OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

[wizenheimer]

When I was 53 I was working out 2 1/2 hours five days a week. I was bench pressing 260 lbs., leg pressing 560 lbs while working every muscle in my body until I was literally drenched in sweat. I only weighed 180 lbs. So, you can see that people in their 50s can accomplish quite a bit.

I think I was probably around 53 when one morning I got up and while stepping into my underwear I threw my back out of place.

 

[Lanny]

I think I was probably around 53 when one morning I got up and while stepping into my underwear I threw my back out of place.

Now this is something that few people on the face of the Earth are able to accomplish. You could try to duplicate this several thousand times and never be able to repeat. I hope you took a picture.

 

[BigGameDamian]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...0/05/04/coronavirus-update-us/?outputType=amp

Live updates: Trump confident about reopening states as coronavirus death toll passes 67,000

 

[wizenheimer]

Now this is something that few people on the face of the Earth are able to accomplish. You could try to duplicate this several thousand times and never be able to repeat. I hope you took a picture.

I took a picture in my mind and it wasn't a pretty one...it had audio too but that was mostly "oh fuck oh fuck"

after that day, I rarely try to step into my shorts....I sit down and pull them up most of the way, then become homo sapient for the final stage. I don't need to save 7 seconds by hop-legging the process

 

[Lanny]

I took a picture in my mind and it wasn't a pretty one...it had audio too but that was mostly "oh fuck oh fuck"

after that day, I rarely try to step into my shorts....I sit down and pull them up most of the way, then become homo sapient for the final stage. I don't need to save 7 seconds by hop-legging the process

LOL

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I think I was probably around 53 when one morning I got up and while stepping into my underwear I threw my back out of place.

I did the same--I was 36

 

[yankeesince59]

Having a ruptured disc between S1 and L5 was the most agonizing 2 weeks of intense pain I've ever experienced. (2004)

I got lucky, the first epidural did the trick.

 

[Lanny]

I did the same--I was 36

Two? Two in here who did that? What are the odds?

 

[Orion Bailey]

I did the same--I was 36

Its washing my feet in the shower for me. 2 of the four times Ive tossed my back out good was in the shower trying to bend over to wash my darned feet.

 

[Lanny]

Having a ruptured disc between S1 and L5 was the most agonizing 2 weeks of intense pain I've ever experienced. (2004)

I got lucky, the first epidural did the trick.

L5 stay alive.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Two? Two in here who did that? What are the odds?

To be precise, mine was slightly different. I had already put on my underwear, and I was standing on one leg putting on my pants. Same physical action though. And then, suddenly, I wasn't standing any longer.

 

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[BigGameDamian]

Singapore Was A Shining Star In COVID-19 Control — Until It Wasn't

 

[Orion Bailey]

Disclaimer, sensationalist post ahead!:

So,

Is this how it ends?

Growing defiance of the law from citizens and businesses simply wanting to survive(some wanting to secure their freedoms) causing the government to respond with the national guard walking the streets to ensure businesses stay closed and citizens don't congregate?

What will happen then? Clashes with the government guards and protestors? The protestors will not like government militia patrolling the streets and some of the protestors are already armed!


I try to be a positive person and think of the world in a glass half full mentality, but As Cali has 3 counties defying orders today and the news comes out of this possibly spreading, what will the government do?

If they do nothing, they have lost all control and have shown the inability to control its citizens and the public will have lost all faith in anything about the government. So in my mind, the government has to try to maintain order, which would mean feet on the ground enforcing the closures.


The other part of me that always tries to see all the angles regardless of the outcome I would prefer, is getting pretty concerned right now.....We shall see how it all plays out.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Shopper wears Ku Klux Klan hood as a 'face covering' in California city dubbed 'Klantee' because of its racist history

• Middle-aged man wore white KKK hood in Santee, California, supermarket
• Photographs of the hooded man went viral on social media on Saturday
• Employees at Vons supermarket demanded he remove the hood, but he refused
• Supervisor approached man while he waited on line at checkout counter
• Man removed his hood and then completed his purchase and left
• Santee mayor said San Diego County Sheriff's Department is investigating
• San Diego County last week required residents to wear face coverings in public
• Local leaders issued statements condemning the incident in Santee
• San Diego suburb has history with racist groups, giving it nickname 'Klantee'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...e-covering-California-city-known-Klantee.html

 

[yankeesince59]

Holy crap !

 

[magnifier661]

Shopper wears Ku Klux Klan hood as a 'face covering' in California city dubbed 'Klantee' because of its racist history

• Middle-aged man wore white KKK hood in Santee, California, supermarket
• Photographs of the hooded man went viral on social media on Saturday
• Employees at Vons supermarket demanded he remove the hood, but he refused
• Supervisor approached man while he waited on line at checkout counter
• Man removed his hood and then completed his purchase and left
• Santee mayor said San Diego County Sheriff's Department is investigating
• San Diego County last week required residents to wear face coverings in public
• Local leaders issued statements condemning the incident in Santee
• San Diego suburb has history with racist groups, giving it nickname 'Klantee'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...e-covering-California-city-known-Klantee.html

This asshole has some balls.

