Now I want that on a mask. Is that too meta?
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Damn, that’s some next level ‘stupid,’ right there.
What countries do they think make up the continent of Europe, I wonder?
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France, Germany, Double France, and depending on the tone of the day’s news coverage, England.
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Helsinki University hospital district (HUS) said on Monday that it no longer had any patients in intensive care with coronavirus, marking a landmark in Finland’s handling of the epidemic.
Although the pandemic is far from over, HUS chief physician Asko Järvinen told Iltalehti that it was slowing down in Finland.
He attributed the country’s relative success in handling the virus to three things: early action to shut down, Finns’ adherence to social distancing measures and the effective contract tracing measures implemented in the country.
Finland had just over 7,000 confirmed cases as of Monday, with 328 deaths linked to the disease.
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Y’all, I’ve seen your reactions to this, and I can feel your frustration.
But keep in mind this already is the prevalent form in many areas. The headlines are bound to jump around and wave their arms and be alarmed, but this is maybe good news in regard to understanding the pandemic, and potential angles to attack the virus.
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The coronavirus pandemic is “not even close to being over”, the World Health Organisation warned, as the global death toll passed half a million and cases surged in Latin America and the United States.
“We all want this to be over. We all want to get on with our lives,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva on Monday.
“But the hard reality is this is not even close to being over,” he said, adding that “although many countries have made some progress, globally the pandemic is actually speeding up”.
Good overview of the current global situation.
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Too many. There were cases with a variety of charges months ago in PA, NJ, FL, etc… Yet these covidiots don’t care enough to stop assaulting people because they think the reported health risks or regulations are overblown. Just like with other conservative beliefs, it’s not enough to keep them to themselves, they feel compelled to force them on everyone else. 
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I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. Media outlets should be publishing the average healthcare costs and stories about the need for long term care - right next to those stats with the number of people who have recovered. I get the feeling it’s those recovery numbers that are emboldening covidiots, because they think that even if they get sick, they will be fine and go on like before.
In this economy*, the thought of having to pay a lot of money (or increase their debt) might motivate them to wear a mask more than any discussion of public good, decency, or concern for others.
*and with selfish people
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In the Worldometer stats, in cases with an outcome (this is a dicey stat, I know) we are running 89% recovery, 11% mortality. Now, “Cases with an outcome” is not the same as case fatality rate, but we are far enough into the pandemic that this is a scary number to me, and I am not sure it is being understood well enough by the public. And then we get into the long term impacts, which are only in the early stages of being understood, and also scary as hell. And if we need further nightmare fuel, the death rate we have right now is only the acute mortality rate, as in you get sick, you crash and burn, you die. We have yet to digest the chronic mortality rate, the " you get sick, you struggle on for months or even years and then die of complications." Yeah, we got a hell of a long way to go understanding even what we are up against. And there are idiots who think they are immortal.
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(1) They think? [citation needed]
(2) If they do think, they think ‘Europe’ is a country. Hence, those other countries (Spain, Italy, Greece) can’t be ‘Europe’.
Remember that the poster has almost certainly never been outside the US, and possibly even not outside a single state.
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Here’s an example of how they are reporting cases in one suburban county (with a population of 830,000) near Philadelphia:
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Ah, I see your mistake!
They don’t realize Europe IS a continent, they think it’s a country just like Spain, Italy, and Greece.
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Should have read further before responding. Great minds think alike!
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Isn’t that high mortality rate a side-effect of inadequate testing and a huge number of infected people who have slipped under the radar?
I know that in the early stages of the pandemic, my country was seeing around a quarter of all tests coming back positive, which implies that there were far more infections than we were catching.
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Eschaton
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Shutting Down
Looking at the pictures of the places that are shutting down again - and therefore had been very open - is jarring. Just people living “normal life.” I’m not one who likes to tut tut individual bad behavior about this stuff (aside from the aggressive asshole behavior), but even at the worst of this it seems like the country was pretty divided between people who were like, “oh, yes, so I can still plan for my European vacation in July, right?” and people who weren’t planning on leaving their houses for 6 months. Plenty of “normal people,” not hyped up MAGAs, never really quite took all of this very seriously. “Normal people” received pretty mixed messages from the powers be.
This is very true. Our family mostly very liberal, but the older people on my wife’s side definitely seem to be taking their cues from the government, which even in CA is not the best.
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Sadly, that is probably the case.
SMH
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That’s a really good point. Health insurers should be providing discounts to people who can demonstrate they wear masks in public or don’t go out. That would drive adoption of face coverings faster than Trunip wearing one (then saying how much he hated it, because of course that’s what he’d do).
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