Thank heaven's for Kindle! Whenever I finish a Terry Pratchett book, I can hop onto the next, whichever strikes my fancy.
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Thread
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It's times like these when it comes in handy that I'm an obsessive-compulsive collector who is always buying new DVDs, new, books, new games even though I barely have the time to actually use any of this stuff. My backlog is seriously massive, I've got at least a few dozen unread books and brand new video games lying around (I still have games for the Wii that I haven't played, for pete's sake!) plus easily a couple of hundred films and tv shows on DVD I've yet to watch (no this is not an exaggeration, it's really that many ). So uhm, yeah, I don't think I have to worry about getting bored in the next couple of weeks at least. (Also, master thesis, but let's not talk about that one).
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Mortality rate is determined by closed cases—of which we now have 112,173. Not just cases that are ongoing that we think they'll be fine. The global rate has been rising—5% to 13%—for weeks, as more folks are tested. It may eventually decline again as more people pass through it.
Notably, the US is still severely under-tested but its probably going to have the most cases in the world within a day or so. (Given the population size and Trump's inaction that makes sense.) And even thatrate is artificially low because some nations aren't doing post-mortem testing on flu deaths or—like Russia—using other causes of death.
Maaaan, I really wish I'd been right about 4% being the number that makes sense and the high rates being the outliers but… I was completely wrong on that and being too optimistic. (Yikes, when "only" a 4% death rate is optimistic...) it looks like the lower numbers were just pure holding data back.
Granted, its mostly getting the elderly, and Italy has a higher elderly population so thats affecting totals... while barely touching teens and skipping children entirely, but yeesh thats a horrific rate.
Oh, and if you want to know what the US's lack of testing is doing to the numbers?
Yeeeah no. That's going to go down once we actually start testing people but yeesh.
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Yeah 13% does sounds like really bad news, specially for nations that are under-testing for the virus. It means that will be a boom in deaths in those place before the flattening starts to take form.
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Italy is down another 50 deaths from yesterday. 651 to 601. Hopefully it continues to trend downward…
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I normally post these in the American Politics thread, but since there's some overlap and I'm not sure what may or may not have been covered already:
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/03/23/day-1159/
[h=1]Day 1159: "The pandemic is accelerating."[/h]
1/ The World Health Organization: “The pandemic is accelerating.” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of WHO, said “It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach 100,000 cases, 11 days for second 100,000 cases, and just four days for the third 100,000 cases.” More than 34,000 people have contracted the virus in the U.S., and at least 485 people have died. Worldwide, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is nearing 350,000, with at least 15,000 deaths. (CNBC / CBS News)
2/ The Senate failed to pass the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill for the second day in a row. The procedural vote on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act failed 49-46 – short of the 60 vote threshold needed to advance the legislation for a final debate. Democrats argued that the bill disproportionately helps companies and needs to include more benefits for families and health care providers. Republicans, meanwhile, insisted that the bill offers financial assistance to the entire economy and needs to be passed before more people lose their jobs. After the vote, Mitch McConnell warned that the Senate might not be able to pass a bill until Friday or Saturday, blaming Democrats for “mindless obstruction.” Nancy Pelosi said the House would unveil its own coronavirus stimulus bill. (Politico / Washington Post / ABC News / Wall Street Journal / NBC News / Washington Post / NBC News)- Live Blogs: New York Times / Washington Post / NBC News / CNN / ABC News / The Guardian / Bloomberg / CBS News
- COVID-ables.
