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When it comes to all projections and thinking we know how this will go, I'm throwing it all out the window at this point.

I've already seen enough with my own eyes that tells me how our government has done regardless of what happens from here on out.
 
candrew said:
When you throw out countries like San Marino and Andorra the US is still top 10 in the world in per capita deaths and 30 something in testing per capita.

There's really no way to sugarcoat it. Anyone who finds these numbers acceptable is either a Trump sycophant or an imbecile - or both.
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at this point, aren’t they the exact same?
 
These aren’t actual answers from Donald’s latest interview.



It’s getting to the point where this feels like another school shooting. We a know it’s bad and it was something preventable. But our leadership is too stubborn to admit a mistake and take the measures necessary, as other countries are doing, to fix it.

We all know that our testing and tracing must improve. But saying so means that Trump’s ban wasn’t sufficient and that the last three months have been wasted. It also means more economic bad news and more stimulus spending for workers to keep us afloat until the treating tracing ramps up or until a vaccine is developed.

until then, countless preventable deaths will occur.

“Thoughts and Prayers.”
 


Fantastic article on how cities are seeing their new cases drop as covid runs out of new hosts to infect. but areas outside of cities are seeing new cases skyrocket. Opening states prematurely provides the virus with new hosts and allows it to begin to spread again.
Consider Oklahoma and Texas, two states that loosened their restrictions on businesses statewide. Each state made it through an early spike and watched the number of cases fall for weeks.

Hiding behind the statewide numbers was a different story. Oklahoma’s early spike was due to a surge of cases in its largest cities. Statewide numbers fell during the recovery — but this was due only to the tail-end of outbreaks around Tulsa and Oklahoma City. When those areas are excluded from the statewide figures, the number of new cases holds steady before rising once again.

The same is true in Texas: Cases spiked early on because of a surge in Houston, and after the city's peak, the state seemed to be improving. But removing Houston from the statewide figures shows the number of new cases was rising all along.
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and then there’s this:



yikes. So many are brainwashed by Fox News. How can a society function when 35 percent of the population lives in alternative reality?
 
@candrew

Took a drive with the baby because my wife really had to get work done.

Avon.

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I assume the parking spaces weren’t blocked like that when you came down? Every single town from Asbury to Sea Girt was like this other than Bradley Beach and Sea Girt. I just parked in BB for a bit to take in the sites before I head home. Crazy world we’re living in now. I’m curious how many people file for unemployment tomorrow and weeks thereafter, what this summer is going to look like, and when we can resume some sort of normalcy. I hate to say it but there’s some truth to the statement that we aren’t built for this. People have to work. We’ll be relatively okay through August 1st from what I understand about unemployment. After that, who knows.

I gotta say, all the talk of professional sports leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I LOVE my sports but I just don’t see how sports with fans make any sense. Or how certain sports like football and basketball where close contact is nonstop.

Just a rambling as I sit here. Feels good to “get out.”
 
I’m going to vote D but I find a massive insensitivity and ignorance by those who criticize those who want to go back to work. It’s very easy for me or any educator or anyone else who works from home to say, wtf, people are so dumb to want to resume life.

People need to survive. Unfortunately, money is a necessary element in order to do so.
 
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