update for me: went to doc. doc agrees with me that he suspects my sickness to be sinus related but got swabbed for covid testing just in case. currently in self-quarantine waiting for reaults
fyi: the swabbing is easy and quick but definitely a bit uncomfort. in other words: there's really no excuse for the Trump admins' dragging response on getting tests out
Apologies if this has been posted before, but University of Chicago Press has assembled the articles and book reviews on Coronavirus in their journals and made them free to read
people imagine sewage systems as a sort of black box where All The Waste Goes and it doesn't really matter what it is it just Goes Away and you don't have to worry about it anymore >_>
Thanks for the 60 days of 0% interest. Why not do that for at least the rest of the year since people are suffering and it’s going to be months before the economy comes back, you heartless hag?
Immediately having a flashback to things like how Devos not so passive aggressively signed a student loan forgiveness thing a while back with like "under great protest" or whatever
“Trump has often touted the stock market's performance under his presidency, but the coronavirus has wiped out all the gains since he took office Jan. 20, 2017.”
re: the Dow Jones article, that plot doesn't even emphasize the magnitude of the drop--it's about 33% in a month, which is even more than the single fastest month-to-month drop of the Bush Jr Recession (late Sept-late Oct 2008 dropped ~24%)
Some perspective on the stock market. On October 27, 1929, the Dow closed at 299. It lost 13% on October 28, closing at 261: the famous Stock Market Crash that kicked off the Great Depression. At the end of 1929, the Dow was at 248. That’s a decrease of 17% over the course of the first 2 months of the Great Depression, compared to about 33% in 1 month now...
(It’s also worth noting that from opening October 28 and closing October 29, a total of 24% was lost before rallying slightly hence “only” 17%. It then continued to fall until 1933, losing 34% in 1930, 53% in 1931, and 23% in 1932)
A Grinning DM
: Yeah the Great Recession's fastest decline was about 24% from Sept-Oct 2008, compared with our roughly 33% so far. But, you know, there might be a recession coming.
and yeah that lingering/improvement-before-crash pattern I would guess relates to the cytokine storm thing that was observed early on, although the article doesn't seem to mention it
You’d think the GOP would want their constituents to take the threat seriously since their demographic skews much older? Doesn’t this have more of a chance of shrinking their base than of Dems?
that article about people not seeing it as a threat is apparently from the 17th, for whatever that's worth. idk if feeling would have changed too much since, but
I think one thing to consider is that coronavirus is having a way bigger impact on urban areas right now whereas rural areas have so much natural "distance" (less public transport, more space between houses and the people in them, etc. etc.)
The impact of the virus, at this moment, is being felt more strongly by those in the cities who tend to vote Democrat whereas rural (and white) voters are feeling the impact less and tend to vote Republican.
This is likely to change because my rural area has two known cases right now and they're between people with no interaction so there's all the Unknown Cases that's causing some stir, but if you're prone to believe that the media is LYING!!! and you're living in a less densely populated area then it's real easy to go
I know there have been pushes to make cloth masks for hospitals, so I'm gonna put this study here about the type of cloth and pattern that has the most evidence for effectiveness. I know nothing whatsoever about sewing and don't know any sewers, but maybe other people can spread it.
pharadyne
: Thanks! This is very helpful. The sewing community is really diving into this project with gusto, but I’ve been wondering how effective the cloth masks really can be.
My Sis has been trying to find studies for the effectiveness of cloth masks. She's a Dept of Health public health/infection control specialist in Seattle, and she sent me the link to that study as the best study she's found for a cloth mask so far. (With some complex tying going on. Like, they'll need to come with a picture or instructions or something.)
If you can, support small, local restaurants. Big chains are going to be just fine, but the family-owned diner down the street could be in trouble. UberEats is waiving delivery fees for small businesses, so order all the food!
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) swiftly issued a statement to clarify that, no, these drugs are not approved as treatments for COVID-19. Both drugs are approved to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, but must still be assessed in clinical trials before being declared a safe and effective COVID-19 treatment.
“Decisions for closure are beyond the agency level; but rather are forwarded to [the Department of Justice] and ultimately the White House,” the email said.
My father is a doctor and medical school professor and wants to remind everyone that chloroquine is extremely toxic and potentially fatal if prescribed incorrectly and not at all the panacea that Trump is making it out to be.
The Trump administration has held up $40 million in emergency aid Congress approved earlier this month to help American Indians combat the coronavirus — a delay that’s left tribal leaders across the nation frustrated and ill-equipped to respond to the fast-growing outbreak.
Daily Kos is a left leaning activism site but this blog entry does a great job pointing out that a ton of the "new normal" for the covid-response is a ton of stuff that disabled folks have been fighting for for years and been dismissed on
as one tweet cited says-- My school just went full online and I dropped out last month because I was told that I couldn’t go online part time for my disability or care assistant reasons. This is BULLSHIT.
I do think the Olympics should be postponed overall, but it's worth considering that after all the preparations that will be a devastating hit to Japan's economy, on top of the same pandemic-related recession the entire world is feeling.
I know dewine's been getting spotlight for acting quickly on coronavirus, but considering he signed a heartbeat bill this shit doesn't surprise me at all
Depression. The tl;dr portion is that they're willing to cover 75% of employer salaries up to 52k for people who can't work and guarantee a lot of loans for banks and also help with other things to basically pause the economy for three months. Basically a $2.5 trillion stimulus package
Yeah I saw the crowds on Saturday. My city has to close the beaches and the park along the bluffs overlooking the ocean because it was fucking mobbed. 😭 I just wanted to walk my dog.
Approval for testing for COVID-19 is particularly vulnerable to implicit biases, doctors say.
a graph charting the difference in response and thus the difference in covid spread in Kentucky vs Tennessee
Daily Kos is a left leaning activism site but this blog entry does a great job pointing out that a ton of the "new normal" for the covid-response is a ton of stuff that disabled folks have been fighting for for years and been dismissed on
My school just went full online and I dropped out last month because I was told that I couldn’t go online part time for my disability or care assistant reasons. This is BULLSHIT.Depression. The tl;dr portion is that they're willing to cover 75% of employer salaries up to 52k for people who can't work and guarantee a lot of loans for banks and also help with other things to basically pause the economy for three months. Basically a $2.5 trillion stimulus package