Coronavirus is one mutation away from infecting millions

[DarrinS]

The media is really eating this up for clicks

We're all gonna die unless we stay at home for at least 10 years, tbh.

[ElNono]

White House to give $19B in farmer aid

President Donald Trump on Friday announced a $19 billion economic rescue package for farmers and ranchers that will include sending out cash payments as well as buying farm products and redistributing them to food banks.

Trump has counted farmers and rural voters among his most solid supporters, and he directed Secretary Sonny Perdue last week to speed through assistance to the agriculture sector as producers increasingly bleed profits and start dumping goods like milk and fresh produce.

Support from the industry could be crucial to the president’s reelection hopes this November in key Midwestern swing states like Wisconsin and Michigan. Yet influential sectors, including producers of biofuels like ethanol, are frustrated that they were excluded from the program.

The stimulus plan is the latest in a long string of recent ad hoc relief efforts for the agricultural economy. Trump has pulled out the stops to bail out farmers and ranchers stung by his own trade war and biofuel policies, in addition to long-term economic headwinds.

“The program will include direct payments to farmers as well as mass purchases of dairy, meat and agricultural produce, to get that food to the people in need,” Trump said during a White House press briefing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...mer-aid-193180


#free 2020

[ElNono]

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/bill-mitc -miami/

rofl... sounds like the kind of scam Qhrisbot would fall for...

[Splits]

[Winehole23]

We're all gonna die unless we stay at home for at least 10 years, tbh.

Don't you think we should at least wait for cases/deaths to peak and start going down first? You know, maybe a few more weeks?

[boutons_deux]

Red states may be facing a perfect storm of illness and death from COVID-19

experts say that they’re simply behind the curve of denser, more urban states

another reason to believe that red states are likely to be hit hard as the virus spreads: Many of them are leading the country in risk factors for severe illness and death from COVID-19.

17 of the 20 states with the highest rates of smoking are red. Two are swing states and one, North Carolina, has only become blue in the past couple of cycles.

Twelve of the 15 states with the highest self-reported rate of diabetes are red.

Thirteen of the 15 states with the highest obesity rates are as well.

Of the 15 states with the largest share of their populations reporting being in “fair” or “poor” health, one is blue, two are swing states and the rest are solidly Republican.

Among the 15 states with the highest rates of death from heart disease, four are swing states but none are blue states.

“many rural doctors, leaders and health experts worry that…they will have fewer hospital beds, ventilators and nurses to handle the onslaught.” Of the 20 states with the highest rates of uninsured, 16 are safely Republican.

eight of the 10 states with the highest rates of death from pneumonia and influenza in 2018, the most recent year for which data are available, were heavily Republican.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/red...e+Raw+Story%29

aka, the rightwing death/suicide cult, low-wage, low-ed, ignorant of self-care, solidly in Trash cult mob

[RandomGuy]

RandomGuy hardest hit
*laughing in retired Florida Republican*

I hope it stays lower. I really do.

The death toll in some counties exceeds 5% of cases. The problem is that the model is probably using garbage numbers, as they are keeping deaths in nursing homes secret. Like authoritarians everywhere.

Would you like to see an article about how state governments are trying to keep a lid on nursing home deaths?

In the end time will tell. Vastly too much uncertainty at the moment. Republicans will push to re-open too soon. If they do that, my guess remains the same. I think we are getting vastly overconfident. Viruses don't care about ideology. Reality has a way of punishing people who ignore it.


FLORIDA BEACHES PACKED
... As Trump Urges People To Break Quarantine
https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/18/flori...eak-quarantine

[boutons_deux]

rightwingnutjobs, always infected fatally with freedumb, and Repugs are blaming the C19 shutdowns on Dems trying to hurt Trash (and other Repugs)

because they know the pandemic will hurt Trash, and

that the Dems will wipe Trash's historic, fatal negligent manslaughter botching of the pandemic in Repugs' faces all campaign.

[rmt]

I'd be wasting money. The other day I try making rice and it came out like paste.

Practice makes perfect. Rice is the first thing Chinese kids learn to make - admittedly, it's very easy in a rice cooker - almost fool-proof. Or rice and beans is quick (30 mins), easy and healthy in an Instant Pot.

[RandomGuy]

Also change the graph from logarithmic to linear so you can really see how much Sweden is sucking compared to it's neighbors.

Unshockingly, the virus is behaving in Sweden just like it has everywhere else. They are a week or less from shutting everything down.

Just like everybody else.

Jury still out TSA? Let me know when they are done deliberating, and the debate is over.

[leemajors]

You can go outside even if parks are closed.

[DarrinS]

Projection for Texas lowered to less than 1000.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/unite...-america/texas

[Reck]

Projection for Texas lowered to less than 1000.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/unite...-america/texas

Umm i dont buy these projections.

Took at look at NY. They project 21 thousand deaths by august but we're already at 12k.

[baseline bum]

Projection for Texas lowered to less than 1000.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/unite...-america/texas

And when we reopen?

[Spurs Homer]

Projection for Texas lowered to less than 1000.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/unite...-america/texas

When you do NOT test -

projections are really low.

Why do you think trump bungle team is stalling/blocking mass testing?

[DarrinS]

Umm i dont buy these projections.

Took at look at NY. They project 21 thousand deaths by august but we're already at 12k.

By early May.

[DarrinS]

And when we reopen?

Probably some es

[Reck]

And when we reopen?

Very generic plain answer. They have June 1 for pretty much every state.

[Winehole23]

Science Magazine article about what COVID -19 does to the body

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...dy-brain-toes#

[Reck]

According to Cuomo we may be past the plateau and on a downward trajectory.

Todays’s deaths stands at: 504 hospital and 36 nursing homes for a total of 540.

[Chris]

[baseline bum]

According to Cuomo we may be past the plateau and on a downward trajectory.

Todays’s deaths stands at: 504 hospital and 36 nursing homes for a total of 540.

Until you reopen.

[Reck]

The negro blame game!

[baseline bum]

The negro blame game!

???

[leemajors]

I'd rather ask myself why the EPA wants to allow more mercury waste into the environment.