SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

Cuz gayness is a breathable cootie?

Y'all Americans are just human capital stock to the GOP. Well done.

Next up, boltguns to the head once you ain't productive enough, Daisy.

Yes, yes it is.

Didn't you know that?

If you bake a cake for gay people, you're also going to have to divorce your wife and marry a man (or the other way around if you're a woman). It's why you have to be opposed to homosexuals, in order to protect the sanctity of marriage.

how the hell has your unproductive ass been spared so far? Asking for a friend!

Oxford scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine say there is now only a 50% chance of success because the number of UK cases is falling too quickly.

https://news.yahoo.com/oxford-scientists-working-coronavirus-vaccine-100847254.html

Basically, COVID19 is disappearing so fast that the researchers fear that they won't have enough people to test the vaccine on.

If I am not mistaken, the biggest reason we never got a vaccine for SARS is similar: It went away and they had no way to test a vaccine.

We started "reopening" on May 1st. You see those days where there weren't a lot of positives? Every one of them corresponds to a Saturday or Sunday. Why is that important? Non-Hospital Labs don't work on the weekends. There are fewer tests being performed on the weekends and thus there are fewer positives to report. Excluding those days, we're seeing an alarming increase. Hospitals in Montgomery County (the State Capitol) are now out of beds. Birmingham and Mobile aren't far behind them.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) hospital (the largest, best in the state) is clamoring for nurses, reassigning everyone in finance and admin that maintains a license to bedside patient care. This is because one, so many have gotten sick and two, so many have walked off the job because of the lack of PPE and pay cuts.

When asked, by a reporter, about the 14-day decreasing case numbers in the President's plan for reopening, our Governor said, "We can't close the State any longer. We can't let these businesses close."

Great job, guys.

To their credit, Kentucky Republicans unequivocally condemned this.

So let's fix that and open everything and demand everyone run around hugging each other.

Some good news: the virus might not be infectious for as long as previously thought, only 11 days (in vitro) after symptom onset (no word on how long in asymptomatic cases*): https://www.theatlantic.com/health/...-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/

PDF: https://www.ams.edu.sg/view-pdf.aspx?file=media\5556_fi_331.pdf&ofile=Period of Infectivity Position Statement (final) 23-5-20 (logos).pdf

*This is super important. Carriers can spread for a long time with some diseases. Think Typhoid Mary.

When the fuck have I ever said anything about Dr. Fauci?

I agree, and I'm sure you agree that we should pay people $2000 per month until there is a vaccine or the pandemic is otherwise mitigated.

After all, people cannot feed their families if they are hospitalized or dead, right?

Or we can allow businesses to open back up so people can go back to work and pay their bills because giving everyone $2,000 a month for the next year or more is not sustainable.

Neither is letting millions die.

Good luck forcing the whole country to stay home for much longer. I know a leftist like you wouldn't understand, but much like Communism, these things look good on paper, but in reality they don't work. It's not happening, get over it.

when your whole movement is straight up obsessed with killing someone but almost all of you too cowardly to risk finding your bitch ass in prison.

Sure it is. There's a vast repository of wealth doing nothing right now but compounding itself in the stock market. Just got to have the balls, and the political philosophy, to go slice off a hunk of that cheese.

That and deficit spending but the right has already proven they are copacetic about THAT.

Hey, you misunderstand me. I am 100% on board with conservatives suiciding themselves by believing COVID-19 is fake news. Nothing would make me happier than for the third world flyover states to destroy themselves while the civilized economies carry on. It's basically finishing the dirty business Lincoln wasn't willing to finish.

But if you really cared about your own unemployment and those around you, you'd be in favor of people surviving, and in favor of $2000 per month per person, rather than a trillion dollar bailout for business entities.

Also?

It doesn't HAVE to be "much longer" - it didn't have to be any longer at all if we'd had competent leadership now, sane government over the last decade+, and a willingness to commit to the cost.

See for reference, New Zealand among others.

A shut down isn't supposed to be an open ended "who knows?" proposition. It has two purposes:
1. spare the health care system from collapsing by spreading out the infections over a longer period
2. provide the Federal government time to get a robust Test/Trace/Isolation system in place.

Which they utterly failed to do.
Which is why "Fuck it" mode is gonna end up being probably more deadly than the totals so far.
It didn't HAVE to be this way. Trump and the Republicans choose to honor their political doctrines instead of doing the things that needed doing. We got the results that we - collectively - voted for.

@Federal Farmer voted for Trump, so you're talking to a brick wall.

In other words you don't really care about millions of people dying, you just want to flex your authoritarian muscles.

No I didn't, moron.

Who did you vote for, then?

You're talking tens of trillions of dollars if not more, it doesn't exist.

Gary Johnson.

And you just want to flex your capitalism muscles by allowing millions to die on the off chance you might find a job again.

Yes, like I said, you voted for Donald Trump.

A vaccine won't be available for at least a year, that is "much longer."

Off chance? People are hiring like crazy because like or not, businesses are going to open back up. And I already found a job, start Wednesday. I'm not allowing anyone to die, people want to get back to work. People want to be able to get out of the house and congregate. They all know the risks, but I know you think government knows better.

So why should people die in the mean time?