Re: Coronavirus data and events as they come in

[Juana]

Wasn't sure whether or not to put this in the Trump thread, but decided here because it relates directly to how the virus is getting around.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/15/trump-accused-actively-and-knowingly-spreading-coronavirus-central-america-through?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR11n1fuWI91V56hDrIWSvRxqJJt6zvIxlEb1MjTeQ6aTzCwPB16J8zRB-E

Jesus fuck. Of course.

[The Wizard Joseph]

I've found this website to be really interesting - it allows comparing the curves of diferent countries. The curve for Bulgaria has been quite strange in comparison to our neighbours so I'm currently trying to get to the bottom of why that is the case. Might spend the next couple of days comparing the curves of different countries and taking into account various factors such as tuberculosis vaccine (currently the theory of why ex soviet states are getting hit less hard), press freedom and overall type of regime (to see to what extent the data just reflects strategies of obfuscation by governments) and everything else I can think of, so that I can get a better idea of what the actual situation is. Probably best done with a neural network, but I don't know where to start with one so good old Social Science bachelor's methods are the best I have.

https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/

I'm very interested in the website. The graphic is clear and shows the US WAY out in the lead... lucky US.

I'm unsure of the effectiveness of TB vaccine because TB is bacterial and this is a retrovirus, but but I hope so, somehow.

THe Chinese used straight up gestapo tactics testing folks for even a mild fever and putting them, and the whole household, into quarantine concentration camp "hospitals". Then they check their social networkdata on you and test everyone you may have interacted with. I can't even be mad at them, even as I watched vid of building doors getting welded shut consigning folks to a nasty death in the name of containment. I do not TRUST China's numbers, nor Russia's, nor really the US. South Korea is what I look to as a model of responsible reporting and action right now.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Just a note that altered pointed out to me that I have been misusing the word retrovirus. This coronavirus is an RNA envelope virus and I was well aware of that, but I mistook Retovirus to mean all RNA viruses, but it is a specific sort of RNA virus and coronaviruses are not in that family. My bad.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I'm very interested in the website. The graphic is clear and shows the US WAY out in the lead... lucky US.

*snip*

Not even an also ran, mate. Per capita we're more than double your paltry efforts

[The Wizard Joseph]

I'm very interested in the website. The graphic is clear and shows the US WAY out in the lead... lucky US.

*snip*

Not even an also ran, mate. Per capita we're more than double your paltry efforts

Look you wanna talk numbers? You wanna talk numbers and you want them to be right numbers. I've seen them. I've seen the big numbers. The not so big numbers. Some of it is amazing. These numbers are doing incredible thinks while I think them. Sometimes. you gotta sometimes put the not-so good numbers to the side. You just got to do better. But who has the time right? So you take the numbers you can trust from not the fake media,because they're not honest. You don't get the numbers there. You just give them to the people. People will know. People understand numbers better, I think, than the media and even, let's be honest, some medical people.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I'm very interested in the website. The graphic is clear and shows the US WAY out in the lead... lucky US.

*snip*

Not even an also ran, mate. Per capita we're more than double your paltry efforts

Look you wanna talk numbers? You wanna talk numbers and you want them to be right numbers. I've seen them. I've seen the big numbers. The not so big numbers. Some of it is amazing. These numbers are doing incredible thinks while I think them. Sometimes. you gotta sometimes put the not-so good numbers to the side. You just got to do better. But who has the time right? So you take the numbers you can trust from not the fake media,because they're not honest. You don't get the numbers there. You just give them to the people. People will know. People understand numbers better, I think, than the media and even, let's be honest, some medical people.

Wait, you're the donald's speech writer? Whose side you on? 

[The Wizard Joseph]

I'm very interested in the website. The graphic is clear and shows the US WAY out in the lead... lucky US.

