The nice hispanic lady that cleans my house is still out there for other people. I pay her not to come to mine and she is genuinely baffled by that. I don't want her anywhere near me but I want her to make it through this.
I hate cleaning with a white hot passion. I love a clean house. White People Problems to the max
Yes, all of this. What Stephen and wrote and what you note about medical bias and inadequate care. Poor communities in the South also means "rural" and rural means no medical facilities whatsoever in many counties.There's also a cultural factor at work here and that is the warmth and physicality of black communities: at least the ones I've been with. You don't go to a church or a political meeting without getting a hug or at least a handshake. There's currently a hotspot in south Georgia--Dougherty County--which has as many cases as metro Atlanta, and it's been traced to a funeral. A well-loved member of the black community in Albany died and over 200 people came to his funeral. Among them was a mourner from Atlanta who didn't know he had the virus. This was weeks before any stay-at-home warnings were issued. I know there were so many hugs and "good-to-see-you-again" kisses at that funeral and now the black people in Albany are suffering so badly that it makes me weep. Yes, the government allowed this disease to spread. https://www.nytimes.com/202...
Yes. He's doing okay. He had a rough time for a while with high fever and shortness of breath. But he's been on the mend for a couple of weeks now. A few days back he said he could finally breathe again.
I wish I could say I didn’t believe this. But I do. Events have already proven how much they like cruelty and stupidity, especially if they can gain power or money from it. What isn’t so clear, is do they think the spread in Republican strongholds is a feature or a bug? Or do they simply not believe it will happen?
This trend will sadly continue if for no other reason black and brown folks are less likely to be able to work from home then white folks are.Thus they are more likely to get the virus and the horrors that go with it.
Part One: The EquationThe way I figure it, the core equation of the current apocalypse is:Deaths = Population * Exposure rate * Infection rate * Death rate That is, for any given population, the number of deaths will be the population times the percentage of people who get exposed to the virus, times the percentage of exposed people who get infected, times the percentage of infected people who die.Further, exposure rate is a function of poverty, population density, external exposure, government action, and community action.That is, different factors influence how high the exposure rate is. Poverty, because poorer people are less able to do social distancing. They have the lower level essential jobs – grocery clerk, Amazon warehouse worker, hospital janitor, etc. They are less able to go any time without income. They are less able to compete for essential products. In the developing world, getting enough clean water to drink can be a challenge, much less to wash your hands thoroughly several times a day.Population density, because when you live closely packed in there is less distance to deploy for your safety. At an extreme, consider people living on the streets in Kolkata. There is no place to go. By external exposure, I mean exposure to people from outside the community. If your community becomes 100% disease free, you still may be vulnerable if someone from the less careful community down the road comes to visit. That’s why it’s such a concern that idiots in America’s South are not following social distancing. We are trying to establish a “No peeing” section of the pool, while these folks are busy going out of their way to pee in their end.Government action can push for social distancing. Governments can also promote and support effective testing regimes so that the infected can be appropriately quarantined. Our country is a layer cake of governments. Most state and local governments are behaving responsibly, but some are not and our federal government is not helping. Countries around the world are at various points of taking it seriously, from Bolsonaro in Brazil who is in complete denial, to the leadership of South Korea who have been highly effective in dealing with the crisis, particularly in making testing available.And where governments don’t step up, sometimes communities can take action on their own. Some areas in Brazil are taking action to promote social distancing where the government is being useless.As far as infection rate, I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that until we have a vaccine. Death rate is also complex, and is a function of poverty, government action and community action.Poverty, because poorer communities are less likely to be able to afford expensive medical equipment like ventilators. We are having a crisis in the US just getting adequate PPE in the hands of our medical people. So how hard must it be to get adequate resources in Syria, say, or Lagos, Nigeria? A country like Burundi struggles to provide adequate health care on a good day, and this is not a good day.Governments can act to martial national resources to focus on the problem. China is a great example. They built temporary hospitals in weeks, they prioritized getting PPE & ventilators. The US is an example of failure – the federal government has been a mishmash of policies that end up making it harder, not easier, for states to acquire the resources they need.And