Cast another handful of dirt on journalism's grave.

@kincaid said in Death Toll Comparison Breakdown:

I'd be more interested in deaths per capita. Based on the world wide population during the Black Death years the totality of that must have been mind boggling.

It was between 30% and 60% in Europe. I read somewhere that a half of all Londoners died.

Boom, shakalaka!

American conservatives are famous for never giving the slightest fuck about how other countries do things, hence it seems to be somewhat opportunistic to do that here when it looks convenient.

Also, I find the text misleading.

Mail-in voting is common or even the most common form of voting in several European countries. In Switzerland, 90% of votes are submitted by mail. Germany recently had an election where all votes were by mail (due to the pandemic); outside of the pandemic, 25+% of all votes are typically cast by mail.

I don't know about all European countries, but besides Germany I know that UK, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, and Denmark have mail-in voting for everyone (not just selected groups), hence it's not at all unusual.

In case anyone wants to know the given reason behind the censures:

"The party censured Ducey over his decision to impose emergency rules during the pandemic that the GOP said "restrict personal liberties and force compliance to unconstitutional edicts."

McCain, who endorsed President Joe Biden, "has supported globalist policies and candidates" and "condemned President Trump for his criticism of her husband and erroneously placed behaviors over actual presidential results."

Flake has "condemned the Republican Party, rejected populism, and rejected the interests of the American people over globalist interests." The party suggested Flake join the Democrats."

@george-k said in The day we let Covid-19 spin out of control:

@kluurs said in The day we let Covid-19 spin out of control:

@george-k said in The day we let Covid-19 spin out of control:

The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines brings with it the risk of a new wave of asymptomatic infections. The two vaccines authorized by the Food and Drug Administration have been proven to prevent illness, but not asymptomatic infection. Even after vaccination, the coronavirus may still temporarily take up residence in the lining of the respiratory tract, making it possible to infect others.

Interesting

Yes.

And suppose that the virus finds safe harbor in your maxillary sinus, and you don't get sick. You'll test positive, and presumably, be infectious.

If you have no symptoms, you might not get tested. You might just continue to go about the community spreading the virus.

@loki said in Back to voter suppression:

“VoteRiders estimated that up to 25 million voting-age Americans lacked a government-issued photo ID.”

Yeah, I call BS on that. I watched a video one time of a right wing activist asking blacks on the street about their ID and how difficult it was to vote and they all were, well, basically insulted. Every one of them had ID of some form. I realize this could be a slanted presentation but seriously, it is not difficult to get ID and it would be a great idea to require the Federal or State gov'ts to provide free ID for voting an all other ID purposes.

@taiwan_girl

Maybe Hope and Change is available.

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@jon-nyc said in No ICU beds left in Mississippi?:

@loki said in No ICU beds left in Mississippi?:

Notice how ICU bed shortage stories just collapsed.

Do a coke news search on ‘ICU capacity’. I see lots of stories on NoCal and Texas in the last 24 hours.

First thing as saw. Multiple articles. Liked the title of this one the most as ending lockdown is suddenly important.

https://sfist.com/2021/01/24/bay-area-icu-capacity-swings-to-23-4-could-lockdown-end-soon/

I need to see a similar solution for teh katz.

It’s unclear why the health agency waited over a year to release the new directive

Prior to the CCP virus pandemic, for individuals to be considered a case, they must test positive and show clinical signs and symptoms. But to be counted as a CCP virus case, only a positive PCR test is required. And no matter how many times an individual is tested, each positive test is counted as a separate case.

The WHO is now advising that a positive PCR test that does “not correspond with the clinical presentation” should be verified by taking “a new specimen” and retesting it.

Well....

Mr. Biden has already given us more silence than Mr. Trump did in 4 years.

I wonder if the word transparent might find it's way back into our vocabulary.

Nope.

Hopefully not, but so far responses in defense of Taiwan have been good.

This weekend, a US aircraft carrier group entered the South China Sea. Now I realize this probably was planned earlier, but it could have been canceled and was not.

Statement from the US NSA this weekend said that the commitment to Taiwan was “rock solid” and that the US looks forward to increased “ties” with Taiwan.

Of course, talk is cheap so actions in the future are the real test.

@lufins-dad so, are you say to eliminate the National gas tax?

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