SC seat. It was local referendums and intraparty primary choices. In parallel to this, Governor Evers arguably waited too long to try to postpone the election, but he did call a special session of the legislature over the weekend. This session was immediately ended by the GOP majority. Across the country right now, one party is trying to make mail in voting widespread ahead of the November election to address this issue while the other is blocking it. It's a public health issue, and not really a "both sides" thing here. A few politicians of one particular party have been very explicit as to why they oppose this: they believe it'll increase turnout which will be better for their political opponents. Recent election trends show that may not even be true, but that's their clearly stated reason.

Yup. The facts of the case are that there was a spike in absentee ballot requests. They have to be postmarked on their way back to elections officials by the time polls close tomorrow. The problem is that 12k ballots that were requested on time still haven't even been mailed out. So 12k Wisconsin residents are going to have their votes suppressed though zero failure on their own unless they want to risk their lives to go to a polling place tomorrow. This also gives a green light to all sorts of shady tactics come November, "oops we're backlogged, couldn't mail any ballots for Milwaukee, sorry!"

Really bad news for Wisconsin. Conservative courts are forcing people to choose between their health or their right to vote. Several Republican politicians including the president have been explicit that they reject mail voting purely on the grounds that it may help Democrats. Milwaukee already announced that they're going from their typical 190 or so polling places to.... five. How can anyone consider the results of tomorrow's election in Wisconsin legitimate?

One thing we know about rich people, especially those with a bunch of scams in their past, is that they hate accumulating even more money any way possible.

20% survival rate if you end up intubated

A couple of weeks ago you were speculating that tens of millions in the US were already infected and that the British "herd immunity" plan was the way to go.

Boris Johnson is allegedly in supplemental oxygen and now:

We're seeing some substantial racial disparities in deaths from covid Milwaukee is seeing similar disparities, D.C. as well (with limited numbers so far there) And on the ability to access remote learning:

Turns out the anti Federalists were right all along! I think it's probably bad for the President to be pushing the FDA and CDC on what drugs to research based on Facebook posts his son in law saw, but that's just me.

Seems pretty bad

Still can't believe the federal government is turning over medical supplies to private distributors who then mark them up and force states and hospitals to bid against each other. Wonder what sort of financial stake some of them have in these companies. Edit: not just turning over their own supply but seizing orders by the states

Extraordinarily irresponsible

It's Obama's fault we didn't have good testing for this virus that came into existence a few months ago. But don't you dare criticize the ongoing failures of this administration and their indifference to Americans dying