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That is true for any disease - from sniffles to cancer - by virtue of our immune system declining as we age. The moniker "old people's disease" came out early in the pandemic when the %-age of victims, and iirc cases in general, in the 60+ group was much higher than that for younger people...

Lucky us we have such a proactive President who saw all this coming before anyone else. If not, we'd have passed Spain long time ago and the situation in the US would be so out of control that even Russia would be sending us medical supplies, just to troll us. Thank you Mr. President Trump...

almost 26K new cases and over 1K deaths in the US today and the day isn't over yet.

So, he is gonna be a 60 yo guy, who will get his lungs fucked up - really good chance of that - and will be a dysfunctional member of society going forward. Might as well end it now. Why wait another 20-30 years of watching the guy drag an oxygen tank behind him? When it comes to who...

I am assuming you have parents, grandparents, etc in your (extended) family? So, why wait for coronavirus to get them, just smack them in the back of the head and wheel them out in a ravine or something. Don't worry, I won't tell.

Looks like we are gonna pass the 25K mark for new cases today. Let's hope the peak isn't weeks away ...

Free market economy :touched: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-masks-specialrepor/special-report-the-mask-middlemen-how-pop-up-brokers-seek-big-paydays-in-a-frenzied-market-idUSKBN21I32E...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html https://www.propublica.org/article/taxpayers-paid-millions-to-design-a-low-cost-ventilator-for-a-pandemic-instead-the-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-

A special shout out to my buddy from grad school for his work on pandemics modeling as part of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern U. They got a mention at the WH briefing today :touched: That group, and quite a few others, have been working around the clock for weeks now after being...

Hey, in an ideal world, Mike Lindell could be my hero - a nice come-back story, self-made millionaire, who's looking to help his people in a crisis. At least, that's the story repubs will try to sell the voters. But one cannot have the whole picture of what is going on here without knowing that...

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-cuomo-says-states-are-bidding-up-cost-of-supplies-2020-3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/24/scramble-medical-equipment-descends-into-chaos-us-states-hospitals-compete-rare-supplies/ So glad we are living in a free-market economy...

And if you thought Mike Lindell's presence at the WH briefing had anything to do with medical masks, well, I guess the joke's on you. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/trump-nudging-mypillow-lindell-run-office-156195 What a great opportunity this pandemic is for Lindell, so he could...

No doctors present at today's coronavirus briefing, but plenty Trump-buddy CEOs hanging out there. The briefing quickly turned into a My Pillow infomercial. Tomorrow's WH briefing, on the other hand, will be brought to you by GM, makers of shitty cars and faulty ventilators that are otherwise...

Wear your masks, says the Korean doctor ... A rather different message than the one we hear here in the West. Might be because in Korea they actually have masks and we don't ... the masks are on the way, though, and they are very beautiful :baus: Here is a similar message from a US doctor...

https://time.com/collection/apart-not-alone/5809169/jose-andres-coronavirus-food/

One slight correction - american culture is more of a "talk a big game, pretend to know how to get it done" culture. The shit-the-bad rate is at least as high as anywhere else. Here people care more about knowing how to create the impression of knowledge/ability than actually possessing said...

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https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/heb-prepared-coronavirus-pandemic/ So, I suppose with a little forethought and common sense, it is possible to be properly prepared for a crisis, after all. If only the US administration had had the luxury of being warned in advance by the intelligence...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-coronavirus-tests-actually-work/ https://abcn.ws/2JgehWc