Disney has released virtual roller coaster rides. Here is space mountain: https://youtu.be/4eoM26ZmHd0

3/19/2020 8:26:03 PM

https://vimeo.com/398334975

3/19/2020 10:14:25 PM

It is absolutely infuriating to read about the testing issues across the country. Singapore and South Korea are proven cases where the capability to test massive amounts of people has a direct affect on keeping the death rate down.

Minnesota is only testing healthcare officials, those already in the hospital, and elderly living communities?

America, you can do better.

[Edited on March 20, 2020 at 7:36 AM. Reason : dasfa]

3/20/2020 7:36:10 AM

It’s what happens when you have leaders that don’t trust their own medical experts, facts or science, and actively lie to the public. We got exactly what we deserved.

https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1240083910417158147

3/20/2020 10:28:03 AM

Quote :

" America, you can do better."

I mean, we know exactly who to blame

3/20/2020 10:32:56 AM

America was never great and has only been great at blowing stuff up as long as I can recall.

3/20/2020 10:47:19 AM

GNSP

3/21/2020 2:35:13 PM

^ 6,557 new cases, 793 new deaths

(Figures for ONE DAY)

Worldwide deaths: 13,000 exactly right now

3/21/2020 7:00:31 PM

The respiratory therapist's description of COVID-19 patients in this article is pretty horrifying. I've included a content warning around the quoted text below, as a precaution.

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patients


*** Content Warning ***

Quote :

"I have patients in their early 40s and, yeah, I was kind of shocked. I’m seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like they’ve been hit by a truck. This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden, they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can’t breathe at all... It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube and out of his mouth. The ventilator should have been doing the work of breathing but he was still gasping for air, moving his mouth, moving his body, struggling. We had to restrain him. With all the coronavirus patients, we’ve had to restrain them. They really hyperventilate, really struggle to breathe. When you’re in that mindstate of struggling to breathe and delirious with fever, you don’t know when someone is trying to help you, so you’ll try to rip the breathing tube out because you feel it is choking you, but you are drowning."

*** Content Warning ***


[Edited on March 22, 2020 at 12:57 PM. Reason : ]

3/22/2020 12:54:42 PM

damn. i wonder if it mutated after china.

3/22/2020 1:59:04 PM

USA is catching up fast.

3/22/2020 5:26:36 PM

^^^I remember leaked video from China were patients were having full body convulsions that they couldnt stop.

3/22/2020 6:15:53 PM

Thanks again to China for trying to cover it up.

Perhaps had output of such scenes not been squelched, we could have had a slightly more competent national response.

3/22/2020 6:24:09 PM

That article is absolutely terrifying

3/22/2020 7:29:25 PM

China can't be blamed for our terrible reflexes

3/22/2020 8:01:20 PM

Maybe it would have scared the shit out of people instead of having so many folks blowing it off.

3/22/2020 8:11:11 PM

The CCP should have been more forthright and is absolutely an authoritarian regime and should be condemned.

The GOP (mainly Trump) has been a terrible leader and negligent and directly led to a situation far worse than it could have been.

Not mutually exclusive.

3/22/2020 10:05:48 PM

I try to leave politics out of this because thousands of people are dying everywhere under all sorts of leaders and governments of different political beliefs and this caught all of them off guard. You can go back to the first few pages of this thread and some people acted like this was all fearmongering.

Lack of supplies-that can go to systems not keeping enough inventory (although it would have been expended in these circumstances) and lack of home-based PPE production. One forum I've read called Flutrackers was on a CDC conference call more than a month ago and she said "THERE WILL BE NO MASKS". The government was buying as many as they could for their healthcare workers and where a lot of the masks were made, China, were keeping them for themselves.

[Edited on March 22, 2020 at 10:30 PM. Reason : .]

3/22/2020 10:29:08 PM

^^Trust me when I say I am not looking to defend Trump or his regime in any way.

3/22/2020 10:41:31 PM

Oh, I forgot the World Health Organization, which waited forever to declare this a pandemic, which was complete bullshit then and even moreso now.

3/22/2020 11:00:36 PM

So what's gonna happen when a whole bunch of people can't pay their health insurance premiums because they aren't working?

3/22/2020 11:02:38 PM

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/the-pandemic-discussion-forum/825629-discussion-thread-ii-covid-19-new-coronavirus/page15

This was posted February 5th:

Quote :

"THERE WILL BE NO MASKS. The US is stockpiling for essential workers like health care personnel. This is why they are not recommending for the public to buy masks now. Maybe they will release some to the public from the stockpile but I think they will hoard them in order to allocate them where they think the greatest need is (frontline health care workers)."

Quote :

"I looked and it appears online outlets are sold out. One group was selling masks with an $800.00 delivery fee. ******** I just wanted to pass on what was said today at the CDC teleconference. I also wanted people not to be shocked when there are none available.  The reason authorities are not always forthcoming is because they think we will panic when we hear "bad" news like masks are basically sold out and there probably won't be any. I say if you tell people early on "Hey - there will be no masks" people have a chance to absorb that info and can make a change to their family emergency plans.  The governments need to make us partners. Tell us the truth. We can deal with it."

3/22/2020 11:07:21 PM

Growing calls for the Olympics to be postponed a year. Up til today the IOC and Japanese government have been "yes, going on as scheduled". Canada this evening have announced if it takes place as scheduled beginning in July, they won't send athletes.

