StrangeSox

Oklahoma had to rescind it's mask requirements after violent threats

When the request is coming from actual experts and it's being echoed around the world, perhaps it'll be worth considering. When it's coming from the White House for transparently political reasons, you're being naive at best.

The current way things are being counted is how health experts and departments around the world have counted deaths in previous epidemics and how they're counting this pandemic. Just as with previous epidemics, we won't know the real toll until in-depth studies are done a few years down the road. That's how we arrive at things like "12k deaths from swine flu," after the fact epidemiological studies and surveys which are themselves estimates rather than just hard counts of death certificates. If the WH gets their way, we're going to see the media mainly reference the politically suppressed "official" death counts that don't include any of the nuance you're mentioning. It'll just be "oh only 80k people ever died, no big deal, everything else is a conspiracy." You've already seen it pop up in this thread today! It's not the medical experts pushing for this change for more detailed information. It's an extremely political White House doing it for very obvious reasons. Don't make excuses for them.

That's conspiracy nonsense. Hospitals are not falsely coding covid deaths.

there is one reason the White House is pushing for this change and it isn't for a more detailed analysis.

This is the normal way things are counted, and even then experts believe we are already undercounting.

Why is deliberately undercounting a good thing?

It appears that the strategy now is to suppress accurate counts as much as possible to make the numbers look better

Can you quarantine him to a single thread

Remember when they called a special session of Congress over a single vegetative person and now that same crowd is like "100k dead grandmas nbd"

We can thank Republican Matt Gaetz's fabricated propaganda for this Looks like you're getting tested again, caulfield

DPH has a good website, you can see daily testing towards the bottom. It's pretty lumpy overall with a weekly pattern in tests done per day. I don't think % positive has varied like that, though. https://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19/covid19-statistics This low weekend/Mondays with Tuesday spikes is being seen globally not just Illinois fwiw

They will ship you out of state if you break the strict 14 day quarantine

Tuesdays have consistently been the "catch up" days for lower weekend numbers, so we'll probably see total tests jump back up tomorrow. If the positive rate stays low, that'll be a great sign.

please tell me the pencil sharpener 'went missing' from your classroom

nice table! going to stain it or leave it raw? refinishing my basement in 30 minute stretches when both kids' naps overlap has been the only way I've made in progress since starting with demo after a flood last october

Ok I didn't post anything about that.

This is good to see, though: no more relief for tens of millions of people and thousands of businesses for at least a month Seems like the obvious end game is that if any states show even a modest decline in new UI filings, they'll use that as an excuse to not provide any more relief especially to states that are wisely staying more locked down.

Meanwhile stocks are still climbing

Yep, this is the latest thing making the rounds after those two urgent care doctors. She has a great history of being fired for theft, of having papers retracted over fraud, and of taking lots of money over the years from the anti-vaxx movement. But she's saying what lots of people want to hear, which is that this big scary pandemic isn't really so scary at all. People want to feel agency and security. They're not really being given that right now.