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FUCKDOWN, U.S.A.

Started by Abnormal Palm, April 19, 2020, 01:24:03 PM

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Ferris

Canada and the US have a similar relationship to Scotland/England or NZ/Australia in my experience - people from the smaller country define themselves in opposition tto the local cultural behemoth[nb]usually to everyone's benefit - I seem to have more Scots, kiwi and Canadian friends than Australians/Americans/the English, and I am English[/nb]. A gross oversimplification, but seems to largely be true.

Fambo Number Mive

Texas governor Greg Abbott spoke at an indoor discussion about the "top issues facing Texas". According to news reporter for KXAN News John Engel, about half of the crowd did not wear a mask.

His priorities included "Fight overreach of Biden admin" but I can't see one specific to COVID in the list the KXAN news reporter tweeted, unless you include fighting COVID in his public safety pledge.

https://twitter.com/EngelsAngle/status/1349862732754014214

Meanwhile, a Texas state representative who "spoke without a mask for about a minute from the microphone at the front of the chamber" and who sat at his desk in the House "with his mask pulled down below his nose and mouth" has now tested positive for coronavirus.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/15/texas-house-member-coronavirus-quarantine/


QDRPHNC

There's a group of anti-maskers in Toronto calling themselves "Hugs Over Masks" (or something... the mind boggles). Anyway, they held a rally downtown to protest the latest lockdown. And people were all like, yeah whatever, like the police will do anything. Then the police showed up and cracked some heads. Lovely stuff!

The woman speaking on the mic who says "You can't arrest me! I do not consent!" before she gets arrested is called Kelly Anne Wolfe, who seems to be a general local nut.

MrMrs


Chedney Honks

Genuinely enjoyed watching that. Wish a few had been beaten absolutely senseless, though.

Ferris

Quote from: QDRPHNC on January 17, 2021, 03:30:59 PM
There's a group of anti-maskers in Toronto calling themselves "Hugs Over Masks" (or something... the mind boggles). Anyway, they held a rally downtown to protest the latest lockdown. And people were all like, yeah whatever, like the police will do anything. Then the police showed up and cracked some heads. Lovely stuff!

The woman speaking on the mic who says "You can't arrest me! I do not consent!" before she gets arrested is called Kelly Anne Wolfe, who seems to be a general local nut.

Yonge and Dundas - good place for an unhinged protest as the majority of the city's lunatics are already there.

Fambo Number Mive

Three regions of Texas - Abilene, Bryan-College Station and Laredo - currently have no intensive care beds. Bryan-College Station alone has over 270,000 residents.   

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/17/coronavirus-texas-hospital-icu-no-capacity/

Also, the former manager of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard, Rebekah Jones, says she will turn herself in after an arrest warrant was issued.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-data-scientist-battle-state-over-covid-dashboard-plans-turn-n1254544

Quote...A search warrant was executed on Jones' Tallahassee home after she allegedly accessed a Department of Health-run communications platform and sent a Nov. 10 group text warning users that it was "time to speak up before another 17,000 people are dead."

She has denied the accusations and filed a lawsuit against the state, claiming the Dec. 7 raid was initiated to "silence" her online speech and curry favor with Gov. Ron DeSantis...

Jones claims she was ousted from the project after refusing to "manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-data-scientist-battle-state-over-covid-dashboard-plans-turn-n1254544
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-official-says-she-was-ousted-refusing-censor-coronavirus-data-n1210551

Fambo Number Mive


Fambo Number Mive

Email from the California Restaurant Association says Gavin Newsom will be lifting the stay-at-home order for all regions across the state tomorrow

https://twitter.com/aidan_smx/status/1353572394695180293

ICU availability in Southern California is at 0%.

Ferris

Newsom has been a spectacularly poor governor.

JamesTC

ICU is something that families won't be saying to loved ones in California for much longer.

Dog Botherer

someone dies of Covid every 8 minutes in LA and they had to change the air pollution regulations because they're cremating so many bodies.

be grand.

El Unicornio, mang

The US has also had the highest number of deaths from gun violence in 20 years, partly due to Covid (more people stocking up on guns, increased domestic violence, and other factors)

https://time.com/5922082/2020-gun-violence-homicides-record-year/

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quotewidespread perceptions that police departments have stepped back from their responsibilities in response to this year's racial justice protests.

"Officers are afraid to do anything because they don't want to make a mistake and get in trouble," a New York Police Department sergeant, speaking recently with THE CITY, explained of his colleagues. "They're afraid to stick their neck out to do anything because they don't want to get fired."

More murdahs because of the goddamn woke PC brigade won't let us kerbstomp darkie

Fambo Number Mive

California had over 30,000 cases yesterday, I know nearly 40 million live there but that's still a high number of cases.

Even LA County is relaxing rules - outdoor dining from Friday (not sure how much of a risk this is), family entertainment centres (how defined?) to open at 50% capacity, tourism and individual travel now permitted, hair and nail salons can open at 25% capacity, shopping centres can now operate at 25% capacity not 20%. Card rooms (not sure what they are - is it gambling?) can open outdoors at 50% capacity.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-25/la-lifting-stay-at-home-covid-rules-whats-open-now

Instead of reopening nail salons and hotels, Newsome should be bailing them out.

Ferris

Cases dropping, just 170k today (down from 260k a day at its peak). That'll be below 100k in a week or two.

Deaths still very high (4200+ dead yesterday) which looks like the holdover from the holiday spike, but I reckon that will start to drop off as vaccinations increase and case numbers dip. Total number of people hospitalized also going in the right direction (though that may be because so many patients are leaving the hospital via the morgue).

