Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[alfred russel]

Come on Meri. There are 950,000 physicians in the US. 3.8 million nurses. Lots of others are in healthcare besides doctors and nurses of course...

Total deaths with Covid19 / Covid19 & Pneumonia identified by the CDC are 79,008. Of these, only 15,645 are in ages 15-64. Even if every single person aged 15-64 that has died was a healthcare worker, we still aren't up to 1/3 of 1% of doctors and nurses.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex

I know math is hard, but the numbers that I quoted were that 9% and 12% of those who died in Italy and Spain respectively were healthcare workers. Not that 9% and 12% of healthcare workers died.

Don't hurt yourself with the abacus.

"I mean, fuck, at this rate, Fate and his colleagues are looking at 10% of them dying"...

[alfred russel]

Come on Meri. There are 950,000 physicians in the US. 3.8 million nurses. Lots of others are in healthcare besides doctors and nurses of course...

Total deaths with Covid19 / Covid19 & Pneumonia identified by the CDC are 79,008. Of these, only 15,645 are in ages 15-64. Even if every single person aged 15-64 that has died was a healthcare worker, we still aren't up to 1/3 of 1% of doctors and nurses.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex

I know math is hard, but the numbers that I quoted were that 9% and 12% of those who died in Italy and Spain respectively were healthcare workers. Not that 9% and 12% of healthcare workers died.

Don't hurt yourself with the abacus.

"I mean, fuck, at this rate, Fate and his colleagues are looking at 10% of them dying"...

If this meant 10% of the deaths would be healthcare workers, which isn't what that statement means, that would mean we have ~8,000 healthcare worker deaths. Which is absurdly high.

[The Larch]

In Madrid for the last few days there have been daily protests against the government in the city's poshest, richest and rightiest neighbourhood. Today some dude with a golf club was banging a traffic sign. 

[DGuller]

Come on Meri. There are 950,000 physicians in the US. 3.8 million nurses. Lots of others are in healthcare besides doctors and nurses of course...

Total deaths with Covid19 / Covid19 & Pneumonia identified by the CDC are 79,008. Of these, only 15,645 are in ages 15-64. Even if every single person aged 15-64 that has died was a healthcare worker, we still aren't up to 1/3 of 1% of doctors and nurses.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex

I know math is hard, but the numbers that I quoted were that 9% and 12% of those who died in Italy and Spain respectively were healthcare workers. Not that 9% and 12% of healthcare workers died.

Don't hurt yourself with the abacus.

Meri, I'm both a math person and a highly arrogant person.  I still try very hard to avoid telling others that "math is hard" as an argument, because there is a law of nature that almost guarantees that you will look stupid very soon after saying that.  I would definitely not tell that to AR, as he already caught a math fail or two on my part in this thread.  Math really is hard.

[Zoupa]

You what's really hard? Missing climbing season.

[katmai]

Grocery run.  They finally had toilet paper. 

I'd say about 70% of customers walking in were masked.  Skewed younger and whiter.

Really.  We too had a run on toilet paper when this started, but store shelves have been completely full for weeks.

Hand sanitizer and masks of course are still like gold, but you can find them now and then.

yeah did grocery run yesterday. Yeast and flour a no go, same with wipes and sanitizer. But toilet paper aisle was full.

[katmai]

Dorsey has built up his reputation (well deserved) over these last 17 years.

[Sheilbh]

Srsly, Americans, chill out and stay at home
https://abc7news.com/us-man-caught-sneaking-into-germany-to-see-girlfriend/6179710/

[jimmy olsen]

This week has been better, but I expect things to worsen as more people move around and as it gets hotter and buildings turn on the AC (which circulates air all around).

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

[Caliga]

Really.  We too had a run on toilet paper when this started, but store shelves have been completely full for weeks.

Hand sanitizer and masks of course are still like gold, but you can find them now and then.

yeah did grocery run yesterday. Yeast and flour a no go, same with wipes and sanitizer. But toilet paper aisle was full.
[/quote]The items I still cannot find, or are super scarce, include:

toilet paper, paper towels, hand sanitizer
rice and dry beans (canned beans are mostly back)
acetone/nail polish remover (for my wife  )
premium ice cream

Everything else pretty much is good, though bacon supplies seem to be dwindling again.

[merithyn]

You what's really hard? Missing climbing season.

No, that's diabolical.

[Admiral Yi]

My supermercado instituted a 4 meat orders per customer policy out of solidarity with dying meatpacking workers.

[merithyn]

Come on Meri. There are 950,000 physicians in the US. 3.8 million nurses. Lots of others are in healthcare besides doctors and nurses of course...

Total deaths with Covid19 / Covid19 & Pneumonia identified by the CDC are 79,008. Of these, only 15,645 are in ages 15-64. Even if every single person aged 15-64 that has died was a healthcare worker, we still aren't up to 1/3 of 1% of doctors and nurses.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex

I know math is hard, but the numbers that I quoted were that 9% and 12% of those who died in Italy and Spain respectively were healthcare workers. Not that 9% and 12% of healthcare workers died.

Don't hurt yourself with the abacus.

Meri, I'm both a math person and a highly arrogant person.  I still try very hard to avoid telling others that "math is hard" as an argument, because there is a law of nature that almost guarantees that you will look stupid very soon after saying that.  I would definitely not tell that to AR, as he already caught a math fail or two on my part in this thread.  Math really is hard.

In the immortal words of Seedy, I was being ironical and shit.

[HVC]

Srsly, Americans, chill out and stay at home
https://abc7news.com/us-man-caught-sneaking-into-germany-to-see-girlfriend/6179710/

They've mad romcoms with less of a plot.

[merithyn]

Srsly, Americans, chill out and stay at home
https://abc7news.com/us-man-caught-sneaking-into-germany-to-see-girlfriend/6179710/

But his rights!