You want to America to really explode... tell them they can't use their air conditioning too.

Seriously the death count seems destined to hit 2k/day again 2-3 weeks from now, it's currently ~750/day.

Las vegas apparently implementing mandatory masks, how is one to drink their free whiskey with a mask on?

My county is implementing mandatory masks in public today, Fort Worth, Tx. This should be fun. I'm pretty happy about it, even though I get out only rarely.

Nah, the masses already did that and are beyond over it.

The only way people are staying home now is if immediate family members get infected.

Close race for what will happen first

10mill cases worldwide
500k deaths worldwide

On worldometers.

My money is on the deaths but will be close. Current rate approx 30:1

Deaths ~13800 away
Cases 409k away

Both should be resolved by Saturday.

What a universe we live in.

Quantify enough people dropping dead. You'd think 125K is enough, but it's not even close.

Case in point.

Old Trumpers think wearing a mask means you support liberalism + they're also anti-science; young people don't give a **** because they'll be down for a day or two.

Cliffs: we're screwed.

I live in an area that is very pro-Trump and also skews pretty old. My observation is that 90%+ of old people wears a mask.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...us-spread.html

"Enough" must include people that a person knows.

Reported deaths of people that one is not acquainted with are obviously not enough of a deterrent in US society today.

+1, in the end it is just another social commentary on a person's selfishness.

It is way too prevalent as well.

Texas is all like you can go to bars but let's put a pause on cancer surgeries

my guess is nyc level.

seems like new yorkers were willing to stay home, seeing what was going on around them.

if that was going on in other parts of the country, i don't see why they wouldn't want to stay home as well.

even if it was only happening in like 1/3 of the cities or so, the other 2/3 might be like "oh ****, we better stay home"

"Hold my beer"???

USA will change when a famous not old gets really sick (ventilator) or dies. A Magic Johnson of Covid.

Can they just go back and say Kobe died of Covid?

I don’t think one celebrity death, no matter how big, will change things that much.

Keep shopping at those places - it sounds like there are only 10% of Trumpers there when you go.

I mean, this is the insanity that we're dealing with. Too many people are like this chick.

If Tom Hanks had died that wouldn't have done it. The argument would've been that he was in Australia not USA#37.

Snipped from the BFI thread.

When covid-19 deaths are analysed by age, America is an outlier
American casualties tend to be younger than European ones, which has grim implications

https://www.economist.com/graphic-de...-is-an-outlier

Alright, how is that supposed to be helpful?

South West England has got off light so far, but will have hotspots soon. I don't think the hotels are even supposed to be open yet, but they mostly seem to be full and I see on television that some of the beaches are packed.

"More spread was inevitable once states started to relax their lockdowns, and they are going to continue until a vaccine exists. But they also need to be put in context. New York City had about 12 times more Covid-19 patients per capita in intensive-care units at the peak of its hospital surge in April than California does today, six times more than Miami-Dade, five times more than Arizona, and four times more than Harris County.

New York City and other hard-hit parts of the Northeast experienced bigger outbreaks in the spring, which were slow to recede even with strict lockdowns as the virus spread through nursing homes and public housing. Two months after locking down, New York City still had many more Covid patients in intensive care than most new hot spots do today.

Elderly patients typically require more acute care and spend more time in the hospital, and the good news is that the hospitalized cases now are younger and on average less severe. The chief operating officer of Tenet Healthcare, which runs hospitals in Sun Belt states, told investors last week that “the length of stay on [recent] cases is lower, the resource consumption is lower.”

wsj.com