I watched Jake Tapper of CNN last night get indignant at pictures of people in San Francisco walking, running, and skate boarding at the beach in a video…
Tapper was mad at this….
The media had reported that the city was under a ‘shelter in place’ ‘order’…..
Huh?
Tapper was besides himself?
I then went over to MSNBC which bored with the Democratic primary results had also switched back to the virus story….
Hmmmmm?
Turns out that the mayor out there did NOT tell his citizen’;s to STAY locked up in their homes…
Using his common sense…
He ‘advised’ them to cut back on gatherings of groups, to try to NOT go to work if you could and of course go out and get some fresh air….
In New York City on the otherwise of the country the NY Governor is in a public scrap with thew New York City mayor who is advertising ‘shelter in place’ but apparently doesn’t have the legal right to do so…The Fed’s have told the States ur on ur own…..
We have a President who is displaying his ineptness on public TV everyday to boot!….
No windier people are beginning to get annoyed and distract what they hear in the media…
Of course some are also doing the math right now…
With 330+ Americans
85 deaths and more than 5,000 confirmed cases?
People are thinking ‘Not me’ ….
It’s gonna get worst….
But expecting people to just stop living with no real visual cues on the dangers and the screaming for lifestyle changes just seems to be too much for most Americans…
And they HAVE to go to work….
In the face of the coronavirus worsening across the U.S. and reordering the daily life of millions of Americans, fewer people view the pandemic as a real threat, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
Just about 56% of Americans consider the coronavirus a “real threat,” representing a drop of 10 percentage points from last month. At the same time, a growing number of Americans think the coronavirus is being “blown out of proportion.”
The differences between political parties are stark, with a majority of Republicans saying it is overblown and the vast majority of Democrats considering it a legitimate threat.
“Since the pandemic has taken root and grown in the United States, Democrats and Republicans are now poles apart,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute of Public Opinion. “The consequences of these differing perspectives are shaping how people are responding to calls for action.”
Overall, fewer than half of U.S. adults are changing behaviors such as eating from home more often or canceling plans to avoid crowds, as recommended….
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In February, a little more than a quarter of U.S. adults believed the coronavirus was being blown out of proportion. Now, that number has risen to nearly 40% of respondents.
Pollsters found that both shifts are largely driven by changes in opinion by Republicans. For instance, 72% of Republicans saw the coronavirus as a real threat in early February, but that figure has now plummeted to 40% of Republicans now believing the deadly virus is a serious menace.
And a majority of Republicans — 54% — now say the response to the coronavirus is overblown, a significant jump from last month, when about 23% of Republicans held that view.
Fewer independents, too, see the coronavirus as a real threat. Fifty percent of them view it as such now, compared with 64% of independents last month who said the virus was legitimately threatening.
Democrats remained the most unchanged on this question. An increasing number of them — 76% — now say the danger of the coronavirus is real, up from 70% last month….
“It isn’t an overreaction,” Anthony S. Fauci, a leading member of the president’s coronavirus task force, said of the recommendations released Monday.
About 4,450 coronavirus cases have been reported in the United States, though experts suspect the true number is much higher….
People should not be rollerblading or “hanging out” for any leisure purpose right now. It’s probably ok to spend a bit of time outdoors but not congregating with groups of others or in close proximity to them. We have too many people, mostly young, who have been brought up to believe the world revolves around them and nothing should get in the way of their own pleasure.
Thankfully, we are also seeing so many signs that other Americans “get it” and are willing to play their part to defeat what we are facing.
If you are rollerblading solo you are getting fresh air and exercise at a distance from others.
Not sure what would be wrong with that.
I saw the same footage from CNN that got Jake Tapper upset. The people out in SF were definitely in close proximity to others and seemed to not have a care in the world.
Sad news- the first dog has died of Coronavirus.
However, it was a 17 year old dog.
Perhaps this will cause Millennials to now take this more seriously.
There’s a disconnect in the morbidity rate from the virus.
While 3-4% is being bandied about.That is measured against the total number of “known” cases and doesn’t account for the number of unknown cases(I.e. those infected who simply ride out the virus at home without ever being tested).
Those cases likely run into the thousands which would bring the mortality rate down considerably.
Dr. Fauci pointed this out last weekend.