*snip*

Not even an also ran, mate. Per capita we're more than double your paltry efforts

Look you wanna talk numbers? You wanna talk numbers and you want them to be right numbers. I've seen them. I've seen the big numbers. The not so big numbers. Some of it is amazing. These numbers are doing incredible thinks while I think them. Sometimes. you gotta sometimes put the not-so good numbers to the side. You just got to do better. But who has the time right? So you take the numbers you can trust from not the fake media,because they're not honest. You don't get the numbers there. You just give them to the people. People will know. People understand numbers better, I think, than the media and even, let's be honest, some medical people.

Wait, you're the donald's speech writer? Whose side you on? 

Let's just say that Donnie can't afford me, but I could probably replace half of his speech writers and political "advisors" and nobody would notice. I've been working on imitating him for years in secret, mostly because nobody wants to hear me imitate his linguistic "fist". People on the right tend to think I'm mocking their messiah, or just absorb and parrot it. People on the left tend to rage quit VERY quickly. I just couldn't help myself this time.

[P3nT4gR4m]

If you're pissing off the left and the right, I call that "The Sweet Spot"

[Doktor Howl]

I'm very interested in the website. The graphic is clear and shows the US WAY out in the lead... lucky US.

*snip*

Not even an also ran, mate. Per capita we're more than double your paltry efforts

Look you wanna talk numbers? You wanna talk numbers and you want them to be right numbers. I've seen them. I've seen the big numbers. The not so big numbers. Some of it is amazing. These numbers are doing incredible thinks while I think them. Sometimes. you gotta sometimes put the not-so good numbers to the side. You just got to do better. But who has the time right? So you take the numbers you can trust from not the fake media,because they're not honest. You don't get the numbers there. You just give them to the people. People will know. People understand numbers better, I think, than the media and even, let's be honest, some medical people.

People are talking about this.

[The Wizard Joseph]

I'm very interested in the website. The graphic is clear and shows the US WAY out in the lead... lucky US.

*snip*

Not even an also ran, mate. Per capita we're more than double your paltry efforts

Look you wanna talk numbers? You wanna talk numbers and you want them to be right numbers. I've seen them. I've seen the big numbers. The not so big numbers. Some of it is amazing. These numbers are doing incredible thinks while I think them. Sometimes. you gotta sometimes put the not-so good numbers to the side. You just got to do better. But who has the time right? So you take the numbers you can trust from not the fake media,because they're not honest. You don't get the numbers there. You just give them to the people. People will know. People understand numbers better, I think, than the media and even, let's be honest, some medical people.

People are talking about this.

Aw shit my cover is blown! Goddamnit when will I learn to KYFMS?

[Doktor Howl]

Also this:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/record-4591-reported-us-coronavirus-deaths-in-24-hours-2020-04-16?fbclid=IwAR3TFNvJBmQRTFifdiTyKRlWYc_LzPV5aB6SuuSjAD-ViAafKlw-PMfx9kE

Totally ready to open the economy over here.

[Cramulus]

Here's some interesting data. It's a US-State-by-State breakdown of how fast the virus is spreading.

https://rt.live/

draw your own conclusions 

[Juana]

I'd want to see data wrt which states are really ramping up testing - I know my county has been doing a bunch more tho our death count is holding steady at 7 (for about a 2% mortality rate) over the last three days or so.

[Suu]

Yes, the Florida beaches are open. But those pictures and videos you see of it being loaded with people? Stock images. From Getty Images.

I live in Atlantic Beach, just north of Jacksonville Beach. Those crowds don't exist. Nobody I know between all three beaches has seen them, and the same image of the "walking dead" so to speak on the beach, was also used for LA County. The more I look at it, the more it looks like sagebrush in the background. That's not Jax Beach, Jax Beach has high rises and parking lots. That's a SoCal beach, from whenever the fuck it was taken.

The fucking Sunshine Laws have given the world the gift of entertainment, but I guess when Florida Man doesn't actually provide, the media has to get clicks somehow.

I'll go out there on Tuesday when I'm in the town center for therapy, and take a look for myself.

[Cain]

I'm also guessing that most of the major newstations's camera people are actually practicing social distancing, if they're even working at all, and probably didn't want to go to what sounded like Infection Beach.