D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

American Fan of BBC here, but the key is don't get stuck on any single source.
/just saying

BBC is fairly good. I use them, Reuters, sometimes Al Jazeera for ME stuff, couple of local sites for NZ stuff.

Washington Post useful for political stuff like polling in certain states which we don't really get here. I'll watch CNN at father in law's place.

 

[Cadence]

BBC is fairly good. I use them, Reuters, sometimes Al Jazeera for ME stuff, couple of local sites for NZ stuff.

Washington Post useful for political stuff like polling in certain states which we don't really get here. I'll watch CNN at father in law's place.

538 usually has some good polling things if you haven't checked it out before.

 

[Zardnaar]

538 usually has some good polling things if you haven't checked it out before.

I'm familiar with it. I don't check it but others often reference it or put it in articles so I get it indirectly I suppose.

 

[Zardnaar]

Four Months of lockdown. 0 cases 0 deaths.

Well done Aussie. Melbourne is a big city as well, 5 million people 112 days of lockdown.

Victoria records no new coronavirus cases for first time in more than four months

Victoria records zero new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours and zero deaths, as Melburnians prepare for a significant easing of restrictions from Wednesday.

www.abc.net.au

First place to drive it down that low with that many cases. Lockdowns expensive but Tasmania (75 days 0 cases) is performing the best out of the Aussie states.

3.6 cases 14 day average in Melbourne, 0.2 in Victoria.

7 cases of unknown origin.

 

[MoonSong]

This morning, the local authorities finally recognized they have been undercounting deaths, and thus that there are 50k additional deaths by Covid. So, we are at 130k+ deaths so far. Now, actually including these in the official records seems to be a whole different affair.

 

[Garthanos]

This morning, the local authorities finally recognized they have been undercounting deaths, and thus that there are 50k additional deaths by Covid. So, we are at 130k+ deaths so far. Now, actually including these in the official records seems to be a whole different affair.

Possibly the best estimate is the difference between actual and expected deaths (which does not usually massively vary from year to year and can be tuned based other things)

 

[Eltab]

Update on an old side-thread:
I have student loans which have been in Forebearance since the lockdowns. I have been making payments anyway. Since I can redirect the money however I like, everything went to the smallest loan. This day I received the "Paid In Full" letter for that loan.

One down two to go.

 

[Umbran]

Update on an old side-thread:
I have student loans which have been in Forebearance since the lockdowns. I have been making payments anyway. Since I can redirect the money however I like, everything went to the smallest loan. This day I received the "Paid In Full" letter for that loan.

One down two to go.

That's cool! Way to go!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Update on an old side-thread:
I have student loans which have been in Forebearance since the lockdowns. I have been making payments anyway. Since I can redirect the money however I like, everything went to the smallest loan. This day I received the "Paid In Full" letter for that loan.

One down two to go.

Bravo!

 

[ssvegeta555]

Update on an old side-thread:
I have student loans which have been in Forebearance since the lockdowns. I have been making payments anyway. Since I can redirect the money however I like, everything went to the smallest loan. This day I received the "Paid In Full" letter for that loan.

One down two to go.

Congrats! Keep at it, wipe those off the face of the Earth. I did the same with my loans, just aggressively dumping money into them, even more so during the pandemic. Highest interest loan getting the bulk with only minimum payments on the rest. Just paid off all my students in full last month. I'm glad that stuff is behind me now. Huge sigh of relief. About the only good thing that happened in 2020 for me lol