We're still in the hair-on-fire-holy-fuck-this-just-gets-worse part.
The inflection point is a right good bit down the road yet.
Mar 25, 2020
A COVID-19 Reminder
When I say "the curve seems to be flattening a little", that's not our cue to get happy and start thinking 45* might be right about opening everything up again by Easter.
We're still in the hair-on-fire-holy-fuck-this-just-gets-worse part.
The inflection point is a right good bit down the road yet.
We're still in the hair-on-fire-holy-fuck-this-just-gets-worse part.
The inflection point is a right good bit down the road yet.
COVID-19 Update
In the US, the growth is on track with the 1.2 daily multiplier currently in effect.
Globally, it's flattened a bit at about 1.1
As China gets the pollution machinery rolling again.
Comparison:
Mar 24, 2020
A Poem
From a Twitterer called @HellBentVet
As the blood was drying
As the blood was drying
On the hands of the few
Who could have stopped him
The fat orange demon laughed
At their utter destruction
Their blind love-drunk faith
His greedy claws clutched the bank codes
Of their billions
And flew the family
To their new old home In Saudi Arabia
Today's Tweet
Some Tweets age pretty well.
Just imagine Donald Trump in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. We can’t afford that kind of risk.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 8, 2016
COVID-19 Update
The good news is that the curve is starting to flatten out a little.
The rate of new confirmed cases is doubling about every 3 days now, instead of every 2 days.
That's not a great indicator of great progress though - we're still in the Hockey Stick part of the curve.
The bad news is that we've still got (mostly) GOP assholes telling people to worry about the stock market instead of dead Americans.
The rate of new confirmed cases is doubling about every 3 days now, instead of every 2 days.
That's not a great indicator of great progress though - we're still in the Hockey Stick part of the curve.
The bad news is that we've still got (mostly) GOP assholes telling people to worry about the stock market instead of dead Americans.
Failing
Brian Tyler Cohen
Seth Meyers
Seth Meyers
It was January 18th before Alex Azar finally got a call thru to 45*, trying to get him up to speed on COVID-19, and Trump interrupted him to ask when flavored vapes would go back on the market.
We Are Not So Smart
President Stoopid says it, and some dumbass takes it as gospel, and just has to give it a try.
Phoenix New Times
An Arizona man died after he and his wife ingested a chemical in an attempt to prevent a coronavirus infection, Banner Health said in a press release. His wife is in critical care. Both are in their 60s.
The chemical — chloroquine phosphate — is commonly used to clean fish tanks.
During a press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump touted chloroquine as showing "very, very encouraging early results" in treating COVID-19 and falsely stated that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was working "to be able to make that drug available almost immediately." The drug has been used to treat malaria.
Minutes after Trump made the false claim, FDA Commissioner Steven Hahn said a "clinical trial, a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be required before making any determination on the use of chloroquine to treat the coronavirus.
In its press release, Banner Health advised against "the use of inappropriate medications and household products to prevent or treat COVID-19."
“Given the uncertainty around COVID-19, we understand that people are trying to find new ways to prevent or treat this virus, but self-medicating is not the way to do so,” said Dr. Daniel Brooks, Banner Poison and Drug Information Center medical director. “The last thing that we want right now is to inundate our emergency departments with patients who believe they found a vague and risky solution that could potentially jeopardize their health.”
I got into a little Twitter Spat yesterday with a guy trying to make the point that "the red tape is keeping us from finding new ways to beat this thing..." and (of course) "the government just needs to get out of the way".
I don't know what it'll take to break this logjam of deliberate wishful foolishness. Even when it's been made clear that the guy in charge is a complete fuckin' idiot, people are storming around in response to every little piece of shit that falls out of his mouth and floats by them on the internet.
What the fuck is wrong with us?
Phoenix New Times
An Arizona man died after he and his wife ingested a chemical in an attempt to prevent a coronavirus infection, Banner Health said in a press release. His wife is in critical care. Both are in their 60s.
The chemical — chloroquine phosphate — is commonly used to clean fish tanks.
During a press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump touted chloroquine as showing "very, very encouraging early results" in treating COVID-19 and falsely stated that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was working "to be able to make that drug available almost immediately." The drug has been used to treat malaria.
Minutes after Trump made the false claim, FDA Commissioner Steven Hahn said a "clinical trial, a large, pragmatic clinical trial" would be required before making any determination on the use of chloroquine to treat the coronavirus.
In its press release, Banner Health advised against "the use of inappropriate medications and household products to prevent or treat COVID-19."
“Given the uncertainty around COVID-19, we understand that people are trying to find new ways to prevent or treat this virus, but self-medicating is not the way to do so,” said Dr. Daniel Brooks, Banner Poison and Drug Information Center medical director. “The last thing that we want right now is to inundate our emergency departments with patients who believe they found a vague and risky solution that could potentially jeopardize their health.”
I got into a little Twitter Spat yesterday with a guy trying to make the point that "the red tape is keeping us from finding new ways to beat this thing..." and (of course) "the government just needs to get out of the way".
I don't know what it'll take to break this logjam of deliberate wishful foolishness. Even when it's been made clear that the guy in charge is a complete fuckin' idiot, people are storming around in response to every little piece of shit that falls out of his mouth and floats by them on the internet.
What the fuck is wrong with us?
Mar 23, 2020
It's OK To Be Smart
The spread of COVID-19 in the US is doing almost exactly what real people have been telling us it would.
It's doubling about every 2 days here in the US, even as the global increase seems to be slowing a little.
Mar 22, 2020
The Timeline
From The Recount
And gee golly wowser - let's not forget about the CinC we coulda had if we'd just stayed with her a little longer:
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