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Disney pushes back opening
Masks required in Nevada now
Ceasars properties requiring now too
Cases spiking
 
Zero leadership. This is squarely on Trump. Not only no leadership, but going factually against what is right is costing lives, jobs, kids in school, he has caused a portion of this. The virus is not his fault. The country’s response to it is his fault. This is going to be how it is until there is an effective vaccine. Oh and guess how many fucksticks will refuse the vaccine? Lots. Just like the flu shot. This country is an embarrassment.
 
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Texas is on the verge of Covid crisis: Houston's largest hospital's ICU is 97% full as daily cases surge to record highs and expert predicts 'herd immunity may be the only way to stop the virus'
  • Texas Medical Center in Houston said 97% of its ICU beds are occupied, and its normal occupancy rate is 70% to 80%
  • It has an emergency plan to increase the number of ICU beds from 1,462 to 2,649, but expect they will all fill up in just two weeks
  • Coronavirus hospitalizations have doubled in Texas over the last month and tripled in the Greater Houston area
  • A new model from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia predicted cases in Harris County will surge to 4,578 by July 18
  • An infectious disease expert predicted the only way to stop the virus may be 'herd immunity' where enough people are infected so the virus can't spread

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Texas Medical Center in Houston said 97% of its ICU beds are occupied, and its normal occupancy rate is 70% to 80% and that it will run out of beds in two weeks (above)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...s-Houstons-largest-hospitals-ICU-97-full.html
 
calvin natt said:
Zero leadership. This is squarely on Trump. Not only no leadership, but going factually against what is right is costing lives, jobs, kids in school, he has caused a portion of this. The virus is not his fault. The country’s response to it is his fault. This is going to be how it is until there is an effective vaccine. Oh and guess how many fucksticks will refuse the vaccine? Lots. Just like the flu shot. This country is an embarrassment.
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ive gotten very cynical over the past few months. We are ripe for a round of natural selection and darwinism.
 

White House ordered NIH to cancel coronavirus research funding, Fauci says

The National Institutes of Health abruptly cut off funding to a long-standing, well-regarded research project on bat coronaviruses only after the White House specifically told it to do so, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Fauci made the revelation Tuesday at a Congressional hearing on the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is caused by a coronavirus that is genetically linked to those found in bats. Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) asked Fauci why the NIH abruptly canceled funding for the project, which specifically worked to understand the risk of bat coronaviruses jumping to humans and causing devastating disease.

Fauci responded to Veasey saying: “It was cancelled because the NIH was told to cancel it.”

“And why were they told to cancel it?” Veasey pressed.

“I don’t know the reason, but we were told to cancel it,” Fauci said.

After the hearing, Fauci clarified to Politico that it was the White House that told the NIH to cancel the funding. An unnamed White House official told Politico that the White House did encourage the funding cut, but ultimately it was the Department of Health and Human Services—of which the NIH is a part—that made the final decision. An HHS spokesperson said only that the funding was cut because "the grantee was not in compliance with NIH's grant policy."

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...ncel-coronavirus-research-funding-fauci-says/
 
SlyPokerDog said:
White House ordered NIH to cancel coronavirus research funding, Fauci says

The National Institutes of Health abruptly cut off funding to a long-standing, well-regarded research project on bat coronaviruses only after the White House specifically told it to do so, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Fauci made the revelation Tuesday at a Congressional hearing on the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is caused by a coronavirus that is genetically linked to those found in bats. Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) asked Fauci why the NIH abruptly canceled funding for the project, which specifically worked to understand the risk of bat coronaviruses jumping to humans and causing devastating disease.

Fauci responded to Veasey saying: “It was cancelled because the NIH was told to cancel it.”

“And why were they told to cancel it?” Veasey pressed.

“I don’t know the reason, but we were told to cancel it,” Fauci said.

After the hearing, Fauci clarified to Politico that it was the White House that told the NIH to cancel the funding. An unnamed White House official told Politico that the White House did encourage the funding cut, but ultimately it was the Department of Health and Human Services—of which the NIH is a part—that made the final decision. An HHS spokesperson said only that the funding was cut because "the grantee was not in compliance with NIH's grant policy."

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...ncel-coronavirus-research-funding-fauci-says/
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It was probably another joke by Trump!
 
"On Wednesday, the United States surpassed all previous single-day records for new cases of COVID-19. It is, or at least should be, impossible for anyone to pretend that the pandemic is in any sense over. It is raging. It has been only nine days since Vice President Mike Pence published an editorial titled “There Isn’t a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’” and bragged about the decline in new cases. In the history of foolish statements, Pence made a bid for the most foolish. Unfortunately, he won.