 

[wizenheimer]

This asshole has some balls.

he can't see them without a mirror though. He should have worn a girdle

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This asshole has some balls.

I remember drinking in Hermosa Beach one night a while ago (maybe 15 years) and was talking to some dude who was in the Klan. I mean it was weird, but we were all wasted.

 

[magnifier661]

I remember drinking in Hermosa Beach one night a while ago (maybe 15 years) and was talking to some dude who was in the Klan. I mean it was weird, but we were all wasted.

LOL that would be weird. I don't know how I would act around one though. This shit makes my blood boil

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

LOL that would be weird. I don't know how I would act around one though. This shit makes my blood boil

I kind of brushed it off and was like "oh, cool". I was trying to get with one of the chicks he was with I think.

 

[barfo]

LOL that would be weird. I don't know how I would act around one though. This shit makes my blood boil

You would both be huge Trump fans, I'm sure you'd have a lot of common ground there. You could probably chat for hours about how awesome it is to mistreat immigrants.

barfo

 

[magnifier661]

You would both be huge Trump fans, I'm sure you'd have a lot of common ground there. You could probably chat for hours about how awesome it is to mistreat immigrants.

barfo

Yes, we usually finish off a case of Coors Light and unload 3k rounds at the range while doing it.

mags

 

[SlyPokerDog]

You would both be huge Trump fans, I'm sure you'd have a lot of common ground there. You could probably chat for hours about how awesome it is to mistreat immigrants.

barfo

 

[wizenheimer]

when your kids get on your nerves:

 

[wizenheimer]

a mom rants about home-schooling:

 

[BigGameDamian]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/04/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html

Trump Administration model projects daily coronavirus death toll will increase to 3,000 by June

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[magnifier661]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-updates.html

The Trump administration projects about 3,000 daily deaths by early June.

As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of cases and deaths from the coronavirus over the next several weeks, reaching about 3,000 daily deaths on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, nearly double from the current level of about 1,750.

The projections, based on government modeling pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now.

The numbers underscore a sobering reality: While the United States has been hunkered down for the past seven weeks, significant risks remain. And the reopening to the economy will make matters worse.

“There remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow,” the Centers for Disease Control warned.

The projections confirm the primary fear of public health experts: that a reopening of the economy will put the nation back where it was in mid-March, when cases were rising so rapidly in some parts of the country that patients were dying on gurneys in hospital hallways as the health care system was overloaded.

“While mitigation didn’t fail, I think it’s fair to say that it didn’t work as well as we expected,” Scott Gottlieb, Mr. Trump’s former commissioner of food and drugs, said Sunday on the CBS program Face the Nation. “We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we’re just not seeing that.”

On Sunday, Mr. Trump said deaths in the United States could reach 100,000, twice as many as he had forecast just two weeks ago. But his new estimate still underestimates what his own administration is now predicting to be the total death toll by the end of May — much less in the months that follow. It follows a pattern for Mr. Trump, who has frequently understated the impact of the disease.

“We’re going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people,” he said in a virtual town hall on Fox News. “That’s a horrible thing. We shouldn’t lose one person over this.”

The White House responded that the new projections had not been vetted.

“This is not a White House document nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task Force or gone through interagency vetting,” said Judd Deere, a White House spokesman. “This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or data that the task force has analyzed.”

“The president’s phased guidelines to open up America again are a scientific driven approach that the top health and infectious disease experts in the federal government agreed with,” he said.

Mr. Gottlieb said Americans “may be facing the prospect that 20,000, 30,000 new cases a day diagnosed becomes the new normal.”

Some states that have partially reopened are still seeing an increase in cases, including Iowa, Minnesota, Tennessee and Texas, according to Times data. Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska also are seeing an increase in cases and reopened some businesses on Monday. Alaska has also reopened and is seeing a small number of increasing cases.

While the country has stabilized, it has not really improved, as shown by data collected by The Times. Case and death numbers remain stuck on a numbing, tragic plateau that is tilting only slightly downward.

At least 1,000 people with the virus, and sometimes more than 2,000, have died every day for the last month. On a near-daily basis, at least 25,000 new cases of the virus are being identified across the country. And even as New York City, New Orleans and Detroit have shown improvement, other urban centers, including Chicago and Los Angeles, are reporting steady growth in cases.

The situation has devolved most dramatically in parts of rural America that were largely spared in the early stages of the pandemic. As food processing facilities and prisons have emerged as some of the country’s largest case clusters, the counties that include Logansport, Ind., South Sioux City, Neb., and Marion, Ohio, have surpassed New York City in cases per capita.