- Sen. Rand Paul tested positive for COVID-19, making him the first U.S. senator to contract the virus. He does not have any symptoms and said was not aware of any instance where he had direct contact with an infected person. Earlier this month, Paul was the only senator to vote against a bipartisan deal that would have provided $8 billion in emergency coronavirus funding. (Axios)
- Rep. Ben McAdams has been hospitalized for “severe shortness of breath” after testing positive for COVID-19 last week. McAdams symptoms started getting worse on Friday, so he called the medical hotline for the virus and was told to go to the hospital and check in with the isolation unit. “I was admitted and have been receiving oxygen as I struggled to maintain my blood oxygen at appropriate levels,” McAdams said in a statement. “I am now off oxygen and feeling relatively better and expect to be released as soon as the doctor determines it is appropriate.” (NBC News)
- The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will be postponed. (USA Today)
- The United Kingdom issued a three-week national lockdown. All businesses deemed nonessential will close. (NBC News)
3/ The U.S. economy is deteriorating more quickly than anticipated with more than 84 million Americans at home because of shutdowns to combat the coronavirus. The Labor Department is expected to report that roughly 3 million Americans have filed first-time claims for unemployment assistance – more than four times the record high set during the 1982 recession. A JPMorgan Chase economist told clients that the jobless rate could spike to 20% from today’s 3.5%. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard predicted that the U.S. unemployment rate could hit 30% in the second quarter, with a 50% drop in gross domestic product. (Washington Post / Bloomberg / Quartz)
4/ Trump is considering ending “social distancing” guidelines due to concerns about the economic damage from an extended shutdown. Easing guidelines would run counter to recommendations by senior U.S. health officials, who have warned that the U.S. has not yet felt the worst of the pandemic. “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” Trump tweeted late Sunday. “AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!” The 15-day period ends on March 30. Administration officials said there is a growing sentiment that the White House went too far in allowing public health experts to set policy to “flatten the curve” that has hurt the economy. Pence, meanwhile, said the CDC will issue guidance allowing people exposed to the coronavirus to return to work sooner by wearing a mask. (Washington Post / New York Times / Axios / Politico / NBC News / Bloomberg / CNN / Wall Street Journal)
5/ The Trump administration is updating guidance on how hospitals should respond if supplies like masks, face shields, and other protective equipment run out. The coronavirus task force has compared the need for ventilators, masks, and other protective equipment against the current supply and has acknowledged that the stockpile is short of what’s needed. Trade data also shows a decline in imports of medical supplies, including testing swabs, protective masks, surgical gowns, and hand sanitizer, from China starting in mid-February. Some emergency rooms, hospitals and clinics have already run out of supplies, while others are rationing personal protective equipment like gloves and masks. Trump, meanwhile, has resisted appeals from state, local officials, and hospital administrators to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel companies to make face masks and other gear to protect health workers. The American Medical Association called the shortages of protective gear for medical professionals treating coronavirus cases “unacceptable.” (Washington Post / Associated Press / NBC News / New York Times)- Trump promoted two unproven drugs to treat coronavirus, which has lead to shortages for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients who depend on them to alleviate symptoms of inflammation, including preventing organ damage in lupus patients. (Washington Post)
- Governors and mayors in growing uproar over Trump’s lagging coronavirus response. (Washington Post)
- The Trump administration is considering a special enrollment period for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act because of the coronavirus crisis. Open enrollment for states that use the federal exchange ended on Dec. 15. A special enrollment period because of coronavirus would be aimed partly at ensuring people don’t put off getting tested or treated because they don’t have health insurance. About 30 million Americans are uninsured. (Wall Street Journal)
6/ U.S. intelligence agencies issued classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus. The reports didn’t predict when the virus would hit the U.S. or recommend steps public health officials should take, but it did track the spread of the virus in China and warned that Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak.Trump and lawmakers, however, repeatedly played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the virus. (Washington Post)
7/ The Trump administration eliminated a CDC disease expert position in China a few months before the coronavirus pandemic began. The position, known as resident adviser to the U.S. Field Epidemiology Training Program in China, was funded by the CDC and was focused on helping detect disease outbreaks in China. No other foreign disease experts were embedded to lead the program after Dr. Linda Quick had to leave her post in July amid the U.S. trade dispute with China. The post was officially discontinued as of September 2019. The CDC first learned of a “cluster of 27 cases of pneumonia” of unexplained origin in Wuhan, China on Dec. 31. (Reuters)
