Message from @bobthepurple
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Pence and his team had good messaging on that today, they let the reporters bring up shutting down domestic travel and mass quarantine but didn't immediately say no. Instead they said it was all on the table if necessary but not planned at the moment.
Trump was really not helping with "it's all OK, don't panic and don't prep" messaging.
This is likely to spread over to public investment
I'm impressed at how many sites are sticking to their reporting that the administration lied about the google site being set up to help people find testing sites
Orange
Man
Bad
Ars Technica actually permabanned me, though I guess there's a small chance that was because I called them Russian trolls for spreading misinformation and trying to get Americans killed.
Or maybe it was the other post where I said I didn't think they'd fire the reporter over it because they kept their openly pedophilic one until the day he got arrested
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That former writer apparently just got a mistrial because someone on the jury bought his story that he was just playing pretend when he planned to rape an 11 year old girl and told the fbi he had done it before
Maybe now they can rehire him!
Oh, I guess they finally will at some point but no date yet:
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1239295693703065600
And it's going down as we read..
Gets spicier as we dive deeper down the rabbit hole
Doubt it's going to be wonderland on the other side though
Fake news and "white washing" because the youngest person was a chinese newborn https://news.yahoo.com/newborn-baby-london-become-youngest-143200078.html
lol, I wasn't the only person running that math on how many infected we can handle at a given time but he managed to dig up the number of ventilators in the US instead of guesstimating how many available ICU beds we have.
https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/predicting-american-icu-saturation-during-covid-19-f45ec1672571
His numbers? 1.7 per 1k people.
My numbers? 1 to 4 per 1k people.
there's little to no point calculating anything against "total number infected". in that article he seems almost confused by the reported rate of critical to total cases in Italy. The point is that Italy isn't testing and won't bother to test unless people need a ventilator, because at this stage treatment for the severely ill is the only priority and wasting resources on the mildly ill is not advised. In fact, they are instructed to stay away from the hospitals. This exact phenomenon is happening in USA and the rest of Europe. Germany is, as mentioned, well prepared medically for such events and is still testing anyone who self-reports. They have a good idea of real numbers in Germany and South Korea alone - no other countries with sizeable outbreaks are anywhere near sure of the real infected numbers.
So yes, Italy reached a triage stage when their number of cases surpassed their number of ventilators - precisely because almost all of their reported cases are just the serious ones.
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"Panic over the coronavirus@
You'll just make it worse
> You'll just make it worse
Not sure it can get worse or why facing facts is bad but I recommend to those who experience anxiety when reading these to get used to it and prepare for worse things to come.
Panicking is good.
We should have panicked more, and more intelligently.
Panic a little now instead of later
> Panicking is good.
With caveats but yeah.
> We should have panicked more, and more intelligently.
Very true. <:why:462286147473637407>
Intelligent panicking <:brain_blimp:588140316339470347>
On a nationwide scale, yes
Luckily we got cases later
> Intelligent panicking <:brain_blimp:588140316339470347>
Yes. Imagine it as similar to how there's good and bad type of envy