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When you begin your pandemic response by calling it a hoax perpetrated by democrats, I think you win the finger pointing contest. Sit down kdub, good grief.
This is worth a watch. Bill Maher is actually one of the more thoughtful liberals in the media, but even still, he has engaged in plenty of "Tump Shoulda" political sniping. One of the more revolting things about this whole episode is that politics never missed a beat. At least durng 9/11, the country unified for a time. This time it was finger-pointing from the start, and I suspect that's here to stay.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1251644816611573760
If you didn't want finger pointing, you wouldn't vote for trump. Gmafb with that crap.
Yes, Senator, well done. China and the WHO aren't to blame - Orange Man is to blame!
Defend WHO funding, and while you're at it, keep bringing up the sham impeachment you were laser-focused on while the virus spread. https://twitter.com/Kevin_Shipp/status/1250497137529573380
Remember when Hillary bitterly complained that she lost because a lot of women voted how their husbands told them to? (I think she was speaking at some paid event in India - not Indiana, India - at the time ). If you actually believe that, do you believe that vote by mail will make that better or worse?
yeah ksuw decided he was not going to like parasite / snowpiercer as soon as he heard a critic mention "class"
i watched snowpiercer a few years ago knowing nothing about it, and thought it was a good premise but kind of meh / too reliant on fight scenes to be a good movie (iirc)
Parasite was incredible, i don't know what the overrated talk was all about. You're just not supposed to be able to effortlessly shift genres and tone like that, and have the movie still work. and it works beautifully. i don't think i've seen anything quite like it.Pffft. OK, hipster chodecat.
It really wasn't all that enjoyable, interesting, or special in any way. Big fat meh.
Death of Stalin had some absolutely hilarious moments. I think it ran too long.
You didn't find the first act comedy enjoyable?
You didn't find the plot interesting?
I already explained how it was special thematically.
You can just say you didn't like it.
The Worldometers data aggregation everybody seems to be using is much more up to date, but possibly not super-reliable given the number of sources they are pulling from, different counting methodologies, etc. I think everyone, including the Worldometer analysts, would concede there are likely issues with the data.
By contrast, the CDC keeps a running tally based only on only confirmed death certificates. It's not nearly as up to date, and even going off of verified death certificates is far from certain, but at least the CDC makes its data publicly available. You can download the CSV here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
I was curious about deaths by age in the US. Based upon the CDC's most recent data (only about 5k deaths, so way behind), deaths caused by COVID by age are:
- Under 55: 9.5%
- 55-64: 12.5%
- 65+: 78%
That doesn't seem surprising.
But then I then compared the COVID deaths for each of those age groupings against all deaths of any cause for each of those age groupings (this is all in the same CSV). Here's how that breaks down....
- Under 55: 474 / 32,197 = 0.81%
- 55-64: 624 / 64,579 = 0.97%
- 65+: 3,886 / 387,996 = 1.00%
So no matter what your age (at least based upon these 3 age groupings), about 1% of all deaths is being caused by COVID, even though COIVD has a massively higher mortality rate as you get older.
Would be interested to hear Sys's take and that of other number crunchers. Should this be expected? Just an anomaly? I found it surprising.
This is interesting. I would have expected the number for those under 55 to be higher than for those over 65. We do have a lot of very unhealthy young-ish people in this country, though.
There are a lot of Pit’rs whose raison d'etre seems to be taking comments wildly out of context and or distorting them to make a snarky comment.
The point I was making with liquor stores, and numerous other businesses, is that the distinction between “essential vs non-essential” business seems highly arbitrary and unlikely to meaningfully slow the spread when you consider how many “essential businesses” remain open. I think it would have been smarter to identify and restrict certain businesses that are both high-risk for spread (due to close personal contact, food, etc.) and non-essential. Gyms, movie theaters, and restaurant dine-in service, for example, made sense. But closing down thousands of small businesses (just in Kansas alone) when the grocery stores, hardware stores, gas stations, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. remain open is both arbitrary and illogical. And liquor stores aren’t even “essential” in my opinion. My goodness, I think Rusty just compared liquor stores to methadone clinics!
No, snarky dumbasses, I’m not mad that those businesses are open, I’m pointing out that closing down other business when so many high-density, high-contact businesses stay open is arbitrary, illogical, and likely ineffectual.
which ones?
Parasite was incredible, i don't know what the overrated talk was all about. You're just not supposed to be able to effortlessly shift genres and tone like that, and have the movie still work. and it works beautifully. i don't think i've seen anything quite like it.Pffft. OK, hipster chodecat.
