COVID-19 in America

[weltweit]

Seems scary that in the US they seem to be forgetting the virus in their rush to open their economy. The numbers of infections and deaths are just scary, surely they can't ignore them much longer?

 

[existentialist]

Seems scary that in the US they seem to be forgetting the virus in their rush to open their economy. The numbers of infections and deaths are just scary, surely they can't ignore them much longer?

Watch them do just that.

 

[frogwoman]

Yeah 1119 deaths is unbelievable.

 

[frogwoman]

US public increasingly skeptical of Covid-19 death toll, poll finds this is worrying, talking about how 31% of people in the US think the pandemic is exaggerated. In actual fact its likely to be significantly more than reported.

 

[LDC]

US public increasingly skeptical of Covid-19 death toll, poll finds this is worrying, talking about how 31% of people in the US think the pandemic is exaggerated.

Yeah, saw that, depressing. Closely matched to the media they watch.

 

[frogwoman]

There's scum like Alex Berenson (who openly admitted he doesn't give a shit if people die) who are making a living claiming its just flu as well.

 

[cupid_stunt]

US public increasingly skeptical of Covid-19 death toll, poll finds this is worrying, talking about how 31% of people in the US think the pandemic is exaggerated. In actual fact its likely to be significantly more than reported.

And, this is at a time when it's getting worst, and there's increasing coverage of hospitals being overwhelmed, unbelievable.

 

[two sheds]

US public increasingly skeptical of Covid-19 death toll, poll finds this is worrying, talking about how 31% of people in the US think the pandemic is exaggerated. In actual fact its likely to be significantly more than reported.

Close to the figure for hard-core Trump voters it seems

 

[LDC]

I worry that POV is growing here a bit....

 

[two sheds]

?

Eta: ah ok, understand now - growing on urban75 too, really?

Eta eta: ah ok, really understand now - sad if true.

 

[existentialist]

I worry that POV is growing here a bit....

I think it's an inevitable part of the human reaction - denial often arises, along with all the other defence mechanisms, like blame, anger, etc. Most of us will catch that, and think on, to realise that our denial is an invalid response, but quite a few people will stop at that point and simply believe their own denial, unchallenged.

 

[William of Walworth]

I worry that POV is growing here a bit....

Hopefully only a bit?
I'd be surprised if virus-disbelief was as high as 31% in the UK, surely??
Admittedly I can only speculate, but maybe someone else has some poll-data or something

 

[frogwoman]

I worry that POV is growing here a bit....

Same

 

[William of Walworth]

To what extent though?

I doubt any of know with any confidence how much virus-disbelief there is around??

 

[frogwoman]

I think a big part of it for scum like Berenson is the fact of who this virus is killing too.

 

[killer b]

I worry that POV is growing here a bit....

The recording fuck up by PHE has been a shot in the arm for these types, but most of the people talking loudly about it are people who've been talking quietly about it before now IME.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I guess when you have a president only ever saying what people want to hear, eventually they won't believe anything they don't want to hear

 

[existentialist]

Hopefully only a bit?
I'd be surprised if virus-disbelief was as high as 31% in the UK, surely??
Admittedly I can only speculate, but maybe someone else has some poll-data or something

It's an inevitable aspect of the way we think.

We are under threat from an invisible, intangible agent whose existence very few of us can directly observe. So it comes down to trust, and belief. For some people, it is easier to believe that the whole thing is a hoax than it is to believe that the sort of people with the ability to directly observe the existence of the virus are telling the truth.

That'd be very hard to get numbers for via polling, at least with any decent confidence factor. But we can reasonably deduce that it exists, both from observing existing behaviours, and from a knowledge of the way people, in general, tend to think.

 

[frogwoman]

I've also seen a few coronavirus necklaces, socks, earrings, cuddly toys etc lately. I think some people are trying to portray it as something cute to manage the fear lol.

 

[NoXion]

I think a big part of it for scum like Berenson is the fact of who this virus is killing too.

Who's Berenson?

 

[frogwoman]

Who's Berenson?

Scumbag covid truther, there's an interview with him here.

An Ex-Times Reporter. An Ohio Wedding Provider. Covid Contrarians Go Viral. (Published 2020)

Anger at lockdowns and mask mandates provides fertile ground for arguments about the best way to fight the virus.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Badgers]

Nice words from a nice man about schools in the US

 

[Tankus]

Vaccine.? ?large scale testing ......said trump.?.. think I'll wait for Fauchi

6 months late...trumps doing a presser....wheres hes finally pushing mask wareing and washing hands...blaming protests and bars for the surge

 

[existentialist]

Vaccine.? ?large scale testing ......said trump.?.. think I'll wait for Fauchi

Maybe Trump's agenda is to get things as bad as possible, and then produce his Miracle Vaccine with a flourish, and Save America!

He could get nice brown shirts made, with "SA" on the shoulders for the people Saving America

 

[frogwoman]

Horrifying numbers in the USA

 

[cupid_stunt]

Horrifying numbers in the USA

And, sadly it's going to get worst, the NY times is reporting the numbers in hospital now match what they were during the last peak in April.

At overflowing hospitals in South Texas, patients wait hours in sweltering ambulances and on recliner beds set up in hallways. The number of patients intubated in hospital beds in Tampa, Fla., is growing by the day. In Corpus Christi, Texas, a mobile morgue has arrived.

About as many people are now known to be hospitalized with the coronavirus in the United States as during any other time in the pandemic, matching the previous peak in April.

The data, as well as interviews across the country, show a far-reaching crisis. The worst-hit areas in Texas and Florida have approached the peak rates of hospitalization that New York, New Orleans, Chicago and other cities hit in the spring. A wide and growing expanse of hot spots around the country — including Las Vegas, Nashville and Tulsa, Okla. — have worsened over the past two weeks.

Where the Virus Is Sending People to Hospitals (Published 2020)

New data from nearly 50 cities shows the number of people hospitalized with coronavirus is rising in a wide expanse of hot spots around the country.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Numbers]

Horrifying numbers in the USA

Where do you check froggie?

 

[frogwoman]

Coronavirus Update (Live): 129,471,257 Cases and 2,828,154 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...

www.worldometers.info

 

[Numbers]

Coronavirus Update (Live): 129,471,257 Cases and 2,828,154 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...

www.worldometers.info

Ah OK, I do look on there occasionally.

 

[frogwoman]

Or Johns Hopkins university as well.