Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[merithyn]

So apparently Hermann Cain becomes the first major Republican to die of corona

https://globalnews.ca/news/7234555/herman-cain-dies-coronavirus/

You're late to the party.

I swear the Republican party is looking more and more like a death cult every day.

[Valmy]

Then you have a weirdly selective input of news if you disregard all his post-2008 career, as I'd say that his peak prominence was during his 2012 presidential campaign.   

I was a Republican voter back in the 1990s and 2000 so I was paying closer attention. All the nutjobs and bullshit since 2004 kind of all blurs together.

[crazy canuck]

Have I been denying it?

In the early days, I thought I was generally complaining that the response had overly draconian elements that would not produce a benefit and would backfire in the longer term. Since then I have become increasingly convinced that my early take was correct, deeply bitter overall, and if I'm honest hateful of humanity.

You really can't see that the measures taken by most states were too little and way too short a duration to do any good.  Your country took the full economic brunt with little of the benefit of a lockdown (with some very rare exceptions).   Humanity might have a thing or two to say about people like you when the history of this pandemic is written.

[Josephus]

So apparently Hermann Cain becomes the first major Republican to die of corona

https://globalnews.ca/news/7234555/herman-cain-dies-coronavirus/

You're late to the party.

Damn, and I didn't even have him in my dead pool either.

[Duque de Bragança]

Herman Cain died.

In somewhat related news, Mijair Bolsonaro claims to have recovered from Covid-19.

[alfred russel]

Oh man I didn't realize he was a Trump guy...well I guess I am slightly less sad now.

The ~43% of Americans that support Trump are not worthy of full sympathy when they die.

[Octavian]

Also this:

"Pro-Trump youth group TPUSA deleted a tweet mocking protective masks after its cofounder died of the coronavirus"

https://www.businessinsider.com/tpusa-deletes-tweet-mocking-masks-after-montgomery-coronavirus-death-2020-7?r=US&IR=T?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

[Tamas]

Also this:

"Pro-Trump youth group TPUSA deleted a tweet mocking protective masks after its cofounder died of the coronavirus"

https://www.businessinsider.com/tpusa-deletes-tweet-mocking-masks-after-montgomery-coronavirus-death-2020-7?r=US&IR=T?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

A youth club founder taken at the young age of 80.

[Valmy]

Oh man I didn't realize he was a Trump guy...well I guess I am slightly less sad now.

The ~43% of Americans that support Trump are not worthy of full sympathy when they die.

Well that is your opinion, one I do not share.

But grief over what I thought was a responsible statesman is something different than just for any rando.

I would think you would think better of me than to try to warp my words like this. What did I ever do to you?

[Razgovory]

Oh man I didn't realize he was a Trump guy...well I guess I am slightly less sad now.

The ~43% of Americans that support Trump are not worthy of full sympathy when they die.

No, just the smaller subset of those that denied the dangers of the virus or otherwise downplayed it.

[crazy canuck]

I think Raz just won the thread.

[Eddie Teach]

Nah, the virus won a long time ago.

[Valmy]

Nah, the virus won a long time ago.

Isn't that the truth? We are all losers here. At least us Americans.

[Zoupa]

I honestly feel bad for the roughly 1/3rd of you sane Americans. You have to deal with the 1/3rd of Maga cult members, then about 1/3rd of people who don't give a shit either way/don't vote.

It sounds kind of exhausting.

[jimmy olsen]

Texas +322 dead, Florida +252, Arizona +172, California +114.

National +1,465, Total 155,285

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