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P.U.T.U said:

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It is not for very long but we will be around 85F for 3 days next week, wonder if we will see any drop due to the higher temps.

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Mordred said:

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Italy just reported numbers, and they aren't good:


New confirmed cases have increased another 10% day-over-day, and death totals up 25% from previous day too.

Unless their lockdown stuff doesn't show immediate effects in the next 4-5 days, they'll be at 1k dead/day pretty soon.

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Mordred said:

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Italy just reported numbers, and they aren't good:


New confirmed cases have increased another 10% day-over-day, and death totals up 25% from previous day too.

Unless their lockdown stuff doesn't show immediate effects in the next 4-5 days, they'll be at 1k dead/day pretty soon.

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That's down from the 20% increase that most have

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P.U.T.U said:

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Iran has several mountain ranges so you have mild/cool weather over a large part of the country.

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The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced the government will pay the wages of British workers to keep them in jobs as the coronavirus outbreak escalates.

In an unprecedented step, Sunak said the state would pay grants covering up to 80% of the salary of workers kept on by companies, up to a total of 2,500 per month, just above the median income.

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IrishTxAggie said:

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'MURICA

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dermdoc said:

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And the guest host on Rush's show is delving into the Chinese deception and lies which allowed this whole thing to become a pandemic.

I am getting pissed at the Chi coms.

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Shanked Punt said:

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/20/government-pay-wages-jobs-coronavirus-rishi-sunak

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The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced the government will pay the wages of British workers to keep them in jobs as the coronavirus outbreak escalates.

In an unprecedented step, Sunak said the state would pay grants covering up to 80% of the salary of workers kept on by companies, up to a total of 2,500 per month, just above the median income.

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This is a interesting way to go about this. The UK government will pay people's salaries working in private businesses to help prevent people from losing their jobs.

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Shanked Punt said:

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/20/government-pay-wages-jobs-coronavirus-rishi-sunak

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The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced the government will pay the wages of British workers to keep them in jobs as the coronavirus outbreak escalates.

In an unprecedented step, Sunak said the state would pay grants covering up to 80% of the salary of workers kept on by companies, up to a total of 2,500 per month, just above the median income.

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This is a interesting way to go about this. The UK government will pay people's salaries working in private businesses to help prevent people from losing their jobs.

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The US is trying to do that too, Revenue replacement instead of unemployment. In the end probably more efficient.

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It's gotta be hard up there.

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PJYoung said:

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It's gotta be hard up there.

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It's too bad there's music instead of whatever was being said at the time. I wonder if it was at something Trump said or at some of the sparing between the media and Trump.

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So let the blame game begin. Libs will blame Trump. Of course, maybe I missed it but I only saw dems interested in impeachment and not coronavirus tests.

I personally do not think it is anyone's fault. Except the Chi coms unleashing this crap on the world. And remember Trump was called a racist for limiting travel with China and actually that will turn out to be brilliant.

Hind sight is always 20/20.

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Maybe you guys are fine with Italy sending us 500,000 swabs and China's richest man sending over 1,000,000 testing kits and PPE or whatever and chalk all of this up to dumb luck that other countries were incredibly more prepared than the United States.

Seems like a strange stance to me when our CDC refused the WHO test which was perfectly ok for the rest of the world and then crapped the bed with their own test 6 weeks ago thereby making it impossible for us to follow the South Korea model.

I am not saying who is at fault but I think it's obvious we screwed up and were not as prepared as multiple other countries. And we will pay a price in lives needlessly lost.

We had a good solid month head start on this and because we couldn't test it didn't do us much good.

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I think your premise that the government is competent and will protect us might be where you got confused.

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I think it's sad that you surrender our competence and just concede that other countries like South Korea are that much better and that's the way it has to be.

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just curious, but how many deaths are coming out of Lombardy now as opposed to the rest of the country?

a death is a death, but if Lombardy isn't showing cessation by now, that's clearly more concerning (since they've been locked down longer)

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PJYoung said:

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PJYoung said:

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PJYoung said:

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So let the blame game begin. Libs will blame Trump. Of course, maybe I missed it but I only saw dems interested in impeachment and not coronavirus tests.

I personally do not think it is anyone's fault. Except the Chi coms unleashing this crap on the world. And remember Trump was called a racist for limiting travel with China and actually that will turn out to be brilliant.

Hind sight is always 20/20.

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Maybe you guys are fine with Italy sending us 500,000 swabs and China's richest man sending over 1,000,000 testing kits and PPE or whatever and chalk all of this up to dumb luck that other countries were incredibly more prepared than the United States.

Seems like a strange stance to me when our CDC refused the WHO test which was perfectly ok for the rest of the world and then crapped the bed with their own test 6 weeks ago thereby making it impossible for us to follow the South Korea model.

I am not saying who is at fault but I think it's obvious we screwed up and were not as prepared as multiple other countries. And we will pay a price in lives needlessly lost.

We had a good solid month head start on this and because we couldn't test it didn't do us much good.

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I think your premise that the government is competent and will protect us might be where you got confused.

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I think it's sad that you surrender our competence and just concede that other countries like South Korea are that much better and that's the way it has to be.

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We don't have North Korea as our neighbor and China as our neighbor's best friend

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just curious, but how many deaths are coming out of Lombardy now as opposed to the rest of the country?

a death is a death, but if Lombardy isn't showing cessation by now, that's clearly more concerning (since they've been locked down longer)

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Tried, but I can't find that information easily. Lombardi as of today has 22,264 overall infected (15,420 currently sick cases), and 2,549 deaths. We can check back tomorrow and see how their growth rates compare to the rest of the country.

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Wow. So 15 million people was the real death count?

/sarcasm

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bearkatag15 said:

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This is interesting as well

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Galborathelion said:

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Wow. So 15 million people was the real death count?

/sarcasm

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maybe a bunch went off the grid, or fled the country and canceled their accounts?

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VaultingChemist said:

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Informative timeline of the virus.



The city of Wuhan held a banquet for 100,000 people with shared plates near the epicenter of the outbreak on January 18.

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