i dare say some of the fascists will think covid's a "good thing" to clear out the ill and weak from society.
Yeah I keep asking myself why right wingers love covid so much and seem so keen to say its not deadly and well yeah
LINCOLN — Jobless workers and struggling families in Nebraska are having to make do without two federally funded coronavirus relief programs.
Nebraska is one of two states that have not yet opted to give unemployed workers an extra $300 a week in federal unemployment aid. The other state, South Dakota, has refused the money.
Gov. Pete Ricketts said officials are reviewing President Donald Trump’s executive order that made the money available to states.
In addition, Nebraska is the only state not to continue emergency supplemental food assistance beyond July.
State Sen. Adam Morfeld of Lincoln said the situation sends a message to unemployed Nebraskans “that their state is not doing the bare minimum to ensure their family does not go hungry.”
Definitely a China thing I'd say, the Ethiopian head is seen as a China place-man and they think the WHO was too quick to absolve China of blame, while blame is of course trump's game.C&P from Beeb (not linkable).
I don't understand. Why ?
US won't join WHO-led vaccine efforts
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The Trump administration has indicated that it will not participate in international coalition efforts to find and distribute a vaccine for Covid-19 because the World Health Organization (WHO) is involved.
The Washington Post newspaper reported that the White House would not join 172 other countries participating in a WHO-led initiative to "ensure equitable access to safe and effective vaccines, once they are licensed and approved".
White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement that the US would "continue to engage our international partners to ensure we defeat the virus, but we will not be constrained by multilateral organisations influenced by the corrupt World Health Organization and China".
US President Donald Trump has attacked the WHO over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, accusing it of being biased towards China in how it issued its guidance.
More than 410,000 people in the US could die from the coronavirus by January 1, more than doubling the current death toll, a new model often cited by top health officials predicted Friday. That would mean 224,000 more lives lost in the US over the next four months.
Near-universal mask use could cut the number of projected additional fatalities by more than half, according to the model from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. But it also warns the cumulative death toll could be much higher by the new year if all restrictions are eased. "If a herd immunity strategy is pursued, meaning no further government intervention is taken from now to Jan 1st, the death toll could increase to 620,000," according to IHME's briefing.
The death rate could reach nearly 3,000 a day by December, an unprecedented number, due in part to "declining vigilance of the public," the IHME expects. For now, the model points to declining mask use in some regions from peak usage in early August.
ffsNancy Pelosi says she was victim of 'setup' in hair salon mask dispute
House speaker, who was photographed in San Francisco salon without a face covering, says salon owes her apologywww.theguardian.com
But, this prediction is scary, based on a model from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which has tended to be fairly accurate in the past, if anything a little on the conservative side, according to CNN.
There was a time when we often had reason to take the piss out of the IHME model, mostly because the maths used to predict the future downward curve was based on the initial upwards curve, so when the death rate fell more slowly than they rose in the first place, the model was way off. But that was quite a long time ago now and they since added all sorts of stuff relating to social distancing measures/masks etc to their model, and they have a lot more data now. I still expect there are severe limitations to this model, like most models, but it might be coping much better these days with the current situation in the USA. It is on my list of things to do to revaluate how well that model is doing in regards various countries.
State of the replies on this. America is fucked.
I think people complaining are more vocal usually but yes, I have finger cramp from scrolling through the eedjits
99% of statistics are made on the spot...I do wonder if there’s any ‘foreign influence’ stirring this pot, it’s an easy way to weaken/divide the USA. Or does that make me a conspiracy loon?
People are really running with this 6% thing, which is utter bollocks.
Needs another pile-in from the K-Pop lot I reckon!
well, the orange buffoon did tweet about it so it must be the trooth
I've seen centrist types quoting this shit too tbf.
Centrists are the worst.
I've seen centrist types quoting this shit too tbf.
Not denying it as such just minimising it and misrepresenting arguments etc, saying that anyone criticising government decisions and rhetoric such as 'herd immunity' is 'damaging public trust in a pandemic' among other things. I don't really want to derail this thread tbh.I'd normally criticise centrists for their feeble politics, so can you explain them being Covid-deniers a bit more?
Not denying it as such just minimising it and misrepresenting arguments etc, saying that anyone criticising government decisions and rhetoric such as 'herd immunity' is 'damaging public trust in a pandemic' among other things. I don't really want to derail this thread tbh.
I hope soVery interesting -- maybe there'll get to be an opportunity to discuss all that on some different thread another time?