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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Why is California spelled Californië while the other state names are the same as in English?

[misko27]

Something something Spanish Netherlands? Maybe?

Also, as bad as the rise in Florida/Texas/Cali are, the most dramatic looking exponential rise in cases is Arizona, both on total and proportionally. And they've an actually insane 23% Positive test rating last I checked, easily highest in the country, and it's even worse when you consider some of the  testing sites there are massively over capacity...

[martinuzz]

That's Dutch for you haha, one of the most illogical languages in the world

[ChairmanPoo]

BTW:  a couple of seroprevalence studies in nursing homes in Spain have shown rates of 70%. If confirmed (TBH this was only in two regions... ) the good news would be that  the group more-at-risk would have at least  a degree of immunity, so there's that. A future wave would be less likely to result in a repeat of the nursing home massacre that the first wave was.

Of course, this has come at the cost of around 10% of all nursing home residents in Spain dying

[Starver]

That's Dutch for you haha, one of the most illogical languages in the world

<English> Hold my beer!

(Everyone knows that Dutch is just English spoken with a weird word order and a very heavy cold. Though what it's written with, is anyone's guess. Cat on an already broken keyboard?)

Sort of disappointed it wasn't also Nieuw Amsterdam, though.

[scriver]

Danish study show Danesmen spread corona to Sweden, Iceland, and Latvonia.

By tracking a mutation of the virus that happened in Denmark (do mutations happen? take place?) they make the claim that it must have been Danish people who spread the disease to those three countries where that mutation is common.

[Starver]

There are very minor mutations that have been used to analyse the 'tree' of propogation, and produce reasoned guesses that there were (and I may be mistemembering this badly) three main infection events (three travellers, or co-infected groups) arriving into the US from Europe, and other such details. (Or at least the details that are not being badly regurgitated by my faulty memory.)

Anyway, I suggest all longships should immediately be locked down. Take away their oars, then it'll be just the superspreader vikings who are up the creek without a paddle.

[hector13]

nice one Cyril, let’s ‘ave another one!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Just waiting for some weird RNA-transcription thing to happen between flu and COVID to create the destroyer now.

[wierd]

You just need simultaneous infection, so that you have all the fun of Flu, with all the fun of Covid, all at the same time.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

>UK
>USA
>Sweden
What good is being prepared if you literally just stand by and watch

[wierd]

In the case of the US, the Plutocrats just could not BEAR to see ORDINARY PEOPLE getting "Free money!", while their own "Projected earnings" tanked.

Thus, the "REOPEN! DO IT! DO IT NAAAOOOW!! DAMN ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT WILL DIE!" rhetoric, along with the "THEY WILL MAKE MORE ON UNEMPLOYMENT THAN BEING EMPLOYED!" hysteria.


Basically, they are so fucking paranoid that people might decide that they want livable wages, and that they WONT get another 10 million dollar bonus this year, that they are willing to sacrifice thousands of people's lives, and thousands more people's health.


At least in the US anyway.

Not sure about Sweden.  Ask the Swedes.

[NJW2000]

I do find myself wondering if there's any chance that the virus won't become ubiquitous in the US. In the UK, Johnson does at least have his "fuck business" motto, and will eventually respond to loud and overwhelming public demand, which as far as I can see is how we got a nationwide lockdown here in the first place. So if the funeral parlours start filling up too fast, we'll go back into lockdown, no matter what party donors or business says. The US, however... it doesn't seem like the democratic machine is really working at all. Plus a much larger proportion of the population seems to genuinely want to let the virus run its course.

If the bodies really start piling up while Trump is still president, I'm not sure how he'll try to save face. War with China, perhaps.

[feelotraveller]

A recent comment from the head of the WHO:
"Although many countries have made some progress, globally the pandemic is actually speeding up."

[martinuzz]

I think it was one weeks ago when they said that, illustrating it with 'it took three month to reach the first million infections. The latest million infections took only 8 days (from 8 to 9 million).' 

We're over 10 million now less than 8 days later.
So yeah, globally it is still speeding up. Mostly in South America, the US and Asia.