Totally agreed! There are a lot of idiots that we protected from death with these closures. We missed an opportunity when nature was cleaning up the mess. What a waste!
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Apple Continues Store Closures Amid Covid-19 Spike, Now Shuttering 14 Locations in Florida
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Totally agreed! There are a lot of idiots that we protected from death with these closures. We missed an opportunity when nature was cleaning up the mess. What a waste!
I don't care. Wear a mask, look ridiculous. Makes no difference to me.
I assume you’re not old or heavy right. Or have any family that is.
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He won’t. He’s probably spread it to 50 people now because of his beliefs and hasn’t been checked.
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Great to see Apple thinking about their staff's health, which in turn is the right message to the population that they don't feel it's in the best interest of the community to be open.
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Yanks love to reinvent the English language. They should call it American (I'd guess a lot do think it as being the American language)
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Yanks love to reinvent the English language. They should call it American (I'd guess a lot do think it as being the American language)
It invokes the imagery of a hurricane or similar natural disaster. Not saying I agree or disagree with the imagery. That's simply what the origin of this phraseology is.
Actually, he probably hasn't. To spread COVID, you have to be infected + careless. Most of the people being careless are acting that way because the disease hasn't actually hit their doorsteps and they don't think it's real.
This is the most reasonable post I've ever seen in PRSI. Hats off (er, mask off?) to you.
Some people only think about 'me' not how can I help 'everyone'.
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"These are not decisions we rush into - and a store opening in no way means that we won't take the preventative step of closing it again should local conditions warrant," O'Brien said"
Yea, but the timing was bad. if it was over a longer duration when it closed again, then it "wouldn't be rushing"
Most people know still work from home, and for good reasons... Even i theunlikely event, why should they risk until is settled..
Apple rushed... They could have waited.
Yea, but the timing was bad. if it was over a longer duration when it closed again, then it "wouldn't be rushing"
Most people know still work from home, and for good reasons... Even i theunlikely event, why should they risk until is settled..
Apple rushed... They could have waited.
True, but this is media. “shuttered” conjures imagery of desolate wastelands and tumbleweed towns of deserted lands... it evokes uncertainty, anxiety, and best of all (for marketing and banner ads) fear. Fear sells. Fear keeps you glued to their anxiety machine, which played Revlon, Budweiser, and Ford ads every 8 minutes. Plus 20% off if you buy two on your next mobile order this weekend. Only at your local Anytown Walgreens. Now with Boost Mobile. Buy any two iPhones and get a free pack of condoms.
Well the article actually used variants of the word "closed"(closed, closure, closing) about 9 times versus one instance of "shuttered" that was only used to link another article. I'd hardly call that obsessive use of "shuttered/shuttering".
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You watch too much TV. Oof.
USA coronavirus deaths have been going down along with cases in the past few months. But remember that the disease doesn't cause instant death. The death stats will lag cases by at least 2 weeks, seems like 27 days based on when this started.
Cases just spiked about 2 weeks ago. So if the trend continues, the deaths should arrive in about 13 days.
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The USA has more people than most other countries. You have to represent everything in per capita terms.
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The main reason we're doing it is to keep the number of sick below hospital capacity so nobody dies just cause they couldn't be treated. The other is the hope of a vaccine saving the day, but I'm not hopeful about that.
Now, I'm furious that capacity is so low to begin with and think we need an Elon Musk equivalent (controversy and craziness included) to fix healthcare, but that's separate.
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I think it's actually closer to 4 to 6 weeks. Most charts indicate when things are reported, not when they occur. There's a delay between exposure and onset of symptoms, a delay between symptoms and being tested, a long path through disease, hospitalization, ICU, then death, and then a delay in reporting that death.
Numbers are all over the place, but I seem to remember reading the average lag from symptoms to death is something like 30 days. I don't know what it is in all countries, but it appears that at least in Sweden the median delay from death to report is a week or two.
Setting policy by changes in the death statistics is like trying to steer a car with slack rubber bands.
