Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 1)

He deserves no less. Mogg has been known to spend more time coming up with long sequences of alliterations in speeches than he has on deciding whether he really should trample over the constitution.

His recent tweets with his kids in their Victorian schoolboy cosplay about how they all (the older 5) needed to go to school was creepy.

Ah, here it is. Looks like an Edwardian ghost story or something.

Plus they showed symptoms last week and they are awaiting the test results? That’s fucked. Fucked.

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Victorian? Edwardian? That’s dangerously progressive for Moggy. He dreams of the days before the Reform Act of 1832, when only rich men could vote and rotten boroughs had more representation than big cities.

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TBH my knowledge of English kings and queens is hazy at best (made reading the Cromwell biography a real struggle, had to keep on looking things up in Wikipedia, much like watching the Crown in fact) but I do stand by the kids uniforms. They look like one of those upper class English horror things like Turm of the Screw. I was surprised as I expected them to be ridiculous things. I was once in the town of Harrow and it had outfitters shops for the Cosplay Kids and the garb was outlandish in the extreme. Moggies kids look positively spiffing in comparison!

2020 Electoral College America says “hold my beer.”

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This is like a bad neural net’s solution to this problem.

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Like the world’s worst game of musical chairs. :roll_eyes:

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With about as much gap between them as there is between a working archaeologist and Indiana Jones.

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This would be enough to get a real article retracted. Not this one, but a real one, yes.

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It hasn’t quite got to the point of Old Sarum and Gatton (2 MPs for seven voters in each constituency) or Dunwich (2 MPs representing a town that was mostly under water) yet.

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Are you implying that unemployment is the primary force in a 50% drop in cancer diagnosis? Would those people not qualify for medicaid and more likely madicare?

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Intersectionality. We know unemployment jumped 40%. That has to be included in the calculation.

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I’m certain it is a factor but the implication I read was that it was the dominant one. The fact that the same drop seems to be happening in Great Britain, wich has universal health care, seems to belie this implication.

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depends. it’s down to when you lost your job and how much you’ve made during the calendar year, and whether your state participated in the medicare expansion or not.

my point is there are lots of practical reasons beyond individualized “fear of covid”, and since ivent heard much in the way of actual studies saying why. just people’s assumption

with 22 million people unemployed at one point, if unemployment isn’t at least mentioned as a factor, i think the issue isn’t being looked at realistically

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Missed that; glad I don’t live in the 'burbs.

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Feel free to rant and grumble, if it helps you feel better!

Also, it’s interesting and edifying to get a view from the trenches, so to speak.

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Let’s all be grateful that there are multiple vaccine candidates in testing, and that we’re not putting all out hopes in just one.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/astrazeneca-pausing-covid-19-vaccine-trial-good-news/story%3Fid=72903384

I’m sure nobody really knows yet if this case of transverse myelitis was caused by the vaccine, but it’s potentially a pretty serious lifelong condition and they were right to pause the trial while they investigate.

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