OT: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Part IV - II

[GoAwayPanarin]

The world is in the same crap storm we are.

No they aren't.

South Korea for instance did an infinitely better job handling the virus.

CHINA did a better job, and this shit originated there.

 

[Ola]

Early, we can debate. But it will be sooner rather than later in May. And again, I do not believe that it all gets opened up in one shot. But between early to mid May and end of June, I think that you will see most things open. Which does not mean that come companies will not continue to let people work in some sort of shifts and that some will not continue to work from home if they can.

The impact of warmer weather is — at least as I have heard — unknown, but large public gatherings could take a lot longer than the summer. Even apply throughout 2020.

 

[bl02]

3 days before closing everything down, Di Blasio urged everyone to go and eat at their favorite restaurants. On February 24th, Nancy Pelosi urged people to patron San Francisco's Chinatown and said that she herself was going to dine there. In March, the highly intellectual AOC called people who were staying away from Chinese restaurants racists.

“Honestly, it sounds almost so silly to say” she said, “but there’s a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patronizing Chinese restaurants, they’re not patronizing Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus.”

Think of how f***ed we would have been if these three had gotten their way?

This are not my politics, but you guys are really going to have a tough time accepting Trump's next 4 years.

She's an absolute gem

 

[Machinehead]

How do you know for sure you didn't have it?

I haven't so much as sneezed since last March. (Knock on wood)

It's possible that I was a completely healthy carrier but nobody in my house has been sick in over a year either.

 

[bl02]

I haven't so much as sneezed since last March. (Knock on wood)

It's possible that I was a completely healthy carrier but nobody in my house has been sick in over a year either.

Man that's impressive. Not sure what's more impressive that or Zibby's 5 goal game?

 

[JimmyG89]

The whole "go to Chinatown" thing would have been fine if it wasn't for the the fact that no matter where you went the virus spreads when people are close together.

He legit could have said, everyone should go to Harlem or everyone go take the Staten Island ferry and the results would have been the same if people listened. He could have said nothing and this would have happened with things being open. The optics of him talking like that make it worse and the soundbites are insane knowing what we knew and what we know now. They should be rightfully played by any outlet over and over again. Then he went to the gym right before quarantine. Absolute clownshow of a mayor.

NY leadership is a catastrophe. Cuomo stepped up when DeBlasio decided to do nothing. The health leader in NYC should be fired going around telling people to go out. You can't fire DeBlasio, unfortunately. Chancellor should be gone too not pushing to close schools, on top of all the other things he's attempting to do to schools here. Compete shitshow from top to bottom.

 

[Krams]

De Blasio put people directly in danger with almost everything that came out of his mouth at the outset. Sure, but that's a different thing.

"Don't blame Chinese people" or "don't specifically avoid Chinese businesses" is not putting people in danger.

If you want to argue that De Blasio should have said "avoid all non-essential businesses" that's valid, but again, completely different thing.

I don't have a problem with AOC speaking generally about stigmas facing Chinese Americans. The issue lies where politicians and bureaucrats, specifically DeBlasio and Health Commissioner Barbot, actively encouraged people to visit Chinese restaurants and Chinatown parades, etc. so they could feel superior to those they perceived as xenophobic. This was all done after Trump issued the China travel ban, which is not a coincidence.

 

[Fireonk]

The whole "go to Chinatown" thing would have been fine if it wasn't for the the fact that no matter where you went the virus spreads when people are close together.

He legit could have said, everyone should go to Harlem or everyone go take the Staten Island ferry and the results would have been the same if people listened. He could have said nothing and this would have happened with things being open. The optics of him talking like that make it worse and the soundbites are insane knowing what we knew and what we know now. They should be rightfully played by any outlet over and over again. Then he went to the gym right before quarantine. Absolute clownshow of a mayor.

NY leadership is a catastrophe. Cuomo stepped up when DeBlasio decided to do nothing. The health leader in NYC should be fired going around telling people to go out. You can't fire DeBlasio, unfortunately. Chancellor should be gone too not pushing to close schools, on top of all the other things he's attempting to do to schools here. Compete shitshow from top to bottom.

Does the same criticism not apply to the president?

 

[Machinehead]

Man that's impressive. Not sure what's more impressive that or Zibby's 5 goal game?

