The coronavirus spread updated in real time

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subgenius wrote:
Icarus wrote:Georgia just had its first Corona death

congratulations...?


Don't worry. It's probably nothing. Look at all those silly plebes buying toilet paper and panicking because we're getting our hair a little mussed.
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EAllusion wrote:
subgenius wrote:Image
That this is happening in one of the most advanced health care systems in the world carries a different lesson than the one you are taking from it.

Italy, average is 3 beds per 1000
USA, average is 13 beds per 1000

nope..the lesson here is clear. Do you also require anecdotal evidence?
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EAllusion wrote:Headlines have a major impact on how people interpret the news. You'd think it's because a lot of people just read the headlines and skim the rest. It's that, but even when you sit people down in an experimental setting and have them read full articles, research consistently finds that how headlines are shaded has a large impact on how people interpret what follows.


First it was huge stones, then gold, tulips for a while, then oil, and now TP. You have to admit that if nothing else, society is getting more practical.
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subgenius wrote:Italy, average is 3 beds per 1000
USA, average is 13 beds per 1000

nope..the lesson here is clear. Do you also require anecdotal evidence?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_O ... pital_beds

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS

Where'd you get that claim from subs? A meme on a right-wing message board?
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Trump 4 days ago:https://mobile.Twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/123697519664239002

The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American."

Obama 9 days ago:

https://mobile.Twitter.com/BarackObama/ ... 6817630208

Protect yourself and your community from coronavirus with common sense precautions: wash your hands, stay home when sick and listen to the @CDCgov and local health authorities. Save the masks for health care workers. Let’s stay calm, listen to the experts, and follow the science.
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Gadianton wrote:
EAllusion wrote:Headlines have a major impact on how people interpret the news. You'd think it's because a lot of people just read the headlines and skim the rest. It's that, but even when you sit people down in an experimental setting and have them read full articles, research consistently finds that how headlines are shaded has a large impact on how people interpret what follows.


First it was huge stones, then gold, tulips for a while, then oil, and now TP. You have to admit that if nothing else, society is getting more practical.


Might want to get ahead of the curve and invest in gasoline and chrome spray paint.
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Trump 4 days ago:https://mobile.Twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/123697519664239002

The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American."

Obama 9 days ago:

https://mobile.Twitter.com/BarackObama/ ... 6817630208

Protect yourself and your community from coronavirus with common sense precautions: wash your hands, stay home when sick and listen to the @CDCgov and local health authorities. Save the masks for health care workers. Let’s stay calm, listen to the experts, and follow the science.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvHD1Jcx54w

What the “F” is he wearing the ball cap for now? Is this his "real guys roll up their sleeves and get to work" look? He'll be wearing scrubs by next week.
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Jersey Girl wrote:
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Trump 4 days ago:https://mobile.Twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/123697519664239002

The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American."

Obama 9 days ago:

https://mobile.Twitter.com/BarackObama/ ... 6817630208

Protect yourself and your community from coronavirus with common sense precautions: wash your hands, stay home when sick and listen to the @CDCgov and local health authorities. Save the masks for health care workers. Let’s stay calm, listen to the experts, and follow the science.


Trump is a useless piece of ____. Do I sound bitter?


On an emotional level, the thing that truly annoys me the most is the more effective people are at ignoring naysayers and taking steps to mitigate harm, the more likely those naysayers are to believe they were correct that this was no big deal. Either they get to see how wrong they and it's terrible, or you successfully beat them back and that only reinforces their delusional confidence in their failed efforts to make things actively worse. It's frustrating.
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Jersey Girl wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvHD1Jcx54w

What the ____ is he wearing the ball cap for now? Is this his "real guys roll up their sleeves and get to work" look? He'll be wearing scrubs by next week.


I am not watching this, but I skipped to a middle section and it was just Trump going on and on and on taking credit for the stock market rally yesterday.
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