Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

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EmuWarsVeteran said:
They aren't unpopulated I know that. Thing is, their population density is on par with, say, seville or barcelona. Low enough to not be megacities, high enough to be atractive to businesses, hence they're likely to be where industry flees when the megacities go to shit.
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The USA barely has anything that would be considered a mega city if you compare them to Chinese cities, like Wuhan. NYC is the only comparable US city and it is still millions off from being a Wuhan.


RankCity NameStatePopulation
1New YorkNY8,175,133
2Los AngelesCA3,792,621
3ChicagoIL2,695,598
4HoustonTX2,099,451
5PhiladelphiaPA1,526,006
6PhoenixAZ1,445,632
7San AntonioTX1,327,407
8San DiegoCA1,307,402
9DallasTX1,197,816
10San JoseCA945,942
 
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Update on Germany:
Merkel announced yesterday, what she and the ministers of the states have come up with after watching the measures have been in place for a week. Seemingly most Germans were compliant, only few partying groups had to be disrupted by police.

From now on everything will be coordinated in a statewide way with the same regulations everywhere. Except for Bavaria, who always have to be somewhat exceptional and more strict.

We don't get shut down further for now, there is no curfew, but restaurants and things like haircut, tattoo, massage etc. are now closed. We are to only go outside with household-members and in pairs of two people (one not a household member).
We can go for sport or walks, walk the dog, get some fresh air and go grocery shopping.

All not a big deal. Weather is fine and spring in full swing. The new rules will be revised after fourteen days.
The local supermarket is out of canned goods and TP as everywhere else. Two or three people wearing masks, we are cautious to leave space between eachother.

edit: It only looked as if the numbers were going down over the weekend, because health departments didn't give out numbers then. We are now growing at a pace of about 6000 more cases per day.
 
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Goronnn said:
The USA barely has anything that would be considered a mega city if you compare them to Chinese cities, like Wuhan. NYC is the only comparable US city and it is still millions off from being a Wuhan.


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RankCity NameStatePopulation
1New YorkNY8,175,133
2Los AngelesCA3,792,621
3ChicagoIL2,695,598
4HoustonTX2,099,451
5PhiladelphiaPA1,526,006
6PhoenixAZ1,445,632
7San AntonioTX1,327,407
8San DiegoCA1,307,402
9DallasTX1,197,816
10San JoseCA945,942
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It's still enough to be even larger than any megacities by european standards. Anything denser than Madrid is Ultrafucked basically, let's not get bogged down on the minutia.
 
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Non-Expert! said:
The money is distributed unjustly. Did you file taxes in 2018? Then you might qualify for $600.
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I've yet to hear why this is bad. How are you mailing out these checks so fast and to what addresses? Obviously the most reasonable way to determine where someone was residing in the short term is to use the IRS. You want to get these checks out fast with the minimum of bureaucratic slow down, well one of the organs of governments that shoots off checks or bills to every responsible working adult is right there. Also frankly, unless you live in somewhere like Cali or New York I'm not getting torn up over the individuals making +$100k. What bizzaro land are we in that the working class goes up above $100k?


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I am not the one who approves or disapproves of how Govt money is spent. But we need a more sustainable stimulus that helps at-risk people, long term. Not short term bonus for suburban Karens and pensioners.
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Why not both? I believe the entire rationale about this was to get something out fast before the rug gets pulled from people who just got put off work and then add more later. This bill was supposed to be the throwing of sandbags behind the breaking levee and not the rebuilding of the entire levee. If you want people to wait a month, 2 months, 3 months, for an extended strategy to be formed and then have money distributed all I can ask is...umm...why?
 
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The german government just green-lighted a huge "save the economy" package. Few things I gathered so far (it's a lot more extensive than that) is that small companies (< 5 employees) will get 9000 euros for three months (all at once) and companies between 5 - 10 people will get 15k a month. Applying for unemployment benefits has been made easier yet again too. It's also been decided that students who earn money doing work directly helping in this crsis won't have to substract their earnings from the bafög. (student grants) Legally, the way also will be paved that doctors and health personnel and also medical students can be forcefully recruited in time of crisis to help in hopsitals and such. There will also be regulations and financial aids to secure companies that have been weakened by this crisis to proof them against hostile takeover by foreign investors. Thanks Trump for showing us that this is a thing that could happen I guess. There's also been a big financial aid package secured for the healthcare system that'll give financial bonuses for treatments and extra money per patient.

In other news, the german equivalent of the CDC noted a decrease of new cases for the last few days. This might be a statistical artifact of the weekend but they're carefully optimistic that there will be at least no huge increase in new cases. The way things will go this week will be decisive in how this pandemic will play out in germany.
 
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The guy pushing the opening bell lol

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Goronnn said:
The USA barely has anything that would be considered a mega city if you compare them to Chinese cities, like Wuhan. NYC is the only comparable US city and it is still millions off from being a Wuhan.


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RankCity NameStatePopulation
1New YorkNY8,175,133
2Los AngelesCA3,792,621
3ChicagoIL2,695,598
4HoustonTX2,099,451
5PhiladelphiaPA1,526,006
6PhoenixAZ1,445,632
7San AntonioTX1,327,407
8San DiegoCA1,307,402
9DallasTX1,197,816
10San JoseCA945,942
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The greater New York City area is bigger than Wuhan and its surroundings. Its also by far the worst hit part of the country. Everywhere else seems to be doing okay. Even Washington isn't THAT bad if you subtract that one nursing home.
 
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Goronnn said:
The USA barely has anything that would be considered a mega city if you compare them to Chinese cities, like Wuhan. NYC is the only comparable US city and it is still millions off from being a Wuhan.


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RankCity NameStatePopulation
1New YorkNY8,175,133
2Los AngelesCA3,792,621
3ChicagoIL2,695,598
4HoustonTX2,099,451
5PhiladelphiaPA1,526,006
6PhoenixAZ1,445,632
7San AntonioTX1,327,407
8San DiegoCA1,307,402
9DallasTX1,197,816
10San JoseCA945,942
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US cities are weird in that they are mostly their metroplex. For example, you can't look at Dallas and say that's the population in that city when it's more accurate to list the DFW that's ~6.3 million.
 
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Marchesa_ofthe_Vast said:
US cities are weird in that they are mostly their metroplex. For example, you can't look at Dallas and say that's the population in that city when it's more accurate to list the DFW that's ~6.3 million.
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It's more about population density. Wuhan has 11 million people living in it, not around. I'm just saying we dont really have "mega cities" compared to other more populous nations.
 
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EmuWarsVeteran said:
So on the neurological damage: I haven't managed to get my hands on the document, but they've gone public. They say it's NOT neurological. What it afects its the nose cells controling smell. And due to smell and taste being related this also afects the sense of taste. I repeat, NO neurological damage but it DOES make you loose partially smell and taste!
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For those in the culinary arts this is truly a fate worst than death.
 
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