Today's PSA

 Noah Lindquist - Wear A Mask

You can shout

You can swear

But listen, Karen - I don't care

Never seen folks so dramatic

Over a fucking piece of fabric

Today's PSA

Adley

Today's PSA

PLEASE COMPLY

Currently, public health guidelines are that one's milkshake can bring only nine boys to the yard.

Today's PSA

https://staythefuckhome.com

Why it's so Important

SARS-CoV-2 is a highly infectious and potentially deadly virus that causes a respiratory disease called COVID-19. You might know it under one of its many other names, including 2019-nCoV, novel coronavirus, Wuhan coronavirus, China or Wuhan flu, or just simply coronavirus. All of these refer to the same virus that this movement is trying to stop.

Over the past months and weeks, the virus and corresponding disease have been compared over and over to the influenza virus and the seasonal flu. Due to the overlap in symptoms and seemingly similar severity, this comparison comes naturally to a lot of people, however, looking at what we know so far about this new virus, the threat it poses to society is not easily brushed aside.

More Contagious Than the Flu
With an estimated R0 (the expected number of cases directly generated by one case in a population where all individuals are susceptible to infection) between 1.4 – 6.49 and a mean estimate of 3.28[1], SARS-CoV-2 is much more infectious and spreads much faster than the seasonal flu, which has a median R0 of 1.28[2].

More Deadly Than the Flu

The so-called case fatality rate (CFR) of SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to be at around 2%[3], meaning that an estimated 2% of people getting diagnosed with COVID-19 will succumb to it. In comparison, the CFR of seasonal influenza is estimated to be around 0.1%[4], which means SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to be about 20 times more deadly than the seasonal flu.

Possibility of Severe Symptoms

An estimated 15 – 20% of infected individuals suffer from severe symptoms that require medical attention[5], including pneumonia with shortness of breath and lowered blood oxygen saturation.

No Treatment, No Vaccine, No Immunity

As SARS-CoV-2 has only recently emerged, there is no well-studied treatment for COVID-19 and more research is needed in order to treat infected people efficiently. Likewise, there is no vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 yet[6] and the development of such a vaccine will take a significant amount of time. With no vaccines and no prior wide-spread immunity, everyone is a susceptible target for infection. While most infected people will only suffer from mild symptoms, this lack of herd-immunity can lead to severe illness in a significant number of at-risk individuals.


Exponential Growth

Due to the lack of immunity to this new virus, the entire human population is the upper limit of possible infections. And although exponential growth always seems slow at first, it can lead to unfathomably high numbers in a rather short time. With the number of infected people currently doubling in a matter of days[7], our medical systems will potentially be overloaded, which will lead to higher numbers of fatalities due to people not receiving the care they need.

By joining the movement and therefore limiting possibilities for new infections, you are not only protecting yourself, but you are also helping contain and limit the spread for everyone else, especially those who are at higher risk to suffer severe consequences from this virus.

If you care about this cause, please share it on social media, via email, or just tell your friends and family about it. But please, just #StayTheFuckHome.

Today's Tweet

So, I was going to wait for a while before I posted my proposal for solving America's gun problem, cuz it just seemed like I should.

But then this:

OK Twitter, help us out here. Can anyone remember anything like this when Obama was President? I mean really. This is just bizarre. Who does this? pic.twitter.com/HlaMoAq7p6

— Mo Latno Bill Phelan (@MoBill) August 7, 2019

So here it is:

Today's PSA

The folks who gave us the bogus term "Death Panels" as they tried to stop the ACA, kindly demand that we stop referring to their Concentration Camps as "concentration camps".

Try This

#OutFoxTheHolidays

hat tip = Bob Cesca's podcast

Be Aware

And, oh yeah - fuck you, Alex Jones.