D&D and the rising pandemic

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Sure, it's a stupid way to die: Taking a medicine that doesn't help until your heart is killed by it.
But, also, it could hurt other people who need that medication and no longer have access to it after the POTUS tells people to take it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Sure, it's a stupid way to die: Taking a medicine that doesn't help until your heart is killed by it.
But, also, it could hurt other people who need that medication and no longer have access to it after the POTUS tells people to take it.

Point. IDK how things work exactly but here they're rationing stuff like that and doctors are prescribing ad needed not as wanted which is less of an option.

 

[Umbran]

How does anyone think they can get away with something like that?

Depends upon what you think "get away with it" means.

Remember that job one is to get the support of folks who really want to believe the narrative you're putting out. They do not think critically about the graph. Such folks don't look at the dates. And by the time they are done looking at it, their mind is already set, and later truth doesn't generally move it. Confirmation bias is a thing.

The fact that they get called out by opponents later? Irrelevant! Opponents are lying!

 

[Zardnaar]

Another day of 0 new cases, 4 older ones reclassified.

1 new case in 7 days.

Might be lonely here though.

Migration to New Zealand may halt for up to four years - demographer

The Covid-19 pandemic may cause a halt in migration to New Zealand for up to four years, a demographer says.

www.rnz.co.nz

Gives time for the housing crisis to be fixed combined with the stimulus package rebuild.

 

[Azzy]

Migration to New Zealand may halt for up to four years - demographer

The Covid-19 pandemic may cause a halt in migration to New Zealand for up to four years, a demographer says.

www.rnz.co.nz

Gives time for the housing crisis to be fixed combined with the stimulus package rebuild.

Damn! That means it'll be a while before I can seek asylum in Kiwiland.

 

[Imaculata]

While Corona contaminations and deaths were on the decline in Germany, there has been a slight increase in the last few days of both.

Meanwhile the Netherlands are slowly easing the corona rules in light of steep declines. I just hope they are not doing this too early.

 

[Hussar]

Interesting article about Japan's response. Even though Japan's death rates and infection rates have been as good or better than pretty much anywhere else, there's still this sense that the government dropped the ball.

On the other hand, Japan’s response has been regarded with suspicion bordering on contempt, with the country’s low death rate – comparable to other successful countries – viewed as a “mystery” at best, or in some cases as evidence of an outright conspiracy.


This isn’t just the case in the international media. Opinion polling suggests that Japan’s own citizens don’t rate their government’s response to the virus highly. As the University of Toronto’s Philip Lipscy points out, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s approval rating has actually declined during the pandemic, a distinction he shares with only Brazil’s far right president Jair Bolsonaro. An online survey by Singapore’s Blackbox Research and France’s Toluna, meanwhile, showed that Japan’s response to the pandemic was rated the worst in the world by its own citizens – even worse than that in the United States.

Time to Give Japan Credit for its COVID-19 Response - Tokyo Review

While other nations are praised for controlling the virus, Japan's low COVID-19 death toll is often treated as a mystery at best, or even as a conspiracy.

www.tokyoreview.net

Like I've been saying all along, everyone seems to be baffled as to why we aren't knee deep in corpses. We didn't lock down, we barely slowed down really. Companies have stayed open. The trains and public transit never even wobbled. But, according to the numbers, we've come out of this relatively well. Certainly comparitively well. I mean, according to the stats I've seen, we've had less than 800 deaths. In a country of 120 million, that's pretty damn good.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

One thing I can think of: Japanese people have a history of being a LOT more likely to wear a mask if sick with a respiratory ailment, unasked. That societal habit may have acted like a big ol’ dam for Covid-19.

Here’s a quote from a 2015 article regardkng mask wearing:

As Nippon.com explains, Japan’s mask culture started in 1918 during a Spanish flu pandemic, which killed between 257,000 and 481,000 people in Japan. Since then, sales have increased year by year. Now, the country mask companies churn out billions and billions of masks annually.

 

[Zardnaar]

Japan's a lot more coherent culturally and isn't a tourist hotspot. Easier to get people on board.

Dumb luck with fewer vectors in Oceania it seems and Japan's in a similar boat to NZ, Aussie etc.

Lack of testing might also mean the official numbers are low.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Damn it, Florida!

Coronavirus: As Florida re-opens, COVID-19 data chief gets sidelined and researchers cry foul

Researchers fear a wave of data censorship after the manager of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard is removed from her post

www.floridatoday.com