again, community action can provide help to effective governments, or step in to provide resources when the government fails. For instance, we have people throughout our community making PPE and other products for health care workers and for our own social distancing.Part Two: AnalysisIt’s satisfying to lay out the factors like that. But does it tell us anything about what we can do?The first and most obvious thing that falls out is, there is only one of the factors that most of us can do anything directly about. We can reduce the exposure rate. That’s what social distancing is all about. Our governments can help work to reduce the death rate. They can provide ventilators and support medical workers. All we can do individually is to support candidates who have common sense and who we believe can be effective leaders.We should be aware that our most vulnerable populations in our economy yesterday remain the most vulnerable today. The poor, those who live in dense urban communities, those who live under bad state governments, they will all have difficulties maintaining social distance and getting quality health care. Our government should be focusing on providing help to those communities first. From a global perspective, it’s the poorest communities in the poorest countries that are going to be hurt the worst. Some poor places are rural and have great distances between communities. Places like the Amazon basin where communities may be spaced far apart may be ok, although if they do get an infection it’s likely to spread through the whole community. But in dense, poor areas, it’s going to be brutal. The streets of Kolkata. The favelas of Rio. The barrios of Mexico City. I can’t see how exposure rates in those places aren’t going to be near 100%. Here’s my scariest point: as long as those places suffer, as long as the virus is rampant there, we are going to have to maintain some level of distancing. We’re going to need to continue to work to keep our end of the pool clean, while the folks at the poor end of the pool have no place else to piss (or drink) BUT the pool.It’s not ever going back to “normal”. We are going to mark time into BC (Before Coronavirus) and AD (After Die-off). In a year, maybe we’ll have a vaccine. Maybe we’ll be wise enough to force the pharma companies to sell it as cheaply as they possibly can. Maybe we’ll be wise enough to subsidize it even further, so that everyone in the world can be treated, and so that we can all swim in a clean pool for a while. Until the next time.
Blacks have super powers, the fact that they still survive and somewhat thrive despite the obvious road blocks imposed upon them proves this. It's an innate willpower and unwillingness to acede.That does NOT translate however to antiviral or untouchable.
A vicious spreading disease exposing ugly underlying inequality was bound to happen, it's part for the course.Out of sight, out of mind ended with an invisible enemy. That's ironic.
Only if you think saying “fucking do something” counts as a prayer.
They should add "Saskatchawan" in that story's URL so it doesn't sound like 3 people were murdered because of a Prince Albert piercing.
I didn’t know viruses respected “spiritual authority.”
The nice hispanic lady that cleans my house is still out there for other people. I pay her not to come to mine and she is genuinely baffled by that. I don't want her anywhere near me but I want her to make it through this.
I hate cleaning with a white hot passion. I love a clean house. White People Problems to the max
OOh Oooh Ooooh pick me!
White folks!
Yes, all of this. What Stephen and wrote and what you note about medical bias and inadequate care. Poor communities in the South also means "rural" and rural means no medical facilities whatsoever in many counties.There's also a cultural factor at work here and that is the warmth and physicality of black communities: at least the ones I've been with. You don't go to a church or a political meeting without getting a hug or at least a handshake. There's currently a hotspot in south Georgia--Dougherty County--which has as many cases as metro Atlanta, and it's been traced to a funeral. A well-loved member of the black community in Albany died and over 200 people came to his funeral. Among them was a mourner from Atlanta who didn't know he had the virus. This was weeks before any stay-at-home warnings were issued. I know there were so many hugs and "good-to-see-you-again" kisses at that funeral and now the black people in Albany are suffering so badly that it makes me weep. Yes, the government allowed this disease to spread. https://www.nytimes.com/202...
Yes. He's doing okay. He had a rough time for a while with high fever and shortness of breath. But he's been on the mend for a couple of weeks now. A few days back he said he could finally breathe again.
I wish I could say I didn’t believe this. But I do. Events have already proven how much they like cruelty and stupidity, especially if they can gain power or money from it. What isn’t so clear, is do they think the spread in Republican strongholds is a feature or a bug? Or do they simply not believe it will happen?
More "classist", actually. It's just that African-Americans have been pushed into the lowest class by racist policies that won't let them move up.
Too bad the GOP is immune to shame.
This trend will sadly continue if for no other reason black and brown folks are less likely to be able to work from home then white folks are.Thus they are more likely to get the virus and the horrors that go with it.