8/ The Justice Department asked Congress to allow chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies. In one request, the DOJ asked Congress to give the attorney general and top judges broad powers that would allow them to pause court proceedings during emergencies or “whenever the district court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any natural disaster, civil disobedience, or other emergency situation.” These new powers would apply to “any statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in criminal and juvenile proceedings and all civil process and proceedings.” The DOJ’s requests are unlikely to make it through a Democratic-led House. (Politico)
poll/ 72% of Americans say their state’s governors have done a good job dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. 50% say Trump has done a good job, while 45% say he’s done bad job. (Monmouth University Polling Institute) -
4/ Trump is considering ending “social distancing” guidelines due to concerns about the economic damage from an extended shutdown. Easing guidelines would run counter to recommendations by senior U.S. health officials, who have warned that the U.S. has not yet felt the worst of the pandemic. “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” Trump tweeted late Sunday. “AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!” The 15-day period ends on March 30. Administration officials said there is a growing sentiment that the White House went too far in allowing public health experts to set policy to “flatten the curve” that has hurt the economy. Pence, meanwhile, said the CDC will issue guidance allowing people exposed to the coronavirus to return to work sooner by wearing a mask. (Washington Post / New York Times / Axios / Politico / NBC News / Bloomberg / CNN / Wall Street Journal)
so Basically everyone go back to work and let this thing get worse or something
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETz9L6LXsAIWkcn?format=png&name=360x360
Mortality rate is determined by closed cases—of which we now have 112,173. Not just cases that are ongoing that we think they'll be fine. The global rate has been rising—5% to 13%—for weeks, as more folks are tested. It may eventually decline again as more people pass through it.
Notably, the US is still severely under-tested but its probably going to have the most cases in the world within a day or so. (Given the population size and Trump's inaction that makes sense.) And even thatrate is artificially low because some nations aren't doing post-mortem testing on flu deaths or—like Russia—using other causes of death.
Maaaan, I really wish I'd been right about 4% being the number that makes sense and the high rates being the outliers but… I was completely wrong on that and being too optimistic. (Yikes, when "only" a 4% death rate is optimistic...) it looks like the lower numbers were just pure holding data back.
Granted, its mostly getting the elderly, and Italy has a higher elderly population so thats affecting totals... while barely touching teens and skipping children entirely, but yeesh thats a horrific rate.
Oh, and if you want to know what the US's lack of testing is doing to the numbers?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ET0BdUMXgAUSZao?format=png&name=360x360
Yeeeah no. That's going to go down once we actually start testing people but yeesh.
I'm not trying to downplay the Corona Virus, just pointing out the inaccuracy of the "confirmed" cases stats and death rate. I'm confident there are 10's of, most likely 100's of THOUSANDS of cases that haven't been tested or confirmed at all because their symptoms weren't bad enough, couldn't get tested (like in the U.S.), or doctors just diagnosed as flu or something.
Heck, right before shit hit the fan here in America, I was told my aunt had bronchitis, and her husband had the flu at the same time but because there was only a few confirmed cases in my state I didn't really give it a second thought until later. It has spread way faster than anyone here in America realizes but we don't really notice until it hits a vulnerable population like the elderly or those with preexisting conditions and they need extreme care. Italy's high death rate is mainly due to their very large elderly population. Young people, especially children, seem to hardly show symptoms at all.
Overall, I'm trying to say deaths from COVID-19 don't really go unnoticed, whereas people that don't present symptoms or can't be tested are vastly overlooked.
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[qimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETz9L6LXsAIWkcn?format=png&name=360x360[/qimg]
Mortality rate is determined by closed cases—of which we now have 112,173. Not just cases that are ongoing that we think they'll be fine. The global rate has been rising—5% to 13%—for weeks, as more folks are tested. It may eventually decline again as more people pass through it.
Notably, the US is still severely under-tested but its probably going to have the most cases in the world within a day or so. (Given the population size and Trump's inaction that makes sense.) And even thatrate is artificially low because some nations aren't doing post-mortem testing on flu deaths or—like Russia—using other causes of death.