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Covid isn't killing us, other people's vanity is...
Let's get one thing out of the way. The governments of the world basically don't want people to die. Why? Because dead people don't pay taxes.
Putting your faith into a cure-all vaccine is the ultimate in naivety. The influenza vaccine averages about 40% effective annually. This year the vaccine producers missed.
Look at that two HPV vaccines. They cover about 5-6 strains of HPV. There are something like 30+ strains of HPV. The two drug companies correctly focused on strains that cause cervical cancer but that doesn't mean that getting the HPV vaccine provides total immunity.
SARS-CoV-2 might mutate into something much more benign and COVID-19 might end up being a once-in-a-lifetime event. Or it might mutate into something far more lethal. Or it could stay where it is and most people will develop an immunity (this is unlikely).
In the end, it's pretty darned naive to expect all of this to magically go away.
As far as I know, people like Elon Musk don't control microbiology. If he wants to switch Tesla production to pumping out coronavirus testing reagants that's fine by me, but I don't see how an automobile plant in Fremont can be easily repurposed for such matters.
Yeah, that's the problem. The people who control it are stuck in the 1900s, as the auto manufacturers were.
Governments don't care about taxes. They care about staying in power either because they're power hungry, or because re-election is affirmation. Either way, it's easier to stay in power if the people keeping you there don't blame you for killing their grandma.
The misanthropic view is that death and misery lead to revolution. The fairy tale view is that governments represent the peoples' will to stay healthy. Either way, it's not about taxes.
There are a lot of very effective vaccines. Influenza mutates rapidly, making it a moving target for a vaccine, but even accounting for that the vaccine helps keep the spread and impact of the flu in check. It also contributes to residual immunity for future strains. This is a lot of the reason for the difference in impact between the 1918 flu and current seasonal flus.
There is no residual immunity or even a weakly effective vaccine to slow the current coronavirus, which is why it's tearing through us like a brush fire.
The HPV vaccine targets strains of HPV that cause most cancers. You don't get a vaccine just to prevent warts.
Who's the last person you know who's had polio or the measles?
I'm pretty sure @fairuz specifically said they weren't holding out for a vaccine, though. Even given all the current candidates, it's my understanding that there are currently no human vaccines for any coronavirus. The goals here are to keep the infection rate manageable by the health care system, and to buy time for improving treatment strategies. Slowing things down and buying time improves the chances of a vaccine, but no heath department policy is predicated on success of a vaccine.
Or if the people who would vote against you don’t, either because of fear of a pandemic, or because they’re dead from said pandemic.
Yes. I just don't think they're going to develop an effective enough one quickly enough.
Here in Asia (especially Hong Kong and Taiwan) the governments reacted extremely quickly and the general public was made aware of the dangers. Unlike many of their western counterparts, local scientists made it clear right from the getgo, that wearing a mask is not for your own protection, but for the protection of others. And because people in Asia have gone through a similar pandemic 2003 with SARS, they are/disciplined. Result: hardly any local infections and most businesses and life for everyone went on.
What is very clear for outsiders to see: those countries with an extremely incompetent government are struggling most with corona. And that is a problem: Instead of trying to unite people to fight together, the fight against virus is dragged into a political battlefield. Populistic slogans, which some narrow minded people love to believe seem more convenient at first. But when things don’t work out, the blame game starts.
And more thing: when the virus situation spirals out of control with millions of infections, chances of a mutation of a virus are much higher. So when scientists have clobbered together a vaccine against Covid 19, the virus might have mutated in ways rendering the vaccine useless.
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It's funny how in America we venerate the American Revolution but when the actual revolution comes to our doorstep then most folks get scared when rioting and burning start to happen. Hmm...
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My parents' homeland in Taiwan did everything flawlessly in response to COVID-19. Apparently we learned that female presidents/leaders are just more gifted naturally at dealing with natural disasters/responses than the oafish guys. In fact, our current dictator is a model of what not to do.