COVID-19 in America
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krtek a houby
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What a strange world where masks can become politicized 
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hiraethified
This is what FREEDOM LOOKS LIKE, COMMIES!!!!
High Voltage
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WW1 American death toll
The current death total for CV19 has just blown through the 100k mark
The current death total for CV19 has just blown through the 100k mark
phillm
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How Mask Mandates Were Beaten Down in Rural Oklahoma
In Oklahoma, where the state government is currently implementing one of the country’s fastest reopening plans, local leaders have found themselves caught between state politics, economic imperatives, and a clear scientific consensus.
About sixty-five per cent of Oklahoma’s counties, including the one where Guthrie is located, lack a single I.C.U. bed. For them, the fear is not having as many coronavirus cases as Oklahoma City. It’s having as many as Guymon, a town of eleven thousand in the western panhandle that now has more than seven hundred confirmed cases, the second most in the state, due to an outbreak at a pork-processing plant. “A lot of these rural hospitals have either been cut back or closed,” Randolph Hubach, the director of the Sexual Health Research Lab at Oklahoma State University, who studies health outcomes in rural Oklahoma, told me. “The extent to which we’ve really hindered the capacity of rural communities and public health in general is starting to show in our incidence rates, but also in our death rates.”
Artaxerxes
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petee
no gods, no malarkey
Yeah! Masks are for PUSSIES!
this is widespread, on the net anyway, the "if you wear a mask you're a coward and a pussy and a liberal and a cuck etc" meme.
i continue to be heartened that, here in NYC at least, there's no drop-off in the percentage of people wearing masks. i'd wager every person i saw outside today had a mask on, even as most parts of NYS are re-opening on a graduated basis. this happened on staten island recently, and that's trump-land mind you:
Shoppers at Staten Island grocery store scream at woman for not wearing mask
The video shows furious customers yelling at the woman to leave the grocery store.
www.cbsnews.com
which brings its own conflicts but, as i've said before, don't get the idea that "the american people" are on board with the posturing scumbags.
Gimigimi
leaky cyborg
this is widespread, on the net anyway, the "if you wear a mask you're a coward and a pussy and a liberal and a cuck etc" meme.
i continue to be heartened that, here in NYC at least, there's no drop-off in the percentage of people wearing masks. i'd wager every person i saw outside today had a mask on, even as most parts of NYS are re-opening on a graduated basis. this happened on staten island recently, and that's trump-land mind you:
Shoppers at Staten Island grocery store scream at woman for not wearing mask
The video shows furious customers yelling at the woman to leave the grocery store.
which brings its own conflicts but, as i've said before, don't get the idea that "the american people" are on board with the posturing scumbags.
Yeah, precautions are taken seriously here in Seattle too. I haven't seen an establishment yet that doesn't straight out have a big sign saying you have to wear a mask to go in (for all I know this may be required by law now). It took a month or so for everyone on the street to get on board, but the number of people I see without masks has gone down as well, at least in high-density areas. Haven't heard anyone IRL saying anything negative except that all this should have happened sooner.
The current line that I see on reactionary internet is that it's actually good that a hundred thousand Americans are dead because they were weak people, and to wear a mask is to show that you're fearful, weak, and easily controlled yourself. Sometimes I understand the reactionary mind, but not this time. Just can't understand catching or spreading a virus being considered some kind of macho test of personal strength. Probably just the fash being obsessed with eugenics.
I've not being following this thread (much) for reasons of sanity-preservation ....
But here's a fucking good summary of how badly the Trump-machine has been 'dealing' with coronavirus in the US :
Brutal faultlines : America's stark divisions laid bare by disease
But here's a fucking good summary of how badly the Trump-machine has been 'dealing' with coronavirus in the US :
Brutal faultlines : America's stark divisions laid bare by disease
ETA : And the above is just the start of the article -- please read the rest!!Ed Pilkington said:
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Incredible photos
apnews.com
AP PHOTOS: Images from protests across a traumatized nation
In cities across the United States, protesters angered over the death of George Floyd faced off against heavily-armed officers, with some smashing police cars, ransacking businesses and setting fires that smoldered through the night.
apnews.com
spring-peeper
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"traumatized nation"
SheilaNaGig
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I can't stand the awful juxtaposition of young mostly black people gathering in crowds, chanting and shouting and crying out for their rights to be recognised, during a pandemic that hits black people hard, and is transmitted easily via a wide open mouth. And the irony of "I can't breathe" against the backdrop of a virus that causes severe respiratory breakdown.
This is just awful.
This is just awful.
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
Also
Dope. Penthouse.
Dope. Penthouse.
High Voltage
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Granted the number is from the ever reliable World-O-Meter site, but the States of America are set to blow through the 2,000,000 total cases in the not too distant
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
And creeping ever closer to the COMBINED American deaths of WW1 (116,516) that's deaths through illness (the "Kansas" Flu of 1918 (also, somewhat unfairly known as the "Spanish" Flu)) and actual war deaths - current total deaths, again, from World-O-Meter site, standing at 110,179
War Losses (USA) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)
War Losses (USA) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)
High Voltage
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It's a range of figures that have cropped up from more than one source - which is why, IMO, they are and should be such "stunning" total to have reached
I'll do a bit more digging and post accordingly
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
From another quick Google - the figure seems to check out
www.facinghistory.org
The Brutal Realities of World War I
Gain insight into the death and destruction of World War I with firsthand accounts from former soldiers.
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And I'm only giving MILITARY deaths to Kansas/Spanish Flu
Yossarian
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It's killed a similar number of Americans as World War I did, including soldiers who died from the flu - the CDC estimates that the 1918 pandemic killed around 675,000 Americans in total.
1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus) | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC
Everything you need to know about the flu illness, including symptoms, treatment and prevention.
www.cdc.gov
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