fujiwara79

we're having the same issues with the vaccine rollout that we had with testing. federalism doesn't work for crisis management.

well, in this case, it appears the rain/snow line for these storms is west of chicago. montreal, quebec and even labrador are getting rain.

so we have a -ao/-nao/+pna, and yet all storms cut west of chicago for the next two weeks? teleconnections are basically meaningless if that's how we roll now.

it appears the 2020 life expectancy will go down between 2-3 years. 2019 life expectancy was 78.8...they are expecting the 2020 life expectancy to be about 76.8. biggest drop since world war II. we've also experienced the biggest increase in deaths since the spanish flu in 1918. if doctors are supposedly just switching the cause of death to covid, in order to get more reimbursement, how exactly does that explain the above? (don't answer...it's a rhetorical question for the conspiracy theorists)

3400 dead today. for context: on average, heart disease kills 2100 per day, cancer kills 1800 per day. so right now covid is killing almost as many people as heart disease and cancer combined. but hey, it's not that fatal, 99.997% survive. or something.

yes, i've brought this up too. honestly, i think some of these people need to get off twitter, and take a tour of an overflowing hospital.

tom cruise yelled at the maskless people on the movie set. too funny. honestly, this should be how we deal with the anti-mask contingent. dr. fauci is just way too nice. https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/13489709/tom-cruise-covid-rant-mission-impossible-2/

DCA only got a trace unfortunately.

technically florida allows 100% occupancy at sports venues, but nobody has tried to do that.

this also isn't a classic miller B. it's closer to a miller A, if anything. And miller A's tend to have more warm air with them.

Even with vaccination increasing, I would expect some outbreaks arise once we truly go back to normal, i.e. packed stadiums, concerts, conferences. As vaccination levels increase, restrictions will decrease - which, for a while, will probably be counteracting forces that keep case counts relatively high for a while.

death counts are high there. hospitalization counts tend to flatten off once the death counts get high. sometimes you have other data issues where not all hospitals are reporting.

ah yes, you're probably one of those people who thinks "my neighbor is doing great, therefore we can't be in a recession". my company has grown too. doesn't mean the economy hasn't slowed down. our 14 trillion economy isn't represented by your company.

I guess most economists are also engaging in hyperbole because they’re worried about the same thing. The economy has slowed down big time since the summer. That’s irrefutable.

pennsylvania is closing indoor dining and gyms for the rest of the calendar year.

we've become a third world country in some respects. not in terms of wealth, but in terms of government and societal dysfunction. we have 3000 people dying per day and slowly heading into a double-dip recession. our government is incapable of addressing the needs of the people. meanwhile, we have a gigantic fundraising scam going on ($500 million dollars and counting) that is completely based on a fake story ("rigged" election). geez, donate your money to a food bank instead. were people this stupid 20 years ago? i'd like to think not, but maybe social media has made stupidity contagious.

by his logic, heart disease and cancer aren't that fatal either. actually, by his logic, nothing is really that fatal. lol

i believe that the european countries that are currently under restrictions gave people/businesses money in advance.

you do realize that covid is the leading cause of death in america right now, correct? but other than that, sure, it's not fatal.

but i think those tradeoffs were considered. at the end of the day, would you allow, say, 2 million people to die in order to prevent a hypothetical 10% increase in the suicide rate? currently, there's been an increase in suicides amongst health care workers because they've been working practically nonstop for the past 9 months and they feel like nothing is being done to help them.

hospitalizations have dropped significantly in iowa. i think they are pulling the plug on people and that's why death counts are so high but also why there are less hospitalized patients.

I also heard that anti-maskers don't change their underwear for weeks at a time. And wearing the same underwear that long helps spread "Covid"

No, hospitalizations are, by definition, inpatient.

so if they checked into the hospital for blood clots, but they tested positive for Covid upon admission, how do they know Covid didn't cause (or exacerbate) the blood clots? Or if someone with COPD checks into the hospital for shortness of breath, but test positive for Covid upon admission, how do they know Covid wasn't exacerbating their pre-existing lung issues? That's why I don't understand how 30% of Covid hospitalizations are "asymptomatic". They're obviously symptomatic of something -- otherwise they wouldn't be in the hospital. How do they know their symptoms aren't being caused/exacerbated by Covid given that they tested positive?

If they don't have symptoms of anything, why are they checking into a hospital? People generally don't want to spend the night at a hospital unless they're not feeling well. Perhaps Covid is causing their symptoms or exacerbating them