3/22/2020 11:20:37 PM

NY State cases = France cases

NY State population = < 1/3 of France population

3/23/2020 12:02:29 AM

I work at a manufacturing company w/ 100-150 people in the building at a time (with office staff working remote) and someone testing positive on Saturday. They cleaned the building Sunday and opened back up today. This will happen all over the country until businesses are forced to shut down.

[Edited on March 23, 2020 at 10:34 AM. Reason : .]

3/23/2020 10:33:32 AM

Latest data for countries with >= 1,000 total cases. I last made the list on Mar. 18 (Page 10), so I have also made a new column showing percentage change (nearest integer) since then (5DPCh), where possible to calculate.

Global cases have increased by 70% in the same time period, whereas deaths have increased by 82%. Number of countries in list has gone from 16 to 26.

Country     Cases    Deaths   5DPCh
China       81,093    3,270       0 
Italy       63,927    6,077     103
USA         41,569      504     537
Spain       33,089    2,207     141
Germany     29,056      118     189
Iran        23,049    1,812      33
France      19,856      860     157
S. Korea     8,961      111       7
Switzerland  8,547      118     212
UK           6,650      335     241
Netherlands  4,749      213     179
Austria      4,306       21     193
Belgium      3,743       88     152
Norway       2,547       10      67
Portugal     2,060       23     221
Sweden       2,046       25      71
Canada       2,035       23     180
Australia    1,717        7     188
Brazil       1,629       25     208
Malaysia     1,518       14      92
Denmark      1,450       24      39
Israel       1,238        1       -
Czechia      1,236        1       -
Turkey       1,236       30       -
Ireland      1,125        6     207
Japan        1,101       41      14

3/23/2020 3:07:49 PM

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10217348909254863&id=1237447140

3/23/2020 3:11:44 PM

An uncaptioned Facebook link.....but it's right AFTER an OEP post???

CV has turned the world upside down

3/23/2020 3:23:44 PM

Denver just issued a stay at home order and declared liquor stores and dispensaries non-essential lol. Lines out the door of every store in town.

3/23/2020 5:11:52 PM

Probably not the effect they were going for.

3/23/2020 5:43:18 PM

People gotta get that weed they totally aren't addicted to

3/23/2020 5:47:32 PM

Closing liquor stores is gonna literally kill some alcoholics (maybe)

3/23/2020 6:19:05 PM

Luckily you can buy it in grocery stories as of last year. Won't be surprised if people go nuts and hoard though.

3/23/2020 6:35:20 PM

CA tried to close the dispensaries and that lasted less than 24 hours

It's considered a vital medicine to all kinds of people, so

3/23/2020 6:44:09 PM

They just revised to waive liquor stores and dispensaries...after the totally predictable rush

[Edited on March 23, 2020 at 7:23 PM. Reason : .]

3/23/2020 7:23:46 PM

Indiana told to "hunker down " for 2 weeks lasting til April 6th.

3/23/2020 8:46:33 PM

BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-52014023

Quote :

"Elderly 'dead and abandoned' in Spanish care homes Soldiers tackling Spain's coronavirus epidemic by disinfecting residential care homes have found a number of elderly people abandoned and left for dead in their beds, the country's defence minister has said. The news comes as Spain's death toll from the disease rose from 1,720 on Sunday to 2,182. The total number of confirmed cases has increased to 33,089. "The army has seen some totally abandoned elderly people – even some who were dead in their beds,” Margarita Robles told the Ana Rosa TV programme. Those responsible would be met with "the full weight of the law", the minister added."

3/23/2020 9:02:08 PM

Wow, the Cuomo brothers must hate each other.

3/23/2020 9:22:49 PM

^^Their deaths will honor the stock market

3/23/2020 9:40:00 PM

Stay-at-home order for Mecklenburg county effective Thursday at 8am until April 16th

Quote :

"Under the order, county residents may visit grocery stores, pharmacies, healthcare providers if needed and restaurant drive-throughs and takeout services. They may take walks, play golf, care for family members and help others get needed supplies. What they can’t do: Go to work unless their jobs provide a defined list of essential services, visit family and friends, including those in hospitals except under limited circumstances or travel unless for a permitted reason."

3/24/2020 2:56:00 PM

Quote :

"play golf"

good thing golf courses are essential services. I'm sure everyone will be playing golf by themselves/with their shelter-in-place cohabitants and not with their regular golf buddies.

Like we're closing state parks, but golf courses are ok

3/24/2020 3:00:47 PM

why TF is golf mentioned specifically?

3/24/2020 3:14:09 PM

Probably bc there are a fuck ton of fancy golf courses in Mecklenburg county

3/24/2020 3:23:57 PM

The only thing I can imagine worse than drowning in your own blood from COVID-19, is being the poor fool answering the phones at the county commission and being inundated by Boomer-energy “WUH YOU MEAN I CAINT GOLLFLFLOL????” Phone calls.

3/24/2020 3:49:16 PM

But apparently they CAN golf.

3/24/2020 3:57:02 PM

Apparently, one of my cousins has it and tested positive for it after self isolating for almost two weeks...

3/24/2020 4:28:59 PM

Did he know he had it when he isolated and is still not over it, or he had no symptoms, isolated for two weeks, and now tested positive at the end?

3/24/2020 4:34:04 PM

Is it true that the dems are holding this stimulus up cuz of gun control? That would be fuckin stupid?

3/24/2020 4:52:28 PM

no

3/24/2020 5:03:40 PM

No they're holding it up because the McConnell plan is to just give billions of dollars to big business unchecked as well as the ability to blindly give money to Trump hotels without taxpayer knowledge for 6 months

3/24/2020 5:06:20 PM