Middle aged Karens, tech-savvy old boomers, paranoid tinfoilers, germaphobes and let's not forget wimpy milennial shut ins who probably already had all their wants and needs delivered to their doorsteps pre-corona, seeing as it is reddit. All have the same problem: they never think about the lifestyles of others and how completely locking oneself away at a moments notice isnt possible for many.
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Global Times on Twitter
“Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said if the pandemic overseas cannot be controlled, there are two possibilities: #COVID19 could have originated from a place other than #Wuhan or foreign countries lack effective measures.”
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One fundamental of journalism, is to produce a story. So journalist does whatever s/he can, to knit together a story. If you work for a massive machine like Reuters or LA Times or Washington Post, if you spin batshit, it won't cross your editor's desk. They have a brand to sell, and if educated readers detect bullshit, that's it for their paper.
rate meif i am but this post on 4tism got my noodle cooking a bit:
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if this is really case (perhaps medical kiwis can provide anecdotes if they live in rural areas) that means there's going to be an extremely weird market effect with regards to healthcare in the coming months/years in the US. i wonder if we're going to get nationalized healthcare just as a necessity to keep the more rural healthcare workers employed.
between this and the Fed purchasing company assets as collateral for loans, and printing money (i.e., issuing bonds) like there's no tomorrow to keep the economy afloat, we practically live in a giant centralized state run by banks, amazon, google, and walmart. we're china without the CCP as the power center at this point.
sort of off topic but still, this pandemic is going to have long-reaching policy repercussions that we can't even begin to predict at this point for how non-lethal the disease seems to actually be, especially compared to the spanish flu or (in the worst possible case) the plague, much less SARS or MERS.
50 cents is good money when you're furloughed, fam.
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I'm leaning toward the Wikipedia-scholar basement-dweller stereotypes. I swear the more Draconian the bullshit sounds, the more I'm reminded of that Simpsons where Lisa joins Mensa, and they take control of the town, and put out weird laws that make no sense and piss off the townsfolk.
Dont know what site you are looking for it on, but you are referring to this woman from Detroit:The article I wanted to find on a particular site appears to be memory-holed, but a TL;DR summary is:
The last point leads into an article I did find:
- Democratic State senator (and some family members) get COVID-19.
- Person recovers thanks to chlorohydroquinone, praises Trump for making it available, draws fire from media and fellow Dems for touting "unproven" treatment.
- Person, being African American, appears to claim that POCs are being denied testing strictly because of their skin color and hometown while further stating that she only got tested because of her status with state government.
Whitmer creates task force to look at racial disparities in coronavirus patients, deaths
With African Americans accounting for 40% of the coronavirus deaths in Michigan, Gov. Whitmer created a task force to study the racial disparity.
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Task force to look at coronavirus impact on African Americans
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TL;DR - Because African Americans make up 14% of the state population, 33% of the COVID-19 cases, and 40% of the COVID-19 deaths, the Governor wants to create a task force -- led by her POC lieutenant governor -- that will look for the underlying reasons and inequities. Somehow I doubt the task force will admit much of it has to do with bad lifestyle choices such as smoking or lack of proper hygiene.
New York has more virus cases than any country
Photos emerge of workers in hazmat outfits stacking coffins in a mass grave in New York City.www.bbc.com
Mass-ish graves for the poor in NY.
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they counted 40 in the caption but it looks like half are already buried so 80-100 maybe with room for more.
Given that the ones accused of running the EU, namely the rich northern states, have this far always flat-out rejected the idea of Eurobonds, which has been raised repeatedly and exclusively by southern European nations, that comment makes no sense in this context.
