Itâd also be interesting to see it scaled as cases per capita. A thousand cases in China is meaningfully different from a thousand cases in Tasmania when analysing effectiveness of containment methods.
Spot-on:
This, incidentally, is why I see greed as one of the deadliest sins⌠again, not needing a supernatural deity to back it up.
Greed can kill millions. Greed, rage and pride. Literally deadly.
Kill 5% to make 0.01% happy. Thatâs a pretty cold equation.
Fine. If theyâre already set to call for a massive blood sacrifice in the name of Capitalism then we may just have to counter by accelerating the guillotine production schedule.
Anyone have good data on what kind of protective gear we should equip the support team with to make sure they donât contract anything while theyâre hauling all those baskets of heads away?
But none of these deaths will be counted as an indictment of capitalism the way that deaths under Mao or Stalin are counted as indictments of communism / socialism. Capitalism cannot fail, it can only be failed.
More to the point, in order to fight the pandemic we will have to fix things in America that they would prefer stay broken.
The Sentinel saying all the right things here: that reported cases are limited by testing, and that even deaths may have slipped under the radar: I say that because the first story about it in my feed didnât make any of those things clear.
Meanwhile, in Taiwan:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-border-1.5507334
Trump is reportedly furious about the state of the economy â and is directing his anger at the public health officials who have made decisions that have hurt markets and killed jobs, ultimately making his re-election bid far more difficult.
Whereas Trumpâs decisions will kill people, a real vote-getter eh?
The Houston Chronicle article I linked has been updated. Houston is going to get its Shelter-In-Place orders into effect at 11:59 PM tomorrow, and itâll last two weeks. Really curious as to how much that two-week order is going to do to flatten the curve here; I was expecting 3 weeks at the least.
Worked great for Reagan and Bush.
Next week is gonna suck.
Iâm honestly shocked that people are capable of that kind of realization, even after poisoning themselves. I wonât go so far as to say hopefulâŚ
17?
Days?!?!?!
