Nicker on 17/7/2020 at 22:14
Check Mar a Lago for mass graves.
zombe on 18/7/2020 at 13:55
So, US reached 3x known case count when compared to CC (combined country of Italy, Spain, Germany, France and UK - which were the worst hit ones around here). 4x expected to be reached in 3-4 weeks time (assuming things start improving considerably in a weeks time).
For a long time it seemed to be impossible that US death count could ever catch up with CC - but things have changed and what once was impossible is now ~2 or less weeks away.
It used to be that UK had over 50% of CC new cases (UK has only 20% of CC population), but things have improved there - and gotten worse or stalled elsewhere. UK still has over 70% of CC daily deaths and rising (from 50% nearly 2 months ago).
Italy: once case count started to trend downwards - it never reversed direction. Even now it is slightly pointing downwards.
Germany: case count jumped up once things opened up, but then continued its previous downward trend. However - seems to start going up again without ever reaching its previous low-point. Still, the situation looks good.
UK: has improved over time, but seems to be stalled for now. So, not the blackest of the black sheep anymore - with only the daily death count reminding what once was.
Spain: started a small upward trend over a month ago and is now exploding - for reasons unknown. Hopefully that is just an artifact of methodology changes or something (there are some plausible candidate explanations) or just the typical garbage reporting. Looks real though, but don't know. Will see. Things are muddled further by Spain and France having consistent overall reporting level of dreadful shit.
France: continuing on its ver-very-small upward trend that started nearly two months ago - and might be speeding up recently. France started to have testing counts reported again over two months of silence. Currently mostly resembles random number generation, but i take it - maybe it will start to make sense some day. Also, really small testing totals (might be real as France has the highest/insane case/death ratio of everyone else [rapidly improving though]).
All in all, if there would be any point in US comparison, there is an enormous buffer space till US level of absolute fuck up. Even with the recent CC flareup - there is still more than a x20 case count difference.
CC daily case count started to go up 10 days ago (the last day when case count change was negative compared to the same day on previous week) with signs of acceleration. Will see whether that continues.
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Something other: (
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/) graphs still follow an exponential track - is it time to start worrying?
howeird on 18/7/2020 at 15:31
A few days ago i heard about space viruses. That there is such a thing as Astrovirology. Here are 2 links that discribe it.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29319335/)
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https://www.livescience.com/61689-viruses-fall-from-sky.html)
On the 2nd link they talk about viruses getting caught up in the atmosphere and moving across continents. I know it was stated that the corona virus could attach itself to air pollution. If that is true perhaps it could attach to those Sahara Desert plumes that are crossing the United States which could really cause global problems with the virus.
[video=youtube;hIz0bVAu3M4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIz0bVAu3M4[/video]
Tocky on 19/7/2020 at 00:30
Space viruses? There has never been a single strand of virus discovered on any other planet or comet surface. That doesn't mean there won't be it just means it's all speculation. However we have sent our germs to the moon and every planet we have sent a probe to including out into deep space. It would be funny if life here started from an alien virus, perhaps even an extraterrestrial probe looking for life, but that's just a possibility. It's also a remote one that we have seeded life with our voyager probes in another galaxy far into the future. Any virus would have to be able to spore up with a bacteria for a long ride for that to happen and then it would be the bacteria's reawakening that spawned life surely. A Water Bear might have a chance. Doubtful though.
As for the second article, no virus could live for that long a ride in numbers large enough to do any damage so I wouldn't worry.
Renzatic on 19/7/2020 at 01:50
Now this is funny.
Horrible. But funny.
[video=youtube_share;W2i5LawiI3A]https://youtu.be/W2i5LawiI3A[/video]
howeird on 19/7/2020 at 02:16
The space virus thing was a joke with my brother and I. The WHO is actually talking about it. I thought the pollution & Sahara Dust cloud was a bit of a stretch myself because sunlight kills the virus so it could only travel at night even if it were possible.
[video=youtube;AKfsnI4pllw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKfsnI4pllw[/video]
Air pollution article link: (
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/27/coronavirus-found-air-pollution-particles-preliminary-study-finds/3033646001/)
From what I've read the particles from the Sahara dust cloud only mimics the symptoms of corona virus because it irritates your respiratory system. Regardless, the cloud particles would be considered a pollutant.
Starker on 19/7/2020 at 03:18
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Now this is funny.
Horrible. But funny.
I quite liked this version:
[video=youtube;-pSNZFEg4e4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pSNZFEg4e4[/video]
Renzatic on 19/7/2020 at 05:48
Quote Posted by Starker
I quite liked this version
Eh, it's too on the nose. I prefer the more subtle jabs.
Starker on 19/7/2020 at 06:43
Doesn't matter that it's on the nose. It's the dissonance that works.
But yes, Dies Irae from The Shining is not a particularly subtle choice.