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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 7:08:43 GMT 1
Right-wingers in the US kept complaining for decades about America turning into the "land of lawsuits."
Look at them now.
Now you understand it was nothing more than an attempt to piss on corporate accountability.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 14:17:38 GMT 1
I don't know if it's lockdown fatigue or something else, but this is not good. Germany doesn't (= can't) take the French "you fucking comply, or else...!" approach, but the way the case count has plateaued and simply refused to come down in Germany is peculiar, especially compared to the way it collapsed in France in a week or so after the lockdown.
I don't know if that shows the limits of a "lockdown lite" or there are some other factors. But the data do show that the compliance rate in Germany is significantly lower than it was in the spring. People aren't following the rules. That's really bad when nearly 4,500 ICU beds are already occupied by Covid patients nationally. Germany is a big country with an excellent health care system, but 4,500 ICU beds? That's a huge number, and most of those patients aren't likely to make it unfortunately.
The case count is not crazy high, but the percentage of the people who have to be hospitalized or worse is very high. The case chart suggests that there are already many, many more deaths baked in, and the problem is that the way the new case count has plateaued makes it damn hard for us to see where the fatality peak will be. And Christmas will come at the worst timing imaginable.
It is a very difficult situation.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 18:19:10 GMT 1
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 19:29:42 GMT 1
Meanwhile, USA:  |
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 19:41:42 GMT 1
"trading arrangements resembling those of Australia or Canada"
Huh?
This is really Trump-level bullshit.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 19:50:09 GMT 1
The mood in Brussels is that everyone is absolutely tired with the British government.
There has been a massive pressure from the European financial sector to go easy on Britain, but the Eurocrats are in no mood to concede anything with any substance. Boris Johnson will either go back triumphantly to the UK with a joke deal calling it a grand achievement that only he could pull out of the hat, or go back triumphantly to the UK with no deal calling it the result of the EU pigheadedness and anti-Britishness yet nonetheless a boost for the country to enter the New Brave Era of Grand Britannia.
It will be glorious either way, you know.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 20:05:03 GMT 1
Hahahaha.
Morons. Of course we should put a T on their forehead in the vividest scarlet possible.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 21:02:47 GMT 1
Third-world country with third-world president, and third-world lawyers trying to save him who can't for the life of them figure out how to create a goddamn PDF file without fucking up.
Hello, Mr. Josh Merritt.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 21:07:15 GMT 1
Holy shit.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 21:47:53 GMT 1
Trump is particularly egregious, but this is why the US presidential system is just a kind of an absolute monarchy.  "But they can talk absolute shit about their king in public!" isn't a good defense at all, needless to say. |
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 21:53:18 GMT 1
Americans are often shocked and awestruck seeing the British PM grilled in the parliament, but what's truly shocking is the fact that they are shocked at all by that.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 22:07:29 GMT 1
More third-world stuff, now involving 17 red states. Shit keeps coming. I told you that if you felt embarrassed, you were still not embarrassed enough.
You know what? The Union and Confederacy should've parted ways.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 9, 2020 23:24:08 GMT 1
I suspect this chart is powerful enough to significantly change Germans' behavior, beginning right now.  Not because of fear, but because they wouldn't be able to accept the situation where they substantially underperform vis-a-vis the French and Brits on... anything. |
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 10, 2020 9:05:30 GMT 1
It's kind of ridiculous that I had a whole hospital room to myself when I was Covid back in early March, although I was literally just a mild case. The room was so large that I could've played ping-pong *and* pool in there. The hospital and health department wanted to isolate me so thoroughly that I was allowed to choose the "special room" at the far end of the building that looked almost like a hotel suite. And all the hospital did was basically feed me and do daily quick checkups, and test me three times.
Those were the days, when there were only few of us.
Today I would be stuck at home with the free food package that the health department sent to me. Reportedly lots of ramen and pasta in there to eat. Or stuck in a tiny room in an official quarantine hotel. The latter would be worse.
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Post by miscmisc on Dec 10, 2020 9:48:16 GMT 1
You see lots of cranks and conspiracy theorists online and elsewhere. You think it's pretty bad, right?
Well, it's worse in real life in many places in the world.
At least, at the very least, those cranks do not argue outright that Covid-19 is a hoax. They argue that it's highly exaggerated, no worse than the seasonal flu, etc.
Of course that's horrible enough. But you should visit places like the Badlands, USA. There are TONS of people who think that it's *literally* a hoax, meaning that it doesn't exist, that the mainstream media are deceiving them.
And some of them die of Covid-19 while refusing to believe that's what they got.
They believe that because their friends told them so. Because their Facebook group told them so.
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