Worldwide Coronavirus Thread (US death toll passes 1 Million - that's right, 1 Million dead)

[Omar Little]

[non-player zealot]

[jodeke]

My daily routine has been destroyed by COVID-19. LINK 🤬
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

[JerryWest_44]

[jodeke]

[JerryWest_44]

168,800 Tested
....154,733 results (14,100 PENDING)
..........16,597 POSITIVE
.........117,776 NEGATIVE


Day Number of Deaths
3/12/2020 4
3/13/2020 0
3/14/2020 1
3/15/2020 0
3/16/2020 1
3/17/2020 5
3/18/2020 2
3/19/2020 5
3/20/2020 2
3/21/2020 4
3/22/2020 3
3/23/2020 0
3/24/2020 13
3/25/2020 13
3/26/2020 12
3/27/2020 13
3/28/2020 23
3/29/2020 22
3/30/2020 10
3/31/2020 20
4/1/2020 18
4/2/2020 32
4/3/2020 34
4/4/2020 39
4/5/2020 43
4/6/2020 24
4/7/2020 31
4/8/2020 68
....TOTAL 442

[LakerLanny]

[ribeye]

[55]

[DaMuleRules]

[ChefLinda]

[jodeke]

[non-player zealot]

A groovy Covid inspired song from the day. Jan was terrible:

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SEDALE TRIBUTE
EDDIE DONX!

[Mark_in_Tulsa]

[ContagiousInspiration]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/military-transfers-coronavirus-patients/index.html

[unleasHell]

Dang, it's crazy comparing NY with Ca.

Ca has been averaging under 40 deaths/day and spiked up to 60 today

NY has been average 600 deaths/day and spiked up to 800 today

YIKES!
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[kikanga]

[kikanga]

[jodeke]

The IIC (Idiot In Charge) Trump is so bent on opening the country he's ignoring persons who may be asymptomatic. I have a feeling the infection pool is going to overflow. Most troubling is there is no one who will stop him.


Feds loosen virus rules to let essential workers return

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[JerryWest_44]

[ribeye]

[Mark_in_Tulsa]

[C M B]

this is the kind of stuff that right wingers are plastering all over my local facebook groups:

I am not the author but my goodness this hits hard.

It is painful absolutely painful for me to see the judgement and shaming of people who are just using their voice and what freedom they do have right now.

It pains me to see the fear of a virus when we ALL have ownership of our health and our lifestyle choices.

We all can research, we all can find info and our greatest attribute GOD ever placed when he formed us in his image was our brains.

(please do not use an angry face emoji or FB will slow this post)
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We are seeing the most draconian measures enforced at all levels of government that we've ever seen in our lifetimes, and yet rather than being alarmed by the things going on, so many of you applaud.

People are being arrested for spending too much time outside, and you applaud. Pastors are being arrested for daring to hold church services, and you applaud. A child's birthday party is raided by police, and you applaud. A young woman is ticketed for going on a leisurely drive alone because it's deemed "non-essential travel", and you applaud. A parade of school teachers and administrators who wanted to drive through neighborhoods and wave at children is busted up by cops because they were "nonessential," and you applaud. A lone paddleboarder in the ocean on a beach without any other people around is arrested because he's violating quarantine orders, and you applaud.

People are being denied life saving medical treatments because they're not a priority right now (not "essential" as deemed by the government) as the entirety of our medical system is focused on one thing, and you applaud.

Businesses are beings forcibly closed and padlocked and owners arrested for refusing to shut down, and you applaud. Dairy farmers (and soon, other farmers) are being incentivized to stop dairy farming and to sell their herds, and you don't seem to understand the implications.

You're being told to use hotlines and online forms provided by your local governments to report your neighbors who don't obey, and you comply. You scold people day after day for not obeying government edicts, and if any of us dare to question what's happening, you lecture about how we're a danger to society and and we just don't care about people dying.

You've somehow managed to convince yourselves that the people whose lives are affected by a virus are MUCH more important than the people whose lives are being destroyed (and in many cases, leading to death) by the effects of a worldwide economic shutdown and impending worldwide depression the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

At what point will you start QUESTIONING what's going on? How far does the government have to push before you're jolted awake from your slumber? How far are you willing to go with this?

If they told you to load your families onto train cars so that you could be taken to Virus Protection Facilities for your own safety, would you do it?

YES. Yes, you would.That much has become painfully obvious to me. And the whole time, you'd be shaking your finger and yelling at those of us who refused, accusing us of being "a danger to society" and "not caring if people die."

But they don't have to load you onto train cars and take you to Virus Protection Facilities, or force you to comply, because you do that voluntarily. They control your mind. They control you through fear. They control you by convincing you that the world is a scary dangerous place, but they're here to protect you, care for you, and keep you safe, just as long as you OBEY.

They know that as long as you're locked inside your comfortable home with Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and a cell phone, while dangling a $1200 check in front of you like a carrot on a stick, you'll comply. No force is necessary for the majority of the herd.

YOU ARE IMPRISONED, willingly, and you're too blind to see it.
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[Aeneas Hunter]

^^^^

There is a fair amount of alarmist stuff like this out there. Overall, it's not a bad thing that some people are making the point. In times of crisis, the government can absolutely get out of control. Let's not forget the Patriot Act, to use a recent example. There have been some troublesome uses of emergency powers in this crisis, from shutting down abortion clinics to targeting immigrants and asylum seekers. (The right wingers don't complain about that stuff. Surprise, surprise. But that's for The Political Thread.)

This is not to say that we are really spiraling into the police state that this guy is suggesting. But it's not a bad thing that some people are raising concerns about this. When we give this much power to the government to respond to a crisis, we need to keep a close watch on how that power is being used.
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[ContagiousInspiration]

^^100% in agreement

Issues must be able to be discussed unemotionally. Just the facts.

Bill Gates spoke of later stages we might even be required to wear badges showing carrier and non carrier etc..

Google is already using our cell phones to "anonymously" track us during the Pandemic.