I’m not downplaying anything here.Even a morbidity rate of around 1% ( a figure Fauci used ) would be horrible (in contrast the mortality rate for flu is around .1 %) .Still ,it should be noted that the numbers being thrown around must be qualified.
Agreed Jack….
The media is all over the place on this and people are starting to tune the ‘hair on fire’ stuff out….
There WILL be more cases …
But the numbers ARE VERY small relative to the WHOLE population
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Surely some projection here, but my Twitter feed really feels like a bunch of people cooped in their houses getting progressively more anxious and cranky and going at it
Surgeon General Jerome Adams acknowledged Wednesday that the Trump administration’s recommendation that Americans practice preventative measures for 15 days is “likely not going to be enough” time to successfully halt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States.
“Fifteen days is likely not going to be enough to get us all the way through. But we really need to lean into it now so that we can bend the curve in the next 15 days, and at that point we’ll reassess,” Adams said during an interview on NBC’s “Today.”…
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Canada and the U.S. have mutually agreed to “temporarily restrict all nonessential travel across the Canada-U.S. border,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday.
President Donald Trump made a similar announcement on Twitter Wednesday morning.
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The move will mostly close the largest non-militarized land border in the world, another restriction as coronavirus spreads around the globe and cases multiply in both the U.S. and Canada.
People will not be allowed to cross in either direction for recreational reasons, Trudeau said. But “essential” travel — that delivers food, fuel and medicines into both nations — will continue, he said.
Canadians and Americans who do “essential” work or who have “urgent” reasons to cross the border will be permitted to do so, Trudeau said adding that details will follow soon. “Travel restrictions will not apply to commerce or trade,” he said.
The joint decision amounts to the most drastic closure of the U.S.-Canadian boundary since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania….
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Florida governor refuses to shut down beaches amid spread of coronavirus
Gov. Ron DeSantis said it’s “not uniform throughout the state that you’re seeing massive crowds at beaches,” despite videos of gatherings in Tampa Bay…
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Duh?
You think Mr. SG?
It was absurd to believe that anyway.Increasing testing alone will drive the numbers up for weeks to come.
Hell I know nothing, but any damn fool could figure that one out.
Right now a one or two percent death rate means over a million deaths at a minimum.
I notice Dr, Fauci wasn’t available for comment today at a ridiculous Trump campaign rally/briefing that just concluded. He called Biden sleepy Joe.
What a complete shit show this is. That email lady in the pant suits would have never let this happen.
Rand Paul is still fucking with the recovery act. Such a good Christian.
I think the odds are now about 30% that the country will enter a total lockdown in the next couple of weeks.
I think NOT….
With guesses that the economy could drop by double digits and the jobless also?
People will be encouraged to go BACK to work in less than 30 days
This country would go into a depression if EVERY FUCKING THING SHUTS down…
You ARE VERY worried Jack?
Yes I am .
So are a lot of other people.
Go easy
Take care of urself ….
First Member of Congress to test positive is Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida.
Within a week, we will all probably know somebody who has tested positive.
Yup …..
I went to get a haircut today. That might be the next industry to have forced shutdowns. My barber is definitely over 70. Nobody there seemed too concerned. I tried my best but failed to stop a brief coughing fit because I have bad allergies that get worse at places like that. Hopefully, this will have been a safe experience for everyone.
So far we have 2 Congressional lawmakers testing positive for the virus….
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This IS correct for now…
But hardly matters to anyone testing positive…
“Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population… probably far less. We don’t shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways.”
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel…
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The country HAS begun to increase testing as was predicted….
More cases will be reported….
Hopefully area’s where there are heavy concentrations will have more action taken…
Other area’s will not….
Hopefully the nationwide actions of social distancing will allow the virus infection to have peaked and gradually come down to manageable levels so that the country can move back to normalcy in a timely manner ….
The long term issue is NOT gonna be the virus…
Cash handout’s and all?
It will be the American economy….
If 3.4 percent of people were having accidents on the highways, we would shut them down .
Rhode Island’s Director of Health was asked today about barbershops and beauty salons, and she replied that they were of far less concern to her than (say) restaurants, because they tend to have fewer customers at any one time; however, if the seats are packed, then it’s best to come back later.
Where I go currently is literally a two seat shop.