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Old Nov 10, 2020, 2:47 pm
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Interesting that we can both be using the same data source and come to quite different conclusions. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
When looking at the total cases per 1M population, the USA is currently the highest by a significant amount. When looking at total deaths per 1M population, we are about #5 out of perhaps 160 countries. From where I sit, neither of these rankings are particularly good.
Your citation and spreadsheet still does not address the questionable assertions such as your claim that traffic fatalities are being counted as covid deaths in the USA. That is one citation that might prove particularly useful.
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Old Nov 17, 2020, 9:22 am
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I wish they would serve nothing and everyone would keep their mask on.
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Old Nov 17, 2020, 9:49 am
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Originally Posted by Cledaybuck
I wish they would serve nothing and everyone would keep their mask on.
And I don't.
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Old Dec 1, 2020, 1:35 pm
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Number of suicides in Japan over month span exceed deaths from COVID-19
Japan is struggling with a mental health crisis as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, with more people dying in one month from suicide than from COVID-19 all year long. The National Police Agency said suicides surged to 2,153 in October alone, with more than 17,000 people taking their own lives this year to date, CBS reported. By comparison, fewer than 2,000 people in the country have died from COVID-19 in 2020. Experts say the pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues due to prolonged lockdowns, isolation from family members, unemployment and other financial concerns, and a lack of school structure.
... yet people actually want more house-arrest, business closures and forced unemployment of people well out of the danger-range of dying from CV.
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Old Dec 1, 2020, 1:42 pm
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Originally Posted by kennycrudup
... yet people actually want ...
Should say "some people" here instead; the more time I spend talking to people in the streets the more I'm hearing people are fed up.
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Old Dec 1, 2020, 1:50 pm
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Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows
As of Aug. 31, 163,735 businesses have indicated on Yelp that they have closed, a 23 percent increase since mid-July. Yelp also measures businesses whose closures have become permanent. That number has steadily increased over the past six months, now reaching 97,966, representing 60 percent of closed businesses that wont be reopening. Overall, Yelps data shows that business closures have continued to rise, with a 34 percent increase in permanent closures since our last report in mid-July, Justin Norman, Yelps vice president of data science, told CNBC.
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Old Dec 6, 2020, 8:08 am
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Orange County Sheriff Wont Enforce New California Stay-at-Home Order
Deputies will not respond to calls only to enforce mask-wearing, social distancing, or social gathering restrictions, Barnes said. Instead, they will respond to calls for potential criminal behavior and for the protection of life and property. To put the onus on law enforcement to enforce these orders against law-abiding citizens who are already struggling through difficult circumstances, while at the same time criticizing law enforcement and taking away our tools to do our jobs is both contradictory and disingenuous, he said.
People have had enough!
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Old Dec 7, 2020, 6:40 pm
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Clear is launching a vaccination verification app. It flashes GREEN if you've completed both your shots.

Biometrics - eye scan or fingerprint - at registration. Clear's $15/month fee is certain to spike.

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Old Dec 8, 2020, 4:55 am
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Originally Posted by LegalTender
Clear is launching a vaccination verification app. It flashes GREEN if you've completed both your shots.

Biometrics - eye scan or fingerprint - at registration. Clear's $15/month fee is certain to spike.

No thank you.
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Old Dec 8, 2020, 4:48 pm
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As pandemic lifelines expire, Americans in housing free fall
The day after Christmas, the extended unemployment benefits that have kept 12 million people and their families afloat are scheduled to expire. Then, mere days after that cliff, on New Years Day, a national ban on renter evictions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also set to lapse. Overnight, an unprecedented bill of $70 billion in unpaid back rent and utilities will come due, according to estimates by Moodys Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi. In all, up to 40 million people could be threatened with eviction over the coming months, research from the Aspen Institute says. Much of the focus has been on tenants. But Stacey Johnson-Cosby, president of the Kansas City Regional Housing Alliance, says more than 40% of the landlords surveyed in her coalition said that they expected to have to sell their units in the coming months due to rental income losses. They are sheltering our citizens free of charge and theres nothing we can do about it, said Johnson-Cosby. This is their retirement income.
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Old Dec 9, 2020, 10:09 am
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...more than 40% of the landlords surveyed in her coalition said that they expected to have to sell their units in the coming months due to rental income losses.

To whom?
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Old Dec 9, 2020, 10:24 am
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Originally Posted by toomanybooks
...more than 40% of the landlords surveyed in her coalition said that they expected to have to sell their units in the coming months due to rental income losses.

To whom?
In part, to Real Estate Investment Trusts or hedge funds, who own a lot more single family homes and other residential real estate now than they did before the Great Recession.
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Old Dec 15, 2020, 11:56 am
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Anyone else experienced seeing a fellow passenger be escorted off the plane due to their inadequate mask usage?

I flew MCO-BHM last Thursday and didn't know anything was up until we landed and the FA told us to stay seated when we got to the gate. We pull into the gate and a lady two rows back stands up and yells at the guy across the aisle about his lack of mask wearing. Then two SW employees board and escort the guy off (he wore a mask while being escorted off).

I couldn't tell if the mask had simply fallen off at some point or if he had been playing the game where he takes it off whenever he thinks a FA won't see.
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Old Dec 29, 2020, 4:52 am
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Originally Posted by kennycrudup
... I'm not going to live my life afraid of something that's got worse odds of killing me than say, the odds of getting 5 out of 6 numbers on a scratch-off ticket. [1]
Originally Posted by kennycrudup
"Cases" are not "deaths" and I'm glad to see the public is wising up to that, and recent events in the news are making that clear.
A couple of weeks ago some of my family were discussing traveling for Xmas to see some elderly relatives so we all decided to get tested.

... whoops! 😆

TBH I was kinda surprised that I'd tested positive then as I'd figured I'd had it already by now after all the travel (maybe this was the 2nd time?). Over the months I know (as in "personally met") a dozen or so people spread out over a handful of States who'd had it this year and out of those, half only knew 'cause they had to get tested for work or travel and the other half having mild symptoms, and one who'd gone to the ER was told to just go home and rest it off.

Anyway, just as I'd figured, and just like the experience of those I know who had it, the worst part of it all was the two weeks of house-arrest- thankfully I'd made my "Covid CP" qualifying segment weeks ago. I'm fortunate that I'm in a field where I can work at home if I want to, and affluent enough to get food and supplies (and even Xmas shop) all online, so it was really more "inconvenienced" for me than "forcefully unemployed and barely making ends meet" like many of my friends who've been tossed out of their jobs (some for months!) by these Covid countermeasures.

So I've now got a negative test and lived to tell, just as I'd been saying happens to young(-ish, for me), healthy people. I'd had a scratchy throat a couple mornings but that's been happening every blue moon for years now so who knows if that's due to CV, and having had colds that have laid me up in the bed hacking my lungs out and miserable I can honestly say (just as some of my friends have) that if this is the effect the Coronavirus is going to have on me, I'll take it over a common cold any day.

[1] - ironically enough, every time I'm in PDX I buy a couple of bucks of multi-State lotto ticket at the Plaid Pantry near the hotel strip I'm usually staying and run 'em thru on my return trips- I actually "won" a few bucks last time I was there
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Old Jan 26, 2021, 6:56 am
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Best news of the day! It is the biggest scam around ((now that trump is no longer pres)
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