D&D and the rising pandemic

[Theo R Cwithin]

Dude... you're not raising my hopes any.

 

[abirdcall]

Man, I hope they burn me up or stick me in a compose heap. I don't need to take up real estate. Just put me back with my ancestors and star stuff in the Earth. And hopefully cheaply.

Saying now that US seems to be flattening the curve and 80,000 deaths by August is down to 60,000. I am not sure how much of that I believe, and while I understand the sentiment behind a report like that. I just hope it doesn't embolden others into thinking this is over and reigniting another wave too soon. Trying to find that article but so far unsuccessful. I think it came from CNN.

20 states don't even have stay at home orders or have closed non-essential businesses. Even of the ones that have, a few have declared churches to be essential.

I would bet that things will get out of control a week after Easter.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

While this article starts by talking about the headline, it also talks about the different strains of the virus and how it is mutating:

Most New York Coronavirus Cases Came From Europe, Genomes Show

New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the first confirmed case, and that travelers brought in the virus mainly from Europe, not Asia."The majority is clearly European," said Harm van Bakel, a geneticist at Icahn School

www.yahoo.com

 

[FrogReaver]

20 states don't even have stay at home orders or have closed non-essential businesses. Even of the ones that have, a few have declared churches to be essential.

I would bet that things will get out of control a week after Easter.

just because no lockdown order doesn’t mean the citizens are not taking it seriously and social distancing on their own.

 

[Sadras]

They were talking about using parks as temporary internment sites if the need arose. These would NOT be mass graves (the public here would not find that acceptable, yet), but individual graves dug on public lands. The plan would be then to move remains to more proper sites or crematories after the crisis is over.

So has this moved beyond talking to actually doing? The stats reflect around 5k dead in New York. They would need over 100 refrigerated trucks to store them.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

just because no lockdown order doesn’t mean the citizens are not taking it seriously and social distancing on their own.

Agreed. That's pretty much what I've been seeing from my very limited view on things.

I wonder if there's an upper limit on the number of people who can be out there defying orders, without interfering too much with the greater effort to control it?
Presumably that can be modeled if one can guess what that "knucklehead factor" is?

 

[Umbran]

So has this moved beyond talking to actually doing? The stats reflect around 5k dead in New York. They would need over 100 refrigerated trucks to store them.

No. And the Mayor of NYC says this is not a thing at all.

NY mayor says rumors of temporary burials in public parks are 'totally false' | CNN

After a city councilman said New York may need to bury coronavirus victims in a city park as morgues run out of room, Mayor Bill de Blasio made it clear Monday there are no such plans and that such rumors are "totally false."'

www.cnn.com

 

[Azzy]

I would bet that things will get out of control a week after Easter.

Probably. It seems that hyper-religious people are intent on killing themselves and their community.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

just because no lockdown order doesn’t mean the citizens are not taking it seriously and social distancing on their own.

True, but considering the number of people violating lockdown orders actually in place, what are the odds that at least the same kinds of numbers per capita are not taking social distancing seriously where orders don’t exist?

A Mayor Cracked Down On Parties During The Coronavirus Lockdown. His Wife Defied Him.

After Clemson students party, officials enact more social-distancing restrictions

After police officers broke up a party Friday night, Clemson is considering how best to enforce social distancing guidelines at private residences amid COVID-19.

www.greenvilleonline.com

See also the religious and political contrarians already mentioned in this thread.

 

[Zardnaar]

USA isn't really on lockdown.

We're on level 4, you guys are level 2/3 if that in certain areas.

No bottle stores, takeouts, big box retail etc. Hell Amazon's running and they had Covid in the warehouses.

Day 16 here lockdown here. There was knocking at the door, went and answered it. Then realised I was talking to myself.