The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live (Published 2020)
Beyond perception and ideology, there are starkly different realities for red and blue America right now.
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Welcome to the United States; the number of MA and NJ plates here is increasing exponentially.
hard to take anyone with an ICP tattoo seriously. she really should have been buying Faygo.
Yeah, he's passionate in his beliefs, not very good at convincing others. For the most part, I agree that Vermont ought to get out of the tourist business. Employees of the industry do not make a living wage and there are other issues.
Yep, VT should double down on art and cheddar cheese.
Just checking as the large groups of roadies and MTB'ers wife and I had to avoid on our afternoon ride today had us questioning - has CV19 gone away now that it's after Memorial Day??
It was said by a very stable genius that it would go away when it got warm...
My employer lost a fleet service lady this week to COVID.We have officially hit 6 figures for deaths.
We lost someone in our factory early on which prompted three weeks of suspended operations. Company seems to have done an excellent job of protecting people after starting back up.
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Swiss brothels draw up a list of coronavirus-safe guidelines
The plan to reopen the industry, prepared by the organisation ProKoRe, suggests that sex positions which allow for a safe distance between faces are advisable.
The main title says "The Best president in the history of Brazil"
Below, it reads:
"At a meeting, Bolsonaro said anyone who gets praise by Folha (de S. Paulo) or O Globo will be fired.
We are just trying something here"
Chile is also on the verge of being properly fucked, it appears.Brazil you okay?
People are starving also. If anything, the COVID crisis helped Piñera to cover up the royal mess he had with their education and health systems. He managed to stop the public demonstrations, but they are coming back, spiced with the failure to address the coronavirus crisis.
We are all properly fucked in lat-am.
Real quarantines are unenforceble. They can be realistically sustained for 1-2 weeks at most.
After that, people would rather risk it and leave to work than stay indoors. And city/public spaces layouts make it impossible to socially distance.
Cant say i wouldnt do the same.
I was reading about a district in Lima. 300k people, only 2 bank offices and 2 major markets (no supermarkets) open for 6 hours a day each.
Market workers have been tested at 40-90% postive after 8 weeks of "quarantine" around the country
Real quarantines are unenforceble. They can be realistically sustained for 1-2 weeks at most.
After that, people would rather risk it and leave to work than stay indoors. And city/public spaces layouts make it impossible to socially distance.
Cant say i wouldnt do the same.
I was reading about a district in Lima. 300k people, only 2 bank offices and 2 major markets (no supermarkets) open for 6 hours a day each.
Market workers have been tested at 40-90% postive after 8 weeks of "quarantine" around the country
Seems pretty common everywhere.
Thats one thing I don't understand about some places like grocery stores, banks etc reducing hours. They are as busy as ever, but are reducing hours to reduce risk? How? So now you have the same amount of people trying to get into the bank or store, in a much shorter period of time. Now there are lines outside the stores, lines inside of the stores....crazy man.
Well...that is safer. Dispersal outdoors would be better.
I beg to differ. We've been in lockdown for ~80 days here in Argentina. Only the essential shops are allowed to open (hardware stores, food, pharmacies, grocery shops). Last Sunday the conditions were relaxed a bit for the rural districts, but the main metropolitan areas will remain under the same restrictions as before because that's where most new cases are showing up. People are still adhering to the 6ft minimal distance when forming in a line, and public transport is only available to those working on sectors deemed essential by the government.
As a comparison, when the emergency situation was declared in Argentina and Brazil, there two confirmed deaths and about the same number of positive cases (~30) in both countries, while today (almost 80 days later) we have 492 deceased/13900 positive cases and Brazil has almost 25k deceased/390k positive cases.
Lockdown works, if you have the Government helping those who can't go to work and with appropriate social education.
EDIT: Bolsonaro is calling the populace to arm against those Governors trying to enforce social distancing/lockdown.
Here in Argentina we just had a Libertarian rally in the capital city (Buenos Aires, under the government of the right party, Cambiemos) two days ago to protest against the mandatory isolation. They managed to gather less than 300 assholes who didn't respect the minimal distance recommendations, and on top of it the organizers never showed up. The Capital city has its own police force, and the rally should have been dispersed by that force, but since the right is trying to screw everything up, the police simple looked the other way.
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Everything is back to normal except no one is working and people are still dying.
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No Employment Boom for Georgia After Reopening
Brian Kemp’s gamble on a quick reopening hasn’t spiked COVID-19 cases yet. Nor has it so far produced any employment gains.
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I dont know man
And i think those numbers are probably low because there have been only like 130k tests in argentina vs 44 million people.. while Peru/Chile have tested about 3% of the population already.
I would say Chile is the best equipped to manage a pandemic in the hood, and they are taking a beating as well.
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My bad, the 492 deceases were from yesterday.
Masive tests aren't the only answer. You don't have infinite resources, and contact tracing does a better job to help you contain the disease from spreading too fast. Our main advantage was having just a couple of entry points (the international airports are in Buenos Aires), being submerged in a deep economic crisis (which prevented having a lot of people traveling overseas) and quickly closing the borders*. So most of the cases are in the main urban conglomerate around Buenos Aires. Several provinces have no cases at all. And closing the inner borders between them has also helped them to stay that way.
* for a comparison, Brazil closed its borders last Sunday. Peru did it on March 16, the same day as Argentina.
EDIT: this graph summarizes it pretty well:
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Also, Chile doesn't do post mortem tests. If anyone reports a dead person with no relation to a positive-testing case, it won't be included in the statistics.
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Thanks pal! We're trying to stay at home the best we can.
Isolation feels natural for me, since I've been a home worker for the past 10 years. My wife has reconverted her fashion store to sell over the net (it was just a small part of her business before the coronaggedon). My 7 YO kid is having the worst part, not being able to see his friends or leave the house except to go to a couple of our friends' homes. The Playstation/PC/Netflix combo has got utterly boring for the little fellow.
If anything, I miss riding. Can't wait to get back to the trails. Living near Buenos Aires has its disadvantages after all, since most of the Andes provinces are loosening the restrictions and allowing people to ride solo.
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