COVID-19 Megathread 4: Grandma Got Run Over by the Dow Jones

[It’s so Joever]

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1247349014980440066
Whitmer screwed up big by trying to stop a drug that saved the life of one of her fellow Democratic lawmakers life. She even said the President saved her life. Thank you President Trump!

This is such a reliable source /s

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1247902663452135426
She said on TV too

This wasn’t exactly Whitmer playing partisan politics, as she was actually requested by the Michigan Senate Majority leader (R) to warn doctors against using hydroxychloroquine because the side effects were worrisome. As a matter of fact, Michigan is currently running one of the largest hydroxychloroquine tests in the country to see if it is safe and effective. Honestly, I wouldn’t have done what Michigan did, simply due to the crisis, but there is reasoning behind it.
Also I wish Trump would tout Remdesivir more, as it is safer in humans and is likely more effective.

[QAnonKelly]

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1247349014980440066
Whitmer screwed up big by trying to stop a drug that saved the life of one of her fellow Democratic lawmakers life. She even said the President saved her life. Thank you President Trump!

This is such a reliable source /s

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1247902663452135426
She said on TV too

That's not what I meant and you know it. I'm glad it worked for her but it's just one isolated case so it doesn't really mean anything and Giuliani has a reason to keep spreading it out.

[Person Man]

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1247349014980440066
Whitmer screwed up big by trying to stop a drug that saved the life of one of her fellow Democratic lawmakers life. She even said the President saved her life. Thank you President Trump!

This is such a reliable source /s

https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1247902663452135426
She said on TV too

This wasn’t exactly Whitmer playing partisan politics, as she was actually requested by the Michigan Senate Majority leader (R) to warn doctors against using hydroxychloroquine because the side effects were worrisome. As a matter of fact, Michigan is currently running one of the largest hydroxychloroquine tests in the country to see if it is safe and effective. Honestly, I wouldn’t have done what Michigan did, simply due to the crisis, but there is reasoning behind it.
Also I wish Trump would tout Remdesivir more, as it is safer in humans and is likely more effective.

So fake news?

[7,052,770]

How in the world does this legislator know she would have died without it? She doesn't and can't.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Atlanta media mogul Tyler Perry paid the grocery bills for all shoppers during senior hour Wednesday morning at 44 Kroger supermarkets in metro Atlanta and 29 more in his hometown of New Orleans.

“Senior and higher-risk Kroger shoppers in metro Atlanta did receive a nice surprise at the register this morning when they learned Tyler Perry had paid their grocery tab in full,” said Felix Turner, the Atlanta spokesman for Kroger. “We would like to join our customers in thanking Mr. Perry for his kindness and generosity during this unprecedented pandemic. It was truly a pleasure to see our customers fill with joy and gratitude as the news spread throughout 44 stores across metro Atlanta.”

https://www.ajc.com/blog/radiotvtalk/tyler-perry-pays-senior-hour-groceries-krogers-atlanta-new-orleans/z6JPgytKu0dqRF7KFv5VfL/

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Paging #TSA -- I've officially lost my sense of smell. 

[Tintrlvr]

Paging #TSA -- I've officially lost my sense of smell. 

Surprisingly late - most people who reported a loss of smell seemed to report it as the first symptom, or around the time of developing a cough or mild fever at the beginning. I even know a few friends in NYC (not tested positive obviously) who have not shown any symptoms except a total loss of smell and taste, which is so rare a symptom otherwise that it just has to be coronavirus.

[MasterJedi]

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1247349014980440066
Whitmer screwed up big by trying to stop a drug that saved the life of one of her fellow Democratic lawmakers life. She even said the President saved her life. Thank you President Trump!

Has nothing to do with Trump having financial interest in a company that produces it. All we're doing is having it bought up by people trying to profit off of it and hurting people with Lupus along with likely giving people some pretty serious side effects. I'll listen to the doctors themselves, not the severely mentally limited President.

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Paging #TSA -- I've officially lost my sense of smell. 

Surprisingly late - most people who reported a loss of smell seemed to report it as the first symptom, or around the time of developing a cough or mild fever at the beginning. I even know a few friends in NYC (not tested positive obviously) who have not shown any symptoms except a total loss of smell and taste, which is so rare a symptom otherwise that it just has to be coronavirus.

I get the sense that my case has been somewhat atypical.  But whatever the order of the symptoms, I can't wait to be healthy again. 

[President Johnson]

Paging #TSA -- I've officially lost my sense of smell. 

Too bad. Hope you get better very soon.

I've read reports that smell disappears pratically immediately, but don't know whether it's true across the board.

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1247885878451556353

Dr. Frieden said that if the state and city had adopted widespread social-distancing measures a week or two earlier, including closing schools, stores and restaurants, then the estimated death toll from the outbreak might have been reduced by 50 to 80 percent.

But New York mandated those measures after localities in states including California and Washington had done so.

San Francisco, for example, ordered schools closed on March 12 when that city had 18 confirmed cases; Ohio also ordered its schools closed on the same day, with five confirmed cases. Mr. de Blasio ordered schools in New York to close three days later when the city had 329 cases.

