Wot no coronavirus thread? Part 2

[Uncle Sparky]

I wonder f the 'No sex with demons' doctor is available to replace him? Or maybe Paula White...

[BeBMan]

Dr Scott Atlas, Trump's Covid non-expert, has resigned. Tho says his contract just run out.

(...)he said his advice had "always focused on minimising all the harms from both the pandemic and the structural policies themselves, especially to the working class and poor".

Bitter irony.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55141055

[One2Tfourth]

74 million Americans still think Trump is doing a great job. We're ****ed.

Too many anti-covid peeps are spreading the virus like wildfire. I'm not sure how Trump or whoever you want will sit on power will do to make that in their control.

[giblets]

74 million Americans still think Trump is doing a great job. We're ****ed.

[-Jrabbit]

It's November 28. That's 4 weeks of November. In that time, the US has so far recorded more than 4 million official coronavirus cases.

That's roughly 30% of the country's pandemic total of 13.1 million total official cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data. In under a month. And that suggests that it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Daily deaths, 7-day moving average: 1,529.

[pchang]

We have been thwarting Darwin for too long.

[-Jrabbit]

The anti-vax movement is clearly QAnon's next target, encouraging everyone to avoid the Covid vaccines so they won't be "controlled" by the government.

[Proteus_MST]

I waiting for folks to argue that Bill Gates will force-vaccinate everyone using chemtrails

I am sure Michael Wendler and Attila Hildmann will be busy spreading this ... as well as, in the USA, lots of people of QAnon

[BeBMan]

I waiting for folks to argue that Bill Gates will force-vaccinate everyone using chemtrails

[N35t0r]

The Oxford vaccine seems to be ~70% effective (might be greater, they accidentally gave half-dose as the first of two inoculations to a small subset, and they faired really well, although were mostly on the younger side). This is great news, since it costs an order of magnitude less than the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, only needs standard refrigeration, and AstraZeneca van produce more than twice as many doses as Moderna and Pfizer put together during 2021.

[Uncle Sparky]

The virus doesn't discriminate, but medical care in the US does. The poor are being hit hardest and that will continue. And in the US, that will hit POC more than white people. But, as the Dakotas have shown, poor white people will die in droves too; they will not realize what killed them because they are believing the pathetic liars in the GOP leadership.

[-Jrabbit]

No. Remember, last Spring the administration took quiet joy in learning that COVID was concentrated in cities and disproportionately affecting people of color. Equally stupid. That has changed over time, and we know that the virus does not discriminate.

There is no silver lining.

[giblets]

The silver lining is there will be fewer Republican voters in the future.

[Jon Miller]

I had not anticipated the US topping 3000 deaths per day. It looks like we will though.

JM

[-Jrabbit]

On Wednesday, the U.S. reported 181,490 new COVID-19 cases and 2,297 deaths. The disease has killed more than 268,000 Americans (wiping the equivalent of St. Petersburg FL off the map) and infected at least 12.7 million (more people than Pennsylvania, our 5th largest state).

Also on Wednesday, Trump told the nation in his Thanksgiving proclamation that they should "gather" and made zero mention of safety protocols to minimize the spread of COVID-19. Another demonstration of the fact that he doesn't give a crap about actual people.

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends. Stay safe.