Being in education builds up a lot of neurosis.

I've been training for this.

 

[Machinehead]

I don't have a problem with AOC speaking generally about stigmas facing Chinese Americans. The issue lies where politicians and bureaucrats, specifically DeBlasio and Health Commissioner Barbot, actively encouraged people to visit Chinese restaurants and Chinatown parades, etc. so they could feel superior to those they perceived as xenophobic. This was all done after Trump issued the China travel ban, which is not a coincidence.

We're all on the same page that De Blasio has the IQ of a cactus.

 

[Krams]

Any update on NYPD staffing? I know Cuomo said he was open to sending in State Troopers if needed.

 

[MyLoveIsBlue]

 

[GordonGecko]

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Impressive lack of smearing

 

[Ola]

I haven't so much as sneezed since last March. (Knock on wood)

It's possible that I was a completely healthy carrier but nobody in my house has been sick in over a year either.

Same here, three kids 6, 10 and 11, we have all been record healthy. Think it’s because people aren’t sending sick kids to school.

 

[Ola]

I haven't so much as sneezed since last March. (Knock on wood)

It's possible that I was a completely healthy carrier but nobody in my house has been sick in over a year either.

Same here, three kids 6, 10 and 11, we have all been record healthy. Think it’s because people aren’t sending sick kids to school.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Any update on NYPD staffing? I know Cuomo said he was open to sending in State Troopers if needed.

Not sure about NYPD but the FDNY has already 1300 firefighters back at work who had been calling out for symptoms.

 

[Krams]

Not sure about NYPD but the FDNY has already 1300 firefighters back at work who had been calling out for symptoms.

I looked into it after I posted this, looks like 20% of the NYPD is out sick.

 

[JimmyG89]

Does the same criticism not apply to the president?

Sure, but we were exclusively talking about NYC.

 

[JCProdigy]

 

[GordonGecko]

The stats in South Korea are completely baffling and make no sense. Everywhere else men are are affected more than women, they are seeing as high as double in NYC (In N.Y.C., the Coronavirus Is Killing Men Twice as Often as Women). Yet in South Korea cases are 60/40 women (but more deadly for men):

KCDC

 

[Leonardo87]

10:35 pm tonight, can see a big pink moon, and no not the ones that have been hoarding all the TP.

 

[mike14]

The impact of warmer weather is — at least as I have heard — unknown, but large public gatherings could take a lot longer than the summer. Even apply throughout 2020.

I'd love to know how much of impact (if any) this hitting at the end of our (Australian) summer had on how it spreads, but I have no idea how you'd go about trying to prove what effect it did or didn't have have. Especially because our country size/population density is also pretty unique so you'd have to factor that in somewhere as well.

 

[GoAwayGiannone]

Apparantly Trump removed the guy who was overseeing the roll outs of the $2T bill? My expectations for a good, legit reason are non existant, but I'm sure I'll be disappointed regardless.

 

[Ola]

The stats in South Korea are completely baffling and make no sense. Everywhere else men are are affected more than women, they are seeing as high as double in NYC (In N.Y.C., the Coronavirus Is Killing Men Twice as Often as Women). Yet in South Korea cases are 60/40 women (but more deadly for men):

KCDC

I think all these differences — exceeding the normal differences — between gender and race to a large extent will boil down to exposure. Which groups drives taxis, work in the health care system, face people. They will get hit hard. While the groups mainly working in front of an computer won’t. Or similar social differences.

 

[Ola]

I'd love to know how much of impact (if any) this hitting at the end of our (Australian) summer had on how it spreads, but I have no idea how you'd go about trying to prove what effect it did or didn't have have. Especially because our country size/population density is also pretty unique so you'd have to factor that in somewhere as well.

Yeah, like normally winter is flu season because supposedly, a virus travels much longer in the air if it’s colder and people stay inside more when it’s cold.

I also wonder just how big the difference is between “flu season” and high summer, it’s probably a bit of a confirmation his thing. When I get the flu during the summer every time I think like “it’s the oddest thing” and then in February it’s like darn every February.

In the end I think it just comes down to waiting and see what happens in the big picture. Supposedly it differs from virus to virus, nobody really knows.