Maaaan, I really wish I'd been right about 4% being the number that makes sense and the high rates being the outliers but… I was completely wrong on that and being too optimistic. (Yikes, when "only" a 4% death rate is optimistic...) it looks like the lower numbers were just pure holding data back.
Granted, its mostly getting the elderly, and Italy has a higher elderly population so thats affecting totals... while barely touching teens and skipping children entirely, but yeesh thats a horrific rate.
Oh, and if you want to know what the US's lack of testing is doing to the numbers?
[qimg]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ET0BdUMXgAUSZao?format=png&name=360x360[/qimg]
Yeeeah no. That's going to go down once we actually start testing people but yeesh.
The west also seems to have more complications caused by drug use, NSAIDs, diabetes, disability, secondhand smoke exposure etc…
If you have any history of doing something or being exposed to something that in any way reduced the function of your lungs, circulatory system or any of your other vital organs your rate of dying shoots up.
All the time we spend sitting is probably a significant factor on its own.
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Like many said, the high mortality rate comes from the lack of testing and missing knowledge of how many are actually infected.
In Germany the testing is going pretty well and the mortality rate is rather low, although it should also be underlined that many of the infected were young people.
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That's fine, I'm not really trying to convince you or anyone else to be "with me" or against me. You're entitled to your opinion. Was just stating why I feel GameStop being open wasn't a bad idea and better than the alternatives. But like taboo said, this conversation is fruitless now, they closed their stores yesterday.
Subjective. There are some decent benefits to shopping there.
Well I like that I can trade-in and sell games back. I don't really collect to have a massive library at this point in my life. If I get bored of something it's nice to be able to put it towards something else. Saves me money.
If you don't have games laying around and don't want to resort to downloading roms I'd recommend getting a Wii U or 3DS.
Both have a decent number of old games available on the Virtual Console.
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Well, you knew that was coming. Dammit.
Damn shame Japan spent all that money into prepping to host the Olympics and have it go to waste…....instead of having it go to waste after hosting it.
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Drivers using the face mask to cover their chins or mouths, but not the noses, and then using their gloves to readjust the mask is just infuriating. Forcing the mask is a waste of resources and police effort , specially if they aren’t even using it properly.
It is easy to use the mask to contain the disease to one person, it is not useful to use it wrong to try to keep one person healthy, and it creates a false sense of security.
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Italy back to miserable numbers.
Hopefully, the numbers decrease in 2 or 3 days, when the lockdown measures start having an actual effect.
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So the asshat owner of Hobby Lobby is forcing his stores to stay open:
https://www.comicsands.com/billionaire-hobby-lobby-owner-coronavirus-2645572244.html?fbclid=IwAR22vzmCoYIJRB2uFYJlQnX2Ka69uTn07apNZKzoaYUhmZvWAPRgoRCEaZcWhy? Because his wife "had a vision from God".
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So the asshat owner of Hobby Lobby is forcing his stores to stay open:
https://www.comicsands.com/billionaire-hobby-lobby-owner-coronavirus-2645572244.html?fbclid=IwAR22vzmCoYIJRB2uFYJlQnX2Ka69uTn07apNZKzoaYUhmZvWAPRgoRCEaZcWhy? Because his wife "had a vision from God".
Sounds like something that's supposed to be illegal. Super illegal.
I don't understand. Claiming you had a vision from God should get you laughed at by and large, yet these people can just go against guidelines put into place to literally save people's lives?
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Sounds like something that's supposed to be illegal. Super illegal.
I don't understand. Claiming you had a vision from God should get you laughed at by and large, yet these people can just go against guidelines put into place to literally save people's lives?
Gamestop isn't being punished so we'll probably see a lot of this happening.
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Their reasoning is bullshit too, but I guess not as outrageous as a "vision from God".
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Since my region of the world is the odd one out when it comes to religion i just tend to assume that we are the weird ones for not basing our business decisions on godly visions. But if even the Hungs down way south don't either then maybe its just hella weird.
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Their reasoning is bullshit too, but I guess not as outrageous as a "vision from God".
