Posted on 03/14/2020 3:11:36 PM PDT by rintintin
The coronavirus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, are spreading across the United States faster than we can track or test. This week the confirmed caseload jumped from 309 to at least 2,170 cases in 49 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. A testing shortage has experts fearing the true number is likely thousands of cases higher.
Public life in America has methodically ground to a halt. This week companies instituted mandatory work from home policies, hundreds of schools and colleges closed or switched to online classes, professional sports suspended play indefinitely — even Disney shut down its parks worldwide.
And yet, many younger Americans seem unfazed by the pandemic. Though they may be working from home or practicing social distancing during the day, it appears American night life is continuing without much interruption
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Corona night tonight at my house. All the Corona you can drink. No guarantee that you won’t get sick, but that is what Alka Seltzer is for...
Great advice.
Every time you go a a bar,
the tender is running for Congress.
Wait till spring break!
what utter horse hockey
tell them voting causes it too
Young people still going out?
That’s because they know it’s a media generated panic based on, for all practical purposes, nothing.
They’re maybe just a step or two away from being Trump voters.
But what ever we do, we MUST nationalize our healthcare and all critical industry. That’s what China did. /s
I don’t drink and hate crowds, loud music, and having to socialize with drunks.
No change in my case.
I’ve got a gig. We’ll see who shows up.
About half of US deaths have been of residents of a single nursing home in Kirkland WA and I am skeptical that there will be many nursing home patients partying in bars tonight.
Why is this not in chat?
It’s 100% opinion.
YEP, there you go
Voting causes blindness, warts and hair to grow in the palms of your hands. Not to mention glowbull warming.
The local state university just cancelled on-campus instruction for the next two weeks and urged all students (who would otherwise be returning to town from Spring Break) to return to their parents’ home and not come back to town until March 29th, at the earliest. Mrs riverdawg used to be an academic advisor at this university, and laughed loudly when she read this, saying that this was an invitation for a two-week party at the downtown bars.
Actually, you can estimate the number of cases from lots of other pieces of information. In the early stages of a fast moving epidemic there are always many cases that have not been detected yet, that's a result of the fact that infections happen before a testable signal is present, so testing results always lag the number of infections.
Once again we have the NY Times trying to make a Republican administration look bad. The CDC and other public health organizations are not set up to deal with rapidly spreading illnesses, something that has been true for many, many years. Their data is always lagging, since they rely on reports from doctors treating patients, and doctors don't treat patients until they have symptoms.
It’s 100% opinion.
We have a national emergency going on, and you're worried about FR protocol ??
Get with the progrom Ben, and don't touch your face or go out to bars.
Opinion, or not, it is still from the NY Times, not from a freeper.
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