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Coronavirus !!! Very Political Thread !!!

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Good lord. I just accidentally answered a call from the National Republican asking me if I believed that Democratic governors and blue state congressional leaders had a political agenda in keeping their states economies closed, or something to that effect. It was positoined as a one-question poll, but I'm sure the intent was just to make people mad at democrats.
 
Oh yes...Republicans are fully invested in never recognizing actual problems or offering real solutions. It’s just too damn easy to mislead and gin up ignorant passion against the Democrat boogeyman.
 
If I'm not mistaken, Houston has one of the largest, if not the largest number of beds and facilities in the country.
 
Coronavirus / Worse than RJKarl's Breath !!! (Not Really)

BiffTannen said:
Good lord. I just accidentally answered a call from the National Republican asking me if I believed that Democratic governors and blue state congressional leaders had a political agenda in keeping their states economies closed, or something to that effect. It was positoined as a one-question poll, but I'm sure the intent was just to make people mad at democrats.
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Meanwhile Republicans are essentially forcing small businesses to open under the worst conditions instead of letting them access government backed programs that provide a safety net to businessowners and workers. They're setting up small businesses to fail under the guise of "freedom."

Pence cancelled events in Arizona and Florida this week due to spikes in coronavirus. He’s still going to a church in Dallas tomorrow.
 
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/26/thi...urant-spending-and-new-coronavirus-cases.html

Analyst Jesse Edgerton analyzed data from 30 million Chase credit and debit cardholders and from Johns Hopkins University’s case tracker. He found that increased restaurant spending in a state predicted a rise in new infections there three weeks later.
He also said restaurant spending was the strongest predictor across all categories of card spending.
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Conversely, higher spending at supermarkets predicts a slower spread of the virus, which could indicate that states that buy more groceries are more mindful of social distancing measures.
“For example, as of three weeks ago, supermarket spending was up 20% or more from last year’s levels in New York and New Jersey, while it was up less than 10% in Texas and Arizona,” Edgerton said.
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Yeah, the AZ, TX, FL datapoints on that graph are telling. Restaurants are a convenience of privilege. You're spending $60 eating out for something you can make for $8 out at home. Bars are the same thing, you're spending $8 for a beer you can buy for $1.50 at home. Those industries just need to go away during this pandemic, the problem is that's where most of those with little other skills work. They're also a fabric of human life and enjoyment.
 
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Yeah, the AZ, TX, FL datapoints on that graph are telling. Restaurants are a convenience of privilege. You're spending $60 eating out for something you can make for $8 out at home. Bars are the same thing, you're spending $8 for a beer you can buy for $1.50 at home. Those industries just need to go away during this pandemic, the problem is that's where most of those with little other skills work. They're also a fabric of human life and enjoyment.
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I kind of agree. I would say that restaurant owners and workers should get bailed out if they want it. I'd be fine if only national chains operated right now. It would suck for the few times we eat out, but I'd rather look out for the long-term health of these businesses. Operating a low margins because they have to really doesn't help.

Not sure what happened to DeacMan's international updates, but here is some uplifting news from India.

[h=1]While coronavirus spread in the U.S., an Indian slum with 1 million residents contained it[/h]
https://www.latimes.com/world-natio...aravi-slum-in-mumbai-india-contained-covid-19

MUMBAI, India — When the first COVID-19 case was detected in Dharavi, a crammed labyrinth of one-room shacks in the heart of India’s financial capital, epidemiologists feared the disease would spiral out of control.
Inside one square mile live nearly 1 million people, many of whom survive on daily wages and share public bathrooms. Families sleep in eight-by-eight-foot rooms. People squeeze past one another in alleys. Social distancing is impossible.
But nearly three months later, authorities in Mumbai appear to have pulled off a miracle — or at least found an unexpected reprieve.
After recording 491 COVID-19 cases in April and 1,216 in May, Dharavi saw only 274 cases and six deaths in the first two weeks of June. Epidemiologists say one of Asia’s largest slums — best known as the setting for the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” — has contained the virus even as it surges elsewhere in Mumbai and across other parts of India.
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I kind of agree. I would say that restaurant owners and workers should get bailed out if they want it. I'd be fine if only national chains operated right now. It would suck for the few times we eat out, but I'd rather look out for the long-term health of these businesses. Operating a low margins because they have to really doesn't help.

Not sure what happened to DeacMan's international updates, but here is some uplifting news from India.

[h=1]While coronavirus spread in the U.S., an Indian slum with 1 million residents contained it[/h]
https://www.latimes.com/world-natio...aravi-slum-in-mumbai-india-contained-covid-19
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Having lived in India the past 2+ years, you should know a few things about the "containment" of the virus in the slum:

1) Speaking of police brutality, it's everywhere in India, and you can't do a thing about it. In our city, it was very common at the start of the nation wide lockdown to see people either beaten in public or forced to do pushups/situps/frog jumps as their punishment (clearly there's a big difference between the two punishments, but it's real).
2) Nobody on the ground in India believes anything the government is putting out. Testing is horrific, the way they've handled the virus has been disheartening for millions of migrant workers, and many people believe the virus is spread through eating chicken.
3) Government leaders at one point recommended yoga, drinking cow urine, and a host of other crunchy techniques to ward off and kill the virus.

Maybe the article is true, but I'd say give it another month and the nationwide average of 18,000-20,000 cases per day will be shooting way up, in all major cities across the country, and that's only if the country continues to ramp up testing and honestly reports the numbers. I don't buy what that article is putting out, but hopefully it is true! With a young population and potential for increased production in major global sectors, India has tons of opportunities to take advantage of this global crisis, but from the government corruption coupled with the lack of public cooperation in fighting the disease, it looks like an uphill battle.
 
Bars in several CA counties are being shut down by the governor.
 
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