Gamestop's reason is downright reasonable from a corporate standpoint.
They're not going to survive this pandemic anyway so every cent earned is free money.
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You know, here in Germany I work in an institution that is actually partly funded by the church. And even then I wouldn't ever have to deal with shit like that. I guess I'll count my blessings.
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People defend pedophiles over religion. Dangerous business decisions is two layers of hell above that.
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Since my region of the world is the odd one out when it comes to religion i just tend to assume that we are the weird ones for not basing our business decisions on godly visions. But if even the Hungs down way south don't either then maybe its just hella weird.
I wouldn't say Hungarians aren't religious and that religion is completely absent from legislative choices, but I have yet to hear of "God totally spoke to me when I was praying" stuff.
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I wouldn't say Hungarians aren't religious and that religion is completely absent from legislative choices, but I have yet to hear of "God totally spoke to me when I was praying" stuff.
American christianity comes in a whole bunch of interesting sub-sections. And the big dawg is those evangelical guys who tend to believe things like that you must give up your old life and be reborn into christ and that anything written in the bible is infallible truth. So god spoke to and inspired people in the bible, the bible can't be wrong hence god could and would totally speak to me now in 2021 and have opinions on how i run my hobby store.
Hungs conjures a very different image in my mind thoughWould you say that god spoke to you through my words?
I am but a humble vessel for the almighty
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lol, typically american. Makes me think about the Goldman Sachs guy who had said that he was doing god's work
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ok..so Ive hearing that the president want the country to go back to normal(Opening everything back up) by mid april or Easter..do you think he'll be able to? i doubt it myself
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lol at Europeans who think Evangelicalism is normal standard Christianity in the US.
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@Monkey:
lol at Europeans who think Evangelicalism is normal standard Christianity in the US.
It is by a generous margin the largest christian tradition in the US tho. By most definitions it should be counted as normal. So i'm not following you here. It is larger than catholicism and is the biggest sub-section of protestantism which together make up for more than half of the US christian population but it is still not considered normal in the US to be an evangelical christian? The math doesn't really check out here.
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ok..so Ive hearing that the president want the country to go back to normal(Opening everything back up) by mid april or Easter..do you think he'll be able to? i doubt it myself
Thats what Trump wants because he ONLY cares about the stock market. No doctors think that's a good idea. If he forces that he'll be killing a lot of people (hundreds of thousands) and extending the lifecycle of the virus by months..
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It is by a generous margin the largest christian tradition in the US tho. By most definitions it should be counted as normal. So i'm not following you here.
At a whopping 17% of the US population I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. That's from the most recent data I could find from 2016.
Also the fact that it's heavily concentrated in the South means trying to take even a large number and coat that as a norm doesn't make any sense. It would be like saying Southern accents are "typical American".!
It is larger than catholicism and is the biggest sub-section of protestantism which together make up for more than half of the US christian population
Together with… what? All other Protestants? "Protestant" as you should know all too well isn't a specific anything, it's a huge category of countless churches who can be wildly different. Many of them nothing at all like Evangelical churches.
You're applying your math in a social void (so useless regarding demographic/social studies), and with maybe a smaller concentrated population in mind where no matter where you are in the US you have a 17% chance of running into Evangelicals. When in reality well, check the map.
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If there's any justice in this wretched world, if he does it, he better get the god-damn virus himself.
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Imagine if I called the EU "A Catholic bastion" or something. Because we have the EU member countries at 41% Catholic.
But that doesn't account for regional concentration, or how some countries are pretty "eh" about it like much of France, while others are hardcore rosary grippers like much of Poland.It's good math, but terrible social studies.
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Spain with some Italy-like numbers today.
Nearly 700 dead.
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@Monkey:
At a whopping 17% of the US population I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. That's from the most recent data I could find from 2016.
