But they’re just giving time to both sides, because the NY Post always engages in the most fairest of journalisms… /s
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They’re blocking a marked pedestrian crossing (with crossing guard, so there’s no misunderstanding here).
Yeah, they’ve got the best interests of children in mine. Now pull my other leg.
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This kinda belongs in the old “political fallout” thread…
Apparently the most popular column in the Washington Post Sunday was one calling for Ontario 
's Premier Doug Ford to resign. The Toronto Star covered it…
“Respectfully, I don’t think he’s that smart,” the adviser added. “He’s done — and so is his entire cabinet. There’s no coming back from this.”
No s**t Sherlock…
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He’s not that smart…
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We’d see this about once a year when I was teaching HS. Evangelicals handing out mini Bibles. They could only stand on sidewalk outside the fence. Schools are reluctant to fight any adults on first amendment issues.
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Same here. Ans STILL there are fucking morons who argue 7d incidence is a bad measure, and free ICU should be the measure we are looking at.
There are currently about 5000 ICUs occupied with Covid-19 patients in Germany.
This was a week sgo:
https://p.dw.com/p/3s8pK
ETA: as posted above, the incidence by age group shifted during the last weeks, as was predicted already last year, and younger people are occupying ICUs. These people have somewhat better chances of survival, but on average they stay longer in an ICU. This is true for the average patient who recovers, but especially so for those who die. And this has been extremely worrying medical professionals for weeks and months now.
Our health system didn’t collapse, and it will also not “collapse” now (like we have seen in other countries). But make no mistake: this is slowly killing doctors, nurses, and even admin staff. They are overwhelmed, and they are frustrated to a degree which politics, for some reason, did not grasp even now.
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Very true in the states as well. Where we should be getting combat pay for putting ourselves on the front lines, most of us are facing pay cuts due to lagging billing from the very profitable elective areas of medicine. Don’t get me wrong, we are not worried about our next meals or anything, but it is really hard to see banners all over about “Our Health Care Heroes” and similar, then having the same people hanging them come to us and say that our checks will be light by several hundred bucks to cover what they are not making in elective surgeries. Meanwhile, the higher ups are making their usual salaries, because they do not have to worry about productivity. If I could retire, I would. I can’t, so I won’t, but damn it makes it hard to keep going.
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Things are not good in India right now. And as bad as their numbers are, it’s almost certainly a significant undercount.
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I’ve said it in other threads (and maybe here) but we’re seeing exactly why authoritarian or right wing governments don’t work. They fail at many of the basic tasks we’ve built states to deal with and leaning into the worst aspects of the modern nation-state to stay in power.
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I’m thankful that you do, and everyone else also.
But when this is over, when it finally is under control, please do not forget. Never forget.
I am sure I won’t. This is traumatic, and I am only a bystander.
Also, in case of Germany, we brought this onto our selves.
We elected those who do set the policies, who do politics, and we re-elect them, many of us this year also. The public opinion is in their favour.
You, and me, and everyone else who can read stats and understands a bit about how this is turning out, lost their ear. Thomas Puerto, more than a year ago, wrote something in the line of “they will thank you later”. No they won’t. Even in our family, some links are broken now. My brother-in-law apparently forbade his parents contact to their family, including their grandchildren. But not because they want to protect them. But because they apparently feel that the grandparents (his parents!) DIDN’T SUPPORT the family well enough, didn’t visit enough, did only want to meet outdoors…
Three kids. One in kindergarten. Two in school. Links severed, so I can’t ask, but apparently they think the whole pandemic is overblown.
And a friend of mine, oncologist, wrote me two days ago: “returning from a 12h shift managing Corona outbreak on palliative station. must decide if I send kid to school tomorrow, or will act against the law and keep him home.”
They have two other kids, one with special needs after being born full four months early.
This is reality. We are killing those who try to care for the weakest in our society.
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I’m certainly no fan of such governments but I’m not seeing an especially strong, consistent correlation between government types and the effectiveness of pandemic response. There are many counter-examples.
China obviously handled the initial outbreak very poorly but after that seems to have effectively shut down spread of the virus in their country, in part by resorting to very strict measures such as rigidly enforced city-wide lockdowns when flare-ups occur. And conversely, some very liberal countries such as Sweden didn’t handle the pandemic very well at all.
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China is a good counterexample, sure, but they’ve also been doing their thing for much longer and are more centrally controlled than the right wing authoritarian states like India and Brazil. As for Sweden… liberal, but neo-liberal individualism is no stranger to Europe of late, either. And “let the free market do the work” has proven to be a bad way to deal with problems like this.
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China isn’t a great counterexample at all. I read reporting from there early on (in the LR B) and it’s been corroborated elsewhere. The local government fucked up and wanted to stay open for a big party meal and new year and stuff. Once the local government had clearly shown itself inept the state took over. And dealt with it.
It would be like as if NY in the US had its response overridden by the federal government rather than allowing similar mistakes be made, repeatedly, by other states. They learnt. Most right wing governments stubbornly refused to. Some democracies managed it well, some authoritarian governments managed it well. Some right wing authoritarian coutlntries did well, but not fascists. Because fascists are shit at everything bar dominating media discourse and spreading hate. They really are fucking useless.
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If you want to do a scatter plot of all the major countries showing authoritarianism on one axis and pandemic response effectiveness on another axis, I’ll definitely be interested to see if there are any strong trend lines indicating correlation. In the meantime I can think of enough counterexamples that I remain to be convinced.
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At the risk of re-animating the political fallout thread…
It seems 
is about to follow suit with 
and impose a flight ban from India. This has been simmering just below the surface for a while now.
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Nevermind. Nothing I’ve said today has landed right, so I’m out.
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Nothing I’ve said today has landed right,
We’re used to you landing left… 
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Woo-hoo! Got my first shot today (Pfizer). Didn’t feel a thing! I only wish that the location for the second shot could be changed, because after not driving far for over a year, getting to the neighboring county through school zones, bus traffic, road closures, and rush hour in a single day was a bit much. 
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