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[Starver]

At a guess you were probably seeing figures for the state of Victoria (main city Melbourne)

Looking for the web version of the radio item you are correct but the headline accouncement (that they probably shared) is a tad misleading into looking like "the whole of Oz".


(Current top-ten articles on BBC: 8 Covids (including one illegal rave convened/broken up with that as background), 1 US election thing and 1 (more) very famous footballer with brain illness.  For those like Hector who want something different, I had to wander around to find something worth mentioning: Try police station blown up! - or over... Or maybe chatbot talks to chatbot, which I'm not sure is an improvement on the time Eliza first talked to Parry, but there you go... )

[ChairmanPoo]

I had an antimasker come into my clinic today. With the usual crappy excuses.

Realized too late what the situation was or else I´d have refused them entry. Also wanted me to take off my mask because my voice was "muffled" (eh, no thanks, and here´s a two sentence explanation of your reason to be here in lieu of my usual long explanation, and here you have a form to get stuff done elsewhere, and next appointment is going to be over the PHONE, have no doubt.)

I´m beyond angry. I minimized contact and kept distance but even so I can´t help to worry about whether this might have resulted in an infection.

[Magistrum]

 I remember an interview Sabine Hossenfielder did with an physicist where he explained that infection rates decreased slightly faster than expected because the extra dumb ones go get infected and die/get immune right at the start, leaving it down to the more cautious people who won't spread as fast.
 So these people being dumb are still a major disadvantage to humanity in the fight, but probably aren't as big a problem as anticipated. I don't remember if he managed to publish anything solid about it (it is not his field after all) but the thought does ease me a bit.

[wierd]

The issue is that the stupid tend to spread it very far and wide.

[ChairmanPoo]

Sounds like wistful thinking with something as contagious as this. I think wierd got it right.

[Starver]

Back in ?Feb/March?, just pre-lockdown on one of my last visits to a Subway before they pre-emptively closed, I had a guy slightly closer to me in the queue than I'd have prefered cheerfully tell me (in part of some casual conversation while waiting) that he knew several people who'd caught the thing we weren't quite yet so nationally concerned about (just rearranged queuing areas with distance markers). If I was to have caught it back then[1], this would have been my first and main guess for the incoming vector. It was the blasé/badge-of-pride[2] nature of the claim accompanied by the close-enough-to-feel-his-breath thing that stuck in my mind.

Yesterday, I helped someone find the local Blood Donor centre[3]. It emerged he was donating plasma for theraputic use. Which of course meant he had had it (it was unsaid, yet logically implied) but sufficiently past the infective stage that I am not at all concerned about this one particular street-meeting in the whole grand theme of the moment.


[1] Or if I did. I've never been given cause to believe that I have/get tested for that, by changes in my own health or any direct acquaintances, but it is still entirely possible!

[2] To be honest, at the time I treated it as a topical hyperbole, just a few steps down from "I was in the SAS, you know!"

[3] It's been almost a full year since my last donation (of non-special whole blood). I really must check if they want me.

[ZBridges]

Today, for the first time, over 100,000 new daily COVID-19 cases were tallied in the United States.

Source

[Max™]

Huh...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[ZBridges]

Huh...

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

There are some reasons to doubt the validity of that site, so I don't use it.  CNN published a story casting doubt on their counts.

[hector13]

Why the fuck do you have your taskbar on the right of the screen?

Why the fuck is your mouse pointer not master race default?

I can’t take your point seriously because of this.

Also you don’t seem to have any porn on those tabs.

[Max™]

That bar is on the right, my left monitor is at the top, I don't know what a default pointer is, but on linux I love the partially transparent giant cursor for some reason.

The tabs extend way off to the left and I have no idea how many are actually over there so I'm sure there's probably some porn mixed in there.

As for worldometers info being sketchy, it's tracked well enough with the various numbers I've seen elsewhere, they list their methodology changes and such with the updates, and the sources are right there in links to check so fuck what cnn thinks, I don't post links to shit without looking at the link unless I specifically say "I haven't checked this fully" because I'm the credible hulk, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry, because I back up my arguments with well researched and fully sourced information.

[ZBridges]

"Instead of trying to use a consistent criteria, [Worldometer] seems to be going for the highest figure. They have a system for users to report higher figures, but so far I failed to use it to report that some figure is erroneous and should be lower."

"Their main focus seems to be having the latest number wherever it comes from, whether it’s reliable or not, whether it’s well-sourced or not,” he said. “We think people should be wary, especially media, policy-makers and decision-makers. This data is not as accurate as they think it is.”

[misko27]

In any case we did smash our record for coronavirus today, as the NY Times is reporting we've hit six digits on their own tracker of infections. Now what was that about "This is all gonna end on Nov. 4th"? Think someone missed a memo or two or a hundred thousand.

[wierd]

but that's fake news! Faucci is FAKE NEWS!


/S

[ChairmanPoo]

Why the fuck do you have your taskbar on the right of the screen?

Why the fuck is your mouse pointer not master race default?

I can’t take your point seriously because of this.

Also you don’t seem to have any porn on those tabs.

Yeah same here I think I've lost respect for Max after this.