Also the fact that it's heavily concentrated in the South means trying to take even a large number and coat that as a norm doesn't make any sense. It would be like saying Southern accents are "typical American".I remembered it as being something like one in five Americans falling under the evangelical label. But lets just run with your number, it'd be roughly one in six Americans identifing as an evangelical. And i assume this don't count those new name same thing born again christians who are essentially evangelicals in belief. Thats a pretty sizeable chunk, which of course doesn't mean they are the end all be all, but just like you could say a southern accent is a normal American accent you could probably say that evangelical christianity is a normal religious belief in the US
Together with… what? All other Protestants? "Protestant" as you should know all too well isn't a specific anything, it's a huge category of countless churches who can be wildly different. Many of them nothing at all like Evangelical churches.
You're applying your math in a social void (so useless regarding demographic/social studies), and with maybe a smaller concentrated population in mind where no matter where you are in the US you have a 17% chance of running into Evangelicals. When in reality well, check the map.
Oh i meant together with mainline prots. Those two major protestant strains along with catholicism might've been a better way to phrase it. As in if you added up all the baptist, pentecostal, mennonite, methodist etc etc churces who make up the evangelical strain they make up the biggest grouping, followed by the sub churces of the mainline protestants and the catholics. Which all in all account for like three fourths of the total number of christians.
@Monkey:
Imagine if I called the EU "A Catholic bastion" or something. Because we have the EU member countries at 41% Catholic.
But that doesn't account for regional concentration, or how some countries are pretty "eh" about it like much of France, while others are hardcore rosary grippers like much of Poland.It's good math, but terrible social studies.
You could probably say that catholicism is pretty normal in Europe tho.
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You could probably say that catholicism is pretty normal in Europe tho.
Part of this all goes back to English Protestantism arguing with those damn Catholics in mainland Europe.
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Part of this all goes back to English Protestantism arguing with those damn Catholics in mainland Europe.
Have we had let the Borgias run the papacy nothing like this would’ve happened.
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I remembered it as being something like one in five Americans falling under the evangelical label. But lets just run with your number, it'd be roughly one in six Americans identifing as an evangelical. And i assume this don't count those new name same thing born again christians who are essentially evangelicals in belief.
People talking about the whole Born Again thing are almost always under the Evangelical sphere. It would be a near circular venn diagram.
And all this is to say you're ignoring the fact that they are enormously concentrated in a particular geographical region. This is not remotely a 17% spread around the board.Oh i meant together with mainline prots. Those two major protestant strains along with catholicism might've been a better way to phrase it. As in if you added up all the baptist, pentecostal, mennonite, methodist etc etc churces who make up the evangelical strain they make up the biggest grouping, followed by the sub churces of the mainline protestants and the catholics. Which all in all account for like three fourths of the total number of christians.
Ok, what does that have to do with counting Evangelicals though? Mainline Protestantism is almost by definition NOT Evangelical.
You could probably say that catholicism is pretty normal in Europe tho.
You could of course, but I would never describe it as typical, average, or anything like that. Not even if describing the EU specfically.
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Part of this all goes back to English Protestantism arguing with those damn Catholics in mainland Europe.
English Protestantism never got to enjoy doing that much because of how much arguing and fighting it did with Catholics at home, as well as other different kinds of English Protestants.
Basically if you've ever thought "Hey maybe a rebel church created mostly just to let a fat king have divorces wouldn't actually be that rebellious against the traditions it came from?" well congrats! Because that's where the Puritans/Pilgrims who founded our New England were thinking from.
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American christianity comes in a whole bunch of interesting sub-sections. And the big dawg is those evangelical guys who tend to believe things like that you must give up your old life and be reborn into christ and that anything written in the bible is infallible truth. So god spoke to and inspired people in the bible, the bible can't be wrong hence god could and would totally speak to me now in 2021 and have opinions on how i run my hobby store.
American Christianity is hilarious though. At what point can you draw the line between serving God and serving the national interest? It honestly feels to me that the attitude of American Christians is "Let's all worship God as the good Christians that we are unless we need to do something to boost our economy and the global policy. Then God can take a backseat! America first, bitches!"
@RoboBlue:Gamestop's reason is downright reasonable from a corporate standpoint.