Then seven Bay Area counties imposed stay-at-home rules on March 17. Two days later, the entire state of California ordered the same. New York State’s stay-at-home order came on the 20th, and went into effect on March 22.

[Tintrlvr]

Paging #TSA -- I've officially lost my sense of smell. 

Surprisingly late - most people who reported a loss of smell seemed to report it as the first symptom, or around the time of developing a cough or mild fever at the beginning. I even know a few friends in NYC (not tested positive obviously) who have not shown any symptoms except a total loss of smell and taste, which is so rare a symptom otherwise that it just has to be coronavirus.

I get the sense that my case has been somewhat atypical.  But whatever the order of the symptoms, I can't wait to be healthy again. 

I hope you've been feeling better in other ways recently!

[It’s so Joever]

People should keep eyes on Pennsylvania. The last couple of days they've put out fatality numbers (60-70 deaths/day) that are comparable to what LA/MI have been putting out. They've also been logging over 1000 new cases the last couple of days.

Not just PA.
 Georgia, Indiana, the DMV states, and Florida are now seeing rapid case growth. Funny enough, I warned of all this as a “second hit” weeks ago and was told I was wrong. The only thing that is off/shocking is Albany, GA (I thought Atlanta would be the hardest hit first)

[GeorgiaModerate]

People should keep eyes on Pennsylvania. The last couple of days they've put out fatality numbers (60-70 deaths/day) that are comparable to what LA/MI have been putting out. They've also been logging over 1000 new cases the last couple of days.

Not just PA.
 Georgia, Indiana, the DMV states, and Florida are now seeing rapid case growth. Funny enough, I warned of all this as a “second hit” weeks ago and was told I was wrong. The only thing that is off/shocking is Albany, GA (I thought Atlanta would be the hardest hit first)

Albany has been a hot spot apparently because a super-spreader attended a large funeral there and infected a bunch of other people.

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1247968705864179716

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/ChorzempaMartin/status/1247893963639386117

[Badger]

I live in an area of north Georgia that went 80+% for Trump in 2016.

People here still aren’t social distancing in large numbers. I still hear people using the “flu kills more people” argument. Or claiming that it’s just being overblown by the media. Or that it’s a liberal conspiracy to cause a recession because that’s the only way they think they can beat Trump.

Fortunately, my area is not heavily populated. Otherwise the idiocy would result in many more cases than we currently have.

I just don’t see how people can be so stupid.

Living through this, there is a clear divide in intelligence between those living in places where I live and those living in places that vote Democratic.

Maybe this is semantics, or maybe it's important. Never confuse intelligence with ignorance based on willing misinformation. People are in and of themselves intelligent, managing business, raising kids, Etc. But their only source of information is Fox, right-wing radio, and Facebook / Twitter memes shared by other like-minded individuals.

I guess what I'm saying is it's important to understand how intelligent people can be so willingly ignorant because they seal themselves in a bubble after convincing themselves that "the liberal mainstream media lies!", that they'll willingly hook themselves into that bubble to "get the real story". At that point, their ability to Foster and independent thought based on alternative sources of information is basically closed off entirely. And this is basically what's happened to our country for the last 35 years.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

Looks like the covid reporting sites all reported a typo for Nevada

[TJ in Oregon]

Looks like the covid reporting sites all reported a typo for Nevada

The number of new positives for Nevada appears to be the number of total tests in their source.

[Vaccinated Russian Bear]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/07/coronavirus-is-infecting-killing-black-americans-an-alarmingly-high-rate-post-analysis-shows/

The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate

As the novel coronavirus sweeps across the United States, it appears to be infecting and killing black Americans at a disproportionately high rate, according to a Washington Post analysis of early data from jurisdictions across the country.

The emerging stark racial disparity led the surgeon general Tuesday to acknowledge in personal terms the increased risk for African Americans amid growing demands that public-health officials release more data on the race of those who are sick, hospitalized and dying of a contagion that has killed more than 12,000 people in the United States.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Georgia's shelter-in-place order, which was set to expire on Monday, has just been extended through the end of the month.

[Joe Republic]

Just now I tuned into a Trump press conference for the first and last time.  Some dipsh**t reporter was asking him if he had any plans to pardon the Tiger King.

13,000 Americans dead so far.

[Crumpets]

Here's a map I pulled together from the IHME tracker. It shows how long each state has to go before its projected date of peak resource use (the top of the proverbial curve).

Dark red = >10 days until peak
Medium red = >5 days until peak
Pink = <5 days until peak
Yellow = Today is projected peak
Light green = <5 days since peak
medium green = >5 days since peak

[ProudModerate2]

'Yikes!' Amanpour reacts to Fox News montage about virus.

CNN's Christiane Amanpour and NYT opinion columnist Kara Swisher discuss Fox News' role in spreading misinformation about the coronavirus.

Watch video here ... https://us.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/04/08/fox-news-coronavirus-montage-amanpour-vpx.cnn

Watch the video above.
Just another example of how Fox and their ignorant news cast, spread lies and in the end, look like idiots with a giant foot-in-mouth.
How many died or will die, due to their negligence?

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/2212Lac/status/1248010218308435974