- In hospital: 126,166 (+6,618)
- In ICU: 21,707 (+497)
- New deaths: 1,797
This is just the start, IMO. Those ICU numbers are probably the consequence of ~300k cases per day from 10 days ago. Biden is really going for it.
Question is, Is it because they went chud, or because their health stats department has covid?
1 in 400 Americans have died of Covid as of around Christmas day. That number today is 1 in 390. If the rate continues as it is currently, 1 in 300 people will have died of COVID by around mid to late May. Let that one sink in.
Sitting in the snow, surrounded by burning wreckage, slinging back a bottle of what could be whisky with the only other survivor - which one of you is still human, and which one is covid?
Almost like it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism...
No, you see, the problem is that this is a fre market failure. We have failed the free market and if we only created the right conditions for the free market to take place it will all be resolved in no time
"one million new cases on monday was just the weekend backlog making it look worse than it is"
don't worry, free tests are coming in a week or two! We'll each get two!
There's always this implication that gets made that covid deaths are going to result in dems losing the midterms/presidency, but the big winners electorally have been the ones who've gotten as many people killed as possible. We all remember how popular Cuomo was before they got rid of him, and Desantis and Abbott are both looking at a viable 2024 run. I hate to say it, but I think that throwing their hands up and telling us that things are going back to normal as we continue to stuff fresh corpses into the meat grinder could be the dem's ticket to staying in power
I think you're right. And i think the reason for this is pretty clear.
COVID isn't life threatening for most people. So having the government throw up their hands and do nothing is fine for them. They can get back to enjoying all the treats.
The people it kills obviously don't vote so fuck um.
Also opening up no matter what is what capital wants so the politicians who do so will have plenty of corporate money
We’ll probably see a low turnout for the next election, lol. Bunch of peoples that died, and bunch of voter apathy for this disastrous admin
Dead people aren't counted in voter turnout, right?
Also unless there's something absolutely bonkers down ballot, I'm not paying 7€ to fax/mail my vote in.
I might be off base here but at this point I believe everyone to both the left and right of the DNC is baying for their blood right now. I am anticipating haunting nightmares of Reaganesque election results with exactly the wrong kind of red sweeping this country.
I don't see how people are even getting tested. I was looking yesterday and the soonest appt for a test by me was 5 days out.
We're well on our way to flattening the curve in the dumbest way possible, as is tradition.
Over a week here for a PCR test for our daughter, she’s under 2 so a lot of places won’t take her for some reason.
I’m having a friend in the U.K. send me rapid tests as I can’t find those locally either :doomjak:
I’m having a friend in the U.K. send me rapid tests
If they're lateral flow don't trust them too much. I had a friend here in the UK test negative with 5 of them and then test positive when they finally got a PCR.
New conspiracy theory: the rapid tests give a high rate of false negatives so people go back to work
Have to fucking full out all your info for each vendor/store before you can even see appointment availability. Too bad there’s no way the federal government could make it easier to see that you can’t get tested for a week lmao
Good graphs https://newsnodes.com/us Percentage of positive tests is way up, hospitalizations are about to break the previous record, but the death rate IS much lower.
that and deaths aren't the only important stat, not when all hospitals are constantly at full capacity
Yeah, once they run out of ventilators it'll spike, fast. Then spike again as ICU goes.
was is really that hard to just tell factories to mass produce n95's and send them to everyone and mandate them? Like we built 40 thousand tanks and 80k aircraft in ww2 but now we can't even make masks lol.
Any government action to promote public well-being is the greatest form of tyranny.
And my dad insists that we'll just have to live with it. I ask him how he can be okay with it, and he repeats the party line with zero hesitation.
The ones who survive/haven’t died yet love it. They’re going buck wild partying like it’s 1999.
The ones who catch Covid simply weren't the Elect after all.
My dad got incredulous when I started ranting about needing a real lockdown. He said, "what, are we gonna change the foundations of the entire economy?" I said we should, because it's killing even more people than usual now, and that we should've done it 100 years ago when the Soviet Union gave us an example to follow." At that point it was clear to him that I'm an idiot and we didn't get any further with the discussion.
Which is why the only way to stop them is to alert them to the possibility if social systems actually collapse the only thing they'll be living with is a very short ride in a tumbril.
I’ve seen claims that it looks like this wave has peaked in London and New York, fingers crossed that’s actually the case. I assume that someone can snap me out of my desperate optimism with some facts that don’t care about my feelings.
