lol ofc they wont. and yes, the Dems now ****ing love Bush.

bc the Dem party has gone straight up mask off and its being run by former Bush slappies. The Lincoln Project have been elevated to the lead of the Dems.

Nope, because they were never alive.

Almost hit a 1000 deaths yesterday but that number is going down . Oh wait its actually starting to rise at takes weeks before folks die .

The cases the USA has contact tracing just is not a viable option. As for smudgers argument you test more your gonna get more cases. Our province in Alberta leads the world in testing and we had a horrible day yesterday for us 46 new cases. We have a 1 million more folks than Nevada

Pretty sure he said “life”.

Over time, any given P&S thread will gravitate toward eugenics.

Corollary : always blaming black people doesn’t make you racist, it makes you a shrewd independent thinker.

You literally dumped proof of systemic racism on the table as your argument as to why nothing to do with Covid is racist.

Why do you bring up race so much?

Having 80% of people wearing masks at protests and 5% of people at protests makes a massive difference. Do not be this disingenuous. You know better.

Stop paying attention to Kelhus and luckbox. Everything is not the fault of the media and black people.

On a note note related to stupid racism, I'm not so sure about this jump in deaths. Is it possible that deaths finally started rising again on a national level? Absolutely. I even think that's most likely.

However, the fourth of july is a big confounder here. It's possible there was a big backlog with people either not working or barely working. Typically there just isn't any sort of pressure to have timely reporting of deaths.

The stories out of houston showing more people dying at home are eerily similar to what happened in NYC, and I'm guessing we're in for a huge jump regardless soon.

Yes they were.

It is weird. I find myself talking about race non stop here, yet I don’t talk about race in other places. On UP, for example I doubt I randomly just brought up racial facts in the massive Covid discussion.

However here it can not be escaped. The “non racists” literally connect everything to racism or like you stated ultimately tie it in to eugenics like good jr tooth sayers.

Here is one of the only threads here not about racism non stop and Kelhus demands it goes there anyways.

For the next iteration of this place I recommend RS Politics for Racist Shithole Politics.

I'm pretty sure he did too.

No one cares about your stupid abortion comment.

And here is what happens when Republicans who take cues from Trump, have too much control of a gov't body.


26 Mississippi legislators test positive for COVID-19 after outbreak tied to state Capitol

...State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs told The Mississippi Clarion-Ledger that 36 people who work at the Capitol have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, including 26 lawmakers. The figure means that about 1 in 6 legislators have contracted the virus. ...

...The uptick in infections follows a month in which many legislators worked in the Capitol without following health guidelines recommending the use of face masks. ...

...As of Thursday morning, Mississippi health authorities had reported nearly 33,000 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the state and about 1,180 deaths caused by it. ...

Flattening the curve and then crushing the curve, as most EU countries have now done along with China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, etc. was not only about slowing the spread so the hospitals wouldn't be overrun.

And it wasn't specifically about stalling so that a vaccine could be developed in order to save lives and completely re-open the economy. Because that would be financially catastrophic.

There are several other reasons that are important as well.

It allows time to develop treatments for Covid that could save lives (which has actually happened).

But perhaps most importantly it allows for time to ramp up testing so that contact tracing can be employed successfully. For the states that have taken advantage of this opportunity (like NY, NJ, CT, VT, NH, RI, and hopefully MI and PA) this enables them to open up their economies with the ability to know where outbreaks are occurring so that they can be dealt with locally. Without this states will find that they will have no idea where Covid is out of control until their hospitals get flooded (and they will get flooded).

The best analogy i have heard about this is forest fires. If you have the ability to know where small brush fires are then you can put them out before they become raging forest fires.

Opening up the economy too soon (i.e. before you have the ability to test anybody who needs a test either because they have symptoms or because they potentially came in contact with somebody who has symptoms) will constantly set you back to the point where you have to shut down again to "flatten the curve" because of the flood of hospitalizations.

Anyone seen any studies/articles comparing economic metrics across states? Unemployment, tax revenue, sales receipts, etc. Been Googling, haven’t seen anything really good yet.

Probably too early to have good data anyways. Interested to see how much TOTAL VICTORY in Georgia really accomplished.

I dont think any state leader can even fathom how bad those numbers will be.

Look at Nevada were all their state revenue is tourism

This is already happening in Houston. The number of DOA calls for assistance in the home have increased exponentially over the last two weeks.

Cool

Cool cool cool.

We can add giving little Tammy and Tommy potential life long lung/brain issues to sacrificing Grammy and Grampy to the machine.

GFY with this bullshit

Would love to see the data from your survey. Please provide a link. Thanking you in advance.

Are you a mod now?

"Total victory" - Smudger2408

Cases mean nothing. Hospital beds are everything. No ones dying that doesn’t have to, and we always expected a million deaths.

Just copy/paste that, change the numbers, were good for the foreseeable future.

Small update from the in-laws who are both nurses - about 15 percent of their nursing staff at a hospital in the valley has quit / decided not to come back off furlough. Staff up tho.

Lagtight might as well be acting like he is living in the Game of Thrones universe.