Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[Ski to Be]

Not enough data or time has passed for that study to be conclusive but yeah that sucks

[uglymoney]

Listened to an interesting piece on NPR this AM on my one hour trip to the grocery with on-line ordering & remote pickup
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/28/82307...ial-distancing
4 minute listen. TLL = Cities who shut down harder and longer in 1918 did better economically

References
5 lessons on social distancing from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
One big lesson: You can’t give up early on social distancing.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...18-spanish-flu

The comparison of behavior/consequences in Philadelphia and St Louis are pretty striking

Pandemic Shutdowns Actually Helped Economic Growth in 1918 Flu
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...th-in-1918-flu

Missed all of this...thanks for posting.

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[MontuckyFried]

From a friend:

“Quarantine is like being in Vegas. You’re loosing money by the minute, you’re drinking all hours of the day and you don’t know what the date is.”

Haha. Precisely.

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[huckbucket]

Daily

[powdork]

From a friend:

“Quarantine is like being in Vegas. You’re loosing money by the minute, you’re drinking all hours of the day and you don’t know what the date is.”

and with a new robinhood account to complete the illusion.

[Meathelmet]

Daily

It seems Erdogan will have a cockpit full of hands in the near future...

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Florida cell phones be like

[Core Shot]

^ thanks dude that worked

Edit: anybody seen this? A flu virus that can also take away your senses of smell and taste, and now, maybe impact testosterone production in men too?? WTF over

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scie...mpact-male-sex

Even with high t, pretty sure it’s hard to social distance while fucking

[cat in january]

Jezuz. Trump is such an idiot. He just said he's thinking of quarantining the tri state area. I think he said because so many are going to Florida, his new home and a crucial state for the electoral college. So, he basically gave anybody considering an escape advance warning. Thousands are now packing up, filling the car with toilet paper, and escaping like roaches when the lights go on. Get ready America, here comes your slow death!

Right, they have already been coming in large numbers. Sure we will see a good part of the heard up here

[LongShortLong]

whats your over/under on deaths?

Too many variables. It really matters how soon and how well we stop spreading it. 2k deaths now. 5x per week for a few weeks. So 80k for Easter. 400k week after. 2.5M new memorials for Memorial Day?

Some 'hoax' folks I know are starting to change their tune, so maybe exponential growth slows after Easter. And there will be flattening in today's hard hit regions that should slow it sooner. Maybe the 5x/week ends next week due to WA/CA/etc lockdowns. Stop the 5x next week, and maybe we hold it to 70k at Memorial Day.

Forgot about overwhelming hospitals, could be much higher. OTOH maybe gin and tonic works as treatment, and it'll be lower.

These guys are considerably more optimistic They assume all states implement effective strong social distancing measures in the next week, and estimate 80k deaths by August (with some hospital overwhelmage).

I'm astounded that some otherwise intelligent people (I'm thinking of WSJ writers) do not see the extreme mortal hazard in exponential growth and limited hospital capacity. The business leaders need to get on the hype train if we're to convince holdout governors and presidents.

[east or bust]

Something funky going on with NY, hasn’t really moved much in 3 days - I know it’s a log scale but at almost 750 recorded deaths that doesn’t look up to date

[Benny Profane]

Those charts are perverted. It's like playing the subway game between innings at Yankee Stadium in your head.

[The SnowShow]

This should help:

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/fd...QxL_R9o1fQWiv4

[old goat]

this is why we can't have nice things
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...ational-parks/

angels landing trail in Zion (trail closed since the picture taken)
if you can't figure out how to hike in Zion without being in a crowd you probably should not be let out of the city limits without a guide.
On the plus side, if stupid people disproportionately die (along with old people) it should be good for the country,

[Benny Profane]

Don't some people die on that trail like every year?

[splat]

^ thanks dude that worked

Edit: anybody seen this? A flu virus that can also take away your senses of smell and taste, and now, maybe impact testosterone production in men too?? WTF over

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/scie...mpact-male-sex

[Cono Este]

Lock down New York?


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[MakersTeleMark]

Lock down New York?

Unreal. That would go over as well as closing liquor stores in Denver.

[Ted Striker]

^^^ Cuomo says fuck you to that. He'll sue the feds.

I think he should just challenge trump to a deathmatch.

[MakersTeleMark]

^^^ Cuomo says fuck you to that.

He made himself very clear. And he has the upper hand. He doesn't even like the sound of it.

[Ted Striker]

Cuomo has the upper hand? (not a lawyer)

[Lawless]

this is why we can't have nice things
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...ational-parks/

angels landing trail in Zion (trail closed since the picture taken)
if you can't figure out how to hike in Zion without being in a crowd you probably should not be let out of the city limits without a guide.
On the plus side, if stupid people disproportionately die (along with old people) it should be good for the country,

To be fair it is Utah. That could all be one family.

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[Benny Profane]

Cuomo has the upper hand? (not a lawyer)

Yes, he does. Both legally and politically at this point.

[MakersTeleMark]

Yes, he does. Both legally and politically at this point.

Cuomo could take down the presidency very easily if he flexed just a little. Trump knows this, and is going to regret fucking with NYC again.

[TBS]

^^^ Cuomo says fuck you to that. He'll sue the feds.

I think he should just challenge trump to a deathmatch.

CoronaDome. Two men enter, one man leaves