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China had 3200 deaths out of 81000 cases in a country with 1.4b people which is .04% death rate. Korea has 51b people had 8600 cases with 94 deaths which is .01%. Granted S Korea does more testing but given that line of thinking and getting the results of doing more testing, it seems to me this lends to a DECREASE in the mortality rate. Italy- not sure what's going on there other than they have a LOT of elderly, people kiss each other upon greeting, they live in close proximity to one another and spend a lot of time outdoors together. Even with all that said, so far their rate is still only .08%.

zzyzzx says

China had 3200 deaths out of 81000 cases in a country with 1.4b people which is .04% death rate. Korea has 51b people had 8600 cases with 94 deaths which is .01%. Granted S Korea does more testing but given that line of thinking and getting the results of doing more testing, it seems to me this lends to a DECREASE in the mortality rate. Italy- not sure what's going on there other than they have a LOT of elderly, people kiss each other upon greeting, they live in close proximity to one another and spend a lot of time outdoors together. Even with all that said, so far their rate is still only .08%.

Exactly. And all those deaths concentrated in the old and infirm to boot.

Deaths always go down during an epidemic while cases rise because A) It begins to move into the young and healthy who are highly likely to survive it and B) Increased Treatment Experience.

Last time I went to WalMart, only saw 3 people wearing masks. All of them black.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/stop-the-insane-overreaction.php

zzyzzx says

Last time I went to WalMart, only saw 3 people wearing masks. All of them black.

Last time I went to my cheapass Paki store, I saw only 10 womyn wearing masks, but they were wearing masks long before corona outbreak:

zzyzzx says

Pam! Pam! Pam!

Ceffer says

rd6B says

Last time I went to WalMart, only saw 3 people wearing masks. All of them black.

Drama Queen Disability and Workman's Comp Prepping. Same thing happened at our post office during the swine flu scare, gloves 'n masks and posturing. The Filipinos, Chinese and white people just kept on working, no masks or gloves.

I think you may have missed his joke. The "Black men wearing masks" were bandits.

www.youtube.com/embed/MPGw5Ucmwk8

Booger says

Lol, perfect!

OK, from now on it's "corona food" and "coronatown"!

After all, if it's wrong to say "China" when talking about the Chinese virus, then it's wrong to say "China" in Chinese food and Chinatown.

Shit keeps getting more real in Italy:

Lombardy, at the epicenter of the epidemic, said about 100 soldiers would soon be deployed to help local police enforce the lockdown, and called on the government to impose new measures to keep Italians at home.

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THat's clever, although probably not SF or NY city.

Bernie Trying To Decide Which House To Quarantine Himself In

https://babylonbee.com/news/bernie-trying-to-decide-which-house-to-quarantine-himself-in

Patrick says

OK, from now on it's "corona food" and "coronatown"!

From asshoe!

You can see by the hot african countries not getting any traction in infections that it's very heat susceptible. If we had actual globull warming and not the fucking coldest spring ever in CA we would get out of the woods much sooner. Greta and the church of globull warming followers want more people to die! How dare they!

https://spectator.us/please-please-let-covid-19-kill-culture-wars/

The luxuries and fixations of the culture wars may finally be over. Nobody will mourn its passing, because nobody conclusively won it, or ever could. In Samuel P. Huntington’s magisterial Who Are We? (2004) he noted that the absence of an external ‘other’ to rally against usually undermines the unity of a society. Divisions and grievances multiply. Cultural battles replace political process. Huntington could see a future America with only an Obama-style ‘creed’ as the basis of its polity. Following such a trajectory this America evolves into a deglutinated confederation of ethnic, cultural and political tribes with nothing in common save geography. Like the Ottoman Empire, or Austro-Hungarian Empires before it, the USA dissolves in an acid bath of competing identities.

But then again, maybe not. Maybe, as the learnèd philosopher Matthew McConaughey posits, COVID-19 is the external ‘other’, the enemy, that can bring America back together again.

Nah... I thought 911 was bringing us together but look what happened a few short years later.