Moar COVID 19 talk.

[Clyde_Style]

Learned that the median age for positive tests in Florida is around 37

[thebuzzardman]

Learned that the median age for positive tests in Florida is around 37

Yeah, but in regular human years, that's 58

[HarthorneWingo]

So Trump wants to fck with the CDC’s recommendations, Johns Hopkins says FU

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/johns-hopkins-university-school-reopening-policy-tracker_n_5f08de1fc5b63a72c341ba71

[HarthorneWingo]

Looks like Mississippi is about to go off the cliff. No more ICU beds in the entire state.

Nah, we don't need Medicare for All.

Over 70,000 new cases just today

[Clyde_Style]

Learned that the median age for positive tests in Florida is around 37

Yeah, but in regular human MAGA years, that's 58

[HarthorneWingo]

The Ayn Rand Foundation took in a government PPE loan worth in between $350,000 and $1M.

[movingon]

Oh, that's rich.

The Ayn Rand Foundation took in a government PPE loan worth in between $350,000 and $1M.

[Fat Kat]

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Is the Commissioner willing to do change it’s vote? How about an interview to the press on what’s it’s like to have a change of heart?

[Fat Kat]

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[robillionaire]

chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad

[Thepaintismine]

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Overweight and Diabetic, I'm not shocked Ya'll.
Anyone got the stats for healthy people? Gots to be small, real small.

[3toheadmelo]

“Coronavirus has stabilized in Florida”
-Ron Defrauntis

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[HarthorneWingo]

What a post-COVID world might look like:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-economy-two-years.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

It’s 2022. What Does Life Look Like?
The pandemic could shape the world, much as World War II and the Great Depression did.

By David Leonhardt
Mr. Leonhardt writes The Morning newsletter.
July 10, 2020

It’s 2022, and the coronavirus has at long last been defeated. After a miserable year-and-a-half, alternating between lockdowns and new outbreaks, life can finally begin returning to normal.

But it will not be the old normal. It will be a new world, with a reshaped economy, much as war and depression reordered life for previous generations.

Thousands of stores and companies that were vulnerable before the virus arrived have disappeared. Dozens of colleges are shutting down, in the first wave of closures in the history of American higher education. People have also changed long-held patterns of behavior: Outdoor socializing is in, business trips are out.

And American politics — while still divided in many of the same ways it was before the virus — has entered a new era.

All of this, obviously, is conjecture. The future is unknowable. But the pandemic increasingly looks like one of the defining events of our time. The best-case scenarios are now out of reach, and the United States is suffering through a new virus surge that’s worse than in any other country.

With help from economists, politicians and business executives, I have tried to imagine what a post-Covid economy may look like. One message I heard is that the course of the virus itself will play the biggest role in the medium term. If scientific breakthroughs come quickly and the virus is largely defeated this year, there may not be many permanent changes to everyday life.

On the other hand, if a vaccine remains out of reach for years, the long-term changes could be truly profound. Any industry that depends on close human contact would be at risk.

Large swaths of the cruise-ship and theme-park industries might go away. So could many movie theaters and minor-league baseball teams. The long-predicted demise of the traditional department store would finally come to pass. Thousands of restaurants would be wiped out (even if they would eventually be replaced by different restaurants).

The changes that I’m imagining in this article are based on neither an unexpectedly fast or slow resolution, but instead on what many scientists consider the baseline. In this scenario, a vaccine will arrive sometime in 2021. Until then, the world will endure waves of sickness, death and uncertainty.

Before we get into the details, there is one more caveat worth mentioning: Many things will not change. That’s one of history’s lessons.

The financial crisis of 2007-9 didn’t cause Americans to sour on stocks, and it didn’t lead to an overhaul of Wall Street. The election of the first Black president didn’t usher in an era of racial conciliation. The 9/11 attacks didn’t make Americans unwilling to fly. The Vietnam War didn’t bring an end to extended foreign wars without a clear mission.

Yet if the pandemic really does shape life for the next year, it will probably be remembered as a more significant historical event than those precedents. It could easily be the most important global experience since World War II and the Great Depression. Events that hold the world’s attention for long stretches — and that alter the rhythms of everyday life — do tend to leave a legacy.

Weak companies will die

“It’s only when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett likes to say, “that you learn who’s been swimming naked.”

His point is that companies with flawed business models can look healthy in good times. Out of habit, many customers continue to buy from them. But when the economy weakens, people have to make decisions about where to pull back. They often start with products and services that they find the least valuable or that they can replace with a cheaper alternative.

A downturn, says Emily Oster, a Brown University economist, “is an opportunity to revisit inefficiencies.” And the coronavirus is likely to cause a larger version of this phenomenon than a typical recession.

-more-

[Clyde_Style]

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Overweight and Diabetic, I'm not shocked Ya'll.
Anyone got the stats for healthy people? Gots to be small, real small.

Yo B! Let the fatties and oldies die!

[Clyde_Style]

New record today in DeSunshine state: 15,000 new cases

Hope the monkeys in the zoo don't catch it and break out now

[Clyde_Style]

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Overweight and Diabetic, I'm not shocked Ya'll.
Anyone got the stats for healthy people? Gots to be small, real small.

Yo B! Let the fatties and oldies die!

New movie coming out this Fall:

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