It's not
about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.
Going from 21 cases on February 21 to 1,128 on February 29 ... 8 days later. 5,883 another 7 days later. 17,660 6 days later. Which means a caseload nearly 10,000 times larger than on February 21st, over a period of 3 weeks !!!!
There are (according to the worldometers website) in Italy 21,157 cases and 1,441 deaths. That is 6.8%. Out of active cases, 9% are in serious condition. Out of all current Cases that had an outcome, 42% have died.
Here is a link to Desmos where I took the above data from bullet #1 and exponentially regressed to euler's number. The B value is the percentage of increase. It's 19.1% per day which means a 1.191 growth factor. Look at that A value, 320. That's the number of people the model predicts to have been the actual number of infected people on 21 February. Hence the model says only 6.5% of all current cases have been discovered. Notice that the R squared is 99%. Statistically that means 99% of the variation can be accounted for by the passage of time alone. Holy shit.
Now I know that sounds really scary, and I admit that I myself am freaked out. However, take a deep breath. Right now in San Francisco and the Bay Area we are at February 21 on the potential exponential growth model. Since our local governments initiated school closures and cancellations of all public events for the next month, there is an outside chance that we can avoid what is happening to Italy right now. If we stay at home and go outside only if absolutely necessary, then the curve will flatten out. Because of the Bay Area's density and mild climate this virus has the potential to hit us the same way it hit Italy, with the same mortality rates.
That's why schools are closed all over the Bay Area. This is not a hoax. Unmitigated, this virus has the potential to kill 5% of the population at a minimum. 5% of 10 million is 500,000 people. Not to mention the stress on our fucked up health care system.
Saturday, 14 March 2020 at 19h 27m 29s
Mark's Daily Apple on Dairy
Click here for what Mark Sisson has to say about Dairy products. Mark is my go to source when I have questions about nutrition. His marksdailyapple blog is excellent for good nutrition advice -- as opposed the the mythology that has captured the discourse since the low-fat mantra became the standard assumption of how to be healthy and live-long.
Saturday, 14 March 2020 at 2h 57m 48s
Sean Hannity is slapped hard
Sam Seder is a blessing to our nation for providing these daily M through F discussions. Especially now with this spiraling out of control pandemic.
Sean Hannity tried his hardest to downplay the global health epidemic, but Anthony Fauci shut it down rather quickly.
Saturday, 14 March 2020 at 2h 36m 3s
OmFG
He sniffs, inhales deeply while he can't answer the benign and obvious question. Notice how Trump has to insult this black women rather than ... you know... actually fucking answer the question.
He's a fucking asshole. Simple as that.
Friday, 13 March 2020 at 0h 1m 50s
How British News discuss COVID-19
CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Dr Richard Hatchett explains the long-term dangers of the Covid-19 coronavirus - saying it's the scariest outbreak he's dealt with in his 20-year career.
There is an excellent discussion after timestamp 4:50 about why we shouldn't compare this to the flu. Mr. Hatchett thinks the mortality rate is more than 1% which is 10 times higher than the flu.
Friday, 13 March 2020 at 2h 47m 41s
My latest poem
Losing My Mind
I am fucked in the head
Now that’s not a judgement call
but you will judge me anyway
because that’s what people do
they look at someone else and instantly ascertain
the differences or defects
in order to inflate the self
and keep their own mental state floating a little longer down the stream
which becomes a river
and cavalcades with the rest of humanity down the highway of civilization
bumping up and abutting against the discombobulated masses
like hard fragile marbles
glaring at one another
while the hermetically sealed humans all project their frustrations
about the insanity of modern living
upon the other
someone else
who can be labeled beneath your assumed level of sanity
who can be pinned to a category and not seen as a soul
those drunks who always hang outside the liquor store
that manager who is an asshole to his employees
is suffering equally as much as the subset of employees who have to work 3 jobs to make ends meet
which is not making excuses for assholes and derelects
I’m just saying that there is always more to see than the obvious
and if you seek to define than you really are obsessed with confirmation bias
because definitions are weak and fungible
People use words in different ways all the time
They say “hear” when they mean “understand”
They use the word “see” when they mean the word “grasp”
and so on
Which makes you wonder
what exactly is human communication when we use words in different ways
and view the world as a microcosm of our self-justification?
Friday, 13 March 2020 at 2h 14m 49s
Exactly
Berkeley professor Robert Reich on point as usual.
Friday, 13 March 2020 at 1h 49m 49s
This speech was NOT Presidential
It was confused, legally ambiguous and sprinkled with propaganda talking points.
The man fired the 2 experts at the CDC pandemic response team and now wants to pretend making a fucking speech he read exudes leadership. How many people will needlessly die because of the insanity that constitutes the current Rethuglican party and their hero worship?
At Timestamp 2:05, Dr. Sanjay Gupta says this
This is week's now we should have been thinking about some of these things
Look at the grim facial grimace of establishment love-boy David Gregory.
This man who is our prezident has no empathy and is a narcissist. Do you think he has the capacity to handle an crisis of this magnitude?
Holy fucking shit man. I am 50 years old, soon to be 51. This is the most insane transformational event/presidency in my life -- and I was in high school during the Reagan years.
Thursday, 12 March 2020 at 2h 53m 7s
Richard Wolff on the recent Stock Market downturn
@timestamp 7:20
What we know and what the investors have figured out is that we are overdue for a downturn puffed up with levels of debt it cannot accommodate.