Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[Lvovsky]

I found this helpful. From Andy Slavitt:

#StayHome... saves a lot of lives. Here’s how I think about it. If you’re infected & don’t know it (highly likely) and you infect the R0 average of around 2.3 (and that’s being careful), what happens?

After 10 cycles, 4142 people are infected... The case fatality rate is a mystery. Germany with a lot of testing is .4. Italy looks like high single digits. With overcrowded hospitals, it multiplies. Bill Gates says it’s around 1%, but could be 3% with lack of vents. Let’s say 1%. So if you infect 4142 people, that may cause 41 deaths. You’ll never know because there is no contact tracing. Hold that thought— even if you disagree that’s the exact number.

If someone told me if I would be able to save 40 lives if I stayed home, missed school, lost income & missed socializing for 6-10 weeks, I would do it in a second. Everyone would. If it was 4 lives or 1--someone’s mom--we would. For many I know it’s much harder than for me. My point is this— a reporter mentioned how scary this is today. But it’s also empowering. I’ve never had the ability to save 40 lives & impact 40 families like this.

Instead of sitting home feeling like this is pointless, I think about the prize of our sacrifice. 40.

40 of the alive ones... add the unimaginable number of the unborn! #thinkofthesouth

[Benny Profane]

They obviously found out about the auction.

That's probably been going on for a very long time.

[Lvovsky]

Trump tweeted it out, it was a typo and the Tardlings tried to claim it had some hidden Qanon-style meaning but instead of impressing people with their deep inside knowledge they just looked like the idiots they are.

#thinkofthesouth

[PNWbrit]

Kushner is going to save us all.

[cat in january]

Chebeague Island Transport, a private ferry service in Maine, has informed the islanders their insurance company says their policy will be canceled if they transport any suspected or emergency 911 patients. The island just has a small clinic. Casio Bay Lines mentioned in the quote below also services the island, but the trip is an hour as opposed to 10 minutes and 4 other islands are served on the same run.

“As you all know, Chebeague Transportation Company (CTC) has announced that they will not transport any suspected or emergency 911 COVID-19 patients. If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, stay at home and call your medical provider for instructions. If you have to go to the mainland, you can travel on Casco Bay Lines

[bennymac]

April 1, 2020

Florida religious services exempt from stay-at-home executive order

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/...lW_1EAwoM3FbnM

[MakersTeleMark]

That's probably been going on for a very long time.

The folks are all sitting on their smartphones checking prices. You have got to be pretty thick to think otherwise.

[MakersTeleMark]

April 1, 2020

Florida religious services exempt from stay-at-home executive order

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/...lW_1EAwoM3FbnM

If they are "essential business", then tax them and their customers.

[rideit]

If they are "essential business", then tax them and their customers.

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[MakersTeleMark]

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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[rideit]

Can I be on your hate list?

[Rideski]

News of note:

American dairy farmers dumping tens of thousands of gallons. Can’t they donate it?

Heard from a friend in Hong Kong, things are getting worse.

Friend at a major meat packing plant in CO reports 800 people called in sick this week.

Good times.

[rideit]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I bought a gallon of milk yesterday that had a few weeks until expiration, and it was sour already. Whatever that means.

[Danno]

The folks are all sitting on their smartphones checking prices. You have got to be pretty thick to think otherwise.

Lots of farmers can run their center pivots from their phones, so yeah.

[TBS]

Kushner is going to save us all.

He’s done a bang-up job coordinating delivery of essential equipment & supplies...

[iceman]

'Daily Iowegian' has a nice ring to it. What names didn't make the cut I wonder?

"Daily Iowan" just wasn't enough letters.

[Deebased]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I bought a gallon of milk yesterday that had a few weeks until expiration, and it was sour already. Whatever that means.

The fridge trucks are picking up cadavers?

[iceman]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I bought a gallon of milk yesterday that had a few weeks until expiration, and it was sour already. Whatever that means.

Witches be afoot these days.

[iceman]

News of note:

American dairy farmers dumping tens of thousands of gallons. Can’t they donate it?

Heard from a friend in Hong Kong, things are getting worse.

Friend at a major meat packing plant in CO reports 800 people called in sick this week.

Good times.

People don't drink milk in quarantine? It seems like they'd drink more of it. Sure was scarce in the stores.

Hong Kong can't be too much of a surprise, talk about dense. They are packed in there. Even one case could turn into a problem in a hurry.

Sick or "sick"? I had this piece forwarded to me today, I'm not quite sure what I think. They see rumblings of a big moment in labor history, I'm not against that but it still doesn't seem like people are pissed enough to actually do something big. I guess we'll see. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z...general-strike

[rideit]

The Revolution will begin in the Trumpervilles...with Obama Phones

[Buster Highmen]

Maybe they're not pissed yet, but the suspension of labor elections by the Trump administration in light of the gig economy and eroding benefits during Corona might be enough to start.

[iceman]

Oh I agree, that's what I meant by "we'll see". It seems like conditions are really ripe for something to break out, to really change the status quo, but enough people have to get pissed enough. Maybe this'll do it.

But the shit people put up with now boggles my mind, so who knows?

[splat]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I bought a gallon of milk yesterday that had a few weeks until expiration, and it was sour already. Whatever that means.

Cowvid 19

Maybe they're not pissed yet, but the suspension of labor elections by the Trump administration in light of the gig economy and eroding benefits during Corona might be enough to start.

Oh I agree, that's what I meant by "we'll see". It seems like conditions are really ripe for something to break out, to really change the status quo, but enough people have to get pissed enough. Maybe this'll do it.

But the shit people put up with now boggles my mind, so who knows?

I just don't see people being too stoked about losing their homes and families. Or going to work and dying, then families losing their homes. Or will a 100 million people end up dying, so nothing will come back to be the same. Are the 1% crowding into tha underground city in Missouri? Did Trump deliver the apocalypse?

[huckbucket]

He's a child ...

[Rideski]

I think the surplus of milk is due to no restaurant cheeses and creams.

Yeah some workers could be faking if that’s what that article says, have my hands full now.

Workers put up with a lot, but salt and coal mines of the 40’s can’t be much better.