It’s co-morbid
Part One: The EquationThe way I figure it, the core equation of the current apocalypse is:Deaths = Population * Exposure rate * Infection rate * Death rate That is, for any given population, the number of deaths will be the population times the percentage of people who get exposed to the virus, times the percentage of exposed people who get infected, times the percentage of infected people who die.Further, exposure rate is a function of poverty, population density, external exposure, government action, and community action.That is, different factors influence how high the exposure rate is. Poverty, because poorer people are less able to do social distancing. They have the lower level essential jobs – grocery clerk, Amazon warehouse worker, hospital janitor, etc. They are less able to go any time without income. They are less able to compete for essential products. In the developing world, getting enough clean water to drink can be a challenge, much less to wash your hands thoroughly several times a day.Population density, because when you live closely packed in there is less distance to deploy for your safety. At an extreme, consider people living on the streets in Kolkata. There is no place to go. By external exposure, I mean exposure to people from outside the community. If your community becomes 100% disease free, you still may be vulnerable if someone from the less careful community down the road comes to visit. That’s why it’s such a concern that idiots in America’s South are not following social distancing. We are trying to establish a “No peeing” section of the pool, while these folks are busy going out of their way to pee in their end.Government action can push for social distancing. Governments can also promote and support effective testing regimes so that the infected can be appropriately quarantined. Our country is a layer cake of governments. Most state and local governments are behaving responsibly, but some are not and our federal government is not helping. Countries around the world are at various points of taking it seriously, from Bolsonaro in Brazil who is in complete denial, to the leadership of South Korea who have been highly effective in dealing with the crisis, particularly in making testing available.And where governments don’t step up, sometimes communities can take action on their own. Some areas in Brazil are taking action to promote social distancing where the government is being useless.As far as infection rate, I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that until we have a vaccine. Death rate is also complex, and is a function of poverty, government action and community action.Poverty, because poorer communities are less likely to be able to afford expensive medical equipment like ventilators. We are having a crisis in the US just getting adequate PPE in the hands of our medical people. So how hard must it be to get adequate resources in Syria, say, or Lagos, Nigeria? A country like Burundi struggles to provide adequate health care on a good day, and this is not a good day.Governments can act to martial national resources to focus on the problem. China is a great example. They built temporary hospitals in weeks, they prioritized getting PPE & ventilators. The US is an example of failure – the federal government has been a mishmash of policies that end up making it harder, not easier, for states to acquire the resources they need.And again, community action can provide help to effective governments, or step in to provide resources when the government fails. For instance, we have people throughout our community making PPE and other products for health care workers and for our own social distancing.Part Two: AnalysisIt’s satisfying to lay out the factors like that. But does it tell us anything about what we can do?The first and most obvious thing that falls out is, there is only one of the factors that most of us can do anything directly about. We can reduce the exposure rate. That’s what social distancing is all about. Our governments can help work to reduce the death rate. They can provide ventilators and support medical workers. All we can do individually is to support candidates who have common sense and who we believe can be effective leaders.We should be aware that our most vulnerable populations in our economy yesterday remain the most vulnerable today. The poor, those who live in dense urban communities, those who live under bad state governments, they will all have difficulties maintaining social distance and getting quality health care. Our government should be focusing on providing help to those communities first. From a global perspective, it’s the poorest communities in the poorest countries that are going to be hurt the worst. Some poor places are rural and have great distances between communities. Places like the Amazon basin where communities may be spaced far apart may be ok, although if they do get an infection it’s likely to spread through the whole community. But in dense, poor areas, it’s going to be brutal. The streets of Kolkata. The favelas of Rio. The barrios of Mexico City. I can’t see how exposure rates in those places aren’t going to be near 100%. Here’s my scariest point: as long as those places suffer, as long as the virus is rampant there, we are going to have to maintain some level of distancing. We’re going to need to continue to work to keep our end of the pool clean, while the folks at the poor end of the pool have no place else to piss (or drink) BUT the pool.It’s not ever going back to “normal”. We are going to mark time into BC (Before Coronavirus) and AD (After Die-off). In a year, maybe we’ll have a vaccine. Maybe we’ll be wise enough to force the pharma companies to sell it as cheaply as they possibly can. Maybe we’ll be wise enough to subsidize it even further, so that everyone in the world can be treated, and so that we can all swim in a clean pool for a while. Until the next time.
They were waiting on the results of the tests when he shot her and himself. The results came back after they died.
No shit. Those self-serving slags don't know the meaning of the word.
Blacks have super powers, the fact that they still survive and somewhat thrive despite the obvious road blocks imposed upon them proves this. It's an innate willpower and unwillingness to acede.That does NOT translate however to antiviral or untouchable.
A vicious spreading disease exposing ugly underlying inequality was bound to happen, it's part for the course.Out of sight, out of mind ended with an invisible enemy. That's ironic.