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obsidian wrote:

Eraser wrote:Had an argument with some guy at work.

Let him have the bloody elevator, but just before you let the doors close, hit every single elevator button before exiting. Fucking amateur!

It’s not possible to boil down the value of education to just dollars and cents. But economists who’ve tried generally have found that in high-income countries, an extra year of education is worth about a 10 percent boost in income.

If you take that literally, the implication is that two or three months worth of school closure will cost today’s cohort of schoolchildren thousands of dollars a year in lost earnings for their entire lives. Those thousands of dollars multiplied across millions of kids add up to tens of billions in lost income each year for decades.

That’s a bit simplistic, especially because, as experts all seem to agree, the harms of school closures won’t be felt evenly. But any back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that closures ought to loom larger in the national discourse as a costly aspect of social distancing — albeit one whose costs accrue over the long term rather than the immediate future.

xer0s wrote:You think your kid will become a janitor instead of a doctor because he/she had to wait 6 months to get back into school?

It’s obviously an exaggeration. But what do you realistically feel could happen with a 6 month absence from school? And are those consequences worth killing some people. Because ultimately, more people will die because children are back at school...

xer0s wrote:You think your kid will become a janitor instead of a doctor because he/she had to wait 6 months to get back into school?

It’s obviously an exaggeration. But what do you realistically feel could happen with a 6 month absence from school? And are those consequences worth killing some people. Because ultimately, more people will die because children are back at school...

xer0s wrote:Gay...

Now, anyone with a bit of sense knew this was going to happen. What’s new is that the report gives us a sense of just how bad this really was. According to the study, Sturgis accounted for a 35 percent increase in cases in South Dakota, and raised rates significantly in every county that visitors returned to. Enough that for the month in which Sturgis took place, the rally was responsible for a fifth of the cases in the entire country

England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said Covid-19 rates are now rising, especially amongst people aged between the ages of 17 and 29.

seremtan wrote:yep, second wave here too

also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54066831

England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said Covid-19 rates are now rising, especially amongst people aged between the ages of 17 and 29.

what have young people been up to recently that could possibly make them a significant vector for Covid?

President Donald Drumpf admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward in his new book "Rage."

"This is deadly stuff," Drumpf told Woodward on February 7.

In a series of interviews with Woodward, Drumpf revealed that he had a surprising level of detail about the threat of the virus earlier than previously known. "Pretty amazing," Drumpf told Woodward, adding that the coronavirus was maybe five times "more deadly" than the flu.

Captain Mazda wrote:So who's ready for lockdown round 2?

Captain Mazda wrote:So who's ready for lockdown round 2?

raw wrote:It won't be happening here in Floriduh.
Facts:

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#FloridaSucks

Months into the pandemic, Vermont’s governor says the state is “the envy of the nation,” with little more than 1,100 confirmed covid-19 infections and 56 deaths. Perhaps most remarkable is that Vermont has been relatively spared the effects of the disease even though a huge swath of the nation’s cases are mere hours from its borders; neighboring New York and Massachusetts have approximately half a million confirmed cases between them, and more than 37,000 deaths.

xer0s wrote:I feel people don’t realize the vaccine isn’t going to be a miracle solution. First of all, despite what Trump says, it won’t be available for everyone until next summer at the earliest. And even then, it’s not going to be a switch that gets flipped. You’ll get one shot, wait a month, then get another. And then it’ll take several weeks or a few months before you’re possibly immune. This isn’t a fairytale with a magical happy ending. The universe doesn’t give a fuck about us. Some generations just live in shitty times. It’s happened for thousands of years. I’m afraid we might just be in one of those times...