No big deal or cause for alarm. They are just really unlucky. There was nothing we could do about it.An 11-year-old boy from Florida's Miami-Dade County is the youngest person to die from Covid-19 complications in the state, according to the Florida Department of Health.
According to the latest health records, he is the third minor in Florida to die of virus complications. The others were a 16-year-old girl in Lee County and a 17-year-old boy in Pasco County.
Also it's hard to wrap your head around how people who espouse economic priority can mentally divorce a miserable, deadly pandemic from market confidence.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Can you imagine how stupid you need to be to think the economy is worth more than the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans? The economy breaks on its own anyway. It was going to break eventually but those kid's lives were guaranteed to be longer.
again, this is childish wish-fulfillment. when has the world ever collaborated on a group decision of that magnitude before?Dilbert_X wrote:
Yes lets have two-plus years of intermittent lockdowns and millions of deaths instead of an eight week holiday.
In the states that reopened, restaurant, hotel, etc. attendance was a fraction of pre-pandemic levels. Most places were doomed from the start. It turns out outsourcing manufacturing to China and turning the economy into a service based one was a bad idea.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Also it's hard to wrap your head around how people who espouse economic priority can mentally divorce a miserable, deadly pandemic from market confidence.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Can you imagine how stupid you need to be to think the economy is worth more than the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans? The economy breaks on its own anyway. It was going to break eventually but those kid's lives were guaranteed to be longer.
We could do it day now.uziq wrote:
again, this is childish wish-fulfillment. when has the world ever collaborated on a group decision of that magnitude before?Dilbert_X wrote:
Yes lets have two-plus years of intermittent lockdowns and millions of deaths instead of an eight week holiday.
'if only back then, in day 1, with no prior precedent and no planning, we had all agreed to shut down and cull global GDP by 25%!'
very good stuff dilbert.
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it's interesting to witness state-level responses now the shoe is on the other foot and red states aren't all laughing at cuomo/NY.SuperJail Warden wrote:
super cool animation on the front page of NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/
You can see the virus migrate down the east coast.
Nothing can ever be shut down completely though, so the problem never goes away. You still need people to go to work to care for the sick, to stock the grocery store shelves, to deliver food and goods, etc. They're all potential vectors. I mean, theoretically, we could completely eradicate a lot of contagious diseases if we simply locked everyone in the world inside for 8 weeks. It's not realistic though.Dilbert_X wrote:
If we shut down now for eight weeks it would be done in eight weeks.
End the lockdown! Open up the economy!
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this is only partly true. you should read this thread.SuperJail Warden wrote:
The good thing is that we have gotten better at saving people on vents. Apparently a cheap steroid reduces vent deaths by 30%. That raises the question as to how we didn't know giving people steroids while on vents helps.
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Oh no. The COVID is in the White House.Kimberly Guilfoyle -- the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. and a top fundraiser for the Trump campaign -- has tested positive for coronavirus, according to a top official for the committee she leads.
Well China and Australia have done it.Jay wrote:
Nothing can ever be shut down completely though, so the problem never goes away. You still need people to go to work to care for the sick, to stock the grocery store shelves, to deliver food and goods, etc. They're all potential vectors. I mean, theoretically, we could completely eradicate a lot of contagious diseases if we simply locked everyone in the world inside for 8 weeks. It's not realistic though.Dilbert_X wrote:
If we shut down now for eight weeks it would be done in eight weeks.
End the lockdown! Open up the economy!
