Wot no coronavirus thread? Part 2

[Jon Miller]

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

JM

[giblets]

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

[-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.

[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.

[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.

[BeBMan]

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

[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

[-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.

[pchang]

We have been thwarting Darwin for too long.

[-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.

[giblets]

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

[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.

[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

[Uncle Sparky]

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

[Proteus_MST]

How about Sarah Palin? After all we know, thanks to this History Movie from the Future named "Iron Sky", that she will be PotUS one day and will lead the nations of earth in their fight against the Moon Nazis

[Ted Striker]

HAHA I loved Iron Sky

[giblets]

Atlas had no prior expertise in infectious diseases or pandemic response before joining the White House. His medical background is in diagnostic radiology, while his bio page at Stanford University’s right-wing Hoover Institution, where he is a senior fellow, states that his focus is on “the impact of government and the private sector on access, quality, pricing, and innovation in health care.”

Despite Atlas’ lack of qualifications, he confidently adopted a contrarian view on the virus early in the pandemic. In April op-eds for The Hill, he argued that “unprecedented isolation policies and near-total economic lockdowns” were not sustainable and that the “appropriate policy” was to “protect the known vulnerable, self-isolate the mildly sick and open most workplaces and small businesses with some prudent large-group precautions.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/staggering-cost-scott-atlas-debacle

Sounds familiar

[BeBMan]

With his bg in radiology he should have pushed for rayguns to shoot the virus. So we could have Pfizer guns by now...

[Uncle Sparky]

Maybe he can go into practice with Rand Paul... Did he create his own professional association too? They could have gotten NRA funding. Paul could have developed a COVID gun site that would have allowed a radiologist/marksman to pick off a virus at 100 meters (or about 100 yards for 'Mercans).

[Uncle Sparky]

Talk about your super spreader events...

[Ted Striker]

Couldn't they just do a Zoom call?

[-Jrabbit]

Hey, a record 2,831 Americans died of COVID-19 today.

2nd straight day with over 200K new cases, too.

Trump? Doesn't care.

[Ming]

Yep... all Trump cares about is trying to steal the election and pardon himself, family and friends while Americans continue to die while he does nothing. It is kind of ironic that if he had actually showed some leadership and empathy about the whole situation, he probably would have won in a landslide...

[giblets]

Trump lied Americans died