They're not going to survive this pandemic anyway so every cent earned is free money.
What good is all that free money if you're not going to survive the pandemic long enough to enjoy it? Corporate culture just doesn't get it. It's a fucking VIRUS! A medical problem! What does a virus fucking care about the corporate interest and capitalism?
@Louis-1988:Subjective. There are some decent benefits to shopping there.
I'm sure there are. But, if you're going to continue your shopping at a store that you KNOW is going to fuck you in the ass anyway, well…there is a term for that. It's called being a "glutton for punishment".
Well I like that I can trade-in and sell games back. I don't really collect to have a massive library at this point in my life. If I get bored of something it's nice to be able to put it towards something else. Saves me money.
This is why game rentals should still be a thing.
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so Basically everyone go back to work and let this thing get worse or something
Yeah! The situation USA are in, it would be a open massacre. As long as you are at least alive, you can sort out your life no matter the condition of economy now. It amazes me to think that World's most powerful country can't/won't feed its people for free for a month. It seems like even asking for it would be horrifying to many ears, such is the economic principle the present world follows.
I live in India and we are in complete lockdown until 14th April,with just about 600 cases till now.It would be hard for us since percentage of labours living on daily wages are far more than US or Europe.Despite the assurance from government I am pretty sure that supply chain of essential commodities would break down soon. Still, at least we are trying.People seem to have accepted the otherwise inevitability of greater disaster, for now.
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India has the second largest population on the planet after China, you have to be even more careful than we are. Or should be doing.
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India has the second largest population on the planet after China, you have to be even more careful than we are. Or should be doing.
We are far worse than China in terms of medical facilities to treat a pandemic. That's why only way to survive is by halting the spread as much as possible.Goverment at least understand this. But we can't survive a lockdown more than a month, there will be social breakdown.But you guys can and should.
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It amazes me think that World's most powerful country can't/won't feed its people for free for a month.
Under a different president it would. And should that be a Dem, they might then even try to ease those emegency measures into long term upgrades into our system.
But we've instead got some rich guys who worship only profit and hate other humans.
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Where's FDR when you need him?
We are far worse than China in terms of medical facilities to treat a pandemic. That's why only way to survive is by halting the spread as much as possible.Goverment at least understand this. But we can't survive a lockdown more than a month, there will be social breakdown.But you guys can and should.
Now if only we could hammer that into T-rump's head.
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Under a different president it would. And should that be a Dem, they might then even try to ease those emegency measures into long term upgrades into our system.
But we've instead got some rich guys who worship only profit and hate other humans.Are they that much accommodating(other than Bernie)?
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Are they that much accommodating(other than Bernie)?
Dems are, by and large, for the people. Trying to get healthcare and housing and a raised minimum wage and all that. It's their platform at least, even if they don't manage much because they keep having to deal with Republicans.
An emergency where these programs HAVE to be put in place would , under good guidance, set the framework for doing it smaller scale later after proving it can be done with just the details to work out.
But this admin wants to ends the "making lives better" thing as quickly and as cheaply as possible. What's a few million deaths as long as the Dow goes back up?
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Inexperienced as he was, Obama would have handled this much better. He'd at least have gathered all the experts in how to deal with such matters and listened to them.
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Looks like the US will become the new Italy soon. It's gonna escalate so quickly, it'll probably kill more than Katrina and 9/11 combined. I wonder what's Trump's master-plan to get re-elected…
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Looks like the US will become the new Italy soon. It's gonna escalate so quickly, it'll probably kill more than Katrina and 9/11 combined. I wonder what's Trump's master-plan to get re-elected…
At the current level of low hospital preparedness nationwide it could kill tens of millions. The closest thing I can think of is when about 2% of the population died during the civil war.
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Looks like the US will become the new Italy soon. It's gonna escalate so quickly, it'll probably kill more than Katrina and 9/11 combined. I wonder what's Trump's master-plan to get re-elected…
Blame democrats, obviously. And the sad part is that it'll work.