Around the globe, the story of the pandemic is changing. As nation after nation brings local outbreaks under control, more and more this isn’t the story of a global disease. It’s a story about the utter failure of the United States … a disaster that may genuinely reshape the planet.


In Paris this week, visitors are again traveling to the top of the Eiffel Tower and visiting the Louvre. In Italy, tour guides are back on the streets, ready to tour visitors around the Pantheon or Coliseum. The threat of COVID-19 in those countries is far from over, but despite the level of disease that spread through both countries, the difference between what’s happening there and what’s happening in the United States could not be more graphic.

It’s not just that new cases of COVID-19 are now greater than they were at their previous peak in April: it’s that they’re increasing at a rate equal to that of the previous climb in March.


If there’s anything that’s been front and center throughout Donald Trump’s residency in the White House, it’s been the utter and absolute destruction of the United States’ role as a world leader. Trump has seen to it that U. S. policy is vindictive, trite, and petty—utterly unconcerned with issues such as human rights or the environment, and absolutely focused on playing golf, eating cake, and exchanging “beautiful” letters with autocratic tyrants. Trump is far more concerned about where he gets to stand in pictures of NATO leaders than he is about the policies of NATO toward neighboring nations.


But if Trump’s handling of foreign affairs made the United States a laughingstock, his mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic is making the nation a pariah state. Even nations like Italy, which was stunned by the ferocity of the disease’s spread there, have worked the tools of isolation and lockdown, testing and tracing, masks, and careful reopening to stage manage a result that sees its current rate of infection two orders of magnitude lower than it was in March.


Italy isn’t a story of perfection, but it is still a story of success. So is France. So is almost everywhere. Even the hugely mismanaged effort in the U.K. has at last reduced the rate of infection there to a level where isolation and case tracing stands a reasonable chance of protecting the lives of citizens and the future of the economy.


The United States isn’t the only nation still reeling toward disaster, but the U.S. is unique in being the nation that has failed to address the pandemic, seen the horror that it could bring, and then failed again. The rising tide of cases in the United States represents an unmatched level of failure. An unrivaled instance of mismanagement. A peerless instance of utter incompetence.


Donald Trump has achieved this singular accomplishment in the same way that he has bumbled between so many failures in the past: an absolute inability to realize that he does not know everything. Trump is not smarter than all the generals. He doesn’t know more about energy than all the engineers. He doesn’t understand the environment better than all the scientists. And he absolutely does not understand how to manage a pandemic better than all the epidemiologists and health care experts at his disposal.


It’s absolutely true that the United States has access to the best experts and unmatched resources. That’s exactly what makes this such a f*cking tragedy.


Thanks to Donald Trump—thanks to Matt Gaetz, and Jim Jordan, and Devin Nunes, and Mitch McConnell, and Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio, and Bill Barr, and every other damn Republican who has patted Trump on the back every time he has claimed some kind of special genius that allows him to ignore the actual experts—the United States is not just hurtling toward an epic disaster, it has already taken the kind of fall usually reserved for mythological figures.


How many Americans will die is still to be seen. But the “American Century” is dead and buried."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...nited-States-heads-toward-a-singular-disaster
 
SlyPokerDog said:
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Scary, that woman on the right? Describes me exactly.

Still waiting on test results. Probably have them tomorrow.

My doctor said wait a couple of days before doing morning walk again. Tried today, walking more slowly than usual and paying attention to where I was going. I generally haul ass along the sidewalk with head in clouds. Made my 2 1/2 miles without incident. But damn, I had left trails of blood spatter all along the sidewalk.

Fortunately the scrapes and bruises on my face won't affect my participation in the Ms. Corona Virus America pageant, as all contestants will of course wear masks, carefully chose to complement swimsuits and evening gowns.
 
Donald Trump WON'T quarantine for 14 days when he goes to his New Jersey golf club this weekend after trip to Arizona because 'he isn't a civilian' White House says
  • 'The president of the United States is not a civilian,' said White House spokesman Judd Deere
  • New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced the plan for visitors who are coming from high-risk areas
  • Plan is coordinated withe New York and Connecticut
  • States were a global hotspot but have brought numbers down, while there have been spikes in Texas, Arizona, Florida and other states
  • Trump toured border wall and visited a megachurch in Arizona Tuesday
  • He flies to Wisconsin Thursday and plans to visit his Bedminster golf club
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...antine-14-days-goes-New-Jersey-golf-club.html
 
crandc said:
Looks like a man on left.
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It was a woman posting a meme (with what looks like Leonardo DiCaprio in it though I may be mistaken) indicating how carelessly she does that (going down Walmart aisles facing people without a mask).
 
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