Coronavirus cases rising across the country for the first time in weeks as experts fear Thanksgiving will fuel a further increase

“We still have about 60 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who have not been, and that results in the dynamic of virus in the community that not only is dangerous and makes people who are unvaccinated vulnerable, but it also spills over into the vaccinated people,” Fauci said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.

:surprised-pika:

This brings back memories from February:

"As my mother would say, with the grace of God and the goodwill of the neighbors, that by next Christmas I think we'll be in a very different circumstance, God willing, than we are today," Biden said. "A year from now, I think that there'll be significantly fewer people having to be socially distanced, having to wear a mask."

:biden-troll:

No shit Joe, you told everyone to give up on non-pharmaceutical interventions in July so you could have your big wet summer of fun, no one is social distancing or masking up anymore you utterly useless sack of cum

  • ShareThatBread [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    US sitting at 1 in every 420 people having passed away from COVID.

    Good chance of hitting 1 in every 400 (0.25% of the population) by Christmas.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      A full year of statistics, calculus, and real analysis should be mandatory at the high school level.

      Innumeracy is going to be the end of the species.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        My conspiracy brained take that I stole from someone else is that if they actually taught you mathematics properly you would pretty quickly realize capitalism is dogshit

        • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Or you think economics is a valid science (but somehow resent all other social sciences) because it pretends its findings are natural laws perfectly describable by mathematics/logic like physics or chemistry or biology.

          Nate Silver is good at stats and baseball stats. Also decent amateur poker player. But also not someone you should listen to on politics.

          I don't think people knowing math will save us, if you're still indoctrinated by other parts of the school system.

      • effervescent [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Those would just be tools to better understand how we’re getting fucked. In order for tools of analysis to be useful, you need to first have the power to act on that analysis. Most people wouldn’t know freedom or self-governance if it hit them in the face