With the increased vaccination schedule, I think this is as bad as it'll get for the yanks. Hope so anyway.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on January 26, 2021, 10:53:49 AM
California had over 30,000 cases yesterday, I know nearly 40 million live there but that's still a high number of cases.

Even LA County is relaxing rules - outdoor dining from Friday (not sure how much of a risk this is), family entertainment centres (how defined?) to open at 50% capacity, tourism and individual travel now permitted, hair and nail salons can open at 25% capacity, shopping centres can now operate at 25% capacity not 20%. Card rooms (not sure what they are - is it gambling?) can open outdoors at 50% capacity.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-25/la-lifting-stay-at-home-covid-rules-whats-open-now

Instead of reopening nail salons and hotels, Newsome should be bailing them out.

"Lockdown means you can't say a final goodbye to a recently deceased loved one?

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JamesTC


MojoJojo

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on January 27, 2021, 12:09:35 PM
Cases dropping, just 170k today (down from 260k a day at its peak). That'll be below 100k in a week or two.

Why are cases dropping? Are states implementing more lockdown? Most of the media I look at only covers the federal level, or extreme state level stuff, so I don't understand why cases would be dropping at the moment.

Noodle Lizard

Quote from: MojoJojo on January 27, 2021, 11:29:52 PM
Why are cases dropping? Are states implementing more lockdown? Most of the media I look at only covers the federal level, or extreme state level stuff, so I don't understand why cases would be dropping at the moment.

I think the WHO recently changed the standards for determining thresholds on PCR tests, which would naturally result in a lower nationwide case count: https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users-2020-05

If we're talking California, they've also recently decided to stop publishing certain data regarding COVID ahead of lifting the strict stay-at-home orders (during the implementation of which the data showed we had the worst surge in the country, the lowest ICU capacity and a new mutation all of our own): https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/secret-california-key-virus-data-public-75432129

The dates are purely coincidental, mind.

El Unicornio, mang

Quote from: Noodle Lizard on January 28, 2021, 02:17:39 AM
I think the WHO recently changed the standards for determining thresholds on PCR tests, which would naturally result in a lower nationwide case count: https://www.who.int/news/item/20-01-2021-who-information-notice-for-ivd-users-2020-05


I read through that but "I Can't Explain" it.

Fambo Number Mive

Weddings to resume in March 15th in New York with a limit of up to 150 people or 50% of the venue's capacity. Local health departments must approve and everyone must have a negative COVID test.

However, who will be making sure that all these guests have a COVID test? What about people who get COVID between the test and the wedding, such as people who get the subway to the wedding?

https://gothamist.com/news/cuomo-announces-weddings-150-people-maximum-can-resume-march

QuoteAccording to the state's numbers, NYC's positivity rate dropped from 7.1% on January 5th to 4.9% on Thursday (NYC's current seven-day average is 8.74%; remember, the city and state have different numbers), and the governor said studies suggest the number will continue to trend downward.

Dog Botherer

lol gatherings of that size requiring a permit is literally the only anti covid measure we've had for months in this part of the US.

Fambo Number Mive

QuoteDodger Stadium's mass COVID-19 vaccination site was temporarily shut down Saturday afternoon when about 50 protesters gathered at the entrance, frustrating hundreds of motorists who had been waiting in line for hours.

The Los Angeles Fire Department closed the entrance to the stadium — one of the largest vaccination sites in the country — for about an hour starting just before 2 p.m. as a precaution, officials said. Several LAPD officers also responded to the scene; a spokeswoman for the department said no arrests were made...

A post on social media described the demonstration as the "Scamdemic Protest/March." It advised participants to "please refrain from wearing Trump/MAGA attire as we want our statement to resonate with the sheeple. No flags but informational signs only.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-30/dodger-stadiums-covid-19-vaccination-site-shutdown-after-dozens-of-protesters-gather-at-entrance

Protests should be illegal within 30 metres of vaccine sites. Not sure what the regulations are on protesting in California during the pandemic but these protestors are putting lives at risk by denying vaccinations and yelling in a big group during a pandemic. No doubt some of them will get COVID from their protest and spread it to others.

Head Gardener


Fambo Number Mive

San Francisco is suing its own school district:

QuoteThe fight over reopening San Francisco's public schools will take a dramatic, heated turn on Wednesday as the city becomes the first in the state — and possibly the entire country — to sue its own school district to force classroom doors open.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera, with the blessing of Mayor London Breed, plans to sue the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District for violating a state law compelling districts to adopt a clear plan during the COVID-19 pandemic describing actions they "will take to offer classroom-based instruction whenever possible."

The law says such a plan must be in place particularly for students who've experienced "significant learning loss due to school closures." But not a single student in the San Francisco public schools — including students with severe disabilities, homeless students and those learning English — has seen the inside of their classroom in nearly 11 months, and district data shows learning loss has hit students of color and low-income students particularly hard.

Even with that glaring inequity, the district's plan for welcoming any of its 52,000 students back remains full of "ambiguous, empty rhetoric," Herrera said...

School Board President Gabriela López said Wednesday that she doesn't believe the lawsuit will get students in classrooms more quickly.

"I think filing a lawsuit will most likely slow us down," she said. "I don't see how this is helpful right now when we are making progress and the county has failed to provide the necessary support with the testing and vaccines we need."...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/San-Francisco-sues-its-own-school-district-board-15920075.php

There's also a new coronavirus varient in the San Francisco area: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/How-the-Bay-Area-coronavirus-variant-differs-from-15900526.php

QDRPHNC

I think if Covid has taught us anything, it's that the end of Watchmen is optimistic horseshit.